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726. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

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James Merritt

... you truly repent you change your mind about God, about Jesus, about sin and about yourself. It is not a solely intellectual issue. Even Judas changed his mind, but repentance is not just a change of mind, but a change of heart. As we have just seen there is an emotional change. You feel sorry for your sin, but you don’t just regret what you have done, but to whom you have done it. It is not a worldly grief that is self-centered, but it is a godly grief that is God-centered. Not just because of what it ...

727. What Kind of King Is This?

John 18:28-40

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King Duncan

... of conversing with some of the world’s wisest men. I’ve come a long way to ask you just one question. Tell, me, of all you’ve learned, what is the one thing most worth knowing?” Putting his hand on his guest’s shoulder, the scholar replied with emotion in his voice, “My dear sir, of all the things I have learned, only two are really worth knowing. The first is, I am a great sinner, and the second is, Jesus Christ is a great Savior!” (5) He is a great Savior. Why? Because he was first a ...

728. Paul's Concern for the Galatians

Galatians 4:8-20

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... that, in pursuit of security, seeks a defining framework of religious observance. 4:11 Paul ends this part of his appeal with an expression of anxiety: I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you. Throughout the letter Paul has made his emotions plain: he has expressed astonishment (1:6), bewildered concern (3:1–5), and now fear. Paul uses all the resources at his disposal to convince the Galatians that they have all they need in Christ and that to take on law observance is to lose the ...

729. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

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James K. Bruckner

... in the case of the unfaithfulness of a spouse (Matt. 19:3–9). The father’s warnings to the son in Proverbs 5:1–23; 6:23–35; and 7:7–27 spell out the devastating effects of adultery. The prohibition against adultery generally defends the integrity and emotional stability of the family for the sake of the children, wife, and husband. It preserves the trust that is foundational to healthy familial relationships. The integrity of the family protects the most vulnerable in society, the children, whose ...

730. Haman's Plot to Destroy the Jews

Esther 3:1-15

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Timothy S. Laniak

... is authorized in which a new generation of enemies is encouraged to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews (v. 13). The word for “destroy” (shmd) represents the original intention of Haman in 3:6. The three terms together indicate the escalation of emotion and the totality of the destruction. The phrase that follows details this totality: young and old, women and little children (v. 13). To complete the defeat of the Jews, they were also to plunder their goods (v. 13). The nature of this devious ...

731. Let Him Kiss Me

Song of Songs 1:1-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... Bible, of which six are in the Song of Songs. (By contrast, ʾahabâ is used forty times in the Bible, eleven in the Song.) A. and C. Bloch argue convincingly that this form refers to a range of activities associated with lovemaking rather than to the emotion of love (Song, p. 137). Your name is like perfume: The association of “name” (Hb. šēm) with perfumed oil (Hb. šemen) also occurs in Eccl. 7:1. J. Kristeva notes the fusion of the sensory and the significant (Tales of Love [trans. L. S. Roudiez ...

732. Restoration of Israel

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... to ask why strong men are grasping their midsections like women in labor. The answer is that the fear is so great, even on those strong men who would be responsible for providing military defense, that they would act like a woman experiencing labor pains. Their emotion is also etched on their face since fear causes their face to go pale. The day that is coming will be unprecedented in its horror. Judah will be the object of great harm. But the final colon of v. 7 shifts the tone from judgment to salvation ...

733. A Squirrel Crossing a Busy Street

Romans 5:1-5

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King Duncan

... to change the direction of his life. (3) There have been many people who have discovered that a time of pain, adversity or suffering marked a turning point in their life . . . for the better. A time of adversity or suffering should always be a time of emotional and spiritual growth. If nothing else, going through a time of adversity will teach us that we can survive. We’re told that in World War I, sailors whose ships had sunk floated around in lifeboats, cold and hungry, for days, sometimes for a week or ...

734. The Flood

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... action. Often nkhm is translated “repent” or “relent.” However, when God is the subject “repent” is a poor Eng. translation, for repent carries the idea of remorse for wrongdoing. The sense of “relent” or “change the mind” fails to capture the deep emotions that compel God to take a different course. Thus no Eng. equivalent proves satisfactory. God’s relenting usually means that out of mercy he foregoes intended punishment (e.g., Exod. 32:12, 14; Amos 7:3, 6). Only twice in the OT does ...

735. Passover

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

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Christopher J. H. Wright

... the creation-providential traditions of our biblical faith. Secondly, there is the emphasis on joy. Israelites were commanded to rejoice! Just as they were commanded to love, showing that such love was more than a spontaneous emotion, so this fact that joy was commanded indicates that it was more than emotional froth. Praise, thanksgiving, rejoicing—these things were at the core of Israel’s faith and religious life, and, as part of a covenant faith, were matters of choice and will and commitment, as the ...

736. A Rebellious Nation

Isaiah 1:1-31

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John Goldingay

... very like each other in Hebrew and combine subjective feelings and objective justice. Yahweh will now get the relief of giving expression to a strongly-felt inner desire to express anger. “Avenge myself” adds the notion of fair punishment; it is a less emotional expression than the English one. I will turn my hand against you adds the idea of direct, careful, personal involvement. The hand that was designed to work for them and against their enemies is turned the other way. 1:25b–26 Now a surprising ...

737. Jesus as Lord and as Archcriminal

Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 2:18-22

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Grant R. Osborne

... the other Gospels); here and in 1:25 and 4:39 it is a reference to Jesus’s authority and power. They had no response in light of Jesus’s God-given authority. 3:5 in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts. Jesus’s deep emotions come to the surface, reflecting the justice and love of God that here are displayed by Jesus—God’s anger at sin yet grief at the dilemma of fallen humankind. This is, literally, “the hardness of their hearts” and will be descriptive of the disciples as ...

738. The Arrest of Jesus

Mark 14:43-52

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Grant R. Osborne

... use broken people like us as well. The agony of betrayal and desertion Testimony: We often talk of the physical suffering of Jesus during his passion, but we usually ignore the emotional suffering caused by the betrayal of Judas and the desertion of his closest friends. Share from a personal story of betrayal to help people identify with the emotional pain and anguish and better empathize with the suffering of Jesus. A better way? Parable: A man left his village one morning to take a journey to a lake where ...

739. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Preben Vang

... exclusively inside a marriage, between a wife and husband. Paul’s emphatic use of “her/his own” must not be missed. Each man or woman must have sexual relations with his or her own spouse. Christians who are finding arguments—either emotional or rational—for promiscuity are missing the deepest issues related to sex, relationship, and spirituality. Sex should occur only between a husband and wife because it builds and expresses a bodily and spiritual unity that demonstrates God’s intentions for ...

740. Worthy Is the Lamb Who Was Slain

Revelation 5:1-14

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J. Scott Duvall

... . Would it be more helpful to hear about what God has done for us through the proclamation of the Word and then sing in celebration rather than the usual pattern of singing first and then hearing the sermon? Do we use music as a technique to generate emotions? Or does music serve as a medium of expressing our response of gratitude to the Lord for what he has done? 2. Jesus’s work on the cross has radically changed our status. Revelation 5:9–10 presents an opportunity to remind people of how important ...

741. Vows, Redemption, and Tithes

Leviticus 27:1-34

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... to be “redeemed” with money, though the 20 percent penalty discourages rash vows. It is not wrong to make promises to God, but such promises should be kept (cf. Num. 30:2). It is wrong to promise God something that we can neither physically nor emotionally deliver. And yet sometimes we think that we are capable of giving God more than we actually can supply. But as Leviticus 27 shows, God in his grace makes generous allowances for this kind of human excess caused by imprudent zeal. Such excesses are ...

742. The Lord Chooses a New King

1 Samuel 16:14-23, 1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... respect he is due. 16:7 People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. The heart is viewed as the seat of the emotions (1 Sam. 1:8; 4:13; 17:32; 25:36; 28:5), will (6:6; 7:3), motives (17:28), reason (21:12), and conscience (25:31; 2 Sam ... as the subject of “loved” and Saul as the object.2In this case, the verb “love,” rather than emphasizing an emotional attachment, probably suggests the commitment of a subject to his king, as it does in several ancient Near Eastern texts. ...

743. David Flees to Gath—Again

1 Samuel 27:1-12

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... successor (cf. 24:16–20). Though Saul has again confessed his own guilt and David’s innocence, promised to no longer harm David, and even invited David back to the royal court (26:21), the stress of persecution has brought David to the edge of his emotional cliff. The Lord has consistently encouraged him by reminding him of his destiny (23:17; 24:20; 25:30–31; 26:25), and in his stronger moments David himself speaks with assurance of his vindication (26:10) and appeals to God’s justice (24:12; 26 ...

744. Job Feels under Attack by God

Job 16:1-17:16

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Daniel J. Estes

... Ps. 24:4). Also, it is evident that Job has not given up on God, because he continues to pray to him. 16:18 Earth, do not cover my blood. Throughout this speech, Job oscillates between discouragement and hope, reflecting his feelings, which are on an emotional roller coaster. Like Abel (Gen. 4:10), he is innocent and his blood cries out to God for justice. Job, therefore, appeals to the earth to serve as an objective witness to his innocence. He wants the evidence justifying him to be preserved, so that ...

745. Job’s Hope against Hope

Job 19:1-29

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Daniel J. Estes

... (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 this time is hopelessness. Only after Yahweh speaks to him in chapters 38–41 will Job’s hope find its fulfillment. Historical and Cultural Background In Job 19:25 “redeemer” is a translation of the Hebrew word go’el. This term was used in Old ...

746. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... Text Job 28 does not have a specified speaker, so scholars have viewed it in a variety of ways. Some commentators regard Job as the speaker from chapter 26 through chapter 31, including this chapter. However, the tone of Job 28 is calm, in contrast to the turgid emotions of Job’s speeches both in chapter 27 and in chapters 29–31, and its content is quite distinctive as well. It may well be, then, that Job 28 is an interlude spoken by the narrator. If so, it serves as a transition from the three rounds ...

747. “Lord, I Love the House Where You Live”

Psalm 26:1-12

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C. Hassell Bullock

... Of David. Psalms 25–28 are titled “Of David,” and there are no solid reasons why these psalms could not have been written by him. Certainly David’s desire to build a permanent house for the Lord (2 Sam. 7) provides the historical and emotional positioning for 26:8. 26:1 Vindicate me, Lord. Form critics see a judicial proceeding behind the verb “vindicate” (also in Pss. 7:8; 35:24; 43:1), and some scholars suggest that the suppliant has taken refuge in the temple, as sometimes offenders ...

748. “I Confess My Iniquity; I Am Troubled by My Sin”

Psalm 38:1-22

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C. Hassell Bullock

... here as “feeble,” to describe Jacob’s reaction when his sons, just returned from Egypt, inform him that Joseph is alive: “and his heart fainted, for he did not believe them” (RSV). The latter part of the verse is a description of the psalmist’s emotional state of being (“anguish”), like Psalm 22:1. 38:9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord. The psalmist addresses the Lord, as he did in 38:1, saying that the Lord (’adonay) is aware of his longings. 38:10 My heart pounds. The ...

749. “As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water, So My Soul Pants for You, My God”

Psalm 42:1-11, Psalm 43:1-5

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C. Hassell Bullock

... :5, 11; 43:5). That indeed is the heart of the psalm, highlighted by the refrain. 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night . . . “Where is your God?”The terms of the psalmist’s longing are “tears” and “day and night,” one indicating the emotional depth of his longing and the other the extent of it in time. The concluding question is a summary of the taunting words of the psalmist’s enemies who deride him because he cannot go to the temple, obviously in view of their knowledge that he ...

750. “Create in Me a Pure Heart, O God, and Renew a Steadfast Spirit within Me”

Psalm 51:1-19

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C. Hassell Bullock

... penitent spirit of the psalm. 51:18 May it please you to prosper Zion.Verses 18 and 19 may be a response by a later, perhaps postexilic, community.14Yet, while it may seem like an alien thought in the psalm, the suppliant is so emotionally related to Zion that a restoration of his relationship to Yahweh will leave his aspirations only partially fulfilled. His inner cleansing and restoration to the joy of God’s salvation require the restoration of Zion. Not only does the psalmist’s fulfillment require ...

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