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1026. Can It Be Sin to Be Shy?

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... not want you to be timid in the things that are important. We can see that in our scripture lesson. St. Paul is concerned that young pastor Timothy be a bold, confident, forthright preacher of the Word. He knew that in the ministry you cannot afford to ... grace. Don’t be intimidated. Reach out a hand. Ask how they’re doing. And listen. Every one of us has needs and hurts and joys and concerns we would like to share, but some of us are too darn shy to share them. Do you see that God wants us to reach out ...

1027. Take Your Job and Love It

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... us work is essential to our self-esteem. Some experts contend that this is not a healthy way of looking at life, but for many of us, work gives us our identity. During World War II industrialist Henry J. Kaiser was brought to Washington, D.C. to testify concerning his ship building activities. He had claimed to be able to build a ship a day. He was being cross-examined by a somewhat hostile young lawyer who said, “So you think you can build a ship a day,” goaded the questioner. “You know Rome wasn’t ...

1028. Infections and Mildew

Lev 13:1-59

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... 13–14 give instructions for diagnosis of and ritual purification from an unhealthy state: skin or surface disease. In humans this complex of conditions, some of which resemble psoriasis, is not the same as modern leprosy (Hansen’s disease). The translation “leprosy” (e.g., KJV, NASB) stems from confusion concerning the translation in the Greek Septuagint. Analogous surface maladies could take the form of mold in garments (13:47–59) and fungus in walls of houses (14:34–53). For Leviticus the ...

1029. Miscellaneous Laws

Deut 23:15–25:19

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... of the debtor are to be respected by not entering a person’s house to select what could be put up as security and by not taking a person’s cloak beyond sunset since it is needed to keep warm at night. A third illustration (24:14–15) concerns paying workers each day before sunset for their work, since they have no resources otherwise to get food and the necessities of life for that day. In the case of individual sins, children are not to bear the brunt for their father’s sins nor vice versa. King ...

1030. Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 3:1-4:24

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... more spectacular miracles, the crossing of the Red Sea (cf. Exod. 14:21–22), it indeed sends a clear message to Israel that the Lord is with Joshua just as he was with Moses (cf. 3:7). When the whole of Israel has crossed over, the Lord gives further instructions concerning the twelve men chosen earlier (4:2–3; cf. 3:12). They are each to take a stone from the middle of the river, where the priests carrying the ark stand, and carry it to the camp where they will be spending the night. In 4:2–3, as in ...

1031. Judgment and Hope

Isaiah 31:1-9, Isaiah 32:1-8, Isaiah 32:9-20

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... wrath, symbolized by “fire” and “furnace” (31:9), is in Jerusalem. He has a purpose for Jerusalem and will not permit it to fall. The future age will be characterized by righteousness and justice (32:1–8). The king, leaders, and people will be concerned with the pursuit of wisdom from above. The wise man is blessed in that he represents God’s blessedness; he is “a shelter,” “a refuge,” “streams of water in the desert,” and shade (32:2). No longer will God’s people be characterized ...

1032. True Religion

Isaiah 58:1-14

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... God. Fasting as an act of humility and contrition can be acceptable to God only if it is an expression of love for God and neighbor. True godliness shows itself in concern for justice and a love of the Sabbath (58:9b–14). Justice is God’s concern and therefore cannot be limited to the Jewish people under the law. God is concerned with oppression, slander, and unrighteous acts. The glorious presence of God will dawn on the righteous. The godly are likened to a well-irrigated garden (58:11). They are God ...

1033. Addressing Rulers and Governments

Jeremiah 21:1-14, Jeremiah 22:1-30

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... translated “alas”), while common in Jeremiah (23:1; 48:1), is more frequent in Isaiah (Isa. 5:8, 11, 18, 20–21). Unrighteousness is lack of inner integrity, and injustice is failure to be honorable in transactions. Justice was to be a ruler’s first concern (21:11; 23:5; Mic. 3:1–3). Specifically, Jehoiakim cheated his workers out of pay or resorted to forced labor. Because of the heavy tribute to Egypt, he may have been unable to pay (2 Kings 23:35). Large rooms, windows, cedar paneling—a luxury ...

1034. Edom’s Judgment Pronounced and Reaffirmed

Obadiah 1:1-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ), the west (Shephelah and the coastal plain of Philistia), and the north and east (Zarephath, Samaria, and Gilead) will again be inhabited by the house of Jacob and Joseph. The prophet certainly intends to stir up memories of distant promises made to the Israelite forefathers concerning the land of Canaan as an inheritance, an everlasting possession (Gen. 17:1–8; Exod. 3:8; Josh. 1:1–9; 2 Sam. 7:10; cf. Deut. 1:6–8). The purpose of Obadiah’s appeal to history is to instill hope in the Babylonian ...

1035. The Observance of Fasts

Zechariah 7:1-14

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... futility of ritual worship without a true change of heart. As the people ignored God’s wishes in prosperous times (7:7), so they ignore his wishes now, not mourning for their sin but for their loss. The people are concerned about fasting—whether or not it should be continued. God’s concern is that they should truly listen to him for a change. What he says in these verses he has said many times in the past. His specific admonitions all relate to the essence of the commandment to “love your neighbor ...

1036. The Tithe

Malachi 3:6-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... children who persevere to the end. This disputation is also related to the fifth (2:17–3:6), but is more direct and severe. The prophet does not give a general call for repentance. He makes it clear that many in the covenant community are too concerned with self but are incapable of establishing their own righteousness. Their feet are set on slippery paths, and they will perish. On the other hand, there is always a righteous remnant that does the will of God on earth, and they will receive a glorious ...

1037. Paul Before Agrippa

Acts 25:23--26:32

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... in expressing how Christianity is not a sect that is “stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world” (24:5).In response to Agrippa, who rightly realizes that Paul’s defense is a proclamation of the gospel (26:28), Paul also concedes that his concern is not with his freedom but with the spiritual state of his audience (26:29). While Agrippa’s final comment that Paul could have been set free had he not appealed to Caesar (26:32) rightly affirms Paul’s innocence, it also reflects Agrippa’s ...

1038. God’s Sovereign Choice

Romans 9:1-29

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... solemn affirmation that he speaks the truth and that he does not lie (9:1). Paul emphasizes that the Jews’ unbelief grieves him greatly (9:2). The cause for his grief is implied in verse 3 and apparent from Paul’s argument in the larger context. His intense concern for the salvation of the Jews is expressed in verse 3 in dramatic fashion. Paul asserts that if it could lead to the salvation of his people, he would wish to be cursed and thus cut off from Jesus Christ (cf. 10:1). Paul’s wish is similar ...

1039. Support for the Appeal

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... . But because of his jealous love for the Corinthians, and his desire as their “father” to present the church to Christ as a “pure virgin” bride, untainted by the errors of others, Paul is willing to make his appeal on any terms (11:2). Paul’s chief concern, however, is not his own status but the minds of his converts (men or women), which “may somehow be led astray” by arguments about authority and deceived about truth in this matter as effectively as was Eve (11:3; Gen. 3:1–7). The crux of ...

1040. Correcting Cephas

Galatians 2:11-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... public rebuke (“in front of them all”; 2:14) of Peter came because Peter’s action appeared to have been the culmination of a series of indiscretions that indicated a continuing bias against Gentiles by the Jewish members of the church. (See the charge concerning Peter’s attempt to “force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs” in 2:14.) Paul’s statement has the ring of irony. We might do well to paraphrase Paul’s point: “If you, one of the sacred, live secularly, and not sacredly, how do you ...

1041. Practical Ethics

Galatians 6:1-10

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... which has the effect of obliterating the wrong that could be used to strengthen one’s claim of superiority against the erring sister or brother. Paul completes these exhortations with an appeal for each person to seriously assess their own condition, as one whose only concern is to test their own level of responsibility in the Lord (6:3–5), without falling into an attitude of conceit (6:3). The Galatians are to see that their faithful actions in this area do fulfill a law, namely, the law of Christ (6 ...

1042. Prayer for Enlightenment

Ephesians 1:15-23

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ” refers to the spirit of the community—the mind, the inner soul—in its power to grasp ideas (1:18a). The implication is that if God does not give this illumination, it cannot be had. It is also important to keep in mind that the concern is for health of the entire community and not merely for the spirituality of individuals. Paul specifies what he wants the believing community to understand with their enlightened heart: (1) the hope to which God has called them, (2) the glorious abundance of God’s ...

1043. The Man of Lawlessness

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... of the letter (2:1–3:15). 2:1–17 Review · The time of the day of the Lord: The first section of the body (2:1–17) is a discourse concerning the time of the day of the Lord (2:1–12) and a thanksgiving for the divine election of the Thessalonians (2:13–14), followed by an exhortation and blessing centered on concerns regarding the stability of the congregation (2:15–17). 2:1–12 · False teaching:Paul and his associates introduce the first section of the body of the letter with an exhortation ...

1044. I am the Door

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about you sleeping in church—if you need the sleep, I don’t know a better place to get it than here in church. However, I am concerned about people who yawn their way through life—not very alert to what is going on. I’m especially concerned about people whose primary response to the Christian faith is that of a tired yawn. Hearing the words of Jesus ought to cause us to stand on our tiptoe, to listen intently, to leap and dance with joy, to straighten up our shoulders, to have our burdens lifted ...

1045. Jesus or Niccolo?

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... control and is far more bold than the first one: Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone' " (vv. 5-6). Matthew speaks of the capital city not as Jerusalem but as "the holy city." For Jews, the city of Jerusalem was even more than the capital ...

1046. Judas Hangs Himself

Matthew 27:1-10

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... repent”) and probably means in this context “to regret/change one’s mind.” Returning to the chief priests, he attempted to return the thirty silver coins, but they would have none of it. That he had betrayed innocent blood (v. 4) was of no concern to them. Judas hurled (rhiptō is a strong verb) the money into the temple (naos need not refer exclusively to the inner sanctuary, Josephus, War, 6.293; cf. BAGD, p. 533, 1.a), and went away and hanged himself. Schweizer suggests that throwing money into ...

1047. The Parable of the Sower

Mark 4:1-20

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... ’ true significance and little ability to accept what Jesus knows must be his path through rejection and death in the will of God. 4:13–20 In this passage Jesus explains the parable given in 4:1–9, making it clear that the parable concerns the proclamation of the message of the kingdom of God and its reception by various kinds of listeners. Before giving the explanation of the parable, Jesus comments on the disciples’ inability to understand his parables (4:13). This comment is the first of several ...

1048. The Calling of Levi

Luke 5:27-32

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... company. Another aspect of Jesus’ ministry that offended the Pharisees and others (such as the Essenes) who fasted often (see 18:12) and strictly monitored what food and drink they consumed was that Jesus apparently did not fast often, nor was he overly concerned about the religious purity of the food that he ate. Thus, in the eyes of his critics, not only did Jesus fellowship with the wrong kind of people, he also had adopted wrong habits. The major difference between the outlook of the Pharisees ...

1049. Repent or Perish

Luke 13:1-9

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... Jews from Galilee and the death of 18 people in Siloam, is unique to Luke. Neither of the episodes is mentioned in secular histories (though some scholars point to two or three inexact parallels to the incident of the murdered Galileans; see Marshall, p. 553). Concerning theme, Evans (p. 46) points to a parallel with Deut. 13:12–18, where the emphasis on turning to the Lord in order to live is quite similar to the Lucan passage under consideration (cf. the similar expression, “all who live in that town ...

1050. The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:1-7

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... be regarded as firstborn and honored over a second-born son, even if the father loves the second-born son more. The firstborn son is to retain his proper place in the family and receive a “double portion” of the inheritance. Deut. 21:18–21 is concerned with what to do with a wayward and disobedient son. A son who does “not obey his father” and who is “a glutton and a drunkard” is to be taken out of the city and stoned. Jesus’ parable stands in stark contrast to this legislation. The wayward ...

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