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101. Around the Family Table

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “the power of the moment still resonating more than sixty years after the events. They offered him a seat. He opened his Bible and, not understanding the sermon, sat and observed. During communion the worshippers brought him the elements. In that quiet moment the enmity of their nations and the hurt of the war was set aside as one Christian served another the body and blood of Christ. Another wall came a-tumblin’ down.” (6) This is not only a table for remembering; it is a table for reconciling ...

102. Breaking News: The Middle East

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... now the one true religion.” He forms an army and in 630 A.D. marches on Mecca and takes the city and establishes Islam as the religion of the Arabic world. Their rallying cry was, “There is no god, but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.” There has been enmity ever since. That is how the problem began, that is how the problem persists and God knows the problem. There is one other thing the Middle East tells us and it is the greatest news of all. III. God Keeps His Promise When we go back to the very ...

103. The Landlord's Dilemma - World Communion Sunday

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... onto the tracks in a subway station. Here is the remarkable thing about this story. The drunken man was Japanese. The young man who gave his life trying to save him was Korean. If you know anything about that part of the world, there is still much enmity between Korea and Japan over atrocities committed in World War II by the Japanese. In fact, the heroic young Korean’s grandfather was a forced laborer, a slave, in one of Japan’s coal mines during World War II. The young Korean had come to Japan as ...

104. We Are Not The Light

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... for the life of any church. Try and imagine what a bad or indifferent Christmas would do to the morale of your church. We want if not a “Currier and Ives” Christmas for our families at least enough joy and good cheer to override any past enmity. Hopefully tinsel, garlands, and ornaments will chase away any seasonal affective disorder we may be suffering. Most of us are determined that the retelling of the story will bring at least enough peace of mind to help us deal with a world that often seems to ...

105. The Story Worth Living

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... created world changes forever. It’s choice and consequences. Humans made their choice. So here are the consequences: Adam and Eve are banished from their paradise, and the serpent is changed into a snake and charged with a particular curse: “I will put enmity between you and woman, and between your offspring and hers: he will strike your head and you will strike his heel” (Genesis 3:15). Throughout the long history of animosity between humans and snakes, our first instinct has always been to hit the ...

106. Skull Hill

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” was to be cursed by God: “for anyone who is hung is cursed in the sight of God.” (Deuteronomy 21:22-23). But the very “curse” of the cross would be the place where the serpent’s curse was crushed. In Genesis 3:15 we read “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” In John 3:14 we read, “Just as Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” As ...

107. To the Rescue

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... Adam and Eve to connect with them. They had disconnected with God, but before God booted them out of the Garden of Eden, He said something to let them know that the number one item on His agenda was to reconnect with the human race. “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” (Genesis 3:15, NASB) That verse carries within it the hope for the entire world. To the people of Israel, this ...

108. Poem: Sonnet 55

Eulogy

William Shakespeare

... bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. ‘Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.

109. Defining Sin

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... describe sin? Man calls it an accident; God calls it an abomination. Man calls it a blunder; God calls it blindness. Man calls it a defect; God calls it a disease. Man calls it a chance; God calls it a choice. Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity. Man calls it a fascination; God calls it a fatality. Man calls it an infirmity; God calls it an iniquity. Man calls it a luxury; God calls it leprosy. Man calls it a liberty; God calls it lawlessness. Man calls it a trifle; God calls it tragedy. Man calls ...

110. Why No World Peace?

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... from nineteen countries of the world, who were convened to talk about the requirements for world peace, he asked these questions: What element is lacking so that with all our skill and all our knowledge we still find ourselves in the dark valley of discord and enmity? What is it that inhibits us from going forward together to enjoy the fruits of human endeavor and to reap the harvest of human experience? Why is it that, for all our professed ideals, our hopes, and our skills, peace on earth is still a ...

111. Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 23:9), political considerations being still to the fore—they wanted nothing to disturb the status quo. 4:2–3 But though this may have been the chief factor in their opposition to Jesus’ followers, it was not the only one. Their enmity stemmed also from their religious conservatism. Unlike the Pharisees, who gave considerable weight to the “oral law”—the large body of tradition and interpretation that had grown up around the Scriptures—the Sadducees held that only the written law had permanent ...

112. Hagar and Sally

Galatians 4:21-31

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... ’s special birth with the normal birth of Ishmael. In the context of this passage, which uses dualistic categories, Paul’s use of “flesh” puts a particular slant on the story, casting the rivalry between Sarah and Hagar and Isaac and Ishmael in terms of the enmity between the promise or the Spirit (cf. 3:14) and the flesh, which is opposed to the Spirit (see esp. 5:16–25). Paul’s reference to “promise” alludes to a concept that he and his readers agree is a good thing. The Galatians wish to ...

113. The Supremacy of Christ

Colossians 1:15-23

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... remember what one was before God’s grace was experienced personally (cf. 1:26; 3:7; Rom. 6:22; 11:30; 1 Cor. 6:11). Hence Paul reminds them that in their pre-Christian state they were alienated from God, and as such, they were God’s enemies. This enmity manifested itself in an evil manner of life and thought. This stands as quite a contrast to their Christian walk (described in 1:10). 1:22 But a great change has taken place in their lives because God has acted decisively in Christ. Paul picks up the key ...

114. Final Instructions

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... in NIV), which sets this prayer over against the injunctions of the preceding verses. They speak of what we must do; this prayer concerns what God has done and will do on our behalf. God could not acquiesce in a state of affairs in which sinners were at enmity with himself. In Christ, therefore, he took the initiative to put them at peace (cf. Rom. 5:6ff.; Eph. 2:13ff.). To those who respond to his initiative, he gives a new status, a new start; and now Paul prays, in effect, that he who began this good ...

115. Instructions on Worship

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... word has to do with the activity of “bearing,” not with the noun “birth” or “child”). It should also be noted that nowhere in all of Jewish interpretation was Genesis 3:15 ever understood to mean anything other than the natural enmity between humans and poisonous reptiles. The earliest extant Christian interpretation of this text to refer to the death of Christ comes from Irenaeus in the second century. More likely what Paul intends is that woman’s salvation, from the transgressions brought ...

116. The Christian and the World

James 4:1-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... second NIV alternative, “the Spirit he caused to live in us longs jealously,” is less likely than either of the other two in that it has the problems of both of the others and the advantages of neither.) The first choice does not fit the immediate context of the enmity of God but makes good sense if James is jumping back to 4:1–3 and the evil impulse. The second uses a difficult term for jealously, but as James has already used the usual term negatively in 4:2 (and 3:13–18), he may have deliberately ...

117. Suffering for Being a Christian

1 Peter 4:12-19

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... exemption from troubles, though it does assure believers of divine assistance through troubles. To have been born again into new spiritual life (1:3) will inevitably arouse opposition (1:6). This is because spiritual agencies antagonistic to Christ stir up the enmity of pagan neighbors and authorities. Believers should not conclude that something strange is happening to them. Now that Jesus himself is no longer on earth in human form, the spiritual onslaught falls upon his followers. The painful trial is a ...

118. Opposition to the Rebuilding

Ezra 4:1-5

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... in passing. The first of these four letters is mentioned in verse 6 and is defined as an accusation sent to Xerxes. Therefore, it is in parallel to the opposition of verses 4–5 and is ascribed to the peoples of verse 4, further branding them with the enmity of verse 1. The second letter is not quoted but is mentioned in verse 7. We are told that it is sent to Artaxerxes. The third letter is also to Artaxerxes, but this list of senders differs from that of the second letter (vv. 8–16). We are meant ...

119. Nehemiah's Final Reforms

Nehemiah 13:1-31

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... just as the pernicious wrong of verse 2 had struck at the very existence of Israel. Nehemiah took a still more rigorous line in the case of a member of the high priestly family who had married a daughter of Sanballat. Beyond natural enmity, the editor probably wanted his readers to remember that the Samarians were one of the “surrounding nations” (6:16) and so featured in the stipulation forbidding intermarriage with “peoples of the land” (10:30, NRSV). There were special rulings for marriage in the ...

120. Mordecai Honored

Esther 6:1-14

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... in these events an omen: “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!” (v. 13). There is little doubt that an ethnic rivalry was at the root of Haman’s enmity with Mordecai; now it is clear to those closest to Haman that the Jewish side will win. What capricious superstition had once supported (with the casting of the pur), it now denies. Zeresh speaks with the wisdom perceived by Gentiles when God is present ...

121. Israel Punished and Restored

Hosea 2:2-23

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... mediate a covenant between Israel and the animal kingdom so that the latter will no longer be a threat to Israel’s security, verse 18a–c. The promise seems strange, because only in verse 12 has there been any previous mention of the enmity of wild beasts. Hosea is, however, using a promise characteristic of Israel’s eschatological traditions. The Israelites always knew, as we moderns often do not, that sin disrupted their relations not only with human beings but also with the natural world (Gen. 3 ...

122. Warnings and Exhortations for Jerusalem and Judah

Zephaniah 2:4-7, Zephaniah 2:8-11, Zephaniah 2:12, Zephaniah 2:13-15

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... to Babylon, the up-and-coming Middle Eastern power, nor to Edom, Judah’s neighbor to the southeast which is often the subject of such prophecies, and only in connection with Moab and Ammon is there any suggestion that calamity comes to these peoples because of enmity towards Judah. The aim is simply to cover all four points of the compass. At the center, in verse 11, is a declaration about the nations as a whole, as is the case in Isaiah 13–23; the nations will become worshipers of Yahweh. Then ...

123. The Vision of Obadiah

Obadiah 1:1-21

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... as the former fled the city, verse 14. In addition, Edom engaged in its own looting, stealing what goods it could find, verse 13. Edom totally violated the covenant of brothers, and that Edom should not have done. Despite the long history of enmity between Esau and Jacob and their descendants, Edom was related to Judah, with the obligations of a relative, and those obligations were not to be dismissed. In short, God takes human covenants seriously. The pledges between husband and wife, the obligations of ...

124. Jesus the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... Testament to the shedding of his blood on the cross. Paul uses “body” in this way when he says that Christians have “died to the law through the body of Christ” (Rom. 7:4), and “flesh” when he declares that “in his flesh” (Eph. 2:14) Christ destroyed the enmity between Jew and Gentile. Near the beginning and at the end of part two of the discourse, Jesus speaks of eating the bread that is his flesh (vv. 50–52, 57–58): which a man may eat (v. 50) f anyone eats of this bread (v. 51) this ...

125. Adam and Eve

Genesis 2:4-25

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... most troubling question faced by every human: “Why must I die?” In addition it gives a reason for several fundamental features of human experience—wearing clothes, pain in childbirth, toil and sweat in work, growth of thorns and thistles, and the enmity between humans and snakes. Much more importantly, this simple account offers penetrating insight into the human condition before God as well as giving the reason for the deep tensions between husband and wife and between humans and God. The drama of ...

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