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4576. Pop Verses!: Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13

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Charley Reeb

... favorites verses, are just that – they’re verses. They’re not read in light of the passage in which they appear. This can lead to a misunderstanding about the true meaning of the verse. I believe this series is going to give you a lot of food for thought about the meaning of these popular verses. The one I begin with today is my wife Brandy’s favorite. It is Philippians 4:13. Let’s say it together: I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. –Philippians 4:13 How many of you have ...

4577. Pop Verses: Lamentations 3:22-23

Lamentations 3:22-23

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... they apply to our lives. Quite often our favorite verses are just that – they’re verses. They’re not read in context. This can lead to a misunderstanding about the meaning of the verse. I believe this series is going to give us a lot of food for thought about these popular verses. Today we are going to focus on a couple of verses of scripture from the Old Testament. So far we have studied pop verses from the New Testament. Now it is time to receive wisdom from the Old Testament. This wisdom comes from ...

4578. Pop Verses: John 3:16

John 3:16

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... to a misunderstanding about the true meaning of the verse. I believe this series is going to give you a lot of food for thought about these popular verses. Today we are going to focus on what is probably the most well known Bible verse of all time. Let’ ... week and I had to finish. I don’t know what I said. I was so sick. I was just trying to get through it. I thought it was the worst sermon I ever delivered. After the service a teenage girl approached me. She looked very angry. She said, “I have to find ...

4579. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 10:1-42

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... give the Semitic greeting (v. 12) “peace be with you.” If the family in the home is deserving (Lamsa, “trustworthy”) the greeting of peace is to rest on it; if not, it is to return to the disciples. In ancient days a pronouncement of this sort was thought to have an objective existence. It could be taken back as well as given. In Isaiah 55 God’s word is said to go out and accomplish that which he desires (Isa. 55:11). Whenever the disciples are refused hospitality, they are to leave and shake the ...

4580. The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 18:1-9

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... point out the importance of lack of pretension or concern about status (Hill, p. 273). McNeile writes, “He will be the greatest who has the least idea that he is great” (p. 260). The reference to children in verses 2–4 triggers an additional thought on the subject. Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name (“because of me”) welcomes me. Contrary to current opinion about children (Jeremias notes that they were classed along with the deaf, dumb, and weak-minded: New Testament Theology, vol. 1, p ...

4581. Despair, Hope, Easter, and Pentecost

John 20:10-18

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Tom Garrison

... . He wanted all of them to meet him there, because it was time to get on with the mission — the great task of reconciling the world back to the Father. Suddenly where there had been only a past and a present, a new future emerged. What they thought was over and done with — a broken thing too broke to mend — was very much alive and well, and this was the event that literally turned things around for the disciples and gave them a whole new perspective on life. For one thing, the Easter event reminded ...

4582. Some Enchanted Evening

Matthew 16:13-20

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

... the relatives had gone outside and I was in the middle of a room full of strangers. It's an awkward feeling. I wished that someone would come in who would be happy to see me and make their way toward me through that crowd of strangers. A similar thought is expressed in an old song, "Some Enchanted Evening." Some enchanted evening You will see a stranger, You will see a stranger Across a crowded room. And somehow you'll know, You'll know even then That somewhere you'll see him Again and again.[1] Just for a ...

4583. Wedding Guests

Matthew 22:1-14

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

... guest's mistake was not that he showed up in shorts and sandals. It was that he showed up too full of himself and thought no one would notice, least of all the king. On the one hand, this is a story addressing a particular situation in the life ... life, and these old clothes are as painful to the king as a bride dressed in black. We make the same mistake as the underdressed guest who thought the king was just looking for warm bodies at his banquet. He was happy to eat the king's food and enjoy the king's music ...

4584. Paying What's Due

Matthew 22:15-22

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David G. Rogne

... , and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since, in fact, we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust, and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice, and thought, and we have to choose (in order) to be human at all... why then we must stand fast a little — even at the risk of being heroes.” (Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons) "Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and ...

4585. Thanks-Giving Is Good for Everyone

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... that I taught in school for fifty years, and yours is the first note of appreciation I ever received. It came on a blue-cold morning and it cheered me as nothing has in many years. Stidger was not sentimental but he wept over that note. He then thought of other people who had been kind to him. He remembered one of his old bishops who had been most helpful at the beginning of his ministry. The bishop was in retirement and recently lost his wife. Stidger wrote a belated letter of thanks to the bishop. This ...

4586. Mary: The Handmaiden of the Lord

Luke 1:38-45

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Charley Reeb

... that story that we find the key to God’s blessing in our lives. Let’s take a closer look. Let’s begin with what the angel Gabriel said to Mary about Elizabeth: “Your relative Elizabeth is also going to have a son, even though she is old. No one thought she could ever have a baby, but in three months she will have a son. Nothing is impossible for God!” –Luke 1:36-37 (CEV) Now why does this sound familiar to me? I can tell you that the story of Mary and Elizabeth means more to me and Brandy ...

4587. Jesus Heals a Paralytic

Mark 2:1-12

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... he were God. The forgiveness here mentioned is not the forgiving of an offense against one’s own person but the granting of full pardon from divine judgment against sins. Jesus, sensing their thoughts, engages them in an argument designed to justify his action. The starting point of Jesus’ argument is the implication in the thought of the teachers that, though Jesus may talk as if he can forgive sins, in fact only God can actually confer forgiveness (v. 7: Why does this fellow talk like that?). So Jesus ...

4588. Who Is the Greatest?

Mark 9:33-37

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... seem to be “great” by worldly standards, but because they are Christ’s. The strong identification between Jesus and his followers expressed in 9:37 admonishes that even the most insignificant follower of Jesus is to be treated with the greatest of respect. This thought prepares us for the next passage, 9:38–41, which seems to be devoted to dealing with the question of recognizing a follower of Jesus to whom such respect is due. Additional Notes 9:33 Capernaum: On the location of this site see the ...

4589. Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... ” to God may allude to Luke 4:19. In at least one of the writings of Qumran (11QMelchizedek 9–16) Isa. 61:1–2 is linked with Isa. 52:7. Judging by the paragraph indentations of the Great Isaiah Scroll of Qumran (=1QIsaiah), Isaiah 52:7 was thought to be the opening verse of the Suffering Servant Song (52:7–53:12). In the Aramaic version of the OT, known as the Targum, this Servant Song is unmistakably depicted as messianic (see 52:13; 53:10). In 11QMelch 16 the reference to “peace” (šālôm ...

4590. Lord of the Sabbath

Luke 6:1-11

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... see J. Jeremias, Unknown Sayings of Jesus (London: SPCK, 1958), pp. 49–87. 6:6 The right hand was thought of as the hand needed for work, and therefore the man’s condition of paralysis represented a serious disability. Again, it is likely that the ... man’s condition would have been thought of as brought on by sin. 6:9 Is it lawful on the Sabbath … to save life …? Lachs (pp. 199–200) notes ...

4591. Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two

Luke 10:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... in an inverted sense: Those who are blessed must be obedient, while those who are cursed are evidently disobedient. Because of a materialistic interpretation of these ideas (as Deuteronomy itself essentially is), “blessings” were thought of as health and wealth, while “curses” were thought of as sickness and poverty. Underlying all of this was the assumption that the wealthy and healthy (the “blessed”) were obedient and righteous, while the sick and poor (the “cursed”) were disobedient and ...

4592. Jesus and Beelzebub

Luke 11:14-28

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... (10:1–18:14) after Deuteronomy 1–26 (see commentary on 10:1–24 above). 11:27–28 The exclamation of the woman in the crowd probably means how happy the mother of Jesus must be for having such a wonderful son. B. S. Easton suggests that the implicit thought was, “If only I could have had such a son” (cited by Marshall, p. 481). This may be. But the heart of the incident is reflected in Jesus’ reply. Those who are truly blessed … are those who hear the word of God and obey it. In view of the ...

4593. Jesus at a Pharisee's House

Luke 14:1-14

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... his host that kindness shown to those who will repay with kindness does not impress God. Again, when seen in the broader context of Luke 14, it is probable that an allusion to the concern over the question of who will enter the kingdom of God (thought of as a dinner or feast) is intended. Jesus’ advice not to invite one’s friends, brothers, relatives, or rich neighbors probably implies that one cannot assume that only those whom we respect (or envy) are also respected by God. Others, such as the poor ...

4594. Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

Romans 5:12-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... the particulars of the temptation but on the all-encompassing consequence, namely, that disobedience brought death into the world. Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men. Milton captured the thought of this verse in the title of his epic poem, Paradise Lost. Paul omits the name Adam, stressing instead the universal correspondence between the one and all. Although he does not explain exactly how Adam’s sin affected humanity, he understands Adam ...

4595. Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

Romans 6:1-14

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... mechanical (i.e., something which occurs apart from human involvement), nor magical (i.e., the manipulation of supernatural power), baptism is an act of faith wherein God communicates the effects of Christ’s death and resurrection to the receptive heart. The train of thought continues in verse 4: we were buried with him. The metaphor proceeds from the act of dying to the fact of death. Baptism denotes the state of death in which the power and effects of sin are annulled. In addressing converts baptized as ...

4596. Future Glory

Romans 8:18-27

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... verb, was subjected, probably refers to the curse of creation in Genesis 3:17–18. The voice of the same verb is again probably a divine passive, i.e., a deferential reference to God without using his name for fear of profaning it. It is sometimes thought that the creation was subjected by either Satan or Adam, but if that were so the result would hardly be hope (v. 20). God must be the one who subjected creation, though a bewildering condition results, for The creation was subjected to frustration, not by ...

4597. The Remnant of Israel

Romans 11:1-10

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... favor towards Israel as a whole. The remnant of grace, in other words, affirms that Israel was called into existence by grace (9:8–11) and awaits a future consummation of grace (11:28–32). 11:7–10 Paul now repeats and amplifies the thought of 9:31 (“Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it”). A portion of Israel, the elect or “remnant” of Jewish Christians, has attained righteousness (see 9:6). But the larger part of unbelieving Israel, holding fast to its righteousness ...

4598. All Israel Will Be Saved

Romans 11:25-32

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... the end of chapter 8. But there the doxology was a hymn to God’s love in Christ; here it is a hymn to God’s wisdom in salvation. 11:25–27 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, begins Paul. At critical junctures of thought the apostle often employs solemn avowals like this one to underscore the importance of his argument (1:13; 10:1; 2 Cor. 1:8; 1 Thess. 4:13). The governing word in this section is mystery (v. 25). In the NT “mystery” generally means the purpose of God for ...

4599. Paul the Minister to the Gentiles

Romans 15:14-22

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... as an attempt to build on someone else’s foundation? In an opposite vein, might the Romans feel slighted if his road led not to Rome, but through it to Spain? And what contribution could Rome make to his Spanish mission, or might Paul be thought of as using Rome (financially, for example) for ulterior purposes? The waters of 15:14–33 may at first reading seem trouble free, but a closer look reveals a number of reefs and shoals lurking below the surface. Here as elsewhere Paul needed to interpret his ...

4600. Wisdom from the Spirit

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... not be able to know God. Humans are unable to perceive the reality of the divine, for God’s greatness and holy-otherness (the deep things of God) are beyond the comprehension and grasp of the finite human mind. Thus, the Spirit of God who knows the thoughts of God has been given by God to “those who love him,” so that the Spirit can reveal to such humans the otherwise imperceptible wisdom of God (Christ crucified, the saving power of God). 2:12–13 The two verses form one complex sentence in Greek ...

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