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301. When the Impossible Becomes Imminently Possible!

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... to feed the crowd. Philip's was the stunted faith of the bottom line that will forever come up short. We see it in various forms. People with undersized faith measure life by the horizons of their own limited capacity to think. In looking at their own thoughts, they miss the possibility of what Jesus "has in mind." How often has revival tarried because Christians wilt rather than stand for the faith we claim to hold so dear? John Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost learns that you can run but you cannot hide ...

302. Holy Smokes! God Is Here

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... more. However, your stomach is beginning to growl. You had come expecting that the event would last an hour or so; you hadn’t even thought to pack a lunch. Not a brilliant move. Is there a village nearby where you can grab a sandwich? Then you begin to notice that ... And at every mention of Jesus, the beings moved farther away, until at length, he was alone. In that pitiable state, as he thought of his life, death, and now his future, he came to say a very brief prayer: “Jesus, I’m sorry. Please help me ...

303. But…!

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... go to heaven. But in as far as this world goes and how to survive in this dog-eat-dog world now, it is a nice thought but ultimately irrelevant. Saint Paul in today's lesson has a different point of view. If Christ has not been raised from the dead, if ... And as a result, the world is different. Now we can be the ones who raise our hands and ask those embarrassing questions of those who thought they ran the world. Now when the rest of the world assumes that you only go around once in the life so grab all you ...

304. Two Sinners

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... times my words don’t come out right. But he can find me. He can find what’s inside of me just by listening to my thoughts. I ask him to help me and keep me going. A lot of people think working girls don’t have any morals, any religion. But I ... to apologize to God for anything!” The pastor was dumbfounded. “My seminary training hadn’t prepared me for this,” he said. “I thought everyone knew we had to confess our sin.” (3) Here’s the problem: what if you have no consciousness of sin? What ...

305. The Healing Power of Faith

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... as we would desire. It may not even come in the way we desire, but if we are steadfast we will see the salvation of our God. This is a statement of mature faith. How many times have you looked back over your life and realized that situations you thought were hopeless were not hopeless at all? Even though you could not see a solution at the time, life worked out and you realize now that God used that supposedly hopeless situation in a wonderful way to make you what you are today. With the help of God, your ...

306. Jesus Taken Up into Heaven

Acts 1:1-11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... . At most, they probably took Jesus to mean that they should witness to the Jews of the Diaspora (see notes on 2:9ff.) and only in this sense preach “the forgiveness of sins … to all nations” (Luke 24:47; see disc. on Acts 10:10ff.). The thought of including the Gentiles would never have crossed their minds and was accepted later only with great difficulty. The Jewish nationalism of the early church died hard. But by the time Luke was writing that was largely a thing of the past, and the phrase the ...

307. Peter Speaks to the Onlookers

Acts 3:11-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... cf. v. 20) for God to restore all things. There is an important sense in which the renewal of all things has already begun with the coming of Jesus—or even earlier, with the coming of John the Baptist (cf. Mal. 4:5f.; Matt. 11:14; 17:11). But the thought here is of the consummation of the kingdom on Jesus’ return (see note on 1:3). This had been announced by God long ago through his holy prophets (cf. v. 18; Isa. 34:4; 51:6; 65:17; etc.). 3:22 The fulfillment of Scripture remained Peter’s theme, with ...

308. Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... man, as though Peter were actually pointing to him as he spoke. Behind the phrase he was healed is the same Greek word that is used in verse 12 with the wider meaning “to save.” The line between physical and spiritual well-being is always a fine one in biblical thought (cf. Mark 10:52; Luke 7:50). As for the source of the healing, it was by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth (see note on 2:38). This Jesus, these very council members (you) had sent to his death, but God has raised him from the dead (v ...

309. Paul's Labor for the Church

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... the Colossians: I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. 2:5 Paul, although personally unknown by and physically separated from the church, is with them in spirit. By spirit he probably means more than his nonphysical parts such as thoughts, heart, or mind. He is with them because of their common faith in Christ; to be in Christ is to be in the Spirit—the Spirit of God (Rom. 8:9ff.). The spiritual presence of Paul with this congregation is so real that he actually speaks ...

310. Rules for Holy Living

Colossians 3:1-17

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... as the vices enumerated in 3:5–9. This, too, is a good example of the indicative and imperative in Colossians. In 2:20 Paul stated: “you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world”; in 3:3–4, there is a similar development of thought in that something that was hidden is revealed. The new life that the believer receives in Christ is hidden, that is, it is a mystery that one cannot fully explain or physically display. But the true nature of that life will not remain a secret, because it ...

311. The Coming of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , while the echo of the word (kleptēs) is still in Paul’s mind from verse 2, he changes it to avoid repetition. Instances may be cited from Plutarch (e.g., Vit. Crassi 29) and others of nocturnal activities being overtaken by the dawn, so that the thought of the day surprising thieves is not out of the question. However, the weight of manuscript evidence, the argument for consistency with verse 2, and the use of the same figure in the teaching of Jesus, support the reading accepted by NIV. 5:9 To receive ...

312. God Disciplines His Sons

Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... ), where Moses is exhorting the people to faithfulness to the covenant. God remains the same despite the new circumstances of the new covenant. In light of all this, the readers are to be thankful for what is theirs in Christ and to put out of mind all thoughts of lapsing from their Christianity to their former way of life. Additional Notes 12:25 The a fortiori form of the argument is more obvious from the original, which reads “how much more shall we not escape.” The same verb for see to it (blepō) is ...

313. Warning Against Refusing God

Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

314. God’s Love and Ours

1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... as a confession of faith. 4:16 It is better not to break v. 16 into two parts and start a new section as many do. The thought is continuous from v. 13 through v. 18. It is all on spiritual confidence. 4:17 Earlier editions of the NIV did not contain the phrase In ... us to carry them out, by his power (Phil. 4:13) and by his love (1 John 4:7, 19). 5:4a Directly continuing the thought of v. 3, the first clause of v. 4 gives the Elder’s reason for considering God’s commands not to be a heavy burden ...

315. Spiritual Hypocrisy—Living by the Rules, Not by the Heart

Mark 7:1-23

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... a “transformed” life stemming from the constant “renewing of our mind” by the Holy Spirit and by a godly mind-set. If we spend our time on pornographic websites, immoral actions will always result. If instead we meditate on God’s Word and on the thoughts of the great men and women of the faith, we will pursue actions that please God. The principle is simple: what we think is who we are, and that will determine what we do. Illustrating the Text Lip service rather than heart worship Literature/Film ...

316. Witnesses of the New Covenant

Romans 12:1-8

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... oneself with the age to come, the kingdom of God. Third, the key to it all is to continually renew one’s mind to think the thoughts of God. Fourth, doing the will of God is worth the effort, for God’s will is the only way to go. Teaching the Text I ... is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody.” Instead, the truly humble person will be cheerful, giving little if any thought to self at all, one way or the other. The author emphasizes much the same thing in story form in The Screwtape Letters. ...

317. “You Laugh at Them, Lord; You Scoff at All Those Nations”

Psalm 59:1-17

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... the pastor of the country church reads to the guests two or three of Wordsworth’s ballads between dances with this purpose: For I thought if I could get them to like poetry and beautiful things in words, it would not only do them good, but would help them ... a man who did not find God in other places, as well as in the Bible, would ever find Him there at all. And I have always thought that to find God in other books enables us to see clearly that He is more in the Bible than in any other book, or all other ...

318. Learn To Play Again

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... of us have just lost our joy. I believe Chesterton was on to something. When we read Genesis we see that joy radiated through God as he created the universe. When God created you and me there was great joy in his heart. For example, do you think when God thought about creating a daisy, he just said, “Um, daisies be”? I don’t think so! Tony Campolo talks about the time when his grandson was just a little boy and would play on Campolo’s knee. He would bounce him up and down, lift him up into the air ...

319. God's Sovereign Choice

Romans 9:1-29

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... Edoms of the world which he has not yet played. Additional Notes 9:1–5 Paul’s wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers reflects the idea of vicarious suffering, which was discussed at 8:31–32. The thought that the voluntary innocent suffering of one person could expiate the sins of others had gained currency in synagogue thinking by Paul’s day. See Str-B, vol. 2, pp. 275–79; and vol. 3, p. 261. The punctuation of verse 5 is a minefield in NT scholarship ...

320. The Resurrection of the Dead

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... to Christ, Christ’s delivery of the kingdom to God, and Christ’s reign, which is future in its full form but now underway as Christ labors against his enemies. The language of this portrayal is highly traditional, fully informed by the literature and thought of Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic eschatology. Paul means what he writes, but one never knows how literally he intended for the standard apocalyptic images to be taken. 15:25 The language of Psalm 109:1 LXX (Ps. 110:1 NIV) comes through in ...

321. Daniel’s Vision of a Man

Daniel 10:1--11:1

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... could not comprehend words (Acts 9:7; 22:9). Similarly, in the theophany at Sinai, the people “heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice” (Deut. 4:12). Likewise, once when God spoke from heaven in the time of Jesus, the crowd thought it was thunder (John 12:28–29). On the other hand, it is possible that when Daniel falls to the ground and goes into a trance (10:9), this behavior is enough to frighten his associates away. Daniel does not run away in fright, but he is profoundly ...

322. Praise to God for a Living Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... –70. 1:4 The Jews understood the idea of inheritance in material terms, such as the promised land of milk and honey, Canaan (Lev. 20:24; Deut. 15:4). But even before the shock of the exile made them spiritualize this interpretation, their inheritance was sometimes thought of as God himself (Deut. 10:9; Ps. 73:26). In the NT the Christian’s inheritance is variously interpreted as eternal life (Mark 10:17; Titus 3:7), glory with Christ (Rom. 8:17), immortality (1 Cor. 15:50), or the new Jerusalem (Rev. 21 ...

323. Be Holy

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... 2:6–8; Col. 1:18; cf. 1 Pet. 1:11). 1:21 God … raised him from the dead and glorified him finds an echo in rabbinic thought: “He quickens the dead, and he gave a share of his glory to Elijah so that he also revived the dead” (Numbers Rabbah 15.13). Faith and ... Peter in 3:10–12. The verb loutroun, to redeem, pay ransom (Ps. 34:22) occurs in 1 Pet. 1:18 and is a key term in NT thought; cf. also awesome fear of the Lord (Ps. 34:7, 9, 11; 1 Pet. 1:17; 2:17); lions lack, but not the godly (Ps. 34:10; 1 ...

324. Faith in the Son of God

1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

325. Obsession

Philippians 4:4-7

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... and a snake around his head. The bird is a vulture, and the snake is a wrapped cobra. The vulture eats rotten food and the cobra attacks and kills. These symbolized that the pharaoh had to guard the thoughts that went on in his head. If rotten thoughts came, the vulture would consume them, and if poisonous thoughts came, the cobra would kill them.* Now I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want a vulture or a cobra anywhere near my head. But these were just pretend. They were symbols. Of course, you and ...

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