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4801. A Tale of Two Oaths: David’s for the Lord’s Dwelling and the Lord’s for David’s Dynasty in Zion

Psalm 132:1-18

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... he show favoritism? Should he not be the God of all peoples? Perhaps what is key to unraveling this problem is to understand that Yahweh here shows loyalty to one who shows him loyalty (this may explain the actual citation of vv. 3–5). While David feels compelled to find Yahweh a permanent dwelling, neither the text nor Yahweh claim that he actually needs such a place (in 2 Sam. 7:6–7 Yahweh denies this emphatically). So we must recognize that Yahweh does not give his loyalty blindly: David and his sons ...

4802. Remembering Jerusalem by the Rivers of Babylon

Psalm 137:1-9

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... we abuse the text by ignoring its context, namely that Psalm 137 is in the mouth of powerless victims, not powerful executioners. As we have seen elsewhere in the Psalms, especially the laments, these prayers allow God’s people to vent their feelings, even when they may not have complete theological endorsement or legitimacy (see the Introduction). Although, for example, the lament, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (22:1), is not an accurate reflection of God’s actual relationship to the ...

4803. No One Is Righteous before God

Psalm 143:1-12

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... in verse 3 he does not merely threaten—he has already put the speaker in a state of virtual death (cf. 69:1–4, 14–15; contrast 22:15; 88:6–8, 15–18, where the state of death is attributed to Yahweh). This image implies a feeling of being cut off or alienated entirely from human society and support. The subsequent petition of verse 7 seeks to ensure that the speaker not be alienated from Yahweh (implied by the “hidden face”). Not surprisingly the alienation caused by the foes makes for a spirit ...

4804. The Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace

Daniel 3:1-30

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... , O God, tested us; you refined us like silver. . . . We went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance” (Ps. 66:10, 12). Isaiah 43, Psalm 66, and Daniel 3 also speak words of reassurance to Christians today who feel themselves walking through fire. Whatever its intensity, they can remain faithful because they are not alone. Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be the Most High God and calls them to come out (3:26). When they exit, the various ...

4805. Daniel in the Den of Lions

Daniel 6:1-28

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... Jews, vol. 4, p. 348; vol. 6, p. 435). However, the halakah was not written down until the Christian era, so it is hard to know what would have obtained in the time when the book of Daniel was written. The book certainly presents a Daniel doing what he feels is right, even if it means that he will die; he also may believe that to refrain from prayer would be a serious sin of omission. Once again, though, it is important to remember that the author of this book is more concerned to use Daniel’s story to ...

4806. Absalom Kills Amnon

2 Samuel 13:23-39

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... David will visit his loved son when he is ill and also that his concern for Amnon’s health will allow normal convention to be dropped so that Tamar can visit. Tamar, when specifically requested by David, would have had no choice but to go. Her feelings are seen as irrelevant and therefore ignored by David and Amnon. It was a common custom to prepare a special meal for the sick, in this case probably a particularly nutritious kind of cake. When the meal is prepared, the servants are dismissed. They would ...

4807. David and Ziba

2 Samuel 16:1-4

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... sent by God to punish him for deposing Saul. David’s men, in particular Joab’s brother Abishai, wanted to take immediate and drastic action against Shimei, but David would not allow this. This What do you and I have in common? means “Do not ascribe your feelings to me.” David’s reaction remains one of faith in God’s sovereignty. He was no more superstitious about the results of a curse than he was about the presence or absence of the ark. If God wished him to be destroyed, then he would be. If ...

4808. Shimei Curses David

2 Samuel 16:5-14

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

4809. Wives and Husbands

1 Peter 3:1-7

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... divorce to a wife’s unfaithfulness, but the more liberal school of Hillel extended it to include anything the husband deemed displeasing. See IBD, vol. 2, pp. 957–58. Considerate is lit. “according to knowledge,” i.e., getting to know her needs and feelings, and acting in a courteous and understanding way as a result; cf. Eph. 5:25; 1 Thess. 4:4. Treat … with respect (aponemontes timēn, apportioning honor): The verb occurs in the NT only here; cf. Prov. 31:29. Weaker refers to physical strength ...

4810. Walking in the Light and the Problem of Sin

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

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 ...

4811. Jacob Wrestles with God

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 ...

4812. The Ten Commandments

Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... was a return to effective honoring of the third commandment and the ninth (cf. Isa. 48:1b; Jer. 4:1f.). In the modern world, the commonest misuse of God’s name is in its trivialized use in blasphemy, in common speech, and in the media. A secularized society feels free to use the personal names of God and Christ with no concern for who they belong to. Then there is the equally trivialized use of God’s name in the commercialization of religion, whether by the overt forces of mammon or by the more subtly ...

4813. Five Amorite Kings Killed

Joshua 10:16-28

Understanding Series

J. Gordon Harris

... of the cave to contain the enemy kings while the troops pursue and inflict casualties on the fleeing enemy. Second, the tribes make the conquered kings indicate the superiority of the tribal forces through a ritual. Third, the tribal forces feel encouraged by the victory, including the execution of kings and exposure of their bodies, as instructed by Deuteronomy (Deut. 21:22). At Makkedah Joshua follows herem guidelines carefully in eliminating hostile forces (10:28). He leaves no survivors and executes ...

4814. The Lord Appears to Elijah

1 Kings 19:9-18

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 ...

4815. The Call of Elisha

1 Kings 19:19-21

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

4816. Restoration of Israel

Isaiah 49:8-26

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... now imagine its own return to Judah from another angle as the prophet directly addresses the community in Jerusalem. But the prophet’s new audience suffers from just the same crisis of morale, faith, and hope as the old one. Verse 14 corresponds exactly to 40:27. Ms Zion feels like a wife whose husband has left her. 49:15–21 Yahweh’s first response is to invite her to see him as more like a new man than an old philanderer. Indeed, Yahweh also knows what it is like to be a mother with a child at her ...

4817. Comfort for the Contrite

Isaiah 57:14-21

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... description of Yahweh’s servant in 53:5, 10, and this implies a basis for the extraordinary statement that Yahweh is making. NIV’s contrite obscures the point: the word means the people are objectively crushed, whether or not they have therefore come to feel penitent. One might have thought that Yahweh would be interested in conversation only with people who were equals, with other people of power and influence, of breadth of vision and length of experience, but this turns out not to be so. That servant ...

4818. Wimps or Water Walkers

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... fears. This is a hostile world for us. Everywhere we look we see chaos, death and decay and we are afraid. It is a terrible feeling to be afraid. We can be paralyzed by fear of such things as losing our job, our marriage, our health, our life. Matthew tells us ... it that Simon Peter, like his Lord and Master, died from crucifixion, except that Peter was crucified upside down because he didn’t feel worthy to be crucified in the same way as Christ. Who are the persons in this church who are ready like Simon ...

4819. You Are Invited to a Banquet

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... miserable. He called again. This time a woman appeared. “Well, she said, “I can’t get you out of the well, but things could be much worse for you. You must accept your situation and make the best of it.” So the man in the well tried not to feel sorry for himself and to be grateful to be alive, but it didn’t work. He was still miserable and alone, and despair maintained its grip on him. He started to climb again. He had always been able to take care of himself. But bloody, cold, and hungry now, he ...

4820. Are You a Victim of Identity Theft?

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... at recess and during lunchtime because the taunts of my classmates cut so deeply. “What was worse was going downtown on Saturday afternoon and feeling every eye burning a hole through me. They were all wondering just who my real father was. “When I was about 12 years ... out early. But one day the preacher said the benediction so fast I got caught and had to walk out with the crowd. I could feel every eye in church on me. Just about the time I got to the door I felt a big hand on my shoulder. I looked up ...

4821. The Sacred Power of a Listening Heart

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19

Sermon

King Duncan

... once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. In his book Stress Fractures he tells about getting nervous and tense about it. “I was snapping at my wife and our children, choking down my food at mealtimes, and feeling irritated at those unexpected interruptions through the day. Before long, things around our home started reflecting the pattern of my hurry-up style. It was becoming unbearable. “I distinctly remember after supper one evening, the words of our younger daughter, Colleen ...

4822. Pop Star Madonna and the Cross

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... find such heroes. One example of such people that we all can relate to are the firefighters who rushed into the collapsing twin towers on 9/11 with no regard for their own safety in order to save people who were trapped. Many of us will never forget the feelings that swept over us as we watched the twin towers fall. Folk singer Tom Paxton wrote a song about it which he called, The Bravest. Some of you may remember it. The first couple of verses go like this: The first plane hit the other tower, right after ...

4823. Extreme Humility

John 13:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... sociologists. One could expect a little misplaced ego out of them. Just kidding, of course. But naturally you and I could never be guilty of such misguided estimations of our own abilities, could we? Did you know that national surveys show that most of us claim to feel nine years younger than we actually are, and we also claim that we look five years younger than other people our age? (2) Well, a little bit of pride is not necessarily a bad thing. It certainly does a person no good to be down on themselves ...

4824. His Final Words

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... that operation has to be carried out. He takes his son aside, and says to him, “Son, there is this tumor on you that is making you sick. It is not your fault, but it has to be taken out. You are going to feel great pain. But I want you to know, even while you are feeling this pain, I love you and I will always love you. So be brave, my son.” The operation takes place, and the child is strapped to a makeshift operation table. As the surgeon’s knife falls, the son screams with pain. He looks to ...

4825. Faces of Failure: Peter

Matthew 26 (selections)

Sermon

Don Tuttle

... shepherd has been struck down. As is usually the case, Simon Peter is the first to respond to Jesus. And he makes a bold promise. “Though they all fall away because of you,” he says, “I will never fall away.” You have to wonder how the other disciples feel about it. After all, he disses them. He says that James, John, Andrew and all the rest will abandon Jesus, but that he, Simon Peter, the big fisherman, won’t. And it’s not just that he won’t fall away from Jesus that night. No, he says he ...

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