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176. Faces of Failure: Judas Iscariot
Matthew 26-27 (selections)
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Don Tuttle
... story of Jesus every year using either Matthew, Mark, or Luke. Other pastors select a topic—maybe “grace” or “sacrifice”--and then biblical texts that address it. Still others preach through entire books. One church I know will spend almost all of 2017 going through 1 Peter verse by verse. But the preacher in this story didn’t use any of those methods. No, he would simply close his eyes, open his Bible, and put his finger on the open page. He figured the verse on which his finger landed was the ...
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... turn, have been hurt or affected by our selfishness. "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:8) Theologically speaking, we are in a situation similar to that of Naaman. It’s something we cannot get rid of by ourselves, and for which ... encouraged to believe it and to take God up on his preposterous prescription. Many years later, a man named Peter was to tell a large throng, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of ...
178. Suffering Servant Song
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, in John (1:29). Jesus' grave is made with a rich man called Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:57-60), yet certainly he had committed no sin and spoken no guile (1 Peter 2:22). And like the nations in the Suffering Servant Song, we have ... our Lord is the one by whose stripes, whose whipping, we were healed when we had all gone astray like sheep (1 Peter 2:24-25). The final, true servant of God is our Lord Jesus Christ. He became in his death what Israel was ...
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King Duncan
... judgement does come for him, as it will for all of us, he will be surprised to discover he no longer has a rock to hide under. (1) Even if our theology does not exactly match up with Richard Slyhoff’s, most of us would probably like to avoid paying for our sins. And, ... God was very far away. In desperation, he opened his Bible and stumbled on a verse from the book of 1 Peter. He read these words from 1 Peter 5:7, “Cast your care and anxiety on God, for God cares for you.” In that moment, God graciously ...
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Arley K. Fadness
... rod wielded by a martial-arts expert. The lashes can tear the flesh, bloody the buttocks, and leave scars. The father, George Fay, wracked by guilt, offered to trade places with his son and face the six strokes of the lash. The lamb takes our place. In 1 Peter 2:24 it says, "He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds (stripes) you have been healed." Each morning during World War II, King Christian X of Denmark would ride through ...
181. The Garden Is Doing Fine?
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
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Stephen M. Crotts
... the house (Genesis 39:12). Ah, but Satan we stand against. In the armor of Christ, we are strong before him. Ephesians 6:10 and following verses challenge us not to flee the devil but to stand against his wiles. "Resist the devil and he will flee from you" (1 Peter 5:8-10). Trouble is, too many Christians get confused. We cling to the world in desperation as if there is no better world to come. We flee in terror when Satan attacks. And when it comes to the flesh, we take a firm stand, saying, "I can handle ...
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Richard Gribble
... mind must be fixed on the Lord. Saint Peter puts it well, "Baptism ... now saves you — not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 3:21). Baptism is more than an act, ... heard, that John the Baptist came as a precursor of the Lord to provide a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins (Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3; Acts 13:24). When one turns away from sin and begins anew, the value of such an act is incalculable. ...
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Leonard Sweet
... 2 Samuel 15:30, and because it was a peaceable time, King Solomon also rode a donkey into the holy city in 1 Kings 1:38-40. Militant rulers rode to victory upon the backs of huge warhorses, stallions of power and speed. True kings, those whose ... , someone in our inner circle, betrayed us. It is easy to get on our high horse, like Peter did, and say “I would never do that.” There is a betrayer in each of us. There is a Peter in each of us. There is a Judas in each of us. Crowd-pleaser is another name ...
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James Merritt
... seed is productive. The very purpose of a seed is to produce fruit. Do you know how a believer is produced from an unbeliever? By having the seed of God’s word planted in his heart. I Peter 1:23 says, “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.” (1 Peter 1:23, NIV) Don’t miss the importance of the fact that the sower went out to sow the seed and the seed is the Word of God. A seed cannot plant itself. It needs a sower. All ...
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Robert Leslie Holmes
... ). It is a call for all his disciples and for all time. Sometimes we sow the seeds that fulfill this command through our example. Peter writes that an ungodly husband may be won over by the life example of a godly wife: "Even if some of them do not ... word, they may be won over without a word by their wives' conduct, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives" (1 Peter 3:1-2). As it was with Jeremiah, so it may be with us. Successful disciple-making often calls for patience, commitment, and stick-to ...
186. She Waits
Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49
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Lori Wagner
... Psalm 123 (A Song of Ascent): I Lift Up My Eyes The Lord’s Servant Will Be Raised and Lifted Up (Isaiah 52) The Mountain of the Lord (Micah 4) Jesus the High Priest in the Eternal Order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7) The Living Stone of Zion (1 Peter 2) Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Blessing of His Disciples and Ascension Then he opened their minds, so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance ...
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David & Marian Plant
... I had been to where I now found myself was by the grace of God... by the power and sustaining presence of the Holy Spirit.”1 Jesus told his disciples before his death, “I will not leave you desolate.” Literally, Jesus was promising not to leave them orphaned. He said that ... did not see that coming from a fisherman!), and hacked off the ear of the high priest’s slave. Jesus put Peter in his place immediately, turns back to the soldiers and temple police, allowed them to tie him up and then willingly ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... is a call to obedience. Work out your salvation. Salvation involves faith. Listen to Paul – for by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing, it is the work of God. Ephesians 2:8. Listen to Peter – as the outcome of your faith, you obtain the salvation of your soul. I Peter 1:9. The central message of the New Testament is that we are saved only by the grace of God – not by anything we do. Not by anything that we are – we are saved only by the grade of God - that grace ...
189. The Only Way to Fly
2 Timothy 3:15-17
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James Merritt
... the objection that this could not be true because, "the Bible was written by men." Well, knowing that complaint would come, Peter says in 2 Peter 1:20-21, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the ... the most treacherous thing under such conditions is that the signals the inner ear produces—incorrect though they may be—feel right."1 That is when flying VFR can become fatal. I cannot help but think about Prov. 14:12, "There is a way ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... intervene in the creation. Some other biblical writers talk about God's future for the creation in joyous terms. Paul talks about the "glory about to be revealed to us" (Romans 8:18). The author of 1 Peter writes of "an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you" (1 Peter 1:4). These four vignettes remind us that God's decisive action in history will be a time of judgment as well. These four scenes that Matthew paints for us jump start our imaginations. Because they ...
191. The Hungry Monkey
Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18
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Tony Everett
... , doesn't it? God made us holy in order that God's holy love is made visible to others. The writer of 1 Peter states it like this: "... you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim ... the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus charges his followers: "... let your light shine before others, so that they may see your ...
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James Merritt
... invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’” (John 2:1-3, ESV) What was the problem? The wine was gone. Why was that such a big deal? Back then, wine was to a wedding what cake ... . A verse that I am lending on heavily in my life today and have so often is I Peter 5:7 which says, “Cast all your cares upon Him, because He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7, NKJV) Do you know why you can bring all of your cares to God? Because He ...
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James Merritt
... put it, “Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV) To put it another way, God revealed the truth. Humans recorded the truth. The church recognized the truth. Or to put it still one other way. This book was divinely communicated, providentially collected, and spiritually commended. To this very day whenever ...
194. Echoes of Eternity
Matthew 10:24-32
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Dennis Kastens
... a handful of clinking coins. We didn’t know the value of a soul. But God knew it, and out of sheer grace he paid the price. What price? Silver and gold? The whole world? "No," says Peter, "... ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold ... but with the precious blood of Christ...," (1 Peter 18, 19) "... Who for us men and for our salvation came down." (Nicene Creed) Heaven emptied itself of its costliest treasure in order that it might ransom the souls of people that they might have ...
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R. Blaine Detrick
... Christ, "who knew no sin, but was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (2 Corinthians 5:21) ... Christ, "who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24) ... Christ, the Son of God, who was sent "to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10) ... Christ, who himself said, "This is my body, which is given for you ... This is my blood, which is shed for you" (Luke 22:19, 20). The message of Isaiah commends you to Christ. His words beseech you ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... ; one house falls before the great deluge, another in the same village stands. An appropriate text to place over this scene would be 1 Peter 4:17-18 which tell us where God always starts: “For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of ... of the prophets is about them but for all of us. They are an example we are not to follow, lest we meet their end. 1') vv.24-27 Parable Of The Two Houses And The Storm. Eleven miles off the east coast of Scotland stands Bell Rock Lighthouse. Since 1811 ...
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Thomas Slavens
... have made a rather strange claim about freedom: that it is not in doing as one pleases that true freedom is found but in doing the will of God. The author of first Peter understood the meaning of this when he wrote, “Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.” (1 Peter 2:16) Those early apostles understood the meaning of freedom when they replied to the high priest’s demand that they stop teaching in the name of Jesus, “We must obey God ...
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Don Yocom
... of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to be the little stones out of which God can build His Kingdom. "Come, and let yourselves be built, as living stones, into a spiritual temple; become a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5, NEB). And how much God needs us! He needs people who will be obedient, sacrificial, and willing to serve Him. Our trouble is that, like Nebuchadnezzar, we do not want to do God’s will. We want religion without judgment. We want Christ ...
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Bill Bouknight
... and belief in Christ, though those factors placed him where God could reach him. God alone caused new birth in my friend. New birth is a recurring theme of scripture. Peter in his epistle speaks of "being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible." (I Peter 1:22-23). James writes about "God begetting us with the word of truth." (James 1:18) And St. Paul declares, "If any person be in Christ, he is a new creation." How do you know if you have experienced new birth? Can you say a firm ...
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James Merritt
... Absalom.) Then he conferred with Joab the son of Seruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed and helped Adonijah." (I Kings 1:5-7) Joab now is trying to assist Adonijah to become the king of Israel. But there was a problem with this. "So ... eternal life, it is not profession that matters, it is not even performance that matters, it is possession that counts. Peter said in II Peter 1:10, "Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things ...
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