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1326. The Right of the Firstborn

Deuteronomy 21:15-17

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... of God and from the land. 21:15–17 The right of the firstborn son. The next two laws balance each other. The first protects a son from an unfair father; the second protects parents from an unruly son. Together they illustrate the balance of rights and responsibilities that exist in a family, and even more so, in wider society. Polygamy was permitted in Israelite society but was probably not very common. It was a sign of wealth and prestige and so was something of a perk of royalty (in spite of Deut. 17:17 ...

1327. The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life

2 Kings 4:8-37

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... she would see a child born but also that she would see that child grow up. Now she is here to accuse him of deceit. Elisha does not take refuge in pedantic quibbling about words (“I didn’t actually say that”), but appears to accept his responsibility in the matter. 4:28 Don’t raise my hopes: What she actually said was “Don’t mislead your servant” (v. 16), and it is that injunction, obscured by the NIV, that she now recalls. Hb. šlh, “to deceive,” is attested in Aramaic (cf. the Tg. to ...

1328. Death in a Pot

2 Kings 4:38-41

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

1329. Feeding of a Hundred

2 Kings 4:42-44

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

1330. Jerusalem's Deliverance Foretold

2 Kings 19:1-13

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... foreign attack is a familiar one; he raids the royal treasuries and the temple, even stripping the gold from its doors and doorposts (cf. 1 Kgs. 15:18ff.; 2 Kgs. 12:17–18; 16:7ff.). The opening verses of the chapter did not lead us to expect this response, with its accompanying confession of sin against a foreign king (v. 14). We are presumably to regard it as a regrettable lapse—a disappointing prolog to what will turn out to be Hezekiah’s finest hour. 18:17–25 The rules of the game, as they have ...

1331. Hezekiah's Prayer

2 Kings 19:14-19

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

1332. Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall

2 Kings 19:20-37

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

1333. Rebuilding the Temple

Ezra 3:7-13

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... in fact the case. In this idealistic account we are now in the year 537, in the second month, that is, April/May. Two traditions relating to the temple foundation have been combined. One, appearing in Zechariah 4:9, was that Zerubbabel was responsible for laying it in the later period. The second tradition, in Ezra 5:16, says that Sheshbazzar laid it during Cyrus’ reign. There is no reason to doubt either tradition. The attribution of the renewed task to Zerubbabel indicates that the earlier, discontinued ...

1334. Restoration of Israel

Isaiah 49:8-26

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... addresses the community in Jerusalem. But the prophet’s new audience suffers from just the same crisis of morale, faith, and hope as the old one. Verse 14 corresponds exactly to 40:27. Ms Zion feels like a wife whose husband has left her. 49:15–21 Yahweh’s first response is to invite her to see him as more like a new man than an old philanderer. Indeed, Yahweh also knows what it is like to be a mother with a child at her breast and knows how a mother’s child can never cease to be her child however ...

1335. Sin, Confession and Redemption

Isaiah 59:1-21

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... underline. In putting on tsedaqah and deliverance Yahweh is putting on armor, for here there is a battle to be fought or a punishment to be inflicted (vv. 17–19), not a martyrdom to be accepted. This act of Yahweh’s arm looks as much like a response to the self-exhortation in 51:9 as a fulfillment of the vision in 52:13–53:12. The commitment to deliverance has as its other side the commitment to punishment (vengeance: see comment on 1:24–25a), pursued with passion. We might have thought that the ...

1336. Jeremiah Buys a Field

Jeremiah 32:1-44

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Tremper Longman III

... city will be taken, Jeremiah tells God that he chose this moment to command him to buy the field from Hanamel. Jeremiah’s prayer is a respectful and subtle way of inquiring into the unexpected ways of his unpredictable God. The next verses provide God’s response and this will allow the opportunity to once again speak of future hope. 32:26–44 God responds to Jeremiah’s prayer (vv. 17–25) in this section. There are two introductory rubrics in this speech found at verse 26 (Then the word of the LORD ...

1337. Amos and Amaziah

Amos 7:10-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... report what Amos has been preaching, verses 10–11. It is noteworthy that in his message Amaziah does not attribute Amos’s words to Yahweh: This is what Amosis saying. In short, Amaziah does not believe Amos’s words are divinely inspired. However, Amaziah is responsible for preserving peace and stability in the social and religious order by maintaining loyalty to the throne, so he does not wait for the king’s reply, but takes matters into his own hands, verses 12–13. Amaziah’s aim is to get rid ...

1338. Jonah Goes to Nineveh

Jonah 3:1-10

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... 3 (RSV). He goes “according to the word of the LORD” (MT and RSV), in obedience and subservience to it. His futile attempt to flee from the presence of his God is done. Now he will obey. We can suppose that Jonah obeys Yahweh as a grateful response to the deliverance that God has afforded him (ch. 2). So it is always with God’s deliverance. It affords no “cheap grace” that allows its recipient simply to bask in the salvation won. Rather, along with the grace there is always the demand—God’s ...

1339. Broken Promises

Matthew 21:28-32

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King Duncan

... the vineyard today.” The older son was in a somewhat rebellious mood and answered, “No way!” But afterwards he felt bad about his response and went and did what he was expected to do. The father went to the second son, the younger boy, and made the same ... not. They sure don’t act like it. C. S. Lewis kept his promise. He had no power to control his friend’s widow’s response to his kindnesses. But he did have the power to choose to keep his word. It’s important to do what you say. In fact ...

1340. Faces of Failure: Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:1-2, 11-26

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Don Tuttle

... much more reasonable as he asks Jesus if he is the “King of the Jews,” a secular translation of the Hebrew term “Messiah.” And he doesn’t even seem to be put off by Jesus’s answer: “You have said so.” We have heard that response before in Matthew’s Gospel. On two previous occasions it meant “Yes,” as it does here, but it’s ambiguous enough not to concern Pilate. Rather than pronounce judgment on Jesus, Pilate decides to give the people a choice. Matthew says it was a tradition for ...

1341. Uncertain Certainties

John 20:19-31

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John Jamison

... one guy. His name was Thomas. Thomas was not with the group that Sunday evening. He was probably hiding in a place all of his own to avoid being caught with the others. When Thomas was told about Jesus appearing to the others in that closed room, his first response was more like ours. “What? I don’t believe it. I need some proof.” We’re not told how the others responded to Thomas. We don’t know if they gave him a hard time for not believing them, or if they accused him of not having enough faith ...

1342. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

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King Duncan

... can be no place in the Christian family for violating the sacred dignity of either. There are differences between men and women and that is part of God’s miraculous and wonderful plan. In most homes there is a division of responsibility, but that division of responsibility needs to be fair and equal. Why? Because there is a dignity accorded by our Creator: a dignity innate in our very nature, male and female, partners together, children of God . . . created in His image. Now, just because men and women ...

1343. About Unclaimed Luggage

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32

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King Duncan

... Deity that the Bible describes—rejoicing like a shepherd over finding a lost sheep, rejoicing like a woman recovering a lost coin, rejoicing like a father over a lost boy who has come back home—if God really were like that, think how much responsibility that would place upon us. We couldn’t go on playing our games, building our empires, wasting our opportunities, trampling on the hearts and lives of other people. Think what a difference it would make in our lives if suddenly we were confronted with ...

1344. Cloak of Power

Psalm 5:1-12

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Lori Wagner

... and lonely and last. God’s cloak of blessing is not only a symbol of what God can do for us. It’s a symbol of our response to God’s gracious gift. The cloak of righteousness means we’ve spent time with God so that we can go out into the world with God’ ... disciples feet, cloaking them and wiping them with his own towel. In a sense, he was passing on the cloak of service and responsibility, his mission in the world, as Son of God. But the cloak had yet deeper meaning for the wearer who would be the ...

1345. No Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

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Lori Wagner

... . Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” Image Exegesis: The Vineyard Jesus tells this parable to his disciples in response to their quest to be powerful and rich, to sit at his right hand. While his parable of the evil tenants of the vineyard was directed at the Pharisees, this parable of the vineyard is directed at his own disciples, who had trouble understanding still that not ...

1346. The Sign of the Servant

Matthew 11:25-30

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Lori Wagner

... have to figure it out by yourself. All you have to do is "yoke" up with Jesus, and He will lead the way. Just follow Him. He knows how to do it. He will teach you. He’s a gentle and forgiving teacher. He will shoulder the bulk of the responsibility. When you think about it, this is what Jesus’ teaching is all about. Jesus is helping us to do what we have trouble figuring out for ourselves –how to be in the kind of relationship with God and each other that will benefit us and bless our lives. "The ...

1347. Song of the Sabbath

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12

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Lori Wagner

... His holy glory. Remembering the sabbath is not just a recall; it’s a re-calling into life. It’s our refrain in which we join in God’s great creative Symphony of Voices in the World who receive Him as Lord! It is our response to God’s awesome glory and power. Our response that can only be a cantus firmus of praise, a fermata of holiness in God’s eternal Cantata. Remember the Song you just listened to? All of those voices from around the world, all singing God’s same Eternal Song, the Song of the ...

1348. Stop the PANIC!

Luke 15:1-32 · Exodux 15:1-27--16:36 · Psalm 23

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Lori Wagner

... minds from fighting and re-turn us to a place of following. Jesus is the Sign and Signifier of our lives, the only Signified, the only compass for the Church. This is the essence of repentance. Stopping the PANIC. Stopping the blame game. Turning from blaming to take responsibility for who we are in our journey, the direction we know we need to go, the courage we need to get there, and the One we need to follow. Whether it be in our personal lives, in our faith, or in the direction of our church, repentance ...

1349. Plucked from the Blaze

Zechariah 3:1-10

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Lori Wagner

... nursing training, so too are we all called into mission no matter what our gifts or faults. Wearing God’s righteousness is a sign that you are “saved” by God, that God’s saving covenant promise can be revealed in you. And it bears a responsibility…. Saving means being a fiery beacon in mission to others. Are you “on fire?” This should be the call to all Methodists…indeed to all Christians today. Dressing the world in God’s grace…..is our mission. We are “saved” to be priests to God ...

1350. Calling All Wide Receivers!

Luke 2:8-20

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Lori Wagner

... , or in a relationship, in order to be a great giver, you have to put control aside and give freely and trust in the response of your receiver! But in order to be a great receiver, you also have to be ready to initiate. I love the way “receiver” ... time. You don’t have to fear God when God throws the ball to you and asks you to respond with your words, your acts, your response, your love. Can God count on you….to receive His gift of grace…..and to run with it? Can you allow yourself to be fully and ...

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