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Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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26. Horse Sense

Illustration

Michael P. Green

A horse can't pull while kicking. This fact we merely mention. And he can't kick while pulling, Which is our chief contention. Let's imitate the good old horse And lead a life that's fitting; Just pull an honest load, and then There'll be no time for kicking.

27. I Want to Make Sense Out of My Life

John 6:24-35

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a Rubik's Cube or some other type of puzzle (make sure you practice this a few times before you do it) Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever played with a Rubik's Cube? It starts out as a square with four different-colored sides. But if you twist and turn it a few times, soon the colors get all jumbled up. (Jumble up the Rubik's Cube just enough that you can easily set it straight again) Now it's all mixed up, isn't it? Sometimes we can feel like our life is a Rubik's Cube. Sometimes we can ...

28. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... rebellious people away from their God. While it is possible in Job to read this phrase as describing the removal of restraint from Job [“from my face”], it is probably best to read, as in NIV, that it is Job’s detractors who cast off restraint when they sense because of his downfall that they no longer need to fear the protective power of God in his behalf. God has “unstrung” Job’s power and so his enemies have no fear of him. 30:12–13 On my right. Job now follows on with the militant image of ...

29. All Your Facilities Intact

Acts 17:16-34, Colossians 1:15-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . In it Esme, a thirteen year old girl, writes a man who has gone off to war. She writes, "I hope you come back with all your faculties intact." Salinger's anthropology, evident in all his writings, is that we are born with all our faculties intact, with all our senses working. You can see that in little children. Early life as a human being is like a Garden of Eden. It is a time of innocence. But in adolescence, when we begin to go out in the world, we lose that innocence. It can be described as losing our ...

30. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... from the external circumstances of one’s life but from the God of peace (Rom. 15:33; 16:20; Phil. 4:9). Patience has the sense of forbearance and is a characteristic of God (Rom. 2:4; 9:22) in which believers share (cf. 2 Cor. 6:6). Kindness is another ... of God’s character (Rom. 2:4; 11:22) that should characterize the people of God (2 Cor. 6:6). Goodness has the sense of “generosity” or “uprightness.” Paul uses it as a high compliment (Rom. 15:14) and recognizes that only through God’s power ...

31. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... experiences from the hand of God is just. 34:10 So listen to me, you men of understanding. Again, Elihu directs his comments not to Job, but to the council of Job’s friends (or some large group of sages), united in judgment against him. In a sense Job is experiencing his day in court and the human judges arrayed before him are no less implacable in their opposition to his case than Job had imagined God to be (9:14–21). The “men of understanding” are literally “men of heart,” since the heart is ...

32. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... be “heirs with him” in v. 9). This is indeed the common use of the word, but our author can also use it in a fuller sense, as in 9:15. See W. Foerster, TDNT, vol. 3, pp. 776–85. 11:9 In the speech of Stephen in Acts 7 the same point ... only here and in Luke 17:12 in the NT. Welcomed (aspazomai), which may also be translated “greeted,” occurs again in its normal sense twice in 13:24. Admitted is from homologeō, a verb that occurs again in 13:15 (“confess”). The word strangers (parepidēmos) is ...

33. The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... think to ourselves, if something really terrific happens to me, then I will feel grateful. But such gratitude is a fleeting emotion, gone just as soon as life has one of its downturns, as life must inevitably have. No, the secret is to commit yourself to a sense of gratitude, regardless of what happens--then you will be able to find joy in even the most humdrum and sometimes even in the most painful experience. How do you do that? You do that by centering your life in the grace of Jesus Christ. Our lesson ...

34. Imitating Christ's Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... to submit to him (Col. 2:15). If A. J. Bandstra were right in taking law to be one of those forces (The Law and the Elements of the World, pp. 60ff.), then it might be concluded that Christ, by being born under law (Gal. 4:4), did in some sense submit to them; but in Gal. 4:3, 9, it is legalism, not law as the revelation of God’s will (to which Christ rendered glad and free obedience), that is reckoned among the stoicheia. Nor was it to death that Christ rendered obedience (as might be inferred from KJV ...

35. Peter Speaks to the Onlookers

Acts 3:11-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... or bad in which others share first proceeds. This may have been the meaning intended by Peter, for in this very place Jesus had proclaimed himself as the giver of life (John 10:28; cf. John 1:4). On the other hand, it could be as well argued that the sense intended by Peter was “leader.” With the resurrection in mind, his thought may have been of Jesus as the first of many who would follow in being raised from the dead (see disc. on 4:2; cf. 1 Cor. 15:20). It was certainly of the resurrection that Peter ...

36. Laughing in Church

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carl Jech

... I sent some friends a card that showed Mary, Joseph and the babe in the manger under the star, with Joseph saying to Mary: "Quit complaining! What did you expect with a one-star hotel?" Inside the card I wrote: "To be 'full of grace,' is to have a sense of humor." Now I suspect some people might be offended by this kind of "religious" humor. But I stand by the card and would insist that far from being sacreligious it is in fact a wonderful expression of the gospel of grace in Christ that we learn about in ...

37. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... one could find to represent the pastor and his/her people (cf. Gal. 4:19; also Num. 11:12; see W. A. Meeks, The Moral World of the First Christians [Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986], pp. 125–30). The verb, thalpō, means strictly, “to warm,” but carries its secondary sense, “to care for,” “to cherish” (cf. Eph. 5:29). 2:8 We loved you so much, Paul adds, and the verse ends as it begins on this note, that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well ...

38. God Disciplines His Sons

Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... metathesis, a word that occurs twice earlier in Hebrews (7:12, where it refers to “a change of the law,” and 11:5, where it refers to the taking up of Enoch). 12:28–29 The only other place in Hebrews where kingdom is used positively, in the sense of “God’s kingdom,” is in the quotation of Ps. 45:6 in 1:8. Our author, if he is not dependent upon the Gospel tradition, may have drawn the term from a passage like Dan. 7:27. The present participle receiving suggests a careful balance between present ...

39. Warning Against Refusing God

Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

40. I Am a Rose of Sharon

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... not appear in 7:10). The woman (or perhaps part of her body) is symbolically identified with lilies or lotus blossoms. 2:17 The segments of verse 17 are all repeated (exactly or with modification) in other verses: a–b in 4:6; d–e in 8:14. The literal sense can be interpreted in two very different ways. On the one hand, the woman may be telling the man to turn away or go away from her and roam the hills until dawn (or nightfall). Or on the other hand she may be inviting him to herself (with hills as ...

41. Apostles of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... has been placed in them. In turn, Paul informs the Corinthians that what they think of him as God’s steward is of little or no importance. In fact, he says that his opinion of himself is irrelevant, because the Lord is the only one who judges. In a sense Paul is freed by the Lord’s being his sole judge, for he needs neither to worry about what others think nor to be obsessed with evaluating his own performance. Paul is free to strive to be faithful, for in the end Christ will judge him and all others ...

42. Job's Third Reply to Eliphaz

Job 23:1--24:25

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... for judgment arrives. In the mouth of Job, these words suggest that he has not yet given up on a God who rules justly. If Job had abandoned any hope of divine sovereignty and justice, his tireless labor to bring God to account would hardly make any sense. While God is free to act in ways that humans do not understand; while tit-for-tat retribution clearly fails as an adequate explanation of the experience of Job and other righteous sufferers, Job still agrees with the psalmist that God is “not a God who ...

43. Jesus and Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... know tonight exactly what it means. I don’t understand what’s happening in my body, but I prayed to God that He would give me peace… and He has! Even with all that I have been through and all I have yet to go through, I have this deep sense of peace that passes understanding.” And I said, “That’s because of all the prayers that are being prayed for you right now… and it’s because God is right here with us. And June said, “I know. I can feel His presence here and I’m not afraid. I ...

44. In Athens

Acts 17:16-34

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... a philosophical association—“to reach out for him.” Plato had used it of vague guesses at the truth. In a similar, though more concrete, sense, it occurs several times in the LXX of groping about in the dark (Deut. 28:29; Job 5:14; 12:25; Isa. 59:10). But ... the word itself simply means “to touch,” as in Luke 24:39 and 1 John 1:1, and this may have been Paul’s sense, that is, of some palpable assurance of God’s presence that is everywhere and always possible in a world that he has made (cf. Rom ...

45. The Man of Lawlessness

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... language of the OT as setting himself up in God’s temple, not literally, but in a figure. But this is not a figure of the church, which is sometimes called the temple (cf. 1 Cor. 3:16; Eph. 2:21). He also is proclaiming himself (apodeiknymi can have this sense) to be God (v. 4; cf. Isa. 14:13f.; Ezek. 28:2; Dan. 7:25; 8:9–12; 11:36–39). Temple is naos, denoting the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the temple in Jerusalem (in contrast with hieron, which embraced the whole temple precinct) in which ...

46. “In the Lord I Take Refuge”

Psalm 11:1-7

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... in 11:5 it means “to subject to close scrutiny.”2 11:5 he hates. The Hebrews thought in terms of opposites, as in Malachi 1:2–3. When the Old Testament speaks of God in this manner, it suggests divine revulsion to evil and evildoers, not hate in the sense of absolute rejection. The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament, and he is love (1 John 4:8). See comments on 5:5–6. 11:6 he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur. The terms recall those of the destruction of Sodom and ...

47. Final Instructions

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 1 Pet. 5:14 it is called the “kiss of love” and, with this, cf. 1 Cor. 16:24, “my love to all of you”). Kissing was a common form of salutation in the ancient world, indicating affection and sometimes homage (1 Sam. 10:1) and sometimes, in that sense, it became an act of worship (1 Kings 19:18; Job 31:27; Hos. 13:2). By the time of Justin Martyr (ca. A.D. 100–165), the kiss had become an accepted part of the Christian liturgy and was exchanged after the prayers and before the presentation of the ...

48. Thanksgiving and Prayer

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... same thought into different words at the end of the verse when he speaks of suffering “on behalf of” (hyper with the gen. in the causal sense “for the sake of”; for other uses see disc. on 2:1 and 1 Thess. 5:10) the kingdom of God. In this context, the ... (zōē aiōnios, life in relation to the age to come; cf. Rom. 2:7; 5:21; 6:22f.; Gal. 6:8). There is a sense of finality about both the gift and the punishment. Neither will be revoked (cf. 1 Thess. 5:3). As to what “destruction of the age” means ...

49. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... this is a far from necessary conclusion. The author may well deliberately refer to Abraham’s descendants to focus attention upon his Jewish readers. But since the church is the heir of the OT promises in Christ, it is not wrong to understand the expression in a wider sense as referring to the entire community of faith (cf. Gal. 3:7). 2:17 In order to help his brothers (alluding to the quotation in v. 12), by which the author means “to save them from their sins,” Jesus had to become fully like them, in ...

50. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... (Barnabas 1:2; 9:9) but also the biblical tradition thinks of God’s word, or the gospel, as implanted by God in one’s heart at conversion (Deut. 30:1; Matt. 13:4–15, 18–23; 1 Cor. 3:6; 1 Thess. 1:6; 2:13). It is this sense that fits best here. As in the parable of the sower, the word may be planted, but unless obeyed it is soon choked, with fatal results. The phrase in you (cf. GNB, “in your hearts”) is a correct interpretation of the normal biblical location of such implantation, but in some ...

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