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76. Dividing Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... been given grace through what we thought was our weakness. In the midst of our fears, God has surprised us and blessed us. The diversity, which we feared, has empowered us to confront God's truth in the world. In Jesus Christ, the dividing walls of hostility have been broken down. Though we are born into diverse earthly families, our life together has led us to affirm that we are called to be one family through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.3 We are no longer strangers and aliens, but ...

77. A Higher Calling

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... that level of maturity. The pace of living in our society is causing everyone to become less patient, more demanding. The Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, discovered that those people scoring high in hostility or cynicism have a higher mortality rate. Cynical, hostile people are constantly on the lookout for trouble, so they are more likely to find it. Some of these people will never change. There isn't a lot the church can do to help the irrational, ignorant ...

78. Anything to Declare?

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to his emissaries include healing the sick and declaring the that the “kingdom of God has come near to you,” essentially the same mission and message he had given when he sent out The Twelve (9:2). However, even as the potential of hostility has increased with this third wave of messengers, so are now revealed the long-range ramifications of rejection. No longer are Jesus’ emissaries simply told literally and symbolically to shake the dust off their feet and leave those villages that reject them and ...

79. Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Luke 10:1-24

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Leonard Sweet

80. Envision: The Great Commission

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... News. 10% of people U2 Receptive to the gospel and the church. 27% of people U3 Neutral, with no clear signs of being interested, yet perhaps open to discussion. 36% of people U4 Resistant to the gospel, but with no antagonistic attitude. 21% of people U5 Highly antagonistic and even hostile to the gospel. 5% of people. As you look at this scale, I am going to be extremely brief in explaining it and cut to the chase. The people that we fear the most are people who are highly antagonistic and even ...

81. Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70. In politics they were pragmatic conservatives. They found it expedient to keep on good terms with the Romans. Thus when Jesus appeared to them as a revolutionary figure whose movement would bring reprisals from Rome, their hostility toward him was aroused (John 11:48). It was further inflamed by his interference in the temple (Luke 19:45–48), so that in the end it was the Sadducees who brought about his death. And when his movement survived his death, it was they ...

82. In Iconium

Acts 14:1-7

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... time,” making the point that their ministry was a joint one. 14:2–3 The awkwardness of these verses is smoothed out in the Western text: “But the chiefs of the synagogue and the ruler [of Iconium] raised persecution and made the minds of the Gentiles hostile to the brothers. But the Lord soon gave peace” (v. 2). The last clause prepares the way for v. 3. The Western text agrees with other texts in having a persecution in v. 5; thus there are two persecutions in the Western text. The text of Codex ...

83. Body / Ambassador

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... ., allotriōs, apechthōs, dysmenōs, echthrōs, kakoēthōs, kakōs, chalepōs). Thus, when Ptolemy, filled with wrath (3 Macc. 5:1), had ordered the execution of the Jews, “he returned to his feasting, gathering together those of his friends and of the army who were most hostile to the Jews” (v. 3). The idiom occurs frequently in the writings of Josephus (cf. Ant. 1.166; 7.186; 8.117; 13.35, 85, 195, 288; 14.8, 164, 404; 15.81; 16.267; 17.290; 20.162; Life 375, 384, 392; War 7.56). By using this ...

84. Paul the Preacher to the Gentiles

Ephesians 3:1-13

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... that the human soul had to pass through these spheres as it ascended to its permanent abode with God in the highest heaven. But as it moved upward, it was confronted by the rulers and authorities of these spheres, who, in most cases, were hostile and needed to be placated or appeased in some way so that safe passage through the spheres could be guaranteed. This developed into elaborate systems of magic, sorcery, and astrology, many of which were current during Paul’s time. The central message in the ...

85. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , perhaps, on the same grounds. But on the grounds of their rejection of Christ out of their resistance to the gospel, he may well have used this language against them. The gospel was for the general good, so that any hindrance of it was an act of hostility to all men. So NIV interprets this charge, linking it to what follows: (5) they keep us from speaking to the Gentiles. The connection is not as explicit in the Greek as in our version, but it is implied in the train of thought by the present participle ...

86. God Disciplines His Sons

Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... hand. This description of Christ in the language of Psalm 110:1 alludes throughout the book to the completeness of his work (cf. 10:11f.). 12:3 The readers are encouraged to consider Jesus as the one who suffered, who endured such opposition (lit., “hostility”) from sinful men. In this sense Jesus is a model of all the suffering of the righteous at the hands of the enemies of God. Consideration of what Jesus endured will prevent the readers from growing weary and losing heart. Following Jesus as their ...

87. Warning Against Refusing God

Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

88. How Deserted Lies the City

Lamentations 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... (see Jer. 52:28–30). Babylon’s final victory in 586 B.C. was preceded by earlier sieges in 605 (Dan. 1:1–2) and 597. These conditions brought affliction and hard labor. There was also inner turmoil as godly prophets like Jeremiah sought to sway a hostile monarchy to repent. As a result of the exile, Judah no longer enjoys a separate existence, but rather dwells among the nations. The promised land had been a resting place for them but now their leaders live in a land not their own. She has become ...

89. Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

Isaiah 50:1-11

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... of indication that the community resisted the prophet’s message, but its members have been characterized more as depressed and incredulous (“faint,” indeed) than as actively hostile. Where we have read of hostility and aggression, it has been on the part of the community’s Babylonian overlords. It is easy to imagine that their hostility should have become focused on someone who was encouraging the community to believe that Babylon’s attacker was its deliverer. 50:7–9 The title “sovereign ...

90. Jesus’s Manifesto

Luke 4:14-30

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... decorative illustration facing a book’s title page) for Jesus’s ministry as a whole. The themes of deliverance, of good news for the poor, and of the universal scope of Jesus’s mission set the tone for all that is to follow. The hostility of Jesus’s own fellow villagers serves as a warning of the opposition that his ministry will provoke from conservative Jewish interests. Historical and Cultural Background Nazareth was a small Jewish village in the hill country of Galilee.1Matthew 4:13–16 records ...

91. The Fifth Trumpet (First Woe)

Revelation 8:6--9:21

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... to kill a third of mankind. The torment of the previous trumpet now gives way to death. Whereas the fourth seal brought death to a fourth of the earth (6:8), the demonic army now kills a third of humanity. Again the context suggests that only people hostile to God are vulnerable to attack (6:10; 8:13), while believers are protected by God’s seal (3:10; 7:1–8; 9:4). Another divine passive (i.e., “had been kept ready”), along with the hour-day-month-year reference, signals God’s sovereignty over ...

92. The Choice: Obedience or Punishment

Lev 26:1-46

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... . . . like iron . . . ground . . . like bronze. The clouds will be impervious to letting the rain pass through, producing drought-hardened ground incapable of producing crops (cf. vv. 4–5a). Deuteronomy 28:23 reverses the iron/bronze similes. 26:21 hostile. Hebrew qeri appears to be derived from qarah, “to meet, encounter.” Thus, qeri refers to Israel’s combative, stubborn opposition toward God, which God promises to reciprocate (cf. vv. 23–24, 27–28). 26:22 wild animals. Contrast verse ...

93. Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:6-34, Numbers 35:1-5

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... is to be delivered to the avenger of blood for execution. 35:22–23 without enmity . . . unintentionally . . . without seeing . . . not an enemy . . . no harm was intended. Circumstances can also show that the killer has not acted deliberately. If there is no history of hostility or if there is evidence that it was an accident—a person throws a rock over a cliff unaware that someone is below—those facts can be the basis of acquittal of deliberate murder. 35:25–28 The accused must stay there ...

94. The Lord Thwarts a Curse

2 Sam 16:1-14

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... to kill a perceived enemy (Saul himself!), and David ordered him not to do so (1 Sam. 26:7–12). That incident was proof of his loyalty to Saul; the episode is replayed here, as it were, as a reminder that David has never taken or endorsed any hostile actions against Saul or his royal house. 16:10 Curse David. From his past experience with Saul, David realizes that opposition and the suffering it entails are part of God’s sovereign design (see the comment above on 1 Sam. 26:19). 16:11 for the Lord ...

95. Saul on the Rampage

1 Samuel 22:6-23

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... from God and overcome by jealousy and fear, he actively opposes and even tries to kill David, whom he views as the greatest threat to his throne and undoubtedly suspects is the successor the Lord has characterized as “better” than he is (15:28). Saul’s hostility toward David reached a new low when he tried to kill his own son Jonathan for defending David’s honor and loyalty (20:32–33). But it reaches an even deeper level when he slaughters the Lord’s priests and an entire town, including women ...

96. God Subjugates Judah under Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... powerful human leaders and uncontrollable forces of “nature” have taken over. Assure your listeners that God remains sovereign over our world and our personal lives. Encourage them to live their lives not in fear but rather with confidence and trust, even in a hostile environment. Remind them of our citizenship in God’s kingdom, which will be established in the end. 2. God’s people are responsible to one another. The judgment of a nation such as Judah, because of its corporate sin, often sweeps away ...

97. The Prologue

John 1:1-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... though John the Baptist’s testimony is clear (1:6–9), still Jesus experiences rejection (1:10–11). But there is more. The darkness is hostile. There is enmity. John 1:5 says that the “darkness has not overcome [the light].” The Greek term translated “overcome” (RSV; NIV note: “understood”) means “seize with hostile intent” (cf. 8:3–4; Mark 9:18). The hostility of the darkness points to the cross. But as the Book of Glory (13:1–20:31) shows, the power of darkness will not prevail ...

98. More than Conquerors

Romans 8:28-39

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , which lives in opposition to God and seeks to entice believers to yield to temptation and sin; not demonic powers, which control the world, which has rebelled against God; not hostile forces that seek to control the earth; not hostile forces that seek to control the heavenly world; not supernatural beings of any kind. Paul asserts that since the hostile powers are part of God’s creation (8:39), they are controlled by the power of God, who has triumphed over the mighty power of death through Christ’s ...

99. Peace and Joy

Romans 5:1-11

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... as God’s love for us rather than our love for God. Interestingly, Paul does not say “the love of Christ,” as verses 6–8 would suggest. This implies that the crucifixion promotes not the heroism of Jesus, but rather the saving purpose of God to redeem hostile humanity. God’s love is expressly mediated through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given us (v. 5). Paul is not yet prepared to introduce a discussion of the Holy Spirit, which must await chapter 8. He continues rather with the love of God as it ...

100. The Woman and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... of venue is from a war in heaven … to the earth, where the defeated dragon continues the struggle against God and God’s people. This move of Satan from heaven to earth not only anticipates John’s subsequent vision of the great dragon’s hostile but failed take-over bid of the church (12:13–13:18), but it also explains why the church’s suffering has not ended. More negatively, it explains the disaffection of some believers, who are deceived by the secular notions of power and security advanced ...

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