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1226. A Love Triangle

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

David G. Rogne

Some people have a talent for getting to the core of things. Julius Caesar wrote a good-sized book titled On the Gallic War. It is still used as a textbook by students of Latin. However, Caesar was also able to cut through all the details and get to the nub of a matter. He ...

1227. Hallelujah! Come On, Get Happy

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... average minister. There are better preachers than I am; better teachers, better visitors, better administrators. I keep making dumb mistakes and sometimes I don't know how to rectify them. I can only beg forgiveness and promise not to do that again. However, I've also discovered that my talents, limited though they may be, are useful. I have a place in the church and the world. No, I'll never be Number One, but that's okay as long as I do the best I can with what God has given me." He found happiness in his ...

1228. The Real Thing

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... of them was the notoriety and respect that their observances brought to them. I read about an elegant party that was being held in one of those big English country houses. Often after dinner at such parties, people would give recitations, sing, or use whatever talent they had to entertain the company. One evening a famous actor was among the guests. Some say that it was Charles Laughton. When it came his turn to perform, he recited the 23rd Psalm, perhaps the most beloved Psalm in the Psalter: "The Lord is ...

1229. The Jews and the Law

Romans 2:17-29

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... position of superiority or advantage over the non-Jew by virtue of being a member of the people of the law” (Romans 1–8, p. 114). Because they have been privileged by God, Jews are like the debtor in Jesus’ parable who was forgiven ten thousand talents by his master, and who then went out and grabbed a fellow debtor by the throat and threw him into jail until he paid back a hundred denarii (Matt. 18:23–30). Jews may be Exhibit A of human righteousness, yet even they cannot withstand the straightedge ...

1230. Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

Romans 6:1-14

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... , “Do not continue offering yourselves to sin, but offer yourselves up once and for all to God.” The reference to parts (of your body) in verse 13 need not be limited to the physical body, for it surely includes in a figurative sense all human talents and abilities. The Christian life pictured in verse 13 is not an idealized watercolor but a bold (albeit simple) sketch of the rigors facing the faithful. The essence of the new life is not a concept or feeling detached from reality, but a trumpet call to ...

1231. Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... the godliness of diverse expression of God’s gifts in the life of believers in the church. As Paul writes generally about gifts, one can see that he is thinking of concrete manifestations of the Spirit and not of natural, birthright propensities. Gifts and talents may ultimately be related, but they are not one and the same thing. In the present discussion Paul has special or extraordinary manifestations of the presence and power of the Spirit in mind as he reflects on spiritual gifts in the life of the ...

1232. The Parable of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

Matthew 13:44-46

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... of heaven (the other evangelists use “kingdom of God”; the terms are synonymous) is like a man who happens onto a store of money (or valuables) hidden in a field. In ancient times people often hid money and articles of value in the ground (cf. the “one-talent man” in Matt. 25:25): without banks, and in view of frequent invasions by enemy forces, this was a sensible thing to do. Many caches were lost or forgotten and are even today being dug up in Palestine. The man in question appears to have been a ...

1233. The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

Matthew 18:21-35

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... who wished to settle accounts with his agents (the huge debt suggests that the douloi were those who gathered revenue for the king). One was brought in (from prison? prosagō means “to lead or bring to”) whose debt “ran into millions” (NEB; ten thousand talents, NIV, roughly equal to ten million dollars). Since he was unable to settle such an enormous debt (more than the total annual revenue of a wealthy province), the king ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold ...

1234. The Sheep and the Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... what will happen to servants who are unfaithful while the master is away. The same general theme continues throughout chapter 25. Like the foolish young women of verses 1–13, they will be excluded from the marriage feast; like the worthless servant who buries his talent, they will be thrown outside into the darkness (vv. 14–30); and like the “goats” who do not respond to the needy, they will suffer the fate of the devil and his angels (vv. 31–46). The clear-cut distinction between the two groups ...

1235. The Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace

Daniel 3:1-30

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... from those of all other people and who do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them. If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury for the men who carry out this business.” Of course, Daniel 3 is quite different from Esther 3, because Nebuchadnezzar does not issue a decree calling for the destruction of all Jews. Nevertheless, the story concerns more than just Shadrach ...

1236. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... :8 Several ancient sources record how Ptolemy seized their gods, their metal images and their valuable articles of silver and gold. For example, in his commentary on Daniel, Jerome reports that the plunder Ptolemy brought back from Seleucid Syria totaled 40,000 talents of silver and 2,500 valuable vessels and images of the gods, including the very images which Cambyses had taken to Persia after conquering Egypt (Jerome, Jerome’s Commentary on Daniel [trans. G. L. Archer Jr.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958], p ...

1237. Watchfulness

Luke 12:35-48

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... if the worthless servant has literally been “cut in pieces” he can scarcely be assigned a place with the unbelievers; see Lachs, p. 294. 12:48 Fitzmyer’s explanatory paraphrase (p. 992) is helpful: “Much will be required (by God) of the gifted servant, and even more of the really talented one.”

1238. Jesus Before Pilate and Herod

Luke 22:66--23:25

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... to NT personages are largely regarded as later Christian interpolations, although not all its interpolations have a bearing on the NT and its origins), Pilate initially released Jesus, since he had healed the procurator’s wife. Nevertheless, after being bribed with thirty talents, Pilate eventually permitted the teachers of the law to crucify Jesus (War 2.9.3 [2.172–174, LCL]; see also 5.5.4 [5.207–214, LCL]). The Roman historian Tacitus (ca. A.D. 110–120) reports: “This name [i.e., “Christian ...

1239. The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath

Revelation 16:1-21

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... it. She finally settles for neither and understands its role as an extended parenthesis or “intercalation” between the bowl-plagues, which end God’s judgment, and Christ’s parousia, which ushers in God’s salvation (Revelation, pp. 172–73). 16:21 The weight of the huge hailstones is literally one “talent” each, or between 50 and 100 pounds.

1240. David's Officials

1 Chronicles 18:14-17

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... the Ammonites approached the Arameans to hire chariots and charioteers from them for the battle against David. The Chronicler’s text (19:6–7) shows some additions to the text in 2 Samuel 10:6, indicating that a large sum of a thousand talents of silver was offered for the Arameans’ military assistance. Some other additional information is also provided. Although some of these differences may be attributed to a different Hebrew source text than the one we have in the Masoretic Text, the more elaborate ...

1241. The Battle Against the Ammonites

1 Chronicles 19:1-19

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

1242. The Capture of Rabbah

1 Chronicles 20:1-3

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

1243. War with the Philistines

1 Chronicles 20:4-8

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

1244. King Artaxerxes' Letter to Ezra

Ezra 7:11-28

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... service on arrival, like that in 8:35. Routine sacrifices are covered in vv. 20–23. For grain and drink offerings accompanying animal sacrifices, see Num. 15:4–13. 7:22 The detailing of items that follows indicates that a hundred talents of silver was intended for the purchase of sacrificial animals. This amount, weighing about 7,500 pounds, is unreasonably large. Perhaps minas were originally specified, which are a sixtieth of the weight (Clines, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, p. 104), or the following ...

1245. Like Fighting a Giant Tuna

Romans 7:14-25a

Sermon

King Duncan

... student get scholarships so they can avoid accumulating massive student loans? Help your children to discipline themselves and you will set them on the path of lasting success. But it’s not just true of students. In all of life, willpower is more important to success than talent. We all know it’s true, at all the stages of life. If you could make yourself do everything on your “to-do” list and eliminate everything that is on your “to-don’t” list you could probably be a super-star in the office ...

1246. When You're Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... being crowned homecoming queen, most of us know how it feels to be on the outside looking in. It may help us to know that almost everyone is rejected sooner or later. Even some of our biggest movie stars tell of being rejected. Veteran talent agent Robert Littman tells how he once rejected a young would-be actor named Jack Nicholson. Nicholson wanted to try out for parts on the popular television shows The Virginian and Bonanza (anyone remember those two vintage shows?). Nicholson asked for Littman’s help ...

1247. Getting It Right in the Coming Year

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... I know that?” asks Jason Bourne. “How can I know all that and not know who I am?” (4) That is the question for many people today. They have so much information at their fingertips, more than any generation that has ever lived. They have skills and talents and are able to accomplish so much. And yet they do not know who they are and so they live flat, meaningless lives. We can see it in rising rates of suicides and increased deaths by narcotics abuse. How can a beautiful person created in the image of ...

1248. John Mellencamp and the Danger of Procrastination

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

Alexander Graham Bell was an amazingly talented person. He invented the multiple telegraph, the audiometer--which is used to test your hearing--the tricycle landing gear you find on planes, and a host of other less well-known machines. In addition to this, he was the co-founder of the prestigious magazine Science, served as President of ...

1249. From Fear to Overflowing Joy

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... her and that is why she transferred to their school. Amy’s participation in class, however, proved that their assumptions were wrong. She was extremely bright and very capable, but that didn’t change her classmates’ behavior toward her. Amy was a very talented person but she was not well-liked, and Mohney and her friends did nothing to help the situation. They consciously did not open up their tightly held friendship and social groups to Amy at all. Mohney wrote that, in retrospect, she realized that ...

1250. Giving Up Control

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... when I fail, you will see I am right." I was wrong. When God calls, he also supplies the gifts to do the work he wants us to do. In spite of our meager resources, this story urges us to bring those resources to Jesus. When we bring our meager talents and gifts to the Lord, he can and does expand them. The gifts of God are potentially there in people. It's just a matter of encouraging their use by encouraging people to use what God has given them. A story is told about an old German schoolmaster who, when ...

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