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Luke 21:5-38

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... date of the fall of Jerusalem, but it also seems to involve the date of the end of this age. The fall of Jerusalem becomes a type for the destruction that will occur in the end times. (Luke has distinguished more clearly than Matthew [Matthew 24] and Mark [Mark 13] the events that will take place in Jerusalem from the events of the end.) Jesus’s answer indicates that the question in verse 7 relates to the last times. He warns his disciples not to be deceived because many will claim to be the Messiah or ...

2752. The Book of Signs

John 1:19-28

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Gary M. Burge

... –18. “Prophet” will later become a title for Jesus (John 6:14; 7:40). But if John is none of these popular eschatological figures, who is he? What is he doing? The first question (1:22–23) is answered from Isaiah 40:3. He is a herald, a forerunner (cf. Mark 1:1–3). The second (1:24–27) is also anticipatory: his water baptism will be overshadowed by the appearance of a “greater one” who will baptize in the Spirit (1:33; cf ...

2753. Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

John 4:1-26

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Gary M. Burge

... is prompted by his concern that the Pharisees are viewing him as supplanting John the Baptist’s ministry (4:1; cf. 3:22–36). Would the hostility toward John now be aimed at Jesus? In the Synoptics, it is John’s arrest that brings Jesus into Galilee (Mark 1:14). The same is true in the Fourth Gospel. Jesus avoids incrimination stemming from his association with John. To be sure, Jesus’s ministry was similar to that of John: both men employed baptism (4:1–2). Even in Galilee after the death of John ...

2754. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son

John 4:39-42, John 4:43-54

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Gary M. Burge

... 6:4) is applied here to Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets (Luke 13:33; cf. John 4:19; 6:14). The healing miracle finds a close parallel in the Synoptic cure of the centurion’s servant (Matt. 8:4–13) and the story of the Syrophoenician woman (Mark 7:24–30). Both are cures effected at a distance. In John the miracle serves to display the new life promised by Jesus in the preceding discourses (3:16; 4:14, 36). In Cana, as in Samaria, Jesus hopes to inspire belief (4:50), and in this case, the ...

2755. Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

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Gary M. Burge

... , no comment is given as to the purpose of the man’s blindness, but instead Jesus simply says that we need to get to work to correct it, thereby showing God’s glory. Healing with mud and saliva was well known among the ancients, and Jesus employed it often (cf. Mark 7:33; 8:23). The focus of the healing, however, is its symbolic element: the man is told to wash in the Pool of Siloam. This was the pool at the south end of the city filled by the Gihon Spring and was the source for the water ceremonies at ...

2756. The Shepherd and His Flock

John 10:1-21

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Gary M. Burge

... Israel (Gen. 49:24; Ps. 23; 78:52–53), and similarly, the patriarchs, Moses, and David were shepherds. Leadership in Israel meant shepherding, and thus impious Israelite kings were called false shepherds (1 Kings 22:17; Jer. 10:21; 23:1–2; Ezek. 34:1–31). In Mark’s account of the feeding of the five thousand, Jesus is evidently using this same pastoral motif for himself (6:30–44, esp. vv. 34, 39–40). Here in 10:11–18 the superiority of Jesus’s work is given. Not only is his devotion to the ...

2757. Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas

Acts 15:36-41, Acts 16:1-5

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Gary M. Burge

... account of the argument between Barnabas and Paul points to the historicity of Luke’s account, as he does not shy away from the problems among those proclaiming the gospel, although Paul’s own writing points to his eventual reconciliation with John Mark (2 Tim. 4:11). In terms of literary function, this short paragraph explains the disappearance of Barnabas while introducing “Silas” (15:40), a leader of the Jerusalem church (15:27), as Paul’s new missionary partner. After arriving at Lystra and ...

2758. Righteousness Through Faith

Romans 3:21-31

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Gary M. Burge

... of salvation is God’s grace (charis), the undeserved love of God. The means of salvation is also redemption, deliverance from the hopeless human condition of 1:18–3:20. “Redemption” sometimes refers to a ransom that has been paid (cf. 1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23; also Mark 10:45); many see an allusion to the Old Testament motif of redemption in a new exodus, a new covenant, and a new creation (Isa. 43:14–21; 48:20–21; 52:1–2; Ezek. 20:33–38; Hos. 2:14–23). The facilitation of salvation is bound ...

2759. Life through the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

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Gary M. Burge

... as it had to pronounce the death sentence (8:3). God saved human beings from their hopeless predicament when he sent Jesus, whose mission it was to die as a sin offering for the atonement of sins, into the world. The death of Christ, who died for sinners, marks God’s condemnation of sin and its power over human existence. The result of Jesus’s death and resurrection is the fulfillment of the law by believers who are “in Christ Jesus” and who are thus no longer dominated by the power of humankind’s ...

2760. Introduction and No Other Gospel

Galatians 1:1-10

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Gary M. Burge

... the Galatians (1:2), Paul seems to have little time or desire for pleasantries. The brevity of his greeting is an unmistakable mark of his deep concern, perhaps even his anger at the present circumstances. His stock, yet sincere, wish for “grace and peace” to ... denotes a “difference in kind” (from one unrelated thing to another) rather than a difference between related things. To mark off this difference in kind, he uses a contrasting term, “another” (KJV, RSV; NIV: “no gospel at all”) ...

2761. Conclusion with Personal Appeal

Galatians 6:11-18

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Gary M. Burge

... The constant harassment concerning his apostolic credentials and the problem of legalism as an excuse for Jewish prejudice toward Gentiles were exhausting him. His authenticity was really not a matter of speculation; it should be a matter of evidence, the physical marks (Greek stigmata; literally a “brand mark” on an animal or slave) of a man scarred by a world that persecuted him as it did his Lord. Is there really any other, more convincing evidence they would need to see (see 2 Cor. 11:22–30)? The ...

2762. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

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Gary M. Burge

... Thessalonians have, in part, put into practice the moral teaching (4:1; cf. 4:10; 5:11), the encouragement to grow in morality (4:2; cf. 4:10), and the exhortation to remember the moral teaching they have already received (4:2; cf. 4:9; 5:1–2). The authors mark the transition to a new section saying, “As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more” (4:1 ...

2763. A Lifestyle in Accord with Sound Doctrine

Titus 2:1-15

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Gary M. Burge

... :1). The antidote for the sickness of soul Paul just diagnosed in Cretan culture and in the false teachers lies in the gospel’s power to reshape human lives. God’s character is visible where Christ creates people marked by “self-control” (2:2, 5–6, 12), where relationships bear these marks of God’s character (2:2–10), and where the story of Christ’s incarnation and redemptive work forms a people “zealous for good works” (2:11–14 NKJV, ESV). Throughout this section Paul has a missionary ...

2764. The Blood of Christ

Hebrews 9:11-28

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Gary M. Burge

... work. Redemption is deliverance from some bondage by the payment of a price or ransom (Exod. 6:6; 13:13–15; Lev. 25:25–27, 47–54; Mark 10:45; Rom. 3:24; Eph. 1:7). The bondage here contemplated is that of sinners to death, to the devil, and to divine wrath; the ransom ... either to the divine enablement of the Third Person of the Godhead by which Jesus performed his mission (Isa. 42:1; Mark 1:10) or, less probably, to his own eternal and spiritual life, by reason of which his sacrifice and priesthood are ...

2765. The Antichrist Has Come! The Secessionists Deny Jesus’s Messiahship

1 John 2:18-27

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Gary M. Burge

... more than one. As the departure of the faith-wavering shows their lack of belonging to the true community, those who remain are encouraged by the elder’s affirming their anointing by the Holy One and their abiding in true knowledge. Community defection is the mark of their antichristic actions, but the elder goes on, then, to address their root problems resulting from their inadequate beliefs. 2:21–25 · Those who deny Jesus as the Christ lose the Father: In declaring again why he is writing (1 John 1:4 ...

2766. Love One Another

1 John 3:11-24

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Gary M. Burge

... in need. Is this the “sin” addressed in the early part of the epistle? Perhaps the appeal to love one another as motivated by the love of Christ simply had to do with caring for the sustenance of fellow believers—sharing. After all, if this was the mark of the true fellowship of believers after the Holy Spirit had come upon them (Acts 2:42–47; 4:32–37), why was it not more evident within this community? The love of Christ also delivers us from the most insidious of sins: indifference. 3:18–24 ...

2767. The Beast out of the Earth

Revelation 13:11-18

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Gary M. Burge

... , and Philadelphia; 2:8–17; 3:7–13) “could not buy or sell,” since they were ostracized by the trade guilds (13:17). The “mark,” or slave brand (13:17), of 666 on the right hand or forehead of the beast parodies the signet seal (7:3; 9:4; ... 14:1) on God’s people. Contrary to popular notions that 666 is a physical tattoo, the mark of the beast is figurative. It means that God knows who belongs to Satan. The number 666 is an example of the ancient practice ...

2768. The Harvest of the Earth

Revelation 14:14-20

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Gary M. Burge

... divine figure (symbolized by the cloud theophany; cf. Exod. 24:15–18), and as a judge for the eschatological harvest (symbolized by the sickle; cf. Joel 3:13). Jesus promised that he would return to gather the elect as a farmer reaps a grain harvest (Matt. 13:36–43; Mark 13:26–27). The command to reap comes from the inner sanctuary (14:15; cf. 1 Thess. 4:16), which stands for God himself, since no one in heaven except the Father, not even the Son, knows the day and hour of final judgment (Matt. 24:36 ...

2769. More Beyond

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... Barton walked into an Atlanta business office and shot and killed several people. In the cartoon, a small boy is sitting next to his mother, and a newspaper is lying on the table. The head- line reads, “Atlanta Murderer: Mark Barton.” Confused, the boy is looking up at his mother saying, “You said monsters don’t exist.”[1] Unfortunately, there are Christians who are like that little boy in the cartoon. When the monsters of life appear and begin to pounce on them, they do not understand why. The ...

2770. I Wonder Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Romans 8:28-29

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... Barton walked into an Atlanta business office and shot and killed several people. In the cartoon, a small boy is sitting next to his mother, and a newspaper is lying on the table. The headline reads, “Atlanta Murderer: Mark Barton.” Confused, the boy is looking up at his mother saying, “You said monsters don’t exist.” We are all like that boy, and we ask about this monster in many ways: “Why do the innocent suffer and the wicked prosper?” “Why does God allow evil and suffering?” “If God ...

2771. I Wonder about The End of the World

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... PAN out! I say this because Jesus specifically tells us that no one knows when the world will end, not even him! It is not our job to know: But about the day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father (Mark 13:32). We are not called as Christian to obsess about the details of the end of the world. We are called to be faithful. If we are obedient to God, we can be at peace with however and whenever God chooses to transform the world and establish the full ...

2772. Three Things You Can Count On

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... the things we can believe in. This season is all about preparing ourselves to receive the light of Christ that pierces our dark and cynical world. A good place to start is Jesus’ words in our assigned lesson in Mark, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mark 13:31). This is a comforting and encouraging truth. The world may crumble to the ground but Jesus and his words will last forever. The revelation of God in Jesus Christ provides the ultimate stability in an unstable ...

2773. A Light In the Darkness

John 1:1-6, 19-28

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... struggle with. I know all of us come here today with questions we want answered. Our hearts cry out with questions because these kinds of tragedies shatter our ideas of how the world is supposed to operate. I remember several years ago when a man named Mark Barton walked into an Atlanta business office and shot and killed people. The next day the Atlanta Constitution carried a poignant cartoon of a little boy sitting next to his mother on the couch. There was a newspaper on the coffee table that showed the ...

2774. Mission Possible!

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... have been given power through the Holy Spirit to be like Jesus in this world. This is why our mission to make disciples is possible! Jesus not only spoke about the power to be like him in John. It is also mentioned in the synoptic gospels — Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We give a lot of credence to his last words. We believe what people say is important before they leave the earth. Have you ever paid attention to Jesus’ last words to his disciples before he left the earth? In Matthew 28:16-20 Jesus’ last ...

2775. Does Prayer Make Any Diﬀerence?

Mark 1:35-39

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Charley Reeb

... the importance of prayer and the difference it makes. Jesus prayed all the time. In the first chapter of the gospel of Mark we find that Jesus woke up exhausted from all the healings he did the day before. We are told that he sneaked away to a quiet ... place and prayed. He had a demanding job and needed to pray as often as he could (Mark 1:35). In fact, in the gospel of Luke we find fifteen different references to Jesus praying! At every turn in his life and ministry ...

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2751. Apocalyptic Discourse

Luke 21:5-38

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2752. The Book of Signs

John 1:19-28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2753. Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

John 4:1-26

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2754. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son

John 4:39-42, John 4:43-54

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2755. Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2756. The Shepherd and His Flock

John 10:1-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2757. Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas

Acts 15:36-41, Acts 16:1-5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2758. Righteousness Through Faith

Romans 3:21-31

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2759. Life through the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2760. Introduction and No Other Gospel

Galatians 1:1-10

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2761. Conclusion with Personal Appeal

Galatians 6:11-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2762. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2763. A Lifestyle in Accord with Sound Doctrine

Titus 2:1-15

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2764. The Blood of Christ

Hebrews 9:11-28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2765. The Antichrist Has Come! The Secessionists Deny Jesus’s Messiahship

1 John 2:18-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2766. Love One Another

1 John 3:11-24

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2767. The Beast out of the Earth

Revelation 13:11-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2768. The Harvest of the Earth

Revelation 14:14-20

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

2769. More Beyond

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

Charley Reeb

2770. I Wonder Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Romans 8:28-29

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... Barton walked into an Atlanta business office and shot and killed several people. In the cartoon, a small boy is sitting next to his mother, and a newspaper is lying on the table. The headline reads, “Atlanta Murderer: Mark Barton.” Confused, the boy is looking up at his mother saying, “You said monsters don’t exist.” We are all like that boy, and we ask about this monster in many ways: “Why do the innocent suffer and the wicked prosper?” “Why does God allow evil and suffering?” “If God ...

2771. I Wonder about The End of the World

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Charley Reeb

2772. Three Things You Can Count On

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Charley Reeb

2773. A Light In the Darkness

John 1:1-6, 19-28

Sermon

Charley Reeb