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1101. Jesus or Niccolo?

Matthew 4:1-11

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart" (Hebrews 12:2-3). Jesus or Niccolo? Who will you follow? Christ or Machiavelli? The eternal destiny of your soul depends on the choices you make when that moment of temptation comes ...

1102. The Time Is Now!

Luke 24:50-53

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... and what he is doing there. In Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 Paul speaks of gifts given to people. In Ephesians 4, Paul speaks of people given to the church as gifts by the ascended Christus victor. In his death and resurrection, Jesus overcomes the hostile powers that hold people in subjection; those powers of the devil, sin, the law, and death are conquered in the Lord's resurrection. Just as an Old Testament military victor has the right to give gifts to those identified with him, so Jesus Christ, who ...

1103. The Cost of Discipleship

Matthew 17:1-9

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James L. Killen

... : Dear Children, before we can become God's partners, we must know what God wants for us. "I have a dream," God says, "Please help me realize it. It is a dream of a world whose ugliness and squalor and poverty, its war and hostility, its greed and harsh competitiveness, its alienation and disharmony are changed into their glorious counterparts, when there will be more laughter and joy and peace, where there will be justice and goodness and compassion and love and caring and sharing… where my children will ...

1104. The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... acts, bear a family resemblance to their heavenly Father. The final beatitude has to do with those who are persecuted for upholding by their confession and life the righteous requirements of God. To them belongs the kingdom of heaven. Jesus promised his followers the same hostility that he was facing (John 15:18–25). Peter often spoke of unjust suffering (1 Pet. 1:6; 3:13–17a; 4:12–19). To suffer for doing what God requires brings great consolation. Note that mention of the kingdom of heaven opens (v ...

1105. Jesus and John the Baptist

Matthew 11:1-19

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Robert H. Mounce

... find the same formula that was used at the end of the Sermon on the Mount (kai egeneto hote etelesen ho Iēsous; cf. 7:28). Up to this point the public ministry of Jesus has met with success. Now the atmosphere changes, and hostility begins to manifest itself. Having finished giving instructions to the Twelve, Jesus departs (apparently alone) to teach and preach in nearby towns. From this point on, healings are less frequent (cf. Matt. 4:23). Jesus began his ministry in Galilee following the imprisonment of ...

1106. Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24:1-35

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Robert H. Mounce

... Jerusalem was an anticipation of the end of the age. The same essential principles are in play. To speak of the end of history in terms taken from the impending crisis was quite natural. A parallel situation in Revelation pictures the final conflict in terms of hostility brought to bear on the church through the powers of the Roman Empire in consort with the religious leaders of the Asian church. The Olivet Discourse (as it is often called) is best understood if we do not press it unduly at points where we ...

1107. Gratitude and Coping

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... flexible or as generous in their attitudes, and by late afternoon they "had had it up to here" with this crowd and wanted to get rid of them. Besides, they realized the people were getting hungry and tired, and that crowds in this condition can often grow hostile and get out of hand. So they pulled Jesus aside and pointed out to him the crisis that was in the making and strongly suggested that he disperse the people before things went from bad to worse. It was a perfectly natural suggestion to make in the ...

1108. Always Ready

Matthew 25:1-13

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David G. Rogne

... see this as a message of warning by Jesus to the Jews of his day who should have been prepared for his coming but were not. Others see it as a parable of Jesus that was reworked by Matthew to be used in the conflict between first-century Christians and hostile Jews. Still others see it as a reference by Jesus to his second coming, at which time those who are ready will join Jesus and those who are not ready will be shut out. While any or all of these interpretations may be correct, we need to remember that ...

1109. Hallelujah! Come On, Get Happy

Matthew 5:1-12

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David G. Rogne

... don't get involved. But the reality is that we cannot have peace if others do not have justice. Justice works on the principle of fairness for all. Where the rights of others are ignored, abused, violated, or taken away, the seeds of bitterness and hostility are sown and there will not be peace for anyone. Peacemaking means getting involved in the struggle for justice and making that struggle our own, even if it temporarily unsettles our peace. As Harriet Beecher Stowe sat through long nights in her home in ...

1110. Who Cares?

Matthew 25:31-46

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David G. Rogne

... of porters, obviously exhausted. They sank down wearily at the side of the road. And then something happened. These men were of another tribe; that could be seen from their clothes and from the way they wore their hair, and there was suspicion and often hostility between tribes. Out from the veranda came a little line of primary-age girls. Each had on her head a water pot. They were obviously a little frightened but just as obviously determined to see this thing through. They went out to the tired porters ...

1111. Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand

Mark 8:1-13

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Larry W. Hurtado

... pre-figures the proclamation of God’s salvation to all the world. 8:11–13 Having just described the miraculous events as signs that Jesus is sent from God, Mark now portrays the Pharisees as demanding some proof of Jesus’ significance! The hostility and spiritual blindness of the Pharisees consequently seem all the greater. Just as Mark has recounted the preceding miracles with allusions to OT passages in order to make the meaning of the events clearer, he tells this incident in a similar fashion ...

1112. The Healing of a Blind Man at Bethsaida

Mark 8:22-26

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Larry W. Hurtado

... quite paralleled in any other miracle story in Mark, except in the story of Jairus’ daughter (5:21–43), in which Jesus sends out the unbelieving and mocking crowd (5:40). But in 7:31–37 and 8:22–26 there is no mention of the crowd being hostile. Indeed, they bring the two men to Jesus for healing! It is possible that Mark mentions this removal of the person from the crowd as a part of his overall emphasis upon the secrecy in Jesus’ ministry. But it is also possible that the narrative location of ...

1113. Divorce

Mark 10:1-12

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Larry W. Hurtado

... text of Mark contained this reference to Pharisees (the words are missing in some ancient witnesses, in which the critics are unnamed). Tested him translates a word that can also mean “tempt.” The same word appears also in 8:11 and 12:15, where other hostile questions are directed at Jesus. Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife: There is no question of this, given Deut. 24:1–4, and the Matt. 19:3 parallel seems to reflect more precisely the nature of the Jewish controversy between the schools ...

1114. The Greatest Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

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Larry W. Hurtado

... that Mark’s telling of the story is unique. In Matthew 22:34, the scribe’s question seems to be simply another attempt to engage Jesus in debate, and in Luke 10:25, not only is the question itself very different, but the scribe’s intent is hostile. Here in Mark 12:28, however, the scribe is presented as favorably impressed with Jesus’ previous answer, and Mark alone has Jesus commend the scribe, declaring him not far from the kingdom of God (v. 34). Thus, Mark presents the man in a good light—in ...

1115. Jesus Anointed at Bethany

Mark 14:1-11

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Larry W. Hurtado

14:1–2 These verses introduce the events of the arrest, trial, and execution of Jesus and resemble previous indications of hostile intentions against Jesus (cf. 3:6; 12:12). Although previously the Pharisees are frequently mentioned as criticizing and opposing Jesus (e.g., 2:16–3:6; 7:1–5; 8:11; 10:1–2; 12:13), they are not linked by name with the actual arrest and execution in Mark ( ...

1116. The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... to love God and one’s neighbor (although in Mark 12:32–33 the expert repeats similar commandments). In Luke 10:25 Jesus is put to the test. (This test is not necessarily “trap,” as some versions translate, for there is no indication of hostility in the balance of the episode.) The legal expert is interested in Jesus’ theology. He wants to know what, in Jesus’ opinion, is required to inherit eternal life. In rabbinic style Jesus answers the question with a question of his own: “What is written ...

1117. A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath

Luke 13:10-17

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Craig A. Evans

... in Luke (6:1–5, 6–11), the controversy centers around Jesus, who allegedly violates the law by healing someone on the Sabbath. The episode exposes yet another example of Pharisaic hypocrisy, while it also furthers the general theme of the growing hostility that eventually will result in Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion. To this point in his Gospel account Luke has frequently presented Jesus as teaching in one of the synagogues (4:15, 16, 33, 44; 6:6). This story, however, represents Jesus’ last ...

1118. The Authority of Jesus Questioned

Luke 20:1-8

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

Luke 20 is a chapter in which we see Jesus teaching in the temple (19:47–48), having cleansed it so that he may reside in its precincts (19:45–46). The atmosphere is tense. The many questions put to Jesus are hostile and are designed to trap him into making an incriminating response (see esp. vv. 20–26). The chapter may be divided into the following six parts: (1) the question about Jesus’ authority (vv. 1–8); (2) the Parable of the Wicked Vineyard Tenants (vv. 9–19); (3) the question about ...

1119. The Widow's Offering

Luke 21:1-4

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Craig A. Evans

In the previous chapter we saw Jesus teaching in the temple precincts. There Jesus was asked hostile questions with the view to trap him into saying something for which he could be arrested. In the present chapter we shall see Jesus still teaching in the temple (from v. 1 to v. 38), only this time the teaching is about the temple itself. Most of the teaching concerns ...

1120. Righteousness Through Faith

Romans 3:21-31

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... basis of moral achievement, and what is more, that works of law (aside from the issue of whether the law can or cannot be fulfilled) are insufficient to save one (3:20). But having granted this, Paul does not establish an antithesis, or worse, hostility, between righteousness and law as he does, for example, between spirit and flesh. There is rather a corollary between law and righteousness. First, the law reveals sin (3:20) in that it demonstrates the need for a salvation apart from law. Moreover, the law ...

1121. Struggling with Sin

Romans 7:7-25

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James R. Edwards

... members (see also v. 25b). There is thus an inescapable tension, a war, between the law and sin in every person. Paul again resorts to military imagery as he has throughout the discussion: “instruments” (6:13), “wages” (6:23), “opportunity” (7:8, 11), “hostile” (8:7). Although not all these words carry military connotations in English, their Greek originals do. Even in the best person there is an ugly residue of sin, and even in the worst person the ineffaceable image of God. Thus, not even ...

1122. God's Sovereign Choice

Romans 9:1-29

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James R. Edwards

... Jews. Pharaoh freely chooses what God ordains. The Book of Exodus is clear that in his hardening Pharaoh pits himself not against Moses but against God, and that God uses Pharaoh’s hardness in order to demonstrate his glory! The effect of Pharaoh’s hostility, in other words, accomplishes the opposite of its intent, for it results in the liberation of the Israelites. Pharaoh’s hardening thus not only benefits those whom it was intended to harm (the Jews), but it ultimately works to the advantage of his ...

1123. Love

Romans 12:9-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... 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. Christians are human believers, and they cannot be more or less than that. But because ...

1124. Submission to the Authorities

Romans 13:1-7

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James R. Edwards

... from a Roman governor in Corinth (Acts 18:12–17). Moreover, writings attributed to Paul (1 Tim. 2:1–2; Titus 3:1) and Peter (1 Pet. 2:13–17) preserve substantially the same teaching on government at a period when Rome was openly hostile to Christians. How then is Romans 13 to be understood? The question has been long and intensely debated in the church. The foregoing historical review would suggest that Paul desired to instruct his Roman readers on the place of government in God’s economy ...

1125. The Weak and the Strong

Romans 14:1--15:13

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... peace and growth, thus bringing into reality something which does not yet exist. The pursuit of peace is an important vocation of the believer (12:18). The NT understands peace not simply as “peaceful coexistence,” i.e., an absence of hostility and tolerance of differences and difficulties. It is rather an active participation in wholeness and well-being that results from God’s pronouncement of righteousness in Christ (5:1). Paul expressly prefaces edification with mutual, thus repeating the theme of ...

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