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1276. A Personal History

John 18:1—19:42

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... with that thirteen-year-old American boy? When he gets to senior high school, that same student may find a greater sense of relevance in his American history textbook. It is easier for him to see the connection between Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, ... Jesus on the face, thinking that Jesus was not showing proper respect to the office of the high priest. So the soldier had a sense of propriety; but he had no idea whose face he struck. Likewise, we see the mocking crown and purple robe with which the ...

1277. Personal History

John 18:1-11

Sermon

David J. Kalas

1278. Reliable Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... silence fell upon the hall when he said this. His listeners were amazed. They wondered how they could live on a sphere! Common sense suggested that earlier philosophers were right when they said the earth was a flat disc floating on the air. Pythagoras had deduced the ... mother and sisters would say to him, “We can’t believe it’s you,” and would touch him and hug him for a sense of verification that it was him. (6) That’s the way his disciples reacted to the risen Christ. They wanted to touch him and ...

1279. It Was a Dark and Stormy Evening! Father's Day

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... she replied again. “And you aren’t worried?” he asked. Without slowing her pace his daughter reached up and took his hand and said, “I don’t have to know how to get home. You already do.” (6) In the same way that a small child might have a sense of awe and reverence about her parent’s ability to do the right thing and make the right decisions, so ought we to trust God. God cares about us. God can calm the storms in our lives. A South Carolina pastor named Ernie Nivens tells about a visit he ...

1280. Brushing Your Teeth with Oreos

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... I want to be for Halloween yet!” Some young people don’t know what they want to be when they graduate from college, or turn 30. Heavens, some of us go all through life wondering if we chose the right vocation. But Jesus knew. Jesus already sensed his connection to God at twelve years of age. That says something about Jesus. But it also says something about young people. Whenever any young person comes to me and asks about being [baptized/ confirmed or joining a membership class], or simply wants to talk ...

1281. The Joy of a Thankful Heart

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... ? But the other nine, where are they?" (v. 17). Personally, I don't like to be too critical of the other nine. After all, do they not represent most of us? Today we might identify the nine who did not return as being among those harboring a sense of entitlement. They believed the healing by Jesus was only what they deserved. At least one or two, after all, had probably been condemned to live in isolation from family and friends for having had psoriasis. That was not fair. All Jesus did was provide a bit ...

1282. A Dance in the Desert

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... mission or divine purpose. Israel's self-understanding was always very religious and at the same time very political. Third, as the epochs of Israel's political fortunes unfolded, the message of the prophets became increasingly apocalyptic. There was a growing sense that because things had not gone the way they should have, producing heartfelt and on-going national repentance and covenant restoration, Yahweh will have to intervene directly again, in a manner similar to that which happened during the time of ...

1283. The Wrong Gift

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... , 1883 (public domain) If we get a gift from God, certainly it ought to be something we can use. We need power. We need wealth. We need healing. We need recognition. We need things. All we get is a baby! A helpless baby! It doesn't make sense! That's where we need to take another look at what is going on here. Although the gospels of the New Testament are among the most widely recognized and read literary documents in the world, it remains difficult to explain their exact genre. They have no parallel ...

1284. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Super Bowl. Since football season is nearly over, none of our men had to flip a coin about whether to attend church or watch a game today. We can be thankful for that. One thing I’ve noticed through the years, sportswriters generally have a great sense of humor. When Gatorade inventor Robert Cade died recently at the age of 80, one commentator wrote: “His remains will be cremated, and then the ashes dumped over some football coach’s head.” After the New Year’s Day bowl games, many of you wives ...

1285. The Apostles Heal Many

Acts 5:12-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... other, more convenient, times. And many did, both men and women who believed in the Lord, literally, “who believed the Lord,” the sense being that they took the Lord at his word (for the title, see note on 11:20). The mention of women is another ... of their role in the life of the church (see disc. on 1:14). The tense of the Greek verb, were added (imperfect), gives the sense that men and women kept on being added, whereas the passive voice carries the implication that it was God who did the adding (cf. 2: ...

1286. The Church in Antioch

Acts 11:19-30

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Christian” may well be older than the institution of the Augustiani, and certainly so if we think that by this note Luke meant that the name originated at this time. However, the possibility remains that it was coined as a joke, and it may have been in that sense that Agrippa II used it in 26:28 (cf. 1 Pet. 4:16). The second matter is the provision made by the church in Antioch, as famine threatened, for the relief of the brothers living in Judea (v. 29). Luke’s language is designed to show the unity ...

1287. Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos

Acts 18:18-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... though Luke were anxious to have Paul start on his work at Ephesus. The brevity of the narrative leaves us guessing at a number of points as to where and why he went, but for the most part we can plot his course with reasonable confidence and make good sense of all that he did. Because of the broad similarity between this journey and that in 20:3–21:26—the common elements being a journey from Corinth to Jerusalem via Ephesus and Paul’s taking a vow—it has been proposed that this section is simply a ...

1288. Paul in Ephesus

Acts 19:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... temple—that seen by Paul—was regarded as one of the wonders of the world. 19:1b–2 Soon after his arrival in Ephesus, or so it seems, Paul came across a number of men (“about twelve,” v. 7) whom Luke appears to have regarded as (in some sense) Christians, for he calls them disciples (v. 1) and they are said to have believed (v. 2), yet they only knew “the baptism of John” (v. 3). In these early days of the church there were probably any number of cases like this, where a clear distinction could ...

1289. Hearts

2 Corinthians 6:14--7:1

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... on the best terms, but Cimon exhorted the Athenians “not to allow Hellas to be crippled, nor their city to be robbed of its yoke-fellow [i.e., Sparta].” Even if a metaphorical usage of the verb heterozyge? is uncommon, the idea of being yoked in a metaphorical sense is well known (cf., e.g., Philo, On Dreams 2.83; Phil. 4:3). After the apostasy in Moab, Moses instructed the judges of Israel, “Each of you shall kill any of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor” (Num. 25:5 [MT only ...

1290. Paul’s Second Visit to the Jerusalem Church

Galatians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... the Truth of His Gospel Is Recognized 2:3 Proof of the truth of his gospel is that at the Jerusalem meeting not even Titus, who was with him, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek. The word “compel” (anagkazō) conveys the sense that there were high stakes surrounding whether or not Titus would or should be circumcised. In light of how much pressure there was to circumcise Titus, the fact that in the end he was not circumcised reflects well on Paul’s gospel. Paul emphasizes that ...

1291. Paul Opposes Peter

Galatians 2:11-21

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?” In the Greek construction the first clause is an “if clause” (“If you, though a Jew”), and Paul’s challenge works on the basis that the “if clause” is true. The resulting question is, how then does it make sense for Peter to compel Gentiles to live in a Jewish manner? It is a curious retort, since from the way that Paul recounts the Antioch incident it appears as if the issue was that Peter was expecting Jews to live in a Jewish manner. It is ...

1292. Made Alive in Christ

Ephesians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... ēma). This idea echoes the entire aspect of rebirth or re-creation that took place in Christ Jesus (2:4–6; cf. 2 Cor. 5:17, where Paul writes that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation”). All of this is God’s doing and eliminates any sense of pride that would come if this were a “self-creation.” Second, God has created us in Christ Jesus to do good works (cf. 1:4, 6, 12, 14, 15). The whole context, which emphasizes God’s gift of grace and faith, as well as the stress upon being God ...

1293. One in Christ

Ephesians 2:11-22

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... them. Those who were Gentiles by birth (“in the flesh”) were referred to by the Jews (the circumcision) as the uncircumcised. Circumcision is a physical rite performed on the Jewish male as a sign of the covenant (Gen. 17:11). Although circumcision is used in a spiritual sense in Scripture as something that God performs upon the human heart—thus not made with hands (Deut. 10:16; Rom. 2:28, 29; 4:11; 1 Cor. 7:19; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11)—the emphasis here is upon the human rite because it is that done ...

1294. The Armor of God

Ephesians 6:10-20

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... to be unceasing: pray … on all occasions. The Christian warrior, although heavily armed, can only stand firm against the enemy through the agency of prayer. Praying is done in the Spirit. To do so is not to be transposed into some ecstatic or euphoric condition beyond the senses but to live in the realization that the Spirit is the believer’s helper (5:18) and intercessor (Rom. 8:15, 16, 26, 27). “It is an approach to God relying not on our own piety, but on the help which God in his Spirit offers to ...

1295. Rules for Christian Households

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... judge all wrongdoing (Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.) If this verse is taken as a reference to masters, then it forms a beautiful link with 4:1, where the ideas of fairness and justice are raised. There is a sense in which this verse can apply to the slave as well. They have been exhorted to obey in all things (3:22), to work heartily and sincerely (3:22, 23), and to maintain an eternal perspective (3:24). Could Paul mean that any slave who falls short of ...

1296. The Old Testament Ritual Described

Hebrews 9:1-10

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... 7, pp. 375ff. 9:9–10 The antecedent of the relative clause “which is a parable” (this is an illustration) is not totally clear. The most natural reading understands the antecedent to be “the first tabernacle.” This is a suitable antecedent and yields good sense. It is, however, also possible to understand the totality of vv. 6–8 as the antecedent (and to explain the feminine gender of the relative pronoun by attraction to parabolē). The present time is clearly to be understood as the day of the ...

1297. Taming the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... 22; cf. Psalms of Solomon 12:2–3). The structure of this verse is difficult, for the grammar is unclear; but the general sense is clear. The world is a symbol for the culture and institutions of the universe as organized without God and thus the ... word condemns in vice lists (Acts 5:17; 13:45; Rom. 10:2; 13:13; 1 Cor. 3:3). James seems to indicate that the moment one senses even a hint of a bitter spirit, it is time to examine one’s true motivations. See further A. Stumpff, “Zēlos,” TDNT, vol. 2, pp ...

1298. The Christian and the World

James 4:1-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... 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 shifted his vocabulary. Two lines of reasoning ...

1299. Submission to Rulers and Masters

1 Peter 2:13-25

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... the death of Jesus takes away the believer’s sins: the word translated die occurs only here in the NT and has the sense of separation (lit. “to be away from, have no part in”). Positively, Christ’s death enables believers, now separated from their old sins ... the One he had formerly known only in his human form. Follow: Invariably in the OT “to follow” in the religious sense has God as object, as in Num. 14:24: “My servant Caleb … follows me wholeheartedly.” Even Samuel, whose integrity could ...

1300. Living for God

1 Peter 4:1-11

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... preaching here in 4:6 harks back to exactly the same topic. In 3:19, the Greek verb for “preach” is kēryssein, to proclaim; here in 4:6 it is euangelizesthai, to evangelize, preach good news. While the former Greek term is often used in the sense of “proclaim the gospel,” the use in 4:6 of euangelizesthai, the more usual NT verb for preaching the gospel, is almost certainly deliberate (it also appears in 1:12, 25, where Peter refers to the first preaching heard by his readers). By those who are now ...

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