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4701. Sayings of the Wise

Proverbs 22:17--24:22

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

... "—perhaps experiencing something like sea-sickness, or even already drowned in the depths of the sea (cf. Jonah 2:4). The other comparison is lying atop the rigging. This loss of balance and the sense of uncontrollable motion lie behind his inability to really feel the wounds inflicted upon him (v. 35). But he acknowledges that all this does not quench his thirst; he will be looking for another drink as soon as he sobers up. See Additional Notes. 24:1–2 An admonition with motivational rationale. Envy of ...

4702. Let Him Kiss Me

Song of Songs 1:1-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... , powerful, and disconcerting is happening to the characters in the Song. We will understand them a bit better if we too feel the interpretive ground shifting beneath us. In view of these points of ambiguity, it is not surprising that interpreters do not ... imagery shifts to an emphasis on the visual (dark, lovely), although the reference to the sun, from which one can almost feel the heat, maintains the sense of the tactile. The speaker is apparently darker-skinned than the other characters; darkened by the ...

4703. A Widow at the End of Her Rope

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... so sickly and weak, but now what he saw in the mirror was a strong muscular man. And it dawned on him that he had been feeling better for months, and it was all because he had been pushing the rock. Suddenly the man understood that the plan of God was not ... felt she was being punished for some sin she had committed by having her son taken away from her. There are some people who feel like that today. How sad. “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to his ...

4704. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... God and think of you, thank God for you, and pray for you.” “That,” said the missionary, “is my pay.” Helping another human being is the most rewarding experience life has to offer. It can almost be a purely selfish experience--we help because it makes us feel so good. There are still people around who know how to love other people. Some of them are in this congregation. They will tell you it has its own reward. But Christ tells us that kindness not only is its own reward, but that it is also our ...

4705. People Who Procrastinate

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... visit their graves . . . I wonder if God will ever forgive me for the heartaches I must have caused them . . .” Can you feel the regret in those words? Some things simply can’t be put off, like expressing love for someone special. You may be ... see the urgency? Human needs go far beyond poverty. There are people in our very community whose souls are shriveling up within them because they feel that no one cares for them. What do you think being part of a loving church family could do for them? Will it be too ...

4706. Silly Superstition

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... saying, "I am a lucky person. There are people who love me and even more importantly, God loves me." I want you to say that to yourself every morning as you are getting ready for school. You will be surprised how many good things will happen to you. You will feel good about yourself and you will feel good about others. How much luckier can you get than that. So, repeat after me, "I am a lucky person. There are people who love me and even more importantly, God loves me."'

4707. Rich Through Giving

2 Corinthians 8:7-9

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... money to a worthy cause we get something back that doesn't wear out. When we give money to God, or to someone in need, or to a worthy organization we get something back that is more important than money--it is the feeling that we have done something noble, something good. We get the feeling that we have made the world a better place to live. Think about that next Sunday morning when you put your money into the Sunday School offering. You are doing something noble and good. You are giving to God's work. You ...

4708. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... on the inside to give them courage and peace and joy. They wouldn't need anything on the outside like a blanket. They would have something on the inside. Most of us outgrow our blankets or our Teddy Bears. We are very fortunate if we replace them with a good feeling on the inside--the feeling of knowing that we are God's children and that His Spirit lives within us.

4709. Faith for the Long Term

John 6:55-59

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... to others. Then those others passed it to others. For 2,000 years the baton has been passed on from one people to another, from one generation to another. Now we have the baton--the Good News of Jesus and his love. But what if we decide we don't feel like telling the story anymore. What happens? The whole world loses, doesn't it? Not only our generation, but every generation that will ever live on this earth. We are running a very important race and each of us must do our part. We don't want to let Jesus ...

4710. Not Far from the Kingdom

Mark 12:28-34

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... what? The evil man had been acting so good and so loving to please his wife for so long, that now his real face was pleasant and kind to look at as well. Our lesson for the day is about loving God and loving one another. Sometimes we may not feel very loving, but if we act loving, even when we do not feel like it, a change will take place in our lives. We will become the loving person we pretend to be.

4711. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... of verses 9–11 is provided by these personal words in which Paul addresses the Philippians directly and speaks of his deep affection for them. 1:7 They have shown themselves so much at one with him that “it is only natural” (Moffatt) that he should feel about them as he does. The grace of apostolic ministry had been divinely granted to Paul (cf. Rom. 1:5), but he rejoices when his converts share it with him. Their “partnership” in his gospel witness meant much to him when he was free to move ...

4712. Timothy and Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:19-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... ’s way of life. Paul greatly valued the devotion of one whom he describes as “my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord” (1 Cor. 4:17). All the service a son could render to a father Timothy performed for Paul; all the affection a father could feel for his son Paul lavished on Timothy, as Timothy has served with me in the work of the gospel. “He has served with me as a slave,” says Paul (in the literal rendering of his words here)—not Paul’s slave, of course, but Christ’s (cf. 1:1). 2 ...

4713. Walking in the Light

1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... the desire (epithymia) of the flesh, the desire (epithymia) of the eyes, and the boasting of what he has and does (lit., “the boasting in the life,” hē alazoneia tou biou). This is the essence of the “worldly” person; it is a way of feeling, looking, and expressing oneself. This approach to life is self-centered: the thoughts, decisions, and activities of everyday life are dominated by the cravings of one’s own “flesh” (sarx; NIV, the sinful man), the longings (NIV, lust) of one’s own eyes ...

4714. Joy at Believers’ Walking in the Truth

3 John 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... 4:20–21; 5:16; 3 John 5, 10) and certainly for them goes back to Jesus’ post-resurrection reference to his disciples as his “brothers” (John 20:17; cf. John 21:23). The Elder also continues to call his readers my children, those for whom he feels a fatherly compassion and responsibility. He uses two different Greek words interchangeably (a common Johannine technique of stylistic variation, cf. John 21:15–17) for them as his children (teknon or teknion, in 1 John 2:1, 12, 28; 3:7, 18; 5:21; 3 John ...

4715. God’s Covenant with Abram

Genesis 15:1-18

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... becomes the model of all who worship Yahweh by faith. The audacity of his believing stands out against the bleakness of his situation. Furthermore, Abram’s complaints show that a person of faith at times feels keen disappointment and frustration. Nevertheless, such a person is not afraid to express that feeling to God. On hearing God’s answer, Abram had to decide whether to continue to exercise faith or not. Now as then, God often demands that one maintain faith in the face of improbable circumstances ...

4716. Abraham Tested

Genesis 22:1-19

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... looked up and saw the place in the distance. We can imagine that their pace had been quite deliberate as Abraham cherished the brief time he had left with Isaac. Apparently he did so in silence; the silence conveys the sobriety of his feelings as he carried out God’s command. Having arrived in the vicinity of the designated place, Abraham needed to give instructions. Wanting to make the sacrifice in private, he instructed his servants to stay there while Isaac and he went ahead and worshiped. Abraham ...

4717. Isaac and Rebekah

Genesis 24:1-67

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... mother. With a warm sense of accomplishment the servant and the men who accompanied him sat down and ate. The next morning the servant tested the agreement that Rebekah should become Isaac’s bride. Possibly either she or her parents or her brother might feel differently and no longer be willing for her to go to Canaan. The servant therefore skillfully brought up the subject in order to learn their resolve. Speaking as though he was at their service, the servant asked them to send him back to his master ...

4718. Jacob Apprehension in Meeting Esau

Genesis 32:1-32

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... this after dark. The next morning he did not want to be involved with getting his family across the Jabbok when Esau arrived. Or perhaps he had a strong inner need to spend the night alone in meditation and prayer. 32:24–28 Jacob was left alone, feeling safe from attack during the night. But before dealing with Esau, Jacob had to deal with God. Divine encounters frame Jacob’s time away from Canaan. When Jacob left Canaan, God appeared to him at Bethel, promising to be with him (28:10–22). Now before ...

4719. Worshipping Other Gods

Deuteronomy 13:1-18

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... of the penetration of Enlightenment secular presuppositions into the worldview of the church as much as of secular society. C. S. Lewis once said that if we no longer feel comfortable with the cursing psalms, for example, it is not because of our greater, “Christian” sensitivity, but because of our appalling moral apathy. We no longer feel the passion of the psalmist that God should deal with evil and evildoers and vindicate God’s own moral order in the world. We respond to idolatrous, blasphemous ...

4720. Elijah Flees to Horeb

1 Kings 19:1-8

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... south of the promised land (v. 3; cf. 4:25): as far away from Jezebel as he can get. Having reached Beersheba he heads alone, without his servant (cf. 18:43ff.), for the desert. He seeks a lonely place in which to die, an isolated man (or so he feels) under an isolated broom tree; he has had enough (v. 4). 19:5–9 Thus far Elijah has been responding only to Jezebel’s “messenger” (Hb. malʾāk, v. 2); God has been excluded from the arithmetic. And he has been behaving somewhat like the anti-hero Jonah ...

4721. A Rebellious Nation

Isaiah 1:1-31

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... all that is left after decimation (see on 4:2). But at least that is something; they might have been destroyed as comprehensively as Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:24–29). On the title the LORD Almighty, see on verse 24. 1:10–15a Yahweh feels a distaste for the people’s enthusiastic worship because it is not accompanied by a commitment to justice. The challenge in verses 10–20 evidently belongs to an earlier period, when disaster might still be avoided. Hear . . . listen again has the resonances of a ...

4722. Isaiah’s Commission

Isaiah 6:1-13

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... what he had been called to. It has also been suggested that God indeed revealed that this was what Isaiah was being called to, so that when it turned out thus, Isaiah would not be overwhelmed by his failure. Such theories reflect the sense of scandal interpreters feel at Isaiah’s words, but they start from a problem Isaiah evidently did not sense himself. 6:13 So the holy seed will be the stump in the land: lit., “the holy seed [is] its stump” or “its stump [is] the holy seed,” interprets the word ...

4723. God’s Judgment on Assyria

Isaiah 10:5-19

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... seeing itself as like a mighty one—a spelling variant on the term for God in 1:24 (vv. 13b–14). It thus has a higher opinion of itself than it has of God (v. 15). Isaiah’s critique of Assyria provides insight on the difficulty modern Christians feel about Israel’s own warmaking. The acts for which Assyria is faulted are the acts of Joshua’s people. The verbs in verse 7b are the verbs used of Israel’s acts in Deuteronomy and Joshua. On its own account, there Israel acts as executor of Yahweh’s ...

4724. The Year of the Lord’s Favor

Isaiah 61:1-11

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... them. So at last comfort will come. Once again the Preacher takes up one of the Poet’s favorite expressions, in a way that brings out the two-sidedness of the notion. Comfort is both a message that makes people feel better and an act that gives them grounds for feeling better (v. 2; see Additional Notes). Their deliverance means, metaphorically, that the ashes on their heads can be replaced by a garland, that the people can receive their own anointing with oil that makes their faces shine and so reflect ...

4725. Praise and Prayer

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... similar to that in 40:27. And this has been so from of old. We do not know how long a time separates Jerusalem’s fall in 587 B.C. from this prayer. It might be a matter of decades. It might be more than a century. But it clearly feels longer than the period during which the temple stood in its glory, because it occupies the whole of the community’s own experience. 64:1–4 Again there is an irony about the prophet’s Oh, that . . . , for the word again echoes Yahweh’s, in 48:18 (“If only”). As ...

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