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276. Judas, A Person Like Us

Mark 14:43-52

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the script, and in fact it is God who dies on that cross. But it is important as we grapple with the mind and heart and character of God that we do not impose on God our human limitations of thinking. What do we do to our understanding of God when we make ... and His predetermining. Now I know this is a fine line, but I am not splitting hairs. This says so much about the character of God. “The fact that the whole drama of the Crucifixion was known to God from all eternity does not spell determinism. It ...

277. The World According to Paul

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany."4 Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy John's age with a strange cartoon-like voice. Owen has a clear vision of God's purpose and of his own role in that purpose. Another character is the Reverend Louis Merrill, a doubt-plagued minister in their prep-school town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, who often talks with Owen about matters of religious faith. The Reverend Merrill is living within his own personal faith-quake, a fact that John finds disconcerting. It ...

278. The Mouse Christmas

Drama

Frank Ramirez

... was ruined by a flood. All that is left is the stable and the empty manger along with some old scraps of cloth. She leaves these pieces out in sadness and walks away. The mice arrive and decide to help out by taking the parts of the characters we associate with the nativity set. Although the woman is frightened at first when she returns, she accepts the gift of the living nativity set from the mice and rewards them with a bag of seed corn. Although some songs are indicated, the children can sing whatever ...

279. What Can You Bear?

Illustration

Charles Ryrie

... (2 Peter 1:5-8). Two of these terms are common to both lists: love and self-control. The others are joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, virtue, knowledge, endurance, piety, and brotherly love. To show these character traits is to bear fruit in one's life. TWO, right character will result in right conduct, and as we live a life of good works we produce fruit (Colossians 1:10). This goes hand in hand with increasing in the knowledge of God, for as we learn what pleases Him ...

280. A Resume of Righteousness

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... of Joseph or Mary, of Peter or Paul. They rank among the great heroes of faith, but the Bible does not pretend that they were perfect. On the contrary, it is generous with the evidence of their humanness and imperfections. And so it is, too, with the character at the center of our Old Testament reading today. Four thousand years after he lived and died, Abraham is remembered and honored by untold millions around the globe. So many of the pivotal promises of God trace back to him. And from him come nations ...

281. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” until we first identified our own selves as the “neighbor.” But there is something else here to be noticed that parallels with the Dives and Lazarus story. The story of the Rich Man and Lazarus is the only story in which Jesus gives a character a name, and he gives the man character, the poor man, the name of his best friend. In this companion story of the Rich Man, the robbed victim is the only one in the story without a label. We have a Priest. We have a Levite. We have a Samaritan even, with ...

282. Jesus’ Prayer: The Pause in the Battle

John 17:1-11

Sermon

David O. Bales

... from God in this life. Jesus, however, makes sure we get all we need. He protects us in God’s name, the name Jesus prays in verse 11 that God has given to him. Jesus bears God’s name. We realize that God’s name, God’s personality, God’s character and deepest nature are most clearly seen in the one who prays for us and in whose name we pray: Jesus. Let us pray, Lord Jesus, thank you that you’ve reached into our lives with your compassion. We praise you that, for no merit of our own, you love ...

283. Family Re:Union - For the Love

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... of my kids while they are young.” I am not saying that is not a good and a noble thing, but my problem is you are not really accountable to your kids; you are accountable to God. If there are certain things you think you shouldn’t do from a character standpoint or you think are questionable it shouldn’t be because of your kids, it ought to be because of your love for God. If you think about it, God in some ways is just like a parent. There are two things that any parent wants from their children. In ...

284. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... doesn’t just mean materially. He was the kind of man a young boy could model his life on. He goes on to say that Mr. Anderson and his meat?market manager, Mr. Walton Haining, were both godly men who showed him what it meant to be a person of character--to be honest and accountable and hardworking. Zig believes that God provided these men in his life at a time when his own role model, his father, was taken from him. He says he doesn’t know how he would have turned out had these two men not impacted his ...

285. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... s life but from the God of peace (Rom. 15:33; 16:20; Phil. 4:9). Patience has the sense of forbearance and is a characteristic of God (Rom. 2:4; 9:22) in which believers share (cf. 2 Cor. 6:6). Kindness is another feature of God’s character (Rom. 2:4; 11:22) that should characterize the people of God (2 Cor. 6:6). Goodness has the sense of “generosity” or “uprightness.” Paul uses it as a high compliment (Rom. 15:14) and recognizes that only through God’s power can believers exhibit such a virtue ...

286. Warning Against False Teachers of the Law

1 Timothy 1:1-11

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... with this meaning before the late second century A.D., and either of the other meanings, both well established by Paul’s time, fits the context well. 1:5 Many argue that the qualifications of both conscience and faith are dead giveaways of the non-Pauline character of the ideas of the PE. But this often assumes a static Paul, on the one hand, and seems to misread the earlier evidence, on the other. For example, D-C argue that “faith” has been transformed here into “a human attitude” (p. 18). But ...

287. The High Priest of a New Covenant

Hebrews 8:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... regular word for “offer”), implying the necessary repetition (and also possibly the existence of the sacrificial ritual at the time the author writes); but in referring to the offering this one must offer he uses the aorist tense, implying the once-and-for-all character of his high-priestly work. The argument that if Jesus were an earthly priest (in contrast to one whose work is “heavenly” or ultimate) he would not have anything to offer harks back to the admission that Jesus was not a member of the ...

288. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... to that made by our author in for a short time (proskairos) is made by Paul with the same Greek word in 2 Cor. 4:18: “For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” Proskairos is used similarly in 4 Macc. 15:2, 8. The deceptive character of sin is mentioned in 3:13 (cf. 12:1). For Moses it would have been sin (hamartia) to remain in his privileged position in Egypt, since God had a work for him to do. (This is in contrast to Joseph, whose calling was to remain in his high position ...

289. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... ’ar) that is designed to transmit the depth of Naomi’s devastation. The Canaanite myth of Aqhat uses a word, cognate to Hebrew sha’ar, that similarly describes the pain of bereavement. In this contemporary story, Aqhat is the son of Danil, a patriarchal character like Elimelech. Anat, the divine sister/wife of Baal, complains bitterly to El that Aqhat will not give her his magical bow and arrows (probably a coded symbol for the secret of eternal life). She becomes so enraged at him that she plots his ...

290. Queen Vashti Deposed

Esther 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... were left for entertainment (see also Dan. 5:2). To ask Vashti to appear with her royal turban would have insulted the queen’s appearance as mere entertainment at the all-male party. See further Bickerman, Four Strange Books, pp. 185–86, and Fox, Character, pp. 167–69. 1:13 The wise men who understood the times: The “wise men” may be those who understand (1) the law, (2) the “times” in the sense of how people were thinking, or (3) astrology. Ancient Babylonians and Persians loked for signs ...

291. Where Has Your Lover Gone

Song of Songs 6:1-13

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... women may be speaking here, but it may also be a group of men. The second half of the verse seems to be a response. The woman may be speaking of herself in the third person. It is also possible that the man (as the NIV reads) or another character is speaking of her. The exchange can be read as playful banter, along the lines of 1:7–8. Additional Notes 6:4 Beautiful . . . as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem: The pairing of Tirzah and Jerusalem in parallel has led some to suppose that the Song, or at least this ...

292. Love the Lord Your God

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... matter of legalistic conformity to an external code. On the contrary, Deuteronomy 6:6 is part of a strong stream of OT teaching that calls for the internalizing of the law in the heart, i.e., at the center of a person’s mind, will, and character (cf. 4:9; 10:16; 11:18; Jer. 4:4; 31:33; Ezek. 18:31; 36:26f.). The second misconception is that religious traditions and observances are the preserve of a professional elite with esoteric knowledge, whether clerical or academic. The priests of Israel were, indeed ...

293. Signs, Sayings, and Oracles of Judgment

Ezekiel 12:1-28, Ezekiel 13:1-23, Ezekiel 14:1-11, Ezekiel 14:12-23

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... for 5:12). The many parallels between chapters 4–7 and 12–14 serve to unify the book of Ezekiel, as well as to set off the vision report in chapters 8–11. Two of the three paragons of righteousness Ezekiel mentions (vv. 14, 20) are familiar biblical characters. Both Noah and Job are figures of the distant, legendary past, before Israel came into being. Further, God declared both to be righteous (Gen. 6:8–9; Job 1:8). While it is less clear who Daniel, or Dan’el, was, Ezekiel’s point is clear. If ...

294. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... with a cherub”). The NRSV accordingly has, “With an anointed cherub as guardian I placed you.” In support of this reading, it must be noted that ʾatt is the feminine form of the pronoun, while kerub is masculine. The cherub, then, is probably a supporting character in this drama and not in the central role after all. Other problems in this difficult poem relate to whether the lament indeed concerns the king of Tyre. Unlike all the earlier Tyre material, there is no mention in this poem of the sea, of ...

295. Oracles of Restoration

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... ; 15:13; 17:15; Num. 8:7; 19:19; see also the story of Naaman’s cleansing from leprosy in 2 Kgs. 5:1–19). God acts to bring the people of Israel home and to cleanse them from impurity on God’s own initiative, out of God’s own character, and for the sake of God’s own honor. There is no mention, here or elsewhere in Ezekiel, of God’s love or mercy (the sole exception, the reference to God’s compassion in 39:25, likely belongs to an editor rather than to the prophet). As Gowan frankly observes ...

296. God’s Saving Righteousness and the Restoration of Israel

Romans 3:21-31

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... of the past need not preclude this mention as being from Paul. But most important, already in Romans 1:17–18 (which no one thinks is pre-Pauline) we see Paul juxtaposing God’s saving and judging righteousness. Actually, for Paul, both are needed to present the character of God, who is both holy and loving (so 3:26b). There is no need, therefore, to resort to the theory of Romans 3:25–26a being pre-Pauline. Teaching the Text A couple of sermons/lessons come to mind in contemplating Romans 3:21–26 ...

297. Being Wronged versus Claiming One’s Right

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... short clips or soundtrack snippets to help establish the mood. Move through them one at a time, asking your congregation to consider (and perhaps call out their answers) how they would define success and failure or winning and losing if they were the main character in each film. In the action movie, success or winning might be surviving a crisis or defeating one’s enemies, and losing might be death or miscarriage of justice. In the romance, winning might be wooing the right guy or girl and discovering ...

298. The Fifth Trumpet (First Woe)

Revelation 8:6--9:21

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... , and these evil spirits are intent on destroying their own followers. In spite of repeated invitations to repent and find life, sinful humanity remains hostile to God and his people. God’s judgments are just. Teaching the Text In many ways, this passage reflects the character of God as both loving and holy, compassionate and righteous, and serves as a warning to believers not to be deceived by idolatry (cf. texts that summarize the gospel such as John 3:16–21 and Rom. 6:23). 1. God is patient and long ...

299. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... Isa. 27:1; Jer. 51:34).3Naturally, such figures provide a fitting symbol for Satan, the archenemy of God. (The dragon is explicitly identified as the “ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray” in 12:9.) The color red alludes to the devil’s character of violence and bloodshed (cf. Rev. 6:4; 16:6; 17:6; 18:24). His “crowns” (diad?ma) portray real power but not power equal to that of the King of kings (Rev. 19:12, 16; cf. John 12:31; 14:30; Eph. 2:2; 2 Cor. 4:4).4 ...

300. Failure to Enter the Land

Num 13:1–14:9

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... in, but that is not accurate. This is the second time that Moses has prayed for God not to destroy Israel. The other time is in Exodus 32:9–14, at the making of the golden calf. Shortly after that incident God revealed something of his character as a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness and yet holy (Exod. 34:6–7). Moses prays with the assurance of God’s self-revelation that God is more inclined to forgive than to condemn. Arguably, God, who is omniscient ...

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