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851. Proper 21 & Pentecost 19

Ezekiel 18:1-32, Psalm 25:1-22, Psalm 99:1-9, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Philippians 2:1-11, Philippians 2:12-18, Matthew 21:28-32

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... . Obliquely, it speaks to the Gospel for the Day, with its note of Jesus' authority and the call to repent and obey the Word of the Lord. The Psalm of the Day - Psalm 25:1-9 (L); 25:1-14, or 25:3-9 (E); 25:4-9 (R) When one has considered ... a powerful conclusion to the lection: House of Israel, in future I mean to judge each of you by what he does - it is the Lord Yahweh who speaks. Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! Shake off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves ...

852. Thanksgiving Day

Deuteronomy 8:1-20, Philippians 4:2-9, Philippians 4:10-20, 1 Timothy 2:1-15, Luke 17:11-19

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... Luke's story, the Samaritan who had been healed knew that God had given him a gift through Jesus Christ, and he just had to return and thank the Giver as best he could. He really had an additional gift in the informed motivation which sent him back to the Lord to worship him in what proved to be true faith ("your faith has made you well"); he knew he needed to give thanks - and he returned and did what he had to do. That's what Thanks-giving is all about - genuine gratitude. 1. A man with a grateful heart ...

853. Butterflies and Jesus

Mark 9:2-13

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Daniel G. Mueller

... Father is in me?" To Thomas Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:1-11). On several occasions the Lord testified to his Godhood. "I and the Father are one," he said (John 10:30). "All things that the Father has are mine," he added (John ... my best, but it’s really God who takes care of me." What a beautiful confession of faith. Just like Peter’s, "It’s good, Lord, to be here." Sometimes I wonder how well we know what is good for us. From some of the things we do to ourselves one ...

854. At The Fork In The Road

Luke 4:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... give attention to our physical needs and disregard the spiritual. III. Now move to the second temptation. It was really a temptation to tempt the Lord. Let's read verses 5, 6, and 7: "Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of ... down and worship him. But Jesus responded, "Get away from me -- get away from me, Satan -- for it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve." We need to remember that as we stand at the fork of our roads. We have ...

855. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... Not a bad beginning, is it? A true confession coupled with deep feeling. Old time religion. But, according to Jesus, good Methodist doctrine and a warm Wesleyan heart are not enough. To head and heart the hands and feet must be added, “Not every one who says to me Lord, Lord... but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven.” To assent and piety must be added obedient action for faith to be completed. If God is going to save all of you, he must have all of you: mind, emotions, and will. The ...

856. The Christian's Wild Card

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Leonard Sweet

... "Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones"? It doesn't go through all 206 bones (although babies are born with 350 bones), but different versions set different bones until the entire body is in place. As each bone is set, the refrain is "Now hear the word of the Lord." So hear the Word of the Lord this Easter morning as the Wild Card of resurrection brings your being back to life. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Now hear the word of the ...

857. Just Know Him In His Visible Return

Revelation 1:7-8

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James Merritt

... , for he is always by our side. He is here today. He is in my heart right now. He is in heaven ruling over this universe, and one day he will come back that we can all be together in him. But we will finally welcome him as our omnipotent Lord, for he is also "the Almighty." Notice that he is not the partially mighty Jesus, he is not the sometimes mighty Jesus, he is the almighty Jesus. He is omniscient, there is nothing he does not know; he is omnipresent, there is no place he cannot go; he is omnipotent ...

858. Battle Stations

Ephesians 6:10-18

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James Merritt

... Savior. God is not looking for Christians who can do spiritual somersaults, jump twenty pews at a time, swing from chandeliers, speak in tongues, perform miracles, or do any of a number of other things. God is simply looking for people who will stand firm and stand up for the Lord Jesus Christ. A man saw a boy out in the field with a old horse, and he said, "Son, is that a race horse?" He said, "No, sir." He said, "Well, is it a show horse?" He said, "No, sir." He said, "Well, is it a plow horse?" He said ...

859. Final Destination

Psalm 23:6

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James Merritt

... where you can’t find some evidence of the goodness of God. Ps. 33:5 says, “The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.” Let me give you just one example. Lightning often terrifies us, and with good reason. But did you know that you can see the goodness ... can look back on my life and thank God that His goodness and mercy followed me. If you are a child of God and the Lord is your Shepherd and you are His sheep, you don’t face the future with a question mark, you face it with an exclamation point. ...

860. Why You Should Spend Time with God

Psalm 37:4-7

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James Merritt

... love Him and trust Him, and you can rest in Him, and simply wait patiently for Him to work things out in your life, then you will be freed from worry. One of the greatest ways to combat worry in your life is to bring your focus back to the Lord. Mark Twain once said, “I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, some of which really happened.” It is amazing how many of our fears and things that we worry about pale in comparison to the great God that wants to be in control of our life. I ...

861. Give Yourself

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... you can check it out when you go home this afternoon: Moses assembled the people in the wilderness, and he told the people that the Lord had commanded him to take an offering and build a place of worship in the center of the camp. And this place was not to ... sermon and should be the bottom line of every sermon we preach. First we give ourselves to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and then we move intentionally into discipleship and into stewardship as we are led. Now there’s an implicit judgment here, and ...

862. A Marriage Made In Heaven

Hosea 1:2-10

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Chrysanne Timm

... of God, but at best, we may have to make peace with the reality that the answers may be well beyond our capacity to understand. Through the words of the prophet Isaiah we are reminded, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. — Isaiah 55:8-9 What we do know about God and Hosea is this: God is calling Hosea to be a prophet in about 745 BC. Hosea ...

863. The Insanity of Profanity

Exodus 20:1-21

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James Merritt

... only by what we say, but by what we do. II. The Profane Desecration Of God’s Name “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.” How can we take God’s name in vain? Let me suggest three ways: A. Profanity Normally in an airport rest ... ; If temptations round you gather, Breathe that holy name in prayer. We are to take that name in praise. We are to “give unto the Lord the glory due his name, and worship him in the beauty of holiness. Our God is a great God. His name is a great name. ...

864. The Ark Brought to the Temple

2 Chronicles 5:2-6:11

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... opening words of the divine response: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices. The rest of the report of the divine response (7:16–22) adheres closely to the Deuteronomistic version (1 Kgs. 9:3–9). The Lord’s words confirm the acceptance of the temple: my Name may be there forever (2 Chron. 7:16). Yet this confirmation is conditional: but if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship ...

865. Signs for Moses

Exodus 4:1-17

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... not told us, we would not know of God’s anger. All God did in response was to mention Aaron, who was already on the way. God told Moses that Aaron’s heart will be glad when he sees him. The joy of their reunion was not compromised. The Lord repeated the promise to help both of them speak (lit., “I am with your mouth and with his mouth”). This does not sound like anger. God continued to make promises to undergird Moses’ reluctance. “I . . . will teach you what to do . . . it will be as if he were ...

866. Bazalel and Oholiab

Exodus 31:12-18

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... finishes giving Moses the instructions for the tabernacle that began in 25:1. Exodus 31 concludes with a return to the gift of the law that will be a gateway to life for the newly formed people. The LORD . . . gave him . . . the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God (v. 18). The two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone, were the Ten Commandments (34:28). Often the word “Testimony” is an abbreviation for the Ten Commandments. When the text refers to the “ark of the ...

867. Achan's Sin

Joshua 7:1-26

Understanding Series

J. Gordon Harris

... son of Carmi, son of Zabdi (see marginal notes), of the tribe of Judah, was found guilty. Achan, silent until discovered, confesses. Joshua orders him to tell what he has done. Achan does not hide anything when he replies: It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside ...

868. Israel Punished and Restored

Hosea 2:2-23

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the god Melkart of Tyre; Baal Zebul of Ekron (2 Kgs. 1:2), etc. All may have been seen mythologically as the manifestation of one high god of fertility, but the diffusion of baal numina, worshiped at “high places” throughout Canaan, led Deuteronomy and Jesus to insist that “the LORD is one” (Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29), to be worshiped only at one place where God “put his name” (Deut. 12:5; cf. Acts 4:12). The New Covenant in the New Age (2:16-23): In 2:2–15 we saw Yahweh’s desire for an intimate ...

869. The Coming of Zion's King

Zechariah 9:9-13

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Pamela J. Scalise

... the king the subject (“he will take away”), the first-person verb in the Hebrew is consistent with other promises that the Lord will establish peace by removing the tools of warfare (Mic. 4:3; Isa. 2:4; Pss. 76:3, 6; 46:9). The king ... is paired in poetry with Sheol, the place of the dead (e.g., Pss. 30:3; 88:5; Prov. 1:12). The imprisoned exiles needed the Lord to redeem and “free” them (see Isa. 61:1). 9:12 Return (shwb) is an unusual term in the genre of summonses to captive exiles. “Leave” ( ...

870. No Confidence in the Flesh

Philippians 3:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... some of Paul’s Corinthian converts appear to have thought (1 Cor. 15:12). Christ’s resurrection, the power of which was imparted to his people even in their present mortal life, involved the hope for those who died believing in him “that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus” (2 Cor. 4:14). Paul will return to this later (vv. 20, 21). Here he speaks personally: if one who faced death daily for Christ’s sake was liable to end mortal life as a martyr for him ...

871. Two Adulterous Sisters

Ezekiel 23:1-49

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... have been a common image in the exilic period, that the psalmists and the prophets used independently. Still, it does appear likely that Ezek. 23:32–34 and Hab. 2:15–17 have both influenced Isa. 51:17–23, where Jerusalem, having “drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath” (51:17) is assured that the time of punishment is now ended: “See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again” (Isa. 51:22). Of ...

872. Jerusalem’s Siege, in Parable and Sign

Ezekiel 24:1-14, Ezekiel 24:15-27

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... to picture all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder . . . the best of these bones . . . the pick of the flock (vv. 4–5) set to boil in a pot. Then, he asks them to imagine the pot boiling dry, so that the meat is all ruined. Just so, the Lord says, Jerusalem the city of bloodshed (vv. 6, 9; see also 22:2) is a pot now encrusted (v. 6). Jerusalem’s corruption had not departed with the exiles (despite the claims of those who remained in the city, see 11:15). Rather, it remained like the baked-on ...

873. The “Nine Lives” of David

1 Samuel 19:1-24

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... David that facilitates the narrator’s pro-David agenda. In verses 5 and 8 this same verb is used to describe how David strikes down the Philistine champion and armies. While David is striking down the enemies of Israel, Saul is trying to strike down the Lord’s chosen servant. 19:17 Why did you . . . send my enemy away? Saul casts David in the role of his enemy. This is ironic since on two earlier occasions Saul refers to the Philistines as his “enemies” (14:24; 18:25). In his warped perspective ...

874. Widows and Their Worries: Back to Bethlehem

Ruth 1:1-22

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Gary M. Burge

... nation’s life (1:1). Second, and not unrelated, the people of Israel face famine (1:1). The fact that a famine prevails in Bethlehem, in Judah’s “house of bread,” together with the religious crisis dominating the landscape indicates an unpleasant visitation by the Lord on the land. The Lord promised famine as one among many of his acts of judgment for covenantal waywardness (Lev. 26:18–20; Deut. 28:24; Jer. 24:10; 27:8–13; 29:17; 34:17; 38:2; Ezek. 6:11; 7:15; 12:16). The writer now zooms in on ...

875. Moses Returns to Egypt

Exodus 4:18-31

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... ’s heart (7:3, 13, 22), as well as the threat (11:4–8) and killing of the firstborn sons of Egypt (12:29–30). In these words God claims control of the whole sequence of events about to unfold. Here for the first time we hear the Lord say, “I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.” (See the discussion of the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart at the commentary on 7:1–7; 10:1–2.) Here the word for “harden” means “toughen” or “strengthen” (khazaq). The hardening of ...

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