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326. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... he ran to get his brother Peter. Four men removed tiles from the roof of a house where Jesus was speaking and lowered a man through the ceiling so that Jesus could touch him. Do you know people like that--people with that kind of concern, that kind of compassion? Hopefully you are that kind of person. There are many people like that still around in our world today. They will tell you that loving people is its own reward. That is the second thing we need to see. You will never get closer to heaven than when ...

327. Abraham Tested

Genesis 22:1-19

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... of the Sacrifice of Isaac,” CBQ 39 [1977], pp. 50–93). In the service for the New Year one prayer asks God to be mindful of how Abraham suppressed his compassion by binding his son to the altar in wholehearted obedience; in the same way God is asked to let his compassion exceed his anger as he recalls Abraham’s obedience with compassion. Further, the reading from the Torah on the second day of the New Year is the Akedah. The Targum to the Song of Songs, read at Passover, states that God did ...

328. A Prophecy Against Babylon

Isaiah 13:1--14:23

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... Jacob-Israel. Verses 1–2 start not from reduction to a remnant (like 10:20–23), but from expulsion to an alien land. Thus they promise not increase but return. The language of chapters 39–52 will overlap with the language here (Jacob-Israel, have compassion, choose, and the reversal in v. 2 whereby the nations who made Israel captive now become Israel’s captives). But this is not simply an anticipatory summary of the themes of those later chapters. The focus there will be more on Yahweh’s return ...

329. Community Discourse: Lavish Forgiveness in the Kingdom

Matthew 18:21-35

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... 4:1; Isa. 50:1). 18:33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant . . . ? This question by the king provides the core of the parable’s meaning. The point has been made obvious in the telling of the story: one who had received so much compassion and forgiveness of debt should have shown mercy to his fellow servant and forgiven his debt. For the importance of showing mercy as part of Matthean discipleship, see 5:7; 9:13; 12:7; 23:23. 18:34 handed him over to the jailers to be tortured. The ...

330. Jesus Demonstrates Status Inversion in the Kingdom

Matthew 19:1-12, Matthew 19:13-15, Matthew 19:16-30

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... . Mission: In his book Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most, Wess Stafford argues convincingly that we are called to invest heavily in children as prime examples of the “least of these.” As the president of Compassion International, Stafford advocated for children in poverty, and his book contains numerous examples of what true compassion for children looks like. This might be an opportunity to encourage your listeners to consider supporting a child through an organization like ...

331. Jesus Enters Jerusalem as a Peaceable and Humble King

Matthew 20:29-34, Matthew 21:1-11

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Jeannine K. Brown

... into Jerusalem, where the crowds escort him into the city acclaiming him “Son of David.” Children will also join this refrain in the temple courts in 21:15. 20:34 Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Jesus’ compassion is thematic in Matthew. Jesus has healed people because of his compassion already at 9:35–36; 14:14 (see also 15:32). This passage provides a fitting conclusion to Jesus’ compassionate healing ministry in Galilee. they . . . followed him. Matthew notes that these ...

332. Power over Illness and Death

Luke 7:11-17, Luke 7:1-10

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R.T. France

... gives us pause, in that Jesus comes apparently as a stranger into the scene, no one appeals to him for help, and neither the mother nor, of course, the son is said to have faith. What is mentioned in this case is simply Jesus’s compassion. Teaching the Text While these two passages share the common theme of Jesus’s extraordinary authority to heal, they also have important differences in emphasis, the first focusing on the faith of a non-Israelite and the second on Jesus’s remarkable ability to raise ...

333. Zophar Rejects Job’s Complaints

Job 11:1-20

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Daniel J. Estes

... listeners may already have an opinion. The main point of this story should be transformation you actually experienced in your understanding of that person and how an initial mistrust or sense of judgment you felt based on his or her suffering gave way to respect and compassion once you learned the truth about his or her situation. Gospel Highlight: This is a great time to point out the way in which God made him who knew no sin to be sin for our sake. Consider reading the passage from Isaiah 53 about the ...

334. “Endow the King with Your Justice, O God”

Psalm 72:1-20

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C. Hassell Bullock

... on the weak and the needy.The worldwide reign of the king is not impressive if the day-to-day and person-to-person nature of his rule is not charged with compassion, which is a reflection of God’s own compassion. The king was God’s representative in the world, and this verse contains an expression of God’s compassion channeled through the king. See table 3 in the unit on Psalm 70 for the terms related to “weak” and “needy” in the surrounding psalms. 72:14 He will rescue them from oppression ...

335. Nabuchadnezzar’s Dream and Daniel's Interpretation

Daniel 2:1-23, Daniel 2:24-49

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Ronald W. Pierce

... -on in today’s preaching and teaching. But go beyond this by helping your audience to see the dark world around them as an opportunity to be messengers of God’s word. The mention of Daniel at the end of this pericope recalls God’s “favor and compassion” (1:8–14) and special gifting (1:17). Call your people to remember in the darkness what God teaches us in the light. Help them look for opportunities in the dark and desperate world around them, which is too often without knowledge of the one true ...

336. Unfaithfulness and Restoration

Hosea 2:2-23

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... . Isa. 11:6–9). This suggests a return to a precurse setting like the Garden of Eden. God will also renew his wedding vows of commitment with his people because he is a God who relates to his people on the basis of justice, love, faithfulness, and compassion (2:18–20). Third, “in that day” God’s power will cause the sky to rain and the ground to produce crops abundantly; thus, all that was taken away through God’s judgment because of sin will be restored through these blessings. At that time God ...

337. The Man With Leprosy

Matthew 8:1-4

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... expressing Jesus’s kingdom ministry in teaching (5:1–7:29), Matthew narrates Jesus’s kingdom ministry in action (8:1–9:38). Matthew demonstrates Jesus’s authority to heal the sick, cast out demons, forgive sins, and calm a storm. Other themes include Jesus’s compassion in his role as Isaiah’s servant of the Lord and the qualities of full allegiance and faith for those who would follow Jesus. Matthew 8–9 is structured by three sets of three miracle stories (8:1–17; 8:23–9:8; 9:18–38 ...

338. A Prayer for the Afflicted and for the Ruins of Zion

Psalm 102:1-28

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... serves as praise to Yahweh and his name in its own right, and as a promise that assures the speaker and the people. In addition, it serves as a motivation supporting the prayer. The connective for (Hb. kî) supplies reasons why Yahweh should act. Yahweh will have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her (v. 13). Why? For her stones are dear to your servants (not to Yahweh, as we might have expected). Yahweh is assured that reverence of his glory will extend to the nations, for he will appear ...

339. Two Blind Men Receive Sight

Matthew 20:29-34

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... 196). Matthew recorded a similar healing of two men in 9:27–31, which some have taken as a different narrative from the same source; but several differences exist, and the emphasis in each account is different (the men’s faith in the first, and Jesus’ compassion in the second). It is Mark who supplies the name of Bartimaeus and indicates that he was a beggar (Mark 10:46). Those who made up the large crowd that followed Jesus out of Jericho were mostly pilgrims on their way to celebrate the Passover at ...

340. A Man with Leprosy

Mark 1:40-45

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... the ancient difficulty in dealing with such diseases and the difficulty in diagnosing people in primitive situations. We simply do not know the exact medical definition of this man’s problem. (See “Leprosy,” IDB, vol. 3, pp. 11–13.) 1:41 Filled with compassion: A few ancient manuscripts read here “moved with anger.” It is possible that this is the original reading, of course, but in view of its weak support among manuscripts and in view of the fact that it may have been introduced to make ...

341. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... brought about his deliverance. The call to the Christian, then, is not to give up and to lose the reward now, after all that has already been endured, but to keep holding on. Driving his point home, James adds a single clause: The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. James is citing Ps. 103:8 or 111:4 (probably from memory), and the quotation is most appropriate. God does not like watching people squirm. He would not allow suffering to happen if there were not a far greater good ahead. On this note the ...

342. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:7-12, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

343. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:13-20, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

344. Social Responsibility

Exodus 22:16-31

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... paradigm for Israel (3:7, 9). The words “If . . . they cry out . . . I will certainly hear . . . and I will kill you” reveal that God was bound to the law. From the very beginning Israel needed to remember that it had no monopoly on God’s compassion. God followed through on this threat to “kill you with the sword” when using Assyria and Babylon to attack Israel in the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. Two case laws also specifically protected poor debtors (vv. 25–27; see also Lev. 25:35–38; Deut ...

345. Jesus' No-Nonsense Guide to Discipleship

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... on the way. Jesus' question to Bartimaeus is also a question for us today. "What do you want?" Jesus continues to ask us as a church and as individuals. Do we want to follow Jesus, and what does that look like for us? Is it in service, in prayer, in compassion, or in silence? Is it in our ordinary lives or in some unique way? How can we be good disciples in our various settings? Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on us. Open our eyes to our need for your healing and forgiveness. Open our eyes to what we can ...

346. Reveille

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... can help you find your way!” “Let Jesus be your guiding star!” For those who scoff, the disciples’ message is a message of warning! “Stop! Turn around! You are heading the wrong way! Being a disciple of Jesus is like promising to be a kind of compass to those who can no longer find their way. It’s opening the eyes of the blind, and unplugging the ears of the deaf. Following Jesus means you also have a prophetic mission to save all you can! “Go!” Jesus says. “Go into an unknown world, into ...

347. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... also in the story of the staff and deceased child earlier in the scriptures). To be leprous is not just to have peeling or white skin, but those areas would become numb, dead to touch. To have a “leprous” soul then would be to have a lack of compassion, empathy, or love, to be dead to mercy, only thinking of one’s self. Has Jesus gotten under your skin? Can you love unreasonably? Unconditionally? Or is your skin a façade for an ungrateful or unloving heart (a heart that believes one must pay for God ...

348. Crossing Over

Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 48:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... lawyer’s benefit –it’s not in the traditional shema), and love your neighbor as yourself. Easier said than done! “Who is my neighbor?” asks the lawyer, to which Jesus tells our favorite parable. It’s a simple parable about crossing a road in compassion when no one else would, but it goes so much deeper than that. The scriptures are filled with “crossing over” stories: The exodus is a crossing over story. Joshua’s entry into Jericho is a crossing over story. Jacob’s crossing over to greet ...

349. Stop the PANIC!

Luke 15:1-32 · Exodux 15:1-27--16:36 · Psalm 23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of the Holy Spirit’s power. Be aware of Jesus’ presence, of that Shepherd’s rod and staff that serves as both map and compass, that allows us to make sense again of where we are and where we need to go. Jesus, who can calm our fears, restore ... re-turn us to a place of following. Jesus is the Sign and Signifier of our lives, the only Signified, the only compass for the Church. This is the essence of repentance. Stopping the PANIC. Stopping the blame game. Turning from blaming to take responsibility ...

350. All Are Invited, but…

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... can’t just talk the talk. You also have to walk the walk. In light of all of this, here’s what I am going to do. Tonight before I go to bed, I’m going to write out a list of the Christlike garments that Paul mentions in Colossians — compassion, kindness, meekness, patience, and above all else love. I’ll put it in a visible place in my closet. Then tomorrow morning when I open the closet door and say to myself, “What shall I wear today?” I will come face-to-face with this little list and then ...

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