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901. THE FINAL TRIUMPH

Drama

... tomb was empty! When I realized that the tomb was empty, I was beside myself. I was afraid that you or Pilate had had my Lord’s body removed in order to defile it. I was frightened and confused. I ran into the garden, sank to the ground, and began to ... that Jesus had risen from the dead, just as he had said that he would. CAIAPHAS: Bah! More hysterical women’s dribble! Surely my Lord. ANNAS: (Ignoring Caiaphas) And what did you do then? MARY: We rushed to tell Peter and the others what we had seen, but ...

902. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... taken away from the children and given to the dogs. The woman quickly siezes on the word "taken" and comes back at Jesus, "Yes, Lord! But is it not possible that the little pet dog could eat some of the bread if it fell from the table?" Being a Gentile ... woman. There was once a little old man with a long white beard. He had a great amount of faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. With everyone he met, he just had to share his story about Jesus. But he noticed that every time he witnessed to Christ, ...

903. 'Nevertheless': A Word of Faith

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... scare you to death, especially in view of what you owe on your credit cards. Everything safe and prudential says, "Don't take on more than you can handle. Just give whatever you can, and God will understand." But are you willing to say with Simon Peter, "NEVERTHELESS. Lord, if you say the word, I'll launch out in faith and trust you for another miracle! I believe you are just as good with dollars as you were with fish." One of the few creatures on earth that can out-jump Michael Jordon is the Impala. This ...

904. The Ten Commandments #3: God's Name

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... are for OUR benefit, not God's. God is a BIG God with no need to be self-protective. Rather, God cares enough for us to provide guidelines that, if followed, will lead to a decent life for everyone. "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God," not for magic, not in insincere pledges, not in court, and certainly not as a casual curse. A corollary could well be You SHALL take the name of your God - in other words, God's power, God's majesty, God's character, everything that you think of ...

905. One Life To Live

Isaiah 42:1-9

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King Duncan

... that we might find comfort when we are in pain, direction when we are lost, hope when we are in despair. "I the Lord," writes Isaiah, "have called thee in righteousness and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee . . ." Then notice the climax to this ... affair with nothing at all to do with our witness to the world outside. But Dr. Scroggie is right. Either Jesus is Lord of all our life--or he is not Lord at all. We have been called of God. God has clothed us in righteousness--we have not earned it on our ...

906. Who Counted the Fish?

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25

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Donald B. Strobe

... unusual kind of Messiah who had managed to get himself crucified, and so he was returning to his old way of life as a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee. Some of the rest of the Twelve said, “We will go with you.” What else was there to do? Their Lord and Leader was “crucified, dead, and buried.” Yes, “on the third day he rose again from the dead,” but what was to happen next? So it was back to the old life and the old ways before they had set off on their journey with Jesus. The setting of the ...

907. The Lion King

Revelation 5:1-14

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James Merritt

... not as some artist has portrayed Him, but as He really is. John takes his camera and uses the zoom lens to zero in on the Lord Jesus Christ and describes him uniquely and yet accurately: a. As a Lion, He Is Powerful Jesus is called "the Lion of the tribe of ... also a King; He is the Lion King. He is coming to this earth as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and as a Judge to take vengeance on all those who have rejected Him. b. As a Lamb, He Is Precious Now John turns, fully ...

908. O Holy Night

Philippians 2:5-11

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James Merritt

... He said again in John 14:9, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father." What Paul is telling us is, that even though the Lord Jesus laid aside His glory and took on the form of a bondservant and came as a man, He never ceased to be God. When ... is not first among equals, He's not even the greatest of the great. Jesus Christ is God. If the FBI had the fingerprints of the Lord Jesus, you would have the fingerprints of God because He was God. But that raises a great question. Why did Jesus leave the glory of Heaven ...

909. Advent 3

Lk 3:7-18 · Phil 4:4-7 · Zeph 3:14-20 · Isa 12:2-6

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John R. Brokhoff

... or failed to pass a test. The problem may be that we base our happiness on external conditions or events. Joy is an inner quality of having Jesus, for to have him is to have all. Outline: How you can be happy – What to do "Rejoice." Why rejoice "in the Lord." When? "Always." 2. Why can you be so happy? (4:4-7). Need: You see some Christians, like Paul, who have a radiance of joy about them. They have a smile on their faces. They are cheerful and optimistic. How can they be happy in a world like this, when ...

910. Praising God All the Way Home

Psalm 150:1-6

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J. Howard Olds

... is simply a beautiful story. He decided he had better start walking to prepare his body for this surgery and during his walks he decided to praise God for His creation. While he was walking and looking at the trees and the sky, he began to paraphrase the “Lord’s Prayer,” which is a great praise of adoration. One of his requests was for God to just give him his daily bread and the strength to accept whatever that might entail. Soon he found out that a friend of his daughter had been praying to the Holy ...

911. The Humble King

John 12:12-19

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J. Howard Olds

... faith. If we plan carefully, we find a way to squeeze in an hour for worship and a quick prayer at the stop light. God will have none of it. The first move of Holy Week for all of us should be to empty ourselves in the presence of the Lord. The word here is kenosis. It means “removing something from a container, or pouring something out of a pitcher until there is no more." Even as Christ emptied himself of his deity that he could become fully human, so we must empty ourselves of our humanity if we are to ...

912. The Vastness of Relationships

Ephesians 1:3-14

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John N. Brittain

... for us, to not do that. Let's begin at the beginning and see where it takes us. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the ... stopped into a church one day and decided to pray. "'elp me God," he prayed, "to choose the right woman. Whom shall I 'ave Lord, Sally or Maria?" And he got his answer as he looked up at the stained-glass window and saw the words, "Ave Maria." Such ...

913. The Little Golf Club

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John Smylie

... our society, and even in sermons, that it's sometimes difficult to get a grip on what it is that love really means. Perhaps our Lord's love is particularly difficult to get a handle on because of the preconceived notions we may have about him. Sunday school images of the ... to my mother and me so we could live with him at a vulnerable time in her life, and our life, and in his life. Our Lord invites us to love one another as he has loved us. His love is not found only in the big gestures, his love can be found ...

914. Having Trouble Sleeping Through the Night

1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)

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William J. Carl, III

... , Hannah's gift to God. If God would just give her a child, when he reached a tender age she would give him up for the Lord's service. Like a scene from Bertolucci's movie, The Last Emperor, where the child is taken from his mother's arms to be the new ... he was having a hard time hearing it because no one else was hearing it in those days. Eli certainly wasn't because "the Word of the Lord was rare in the land." Maybe it's hard for us to say "Here I am" that openly because we aren't really ready for God ...

915. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... caught up in these situations were kept safe by God—Noah (v. 5) and Lot (v. 7)—and so concludes on the reassuring note that “the Lord knows how to rescue godly men” (v. 9). This is a point absent from the parallel passage in Jude 5–7, but a theme which ... used to develop spiritual and moral strength (James 1:2, 12). There may be an echo here of the last two petitions of the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:13). The words tērein (hold, keep) and hēmera kriseōs (day of judgment) recur together in 3:7, one ...

916. Offerings for the Tabernacle

Exodus 25:1-9

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... Johannine Prologue”). Exodus 34:6 is especially well represented in the words “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14) particularly resonate with Exodus 34:6. See also Exodus 33:18–23 as a background to John 1:18. Revelation continues with the theme of the Lord’s “tenting” with the people. God spread his tent of the new heavens over the people (Rev. 7:15; 21:3). The book of Hebrews draws on the pattern of heaven (Exod. 25:9, 40) focused on the new creation and the image of the eternal tabernacle ...

917. Setting Up the Tabernacle

Exodus 40:34-38

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... had begun to transform one people, other cultures would begin to know the reality of the enduring presence of God. Additional Notes 40:38 “During all their travels.” After the people entered Canaan, for more than 300 years the tabernacle was the primary place to meet the Lord. Their first camp was at Gilgal (Josh. 5:10). The tabernacle was at Shiloh for a time (Josh. 18:1; 19:51; 1 Sam. 1:24; Ps. 74:60). During the time of Samuel, the Philistines stole the ark but returned it because of all the trouble ...

918. I am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction

Lamentations 3:1-66

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Tremper Longman III

... them open. Like a lion I will devour them; a wild animal will tear them apart. (Hos. 13:8) In Amos, it is the Day of the Lord that is the topic when God says: It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear. (5:19) Verse 12 ... that no prayer can get through” (v. 44), but perhaps he will be moved by tears of grief. The poet has already frequently tried to get the Lord to look on their piteous state (1:9, 11, 20; 2:20; see Provan, Lamentations, p. 103). But he is not forcing the tears by any ...

919. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Preben Vang

... inclusive of all the unmarried—divorcees, widows, and the never married. The target of Paul’s comments is those who are distracted in their service to God by their zealous focus on finding a spouse. 7:35 for your own good . . . undivided devotion to the Lord. As if to make sure no one takes his words as an expression of a Christian law, or for some reason considers his advice burdensome, Paul offers a strong motivation: “for your own good.”9 His concern is not that they remain unmarried but that ...

920. Unity and Community (Part 1)

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Preben Vang

... perception alluded to in 6:12 and 10:23.12The patron grants enabling gifts to his clients in order to empower his community to accomplish his purpose. Theological Insights Being filled with God’s Spirit transforms a person and enables him or her to call Jesus Lord. To call Jesus Lord means to accept, even strive for, a life that resembles Jesus’s by loving one’s enemies and responding to curses with blessings (Luke 6:27–30; Matt. 10:24–25; John 15:20; cf. 1 Pet. 3:9). Teaching the Text 1. Paul’s ...

921. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... of Job is an honest record of how Job feels in his great affliction, and in that it parallels many of the lament psalms, which disclose the feelings of their writers. However, just as the lament psalms move from pain to praise as the psalmist takes the problem to the Lord, so Job 30 must be read in the context of the whole book. At this moment in the story, Job is hurting and confused, but at the end he will have a better understanding of God and his ways. Thus, Job’s experience of pain in this chapter is ...

922. “Their Violence Comes Down on Their Own Heads”

Psalm 7:1-17

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C. Hassell Bullock

... his flaming arrows” (7:13), suggesting arrows dipped in pitch or oil and then lit before shooting.3 The final two metaphors in Psalm 7 draw from other areas of life. (5) The metaphors of 7:15 are those of hunting, with the subject now changed from the Lord to the evil person. The hunter would dig a pit and camouflage it with brush, and the animals would fall into the trap. In this instance, the hunter (enemy) would fall into it himself. (6) The last metaphor (7:16) is that of a boomerang that recoils upon ...

923. Expel the Immoral Brother!

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... , “Give this one to Satan unto destruction of the flesh, in order that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.” What does “unto destruction of the flesh” mean? Whose “spirit” is it that “may be saved”? There are no easy answers. Second ... we must think in terms of a future day of final divine judgment that relativizes all current earthly existence. For Paul, the day of the Lord would bring the end to all the forces of evil (see 1 Cor. 15; 1 Thess. 4–5), but until that day evil is real ...

924. Daniel’s Prayer

Daniel 9:1-19

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... are assurances of punishment, as in this case, where he has made sure that the deserved judgment has come upon Judah. Similarly, God says, “I am watching over them for harm, not for good” (Jer. 44:27; cf. also 31:28). 9:15–19 Daniel prays, “Now, O Lord our God, . . . we have done wrong” (9:15). “Now” signals the change from penitence to petition for deliverance, as in other biblical passages (Exod. 32:32; 1 Sam. 12:10; 15:25; 1 Chron. 21:8; Ezra 9:8, 10; Neh. 9:32; see also, in the Apocrypha ...

925. New Tendons for Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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King Duncan

... you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’” So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone ... and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” And at the sound of God’s promises, those dry bones rose up from the valley floor and assembled themselves into skeletons, and the ...

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