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1101. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

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Daniel J. Estes

... :15 and 14:14. He complained in 9:24; 12:6; and 21:17 that God is not acting justly toward him. Elihu takes Job’s words and spins them so that they sound like an arrogant rejection of God, but that is not an accurate sense of Job’s spirit and intention. 35:16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk. Taking the same harsh tone as the three friends before him, Elihu concludes that Job’s words are empty. He uses the Hebrew term hebel, which is found repeatedly in the book of Ecclesiastes and is often ...

1102. Babylon

Isaiah 13:1--14:23

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... of Babylon’s own religious conceptions (14:9–10). Babylon considered itself ruler over life and death. Kings, leaders, and people died in the many campaigns and battles waged by the Babylonians. They found rest in the netherworld. But with the end of Babylon, spirits in the netherworld stir themselves up as the king of Babylon knocks and desires to enter. There is a sudden commotion, as the news of Babylon’s fall is announced. Babylon the great has fallen. It too is subject to powers greater than ...

1103. Final Instructions

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ultimate source of their sanctification (1 Thess. 3:13). They must conform to the will of God in their sanctification (4:3), but never are they left on their own to attain this goal. God is the one who has called them and accomplishes this work through the Holy Spirit (4:7–8; 5:24). God is here described as “the God of peace,” a name Paul uses frequently in benedictions (Rom. 15:33; 16:20; 2 Cor. 13:11; Phil. 4:9). “Peace” is practically a synonym for “salvation” (1 Thess. 1:1; Acts 10:36; Rom ...

1104. The Great Omission

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... for God. The gospel does not have to be dressed up, dolled up, or given a makeover. The gospel does just fine by itself. The early church knew this. The power of the early church was rooted in prayer and discernment from the Holy Spirit. When we follow suit and truly seek the Spirit we will start addressing the real spiritual needs of people and when we do that, people will start listening to the church. I like the story Wayne Cordeiro tells about a bakery located in a city where he used to live. It was in ...

1105. Peace and Joy

Romans 5:1-11

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... is the opiate of a false and bitter illusion. But apart from love, hope has no basis. God has poured out his love into our hearts, says Paul (v. 5). The original Greek reads “in our hearts” (not into our hearts), implying that the Holy Spirit is already active in the hearts of believers. God is not a big brother dispensing miserly increments of goodwill to his minions. God is a compassionate Father who literally pours out his love within us. The Greek word for poured out, ekchein, suggests a lavishness ...

1106. The Scroll and the Lamb

Revelation 5:1-14

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... realization of eschatological blessing by the church is impeded by the surrounding social order, which is evil and seeks to undermine God’s reign and purposes. While the coming age has begun, and God’s promised salvation is now being fulfilled through the Spirit in the ongoing life of those devoted to Christ, its telos is still in the future. Salvation has not yet fully come, because evil still pervades and distorts human existence. To the extent of our devotion, evil will have no influence, and the ...

1107. Jesus and Beelzebub

Matthew 12:22-37

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... forgiven because at that time in Jesus’ ministry there was a hiddenness about his person. Not so with the mighty works wrought by the Spirit. They were clear demonstrations that the kingdom (power and reign) of God was present in the world. Denial of this was not the result ... that Jesus is calling upon the Pharisees to be consistent in their judgment about him: that is, either he is used by the Spirit to do a good work in casting out demons or he is in league with the devil and his deeds are evil. In other ...

1108. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... reflects James’ belief that God created the stars (Gen. 1:14–18; Ps. 135:7; Jer. 4:23; 21:35), it may also reflect a belief that God is more personally related to them than that, that the stars and planets are, or are ruled by, animate beings or spirits (Job 38:7; 1 Enoch 18:12–16; 1 QS 3:20; etc.). The imagery is clearly that of Judaism and not of the Hellenistic world, which did not use “lights” to refer to heavenly bodies. See further G. F. Moore, Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian ...

1109. Ahab Killed at Ramoth Gilead

1 Kings 22:29-40

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... though he has apparently lied in v. 14 and uttered a false “prophecy” in v. 15 (cf. 13:18)? The ambiguity cannot finally be resolved until near the end of the story—although the reader’s suspicions about the prophets are aroused early on. 22:21 A spirit came forward: The imagery is that of a council of war, with the heavenly king sitting on his throne surrounded by his army (Hb. ṣāḇāʾ, v. 19, as in 1 Kgs. 1:19, 25 etc.; the NIV’s host), making plans to defeat Ahab in battle. A volunteer ...

1110. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... hands and His side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” But Thomas or Didymus (called the “Twin”), one of the twelve of Jesus’ inner circle, was not with the others when Jesus came to them. So the ...

1111. Vetted

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!” (Proverbs 30:4 -The Words of Agur) Then He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!” As He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him speaking to me. Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel…. (Ezekiel 2:1-3) “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter ...

1112. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

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Lori Wagner

... envy. A kind of hunger and demand that is powerful. Now, that’s some gaze! This is the true Cane (Kayin) when he lets envy into his heart! A creature of the ground and field. Brother to no one. He has lost sight of the spirit of God within him and has embraced the spirit of envy. And it will drive him to bloodthirst and murderous envy. Cain is not really concerned with loving and worshiping God. He’s just doing what he’s supposed to do. He gives God a token from his field. Gets some stuff together and ...

1113. The Scariest Job Interview

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Did they know what job they were interviewing for? And that brings us to our Bible passage for today. He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into ...

1114. Together In One Place

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... is a secret religious language. And when they speak in English it is with a vocabulary and a jargon that is meaningless to everyone except their own tightly knit circle.Luke seems to have a completely different idea of what it looks like to receive God’s Holy Spirit. The followers of Jesus who were there in that house on that first Christian Pentecost day, did not run around or jump up and down. They did not laugh or giggle uncontrollably. They didn’t fixate on some idea or other and not let it go. They ...

1115. Stop in the Name of Love

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... . The second thing we gain from this story is when Jesus said “Yes” to baptism, he gave us access to the fullness of God. Notice what happened in verses 16-17 at the moment of Jesus’ baptism: “At that moment heaven was opened, and (Jesus) saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.’” When Jesus was baptized, the heavens opened. This is the moment when Jesus begins his ministry with an ...

1116. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper (12-13). God sometimes speaks through a gentle whisper. Generally, God speaks in the quietness of our own hearts through Holy Spirit, who we now understand as Christians dwells within us. The great Rabbi Burt Visotsky says, “You know, I’m actually surprised to be surrounded by people who so readily hear voices. I’m a praying Jew, so I talk to God all the time, but I don ...

1117. Soul Hunger

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... plague our hurting hearts. He too remembers his own time of temptation when he spent 40 days in the wilderness yearning for an easy way out. Yet he prevailed. Now he is trying to teach that lesson to those around him. The lesson? Seek the sustenance for your spirit that only God can provide. Then, you will find you have need for nothing else. Does he mean, we don’t need to actually eat? Of course not. Jesus fed people on that hillside for a reason. But he wants us to understand, as he instructed us in ...

1118. Messiah’s Community

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... We may be card-holding members of the same congregations, but we are too often not on the same page with one another. Politics divide us. Socio-economic situations separate us. Races split in the church as well as elsewhere in society. Somehow the one Holy Spirit of Jesus does not seem to breathe the same way in all of us. One of M. Scott Peck’s earlier books, The Different Drum, analyzed community and how it evolved. There are four stages to developing deep community, according to Peck: pseudo community ...

1119. From Haunted to Healed

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is at one time or another and while the Pharisees can’t see who he is for the life of them –the demon knows who Jesus is immediately! And fears his power! Now that’s impressive! Knowing that Jesus will no longer allow them to torture and destroy the spirit of the man before him, they beg Jesus to enter a nearby herd of pigs. They do and immediately destroy the herd, causing them to leap off a cliff and into the depths of the sea![3] Alarmed and fearful that in one swift move, Jesus has managed to ...

1120. Learning to Lean

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... us to put our trust in God. It’s safe for us to express our deepest and most vulnerable needs to God, and to lean on God for sustenance, our comfort, and our transformation. For God cannot help us unless and until we open our hearts to God’s Holy Spirit transformational power. When we do, we will “know” God in an entirely new and powerful way. Jesus knows how hard it is for us to trust, to lean on anyone else in our lives and in our hearts. Our human world can be fickle. We can get easily hurt ...

1121. Easter Power

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... to announce the peace that finds its power, meaning, and significance in the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord. A Breath Of Life In addition to this most welcome greeting for his disciples, our Lord "breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.' " That scene reminds us of another in the Garden of Eden. "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being" (Genesis 2:7). On that Easter evening ...

1122. Look How You Listen

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... believe in him for eternal life" (1 Timothy 1:15-16). This is what those Ephesians became of whom the Second Lesson speaks, "When you heard the words of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit -- the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people." Is not this what all of us, in our best desiring, want to become? All of us who have perceived in Jesus Christ the power and love of the Son of God, do we not long to ...

1123. Milestones And Mustard Seeds

Luke 17:1-10

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John G. Lynn

... so closely wound that even a fly could not pass through. Jack asked his cousin, "What are those things?" "Spirit traps," he said. "Spirit traps?" "Yes, the people in Kurseong believe in spirits. Their village has its spirit, as does our seminary. They don't want the seminary spirits getting into their village, so they set traps all through the woods to make sure our spirits keep to themselves!" "Spirit traps." When Jesus said to his disciples, "Temptations must come," he was talking about traps. The word we ...

1124. Advent 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Psalm 80:1-19, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

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William E. Keeney

... a power outside ourselves. We realize that in our own strength we are insufficient. We are alienated from God and that leads to alienation from others around us. Ultimately we recognize that we are even alienated from our true selves. We yield ourselves to the power of Christ's spirit to redeem us and enable us to come to our real self in him. The second type of sign is in the society of which we are a part. Having the model of the kingdom of heaven as a realm of mercy, grace and righteousness, we see where ...

1125. Prayers for Family Days

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... enjoy and need your love as we need your counsel and direction. You are the source that supplies us with the good life. Your love for each of us is full -- without measure -- regardless of our family setting. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen. How unrelenting, Holy Spirit, is your call to serve your kingdom. We thought with the approach of old age that we had fulfilled your call and would, therefore, be free of it. We aren't. It hasn't come back in exactly the same make-up as before. It is wearing a ...

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