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51. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... a time we became a family to one another. I could call any one of these people, even in the middle of the night (and I did), knowing that what ever help I needed they would give. And they were just as free to call on me for help and support (and they did). Once, while praying for one another, one person thanked God for the “coming-home feeling,” we had whenever we were together. That phrase became for me a symbol of the freedom we felt to express our affection for one another, our weak nesses, our fears ...

52. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... the budget, but responding to God’s call. Money isn’t everything, but there are some things we can do with our money as Christians that we can’t do in any other way. Through our link with the Apportionment Program of the United Methodist Church, we support a world mission that touches the spiritual, physical, educational, and social needs of people in every corner of the world. And there is much more — the particularized mission expression of this congregation is almost breathtaking. The ...

53. Overseers and Deacons

1 Timothy 3:1-16

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... the list, the husband of but one wife, is one of the truly difficult phrases in the PE (cf. 3:12; 5:9, of the “true” widows, and Titus 1:6). There are at least four options: First, it could be requiring that the overseer be married. Support is found in the fact that the false teachers are forbidding marriage and that Paul urges marriage for the wayward widows (5:14; cf. 2:15). But against this are that it emphasizes must and wife, while the text emphasizes one, that Paul, and most likely Timothy, were ...

54. The People's Confession of Sin

Ezra 10:1-17

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... that it was to ease transition to the first-person Nehemiah memoirs, so as not to confuse Ezra’s “I” with Nehemiah’s. “The people” (NRSV for they), as another weeping group, seem to be a separate group from the crowd, and must therefore refer to Ezra’s supporters in 9:4. 10:2 For the clan of Elam, see Neh. 7:12 = Ezra 2:7; 8:7. Verse 26 discloses that Shecaniah had a foreign stepmother, if Jehiel refers to the same person. 10:3 Now is lit. “And now,” which idiomatically introduces the main ...

55. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

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

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... to perfection). Ezekiel also praises how expertly it is crewed (vv. 8–11), which leads to the conclusion, they brought your beauty to perfection (v. 11). The first movement of Ezekiel’s poem, then, begins and ends with Tyre’s perfection in beauty. This could support Katzenstein’s claim that Ezekiel is using an old poem in praise of Tyre as a source. Certainly it shows that the prophet is not condemning Tyre for false pride. The listing of the fine materials from which the ship of Tyre is built ...

56. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

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Steven Tuell

... for peace (Nah. 3:8–10). Pharaoh Psammeticus I (664–610 B.C.) and his successor Necho II (610–595 B.C.) were loyal Assyrian allies. Even after Assyria had fallen to the Babylonians and Medes in 612 B.C., Pharaoh Necho marched to the support of Assyria’s ruling house, which had fled the fallen capital of Nineveh and taken refuge in the city of Haran. His route of march took him up the coastal plain, straight through the kingdom of Judah. When King Josiah vainly attempted to intercept the Egyptians ...

57. Prologue to the Law of the Temple: The Lord Comes Home

Ezekiel 40:1--43:12

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... p. 30). 43:3 When he came to destroy the city. The MT reads, beboʾi “when I came,” which is clearly a scribal error for beboʾo, “when he came” (confusions of y and w are common). Curiously, however, the LXX and Syr. both support this mistaken reading. The Tg. keeps the first person but amends the verb to “when I prophesied” (see Block, Ezekiel 25–48, p. 574). Clearly the error is quite old, however it remains an error. NIV rightly reads “when he came,” though only six Heb. manuscripts ...

58. Jesus and Women

Luke 7:36--8:3

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R.T. France

... silence only to tell him how “glad she was that he had come” and how “she had often looked at his picture hanging on her wall.”4 Women, some with complex and sinful backgrounds, were part of the group who traveled with Jesus, helping to support him. Christian Ministry: She Is Safe. This is only one of many ministries around the world designed to come alongside women who have been abused and exploited. They recognize that these are women whom Christ wants to be brought into the kingdom and restored ...

59. Proverbs of Solomon

Proberbs 10:1--22:16

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... cf. Prov. 1:4; 7:7) by parents and others. Once launched in the right direction, the child will likely stay on course throughout life. Verse 15, which is linked to 22:5–6 by the verb “stays/drive far from” and the training theme, supports this interpretation. Folly is an innate part of a child’s makeup and must be removed by discipline while the child is still young. The second subsection, addressing the mistreatment of the poor and indicating that some poverty is self-inflicted, is bracketed by 22 ...

60. Duties of Priests and Levites

Numbers 18:1-7

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... given the Levitical involvement in the rebellion in chapter 16, God provides for them by way of the tithe. The Levites do the work at the Tent of Meeting and are responsible also for guarding it against dangerous contact. The Levites have no other way of supporting themselves and so receive the tithe, one-tenth of the livestock and harvest from the people (see Deut. 14:22–29). The Levites perform a significant work for the people and put themselves at risk in so doing. It is appropriate that they receive ...

61. Absalom Returns to Jerusalem

2 Samuel 14:1-33

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... possible that he envisaged a bloodless revolution. His confidence in his own abilities may have made him sure that once trumpets sounded the whole nation would acknowledge him as the only suitable choice for king. If so, he underestimated the extent of support that David had. Not even all those who had acknowledged to Absalom some disaffection would have wanted to see David deposed. But for Absalom there could be no turning back. Additional Notes 14:1 Joab’s motive for seeking Absalom’s return perhaps ...

62. Job's Second Reply to Zophar

Job 21:1-34

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... draws to an end. Eliphaz speaks but thirty verses in his third speech (22:1–30), while Bildad can muster only six verses (25:1–6) and Zophar none at all. In a sense, they finally give Job what he asks: silence—although it is not as supportive as he would have wished. 21:4–6 These three verses set the tone for the rest of the chapter. Two rhetorical questions introduce the essential issue. Job is impatient because his complaint is directed not to man, but to God. Were human agency the cause of ...

63. Job's Third Reply to Eliphaz

Job 23:1--24:25

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... and exploit the laborers for their own enrichment and comfort. They crush olives. Olives were crushed to produce olive oil, one of the most important sources of food and commercial export in the region. The impoverished debtors, therefore, must produce the commodities that support the life of ease for the rich, but they receive no real benefit for their labor. Also, they tread the winepresses. We have now covered the basic food groups of the region: grain, olive oil, and wine. The poor are the labor force ...

64. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... halt.’ ” Job has in mind here this great power of God that holds even the watery seas of chaos at bay. The pillars of the heavens quake. Describing the “heavens” as if they are the ceiling of a room or the roof of a building supported on “pillars,” Job illustrates the fearful effects of God’s creative control on the very elements of creation itself. So his rebuke most likely refers to God’s restriction of the chaotic waters to prescribed boundaries, as in the preceding verse. As in Job 38 ...

65. Offerings for Priests and Levites

Numbers 18:8-32

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

66. Absalom's Conspiracy

2 Samuel 15:1-12

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

67. The End Times

Daniel 12:1-13

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... alive, it is a metaphor anticipating the return of the Jews from exile in Babylon (Ezek. 37). Sometimes Hosea 6:1–2 is cited in support for the doctrine of the resurrection in the OT: “Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will ... near” (Rev. 22:10; see also Rev. 5:1, 4–5; 10:4). The fact that the book circulated in the time before Jesus supports the argument that its author was not attempting to predict the coming of the Antichrist or the second advent of Jesus. The idea is ...

68. Suffering for Doing Good

1 Peter 3:8-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... hearing the gospel is alluded to in John 5:25; Phil. 2:10; cf. Eph. 4:9. Some scholars speculate that the original MS of 1 Peter mentioned Enoch as the preacher. The suggestion was first put forward in Bowyer’s Greek Testament in the 1772 edition and supported the next year by the apparently providential discovery of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch. In 1 Enoch 12–14 we read of Enoch’s mission to preach to the fallen angels of Gen. 6:1–4, who were disobedient in Noah’s day. (Enoch is specified in this ...

69. Those Guilty of Intermarriage

Ezra 10:18-44

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

70. Heart of a Pelican

Matthew 17:24-27, Exodus 30:11-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... kids raised money, I bought too. Maybe I didn’t have to. But I wanted to be part of their circle of donors. I wanted to support them in their “ministry” to others. I wanted them to know I care about what they are doing and who they are doing it for. ... mind, and spirit –justified and made righteous. The money itself is a “memorial” to that salvific act. It is like the altar it supports, a kind of icon to God’s redemption. But literally, it’s not about the money. For Jesus, there is no reason ...

71. We Build the Tomb

Hebrews 10:16-25

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Bonnie Bates

... over people that we could buy and sell them like livestock. We could abuse them and separate them from their families and call them each two-thirds of person. There were those among us who used the Bible, the word and law of God, to support these practices. And even when legislation and amendments to the constitution made it illegal to buy and sell people, we found ways to continue berating, enslaving, and abusing people simply based on the color of their skin and their ancestry. Surely these practices were ...

72. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

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Maurice A. Fetty

... with jelly-fish day dreams, idle thought or vain imagination. The kingdom coming has to do with reality -- reality in all its dimensions, physical and spiritual. One time a leading citizen of the community was selling season symphony tickets to his business friends, soliciting their support. One friend said, "Thanks a lot, John. I love music, and I think it's a grand idea for our community to have a fine orchestra. But no thanks on the tickets. However, we'll be with you in spirit." However, John was quick ...

73. Easter 4

Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 4:1-22, 1 John 3:11-24, John 10:1-21

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William E. Keeney

... only took care of the people as long as they were paid to do the job and were not threatened by adversaries. From this, in part at least, the Quakers did not pay their leaders of meeting a fixed salary but only gave them gifts toward their support, for fear that they would become hirelings. They referred to the state church pastors as hirelings. 4. "Knows me, know the Father." (v. 15) For Jesus, God was not an abstract being or an intellectual concept. The knowledge of each for the other arises from an I ...

74. The Churches and Higher Education

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Thomas Slavens

... judged by Judaeo-Christian standards of justice? Can the churches be content until in the science departments a religious interpretation of the universe is at least explained? What is the church’s duty to higher education? To be sure it includes financial support. But is the problem primarily financial? Or is the problem rather one of personality? A hundred-acre campus with the latest buildings and equipment can fail to educate the whole individual. Much depends on the teacher in the class room. Perhaps ...

75. Fatal Subtraction

Acts 5:1-11

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... laws of spirituality, which are giving and sharing. It threatened to destroy the Body of Christ and prevent the Holy Spirit from using the people of God for the Glory of God. Where are you today? Where do you stand in the mix? Have you kept your promise to support the church in your membership vows or have you been tempted to hold back? Keep giving to the cause of Christ. Don't let the example of Ananias and Sapphira lure you into holding back on God when you should be giving all you have to build God's ...

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