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626. The Passover Meal

John 13:1-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , now the Gospel will concentrate on the coming of “the hour” (12:23, 27; 13:1)—that is, the hour of his glorification (13:31–32). It is not an hour of tragedy in this Gospel but one of victory that involves Christ’s passion, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Just as the many signs of Jesus were accompanied by discourses (cf. John 6, the feeding miracle and the bread-of-life discourse), so too this last sign of death and resurrection will be interpreted by lengthy teaching in the upper ...

627. God’s Wrath against Mankind

Romans 1:18-32

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... the assertion that God’s wrath, which brings judgment and condemnation, “is being revealed from heaven.” In the Old Testament, wrath is God’s response to sin (Exod. 15:7; 32:10–12; Num. 11:1; Jer. 21:3–7); it should not be confused with capricious or irrational passion. The prophets link God’s wrath with a future day of judgment (Isa. 13:9, 13; Zeph. 1:15, 18; 2:2–3; 3:8; Dan. 8:19). The object of God’s wrath is the universal failure to respect and honor the glory of God, and the universal ...

628. A Lifestyle in Accord with Sound Doctrine

Titus 2:1-15

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... notion that the most eloquent pulpit is a towel and a basin (John 13). 2:11–15 · Theological grounding: God’s grace and glory: Paul transitions now to the idea that God came not to punish but to save us from our “ungodliness and worldly passions.” Thus he “has appeared” once in “grace” (2:11). There will also be a future “appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ” (2:13). Paul chooses his terms carefully, referring to Christ’s incarnation here and in 3:4 with ...

629. When Heartbreak Turns to Heartburn

Luke 24:13-35

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?' " (v. 32). Their heartbreak turns to heartburn! Not the kind of heartburn that calls for Prilosec, but good heartburn. Their hearts, once broken with sadness, now burn with passion for the living Lord of the cross. Those Emmaus disciples are slow to recognize the truth when they first see him. Perhaps that is because they are walking away from Jerusalem, where the community of Christians met. When they do see Jesus, their lives ...

630. The Time Is Now!

Luke 24:50-53

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... the two-handed pieces but he could play this one! Jesus, our ascended Lord, is coming again. Whatever you imagine is your handicap, whatever you imagine is your limitation, there is kingdom work for you to do. In the name of Jesus, go out and play your piece with passion. Do all the good you can to all the people you can for Jesus who loved us all the way to calvary and loves us still. Don't stand around looking up, do something! You will soon discover that the place where you have been planted is the place ...

631. Before the Sanhedrin

Mark 14:53-65

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... house of the high priest and that the actual trial or some sort of quasi-formal hearing took place early the next morning, as Luke’s account suggests. The chief priests, elders and teachers of the law: Again, we note the same figures mentioned in the passion prediction in 8:31 (cf. 14:43). These groups made up the Jewish Sanhedrin, the highest court of ancient Judaism (see “Sanhedrin,” IDB, vol. 4, pp. 214–18; IDBSup, pp. 784–86). See also 14:55 and note. 14:55 The whole Sanhedrin: Sanhedrin here ...

632. The Calling of the First Disciples

Luke 5:1-11

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... use of this document). Luke, however, reports in 24:34 that the Risen Christ did indeed appear to Peter. Luke also manages to cast Peter in a better light by omitting two of Peter’s more embarrassing moments: the rebuke he received for disapproving of Jesus’ passion plans (see Mark 8:32–33) and his reproach by Jesus for sleeping, instead of watching and praying (see Mark 14:37). The central concern of the episode of the great catch of fish is not the miracle itself, but Jesus’ call to Peter to begin ...

633. Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman

Luke 7:36-50

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... distinct from the one he would have seen in Mark 14:3–9. It also suggests that some of the Marcan details may have influenced Luke’s account, while his tendency to avoid repetition may explain why there is no anointing episode later, during passion week (for further discussion see Marshall, pp. 306–7). There are certain curious aspects about Jesus’ visit to the house of Simon the Pharisee. That Jesus would be invited to a dinner and then be denied customary courtesies seems odd. How the sinful woman ...

634. The Little Children and Jesus

Luke 18:15-17

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... the “kingdom of God belongs to such as these” (v. 16). After his encounter with the rich ruler, Jesus declares, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” (v. 24). Finally, in Jesus’ pronouncing for the third time his impending passion, the reader would likely see a kingdom connotation here as well, since the glorious return of the Son of Man, at which time the kingdom of God is established in its fulness, can take place only after he has first suffered and been rejected (vv. 31 ...

635. Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

Luke 22:1-6

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... one of his own” and can find no explanation other than that of Satanic influence. This may be so, but the fact that the same idea appears also in the Fourth Gospel suggests that the idea of Satan entering Judas was part of the passion tradition which Luke felt best explained Judas’ otherwise inexplicable behavior. Judas offered the religious authorities the very opportunity that they sought. Because he was one of the Twelve, he would know where the group met in the evening and when they might be alone ...

636. David and Bathsheba

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... was married did nothing to stifle David’s lust. The significance of this account, and the reason it is included, are twofold. First, it shows that David, in spite of being God’s anointed king, is not removed from the failures and sins of ordinary mortals. His nature, throwing himself passionately into things without thought for the consequences, can be used for good when the task in hand is fighting for God’s honor or keeping his band of outcasts safe from Saul’s obsessive revenge. But his ...

637. Amnon and Tamar

2 Samuel 13:1-22

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... The text states that Amnon fell in love with Tamar but makes clear that love in any meaningful sense had no part in his actions. Jonadab, Amnon’s cousin and friend, was a very shrewd man, whose friendship meant helping Amnon to gratify his passions rather than encouraging him to resist them. Presenting Amnon with a carefully worked out plan, Jonadab demonstrates his shrewdness in his understanding of David’s nature. He assumes that David will visit his loved son when he is ill and also that his concern ...

638. Job Speaks

Job 3:1-26

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... in order to express his frustration at being locked in a painful life of suffering. Job laments that he did not perish at birth (having failed, by cursing, to turn back the clock to prevent conception and birth altogether) and expresses his passionate longing for the kind of peace and rest that he envisions the dead to experience. That imagined peace of the dead contrasts sharply with Job’s description of his ongoing experience of life as “turmoil,” weariness, “misery”—with no rest or quietness ...

639. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... a subtle claim of divine inspiration and compulsion behind his words. The friends and Job have drawn on a lifetime of personal observation and experience, along with the traditions of the sages passed down through generations of wisdom teaching. The extended and passionate preparation for Elihu’s speech leads the reader to expect just such an uninterrupted gush of words as appears in chapters 33:8–37. The spirit is actually “in my belly,” according to the Hebrew. The belly is usually the origin of ...

640. The Lord's Supper

Matthew 26:17-30

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

The Final Evening: The Passion narrative is the account of the suffering and death of Jesus. It normally includes all the events beginning with the garden scene in Gethsemane and finishing with the burial. The centrality of the cross in ... the evening of Nisan 14. For the possibility that Jesus was arrested on Tuesday evening, see the summary of Jaubert’s thesis in Lane, pp. 498–99, n. 33. The problem of the chronology of the passion is surveyed at length in Jeremias, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus.

641. Jesus Again Predicts His Death

Luke 18:31-34

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... predictions were uttered in Luke 9 (vv. 21–22, 43b–45), the chapter in which the journey to Jerusalem began (v. 51). Now that the journey is almost completed, the third passion prediction is uttered (though there were other utterances of pending trouble in the journey itself, see 12:50; 13:32–33; 17:25). In the Lucan version there is found a significant addition: everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. This reference, ...

642. Absalom Kills Amnon

2 Samuel 13:23-39

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

643. The Disciples' Grief Will Turn to Joy

John 16:17-33, John 16:5-16

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... in the sermons of Acts (where it is characteristically future, Acts 10:42; 17:31). Judgment is identified here, as elsewhere in this Gospel (5:29 being the only exception), with Jesus’ victory over Satan, especially in his Passion (12:31; cf. 14:30; in the Synoptics, cf. Mark 3:23–27). Because the Passion is almost upon him, Jesus can claim that the world’s evil ruler now stands judged (v. 11; cf., “now” in 12:31). What is this world that the Counselor and the disciples will confront? Is it the ...

644. Social Responsibility

Exodus 22:16-31

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... vulnerable and marginalized people. Two prohibitions regarding resident aliens, widows, and orphans (vv. 21–24) are followed by two case laws concerning poor debtors (vv. 25–27). Nowhere else in the book of the covenant does God speak about any law so personally and passionately. Justice was not an idea that worked itself out in the ups and downs of this life. In relation to God justice was not a passive concern but immediate and active. “Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in ...

645. Telling the Truth

Luke 3:7-18

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Susan R. Andrews

... hungry people — people hungry for food — people hungry for God. But long before he was a missionary he was a bomber pilot in WWII — one of five sons in his family to go to war. In the early 2000s, toward the end of his life, Harold wrote a passionate editorial calling us as a nation to repent. He wrote: Lately I feel like a stranger in the United States. I am a remnant of what has been called “the greatest generation,” but it’s not the thinning ranks of my generation that has me feeling lost and ...

646. How Angry Are You?

Luke 4:21-30

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Susan R. Andrews

... it like it is and he uses neither euphemisms nor apologies to blanket his displeasure. Jesus discovers what many psychotherapists have suggested — that healthy anger, honestly expressed, provides needed energy to confront evil and pain and injustice. It seems clear to me that when we talk about the passion of Jesus we need to include more than his suffering, more than his pain, and more than his death. We need to include, recognize, and affirm his anger. We need to welcome our own anger when it seeks ...

647. When God's Dream Captures Your Heart

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

Writer Dan Miller in his book Wisdom Meets Passion tells of growing up in a conservative, rural family in Ohio. With no radio or TV in the house, Dan found his information in books. ... a man or woman or young person of vision in this congregation today. Has God planted a dream in your heart? 1. Dan Miller, Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012). 2. Edmund Janss, Making the Second Half the Best Half (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1984).

648. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

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King Duncan

... wondered what Jesus meant by that? Surely God would not lead us into temptation! Here’s what I believe Jesus was saying. It is one thing to pray for forgiveness. It is quite another to be so earnest in our commitment to Christ that we pray passionately, “Please, Lord, keep me from even being tempted.” That’s a hard prayer for some people to pray. Let’s face it. Some people really enjoy being tempted. Several years ago there was a popular country song by singer Lari White, the chorus of which went ...

649. Learning to Walk in the Dark

Matthew 26:14-16

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David & Marian Plant

... that you need for loving your neighbor (Matthew 26:51-52) 4. Fail Jesus miserably, weep bitterly, and show up to try again (Matthew 26:75, 28:10-16) Reverend Stephanie Jaeger, reflecting on Matthew 26 and 27 wrote: The core revelation of Palm/Passion Sunday is this: God doesn’t save in the ways we might expect. God doesn’t rule the way humans do. God dominates with love, not violence. God overpowers through sacrifice, not by taking away. God wins by suffering, not humiliation — suffering and aligning ...

650. Godstruck

Acts 2:1-13

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Lori Wagner

... to praise God in “wind song.” Because God’s Spirit can revive the deadest of souls, breathe life into “dead” people, resurrect people, and places –and churches. Just as in the valley of dry bones, God lifts up brokenness and parched faith and stirs up passion and determination. With the sound of the wind…you know change is coming. But not just the kinds of changes you’d expect in the course of life. But bizarre changes. The birth of the church that day when God’s breath rushed in was so ...

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