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Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... , Satan could imagine what a lack of food for a prolonged period would do to someone and so it should not come as a surprise to learn that the devil's first temptation is directed toward Jesus' physical vulnerability. The wily Satan begins with a double-pronged attack that questions Christ's identity while suggesting a quick fix to his current physical needs. "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread" (v. 3). Let me paraphrase, "With one quick move, you can prove who ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... there is a tomb. It looks like any other ancient tomb in that area. Step inside and you will quickly realize that this tomb is different. Someone of status and wealth once owned this tomb. You can tell that it belonged to a person of means because this is a double tomb with two side-by-side burial spaces. What is more, this tomb once contained a body but now it lies empty. The evidence of its having been used is seen in the way that the sides of one of the two grave spaces are cut clean and square, just ...
1103. Need a Lift?
Acts 9:36-43
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... such as brain disease.[1] The results are that 543 million Americans are seriously ill, which is shocking in a country whose population is only 266 million people. Garfield’s response to this was, “Either as a society we are doomed, or someone is seriously double-dipping.”[2] I don’t know the answer to this discrepancy, but it appears that our whole country is weighted down by personal challenges. For some, it is one or more of those illnesses which we are forced to deal with day in and day ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... . In your rushing you may have missed what was most important and that makes all that you got done meaningless. You may have felt good about taking that call during your son’s baseball game but when he came to bat you were still on the phone and missed the double he hit. You may think you need to go over in your mind all the things that need to get done tomorrow in the car, but you will miss your little girl telling you about the picture she drew in class she is proud of. One day that little girl ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... the secret to contentment. One of my favorite movies is The Shawshank Redemption. It stars Morgan Freeman as “Red” and Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne. They are both prisoners and become good friends in prison. Andy is sentenced to two consecutive life terms for a double murder he did not commit. He experiences the brutality of prison life and works for a cruel and disturbed warden. He longs to be free from prison so he begins to plan his escape without telling a soul. There is great scene in the movie ...
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... Christians have come to terms with the world by renouncing their faith. Such action forfeits the true life of the soul. On the other hand, willingly to accept martyrdom for Christ’s sake is to gain the higher life (life in v. 39 is used in a double sense—physical, and true or spiritual). The saying of Jesus is also true in a more general sense; to pursue selfish interests is to lose out on what life is all about, whereas to devote oneself to Christ brings deep and lasting satisfaction. 10:40–42 At ...
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... illustration from the practice of the temple priests, who break the law every Sabbath and yet are not guilty. The priests “profane” the Sabbath by changing the consecrated bread “regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath” (Lev. 24:8), and “on the Sabbath day” making a double burnt offering (Num. 28:9). If Sabbath laws can be set aside in the interests of temple service, it follows that they can be set aside for something or someone greater than the temple. And Jesus declares that that is exactly the ...
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... :3–4). In a similar way, the events of the immediate period leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem portend a greater and more universal catastrophe when Christ returns in judgment at the end of time. Gundry is right in his observation that double fulfillment (I would say “multiple fulfillment”) involves an ambiguity that needs to be accepted as fact rather than objected to on literary grounds (p. 491). Additional Notes 24:2 Green argues in a curious fashion that since tauta panta (all these things ...
1109. Playing One Hand
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Sermon
Tom Garrison
... stay with the process and keep at the task. This is the stance of authentic maturity, in my judgment, and one that can be hopefully applied to all the creative ventures in which one finds oneself involved. Be it a marriage, a business venture, whatever, the double aspect of this image of "playing one hand" should give helpful and liberating perspective. On the one hand, it underlines the reality of one's limits, of the fact that many forces other than our own also impinge on the process and will affect the ...
Sermon
Kristin Borsgard Wee
Dan and I always enjoyed the summer days at the lake cabin in Minnesota. It's a noisy and happy time with grandchildren running around in wet bathing suits, adults scooping ice cream like crazy, playing our favorite game Double Cross, and swatting mosquitoes. Late in the evening we would start telling stories. Sometimes we laugh until we cry. At some point in the storytelling, our oldest child usually says to her siblings, "You don't know how lucky you were. Our parents were so strict with me I couldn' ...
1111. The Real Thing
Matthew 23:1-12
Sermon
David G. Rogne
... kid, who was assigned to saw two-by-fours, sawed all day in the hot sun and did so as if his life depended on it. A little girl carried water to the workers. Coast Guardsmen, Marines, and Seabees came to help. Cement was laid for a double tennis court and smoothed out by noon. A basketball court was in before the sun went down. Dozens of people worked all night. Saturday morning a crowd of several hundred showed up for work, black and white, young and old. They sodded the lawn Saturday night and turned ...
Understanding Series
Larry W. Hurtado
... terminally ill and then dead. Another device that links the two incidents is the number twelve. The woman has a twelve-year ailment (v. 25) and the girl is twelve years old (v. 42). The point of linking these two stories includes the “double-barreled” impact they have in showing the compassionate power of Jesus. Perhaps especially in ancient settings, where women were regarded as less important than men, Jesus’ interest in the welfare of these two needy women must be seen as very significant. Like the ...
Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... to the lives of sinners. Thus, the difference in religious philosophy between Jesus and the Pharisees was fundamental, making conflict inevitable. 5:27–32 Like the miraculous catch of fish (5:1–11), the story of the calling of Levi serves a double purpose. First, it narrates the call itself and, second, it provides a context for the conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees that follows (cf. Matt. 9:9–13; Mark 2:13–17). Having called three Galilean fishermen to discipleship (certainly dubious ...
Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... concerned with the status of the firstborn son. He is to 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 ...
Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... :14–30 (cf. also Matt. 25:14 and Mark 13:34 with Luke 19:12–13). In the Matthean version a man gives his slaves (25:14) five, two, and one “talents” (of either silver or gold; 25:15). The slaves entrusted with the five and two talents double their monies (25:16–17), but the slave with the single talent hid it in the ground (25:18). The Master returns, commends the first two slaves, placing them in charge over “many things” (25:19–23), but he condemns the “wicked, lazy slave” (25:26) for ...
Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... have been understood as relating to Jesus’ crucifixion. Paul Schubert (“The Structure and Significance of Luke 24,” in Neutestamentliche Studien für Rudolf Bultmann, BZNW 21, W. Eltester, ed. [Berlin: Töpelmann, 1954], pp. 165–86) explores the “double-witness” theme in Luke 24, particularly with reference to vv. 27 and 44–47, where twice the risen Christ explains the Scriptures to his disciples. Schubert concludes that “Luke’s proof-from-prophecy theology,” an important aspect of ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... over the bench of the judge himself; of a rabbi’s wife who caught her husband in adultery by disguising herself as another woman; of a rabbi who taught against lending money at interest and against stealing … and who was convicted of both; of double standards such as: “Robbing a Gentile is forbidden, but if one finds a Gentile’s stolen property he can keep it.” That Palestinian Jews felt justified in denuding pagan temples in the name of the One God was practically axiomatic. Some four decades ...
1118. Peace and Joy
Romans 5:1-11
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... to the Corinthians Paul used the term with reference to being a “new creation,” meaning first to be reconciled to God, and second, the surrendering of self as an “ambassador of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:16–21). Reconciliation thus carries the double significance of God’s doing something for us and with us. The parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11–32 wonderfully illustrates reconciling love. Willful and defiant, the younger son demanded his share of the father’s blessing, later to ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... , and not in the old way of the written code. Slavery to Christ leads to freedom in Christ, “whose service,” as the Book of Common Prayer says, “is perfect freedom.” The new way of the Spirit and the old way of the written code present a double contrast between newness and oldness, or the Spirit and the letter. It is tempting to see here a contrast between the old and new covenants, or law and grace, but that would overlook an important nuance of the argument. Paul does not contrast the law with the ...
1120. Love
Romans 12:9-21
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... the implication of this imperative for the present day. 12:14–16 This world is not utopia, whether of a classless society or limitless prosperity. Like everyone else, Christians live in a world twisted by disparities between ideals and double standards, success and failure, friend and foe, life and death. Faced with the sometimes hostile, sometimes hospitable, but usually indifferent nature of this world, believers are not presented with the alternative of withdrawing in Stoic detachment or impassivity ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... a substitute for true Christianity. Beneath civic duties and good causes, even beneath personal world-views and life-styles, lies the essential and indispensable characteristic of Christian faith, love for others. 13:8–10 Verse 8 begins with an emphatic double-negative in Greek, which might be rendered, “Owe nothing to anyone,” except the continuing debt to love one another. The debt of love is categorical and admits of no exceptions. In Buddhism love is a rather dispassionate feeling of benevolence ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... offers rather compelling evidence that the “strong” and “weak” of chapters 14–15 generally correspond in Paul’s thinking to Gentiles and Jews. If the phrasing of verses 8–9 is somewhat rough, it is, as Käsemann reminds us, because Paul has a double purpose in mind. He wants to establish that the saving grace of Christ is available to Jews and Gentiles alike, but that priority was given (at least historically) to the Jews (Romans, p. 385). Gentiles, on the one hand, must understand that their ...
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... of chs. 1–4 to chs. 5–16 and concludes that there were two phases to the composition of the letter, so that effectively 1 Corinthians is a combination of two practically independent letters. Most important, De Boer argues that there was a double occasion for the writing of the single, compound writing: conversation with Chloe’s people (chs. 1–4) and the visit by Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, who bore a letter to Paul from Corinth (chs. 5–16). Thus, De Boer sees Paul launching out ...
1124. The Rights of an Apostle
1 Corinthians 9:1-27
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... segment that follows in vv. 4–6 or 4–7. In defense of the division into paragraphs between v. 3 and v. 4, see K. Nickel, “A Parenthetical Apologia: 1 Corinthians 9:1–3,” CurTM 1 (1974), pp. 68–70. 9:4 Paul writes with emphatic double negatives (mē ouk) here and in v. 5. The force of this construction is hard to translate into English, and the clear implication of the grammar is to assume a positive answer: Stated question: “Don’t we …?” Assumed reply: “Of course you do!” The issues ...
1125. The Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... a series of remarks, including four rhetorical questions and a final declaration. He uses these to provide a forceful explanation of his inability to commend the practices of the Corinthians. The tone of the lines is telling. The first question is as a double negative in Greek and amounts to stinging sarcasm, Don’t you have …? (contra Conzelmann, 1 Corinthians, p. 195). The second question exposes the real results of what was happening in Corinth, Or do you despise …? The third question is neutral and ...
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