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26. Walking in the Light
1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17
Understanding Series
Thomas F. Johnson
... previous verse. It implies moral, spiritual, and, for the Elder, doctrinal error. It is thinking and action that are inconsistent with the nature of God and that are incompatible with the claim to be in fellowship with God. Darkness and light are moral and spiritual realms. They are mutually exclusive. For the author, one is either in the light or in the darkness (cf. 2:9–11), just as one is either a child of God or a child of the devil (3:10; 5:19), either from God or from the world (4:5–6). Lying and ...
27. 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
... previous verse. It implies moral, spiritual, and, for the Elder, doctrinal error. It is thinking and action that are inconsistent with the nature of God and that are incompatible with the claim to be in fellowship with God. Darkness and light are moral and spiritual realms. They are mutually exclusive. For the author, one is either in the light or in the darkness (cf. 2:9–11), just as one is either a child of God or a child of the devil (3:10; 5:19), either from God or from the world (4:5–6). Lying and ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... of Moses from entering the promised land figures so largely here, and was probably as much a surprise to the original readers as it is to us, that it invites some theological reflection. When one puts together all the passages that bear on Moses’ exclusion, they offer us at least two perspectives. On the one hand, our text here and the two closest to it in Deuteronomy, 1:37 and 4:21, give the impression that it was the people’s fault. Moses suffered “because of” them. On the other hand, Deuteronomy ...
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Lori Wagner
... make sacrifices in the Temple. The “law” did not discriminate but encouraged foreigners to worship the God of the Hebrews. In this way, Israel was truly a “light to the world” for God.In Numbers 15:14-15, Moses stipulated that there should be no exclusion of gentiles from practicing the faith:“For the generations to come, whenever a foreigner or anyone else living among you presents a food offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, they must do exactly as you do. The community is to have the same ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... I keep thinking what a gift she is. I keep telling myself, 'No one else gets to see this, to feel this. This relationship is exclusively ours.' I feel confidence because I can please her, satisfy her. And when I wake up in the morning she's still in my arms ... had the affair, I felt de-chosen. My entire confidence was shaken. Could I not please her? How could she take what was exclusively ours and give it to another? The thought of her in another's embrace, another man seeing her, holding her, inside her, left ...
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John A. Stroman
... is given by God through the prophets. This new world will be nothing like the old world. The Breadth Of The Spirit From the time of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and even Moses, they all felt that God was their God. They had exclusive rights on God. God fought their battles. They were God's chosen people and God was their God. The Babylonians, under the direction of Nebuchadnezzar, destroyed Jerusalem and the temple and in humility the Israelites were carried off to a distant, strange land. There ...
Bulletin Aid
Rolland R. Reece
... ? Is there a more universal hunger and thirst? Moving to our independence is done with just one goal in mind -- to be free! But what happens when those about us set out to reach the same goal? We run the real risk of becoming enemies. Suddenly independence is exclusive. We lose sight of freedom's meaning, when we move to block the independence of others claiming that it is ours alone. Jesus lived and died that we might be set free. Paul claimed, "For freedom Christ has set us free."* It is the next part of ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... discovery of faith in an unlikely person. "I tell you," he said, "nowhere, even in Israel, have I found faith like this." Like Jesus, one unlikely place we find faith is in people of authority and power -- unlikely because we assume power and faith are mutually exclusive. The more powerful you are the less you need faith -- or so we sometimes say. Notice on the one hand this view holds religion to be mainly a crutch for the weak and cowardly. It serves as a kind of divine apron string behind which we ...
34. Count Me In!
Isaiah 56:1-8
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John R. Brokhoff
... from membership. The use of a country club is for members only. Immigration laws are designed to keep out illegal aliens such as Mexicans, Cubans, and Haitians. Constantly, we are drawing circles to exclude people whom we do not want in close fellowship. Does this exclusiveness apply also to the field of religion? Do we say, "Believe, worship, as we worship, and live as we live, or you cannot be saved or belong to our church"? Is the church for Christians only, as we define the word, "Christian"? When and ...
35. We Know Jonah
Jonah 3:1-10
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Frederick C. Edwards
... us something about ourselves. Jonah warns us about ourselves and the attitudes we perpetuate. If God is a universal God, whose redemptive love is for all people, then how can we exclude anyone from the circle of our love? And yet in the time of Jesus those exclusive ideas were still around. It was precisely to counter the Jews’ hatred of Samaritans that he chose to make a Samaritan the hero of one of his stories, for to the Jew the word neighbor referred only to another Jew. Jesus even had to contend with ...
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Richard Gribble
... people to do their best, with the certain knowledge that there was nothing a person could not do, if provided the right tools and environment. In a similar way Jesus, as demonstrated in today's gospel, broke through barriers, refusing to accept the norms of exclusivity common in his day that kept certain people on the fringes. He reached out to all, made bridges of love and friendship, as he brought the message of God to our world. Reading the gospels shows us that Jesus was constantly in conflict with the ...
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Bill Bouknight
... pie (not to mention Chevrolet).” (1) Jesus said many politically incorrect things, but the most shocking is recorded in John 14: He said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Now that’s an exclusive statement! CNN would never allow someone to make such a statement without an instant rebuttal. St. Peter made that claim of Jesus even more blatant when he said, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men ...
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James Merritt
... with God. You do not keep God's rules to have a relationship with God. You keep God's rules, because you have a relationship with God. God had already proven that He could meet every need His family has. What He asked in return was their exclusive trust and their exclusive worship. He said in effect, "Because of who I am and what I have done, I want your undivided attention. I am the Lord your God." II. God Desires My Undivided Affection This is going to come as a real shocker. The Ten Commandments are not ...
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James Merritt
... None of them would be allowed into this club. It is not influence. Surveys show that the three most influential people of the 21st century were Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Mark Zuckerberg – the founder of Facebook. None of them would be allowed into this club. The most exclusive club in the world only has five living members and there is only one qualification that will get you into this club – only one requirement. Guess what it is? A title. The title is – President of the United States. The most ...
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James Merritt
... he is pruning the vine. Do you want to be everything you want to be? Do you want to do everything you want to do? Do you want to come to the end of your life minimizing your regrets and maximizing your rejoicing? Then, you concentrate on Christ exclusively and your connection to Him. You do that by taking the last step. III. Continue In Christ Daily There is only one command that is given in this entire passage of scripture. It is found repeatedly and the first time we encounter it is in verse 4. “Abide ...
41. Body
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... the time of death, then that would mean that Paul had changed his mind about the eschatological expectation expressed in 1 Corinthians 15, where the transformation is expected to take place at the Parousia. If, on the other hand, our passage is taken to refer exclusively to the transformation at the future resurrection at the time of the Parousia of Christ, then it is difficult fully to integrate the references in the text to death as the destruction of the earthly tent (2 Cor. 5:1) and being away from the ...
42. The Law and the Promise
Galatians 3:15-25, Galatians 3:1-14
Understanding Series
L. Ann Jervis
... be meaningless outside the frame of reference provided by the gospel story, [it] stands for the whole story and distills its meaning” (The Faith of Jesus Christ, p. 197). Crucifixion in the Greco-Roman world was the form of capital punishment used almost exclusively for society’s less privileged. It was rare for a Roman citizen or a wealthy person to be executed by means of this barbaric form of execution, except in the most extreme cases of high treason (see M. Hengel, “Crucifixion,” in The Cross ...
Understanding Series
Cheryl A. Brown
... also and took it: The absence of clear distinction between Judah and Benjamin is understandable because although Jerusalem fell within the tribal allotment of Benjamin, it bordered on Judah (Josh. 15:8). Later, in the time of the monarchy, it came to be exclusively associated with Judah, the larger, more prominent tribe. 1:9–10 The men of Judah . . . advanced against . . . Hebron: Caleb was not an Israelite but came to worship the God of Israel and was eventually integrated into Judah. He is listed as a ...
44. The Law of the Temple
Ezekiel 43:13-27, Ezekiel 44:1-31, Ezekiel 45:1-12, Ezekiel 45:13--46:24
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... Lord rejected from priestly service in verses 1–14: only the “descendants of Zadok . . . who faithfully carried out the duties of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me” (v. 15). The Lord gives the Zadokites exclusive rights to priesthood: “They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come near my table to minister before me and perform my service” (v. 16). We can make a case for seeing verses 15–16 as belonging with 44:6–14, 28 ...
45. Three Parables about the Unfaithfulness of the Jewish Leaders
Matthew 22:1-14, Matthew 21:33-46, Matthew 21:28-32, Matthew 21:23-27
Teach the Text
Jeannine K. Brown
... 22:9]). Preaching and teaching this message of invitation for all persons is relatively easy, but we need to back up our words with actions. We can speak of God’s wide-open invitation, but people will judge our message by our actions of inclusion or exclusion. Are we ready and willing to open our doors and hearts to the most unlikely and, seemingly, most unworthy of candidates? Are we ready to see covenant faithfulness in the repentance and faith of those who do not fit our community profile? 2. Jesus as ...
46. Jesus’s Fallible Followers
Luke 9:51-56, Luke 9:46-50, Luke 9:37-45
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... men fail repeatedly: they are unable to exorcize because of a lack of faith, they do not understand Jesus’s prediction of his own death and do not want to have it explained to them, they squabble about their relative status, and they show an exclusive group mentality that would drive away a potential ally and bring violent destruction on those who do not welcome them. To be a follower of Jesus is no guarantee of spiritual maturity. 2. The revolutionary values of the kingdom of God. Conventional ideas of ...
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... knows me and I know the Father”; John 10:30, “I and the Father are one”; and John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Such passages raise acutely the issue of the exclusiveness of Christian salvation and stand firmly against a universalism according to which Jesus is only one among many ways to find God. That is why it matters very much how people respond to the message of Jesus and his disciples. To reject that message is to forfeit the ...
Teach the Text
C. Marvin Pate
... a hint in our message that the gospel is otherwise. Jew and Gentile, male and female, rich and poor, powerful and weak, and any of the other divides that people use to categorize this world are not in play with the gospel. Third, the gospel is also exclusive in nature; there is no name under heaven whereby humans can be reconciled to God other than that of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). Thus the “obedience of faith” that Paul talks about in 1:8–15 confirms that all the world will one day bow before Christ ...
Teach the Text
Preben Vang
... like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to promote great Christian teaching could consider including a “Single’s Day” to help highlight Paul’s teaching in this area. Paul’s call to marriage and/or remarriage is rooted mostly (if not exclusively) in his awareness that sexual desire will handicap some Christians’ ministry for Christ. Singles who do not struggle with this desire should, according to Paul, be encouraged to rejoice that God has gifted them to focus all their energy on serving Christ ...
Teach the Text
Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
... expressions have significance only if supported by changed behavior. This focus on actions as the genuine fruit of repentance is also apparent in the New Testament (Matt. 3:8; Luke 3:8; Acts 26:20; 2 Cor. 7:9–11). d. Repentance results in exclusive worship of the one true God. e. Repentance does not insulate one from trouble. On the contrary, when the Philistines hear about Israel’s assembly at Mizpah, they attack (1 Sam. 7:10). But repentance and reconciliation to God do bring divine support amid ...
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