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676. An Announcement about Our Future

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and get me to the church on time.” (1) I hope your Christmas season will not be quite that hectic. But time is at a premium during the Advent season, isn’t it? Our song could be, “Kick up a rumpus, but don’t forget the compass, and get me to Christmas on time.” Welcome on this first Sunday in Advent. Many of us think of Advent as a time of getting ready for Christmas. On a practical level it is certainly that. Some of you may get a headache just thinking about all the preparations that ...

677. It Was a Dark and Stormy Evening! Father's Day

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus, don’t you care that my husband has died? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that I lost my job? “We have all asked [these questions] in a million ways a million times. We never question the Lord’s compassion when things are going well. But,” says Pastor Pritchard, “God’s compassion is not measured by our circumstances nor is His kindness limited to our understanding. God cares just as much when the tempest is raging as when the seas are calm and the sun is shining. His mercy is not limited ...

678. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... well over the years. But Freud was not a happy man. Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, tells us that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically, this Viennese physician had little compassion for the common person. Freud wrote in 1918, “I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at ...

679. Favoritism Forbidden

James 2:1-13, James 2:14-26

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, cf. Hos. 4:1; 6:6; 12:6; Prov. 14:21; Dan. 4:27). Or again, “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.’ ” (Zech. 7:9). Not to show mercy is to step outside of God’s covenant and to invite God in return to judge by the same strict standard. This teaching was made even more explicit in the intertestamental and rabbinic periods. Sirach states, “Does ...

680. Restoration of Israel

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... ). This refers to a return to the land from captivity and a material and spiritual prosperity on the part of the people. The reference to Jacob’s tents is an anachronistic reference to the dwellings of the people of God. God will show compassion (verbal root rkhm) to his people. The latter clearly constitutes a return of covenant love on the people. That compassionate attitude of God will have concrete consequences. The city, destroyed in 586, will be rebuilt. The city, of course, is Jerusalem. The second ...

681. How the Lord has Covered the Daughter of Zion

Lamentations 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... of Deuteronomy: Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you ...

682. Rend Your Heart

Joel 2:12-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... sacrifices and thus make it possible for Judah to commune with him once more. Judah is entirely dependent on God’s free grace, as are all of us. “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,” God tells us, “and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion” (Exod. 33:19). No act of our repentance and turning coerces God; nothing forces God to accept us back into his fellowship. Always we are totally dependent on the Lord of our lives; we can only wait for God’s action. As it is written ...

683. The Flood

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... a sacrifice is therefore noted by God’s smelling a pleasant aroma. Smell is a powerful sense, being crucial to enjoying and discerning different tastes in foods and being a great stimulator of the memory. The smoke of this sacrifice stirred God’s compassion, moving him to be favorably disposed to humanity. God then declared that he never again would curse the ground by a deluge because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. Westermann (Genesis 1–11, p. 456 ...

684. The Year of Canceling Debts

Deuteronomy 15:1-11

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... of Israel when they were oppressed slaves (5:15). Chapter 15 is saturated with the same social concern and the same motivation. It is the flagship for a flotilla of smaller sections in a similar vein in the following chapters. There is a warmth and compassion to this chapter that we find easier to identify with than the severity of, say, chapter 13. And yet, as was pointed out regarding chapter 14, it is vital that we hold together the theological integrity of the book. The first commandment, amplified by ...

685. Going to War

Deuteronomy 20:1-20

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... , likewise, the historical execution of divine justice upon the wickedness of the Canaanites is not incompatible with the overall belief in God’s ultimate intention to bless the nations through Israel (cf. commentary on ch. 7). Nor does it prevent the remarkable degree of social compassion and legal protection afforded to the foreigner within Israel, even in Deuteronomy. The mere fact, then, that Deuteronomy makes provision for war does not invalidate all it has to say concerning human ethical duties of ...

686. Woe to the Obstinate Nation

Isaiah 30:1-33

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... as if it has a negative implication. It would be a frightening thing to be told that you live in a time when Yahweh is not gracious, another statement designed to shake people to their senses. But the words that follow, he rises to show you compassion, make clear that those opening words must have had the positive connotation NIV attributes to them. And it is this note that verses 19–26 will develop. So verse 18 introduces what follows as well as concluding what precedes. It is the chapter’s hinge. It ...

687. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... . 9:2 A man clothed in linen. In Dan. angels wear linen (Dan. 10:5; 12:6–7), which accounts for the rabbinic identification of the seventh figure here as the angel Gabriel (Block, Ezekiel 1–24, p. 305 n. 29). 9:5 Without showing pity or compassion. This sounds as though the Lord will spare the ones bearing the mark (Joyce, Divine Initiative, pp. 62–63). This expression occurs ten times in the HB. In Deut. 13:8, it describes the attitude the community is to have toward idolaters. In Jer. 13:14, this ...

688. Jesus, Isaiah’s Servant of the Lord, Heals Many

Matthew 8:14-17, Matthew 8:5-13, Matthew 8:1-4

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... (e.g., Lev. 5:3). Jesus’ command to follow the Mosaic regulations for ceremonial cleansing from such a disease signals his adherence to the Jewish Torah (8:4; cf. Lev. 14:1–32). 8:3 I am willing . . . Be clean! With these words, Matthew highlights Jesus’ compassion, a theme that will be evident in the various healings of chapters 8–9 and will be mentioned explicitly at 9:13, 36 (see also 14:14; 15:32). And not only is Jesus a compassionate and merciful Messiah, but also he calls his followers to ...

689. Caring for the Needy and Commissioning Apostles

Mark 3:7-12, Mark 3:13-19

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Grant R. Osborne

... 11:30, “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” Teaching the Text 1. Jesus’s healing is for all who come to him. Throughout Mark thus far (1:32–34, 39; 2:11–12; 3:5, 10–11) Jesus’s great compassion for everyone led him to heal every sick or demon-possessed person who came to him. Jesus is concerned not just for the spiritual side of humankind but for the whole person. He cares for and ministers to the whole “body,” with s?main the New Testament referring ...

690. God’s Miraculous Provision: Caring for the Needy

Mark 6:30-44

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Grant R. Osborne

... apostolic band to leave the town for a “quiet/deserted place” (in the wilderness, where they can get away from the great multitudes). Luke 9:10 tells us it was in the area of Bethsaida, on the northeast side of the lake. 6:34 he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Jesus and the disciples had wanted to get away for some time alone, but the crowds (“from all the towns,” showing again the great popularity of Jesus) realized where they were going and “ran ahead ...

691. The Gentiles Are Included in God’s Provision

Mark 8:1-13

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Grant R. Osborne

... miracle actually happened. Moreover, in 8:19–21 Jesus considers them as separate events and distinguishes them from each other.2Jesus is including the Gentiles in his precursor of the messianic banquet (see on 6:41). 8:2–3 I have compassion on these people. Jesus’s compassion here is physical, centering on the effects of their hunger, while in 6:34 it was spiritual concern due to the failure of their “shepherds” (the leaders). The fact that they have been willing to remain with him for “three ...

692. The Exorcism of a Child Develops a Humble Model for Faith

Mark 9:14-32

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Grant R. Osborne

... ), the man is not so certain that their master has the strength (“if you can” = “if you have the power” [dynamai]) to do anything either. His lack of faith is understandable. Yet Jesus is nearly his last hope, so all he can do is beg for compassion and for Jesus to try. 9:23 “If you can”? Jesus repeats the father’s words back to him (literally, “As for ‘if you can’”). This is usually understood as exasperation on Jesus’s part and a rebuke of the father’s lack of faith. Yet ...

693. The Fifth Trumpet (First Woe)

Revelation 8:6--9:21

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... would repent (e.g., Isa. 19:22; Amos 4:6–11; Hos. 2:6–7; 6:1; Hag. 2:17; 2 Pet. 3:9). 2. God is also holy and righteous and will judge sin when people refuse to repent. In our day, we strongly emphasize the love and compassion of God, sometimes to the neglect of his holiness and righteousness. People need to know, as Paul told the Galatians, that we should not be deceived since “God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows”—either to the flesh resulting in destruction or to the Spirit resulting ...

694. Eliphaz

Job 4:1-5:27

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Daniel J. Estes

... to be going in the wrong direction.”1 A goal of counseling is to maintain or rebuild a sense of hope. News Story: During natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the Haiti earthquake of 2010, some people respond with heroic and selfless compassion to minister to people in great need, just as Job has done. This stands in contrast to the news story about a prominent television personality who declared that the Haiti disaster was the result of years of occult practice and therefore something that ...

695. Job’s Hope against Hope

Job 19:1-29

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Daniel J. Estes

... mixture of lament and legal language to express how abandoned he feels by his friends (19:1–6), by God (19:7–12), and by the full range of people in his community (19:13–19). In the final verses of the chapter, Job pleads with his friends for compassion (19:20–22), he articulates his hope for a redeemer to take up his cause (19:23–27), and he warns his friends that they will have to face God’s judgment (19:28–29). Job does express some faint hope in God, even though his predominant emotion at ...

696. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

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Daniel J. Estes

... if he were kneeling beside Mary and Joseph in the Bethlehem stable. Ask how the name Immanuel (God with us) ministers to the hearts of hurting people like Job. God is not detached; he listens to what we have to say and responds immanently with compassion and grace that flow from his transcendent holiness and perfection. Bible: There are a variety of passages you can cite that confirm the passionate, present nature of God’s heart for his people. Try looking at Isaiah 49:13–18, Zephaniah 3:17, and John ...

697. “May the Net They Hid Entangle Them”

Psalm 35:1-28

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C. Hassell Bullock

... mystery, however dense it may at first appear. Even to suggest that God is unaffected by our deeds and attitudes is to obscure a huge part of the theology of the Psalms and, for that matter, the Old Testament as a whole. God is moved to compassion by our repentance (Ps. 51:17) and provoked by our sin (18:26b). Psalm 35:1 describes the second part of this mystery, “Contend with those who contend,” and “fight against those who fight.” Human actions and God’s response have a direct connection. On the ...

698. God Subjugates Judah under Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

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Ronald W. Pierce

... king. Instead of choosing only one option, Daniel seems to be moved by a combination of these concerns (and perhaps others) to resist full assimilation in order to retain his Jewish heritage.6 1:9 Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion. As in 1:2 and 17, the verb “to give” (natan; NIV: “caused to show”) links the three pericopes of this chapter and focuses the reader’s attention on God as the primary character. Here the gift of God’s “favor” (hesed) speaks of covenant ...

699. Daniel's Prayer

Daniel 9:1-19

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Ronald W. Pierce

... Moses’s argument with the Lord in Exodus 32. There, Yahweh’s angry intent to destroy Israel is countered by a plea that the Egyptians might accuse him of “evil intent,” scorning his name. Moses implores God to “relent”—that is, to show compassion instead of anger by canceling his judgment. And Yahweh does exactly that (32:12–13).14Daniel is hoping for the same response in his situation. 9:17–18 Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. A string of imperatives follows ...

700. Proverbs of Solomon

Proberbs 10:1--22:16

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... person’s lack thereof in 19:1–7. Verse 22 begins with the most intimate of human relationships, affirming that finding a (wise) wife is valuable (cf. 8:35; 19:8) and an indication of divine favor. The poor, however, often find themselves alone, their pleas for compassion rebuffed by the rich (18:23). Yet even with companions you can come to ruin if you lack a true friend (literally “one who loves”), who will stick with you in a crisis (18:24; cf. 15:9 [a divine friend?]). 19:1–20:4 · The initial ...

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