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3926. The Ice Bucket Challenge

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Paul’s faith journey. It is not enough to know in our hearts that God is love, Jesus is Lord, Spirit is Life. Paul took his "tag" and passed it on to all of Asia minor and into Rome. Paul "tagged" any and all he encountered with this message and ... challenge: God is Love, Jesus is Lord, Spirit is Life. We are called to do no less. "Tag, you’re it" should be the chorus of every Christian in the world community. ...

3927. Learning to Live Like Jesus

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of formation and follow it to help and protect it. They have this goose’s back. They stand by each other in difficult times. (5) A church family is to study the life of Jesus, says St. Paul, and “to have the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,” he writes. “Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” Can you imagine what our church would be like ...

3928. An Announcement from Our Lord

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to an atmosphere of love. As we noted, Christ’s words came from our lesson for the day from Isaiah 61. But, it’s interesting, he didn’t complete Isaiah’s thought. Listen as I read from Isaiah and see if you hear something that Jesus didn’t say, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor ...

3929. Why Matter Matters

2 Peter 3:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 2 Peter reminds us of is fulfilled by one small physical bit of “matter” that mattered beyond all human reckoning. Jesus’ arrival brings together matter and spirit, physicality and spirituality, and melds into one human vulnerability and divine victory. “Matter” becomes “sacred” because God made spirit matter. Spirit Matters. That is the miracle of Christmas. Cyril of Alexandria, one of the early church theologians whose formulations guided the fledgling church forward, relentlessly insisted ...

3930. Why Christmas Is So Dangerous

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... make “loving” an action of both hope and heartbreak. But Christmas brings another kind of danger to your heart. Christmas is dangerous to anyone who wants to keep a heart of stone. As the prophet Ezekiel said (36:26), “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; I will remove from your body the heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh.” Remember the Grinch? His tiny heart grows times and times bigger! God’s touch does that to us even more! Once the true meaning of the ...

3931. Who's Your Master?

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ! That sounded like fun living on a high pillar! The pastor should have warned: Kids don’t try this at home. The reason the pastor should have issued that warning is when Brian got home, the first thing he did was march into the kitchen and, in the spirit of St. Simeon, he put a stool on a table, and started his own perilous climb. Fortunately, his mother came in and shouted, “Brian! Get down before you break your neck!” As the boy obeyed, he muttered, “Gee whiz! You can’t even become a saint in ...

3932. Je Suis Jesus

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... As the church, as the body of Christ, we proclaim the story of Jesus of Nazareth. Je suis Jesus. We also live with the indwelling presence of Christ in our lives, as he is born again in us through the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is past. But because Jesus rose from the dead as a foretaste of our future, the Risen Christ is present and alive for every generation. The weirdest of all? We live in the confidence and assurance of a future already guaranteed. This is not a “pie in the sky ...

3933. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’ (John 11:43-45, ESV) If you’d been selling popcorn that day you’d made millions. This man who was definitely dead, life over, spirit gone, has done the unthinkable, he has come back from the grave. Now don't miss the next thing that happened. “Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him.” (John 11:45, ESV) Do you see that ...

3934. To the Rescue

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... a man, because technically and medically speaking a woman does not have “seed.” The woman has the egg. It is the man that has the seed. How can a woman have seed? That is the Christmas story. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit. The baby was born unlike any other baby in history, because this baby was both God and man. The first Adam fell. We need a second Adam to come to our rescue. Why? Because only a sinless man can undo what a sinful man has done. On the one hand ...

3935. Surviving the Big One

Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... know you have done everything possible to bring reconciliation. Then Jesus says if that doesn’t work they are to be treated as outsiders, which is what Gentiles and tax collectors were to Jewish people. That doesn’t mean that you are rude to them or mean-spirited toward them or even refuse to speak to them. What it does mean is you cut off fellowship with them. You let them know there can be no more social or relational contact with them until the problem is resolved. The purpose of that is, hopefully ...

3936. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... as they did, their mother--the old man’s wife--said sternly, “Boys, when you get out by the barn . . . BE CAREFUL GOING THROUGH THAT GATE.” (1) That cantankerous old man should have read our lesson for the day: “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you ...

3937. A Small Town Is Blessed

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The birth of Jesus made possible a new way of understanding life. The birth of Jesus also made possible a new way of living. We hear people ask, why can’t we keep the Christmas spirit all year long? And the answer is, of course, that is why Christ came--that we might keep his spirit all year long. The Christmas spirit is no more than the way the follower of Jesus is to live every day of his or her life--showing kindness to strangers; treating all people regardless of their station in life with respect ...

3938. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... identical twin. (7) I will not attempt to deal with the religious and ethical questions raised by the possibility of cloning embryos. I do know, however, that spiritual cloning in the Body of Christ is an impossibility. Each Christian is uniquely gifted by the Spirit of God. If you “drop out” of the church, or if you neglect to offer your spiritual gift in service to the church, you are not reproducible. You cannot be cloned, you are uniquely made and gifted by God to fulfill a significant place within ...

3939. Like A Sponge

Rom 8:9

Illustration

Roy Hession

To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with one who is already there, in our hearts. Take up a sponge and while it is in your hand squeeze it. In that condition, plunge it in water and submerge it, keeping it in there. It is now ... open your hand, and as you do so the water fills all the pores which you release in this way. It is now filled with the water. When we receive Christ we are born anew and put into that sphere where the Holy Spirit is operating and the Holy Spirit comes to reside in us!

3940. Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

Acts 1:12-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... though the whole thing was later seen as a mistake. But neither is anything heard of most of the Twelve once their names had been listed in verse 13, and so the silence of Acts is hardly grounds to condemn the man. As for the method, the coming of the Spirit soon gave the church a more certain guide to God’s will, though at the time their use of the lot was quite legitimate. Their desire was to discover the man of God’s choice. Additional Notes 1:12 The Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the ...

3941. The Fellowship of the Believers

Acts 2:42-47

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , they took part in the fellowship. The word thus translated (Gk. koinōnia) means “sharing in” or “causing to share in” something or someone, and in this context we should understand the implied object to be God. God was present, and the whole community shared in his Spirit (see disc. on vv. 3, 4, 38; cf. 2 Cor. 13:13). Despite their differences and difficulties (cf. 5:1–11; 6:1–7; 11:1–18; 15:1–21), this common bond held them together. But in addition to this broader meaning of the word ...

3942. The Apostles Heal Many

Acts 5:12-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... on of hands or by anointing; people possessed by demons by commanding the demons to depart (e.g. Matt. 10:8; Mark 6:13; Acts 8:7; 19:12). Though often called evil (e.g., 19:12, 13, 15, 16; Luke 7:21; 8:2), in this verse the spirits are described as “unclean” (so the Greek; cf. 8:7; Matt. 10:1; Mark 1:27; 3:11; 5:13), because an unclean life was thought to have led to the possession; because possession led to an unclean life—the demoniac wandering, for example, into places where ceremonial defilement ...

3943. Stephen Seized

Acts 6:8-15

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... any case, Paul appears to have lived in Jerusalem from an early age and may have had no strong personal links with the land of his birth, though obviously some ties with Cilicia did still remain (cf. 9:30; see disc. on 22:3). 6:10–11 Inspired by the Spirit (cf. v. 3), Stephen spoke with such cogency that his opponents were unable to get the better of him in arguments (cf. Luke 12:12; 21:15; 1 Cor. 1:17; 2:6; 12:8f.). So they resorted to other means. They hired informers to accuse him of blasphemy against ...

3944. Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem

Acts 9:19b-31

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... is only assumed in the earlier narrative, namely, that Paul had seen the Lord [Jesus] (cf. also v. 17). Notice also the stress on how boldly he had preached … in the name of Jesus in Damascus, making the point, perhaps, that he had been filled with the Spirit no less than they (see disc. 4:13, 29, 31). This account of Paul’s meeting with the apostles may seem at odds with his own account in Galatians 1:18f., but the differences are more apparent than real and arise from the different objectives of the ...

3945. The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers

Acts 15:22-35

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... are the same as in verse 20, except for a slight change in order. The text is subject to the same variants as those discussed in the notes on that verse, with the further addition here (v. 29) in the Western text of the words “going on in the Spirit.” The letter emphasized that the council had kept its demands to a minimum (v. 28) and that what was asked of them was necessary only in the interests of harmony, not of salvation. The final comment, you will do well to avoid these things (v. 29), that is ...

3946. On to Jerusalem

Acts 21:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , a warning came (perhaps through a Christian prophet) that he should not go to Jerusalem. But Paul was sure that he should go and would not be deterred (cf. 19:21; 20:22). This was probably similar to the incident a few days later in Caesarea, in which the Spirit made it known that Paul’s future was fraught with danger. Others saw this as a reason for urging him to turn back, whereas Paul himself seems to have viewed the warning as God’s way of preparing him for what lay ahead. 21:5–6 When the ship ...

3947. Rules for Christian Households

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... would be enjoyed fully when the Lord returned to judge the world and reward the saints. And since they had no mandate from God to overthrow the world, they lived peaceably in the assurance that the last days were near. God had promised them a new Spirit, not a new social order. As confidence in an imminent return of the Lord waned, the slaves—as did most believers—became restless. They must have wondered when their equality and freedom in Christ would become a social reality. If the Lord was not going ...

3948. The Lord's Grace to Paul

1 Timothy 1:12-20

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... to do with entrusting something into someone else’s care (see esp. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:12, 14; 2:2). To reinforce the giving of the charge, Paul reminds Timothy of his calling. It is not Paul, finally, who has left Timothy “in charge,” but the Holy Spirit. This instruction is in keeping with the prophecies once made about you; and it is by following them that Timothy is to fight the good fight. But what are these prophecies? Paul will mention this event in Timothy’s life twice more in these letters. In 4 ...

3949. Titus' Task on Crete

Titus 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... point is that what believers are now experiencing belongs to the eternal counsels of God and has been hidden in God until revealed by the Spirit in the present Age through the work of Christ (cf. Rom. 16:25–26; Col 1:25–26). The clause and at his appointed season ... ). And he must be disciplined (or “self-controlled”); the noun form of this word is the last of the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:23. Though it is true that this list has some affinities to similar lists in the Hellenistic world, it is ...

3950. An Exhortation Inspired by the Exodus

Hebrews 3:7-19

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... as much as deliberate unfaithfulness. From the author’s perspective, unbelief and disobedience are inseparable. The unbelief and unfaithfulness of Israel were inexcusable because the Israelites had received abundant evidence of God’s reality and love (cf. 4:2). Additional Notes 3:7–11 The Holy Spirit is regularly regarded in the NT as the one who inspires and thus who speaks through the writers of the OT. See, e.g., Matt. 22:43; Acts 1:16; 28:25; 2 Pet. 1:20f. See P. K. Jewett in ZPEB, vol. 3, pp ...

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