{"id":9894,"date":"2021-08-01T19:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2021-08-01T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T23:28:11","slug":"whatcaniexpect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/08\/whatcaniexpect\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can I Expect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: The Servant King<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: What Can I Expect?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Mark 6<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I CAN EXPECT REJECTION<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Nazareth is an obscure town consisting of between (<strong>100-500<\/strong>) people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How was their rejection manifested?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1. It came out as (<strong>unbelief<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2. It came out as Jesus being (<strong>dismissed<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">3. It came out at (<strong>blindness<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jesus could do no mighty works there. Why? Not because He could not or lacked the supernatural power to perform miracles. Rather, (<strong>there was no reason to<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II.\u00a0\u00a0 I CAN EXPECT CERTAIN REALITIES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Reality #1: We can expect to be used by Jesus (<strong>for His work<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Our ministry is a continuation of Jesus\u2019 work here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Reality #2: Things may not (<strong>go as planned<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Following Jesus has its risk, but God will have the final word in our lives. His justice will prevail regardless of our predicament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Reality #3: We will witness some (<strong>phenomenal events<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1. In Jesus, our deepest spiritual hunger is satisfied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">2. Old ways of thinking often cloud our vision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">3. We must present Jesus without baggage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: Series: The Servant King<\/p>\n<p>Title: The Deadly Lure of Legalism- Mark 7:1-23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge Series: The Servant King TITLE: What Can I Expect? Scripture:\u00a0\u00a0 Mark 6 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I CAN EXPECT REJECTION Nazareth is an obscure town consisting of between (100-500) people. How was their rejection manifested? 1. It came out as (unbelief). 2. It came out as Jesus being (dismissed). 3. It came &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/08\/whatcaniexpect\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}