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3551. Jesus as Lord and as Archcriminal

Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 2:18-22

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Grant R. Osborne

... Messiah himself, the Son of God. 2:27 The Sabbath was made for man. God’s rest, the Sabbath, was meant to benefit and strengthen God’s people. The ordaining of the Sabbath was never intended for the purpose of people keeping Sabbath regulations and precepts. It was a gift from God and so was to serve humankind, not to become the master over humankind. For us, it is meant to be a day of rest and worship, not a source of rules. 2:28 the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. This concludes all the ...

3552. Mission and Rejection in Galilee

Mark 6:14-29, Mark 6:7-13

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Grant R. Osborne

... that is all for the better. In our weakness the power of God is made all the more evident (2 Cor. 12:9–10). The truth is that we do not have power in our own strength and merely with our own gifts. God has made us all individually and given each of us a unique combination of gifts that is perfect for what he wants to accomplish through us. We go out with his authority and under the presence of his Spirit. God is present in a powerful way, and we conduct ourselves under and with his authority. 3. Gospel ...

3553. Possessions and Choice in the New Kingdom Community

Mark 10:17-31

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Grant R. Osborne

... ” others but rather be “examples” of those who serve. The same is true of wealth. In reality those given wealth by God are called to ministry, a ministry to help those less fortunate. Riches are another type of spiritual gift, given out so that we can enrich those around us by sharing our gift (whether it be teaching or music or service [= riches]). In one sense, every time we use our money to help others, we are banking it in heaven, and God will repay us for all we have done. Illustrating the Text ...

3554. The Messianic Anointing of Jesus

Mark 14:1-11

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Grant R. Osborne

... made from spikenard probably imported from India, with its purity emphasizing the high quality of the perfume. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head. Breaking the jar was not necessary. It likely was a spontaneous act, stressing the completeness of the gift; her intention was to use all of the perfume on Jesus. He is not just anointed but drenched and covered in the oil. It is also difficult to know whether she intended a messianic anointing, but certainly Mark takes it that way (both king ...

3555. Lessons on Devotion and Prayer

Luke 11:1-13, Luke 10:38-42

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R.T. France

... and an egg (the scorpion can roll itself into a protective ball), are symbols of evil (10:19). give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. Whereas Luke speaks of the Father giving the “Holy Spirit,” Matthew’s version uses the more obvious term “good gifts” (Matt. 7:11). Luke perhaps thinks of the Holy Spirit as the source of all that is good rather than envisaging a specific petition to be “given” the Holy Spirit (an idea that has no parallel in Luke’s Gospel before 24:49, though it might ...

3556. Divided Loyalties

Luke 12:1-12, Luke 12:13-21

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R.T. France

... made a way, Then beauty flow’d, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that, alone of all His treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness; Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him ...

3557. “Unless You Repent . . .”

Luke 13:10-17, Luke 13:1-9

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R.T. France

... pointing out that these are clearly not the result of personal sin (13:1–4). Yet they are a result of sin and the fallen state of humanity and of all creation. The only solution to the sin problem is repentance (13:5), accepting the free gift of God, and then bearing the fruit that results from repentance (13:6–9). The route of legalism—seeking to earn salvation through one’s own works—will only result in frustration and hypocrisy (13:15). If you teach the passages separately, the following themes ...

3558. Use It or Lose It

Luke 19:11-27

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R.T. France

... what way can it be transferred to the spiritual world? Why is the slave who hid his mina not treated with grace rather than with dismissal and deprivation? You might stress here that, although we are saved wholly by God’s grace, recipients of the gift of salvation have a responsibility to serve faithfully as God’s servants. Or do all these questions assume too allegorical a function for the parable? Are we meant to press such details, or simply to focus on the main point? How would we define what that ...

3559. Jesus Takes the Initiative

Luke 21:5-38, Luke 21:1-4, Luke 20:41-47

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R.T. France

... of authenticity as religious professionals. 21:1–4 this poor widow has put in more than all the others. This is a typically Lukan theme: a very poor widow, at the bottom of the social scale, is praised above the more affluent majority, even though their gifts were objectively much greater. This is the theology of the Magnificat (1:51–53): the first are last, and the last first. It is the devotion of the heart, and the cost to the giver, that count rather than the amount of money. The contrast with ...

3560. The Spirit and the Glory of the Age to Come and the New Covenant

Romans 8:28-39, Romans 8:18-27

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C. Marvin Pate

... that the blessings originally promised to Israel have become the province of the church. Israel was promised the Holy Spirit (Ezek. 36:26–27) so that they could keep the ordinances of the law, but this promise has come to fruition in the church through the gift of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:4). Israel had the pledge of a future resurrection (Ezek. 37), and yet Paul speaks of the resurrection of believers (Rom. 8:10–11). Israel was God’s son (Exod. 4:22), but now believers in Christ are sons and daughters ...

3561. “Weak and Strong” Should Get Along

Romans 14:1--15:13

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C. Marvin Pate

... that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in His image. I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. . . . Strong and weak, wise and foolish, gifted or ungifted, pious or impious, the diverse individuals in the community are no longer incentives for talking and judging and condemning, and thus excuses for self-justification. They are rather cause for rejoicing in one another and serving one another. Each member of the ...

3562. Christian Success and Christlikeness

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

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Preben Vang

... 31; 2:9; 3:19, 20). Held together, those texts function as a summary of Scripture’s teaching on boasting and destruction of unity. As Garland summarizes, “Instead of boasting only in the Lord, the giver of the gifts, they boast in humans, the recipients of the gifts, and create factions and dissensions.”2 4:7 For who makes you different from anyone else? As if to eliminate any remaining uncertainty about the foolishness of their boasting and cliquish behavior, Paul raises three rhetorical questions ...

3563. Being Wronged versus Claiming One’s Right

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

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Preben Vang

... relational emphasis. Paul’s understanding of righteousness is relational rather than strictly moral. The Corinthians were made righteous through faith in Christ, not by avoiding the things on Paul’s list in the previous verse. The relationship between the gift giver and the gift recipients, established through faith, is at the core of Paul’s thinking.5 The change of moral behavior flows from their change in relationship. Their aim (and salvation) is to live a life that pleases their true patron, Jesus ...

3564. Message to Philadelphia

Revelation 3:7-13

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J. Scott Duvall

... Jim the same as Mark, then John weighs the same as Mark. It is a silly example, but when the underlying principle is applied, it can lead to profound insight. When we consider, “What is the greatest reward God could give us?” a little logic can help. If the greatest gift humans can receive is an experience of a perfect love, and if God himself is the origin and apex of love, then the greatest ...

3565. The Seventh Trumpet (Third Woe)

Revelation 11:15-19

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J. Scott Duvall

... in a broken world where things are not the way they are supposed to be. While remaining grateful for life as a beautiful gift, we also experience the struggle and the pain. In this passage, we have a glimpse of what God plans to do about it. ... his Holy Spirit, and a great calling. We are called to live as people who one day will account for what we did with these great gifts. One day, we will be brought into our eternal home—God’s glorious presence. Film: It seems the best Hollywood can do when it comes ...

3566. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

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J. Scott Duvall

... an epic journey of two small hobbits who set out on a quest to destroy a ring of dangerous power. Within Tolkein’s rich mythology, one race of people, the elves, are wise, ever-living beings who help the hobbits on their way. Before saying good-bye, they gift the hobbits with what they need on the journey: an elven food that will sustain them powerfully, cloaks that will hide them from the eye of the enemy, and a special light that will guide them in dark places. Our God has given us what we need for ...

3567. The Burnt Offering

Leviticus 1:1-17

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... ). Though disputed, the cognate for “fellowship offering” probably is used for sacrifices at Ugarit and in Phoenician/Punic.1Archaeologists found what appears to be an altar dating to the Bronze Age at Canaanite Megiddo. Food gifts contributed to the “care and feeding of the gods,” gifts that gods ate and drank (Deut. 32:37–38), though Mesopotamia lacked Israel’s “blood consciousness”—blood rituals or a sense of blood’s power.2But since Yahweh does not actually eat or drink offerings (Ps ...

3568. The Priestly Portions of Sacrifices

Lev 6:8–7:38

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... grain, like sin and guilt offerings, can only be eaten by priests in the sanctuary (see 6:26). Fellowship offerings, firstfruits, and food gifts have a lesser degree of holiness and so can be eaten by any member of the priestly family. On “memorial portion” (v. 15 ... derived from nup, a verb of motion used for offerings and consecration. Was the motion a lifting up of the gifts to God (“elevation offering” [NJPS]) or a back-and-forth motion (“wave offering”)? Aaron’s “presenting” (nup) the ...

3569. Following God’s Leading

Num 9:15–10:10

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... . One of the functions of the trumpets was to bellow a prayer up to heaven to God for help (Num. 10:9). In Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia a horn is a gift given to the children by Father Christmas in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Four children miraculously enter Narnia through a wardrobe. Father Christmas gives them gifts that are not toys but practical tools. He presents the horn to Susan with the promise that it should be blown when help is needed, and that help will then be forthcoming ...

3570. Keeping Promises

Numbers 30:1-16

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... relationship. It remains a Christian duty to keep solemn promises, specifically marriage vows. Unwise oaths can be disastrous. Mythology: Greek mythology records the rash oath made by the hero Perseus. Perseus was supposed to bring the gift of a horse to Polydectes, king of the island of Serifos, a gift that Perseus lacked. So Perseus promised instead to bring whatever else the king might demand. The king, wanting to get rid of Perseus (and to marry Perseus’s mother), asked that he instead bring the head ...

3571. The Lord Decides to Build David a House

2 Samuel 7:18-29, 2 Samuel 7:1-17

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... ’s sons, Solomon, as the king of Israel. Historical and Cultural Background Some have compared God’s covenantal promise to David with royal grants attested in the ancient Near East. In such grants a king rewards a subject’s faithfulness with a gift, which can take the form of a dynasty and/or land. Weinfeld proposes that the Davidic promise follows the pattern of the promissory grants, which, though typically conditional, can be unconditional in special cases.2 But Knoppers argues that the Davidic ...

3572. Barren No More

1 Sam 1:1-20–2:11

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... takes notice of them and lifts them from their affliction (2:3, 8). 1:11 she made a vow. In this culture, making a vow to a deity in a prayer for deliverance was a typical response to a crisis. Vows commonly offered the Deity a gift in return for granting the desired favor (cf. Num. 21:2).4 Lord Almighty. Hannah addresses the Lord with a title (traditionally, “Lord of Hosts” [KJV]) that highlights his sovereignty, envisioning him as one who sits enthroned above the cherubim of the ark of the covenant ...

3573. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

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Daniel J. Estes

... being “perplexed.” He concludes that such perplexity makes one draw near to God, that God’s adversity can be a gift to his child. This is the posture of a true counselor and not that of Elihu. Quote: Blaise Pascal. Probably quoting ... , are seated around a table having Thanksgiving dinner. The wife and mother wishes her children would be more thankful for their substantial gifts because she believes that such gratitude will earn God’s pleasure and that He will punish ingratitude. She says, “If we do ...

3574. “In the Lord I Take Refuge”

Psalm 11:1-7

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C. Hassell Bullock

... , but they do not know or recognize him, and they do not have time to spend with him, because they are too busy preparing the gifts they want to give to the king. But there is one little girl in the village who, not knowing it is the king, serves him ... the truth? Your mother gives you a shirt for your birthday that you really don’t like. She asks you what you think about the gift. How would you respond? It’s World War II, and you are living in Poland. You are hiding Jews in your basement, and the Nazis ...

3575. “I Love You, Lord, My Strength”

Psalm 18:1-50

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C. Hassell Bullock

... them to understand the covenant in light of his love. In a similar way, John puts the Christian gospel in the light of God’s love (John 3:16), and Paul insists in his Letter to the Roman church that Israel’s history, especially as represented by the gift of God’s law, should be viewed in the context of God’s love (Rom. 13:10). Illustrating the Text God is mighty in power. Testimony: The intimacy of the Psalms provides a great opportunity to share stories of God’s activity in the lives of people ...

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