Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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Charley Reeb
... about your unanswered prayers? God has an answer for you. But whatever your request, know that God’s answer will always involve your heart being changed by his love. Let us pray: Dear Lord, “Drop they still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and the stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace. Breathe through the pulses of desire they coolness and they balm. Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind and ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... to the Lord and lead us to worship him (John 20:30-31). Do Miracles Still Occur? You may be thinking, “Well, ok. I might be able to agree with you on some of this, but if these miracles did really happen, they have long since ceased. Miracles don’t occur anymore.” I disagree. God did not say, “I will perform miracles during this period of history and then stop forever.” God is still active in our world today. Remember, God is not a static entity. God is always creating, always transforming, always ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... computer, and put a software system in to protect you. Then find someone to hold you accountable. Find a counselor too. Pornography can become addictive and destroy intimacy in a marriage. If you are being unfaithful to your spouse, you will cease the affair and seek reconciliation with God and your spouse. Masturbation This is a tricky subject because there are various viewpoints and opinions on it. The Bible does not directly address the subject of masturbation. Jesus never mentioned it. Over the years ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... it would be about how to build relationships. We are called to relate to people personally because that is what Jesus did. Committees and structures have their place but if we ever lose the personal touch of compassion that Jesus embodied, the church will cease to make an impact on this world. I have found Facebook and Twitter to be great ways to connect with people. I think Jesus would have used Facebook. However, social media will never replace personal touch and connection. In fact, I remember getting a ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... because he remembered something crucial. And what he remembered are the pop verses for today. Take a look. Let’s say them together: Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. –Lamentations 3:21-23 (You may be more familiar with another way this verse is put, “God’s mercies are new every morning.”) How could Jeremiah dare to hope? Because he remembered the help ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... creation groans “with labor pains” for this day of ultimate renewal and healing. Paul acknowledges suffering not as God’s will but as a fact of life. But he said we wait with hope that one day by the grace and power of God all suffering in the world will cease. We pick up Paul’s encouraging words in verse 26 of Romans 8 as he begins to speak of our prayer life in the midst of suffering: …The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit ...
982. Judging Others
Matthew 7:1-6
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... to evaluate others on the basis of a lofty standard of righteousness that somehow is not applicable to our own performance. Jesus says, Do not judge. The Greek construction (mē plus the present imperative) carries with it the idea of ceasing what you are now doing. Williams translates, “Stop criticizing others.” Judging, in this context, implies a harsh and censorious spirit. If you insist on condemning others, you exclude yourself from God’s forgiveness. Although it is psychologically true that a ...
Sermon
Tom Garrison
... with death every day in one way or another. But more importantly, we will be better equipped, not only for dying but also for living and sharing with others, if we will face now the questions and fears and uncertainties that rise up in us at the prospect of our ceasing to be alive in history. The more we put this off the less able we will be to handle the challenge creatively. The more work we are willing to do now, the better it will be for us in the future. Maybe we can approach this with steady eyes and ...
Understanding Series
Larry W. Hurtado
... The disciples’ question was probably motivated by the assumption that the destruction of the temple could occur only at the end of the world and as part of the establishment of the world to come, in which the kingdom of God would be fully consummated and evil would cease. Jesus’ teaching in vv. 5–23 is to the effect that the calamitous events described do not signal the end and must be endured until in God’s good time that end appears (cf. v. 13). 13:8 The beginning of birth pains: The image of the ...
Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... 11:23 he who does not gather with me, scatters: Lachs (p. 213) notes the following relevant parallels from the Psalms of Solomon: “And he [the Messiah] shall gather together a holy people, whom he shall lead in righteousness” (17:28); and “He [the wicked one] never ceases to scatter” (4:13). 11:24 I will return to the house I left: Lachs (p. 215) notes that this language is typical of demonic speech. The person inhabited by the demon is viewed as a “house”; see b. Gittin 52a and b. Hullin 105b ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... to the fact of death. Baptism denotes the state of death in which the power and effects of sin are annulled. In addressing converts baptized as adults, Paul correlates the immersion of baptism to the burial of the dead, in which the old life has ceased and has been committed to a foreign element. This is not the death of Nothingness, however, which awaits the old Adam, but a necessary prelude to resurrection and life. “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?” 1 Cor. 12:17), while an inferiority complex deprives the body of one’s own contribution (“If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body,” 1 Cor. 12:15). The word for sober judgment (Gk. sōphronein, see Acts 26:25; 1 Tim. 2:9, 15; 2 Tim. 1:7; Titus 2:4) occurs in various contexts in the NT. The same word played an important role in Greek ...
988. Love
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... gifts and the enduring, eternal, eschatological nature of love. Thus, verse 8 opens with a contrast between love and prophecies, tongues, and knowledge—declaring that love will endure and that prophecy, tongues, and knowledge will come to an end (or will cease). This turn of thinking should cause alert readers to recall 1 Corinthians 7:31, where Paul said “the present form of this world is passing away,” so that now one encountering Paul’s statements may infer that prophecy, tongues, and knowledge ...
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... (14:30, 32a); it enabled the prophet to know something from a divine perspective (14:24–25); it functioned for evangelism (14:24–25), for upbuilding, encouragement, and consolation of the church (14:3), as well as for learning (14:31); it was to cease at the parousia (13:8, 10). Moreover, in his treatment of this passage, Talbert acknowledges the insightful work on these verses of ch. 14 by B. C. Johanson, “Tongues, a Sign for Unbelievers? A Structural and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 14:20–25 ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... of Saul meant a fundamental change in his own position. He had been acting as the primary national leader, carrying out a mixture of priestly and prophetic duties while functioning as a ruling judge. Now, although his priestly and prophetic roles will not cease and he can remain as a spiritual adviser, decisions about national policy are no longer his. The ceremony reaffirming Saul’s position gives him a chance to clarify his own situation. As their leader, he had responded to their request and set a ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
The Philistine Campaign: 27:1 David’s lack of trust in Saul’s profession of sorrow and promise to cease harming David is made explicit. David assumes that Saul will try again and may eventually succeed in destroying him; he may envisage this destruction coming not through any military prowess on Saul’s part but by David or his men being unable to resist another temptation to act against Saul. ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... part in what happened next. 3:22–39 Joab had been absent while these negotiations had been proceeding. The story of his successful raid, in which a great deal of plunder was taken, reminds readers that the struggles against the Philistine enemies had not ceased. Joab’s reaction to David’s having made peace with Abner was shocked horror. Joab saw Abner as his enemy. The rivalry of two skilled generals had been exacerbated by Abner’s having killed Joab’s brother Asahel. Joab could not envisage that ...
993. David's Victories
2 Samuel 8:1-14
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... subdued and often subjugated. Some, like Hamath (a tribe from the northwest of Israel above the Aramean region), who were not defeated in battle, nevertheless brought tribute (v. 9). Edom in the south, Ammon and Moab in the east, and the Arameans in the north ceased to cause any major problems for some time. Not only were Israel’s borders now well protected, but also garrisons were placed at key bases outside, in the north (v. 6) and the south (v. 14). Of course, none of the great powers were interested ...
994. David and Bathsheba
2 Samuel 11:1-27
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... to be seasonal. Armies were not equipped to move in the times of heavy rains, and supply lines could too easily be cut in the winter, even in Mediterranean lands. A token siege force probably had been left outside of Rabbah, but any active fighting ceased for the winter. A modern equivalent is the mountainous areas of Kashmir, where even with all the advantages of modern technology, the conditions in winter drive armies back to the safety of their own bases. 11:2–5 This account of David’s adultery and ...
995. Absalom’s Death
2 Samuel 18:1-18
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... , but not enough to lead to open rebellion for its own sake. Joab recognized that Ahithophel’s comments concerning David (17:2) applied equally to Absalom. Any further killing was unnecessary and was likely to prove counterproductive. Therefore Joab called an immediate cease-fire. Verse 18 describes the pillar that Absalom had set up as his own memorial. Apart from a heap of stones piled in the forest, this monument was all that remained to mark Absalom’s potential. 18:19–33 Another vivid account ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... of the rugged countryside of the Near East during times of abundant water. These normally dry stream beds can overflow with water in the early spring as the result of thawing ice and melting snow. But in the hot summer months the running waters cease to flow and the streams dry up. Job’s friends are like such unreliable streams that vanish from their channels just when they are most needed, and with disastrous results. Caravans of traders stake their hopes and very lives on these less-than-trustworthy ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... of “everyone,” or at least “everyone that counts!” The friends are acting, Job implies, as if they have attained a wisdom that exceeds that of all the sages in the world. As a result, in their arrogance, they assume that without them wisdom will die and cease to exist. This is certainly an extreme way of saying that any viewpoint besides one’s own has no validity. 12:3 But Job demands that the three friends assume the humility of the true sage, who acknowledges that he is only one among many sages ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... to rather heavy-handed warning of the dreadful fate that awaits those who, like Job, refuse to confess their sin before God and humans. 18:2–3 With an exasperated “How long!” (emphasis added; NIV when), Bildad explodes on the scene demanding that Job cease speaking. His outburst is tantamount to an admission that the friends are unable to answer Job’s arguments or persuade him of their own views. The verb translated end here may be a jussive form expressing Bildad’s desire that Job “shut up ...
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... after his direct speech to God in verses 18–23, that God is behind Job’s suffering. Like a victim of virulent food poisoning (or the effects of venom as in 20:14–16), Job’s internal organs seethe and boil (NIV churning inside me) without ceasing. Since days of suffering confront me (Heb. “come to meet me”), Job has only more affliction to look forward to. 30:28–30 I go about blackened. The NIV takes the participle qoder (“be black”) as a description of the externally visible effects of Job ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... passages draw a connection between the “bed” and pagan rituals (Isa. 57:7–8; Hos. 7:14, which also mentions “grain and new wine”). Hence, these exhortations prescribe what they are to know, the (probably pagan) behaviors they are to cease, and now the new behaviors they are to practice. They are concretely to affirm allegiance to the LORD by “trusting” and “offering” right sacrifices (or “sacrifices of righteousness”). Right sacrifices must be given to the righteous God (v. 1). While ...
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