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51. Thou Sayest I Am King

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that had been made against Jesus. Luke says that the crowd rose up against Jesus, and they brought him before Pilate and told Pilate that he had been perverting the nation, that he was telling people not to pay tribute to Caesar and, and that he was claiming to be Christ, a king. So Pilate can’t understand what’s going on. It must have been confusing to him. Here was a pale, meek, weak man; his hands bound behind him; pale in the face because of pain and mental anguish, and Pilate sneers beneath ...

52. Accusations

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... :18, 23; 11:10, 31) and in other letters with apologetic contexts (Gal. 1:20; Rom. 9:1). 1:18 To further substantiate his claim that he is not double-minded, Paul adduces both God (v. 18) and his apostolic message (v. 19). First, Paul invokes God as his ... Rom. 1:9; 2 Cor. 5:11; Phil. 1:8; 1 Thess. 2:5, 10), he seldom stakes his own life on the truth of his claims. Here we can perhaps glimpse the magnitude of the ongoing opposition that Paul must have felt in Corinth. Despite the possible allusion to Matthew 5: ...

53. Warning Against Antichrists

1 John 2:18-27

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... were not authentic Christians; the schism has served to make this clear. Paul foresaw the possibility of such a division among those claiming to be Christians in Acts 20:30. 2:20 In contrast (But you) with the secessionists, the Elder’s readers have an ... of John (2:23; 5:12; 2 John 9). It does not even occur in the Fourth Gospel (cf. John 8:41, where Jesus’ interlocutors claim God as their Father). It may be that the Elder is using the language of his opponents, just as Paul does in 1 Corinthians and ...

54. Oracles of Restoration

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... . 18–19; compare 32:2, 13). Verse 21 expands the point: God condemns the strong for thrusting the weak aside. In our own day, the gap between rich and poor is wider than it has ever been, as a small minority of the world’s people claim the lion’s share of its resources. The trampling of our earth and fouling of our water, through irresponsible use of this world’s resources, threaten the entire planet even as these practices rob opportunity from the vulnerable. Ezekiel plainly states God’s place in ...

55. Eliphaz's Second Speech to Job

Job 15:1-35

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... that council has already exonerated Job as “blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil” (1:8). Thus the reader already knows that Job is right and the friends—in their reliance on the long tradition of the sages—are wrong. 15:9–10 Eliphaz claims parity of knowledge with Job, in an apparent reply to Job’s denial that his knowledge or wisdom is in any way inferior to that of the friends (12:1; 13:1). So Eliphaz asks, what could Job know, what insights might he have that the friends ...

56. Job's Second Reply to Zophar

Job 21:1-34

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... day of calamity (Heb. leyom ʾed) links back to Job’s earlier words in verse 17. As then, Job remains convinced that the wicked escape the effects of “calamity” and even remain secure from the day of wrath. This is the flip-side of Job’s earlier claims (vv. 7–13). There the wicked experience everything good. Here they manage to avoid anything evil. 21:31–33 The wicked person lives a carefree life in part because no one repays him or is willing to confront his evil acts to his face. The way of ...

57. Visit

2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... the dead (cf. Rom. 1:4; Phil. 2:9–11) and enthroned at the right hand of God (1 Cor. 15:25; Rom. 8:34), so also Paul has power, and that power will be manifested to the Corinthians when he returns to Corinth. Paul will be vindicated in his claim to true apostleship. 13:5–10 Having warned the church that he will punish the unrepentant rebels when he comes (13:1–4), the apostle goes on to exhort the Corinthians to examine themselves and to repent in time, for Paul does not want to have to exercise his ...

58. The Ten Commandments

Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... was condemned by the prophets as an indication of social breakdown and lack of knowledge of God (Hos. 4:2; 7:1), as the mark of a city that has degenerated to the level of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa. 1:10, 23), and as utterly incompatible with claims to acceptable worship in the temple (Jer. 7:9f.). Psalm 50:16–18 ranks it with adultery as irreconcilable with covenant loyalty. Proverbs 30:9 fears the temptation to steal because it would be a profanation of the very name of Yahweh, while Proverbs 29:24 curses ...

59. Having The Last Word

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... conclusion of the church year that Christ is King, we are declaring that Christ has the last word. In a world where many are claiming to have the last word and be the final authority on everything from soup to nuts, the church declares that Jesus has the ... Jesus to death by crucifixion. He would have the last word. And because Pilate had the last word, everything that Jesus represented, his claims for himself and for God, would be exposed as an illusion. It was just not true -- this talk of love, mercy, and ...

60. Climbing Rainbows Through The Rain

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... later revealed that CBS had been duped. George Jammal, the supposed archaeologist, was a phony. He made it all up. The piece of wood he claimed was broken from the ark was a chunk of pine he soaked in juices and baked in the oven of his California home.1 When ... intended to be read as science. While all the Bible is to be understood as a statement of faith and not a claim of science, this is particularly true for the first 11 chapters of Genesis. Most ancient civilizations told stories of great floods. This ...

61. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... appealing to us all. We are all, let's admit it, questioning our lives. We all wonder why we're here. Still, am I to believe some pauper with a band of friends, with no real education, no real position of authority within the Temple? This man starts to claim he can give us new life ... and we just blindly - ignorantly - naively say he can? DIANE: I never said we knew for sure. CAROL: Neither did I. KAREN: And all I am saying is that it is possible ... if one believes. SHIRLEE: Then why don't we all believe ...

62. And He Shall Reign

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... is hopeless, even "The Day After." We should note that in his word this prophet had no comment on the Lord as Good Physician, nor as a Gentle Shepherd as the lead theme of a pastorale, nor even as a Savior. The people he addressed denied God’s claim on them and went their own way, belied the covenant that God had made with them, sold out to belly interests that they thought more satisfying, and expected God to bless them for it. How often, like the spiral of a cycle, history is repeated. The nightly news ...

63. The Road to Somewhere (I am the way, truth, and life)

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Truth--the Life--he was teaching the disciples and us that the ultimate reality of life--in life--about life is found in him. Jesus the man--the message--the Messiah are one. Like a seamless robe they flow together for a single purpose. You cannot separate one claim from the other. Jesus had said a few days before words recorded in the closing portion of the 8th chapter: "You shall know the Truth--and the truth shall set you free." Real life is not drawn from a ceremony--a ritual--or set of rules--but flows ...

64. Have You Gone Far Enough?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... a big city. And he rode on a borrowed donkey. His followers were common folks like you and me. The only thing he ever wrote was in the sand, yet libraries the world over have volumes written about him. Who is he? Who is this man who made such strange claims? "I am the door." "I am the light of the world." "I am the bread of life." He was born in a stable. His parents were peasants. Yet who can ever estimate his influence on the human race? His name? Jesus. Jesus of Nazareth. Ever wonder who he really is ...

65. I Am the Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about making contact or how God is going to respond? When you pray, do you think that you somehow have to make a case with God? That you have to convince God that you have right to do what you’re doing, that you have a right to claim what you’re claiming, that you somehow have the privilege of asking him what you’re asking him? Oh my friends. Take heart. Christ the good shepherd knows you by name. You don’t have to come hesitantly into his presence. You don’t have to hang back at prayer. You can ...

66. Plenty Of Room

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Whose We Are. You see we were created for a purpose. We weren't mass produced and stuck on a shelf until someone came along to claim us. From the moment of our creation, we were made to belong to God. And when we are Baptized, the waters of our Baptism tell us ... my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased." From that moment on there was no doubt Who He Was and Whose He Was. God claimed Him and the water of His baptism was God's mark. That's what Baptism does for us, too. It marks us with God's signature ...

67. The Law and the Promise

Galatians 3:15-25, Galatians 3:1-14

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... is a sign that one has inherited the promise to Abraham (3:6–9). 3:25 Paul brings this part of his argument to a climax by repeating that faith has come (cf. 3:23). Since this is so, the law’s function of supervision is ended. Such a claim on Paul’s part was a powerful retort to the rival evangelists’ position that law observance was the appropriate completion to faith in Christ. Rather than law observance being the sign of fully becoming part of the people of God, Paul argues, it is a sign that one ...

68. Pilate and the Condemnation of Jesus

John 18:28-40, John 19:1-16

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... right [Gr.: exousian echō] to release you and I have the right [exousian echō] to crucify you? When Jesus says in answer to Pilate, You would have no power [exousia] over me if it were not given to you from above (v. 11), he is reasserting his own claim from 10:18. In relation to all human beings and institutions, Jesus’ fate is in his own hands. But in relation to the Father (10:18b) he has received a command that he must obey. Pilate’s authority over him is therefore a derived authority; it is from ...

69. The Helper of Israel

Isaiah 41:1-29

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... be no explicit reference to Babylon or Cyrus for some time. In the meantime, the prophet works with uncontroversial theological generalizations that the audience will not need to dispute but that will constitute a foundation for later, controversial and unwelcome specific claims. For us, one result of this approach is that we are able to apply the generalizations to the different political and ecclesial situations of our own context, like the general portrait of restoration in chapter 33. One aspect of the ...

70. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas’” (v. 2). There is no evidence that this was literally true: unlike the pharaohs of Egypt or, in the days of the early church, some emperors of Rome, the rulers of Tyre did not claim divinity. However, the prince of Tyre’s description of himself enthroned “in the heart of the seas” is reminiscent of the description of the Canaanite high god ‘El’s dwelling, “at the source of twin rivers, by the pools of the double-deep” (CTA 4.4.21–22 ...

71. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... of a Christian who says, “I love Jesus with all my heart—I just never spend time with him in worship or prayer, nor do I allow him to change me. We have an understanding.” The reason this seems false and offensive is that the person would be claiming to live within a covenant yet failing to have any real loyalty or sense of responsibility. He or she would be treating the covenant as a one-sided contract, not an organic union of reciprocity and mutual concern. The parallel in marriage would be a person ...

72. Consider Others Higher Than Yourself

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... meat likely caused genuine soul searching. The strong, however, had no qualms; it was a rather “normal” experience for them. Paul’s pastoral response to the weak was: go ahead—eating meat will not violate your relationship to God. To the strong he said: do not claim your own rights, but instead make sure you do not frustrate the faith of the weaker believer. Teaching the Text 1. Many serious Christians are focused on right and wrong. They want to do right. Life is often easier if we have a rule to ...

73. Job's Reply to Eliphaz

Job 6:1–7:21

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... between poverty and despair Job notes that the power for change—and with it hope—was taken away when his success was driven from him. Fickle Friendship 6:14 Job turns now to castigate his friends for their failure of true friendship. In a rather shocking statement, he claims that true friends would remain loyal even if their companion went so far as to forsake the fear of the Almighty. It is Job’s fear of God (1:9) that has been at issue in the test of suffering, and now Job hints that his will to ...

74. Eliphaz's Third Speech to Job

Job 22:1-30

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... third dialogue cycle” begins again with Eliphaz and his response to Job. He begins with a series of rhetorical questions that recall the tactics of his earlier two speeches (4:1–5:27; 15:1–35). In those utterances Eliphaz sought to undermine Job’s claims of innocence by arguing that no human can be declared innocent before God (4:7–9, 17–19; 15:14–16). Since even the angels—who stand above humans in Eliphaz’s understanding of creation order—are charged “with error” by God (4:18–19 ...

75. Jesus Sentenced to be Crucified

John 19:1-16, John 18:28-40

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

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