{"id":3277,"date":"2019-05-22T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T22:22:36","slug":"2kings_14_1-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2kings_14_1-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Pride Cloud Your Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>2 Kings 14:1-16 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Kings+14%3A1-16&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3278 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190523.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190523-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190523-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nHi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s passage is 2 Kings 14:1-16.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>On verses 1 to 16:\u00a0 Here we read of the 29 year reign of Amaziah, king of Judah, son of Joash.\u00a0 The author of 2 Kings describes Amaziah as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a good king who followed the Lord, although Amaziah failed to remove the high places in Judah where idolatry continued (v2-4).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the one who put to death the officials who murdered his father Joash (v5-6)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the one who defeated 10,000 Edomites (v7).<\/p>\n<p>However, after his victory over the Edomites, Amaziah becomes arrogant.\u00a0 He challenges Jehoash King of Israel to a fight.\u00a0 Despite Jehoash King of Israel clearly warning Amaziah to stand down (v9-10), Amaziah insists on fighting (v11).\u00a0 Amaziah loses to Jehoash, is himself captured along with other hostages, and the nation of Judah is attacked and looted (v12-14).<\/p>\n<p>What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0<strong>When you experience a great victory, stay humble.\u00a0 Do not allow pride and arrogance to cloud your judgment and cause you to slip.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Heavenly Father, thank You for every time You remind me to stay humble, for pride goes before the fall, but humility comes before honour.\u00a0 Since You love humility, may I walk humbly before You and before others.\u00a0 In Jesus&#8217; name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s passage is 2 Kings 14:1-16.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>On verses 1 to 16:\u00a0 Here we read of the 29 year reign of Amaziah, king of Judah, son of Joash.\u00a0 The author of 2 Kings describes Amaziah as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a good king who followed the Lord, although Amaziah failed to remove the high places in Judah where idolatry continued (v2-4).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the one who put to death the officials who murdered his father Joash (v5-6)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the one who defeated 10,000 Edomites (v7).<\/p>\n<p>However, after his victory over the Edomites, Amaziah becomes arrogant.\u00a0 He challenges Jehoash King of Israel to a fight.\u00a0 Despite Jehoash King of Israel clearly warning Amaziah to stand down (v9-10), Amaziah insists on fighting (v11).\u00a0 Amaziah loses to Jehoash, is himself captured along with other hostages, and the nation of Judah is attacked and looted (v12-14).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}