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1126. A Topsy-Turvy Gospel

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... sent to save could not save himself. The incarnated Lord became just another incarcerated Roman casualty. The one whose life was the most precious to the Creator of the universe was sacrificed for the sake of the creation. That is an upside down reality. That is a world-view turned topsy-turvy. That is a flipped faith. And that is the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is why, if the story of Jesus is not startling us, we are not in the right story. If the story of Jesus is not reversing our categories and making ...

1127. The Knot: Tied

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... . You remain hopeful that wherever your mate needs to be changed, God will bring about that change. Until He does, you will keep your hope and trust in God. Finally, “Love endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7, ESV) That means loves takes the long view and not the short view. It keeps the big picture in mind. It hangs in there and refuses to quit. It takes seriously those words, “til death do us part.” You can’t kill a love that bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. It is a love that ...

1128. How to Hug

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Love is not the negation of the law. Love saves the Law from mindless cruelty. Law without love can be demonic. Please tell that to people who persecute others in the name of Christ because they are of a different religion or a different skin color or a different world view or a different sexual orientation or whatever it may be. They are doing the work of Satan not of God. Here is the crux of the matter: when our lives are summed up on the Day of Judgment, we will be rewarded not on the basis of how well ...

1129. Changing Times

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... theories of origins with this letter. If tradition stands, this is a communication from the apostle Peter in his last years before being executed at the hands of Nero around 64 AD. There are a number of challenges to this view (none insurmountable), and any good commentary can provide highlights. Still, the similarities between 2 Peter and Jude add mysterious questions surrounding the writing of this letter. What is clear, however, is that external persecution, the death of the church’s first leaders ...

1130. Can Two Become One?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... To put this in modern day terms what they were saying was, “Is there any such thing as a ‘no fault’ divorce?” California was the first state in the country that passed a law saying that basically you could get divorced for any reason or no reason. That view is practically held now in all 50 states. These Pharisees, being sticklers for the law, were asking, “Is it biblical to get a divorce for any reason? Is it right? In God’s eyes can you get a divorce for any reason and get away with it?” You ...

1131. Tarzan He Was Not

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... somewhere. We must be connected to Him. That time-honored story of the boy flying the kite so high that the clouds hid it from view is most telling. “How do you know that your kite is still there?” someone asked him. “I can still feel a tug on the ... , we pray for it. We want our sports team to win, we pray for it. Mature Christians understand that this is a most inadequate view of prayer. The Rev. Ken Kesselus tells a wonderful story about a boy who went to a contest for homemade racing cars sponsored by ...

1132. A Man with No Name

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... this passage, we are introduced to a Jesus who is concerned about the needs of even the most dejected and rejected in society. This man whom he summoned into his presence was a beggar--one scorned by society. The religious sect considered this man a sinner because they viewed his blindness as a curse brought on either by his sin or that of his parents. It is perhaps why they tried to silence him. They did not see him as significant enough to call upon Jesus. They would have seen his noise as a nuisance or ...

1133. God's Adopted Children

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... out to people, re-shelved them, hunted some of them for clients, and has probably read several of them. She thinks in terms of individual books, individual authors, individual subject matters. The more people know about books, the less they view them as a sea of literature and the more they view them as individual titles. Let’s use another example. Most of us know nothing about what goes on under the hood of a car. Today, most cars come with all kinds of standard features, such as power steering, power ...

1134. Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 10:1--11:4

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... the period from Rehoboam to Ahaz marks an era when the unity featured in the time of David and Solomon has ended. The narratives call for a reunion of north and south by seeking Yahweh and obeying his prophets as Jehoshaphat did. In Throntveit’s view, the period from Hezekiah until the exile (i.e., 2 Chron. 29–36) represents a period of a reunited monarchy. In this commentary I will follow another structure, however. There are mainly two reasons for this: (1) I am not as convinced as Throntveit that ...

1135. Jehoshaphat King of Judah

2 Chronicles 17:1-19

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Louis C. Jonker

... the Chronicler’s unique theological lens. 17:7–9 and 19:4–11 Critical discussion in the past has probed the relationship between 17:7–9 and the account of Jehoshaphat’s judicial reforms narrated in 19:4–11. The consensus view is that the latter account may reflect a pre-Deuteronomic phase in the development of the monarchical judiciary. But Knoppers argues instead that “the Chronicler draws on both past tradition and present reality” in order “to shape the present. . . . The Chronicler ...

1136. Jehoram King of Judah

2 Chronicles 21:4-20

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Louis C. Jonker

... Jehoram narrative to the Ahabite line of the northern kingdom (Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab of Israel, was married to Jehoram). Jehoram’s horrendous deed of killing all his brothers would then be related to the nonlegitimate northern kingdom (in the Chronicler’s view) and not to the Davidide Judah. Whatever the case may be, we should not ignore that the distinction between Judah and Israel is blurred here. 21:5–7 Second Chronicles 21:6 provides (in line with the source text) a negative evaluation of ...

1137. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

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Louis C. Jonker

... document is introduced with the claim that the LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. This suggests that the Persian emperor’s authority over the nations subservient to the empire was actually an authority received from Yahweh. This view portrays Yahweh as a universal God who not only determines the history of the miserable lands of Judah and Israel but also moves the great empires of the world. Yahweh’s power to bring change is not limited to the boundaries of Israel or ...

1138. The Fellowship of the Believers

Acts 2:42-47

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... shared in the breaking of bread. This phrase does not compel us to understand anything more than an ordinary meal. But in view of the definite article, “the bread,” a particular meal may be indicated, and what more likely than the Lord’s Supper? Fourth ... local sense (it occurs again in 1:15; 2:1, 47; 4:26; 1 Cor. 11:20; 14:23)—“they all met together.” But in view of the stress that Luke lays in these early chapters on the oneness of the believers, it is almost certain that he intended the deeper ...

1139. Peter Speaks to the Onlookers

Acts 3:11-26

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David J. Williams

... in that the theme of a suffering Messiah, far from being found in all the prophets, is discernible in very few. In view of this, we should probably understand the prophets collectively, so that what any one of them said is attributed to them ... was that he would send them a prophet from time to time as occasion demanded, but the use of the singular, a prophet, led to the view that one prophet in particular was intended, a second Moses, who would appear at the end of the age, either as the Messiah or as some ...

1140. The Choosing of the Seven

Acts 6:1-7

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Time was the problem, for they had to give first priority to the ministry of the word of God (v. 2; cf. v. 4) and to prayer (v. 4). Again, the definite article, “the prayer” (so the Greek), implies that a particular form or time of prayer was in view (the church “services”? cf. 1:14 and 2:42 for “the prayers” and 3:1 and 10:9 for the times of prayer). They suggested, therefore, that seven others should be appointed to administer the fund in their place. They should be men known to be full of the ...

1141. Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos

Acts 18:18-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... by adding the intervening words. 18:23 After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there: It is usual to take this as the beginning of the “third missionary journey.” But so little is made of it by Luke that there is some justification in the view that he himself did not see this as a third journey, but simply another phase of the second, which did not end until Paul reached Jerusalem in 21:17. 18:25 With great fervor: The literal sense of this phrase has been given in the discussion, but ...

1142. Paul Speaks to the Crowd

Acts 21:37--22:21

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... ’s purpose to show that such a man played a key role in his conversion—no law-breaker, but a man highly regarded for his piety. He did not mention that Ananias was also a Christian. 22:13–15 Because the story was being told from Paul’s point of view, we hear nothing of Ananias’ vision and of the struggle he had had in bringing himself to go to Paul (9:10–16). As far as Paul was concerned, Ananias had simply appeared at the house in Straight Street with two things to say: first, a word of healing ...

1143. Paul Before Agrippa

Acts 25:23--26:32

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... that his past was known to the Jews, but for the sake of his present audience, he touched briefly on its salient points. He had been brought up in his own country, literally, among his own “nation” (v. 4). This might have been a reference to Tarsus, but in view of 22:3, is more likely to have meant Judea, with in Jerusalem added by way of more precise definition. For a long time he had lived as a Pharisee, the strictest sect of the Jewish religion (v. 5). His purpose in stating this was to establish his ...

1144. Accusations

2 Corinthians 10:1-18

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... outcome to the situation in Corinth. Paul anticipates that the authority with which he has been invested will not be a cause of shame in the future. 10:9 After mentioning possible punishment in verse 8, Paul wants to clarify his intentions, especially in view of the critique of the opponents cited in verse 1, who see the apostle as “timid” when present, but “bold” when away. Paul does not wish to frighten the Corinthians. He realizes that his boldness by letter plays into the hands of the opposition ...

1145. Paul’s Second Visit to the Jerusalem Church

Galatians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... later refers to fourteen years after his conversion or after his first visit to Jerusalem. Paul says he and Barnabas went up together and that he took Titus with him. Barnabas and Paul had a functional partnership—Paul must have trusted Barnabas to share his views, or he would not have wanted him present at the Jerusalem meeting. At this stage of his ministry Paul identifies Barnabas as his ally in evangelizing the gospel to the Gentiles (see also 2:9). His trust in Barnabas is clear in 1 Corinthians 9 ...

1146. Paul Opposes Peter

Galatians 2:11-21

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L. Ann Jervis

... this new condition by saying that he has been crucified with Christ. Paul’s shift to the first person may be for rhetorical purposes, in order to bring home the force of his argument by encouraging his readers to identify personally with the consequences of their view. The shift may also indicate that Paul is responding to the charge that he had advocated the law at one point but has now changed his mind. Note that the words what I destroyed may be read in parallelism to those in verse 19, “for through ...

1147. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... conviction that Israel is the son of God (e.g., Exod. 4:22–23; Deut. 14:1–2; Hos. 11:1). Again Paul emphasizes that the Galatians, without observing the Torah, already have what the rival evangelists are promising. 3:27 For an overview and analysis of Paul’s view of baptism as it relates to the reception of the Spirit, see J. D. G. Dunn, Baptism in the Holy Spirit (SBT, 2d series 15; London: SCM, 1970), pp. 103–72. 3:28 We know from both Greek and Jewish writing of the period that the categories to ...

1148. Made Alive in Christ

Ephesians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... as well as the stress upon being God’s creation in Christ, prohibits one from taking good works in any meritorious way, even though they are an essential ingredient of one’s new life in Christ. The expression means that believers are created with a view toward good works; believers are saved for or unto good works, not by or because of them. Good works are the outcome, not the cause, of salvation. The contrast here is between the spiritually dead who once walked (peripateō) in disobedience and sin (2:1 ...

1149. Paul the Preacher to the Gentiles

Ephesians 3:1-13

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... politicoeconomic structures of society rather than as cosmic intelligences (cf. notes on 1:21, 22). At the other extreme there is the position represented by Stott, who takes exception to the kind of interpretation given by Barth and others. Stott does not accept the view that Paul was referring to earthly social structures that are included in the redemptive activity of God. In his book God’s New Society, he provides a short history of the study of the principalities and powers (pp. 267–75) and makes a ...

1150. Wives and Husbands

Ephesians 5:22-33

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... by the washing in water. There are a number of reasons why the thoughts in verse 26 are associated with baptism: First, there is the imagery of washing and cleansing (cleansing her by the washing with water). The cleansing of the church, which here is viewed collectively or corporately, took place when its individual members were baptized. The readers would have been aware of the baptismal teaching in the early church that conceived of baptism as a moral washing (John 13:10; Acts 2:38; 22:16; 1 Cor. 6:11 ...

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