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51. How Was Jesus' Death Different?

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

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... - it puts him on a cross. We exclaim, "Oh no, is this what my sin did?" A spiritual song asks, "Were you there when they crucified my Lord ... Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble ..." From this time on, I cannot ever again sin lightly. I must hate and detest sin with a passion. I cannot do that to the One who loved me and gave himself for me. If God is the person on the central cross of Calvary, then a man must stand in awe and adoration. To think that he loved us enough to suffer all of ...

52. In Turning to God

John 18:1-11

Bulletin Aid

... for our souls. For in turning to God, God stops our crucifixion, and shares with us His Easter. May we this moment turn to Him, and share in His life for ourselves. Amen. AN ACT OF CONTRITION O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen ...

53. Jesus - the Holiest Name

Luke 2:21-40

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... every knee shall bow ... and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." But every knee has not bowed, never has, in fact, for Jesus’ name, and Jesus was hated by his enemies. He learned what it means to be despised and detested by people he had come to help and to save. The last three years of his life must have been a terrible shock to him; to be despised by people, to the point of hatred, must have been almost too much to take. Jesus’ experience must have been ...

54. Good News for Exiles

Psalm 137:1-9, 2 Chronicles 36:15-23, Ephesians 2:1-10

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... at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy. The moral here: There’s a price to be paid when you tangle with God’s Law. It was Babylon who rang the death knell on Judah. Wicked Babylon, detested Babylon became an instrument of God’s Law. God used Babylon to crack down on Judah. When Judah was destroyed by Babylon’s advancing armies, when the Hebrews were hauled off by them into exile, the righteous God simply turned and looked the other way. What’s ...

55. We Are Driven!

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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John R. Brokhoff

... repentance and faith. He wills that all people should live in peace and love. For all, there should be liberty and justice. The fire of love for God’s cause makes us speak out against all those things that oppose God’s cause. We, for God’s sake, detest crime and corruption. It is not right that some should be wealthy and many be dirt poor while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Because of God, we hate the darkness of the world, and we bring God’s light to dispel the darkness. Civil ...

56. Out of the Barnyard

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... as he did, nearly overwhelmed. But I do believe that if we could muster something of Dr. Daggett’s indomitable spirit, we could give those forces quite a beating. To be sure, we find in our world, as the Israelites found in ancient Canaan, "giants" whom we detest and fear. The majority report will always be: We cannot defeat them, let us turn back. But the Church needs always to take the stand of Caleb and Joshua who said: "We are well able to overcome." We need to fly out of our comfortable barnyard with ...

57. EVERY DAY AND ITS POSSIBILITIES

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... are literally stewing in their own juices. Satan wants them to forget that God created them in his own image. He wants Jesus’ promise of an abundant, worthwhile life to seem little more than a sanctimonious saying. But the Bible says, "With God all things are possible." Satan detests that God is suggesting to you that you can become a somebody in a world of too many nobodies, a success in a crowd of failures. He does not want you to live up to your God-given potential; instead he wants you to be down on ...

58. Winners, Losers and the Gospel

Mt 16:25

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Robert Noblett

... , competition always means that one person is up and another is down, one person is king of the mountain and another grovels in the mud, one person glows and another glowers. Here we encounter a state of affairs that is most unfortunate, lamentable and detestable. What this leads to is a deadlock where conditions worsen. One of the places in life where this condition occurs regularly is in marriage. It is essential that couples avoid winner/loser patterns and see where both are right and wrong at the same ...

59. Joseph

Proverbs 10:1-32

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Warren Thomas Smith

... Jewish law required death by stoning; Joseph could have demanded this penalty. God answered the gossip through Joseph’s dream, "... fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife ..." (Matthew 1:20) It was a tiresome journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem - the detested Roman census. Rejected by the innkeeper, Joseph obtained accommodations in a stable. Throughout the ordeal, it was Joseph who stood by - not in the way nor out of reach. He was at hand, giving Mary comfort and sustaining, supportive love, so welcome ...

60. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... were asked by the Gallup pollsters what historical figure they would most like to spend a day with, nearly two out of three chose Jesus, including 37 percent of those who claimed no church affiliation. Jesus still intrigues folks. Whether people like him or detest him, they can't help calling his name. Almost every movie made in America, rated "R" or "PG-13" profanes the holy name of Jesus. Think of it...no pagan, secular script writer could produce a manuscript without including the name of Jesus. People ...

61. Can a Christian Go to Hell?

Matthew 7:15-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... we go regularly to church and sing our alleluias, though we faithfully place even a tithe on the offering plate, and stop there without any effort being made to put faith into practice, God cannot stand us. He is hurt and offended and grieved no end. He detests make-believe and artificiality. You will recall that Cain’s prayers were not heard because his heart at the time was full of hatred for his brother, Abel. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said that only the pure in heart see God. When Jesus found ...

62. Caiaphas and Pilate

Drama

Jon Joyce

... quickly with CAIAPHAS. ANTONIUS stands aside as CAIAPHAS advances toward PILATE. ANTONIUS then stands at attention behind and to the right of PILATE.] CAIAPHAS: [Stops near the empty chair, left of the table; offers a shallow bowl, an act he detests, yet performs because it helps keep PILATE working with him when CAIAPHAS so desires] Your excellency. PILATE: [With a careful wave of the hand, his voice neither friendly nor hostile] Good evening, Caiaphas. Be seated. CAIAPHAS: [Smiling craftily] A matter ...

63. Love of God and Love of Country

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... is a contradiction. We Americans are by nature a critical people. We try to hold everyone in the light of New Testament scruples. But once we have uttered our criticism, it remains to be seen whether or not we will work to correct the situations we detest. The man or woman who screams for justice and then does not vote is a Christian in name only. Likewise, to scream for righteousness and not ask forgiveness for our own sins is foreign to the Christian faith. During the Vietnam War, great agitation was ...

64. Achieving An All-In Victory - 1952

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... a man, but a mob." But the best known description of all is doubtless that of the immortal Paul himself. In his letter to the Romans he confesses: "I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I desire to act; on the contrary I do what I detest ... I cannot be good as I desire to be, and I do wrong against my wishes ... Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Romans 7). Where do these many selves so perversely compounded within each of us come from? This problem has ...

65. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

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Bill Bouknight

... this commandment. He condemned the brooding anger in the heart as well as the taunting terms of ridicule which arouse passion in others. Thus, the New Testament extends this commandment to get at the root causes of murder. It applies to the man who detests his boss because he was not given a promotion. It applies to the woman who despises another woman who, she thinks, took her husband away. It also applies to racists of all colors who despise other persons because their skin pigmentation happens to be ...

66. Getting Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... you might become rich,” Several years ago, when Princess Diana was killed in an automobile accident, you will recall that there was a great backlash against the Royal Family. Reluctantly the Queen belatedly came on television to express her remorse, yet she so detested Diana during her life that her words rang rather hollow. It was the comments of the people in the street that I found so interesting, however. Said one: “The Royals don’t know how we live and furthermore they don’t care.” Said ...

67. Real Gratitude

Luke 19:1-10

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James W. Moore

... and that he was disliked and despised by his fellow townspeople. They resented paying taxes to Rome and they felt that Zacchaeus, a fellow Jew, had betrayed them, has sold out to Rome, and had gotten rich at their expense. So, they rejected him, shunned him, detested him. If you had conducted a popularity contest in Jericho that day, Zacchaeus may well have come in dead last. This was the setting when Jesus came to Jericho that day. People had heard about Jesus and they gathered along the streets to see Him ...

68. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... long journey is near. And they have encamped in this desert region that is infamous for the snakes. The griping and moaning resume: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food." For God, this was about the last straw. Their venomous tongues would be repaid in kind... with more venom. And people began to die. They come to Moses. They finally admit that they have done wrong: "We have sinned by speaking against the Lord ...

69. United We Stand, Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... moved to the country to get their children away from the drugs that were spreading into their suburban neighborhoods. The new families had bought up foreclosed farms and built beautiful homes in the hills. They were accustomed to fine furnishings, and they detested what they had dubbed "the Victorian Leviathan" that dominated what otherwise was a plain but handsome church. The Clyde family viewed the couch in a different light. Their farms had fallen on hard times in recent years. They looked at the couch ...

70. The Testimony of a Tax Collector

Matthew 9:9-13

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King Duncan

... haven't changed as much as you think. Archeologists uncovered a 3,000-year tablet in Iraq. It had on it this inscription: "You can have a Lord, you can have a King, but the man to fear is the tax collector." (1) In my day, people both feared and detested tax collectors in a way that you cannot even imagine. We were considered traitors by our own people because we did the work of Rome. It's true, I admit it. I was on my way to becoming a wealthy man. For there were bribes and kickbacks and with some ...

71. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... that, in his part of the country, at least, charm was the essential ingredient that greased the wheels of society and kept them turning smoothly. Arthur recalls a certain society matron who received a surprise visit from a clergyman. This was a man she detested. In spite of the matron's deep dislike for this man, however, she was a gracious host to him. She served him tea and cookies, laughed at his jokes, complimented his latest sermon. She was, in a word, charming. After the clergyman left, the society ...

72. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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King Duncan

... woman who died several years ago who had a difficult time with forgiveness. Family members were cleaning out her house when they found a scrapbook filled with obituaries from the local newspaper. Many of the death notices pertained to people she had detested. As bizarre as it may sound, she kept a scrapbook of the obituaries of her dead enemies. Apparently this woman gained some kind of strange satisfaction in learning of the death of someone she disliked. She even had five different clippings of the ...

73. Like Parent, Like Child

Matthew 22:15-22

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King Duncan

... oh. If Jesus says it’s all right to pay taxes to the Roman government, then he will lose face with the majority of his audience. For the pious Jew it was offensive to pay taxes to the hated Romans. Paying taxes was tantamount to supporting this detestable occupation. On the other hand, if Jesus says it’s wrong to pay taxes, then he will be in trouble with the Romans. He will be siding with the revolutionaries who want to overthrow the Roman government. It’s a no-win situation. Jesus knew the Pharisees ...

74. The Ninth Commandment: Liar, Liar

Exodus 20:1-21

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Eric Ritz

... Shop gossip. Party gossip. It makes headlines and headaches. Before you repeat a story, ask yourself: Is it true? Is it fair? Is it necessary? If not, shut up. From our other supporting lesson from Proverbs 6:16-20 we read that there are seven things that are detestable to God. As I review this list, four of them deal with the improper use of the tongue and lying. What part of "Thou Shalt Not . . ." don't we understand? We know, of course, that the real reason we should not be lying is that lying comes from ...

75. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Curtis Lewis

... jokes is usually provided, but the facility with which even the smallest witticisms produce laughter at such times shows that they are not the real cause. What the real cause is we do not know. Something like it is expressed in much of that detestable art which the humans call music, and something like it occurs in Heaven -- a meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience, quite opaque to us. Laughter of this kind does us no good and should always be discouraged. Besides, the phenomenon is ...

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