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51. A Death on a Long Friday

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... at their place of employment the day before. The mother was not home so they killed Janet, the daughter, instead. The pastor wept with the mother, prayed with her, decided upon the details of the funeral service, and delivered a sermon marked by anger over the wanton senseless murder of a gifted and energetic young lady facing a promising future. It was the death of an innocent. There was a death that Friday. It was the death of a happy person. Soon after Janet's funeral, the pastor called upon an elderly ...

52. Good Gossip

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of devastating, community-destroying forest fires, it is not hard to understand the kind of searing destruction James intends his readers to envision when he proclaims the tongue to be “a fire.” Parched Palestine was equally susceptible to the wanton destruction caused by wildfires. James calls attention to the communal danger of the unchecked tongue — that it “stains the whole body.” In 1:27 James had cautioned his readers to remain “unstained” (“aspilon”) — but the untamed tongue can ...

53. James 3:1-12

James 3:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

54. Of Peace and War

Deuteronomy 20:1-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... declare war, because they did not want to leave warmongering in the hands of any one individual. 5). Limited Objectives “If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.” (Deuteronomy 20:19, NIV) If at all possible, wanton random destruction of buildings, property, land and the earth is to be avoided. 6). Non-Combatant Community “When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and ...

55. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... the dappled pools: The lightest wave of thought shall lisp, The fancy’s tenderest eddy wreathe, The slightest air of song shall breathe To make the sullen surface crisp. And look thy look, and go thy way, But blame not thou the winds that make The seeming-wanton ripple break, The tender-pencil’d shadow play. Beneath all fancied hopes and fears Ay me, the sorrow deepens down. Whose muffled motions blindly drown The bases of my life in tears. L Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and ...

56. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... . 4:3; 1 Cor. 6:18). Impurity appears also to refer to sexual immorality, perhaps in reference to violence in connection with sexual activity. Paul connects it with “sexual immorality” and “debauchery” in 2 Corinthians 12:21. Debauchery means “wantonness” or “licentiousness.” In this context it suggests sexual licentiousness or abandon. 5:20 Although Paul wants to separate his converts from law keeping, he maintains the characteristic Jewish antipathy toward idolatry (cf. 1 Cor. 10:14). Paul ...

57. Life by the Spirit

Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

58. Advice About Widows, Elders and Slaves

1 Timothy 5:1-6:2

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... of a generous and serving spirit. Such widows, alone in the world and full of good deeds, should be cared for by the church. 5:11–12 But it is otherwise with younger widows; do not put them on such a list, basically for two reasons: They become wanton and do not wish to remain as widows (vv. 11–12); and, as widows, they do not live according to the model of godly widows (v. 13). Although some of the details of this sentence (vv. 11–12) are difficult, the point seems clear enough. The younger widows ...

59. Godlessness in the Last Days

2 Timothy 3:1-9

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... the concern there for chastity; 3:2, that the overseer be “faithful to his own wife”; 5:2, that Timothy treat “younger women as sisters, with absolute purity”; 5:6, 11–15, that the younger widows were giving themselves to pleasure and “becoming wanton”; and 5:22, in the context of judgment on the straying elders, that Timothy “not join in others’ sins but keep himself pure.” Nonetheless, it must be admitted that there is a degree of speculation involved in this suggestion. 3:8–9 For ...

60. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), pp. 153–69; NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 177–221. 2:2 Many will follow: The verb is exakolouthein, to follow out to the end, used in the NT only in this letter (1:16; 2:2, 15). Shameful ways is one word in the Greek, aselgeia, licentiousness, wantonness, unbridled lust, excess; also used by Peter in 1 Pet. 4:3; 2 Pet. 2:7, 18. The way of truth, the path of truth; or as a Hebraism, the true path (cf. Ps. 119:30). The metaphor of “way” for conduct, ethical behavior, is common in the OT ...

61. The Sin and Doom of Godless Men

Jude 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... men are godless (asebeis, with no reverence for God): they leave God out of account (Ps. 14:1). And because of that, they are antinomians, they despise God’s laws (cf. 1 Cor. 6:12; 10:23). They substitute blatant immorality (aselgeia, lasciviousness, wantonness) for the grace of our God. And because of that, they are self-assertive: they deny (arnesthai, to disown) that Jesus Christ is their only Sovereign and Lord. The Greek is literally: “They deny both (kai) the only Sovereign (despotēs) and also ...

62. Israel Punished and Restored

Hosea 2:2-23

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... perhaps meaning the paths to the Baal cult sites—with thorn-hedges or stone walls, so that Israel cannot run after other gods, verse 6. The image is of an animal that needs to be fenced in (cf. 4:16; 8:9; Jer. 2:23–25). Israel is like a wanton prostitute, who not only waits for her lovers to come to her (as in Gen. 38:14–18; Jer. 3:2), but who searches them out and pursues them. But her search will be fruitless. No good things—no bread and water, clothing and luxuries, fertility and vitality—will ...

63. The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... possession of” (The Theology of the Pentateuch [Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994], pp. 10–11). Although these commands empower humans to be masters of the animal kingdom and by extension the earth, they do not give them the right to abuse or to kill animals wantonly. Nor do they ordain humans to rule imprudently by abusing the earth so that nature no longer supports the various species. Such an abuse of authority would be a distortion of God’s purpose, which includes working for the benefit of those under ...

64. Cain and Abel

Genesis 4:1-26

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... Slays Abel and Lamech Boasts: The first siblings are unable to live in harmony. Hatred propels Cain to murder his own brother. The tragic, brute power of sin also finds expression in Lamech’s boasting song, in which he brazenly gloats over a wanton killing while pronouncing threats against others. These incidents illustrate how Adam and Eve’s disobedience unleashed sin as a destructive power in society and brought death into the world. This chapter has four parts: the births of Cain and Abel (vv. 1–2a ...

65. Worshipping Other Gods

Deuteronomy 13:1-18

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... “scoundrels” is the same term as wicked men in v. 13 here). Any report that such things had happened in a town of Israel were to be treated most seriously. But not precipitately. The law has two features that operated to protect towns from wanton destruction by jealous or greedy neighbors on a trumped up charge of harboring apostasy. Clearly towns could be as much at risk from such injustice as individuals. First, a heavy stress is laid on the need to inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly (v ...

66. The Bowl Judgments

Revelation 16:1-21

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... Allan Boesak, a South African pastor, theologian, and antiapartheid activist, who “wrote a moving interpretation of Revelation from his perspective, where ‘How long?’ was a common cry”: There has hardly been a place where the police and the army have not wantonly murdered our children, piling atrocity upon atrocity for the sake of the preservation of apartheid and white privilege. And as they go from funeral to funeral, burying yet another victim of law and order or yet another killed by government ...

67. Sexual Discharges

Leviticus 15:1-33

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... place of openness comes shame (Gen. 3:7). Joy and love are replaced by pain, lust, and domination (Gen. 3:16). Sex can be wonderful, beautiful, and wholesome, but it can also be an expression of denigration, sadism, and perversion. Those who engage in wanton sex, such as prostitution, are stigmatized as outcasts by these laws. Note that it is not just women who are regarded as unclean; men are equally unclean by their sexual emissions. The sinful nature of humankind finds expression in the sexuality of both ...

68. The Choice: Obedience or Punishment

Lev 26:1-46

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... . 1–2). God forgave and restored even the most wayward of sinners. He still does so today. Jesus says that there is rejoicing in heaven whenever a sinner repents (Luke 15:10). Even if we have turned away from God and his word and fallen into wanton sin, even if we have reaped horrible consequences for our disobedience, it is still not too late to repent. God will welcome us back, just as he welcomed Israel, if we turn back to him. Illustrating the Text Obedience opens the door to blessing. Hymn: “Trust ...

69. Be Careful What You Ask For

1 Samuel 10:9-27

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... (Luke 15:11–32); Hosea and Gomer, a tale of degradation and restoration. As Jean Fleming puts it in a book called The Homesick Heart, Neither Gomer nor the prodigal son could see how good they had it at home. It was some craving within that drove them wantonly on. This is the human condition. . . . The high point of these stories . . . is that just when I expect God to lob in hand grenades, he runs to His son, falls on his neck with kisses, and kills the fatted calf for a dinner celebration.When I expect ...

70. “The Lord Looks Down . . . to See If There Are Any Who Understand”

Psalm 14:1-7

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... their placards of protest in the public squares, but their evil deeds (14:4) gave loudspeaker clarity to their denial of God. The evildoers “devour my people as though eating bread” (14:4b)—this is God’s analysis report. Their ravenous appetite is so wanton that they no more hesitate when God’s people are the entrée than when their daily bread is set before them. They are devoid of human compassion, the default mode of their atheistic living. The correlation between the denial of God and moral ...

71. Separating Defilement from Sanctuary and Community

Leviticus 16:1-34

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ) was taken into the sanctuary to purge it will absorb evils (16:27–28). Indication of the way rebellious faults can defile the sanctuary comes later, in Leviticus 20:3 and Numbers 19:13, 20: These egregious sins (worshiping Molek and wantonly neglecting to be purified from corpse contamination) automatically contaminate the sanctuary from a distance when they are committed. These sins must be removed from the sanctuary, but the remedy does not benefit the sinners themselves. Rather, they are condemned to ...

72. Oracles of Judgment against Jerusalem and the Nations

Zephaniah 3:1-20

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... . Human life has been reduced to a material resource for the self-satisfaction of the city’s leaders. The judges pervert justice in their pursuit of personal happiness. They are compared to “evening wolves.” The prophets are unreliable, wanton impostors. They are “unprincipled” and “treacherous” (2:4). The combination of these terms heightens the impact. The priests, though consecrated, are not able to apply God’s law to their society. They profane whatever is holy. The word “sanctuary ...

73. Slaves to Righteousness

Romans 6:15-23

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... most faithfully proclaimed it is most vulnerable to misunderstanding and misuse. In no article of faith is this truer than of grace. This doctrine is susceptible to the slightest imbalances, resulting in absurd distortions. In verse 1 Paul defended grace against wanton abuse. Here, with a slightly different spin on the ball, he must defend it against antinomianism. Someone might conclude from verse 14 (“you are not under law, but under grace”) that when the restraint of law is removed there remains no ...

74. Lawsuits Among Believers

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... Boswell (Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality; Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century [Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980]) one reads or hears that malakoi indicated “unrestrained,” “wanton,” or “dissolute” and arsenokoitai indicated “male prostitutes,” so that there is no denunciation in 1 Cor. 6 of homosexual activity. Today, however, because of the incisive work of Robin Scroggs (The New Testament and Homosexuality ...

75. The Fall of Babylon

Revelation 18:1-24

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... as well. There the merchants of the earth profited from excessive luxuries. The word for excessive (strenos) occurs only here in the NT and lacks any precise equivalent elsewhere. Beckwith understands it as “self-indulgence with accompanying arrogance and wanton exercise of strength” (Revelation, p. 713), which seems true to the immediate context. The will of the social order and its ruling elite dominates in a world where “might makes right.” Merchants value economic profit, even as kings value ...

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