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1001. Cities of Refuge

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

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... at its end like a hammer or an ax (cf. Deut. 19:5). Rocks (“stone”) or clubs (“wooden object”) are more likely used by deliberate murderers. 35:20–21 with malice aforethought. “Malice aforethought” is literally “out of hatred” (ESV). Animosity previous to the act provides evidence that it is murder, even if no weapon is used. shoves another or throws something at them intentionally . . . out of enmity . . . hits another. Hostility before the act provides circumstantial evidence that ...

1002. You Reap What You Sow

2 Sam 13:1-39

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... that Amnon is following the “wise” advice of Jonadab, whom the narrator sarcastically calls “a very shrewd [or, “wise”] man” (v. 3). The royal house has become a place where wisdom is perverted, along with morality.2 13:15 hated her with intense hatred. Just as Amnon, instigated by his shrewd friend Jonadab, perverts genuine wisdom (see comment on v. 13 above), so he perverts genuine love. The love he feels toward Tamar (v. 1) is mere physical lust, as implied in verse 1 by the reference to ...

1003. Repentance and Victory

1 Samuel 7:2-17

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... to the Cain-and-Abel story. Arrested for the murder of his brother, Mendoza becomes filled with self-loathing and molders in a prison cell until a priest (played by Jeremy Irons) comes to talk to him firmly and persistently. He begins to move beyond his self-hatred and wants forgiveness. As a sign of his repentance, he drags a bag of heavy armor, a symbol of his past life, up a cliff above the Iguaçú Falls. When the bag falls, he goes down and starts over, repeatedly. Awaiting him at the top are the ...

1004. Saul on the Rampage

1 Samuel 22:6-23

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... the Lord’s earlier command to Saul to wipe out the Amalekites (15:3).4 On that occasion Saul failed to completely carry out the Lord’s command to kill an archenemy of Israel, prompting the Lord to reject Saul as king. But now, filled with hatred for the Lord’s chosen king, Saul slaughters the Lord’s priests with an efficiency that should have been reserved for God’s enemies.5 22:21 Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. Doeg has actually done the killing, but the priest rightly attributes ...

1005. “You Are My Son; Today I Have Become Your Father”

Psalm 2:1-12

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C. Hassell Bullock

... beings may feel their power not merely on the level of kings and presidents but even on the personal level, but God “laughs” at them. In terms of God’s saving acts in history, that’s what God did in Jesus Christ when he defied the demons of hatred and the idolatry of the human spirit by raising his Son, Jesus Christ, from the dead. One other aspect of Psalm 2 is important and might be considered as a second sermon on this psalm, which closes with four words of admonition for its ancient audience and ...

1006. “In the Lord I Take Refuge”

Psalm 11:1-7

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C. Hassell Bullock

... his enemies might “rejoice when I fall.” How we conduct ourselves amid conflict with others is one of the most revealing facets of faith. Our poet neither curses nor blesses them. This is the countenance of faith where the grimaces of our sins and our hatred toward those who mistreat us can disfigure our face. We ought to review Jesus’s instruction to love our enemies and pray for them (Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:27–28), for only the unfailing love of God can change the disfigurement our sins have caused ...

1007. “The Lord Looks Down . . . to See If There Are Any Who Understand”

Psalm 14:1-7

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C. Hassell Bullock

... increased understanding of the universe has done little or nothing to change the way we human beings treat one another. While the Holocaust and modern terrorism cannot be blamed on modern science (except the technological means to facilitate such hatred), they are defiant examples of the evil of humankind despite our burgeoning scientific understanding of our world. Contrasting perspectives Contrasting Concept: When GQ magazine honored actor Matthew McConaughey as one of the 2013 “Men of the Year, ” he ...

1008. The Power of Persistence

Luke 11:1-13, Luke 18:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... ’s soldiers had invaded their land. How rarely do acts of kindness, mercy, and generosity become news?! We live in a time where newspaper headlines and television news shows are dominated by stories about deceit, selfishness, immorality, corruption, catastrophe, murder, rape, hatred, and suspicion. Through some perverted sense of the dramatic, it is assumed that evil alone is news. This point of view warps our judgment and leads us to the pessimistic view that there is little good left in the world and ...

1009. Look Again

Matthew 1:18-25

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James L. Killen

... have come to realize that God was at work in that movement, and the reorganization of life that it has brought has saved our world from something very bad. Some people have found that, in the long run, it eventually saved them from the oppression of fear and hatred. We have learned to look again at the things that were happening. There is a story in the second book of Kings in the Old Testament that is very interesting (2 Kings 6:8-23). The prophet Elisha provoked the anger of the king of Aram by repeatedly ...

1010. Unnoticed at Your Own Party

Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11, James 5:7-10

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King Duncan

... !” (3) I like that--a big hope church in a little hope community. Jesus was born in a little hope part of the world. It was a little hope part of the world then, and it is a little hope part of the world now. When will the violence and hatred in that part of the world ever end? Truly only God knows. But in that little hope part of the world, more than 2,000 years ago, there were shepherds keeping watch over their sheep who beheld angels in the sky who directed them to a manger in Bethlehem. And ...

1011. Laws of Justice and Mercy

Exodus 23:1-9

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Gary M. Burge

The principles that close the section on social and civil torah (23:1–9) acknowledge the fundamental evil of lying, hatred, and greed and call for truthfulness as the basis of justice. No special consideration is to be given to social status, whether rich or poor. The specific mandate to help the animal of one’s enemy would be a way of demonstrating evidence of forgiveness within the community.

1012. Absalom Kills Amnon

2 Samuel 13:23-39

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Gary M. Burge

In spite of his intense hatred for Amnon, Absalom waits two years before taking revenge on his half-brother (13:23–33). He chooses a normally festive occasion, the time of sheepshearing, to invite his brothers to visit his land in Ephraim, in the center of Israel. To make it look legitimate, he invites David ...

1013. Opposition to the Work

Ezra 4:1-5

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Gary M. Burge

... lands whose faith has become diluted with local religious beliefs. But the author calls the peoples enemies. At first glance it appears that they want to help. They even claim that they worship the same God. But the rest of Ezra-Nehemiah shows their deep hatred of the Jews. The returned exiles reject their help. Are they too separatist? Should they have accepted help from these neighbors? This is a dilemma similar to that which Christians often face, and this issue is often a divisive factor in churches or ...

1014. Psalm 139

Psalm 139:1-24

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Gary M. Burge

... confine him. God can guide and protect David wherever he is. David marvels at God’s creativity in forming humans (139:13–18). He is amazed that God constantly thinks about them and mercifully preserves them. Because enemies of such a God deserve destruction, David (139:19–24) declares his hatred for them. Recognizing his fallibility, however, he seeks God’s guidance in his life.

1015. Psalm 149

Psalm 149:1-9

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Gary M. Burge

... praise him because he takes joyful interest in them and blesses those who humble themselves before him (149:1–4). God’s people, moreover, are to honor him by carrying out his judgment on those who oppose God (149:6–9). This judgment does not originate from the saints’ own hatred of their enemies but from the recorded decision of God (149:9) and is a judgment that they are to inflict because of their love for God (149:6).

1016. Proverbs of Solomon

Proberbs 10:1--22:16

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Gary M. Burge

... /fool. Notably, both verses 8b and 10b, and 6b and 11b, are identical, which is unlikely a coincidence; such repetition is emphatic. Verse 7a explains the “blessings” of the righteous, while verse 7b offers a contrast. The third subunit (10:12–21) begins by contrasting hatred (also in 10:18) with love, the latter half of the verse being quoted in James 5:20 and 1 Peter 4:8. One who hates foments discord, while one who loves overlooks offenses. The wise “store up” (cf. Prov. 2:1; 7:1) knowledge ...

1017. Ephraim

Isaiah 28:1-29

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Gary M. Burge

... like a babbler who is explaining his message to babes and infants or like a kindergarten teacher who begins by teaching sounds: “tsav latsav tsav latsav / qav laqav qav laqav” (28:10). By mimicking the sounds, the religious leaders express the intensity of their hatred for God’s word. To this mockery, Isaiah responds with God’s word of judgment. Whereas the Lord has given the land to Israel as a place in which they might receive his blessings, foreign invaders will come and speak like babblers. The ...

1018. Judgment and Restoration

Isaiah 66:1-24

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Gary M. Burge

... rather than being the place of true worship, the temple had become a place where people came to pacify their own consciences; they were trying to atone for their own misdeeds without exhibiting a spirit of true contrition. In their corruption, injustice, and hatred, they were presenting sacrifices offensive to the Lord. The prophecy of Isaiah concludes with God’s concern for true worship (66:1–6). God desires to have fellowship with those who show sensitivity to his word by acts of obedience, love, and ...

1019. God’s Judgment of the Foreign Nations

Amos 1:1-2:5

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Gary M. Burge

... 14; 2 Kings 8:20–22; 14:7; 16:6). Amos concludes that it was just for God’s wrath to fall on Edom because the Edomites have had absolutely no mercy on the sons of Jacob, but in great anger repeatedly have allowed the fire of their hatred to drive them to kill their brothers. Consequently, the audience would agree with God’s plan to send the fires of war against the main Edomite city of Teman and destroy the palaces in Bozrah. The last pair of oracles addresses the future of the Ammonites and Moabites ...

1020. The Hope of Final Restoration

Amos 9:11-15

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Gary M. Burge

... decide if they should allow uncircumcised Gentiles into the church. James’s quotation of Amos 9:12 resolved the issue (Acts 15:16–17), bringing a unified acceptance of Gentiles who bear God’s name just as Amos prophesied. Although the history of Israel demonstrates great hatred between Edom and Israel (1:11–12), through the witness of the seed of Abraham, God will extend his blessings to other people (Gen. 12:1–3; Isa. 2:1–4; 19:18–25; 42:6; 66:18–21). People from every tribe, language, and ...

1021. The Lord Promises to Bless Jerusalem

Zechariah 8:1-23

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Gary M. Burge

... globe because the Lord is there to give direction to all peoples of the world. He will instruct multitudes of willing hearers who have come to learn his will and to do it. In the present passage the role of Israel is stressed. Contempt for and hatred of Jerusalem has been replaced by the recognition that it is a place of honor, where God dwells. The formerly small and despised nation will now be joined by “many peoples and powerful nations” in seeking God (8:22). The Jews also will be acknowledged to ...

1022. God’s Love for His People

Malachi 1:1-5

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Gary M. Burge

... Esau, however, is progressive, slowly moving toward completion (1:3–4). The Edomites had harassed the Judeans as they attempted to flee Judah and Jerusalem at the time of the fall of Jerusalem (586 BC). The books of Obadiah and Lamentations speak of the hatred shown by the Edomites, who did not help Judah in her time of need but instead rejoiced in her tragedy. Later, the Edomites were displaced by desert nomads who had destroyed the mountain strongholds and devastated the land, forcing them to flee into ...

1023. Intermarriage and Divorce

Malachi 2:10-16

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Gary M. Burge

... , and the absence of marital fidelity is symptomatic of a deeper spiritual problem. The people are unreliable in their relationship with their peers, wives, and God. They are religious infidels. Second, the severity of God’s judgment is due to his intense hatred of divorce. The people have argued from the mistaken theological position that, since God is the Father of all Israel, they are safe from his judgment. Malachi replies that God’s true children have the Spirit of God, which is manifested in ...

1024. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 10:1-42

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Gary M. Burge

... Jews and even arrested by Gentile leaders (10:17–18). They are not to worry about their defense, since Jesus promises that “the Spirit of [their] Father” will speak through them (10:19–20). Jesus calls them to stand firm in the face of betrayal and hatred, continuing their town-to-town ministry, since the coming of the Son of Man will precede the completion of their preaching (10:21–23). Jesus’s words, “You will not finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes” (10:23 ...

1025. The Trial of Jesus

Mark 15:1-15

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Gary M. Burge

... potential threat for Pilate. Jesus’s answer to Pilate’s question in verse 2, neither an affirmation nor denial, could be rendered, “You would do well to consider the question.” Jesus’s remaining silence in the face of lies, hatred, and cruelty dominates Mark’s subsequent passion narrative. Evidently harboring doubts about the necessity of Jesus’s execution, Pilate proposes releasing an insurrectionist, whose name “Barabbas” (in Aramaic) means “son of the father.” The real “Son of the ...

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