{"id":3283,"date":"2019-05-24T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T22:39:44","slug":"2kings_15_13-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2kings_15_13-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes God Blesses Us In Spite Of Us, Not Because Of Us"},"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 15:13-26\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Kings+15%3A13-26&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-3289 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190525.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190525-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190525-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nHi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s passage is 2 Kings 15:13-26.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>On verses 13-26:\u00a0 In Israel, Shallum had killed Zechariah to become king. Then a month later Menahem kills Shalum to become king.\u00a0 After Menahem reigns for 10 years, his son Pekahiah takes over only to be killed and succeeded\u00a02 years later by Pekah.<\/p>\n<p>What can we learn from this?\u00a0 Sedition &#8212; that is, rebelling against God-given authority &#8212; may seem like an easy shortcut to power.\u00a0 But a kingdom built on sedition will not last very long.\u00a0 If you try to build a kingdom on sedition, chances are good that your kingdom will also be supplanted and brought down by the seditious acts of others.<\/p>\n<p>Praise God that whereas Satan&#8217;s kingdom was built on sedition, the kingdom of heaven is built not on sedition but on servanthood.\u00a0 The kingdom of God is not a top down organization, but a bottom up organization where the greatest leaders are also the humblest servants.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heavenly Father, thank You that Your kingdom is not built on sedition but on servanthood.\u00a0 May my character, ministry, and reputation be that of someone who serves, rather than someone who rebels.\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 15:13-26.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>On verses 13-26:\u00a0 In Israel, Shallum had killed Zechariah to become king. Then a month later Menahem kills Shalum to become king.\u00a0 After Menahem reigns for 10 years, his son Pekahiah takes over only to be killed and succeeded\u00a02 years later by Pekah.<\/p>\n<p>What can we learn from this?\u00a0 Sedition &#8212; that is, rebelling against God-given authority &#8212; may seem like an easy shortcut to power.\u00a0 But a kingdom built on sedition will not last very long.\u00a0 If you try to build a kingdom on sedition, chances are good that your kingdom will also be supplanted and brought down by the seditious acts of others.<\/p>\n<p>Praise God that whereas Satan&#8217;s kingdom was built on sedition, the kingdom of heaven is built not on sedition but on servanthood.\u00a0 The kingdom of God is not a top down organization, but a bottom up organization where the greatest leaders are also the humblest servants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","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\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}