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326. The World Is Not Enough

Luke 12:13-21

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James Merritt

... said they then went down the hill to a small cottage where they were staying. That afternoon the pastor of the local Baptist church came to call. He was an Englishman, and he also was 75. He was a widower, and he had spent most of his free time taking care of his two invalid sisters. He was jumping up and down, full of enthusiasm, full of love for Jesus and love for others. They were talking and the Baptist preacher said, "You know, Billy, I don't have two pounds to my name, but I am the happiest man in ...

327. Keep Your Eye On The Ball

Nehemiah 6:1-14

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James Merritt

... purpose, you must be convinced that what you do is a great work, because it is God's work. All of God's work is a great work. If you work in our children's area and you teach children Bible stories, you are doing a great work. If you care for our little babies and simply sing to them about Jesus, you are doing a great work. If you work with our teenagers and you are helping teenagers learn how to be godly adults, you are doing a great work. Do you know what excites me about Cross Pointe? What ...

328. The Shepherd King

Jeremiah 23:1-6

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John Wayne Clarke

... most of us have an image of a shepherd that has been mentally tattooed on our brains. It is that shepherd that David wrote to us about in Psalm 23. It is a wonderful image to be sure, but it is by no means the only one. We must be careful to remember that through the prophet, God promised the safe return of the faithful, the flock, and the rise of good shepherds along with the coming of the righteous branch of David who would reign as king. Later, in chapter 31:33-34, Jeremiah paints for us a picture of ...

329. Putting Ourselves in the Picture

Matthew 13:44-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... throughout his life in order to have the pearl of great price. And when the fishnets are brought in, the good is separated from the bad. So we don’t miss the point, do we? There is a price – a price for everything. There’s a price for being a caring person in relationship. There’s a price for our sin and failure and we often pay that on the installment plan. And, one day, one day there’ll be a time of separation, a time of judgment. So, I leave you, I leave you with the most important question ...

330. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... but oh the rewards; oh the meaning; oh the value of shared life; oh the redemption and transformation that take place when we respond. IV So I need to close on this note. There is a price for everything. Life itself costs. It costs to be a caring person and there is a price in living out our Christian discipleship. But let’s go back and underscore one of the primary lessons expressed in our Scripture lesson: No entrance price to the Kingdom is too great. Put another way, the price of entering the Kingdom ...

331. The True Shepherd

John 10:1-10

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Lee Griess

... the Savior with the same image when he said, "He will feed his flock like a shepherd! He will gather his lambs into his arms." Yes, the tradition of the shepherd was very much a part of the heritage of Christ. This picture of God as a shepherd who cares for the flock comes even more clearly into focus in the New Testament. Jesus once told a story about a shepherd who had 100 sheep, but one of them went astray. In our way of thinking, a 99% return on our investment would be fine, most desirable, in fact ...

332. The Love of the Shepherd

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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King Duncan

... of us can think back to our childhood when someone called our name and we knew we were loved. We knew that someone cared about us, that we were important to them. That very fact gave our lives meaning. It still gives us a sense of identity ... Parent. It took the coming of Jesus for us to know that we could call God, “Abba Daddy.” This is really who God is. God cares for us more than we can imagine. This is the unique message of the Christian faith. A young American woman was visiting China for the first ...

333. The Church Should Go To Hell!

Luke 4:1-13

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David E. Leininger

... . "If you are the Son of God [and the Greek in all of these ‘If' clauses carries the sense of ‘If you are (and we know that you are)'], throw yourself down from here. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' " — Luke 4:9-11 The third temptation includes a spectacular stunt to leap from the pinnacle of the temple, drop the 450 feet straight down into the Kidron ...

334. God as a Consuming Fire

Hebrews 12:18-29

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Charles L. Aaron

... 31). Matthew talks of weeping and gnashing of teeth but also of a light burden and an easy yoke (Matthew 11:30) and of a risen Christ who will be with us always (28:20). So, throughout the Bible messages of God's love and forgiveness, mercy and care are intertwined with messages of God's judgment and punishment. We cannot separate them out, keeping only what we want. In the movie Wall-E, the little robot finds a diamond engagement ring in its original box. He throws the ring away and keeps the box! We might ...

335. Lost, But Not the TV Show!

Luke 15:1-7

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King Duncan

... the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one ...

336. Going Home

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Argile Smith

... can no longer serve him, and we can no longer go out and do what he commands. From our perspective, death doesn’t have the same value. The Lord has a different perspective on the death of his children. We matter to God when life surges within us, and he cares about us just as much life leaks out of us. While we live, we enjoy his presence. When we die, we can count on the blessing of his company then as well. He considers us just as precious in dying as he does when living. Whether living or dying, we ...

337. You Never Noticed

Luke 16:19-31

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King Duncan

... ourselves if we did not? According to a report released by the World Bank, nearly 2.8 billion people still live on the equivalent of two dollars a day or less. Of these, some 1.1 billion survive in extreme or absolute poverty on less than one dollar. Does anybody care? A few do, but it is still amazing to what lengths some people will go to not notice. Brazil is a country with an even wider gap than the U.S. between the haves and the have-nots. I read recently that in Sao Paulo, Brazil, police have stopped ...

338. The Journey Begins

Luke 5:1-11

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James Merritt

... not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.’” (Luke 5:10, ESV) Seven times in the Gospel of Luke Jesus will say these words, “do not be afraid.” What Jesus said to Peter Jesus says to us. “I don’t care what you’ve done. I don’t care who you are. I don’t care how bad you’ve blown it. You have nothing to fear from Me.” Jesus didn’t come to bring fear. He came to bring forgiveness. It is amazing to me that Peter wanted to send the Lord away, but Jesus wanted to draw Peter ...

339. An Extraordinary Wedding Gift

John 2:1-11

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King Duncan

... our desires to one another. It’s difficult for us to know sometimes what God desires out of us. But I can suggest a couple of areas in which God’s will is pretty clear. We know it is God’s will that we are to take care of our relationships. Marriage is one of those relationships for many of us. Remember the groom in our opening story who wanted the priest to eliminate those lines “love, honor, and obey” and ‘forsaking all others, be faithful to her forever?” There are many couples today who ...

340. Wives and Husbands

Ephesians 5:22-33

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... is head over the church, the husband is the head of his wife (5:23); as the church submits itself to Christ, wives submit themselves to their husbands (5:24); husbands are to love their wives with the same sacrificial love as Christ, who feeds and takes care of the church, his body (5:25, 29). The Lordship of Christ and his relation to the church epitomize the ideal union between husband and wife. But though this appears to be the author’s main purpose, the analogy works in the opposite direction as well ...

341. Overseers and Deacons

1 Timothy 3:1-16

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... (family) is thereby disqualified for the other (church). Indeed, as 3:15 and 5:1–2 indicate, the word oikos (“household”; NIV, family) is for Paul a pregnant metaphor for church. The overseer, then, must manage his own family well, because he must also take care of God’s church. The word for manage is used again of the elders in 5:17 (NIV, “direct”) as it was earlier in 1 Thessalonians 5:12 (NIV, “are over”). It carries the sense of either “to rule, govern,” or “to be concerned about ...

342. Sermon on the Mount: Allegiance and Trust

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:25-34

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Jeannine K. Brown

... demonstrates a deep trust in God and the reality of light from within (6:22–23; see also 5:14–16). 2. Pursuing God’s kingdom rather than being consumed by worry about daily needs requires a deep trust in God’s goodness and ability to care for those needs. Matthew highlights the priority of the kingdom in this passage. God has come to make all things right in Jesus, and Christians are to live in light of and in line with kingdom priorities. And according to Jesus, the God who is bringing restoration ...

343. The Gentiles Are Included in God’s Provision

Mark 8:1-13

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Grant R. Osborne

... lake to center on his disciples. Theological Insights The themes are the same as in the story of the feeding of the five thousand in 6:31–44: God’s bountiful provision for his people and the necessity that Christ’s followers put their trust completely in his care for them. The primary addition here is that this is extended to the Gentiles as well as the Jews. The one new theme concerns the grave danger of putting God to the test. We do not demand that God work in this world by our own criteria; rather ...

344. Job Considers a Legal Dispute with God

Job 9:1–10:22

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Daniel J. Estes

... hunt him like a lion (10:16; lion hunting was a common sport of ancient Near Eastern kings). 10:18–19 Why then did you bring me out of the womb? The emphasis of this rhetorical question is on “you.” Job asks why God, the one who so carefully crafted him (10:8–11), would bring him out of the womb only to experience such shameful suffering. With these bitter words Job expresses his deep frustration with how God has treated him. He wants to keep holding on to God, but his confidence in God has been ...

345. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

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Daniel J. Estes

... s cry or to intervene on his behalf. This, however, clearly conflicts with the prologue of the book, in which Yahweh is very much aware of Job’s life and concerned about his condition, as well as Psalm 8:4, where Yahweh is mindful of humans and cares for them. 35:9 People cry out under a load of oppression. Elihu is skeptical about human appeals to God, because to him they smack of self-interest. He says that God pays no attention to these cries (35:13), because he is not impressed by foxhole converts ...

346. “In God I Trust and Am Not Afraid. What Can Mere Mortals Do to Me?”

Psalm 56:1-13

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C. Hassell Bullock

... machinations against us. The purpose of a refrain is to stress the theme of the psalm or give support to some major theme in the poem. One of the obstacles we meet in faith and prayer is the doubt that God hears our prayers, and that he even cares. Thankfully, this is the underlying sentiment of the prayer, that God has heard him (56:9)— a disposition of faith that enables him to pray confidently.12The psalmist is confident because he knows that God has recorded his misery (56:8). It is on this basis that ...

347. “Come and See What God Has Done”

Psalm 66:1-20

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C. Hassell Bullock

... the spring, and the fruit is a nut called an acorn.12Imagine the creativity of the God who made each species of oak tree and each individual tree. These trees bow to the Lord and worship him by being everything God created them to be. As you observe nature, look carefully to see how everything he made praises him. In the same way, God created each individual person different and unique. And we praise him by being what God created us to be as we live in obedience to his design and purpose. God’s ...

348. God Subjugates Judah under Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

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Ronald W. Pierce

... as a model for either. Second, Daniel’s request to be “tested” is about obedient living and knowing God’s favor (cf. Mal. 3:10). It should not lead to capricious tests to prove something about God (cf. Matt. 4:7). Illustrating the Text God genuinely cares for his people. Bible: Psalm 34. In his beautiful acrostic poem in Psalm 34, young David praises God for his deliverance from a time of deep personal despair while under the persecutions of Saul (cf. 1 Sam. 21:10–15). In summary, David extols ...

349. The Tithe

Malachi 3:6-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... does not seem to matter. Instead, Malachi emphasizes the various designations for the godly by drawing our immediate attention to God’s responsiveness to his children, that God knows his own. It may be that the godly pray in the spirit of Psalm 73 for God to take care of their pains, while expressing trust in him: Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the ...

350. Job's Reply to Eliphaz

Job 6:1–7:21

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... does not admit any guilt, but he directs the question at the character of God himself. If God is a God of grace, where is that grace in relation to Job? Job is no gross sinner in rebellion against God. He is a pious man who has always taken scrupulous care to go above and beyond the expectations of faith. How is it, then, that God finds Job so offensive that God can extend no grace or mercy in his case? The chapter concludes with the note that the need for action is urgent because, unless divine redress is ...

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