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551. God's Righteous Judgment

Romans 2:1-16

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... ’s initial charge; verse 2, the opponent’s defense; and verse 3, Paul’s concluding charge (Romans, pp. 43–44). The word judgment (krinein) appears in one form or another seven times in verses 1–3! This indicates how thoroughly the theme dominates Paul’s thought. In contrast to self-serving human judgments that stack the deck in one’s own favor, Paul says that God’s judgment … is based on truth. We know this, says Paul. It is something we can be confident of because God’s judgment is true ...

552. No One Is Righteous

Romans 3:9-20

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... cure. The statement that through the law we become conscious of sin is not a moralism, i.e., that we should learn from our mistakes. Paul means that in the law we hear our own condemnation! Only when the defendant gives up all hope of defense, all thought of parading his or her own case (= “boasting,” 2:17, 23), only then can that person hear the verdict of the judge. And a surprising verdict it is! The sentence is not justice—getting what one deserves; it is grace—getting what one does not deserve ...

553. Abraham Justified by Faith

Romans 4:1-25

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... verse 14 against any form of religious belief that values the things God does more than the God who does them. This is tantamount to loving God not for who he is, but for what he does, which is idolatry (1:25). 4:15 The progression of thought leads Paul to a startling conclusion, law brings wrath. If by law Paul means Torah (the definite article in Greek implies this), he could hardly have penned a more offensive statement. Pharisaic Judaism taught that the law brought grace, not wrath. If the law was given ...

554. Slaves to Righteousness

Romans 6:15-23

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... to the one whom you obey! 6:17–18 We have then two masters, grace and sin, vying for control of both individuals and the world. A scene of two slave buyers, each bidding against the other at a slave auction, is not inappropriate to Paul’s thought. Thanks be to God, the benevolent master has won, for the service of sin would be actual bondage, whereas the service of grace is actual freedom. Paul does not praise believers for having made a better choice of grace over sin. Salvation is not a game show ...

555. Life Through the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... Christ’s death, and even now the Spirit begins in believers a work of regeneration that will be completed in the world to come. Grace is knowing that God is for us and with us even in our “body of death” (7:24). 8:2 Paul now resumes the thought of 7:6 concerning the “new way of the Spirit.” Paul’s Jewish contemporaries were familiar with the belief that the day of the Messiah would be accompanied by an outpouring of the Spirit. Keying off the theme of law, Paul says, in effect, that a higher law ...

556. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... not confuse the matter as Paul discusses it here with the more serious problem behind portions of 2 Cor. 9:3 The NIV begins a new paragraph with this verse, although it is more likely that v. 3 is the final comment to the line of thought in vv. 1–2 rather than the initial thought of the segment that follows in vv. 4–6 or 4–7. In defense of the division into paragraphs between v. 3 and v. 4, see K. Nickel, “A Parenthetical Apologia: 1 Corinthians 9:1–3,” CurTM 1 (1974), pp. 68–70. 9:4 Paul ...

557. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... :6 it is the agony of loss and ridicule that creates this condition. 29:16 The Heb. verb behind NIV’s I took up (khqr) is better translated as, “I dig out,” or “I search out diligently.” Longing for a Fruitful Life 29:18–20 I thought. Job’s longing gaze shifts now from the public approbation he experienced in the past to remembering his earlier expectation of a long and fruitful life. I will die in my own house. Job alludes to a comfortable death surrounded by family with the noun qen, “nest ...

558. Daniel’s Dream of Four Beasts

Daniel 7:1-14

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... for we are made in their image (Gen. 1:26–27). God is not anthropomorphic, but we are theomorphic, for we were made in his image, not he in ours. While some people today think the image of God is something spiritual, at least some ancient Israelites would have thought it physical, as for example when God appeared to Abraham as a man (Gen. 18:1–19:1) and when God, resembling a man, wrestled with Jacob (Gen. 32:22–32). Although the one Daniel sees appears to be human, it is in fact a heavenly being, for ...

559. Listening and Doing

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

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... 23; 1 John 3:9). This statement produces a startling contrast: Desire brings to birth, but it bears sin and death; God brings to birth redemption and life. Third, God does this new act of creation through the word of truth. This expression might at first glance be thought a reference to the creative word of God (Gen. 1) or to the veracity of all he says (e.g., Ps. 119:43), but surely in this passage something more is meant. What word in the New Testament era was more “the word of truth” than the gospel ...

560. The Power to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... that I had at last forgiven the cruel schoolmaster who so darkened my childhood. I’d been trying to do it for years; and . . . each time I thought I’d done it. I found, after a week or so it all had to be attempted over again. But this time I feel sure it is the ... for wounds inflicted in our own hearts by anger, hurt and resentment. God has forgiven each of us for every soiled thought, act, and deed of which we are capable. Can we not forgive one another? Three times? Seven times? Yes, even seventy- ...

561. The Three Kings

Matthew 2:1-12

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King Duncan

... the light he needed. It is the light all of us need. Einstein argued that at the speed of light there is an eternal now. He postulated that time and space are relative to the speed of light; light is the constant. “We modern people think he thought that up,” writes Peter Hiett in his book, Eternity Now! “Yet two thousand years earlier, John wrote, ‘God is light’ (1 John 1:5), and he recorded Jesus saying, ‘I am the light of the world’ (John 8:12). John taught that Jesus is the Word, and the ...

562. Faces of Failure: Peter

Matthew 26 (selections)

Sermon

Don Tuttle

... to keep. Oh, we self-confidently assume we can, by sheer will, remain faithful to Jesus. But then a neighbor’s late-night party disrupts our sleep and loving him or her becomes near impossible. A driver cuts us off on 281 and anger not peace seizes control of our thoughts. A friend opens the door to a conversation about Christ, but we play dumb or we act as if we know nothing about him or the faith. It’s not that we fear persecution at the hands of the government or ridicule by folk in the public square ...

563. Simple Faith?

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

John Jamison

... way things are. You may also say to yourself that sometimes a known situation is better than an unknown one, even if the known situation isn’t all that great. Can you see Jesus standing there in the crowd by the Jordan River with all of these same thoughts running through his head? We have to keep in mind that with everything else we remember and say about Jesus of Nazareth, he was fully human. It should not surprise us that he could have stood there thinking as much about going back home as going into ...

564. Family Ties and Good-byes

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... that this moment was coming. Mary had heard the prediction of Simeon, the old man in the temple at Jesus' circumcision, that "this child is destined for the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearers will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too." At this moment when Jesus refused to see his own family and spoke of family in such different terms than they had ever heard, Mary must have felt the prick of that sword ...

565. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... was, “Oh, God, my wife! My children!” Petersen survived. As he wandered about the airport in a daze after he disembarked from the damaged aircraft, aching all over, he found he couldn’t speak, but his mind was racing, “What were my last words?” he thought. “What was the bottom line?” As he remembered, he had his answer: relationship. Reunited with his wife and sons, he found that all he could say to them over and over was, “I appreciate you, I appreciate you!” (4) “It is not good for the ...

566. Elvis and the King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... from his headlong rush for material wealth. Millard recalls: “We were in a taxi right after Linda and I had a very tearful session. We’d gone to Radio City Music Hall and they showed the movie Never Too Late. It was about a woman getting pregnant after she thought it was too late. The message was that it’s never too late to change anything. I had a sensation of light in that taxi. It was not anything spooky. All I can say is it just came into my head: Give your money away, make yourself poor again ...

567. What To Say When You Roll Out Of Bed

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

William G. Carter

... your God with all your heart." II The law teaches us, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your soul." In Hebrew thought, the soul is the breath of life, the part of us that is the breathing part. One day, goes the story in Genesis, God ... Lord your God with all your strength." We misunderstand love if we reduce it to a sentiment of the heart, a word from the breath, or a thought from the mind. Love is also something we do. Love is a word that taps our energy and flexes our muscles. There is a young man ...

568. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , He does care, He does see, and He does answer prayer--though His answer may come in a form that we do not recognize at first. Temptation is very real in our lives--as it was real in the life of Jesus. We need to heed Christ’s teachings. Thoughts are connected to deeds. It is in our best interest, and in the interest of those we love, to pray that we shall not even be tempted. We need to recognize the destructiveness of sin in our lives and confront our susceptibility. Finally, we need to learn to rely ...

569. Grabbing the Bull by the Horns

Luke 9:11b-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the back gate. The barn door opened again. Unbelievable. This bull was even worse that the first one. The young man had never seen anything so big and fierce in his life. It stood--pawing the ground, grunting, slinging slobber--as it eyed him. Again the young man thought to himself, whatever the third bull was like, it had to be a better choice than this second one. He ran to the fence and, again, let the bull pass through the pasture, out the back gate. The door opened a third time. A smile came across his ...

570. We Are Not Alone

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... his head open!” she proclaimed and shook her head once, decisively. God had sent an advocate to help me, but she wasn’t exactly the kind of angel I was expecting, nor did she come with the kind of message I was looking for. At that moment, I thought of myself as a tragic figure, but Aubrey turned the moment from high tragedy to low comedy. I wanted someone to come and tell me all the deep, hidden meaning behind what had happened, but Jesus sent the Spirit in the form of a little cherub instead to ...

571. Mimosa Pudica

Luke 10:1-10, 16-24

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... afraid, or about how the church Jesus left for us has changed your life? No, I didn’t think so. There was a young preacher who delivered his very first sermon to his new congregation, and everybody thought it was a marvelous treatment of tithing and evangelism. The next week, he gave the exact same sermon, and people thought that that was a little strange, but it was a good sermon, so they let it go. When he gave the exact same sermon for the third straight week, people were furious. A committee was put ...

572. Get the Garbage Out!

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of heaven is near to you. God’s got a plan for restoring this world to His original design of justice and mercy and peace. And you’re going to miss it if you don’t align your thoughts with God’s thoughts. If your mind is fixed on outward shows of religion rather than filled with the spirit and thoughts and priorities of God, then you are going to miss the greatest thing you’ve ever seen, the Messiah, God in the flesh walking among you.” I read recently about the FC Magdeburg soccer team in ...

573. The Great Dinner

Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... instead. “Those who are invited will not taste a crumb of the feast from my table.” “And don’t you dare hurt a hair on the heads of my little ones!” All messages from Jesus to the takers at the table. How shocked they must have been. Many of them thought they were good and upright people. We can think we are givers, but there is also within us, a propensity to take from God, and from others, in ways that are not God’s will, and we don’t even realize we are doing it. This story is not just ...

574. Lazarus

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... those scraps? We don’t know for sure. But we do know he allowed him to lay right at the gate where he would have to come in and out each day rather than banishing Lazarus to the outskirts of town, as custom would demand. Perhaps the rich man thought he was doing more than needed. But Jesus didn’t see it that way. This is where the metaphor of the dogs come in. Why are the dogs there in the story? There is always a reason. “Street dogs” or “wild dogs” roamed the streets during Jesus’ day. They ...

575. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Cody discovered that the true purpose of his life was found in surrendering his life to God. He discovered that his achievements in the ring had no real meaning; his partying didn’t bring him any lasting joy or pleasure. He had to lay down all the things he thought defined him or gave him worth in order to find his real purpose in a relationship with God. This former MMA fighter has now found a new life in Christ. As he explains it, “I’m . . . thankful that I’m able to surrender to [the Lord] and I ...

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