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76. New Creations

2 Corinthians 5:6-10; 14-17

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... us of all of that and then gives us guidelines for living the life of faith. He says, because we are new creations: "We walk by faith, not by sight." "We no longer live for ourselves, but for Christ." and "We regard no one from a human point of view." I. BY FAITH, NOT SIGHT: A. What does it mean to walk by faith and not by sight? I remember reading one time about a missionary who was translating the Bible into one of the African tribal languages. The people of this particular tribe were simple and so was ...

77. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

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T. A. Kantonen

... . His death was not merely that of a man who remained goad even though it cost him his life but that of a Mediator who was "delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God" (Acts 2:23). Because of the superficial view of sin on which this view rests, it transforms the Mediator into a martyr. The roots of Paul’s concept of expiatory sacrifice lie deep in the Old Testament. To expiate means to annul or neutralize that in man which makes him unfit for communion with God. Through the law ...

78. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

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Leonard Mann

... in this light that we should see our own life. I strongly feel that one reason that light is come is to illuminate our own view of what we are. Many times it makes an important difference in what light we see things. Physically, we can illustrate this in a wide variety ... see our life in the light of something. And often that light is not big enough, bright enough, good enough, or total enough. Many dim views of life are going around; for many are the people who do not see life in a light that is at all clear. To ...

79. A Christian's Resumé

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

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Richard W. Ferris

... many descriptions in his resume that would not impress most prospective employers. Today's resume experts would probably have a field day with Paul's resume, using it as an example of what not to include. But again, I suggest it's all a matter of perspective, of point of view. It's all in whom you are trying to impress. There was a women's tournament at the golf club, and the turnout was so great the women had to use the men's locker room as well as their own. Naturally, on that day the room was off-limits ...

80. Proper 24

Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 33:12-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... confrontation. This is impossible, for no human can look directly into the glorious face of God, just as one cannot look directly at the sun with the naked eye. His glory would not only blind but kill us. The closest we can come to knowing God is by a rear view. It is the evidence of his presence. Therefore, we see God only in disguise; he appears in masks. The fullest knowledge we can have of God is Jesus whose face reflects the glory of God. Lesson 1: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 (RC); Isaiah 45:1-7 (E) 1. Anointed ...

81. I’ve Got a Home in that Kingdom

2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17

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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... Christ Jesus" (3:28). I've got a home in that kingdom — ain't that good news! It is good news — good news that will often require us to re-examine our lives and our categories to discern where we are captured by the human point of view. Our hearts are restless. The African theologian, Saint Augustine, was right. Our only rest will be found in our true home: our creator and redeemer and sustainer, the God we know in Jesus Christ. To God be the glory! Amen. 1. Traditional African-American spiritual in the ...

82. Advice About Widows, Elders and Slaves

1 Timothy 5:1-6:2

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... are their brothers”). D-C argue that agapētoi should be translated “beloved by God,” on the grounds that “slaves who must be admonished to serve cannot, in the same injunction, be expected to act out of love for the masters.” But besides taking quite a low view of the power of grace, that argues for a meaning of the word not found elsewhere in Paul. 6:2b NIV makes this exhortation conclude vv. 1–2. Far more likely, as in 4:11, it is intended to start a new paragraph by referring to what has ...

83. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... in 1:2 (it occurs elsewhere in Hebrews only in 10:5 and 13:21). Although from 1:2 we know that our author views the Son as God’s agency in creation, we do not have this Christology reflected in the reference to creation by the word. Rather ... to contrast the old covenant with the superior new covenant (see note on 1:4). For heavenly (epouranios), see note on 3:1. What is in view is that transcendent and perfect reality that awaits the saints of God (cf. 1 Cor. 2:9; Rom. 8:18). When Jesus quotes Exod. 3:6 ...

84. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... (if he could pay them a visit) or hear about them (at a distance) would fill him with satisfaction. In one spirit: (Gk. en heni pneumati). It is unlikely that the reference here is to the one Spirit of God (cf. 1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 4:4) in view of the parallel phrase as one [person], lit. “with one soul” (mia psychē). The verb stand firm is repeated (in the imperative) in 4:1, and contending in 4:3. Paul likes to describe gospel witness in military and athletic terms. For the faith of the gospel: Gk. t ...

85. Walking in the Light

1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... One (also 2:29; 3:7; cf. Acts 3:14; 7:52; and 1 Pet. 3:18; as God is righteous in 1:9), not only in view of his sinless character (John 8:46) but because he saves and advocates for sinners. He is our paraklētos, translated in the NIV as one who ... warns them against losing what they have gained by compromising with the world. The Elder’s opponents are still in the background. In his view, they love the world, and the world loves them (4:5). They have given in to its desires and do not share their material ...

86. God’s Love and Ours

1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... and the disciples (John 15:18; 17:14; 1 John 3:13). It is where the false prophets, those deceivers and antichrists, went when they seceded from the community (1 John 2:19, 4:1, 3; 2 John 7), and there they found a sympathetic audience who listened to their views (1 John 4:5). Believers overcome the world by not loving the world “or anything in the world” (1 John 2:15); instead, they do “the will of God” (2:17) and rely on the Spirit of God who is in them and who “is greater than the one,” the ...

87. Love the Lord Your God

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... basis. See also C. J. H. Wright, God’s Land, pp. 13–15, 24–43. 6:25 It is unlikely that the word “righteousness” is being used here in a forensic sense, i.e., of being “in the right” legally. This seems to be the basis (misleadingly in my view) of the REB “For us to be in the right we should . . . ,” and the NRSV, “If . . . we will be in the right.” That is hardly the issue in the context and if it had been intended would probably have been expressed differently in Hb. (“we shall be ...

88. Family in the New Kingdom Community

Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12

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Grant R. Osborne

... the new covenant people. (2) God never intended for any marriage to be dissolved. In fact, marriage is a “covenant” in the sense that it is established before God, and in the relationship God is the senior member of the partnership. Paul takes a similar view (Rom. 7:1–3; 1 Cor. 7:10–11), saying that God wants marriage to last as long as the spouses live, and in times of serious conflict they should seek reconciliation, not divorce. Divorce was nearly as widespread in Jewish circles (more so among ...

89. Jesus Proclaims Judgment on the Temple and the Nation

Mark 13:1-31

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Grant R. Osborne

... the sinners (1 Thess. 5:1–3; 2 Thess. 2:8–9; cf. Matt. 24:29; 2 Thess. 2:1–3) in one event. The first two views have two returns, the third a single return.6 Teaching the Text 1. The saints witness in the midst of persecution. Some think that during the final ... images of urgency. The mountains of the Palestinian area were always the place of safety and ancient victories in battle (the view of some that this was Pella [following Eusebius, Hist. eccl.3.5.3] in the Transjordan does not fit because that ...

90. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

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Daniel J. Estes

... the superior wisdom of Yahweh, instead of finding fault with him. 40:4–5 I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. Interpreters have taken Job’s reply to Yahweh in 40:4–5 in two contrasting ways.1Some view this as Job’s humble acknowledgment that he has been wrong. This rendering would imply that Yahweh agrees with the friends that Job has sinned. However, in 42:7–9 it is evident that Yahweh affirms Job as right against the friends, who are wrong. Other interpreters ...

91. “In Your Heart You Devise Injustice”

Psalm 58:1-11

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C. Hassell Bullock

... ,” while at the same time it is under the judgment of God’s “no.”17It is not the “yes” (in the case of Psalm 58, the reward of the righteous) we mind so much but rather the “no” of God’s judgment. David took a long view of history and observed that human beings have a reputation for devising injustice and meting out violence on the earth (58:2). Sometimes we ourselves have been the hapless victims. We do not have to search history’s archives exhaustively to realize that we ourselves have ...

92. Correcting Cephas

Galatians 2:11-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... motivation to serve “the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (2:20; the verb tense refers to the decisive act of love and sacrifice at the cross). Concluding this section, Paul appears to reflect a charge his opponents likely used against him. In viewing him as one who has rejected the law of God for a form of antinomianism (the belief that one is governed by no laws), they believe he has nullified the gracious acts of God in revealing himself to Israel through the law (see also Acts 21:20 ...

93. Walking in the Light and the Problem of Sin

1 John 2:15-17, 1 John 1:5--2:14

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

94. Faith in the Son of God

1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

95. The Song of Moses

Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... divine jealousy (cf. 1 Cor. 10:18–22). 32:27–33 Wiebe, “Song of Moses,” claims to detect in these verses an “act of lamentation/repentance,” in which the people lament the fact that their rock sold them to the enemy, which they find intolerable in view of the evil and corruption of that enemy (vv. 30–33). He assumes (though there is no hint of it in the text) that this would have included some act of repentance as well (perhaps reflected in v. 36b?). But though he rightly points to examples of ...

96. Second Sight

Luke 24:13-35

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Lori Wagner

... lenses in order to make sure we are seeing everything we could be seeing, as clearly as we can. We need vision checks and hearing checks to make sure we are truly seeing what Jesus needs us to see and hear. Only when we use those scriptural lenses to view the world will Jesus, will the people and things we experience come into new focus, provide us with new meaning. The scriptures are a kind of eye test, and a set of adjusting lenses for us. When we read the scriptures, we fit ourselves with a new kind of ...

97. Miracle Five: Healing A Withered Hand

Mark 3:1-6

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Harold H. Lentz

... and wants all to be made whole. When one is surrounded by skyscrapers in a large city he might be impressed by their height and the important business transactions that take place within them. But, at the same time, he may not realize how much they blot out his view of far-off things. Because of being surrounded by them, he cannot see the far horizon. He is unable to be thrilled by the glory of a sunrise, or of a brilliant sunset when the western sky is bathed in gold. Christ came with the desire to enlarge ...

98. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Mann

... by either the night or the shadows if we can have an image of tomorrow with enough brightness in it to drive the dark away. Now let me say a rather important thing: It isn’t always easy to have this kind of image. At any moment we must view the future from wherever we are; and we who are living in our day are looking into the future out of a terribly pessimistic time. Remember Jesus’ parable of the prince, going to claim his kingdom, who turned over his affairs to his associates to care for them until ...

99. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

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Harry N. Huxhold

... for peace and contentment in a world where people elbow and compete with one another in trying to achieve the same goals. In that whole process God is moving and judging, rewarding and punishing. God may be judging or rewarding people. It all depends upon how the people themselves view their roles in the world. But you can be sure of this: when all is said and done, when it is all shaken down, God’s purpose and will is truly done. God’s word does not return to God empty. God is never just blowing in the ...

100. Aren’t All Religions Basically Alike?

John 14:5-14

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Donald B. Strobe

... of sacred and infinite worth? How can we reconcile the Buddhist notion that the human self has no real identity or individual significance with the Christian insistence that becoming one’s true self before God is of primary importance? How can we reconcile the Muslim view that everything that happens, be it good, bad, or indifferent, is “the will of Allah,” with the Christian belief that our lives are not in the hands of a blind Fate, but rather in the hands of a loving God? How can one reconcile the ...

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