Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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251. The Radiant Life
Exodus 34:29-35
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... He is a holy God. Not only holy, but holy, holy holy...." - Revelation 4:8[3] When we come to worship our God, we come to consider who he is through his ... * holy power - Edmund Steimle said, "Do you really want to see divine power at work? Then discard your human notions of power and look at the way Christ lived and died."[4] * holy wealth - he owns everything! * holy wisdom - nothing is hidden from God. He is the all-wise, all-knowing God. * holy love - who else would send their one and only son to take ...
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
... notion was a “cleverly devised myth.” Because Jesus had not returned they reasoned that it must not be true. The apostle Peter knew better and sought to set the matter straight once and for all. Peter knew how dangerous it would be to discard this foundational truth. The church would open itself to all sorts of irresponsible behavior. Peter recalled the time when he accompanied Jesus along with fellow disciples, James and John to the mountain. While they were there a change came over Jesus. Then Jesus ...
253. Going Home
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Sermon
Argile Smith
... fades away into eternity, they encourage the family members. They teach them how to treat their loved one with care and dignity. They show how death can be understood as something valuable and a person dying as an individual to be honored and not discarded. As the story in Deuteronomy 34 also shows us, going home involves leaving a legacy. For Moses, the legacy that lived on after him included what people said about him, his death, and his life among them. What they remembered about him spoke volumes about ...
254. Wake Up!
Romans 13:8-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... shiny tinsel. Then all the lights were turned out and the tree lights plugged in. ‘Wow!’ Everyone was hushed at the transformation that had taken place. ‘It’s beautiful.’ “God’s grace is like that,” says Pastor Hall. “It picks us up off the discard heap, covers us with the robe of righteousness and presents us spotless before God, magnificent in the splendor of gifts He has given and sparkling with the light that reflects His love.” That’s what it means to be clothed with Christ. As Dr ...
255. A Man of God
Matthew 1:18-25
Sermon
King Duncan
... you just seem to be more sensitive.” By now Ashcroft was feeling justifiably sheepish. “I haven’t come to ask for anything, pastor,” Joseph continued, “I have something I want to give you. I have in this grocery bag all of my discarded eyeglasses. I thought you might give them to the less fortunate.” “The less fortunate?” Ashcroft asked, now really feeling sheepish. “Yes,” Joseph answered, “you know, there are people out there who have very little. And look, I have so much. Must be ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... an intriguing but basically untried suggestion.” (5) Think about that for a moment and it will break your heart. This outside observer is saying to us that the primary reason we are not turning the world upside down is that we have, for all practical purposes, discarded Christ’s most distinctive teaching. We are no better than the world to whom we are seeking to witness. No wonder the world is unimpressed. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can do better. Let me tell you about a woman who is ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... think? They had been followers of the Master, but now he is walking along with them and they do not recognize him. Maybe, as with Mary, their despair stood in the way their disappointment with the way things turned out. That can happen. You lose hope, you discard your dreams, and you are blinded to the good things that still surround you. Pastor and author Leith Anderson, as a boy, grew up outside of New York City. During those years he was an avid fan of the old Brooklyn Dodgers. One day his father took ...
258. Don't Give Up Now!
2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:2
Sermon
... sheets of beautiful mirrors from Paris. But when the shipment of glass arrived from Paris every mirror had been smashed in travel. The entire shipment was destroyed! The grand entry could not be completed. Just as the workmen started gathering the broken pieces together to discard them, however, the architect said, “Wait a minute. I’ve got an idea!” He then took a hammer and broke some of the larger pieces into tiny pieces. He gathered them up in his hands and walked over to the entry. He then put ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Suddenly, she remembered that a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in her high school class some 40-odd years before. Could he be the same fellow that she had a secret crush on, way back then? Upon seeing him, however, she quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way, way too old to have been her classmate. After he examined her teeth, she got up the courage to ask him if he had by any chance attended Morgan Park High School ...
260. Paul Opposes Peter
Galatians 2:11-21
Understanding Series
L. Ann Jervis
... law to curb sin and attain righteousness is to reject Christ. Such a result is, Paul hopes, unthinkable for his Galatian readers, and so when he records Peter’s emphatic “absolutely not,” Paul expects that his readers will join with him in discarding the preposterous idea that Christ promotes sin. Paul hopes that through this demonstration he may dispel the influence of the rival evangelists. Paul’s choice of the words seek to be justified in Christ may be more than descriptive. He appears also to ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... of all such things as these. The word apothesthe, “rid yourselves of” (RSV, “put off, away”), is part of the clothing imagery that Paul uses in connection with the old and the new life. One’s sins are like an old garment that is taken off and discarded so that a new one can be put on (2:11; 3:10, 12; Eph. 4:22, 24). Such language accounts for a custom in many churches when candidates for baptism by immersion “put off” their old, ordinary clothes and “put on” white robes to symbolize their ...
262. God Disciplines His Sons
Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29
Understanding Series
Donald A. Hagner
... intended between the voice of Moses and the voice of God (or Christ?), as some translations suggest (e.g., NASB, NEB, JB; cf. Moffatt: “For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven”). NIV’s him who warned them on earth is rightly left ambiguous, since it may equally well be God speaking through Moses. The word speaks, since it is the same verb as in the preceding verse, may readily be associated ...
263. Warning Against Refusing God
Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13
Understanding Series
Donald A. Hagner
... intended between the voice of Moses and the voice of God (or Christ?), as some translations suggest (e.g., NASB, NEB, JB; cf. Moffatt: “For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven”). NIV’s him who warned them on earth is rightly left ambiguous, since it may equally well be God speaking through Moses. The word speaks, since it is the same verb as in the preceding verse, may readily be associated ...
264. Ezra Reads the Law
Neh 7:73b–8:18
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... of the Torah were traditional parts of the ministry of the priesthood (Mal. 2:1–9). They held the meeting in an open square near the Water Gate on the east side of the city, a little down the slope and inside the line of the old wall that Nehemiah discarded (3:26). Not only did the adult males of the community attend the meeting, as in Ezra 10:9, but also their wives and children old enough to understand. Verse 3 summarizes Ezra’s six-hour reading of the Torah, and then verses 4–8 describe it in more ...
Understanding Series
Tremper Longman III
... are base metals, bronze and iron, described as the “dross of silver” in Ezekiel 22:17–22. As the refining continues, it is impossible to separate the wicked people out from the righteous and therefore they are all rejected silver, worthy only to be discarded. The text does not specify the process by which Jeremiah is to accomplish his refining work. It is possible that this is done by his preaching. As Lundbom (Jeremiah 1–20, p. 449) puts it so well, Jeremiah refines by “preaching Yahweh’s fire ...
266. Two Shepherds
Zechariah 11:4-17
Understanding Series
Pamela J. Scalise
... 26:14–16.) The reparation payment to the owner for a slave that had been gored by an OX was thirty pieces of silver (Exod. 21:32). It is a miniscule payment in relation to the size of the flock of Israel and Judah. The prophet discarded the insulting payment by throwing it into the house of the LORD to the potters. There is no indication, however, that his action is an expression of remorse, like Judas’ (Matt. 27:3–5). The prophet-shepherd broke his second staff, called Union, breaking the brotherhood ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... people who are specially gifted, but it is rarely very dramatic. A professor sits at his desk one evening working on the next day’s lectures. His housekeeper has laid that day’s mail and papers at his desk and he begins to shuffle through them discarding most of the mail to the wastebasket. He then notices a magazine, which was not even addressed to him but delivered to his office by mistake. It falls open to an article titled, “The Needs of the Congo Mission.” Casually he begins to read the article ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
Object: Discarded wrapping paper, Christmas ornaments to be put away, etc. Good morning, boys and girls. I hope you had a very merry Christmas. I hope Santa Claus was good to you. It's kind of sad to pack away Christmas for another year, isn't it? I brought some things with ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... conclusively known it was the Lord only in verse 12, after Jesus had invited them to his meal of fish and bread. Peter’s immediate response was to swim for shore, while the other disciples followed in the boat (vv. 7b–8). Normally a person would discard an outer garment in order to swim unhindered, but because Peter was wearing only the outer garment, with nothing under it, he instead tucked it or tied it around himself so as to allow maximum freedom of movement without having to come out of the water ...
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... on ourselves from God. Rather, we must cast sin far away from ourselves. A related term is to “put off” or “throw away” such vices (Eph. 4:22; Col. 3:8; Heb. 12:1; James 1:21); they are old, useless clothes that must be completely discarded. The tendency of all too many of us to rationalize our cherished sins is a terrible, dangerous gambit that will backfire on us and bring present misery as well as future judgment. 3. Trials are essential to spiritual growth.Too many people believe that Christians ...
271. The Commissioning of the Disciples
Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... two pictures, one of an old, corroded item, and the other of a stainless replacement. Explain that the mild-steel version is prone to decay and rot from oxidation. No matter how effectively it performs its assigned task, it will eventually be ruined and discarded. One can’t replace it with a plastic copy, a photograph, or a hologram—those things might not rust, but they wouldn’t perform the same tasks as steel. The stainless steel item, however, has the same substantial weight and strength of its mild ...
Teach the Text
C. Marvin Pate
... their liberty regarding the ritual law hurt the weak in faith. The strong should be sensitive to the weak (Paul calls them “our neighbors” [15:2]) as an act of selflessness that will build up Jewish believers whose scruples will not allow them to discard the ritual law. 15:3  For even Christ did not please himself. The rationale for such an exhortation to the strong is that Christ sacrificed himself for others. Quoting Psalm 69:9, Paul applies that text to Christ. Christ has embraced the reproaches ...
273. Trust versus Self-Reliance
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Teach the Text
Preben Vang
... our own strength and protect injured or weakened legs until they can bear weight again. This passage teaches that dependence on God’s grace is the exact opposite of a crutch. It is not a prop that we use temporarily and then hope to discard when health is restored. Unending dependence on God’s grace is itself precisely the state of health into which spiritual recovery leads us. Those who call God’s grace a crutch misunderstand the full gravity of sin and the character of salvation: they imagine ...
274. The Burnt Offering
Leviticus 1:1-17
Teach the Text
Joe M. Sprinkle
... not “slaughtered” with blood collected in bowls to be dashed on the altar, but their necks are wrung and their blood directly drained onto the altar. Removal of the bird’s crop would serve to clean out the intestines, all of which would be discarded. Due to its small size, it is split open rather than quartered in preparation for burning on the altar. Theological Insights The burnt offering is intended to make God favorable toward the worshiper so that he will grant the worshiper’s requests. It can ...
Teach the Text
Daniel J. Estes
... . 24), he does not abandon his belief that God rules over the world in justice. For the friends, everything is black or white, but Job realizes that some factors in life, such as his own situation, are not so clear-cut and predictable. Instead of totally discarding retribution, Job qualifies it. Job affirms that God does inevitably punish wickedness (cf. Pss. 1:4–6; 73:3, 16–20; Prov. 24:20), but also that in the short run there might be apparent anomalies, such as what he is experiencing. 27:13–23 ...
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