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26. Jesus Prays for His Disciples

John 17:1-5, John 17:6-19, John 17:20-26

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... not. If they are in the world without belonging to it, they are there as those who have been sent (v. 18). They are there in the same way that Jesus was (cf. 1 John 4:17), sent to their own home as strangers (cf. 1:10–11). They cannot withdraw from the world any more than he did. Jesus did not leave the world until his work was finished, and when he left, his departure was not a withdrawal but a victory. Therefore he does not ask the Father to take them out of the world but … protect them from the ...

27. Proper 28

Mk 13:1-32 · Heb 10:11-25 · 1 Sam 1:4-20 · Ps 16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... 1:4-20 1. Sermon Title: Dealing With Disappointment. Sermon Angle: Hannah faced one of the gravest disappointments for a woman in her day. She was not able to bear a child. Her rival would rub her face in it, which led to depression and withdrawal from life. For a time she wept and would not eat. Her husband wisely reassured her that she still had great worth, even if she was childless. That helped Hannah to deal constructively with her disappointment by taking it to the Lord in prayer and worship. Outline ...

28. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... problems that we face in our culture today is the cure and rehabilitation of our tens of thousands of drug addicts. There is no more discouraging or frustrating or ineffectual process than the ways that we have tried to help people withdraw from drug addiction. We have tried every method - cold turkey withdrawal, imprisonment, counseling, psychiatric treatment, group therapy, and even the use of substitute drugs like Methadone. And then some people began to use a practical way. They tried to get the addicts ...

29. Jesus’ Compassion and Authority to Feed and Heal

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:29-39

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

Big Idea: Matthew demonstrates Jesus’ compassion and authority in a miraculous feeding and in healing that extends even to a Gentile, indicating that trust is the right response to Jesus. Understanding the Text For a third time in Matthew, Jesus withdraws from controversy (15:21; see also 12:15; 14:13) to minister with healing to the crowds (15:22, 30–31). Given that Matthew focuses almost exclusively on Jesus’ ministry to Israel (10:5–6), it is significant that the story of the healing of a ...

30. Jesus Prays for His Disciples

John 17:6-19

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

31. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... , too. The longer you put it off, the harder it is to do it. Hosea, in the context and in this text, uses bold images of God - he pictures God as a ravaging lion and even as a man who absents himself from his disobedient people. He withdraws from those worshipers who thought he could be used for their own selfish purposes, thinking that they could treat God however expediency dictated. The point is, of course, not that God is really absent, but because they had rejected him and his claims upon them, he let ...

32. Backsliding

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Brett Blair

... there were no jet airliners from Paris to the United States, only slow-moving ocean-going ships. And so Bill found himself in a dilemma. Should he go to Paris and risk not being at his wife's side when their first child was born? Or should he withdraw from the team and remain behind. Bill's wife insisted that he go to Paris. After all, he had been working towards this for all these years. It was the culmination of a life-long dream. Clearly the decision was not easy for Bill to make. Finally, after much ...

33. “Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave”: Power Poisons the Conscience

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... (v. 14) is ironic: years earlier Saul abused his royal authority and sent messengers out with the intent of arresting and killing David (1 Sam. 19:11, 14–15, 20–21). Now David is no longer the victim but has occupied the role of Saul. 11:15 Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die. David’s plan for Uriah’s death is absurd, for it will involve telling all the soldiers but Uriah to withdraw at a specified time so he will stand isolated before the enemy. Even if such a plot can ...

34. The Big Move!

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

John Jamison

... been a simple leaving. Even if Jesus and everyone else knew exactly who he was and what he had to do, for the people of Nazareth he was still Joseph and Mary’s boy. And he was leaving. Why did he go to Galilee, and what was he withdrawing from? Although Nazareth was a long way from Jerusalem, what happened at Jesus’ baptism would have been big news at the temple. Remember that Pharisees and Sadducees had been there when it happened and would have made a bee-line trip back to report what they had seen ...

35. The Hidden Spiritual House

1 Peter 2:4-12, 1 Peter 2:13-25

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... much as possible into the comforting warmth of Christian fellowship. But Peter will not let them do this, even though he has underlined so powerfully their new and hidden status as God’s people and the life and love that binds them. Withdrawal from the world is not an option for Christians. Rather, their difference must be expressed through the distinctiveness of their life within their earthly callings. 2:11–12 · The Christian’s inner life:In verse 11 Peter reaffirms the general attitude toward the ...

36. God’s Body Language

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... even send us a sermon!) He came in a Word who was a Person. Therefore, in order for us to meet God we do not need to withdraw from the world of persons. It is precisely in this world that we meet God, if we are to meet Him at all. In a book titled “Making ... we leave our families, give up our jobs, or change our ways of working; it does not mean that we have to withdraw from social or political activities, or lose interest in literature and art; it does not require asceticism or long hours of prayer.” What ...

37. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... for the other. Lafcadio Hearn tells a story of an Oriental hero who owned and worked a highly valuable rice field that covered a hill-top overlooking the sea. One day during an earthquake, from his high vantage point, he saw the ocean swiftly withdrawing from the familiar shore. It looked like some prodigious animal crouching for a deadly, destructive leap, and he knew that leap would be the tidal wave. He also saw that his neighbors working in the low fields must be speedily gathered to his hill or ...

38. Prayer-Conditioning Your Life

Luke 2:29-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christ did not come in the wilderness. It came in the Garden of Gethsemane. Surrounded by the sweetness of the garden, and the snoring sounds of his own disciples, Jesus prayed his way through the greatest temptation — the temptation to appease the authorities and withdraw from the final sacrifice. Jesus prayed his way through the night, and in his praying he shunned the easy way out and instead embraced the divine path of selfless love for all humanity. 3) When he had the least time to pray, Jesus prayed ...

39. Jesus and John the Baptist

Matthew 11:1-19

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... conflict:In Matthew 11:2–16:20, Matthew narrates Jesus’s ongoing ministry to Israel in the face of increased confrontation with and rejection by Jewish leaders. Faced with these controversies, Jesus withdraws from confrontation and instead turns to compassionate ministry focused on the Jewish crowds (12:15; 14:13; 15:21, 30). Matthew shows a range of responses to Jesus’s emerging identity, from rejection by Jewish leaders and Jesus’s hometown to the disciples’ right confession of Jesus as Messiah ...

40. A Higher Priority

John 6:56-69

Illustration

Brett Blair

41. A Prophet without Honor

Matthew 13:53-58, Matthew 14:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

13:54–16:20 Review · Conflict and identity: In this section, Matthew continues to narrate the growing conflict between the Jewish leaders and Jesus. As before (12:15), he withdraws from this conflict to engage in compassionate ministry to the crowds and interaction with his disciples (with withdrawal language at 12:15; 14:13; and 15:21). Jesus’s identity is highlighted in this section of narrative, as the disciples come to confess Jesus as the Messiah (16:13–20) while ...

Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from Grace.

Thomas A. Kempis

43. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... together to create an eddy, a whirlpool that drives us below the water's surface. All our struggling doesn't work. Rather, we continue to mess things up and privately confirm that we are failures. We get angry at ourselves for our failures. We become silent and withdraw from others. Isn't that what failures are supposed to do? If we are not worth our own love, how can we expect the love of others? We have turned on ourselves. But we don't talk about this rebellion. We've hidden this knowledge in a small ...

44. I am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction

Lamentations 3:1-66

One Volume

Tremper Longman III

... , and to get his help. In the light of the sin that has brought on the punishment, it likely means that they confess and repent of wrong doing (see vv. 40–42). The Lord will be good to such people. God’s goodness would begin by withdrawing from the punishment that he was presently directing at his people. He would restore them and bring them prosperity rather than pain. The second and third lines in this stanza state what good things God’s people can do. The first involves quiet (patient?) waiting for ...

45. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... first, David tries to trick her husband Uriah, home on leave, to go and sleep with her, hoping he could divert the “problem.” But Uriah declines out of honor to his troops. And so David has him sent to the front lines, where his men withdraw from him, leaving him open to be killed. David then marries Bathsheba. The prophet Nathan then confronts David by telling him a story about a wealthy man with many flocks who confiscates the only treasured, precious pet ewe of a poor man, leaving him devastated and ...

46. Moving On

Luke 6:12-16, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Cain’s curse to “work” the ground, as his brother’s blood cries out from the earth itself in witness to his sin. Psalm 22 references the “dust of death,” the dry, waterless stasis that represents humanity without the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit withdraws from you, all that is left is “dust” and “death.” In fact, in Deuteronomy (28), a dust storm is punishment for forsaking God. The dust of sin is the dust of the grave. In Jewish tradition, to be in mourning meant to push on ashes ...

47. Praise to God for a Living Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... means loyalty to the Mosaic law, as also in the Dead Sea Scrolls: “All who enter the order of the community shall enter into a covenant in the presence of God to act according to all that he has commanded, and not to withdraw from following him through any fear or terror or trial”—where, incidentally, “trial” is lit. “furnace” or “refiner’s fire” (1QS 1.16–17). Of greater worth than gold: The comparison was a commonplace in the ancient world: “Justice is more precious than many ...

48. The Coming Judgment Calls for the Saints to Leave Babylon

Revelation 18:1-24

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... to miss: “Come out of her, my people.” It’s easy to hear the command and miss the identification: “my people.” But God calls his people to be just that—his people, set apart to him. Holiness is as much about belonging to God as it is about withdrawing from wickedness. Since the time God chose a people, he wanted them to imitate him precisely because they belong to him: “You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own” (Lev. 20:26 ...

49. Week Four Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... . There are many things in our lives that seem to have both power and the ability to bring us to greater wholeness. We place our trust in the cures and remedies of things and people which bring only temporary relief. Sometimes we seek answers in withdrawal from the world, through chemicals or distance or isolation. The remedies that seem so powerful can do only a limited amount. The world is finite; we cannot ask any more from it. God, however, is infinite, thus all things are possible if we place our trust ...

50. Woe to the Obstinate Nation

Isaiah 30:1-33

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... 11:6–9). The background of verses 19–26 is not the kind of crisis that the earlier part of the chapter speaks to, but rather a situation where people who ignored the prophets’ messages have experienced God’s attack upon them and God’s withdrawal from them. God now speaks to them of a new experience of grace and mercy and a new future. Presumably these words therefore come from a time later than that of Isaiah himself, though there are no concrete indicators of a more precise background than that ...

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26. Jesus Prays for His Disciples

John 17:1-5, John 17:6-19, John 17:20-26

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

27. Proper 28

Mk 13:1-32 · Heb 10:11-25 · 1 Sam 1:4-20 · Ps 16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

28. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

29. Jesus’ Compassion and Authority to Feed and Heal

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:29-39

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

30. Jesus Prays for His Disciples

John 17:6-19

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

31. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

32. Backsliding

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Brett Blair

33. “Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave”: Power Poisons the Conscience

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

34. The Big Move!

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

John Jamison

35. The Hidden Spiritual House

1 Peter 2:4-12, 1 Peter 2:13-25

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

36. God’s Body Language

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

37. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

38. Prayer-Conditioning Your Life

Luke 2:29-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

39. Jesus and John the Baptist

Matthew 11:1-19

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

40. A Higher Priority

John 6:56-69

Illustration

Brett Blair

41. A Prophet without Honor

Matthew 13:53-58, Matthew 14:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from Grace.

Thomas A. Kempis

43. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

44. I am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction

Lamentations 3:1-66

One Volume

Tremper Longman III

45. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner