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1351. Jesus Takes the Initiative

Luke 21:5-38, Luke 21:1-4, Luke 20:41-47

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R.T. France

... I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things. This is a solemn declaration (as in 9:27) that all that has been predicted in the discourse so far will occur while some of “this generation” are still alive. This makes perfect sense if, as I have argued, the discourse as a whole, including the coming of the Son of Man, relates to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. It is more difficult to explain for those who claim that 21:25–31 relates to the parousia. Some who ...

1352. “When Will These Things Happen?”

Luke 21:5-38

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R.T. France

1353. On the Mount of Olives

Luke 22:47-53, Luke 22:39-46, Luke 22:7-38

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R.T. France

... of Olives. Am I leading a rebellion? More literally, Jesus says, “As if against a bandit [l?st?s] have you come out . . . ?” The term l?st?s was later used for those who led nationalistic uprisings against Rome, but it had also the more general sense of a violent, armed man, a robber or thug. The NIV may be too much influenced here by the later usage, especially as Jesus is here addressing a Jewish, not Roman, force. Unlike a furtive criminal, Jesus has taught openly in broad daylight. The manner of his ...

1354. The Reversal of the Deuteronomic Curses and Blessings: Replacing Law with Faith

Romans 9:30--10:21

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C. Marvin Pate

... were not imprisoned in their own age by time-bound fashions,” says Peter. “On the contrary, their hair and the set of their faces were entirely in the style of my own time. They were me, and people I knew. I had a sudden strong sense of religion being a thing of the present day, not imprisoned under thick layers of time. My large catalogue of misdeeds replayed themselves rapidly in my head.” Then came the oaths of his wedding rites and the baptisms of his formerly atheistic wife and their daughter ...

1355. Personal Rights and Christian Testimony

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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Preben Vang

... of all. In the same way, Christian community is meant to be a situation where the individual’s gifts benefit the whole body and vice versa. Personal Stories: Interview a short-term-mission team about the group dynamics on their trip. Often, in a setting like this, a sense of community and commonality is established in a way not often experienced by people in Western culture. Ask members of the team to share stories about how the ups and downs of the trip brought them together and how they experienced a ...

1356. God on His Throne as the Sovereign Creator

Revelation 4:1-11

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J. Scott Duvall

... an obstacle at worst—can cause us to simultaneously weep and rage, “How could anyone do this to a child? How could anyone love a drug more than a baby? How could anyone have such fundamentally messed-up priorities?” At the very heart of these questions is a sense that it is a great evil to devalue the most valuable things in the world—people. To care more for a night of diversion or an illegal substance than the life of a child is a terrible thing. Yet how often have we failed to treasure and value ...

1357. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

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J. Scott Duvall

... the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.” The drama is interrupted with a proclamation of praise that makes sense of what John has just seen (cf. 4:8, 11; 5:9–14; 7:10–12; 11:15–18; 14:3; 15:3–4; 19:1–8; 21:3–4). The “now” indicates the arrival of God’s salvation, power, and kingdom with the life, death, and resurrection of ...

1358. The Millennial Reign, Followed by Satan’s Release, Defeat, and Punishment

Revelation 20:1-7, Revelation 20:8-10

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J. Scott Duvall

... way from one side to the other is a rickety old wooden bridge. It looks unstable enough to crash under the weight of a mosquito. How in the world will the hero be saved? Christians have no need to cross from this life to the next with a sense of fear and foreboding. We can, and should, rest secure in the finished work of Christ, our Savior and Lord. His cross is our bridge. God will exercise justice in the face of unrepentant wickedness. History: Tell the story of Paul Revere. Better yet, read the famous ...

1359. The Day of Atonement: Preparation

Leviticus 16:1-34

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... in order to blame that person for failed or unpopular policies that the leader had in fact promoted. In such a case, just as the scapegoat bears the guilt for Israel’s sins, so the member of the staff is blamed for the leader’s mistakes. Scapegoating in this sense is a bad thing. But the sort of scapegoating found in the Bible is a good thing. It was good and necessary that the scapegoat bore away Israel’s sins in order for God to remain in Israel’s midst. And it is good that Christ bore our sins ...

1360. A Lifestyle of Holiness and Love

Leviticus 19:1-37

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... “holy” were only rarely applied to humans.3Mesopotamian gods often were not even considered “pure,” much less “holy.”4Wilson concludes that the Hebrew concept of holiness and holiness in ancient Mesopotamian religions are markedly different. Holiness in the broad sense indicated in Leviticus 19 is not among the expectations for the pious in the ancient world. Interpretive Insights 19:1–2 Speak to the entire assembly of Israel . . . “Be holy.” All Israel, not just priests, is to be holy ...

1361. The Aaronic Blessing

Numbers 6:22-27

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... indication of God’s attentiveness: looking upon his people (favorably). The opposite is to hide the face as a sign of divine displeasure or ignoring (cf. Pss. 30:7; 44:24; 104:29).2 give you peace. “Peace” (shalom) has a wide variety of senses. Among the many ways that the NIV translates shalom are “well” or “well-being” (Gen. 29:6; Ps. 35:27), “welfare” (Esther 10:3), “good health” (1 Sam. 25:6), “goodwill” (Esther 9:30), “soundness” (Ps. 38:3), “prosperity” (Ps. 72:3, 7 ...

1362. Preparations for Worship (Part 2)

Num 8:1-26

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... will from time to time see it flickering through the cracks of the curtain within the holy place. This flickering is a continual reminder throughout the night that the glow of God’s presence is in the midst of his people. Christian worship also includes a sense of the presence of God. This is not manifested with a lampstand or the bread of the Presence, but rather at Communion with the bread and cup of the Lord’s table. It is the Lord’s table because the invisible Lord presides over it. Some Christian ...

1363. Balak to Hire Balaam

Numbers 22:1-20

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... ” (Rom. 8:31, 38–39). Not even all the powers of the occult can thwart God’s will to bless his people. Illustrating the Text Not even the devil can keep God from blessing his people. Church History: The great Protestant Reformer Martin Luther had a sense of the reality of Satan that most of us in modern times lack. His writings make frequent reference to the devil. Legend even has it that Luther, while he was working on his German translation of the New Testament, was so tormented by demons that he ...

1364. “O Absalom, My Son, My Son!”

2 Sam 18:1–19:8

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... as he went” (15:30). On that first occasion he mourned because Absalom was threatening his throne and his life. Now ironically he is mourning the death of this one who has threatened him. But perhaps the two events are linked, for David must be sensing in both the disciplinary hand of God (cf. 15:26; 16:11). Yet Fokkelman comments on the tragic reality: “David should have realized that he could not retain both, the throne and his son. Retention of one really presupposes the loss of the other.”9 ...

1365. Job Feels Both Confidence and Terror

Job 23:1--24:25

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Daniel J. Estes

... life. This more likely reading indicates that God is sovereign in directing Job according to the path that he has ordained for his servant (cf. 23:11–12). Job here reflects his trust that God knows what he is doing, even if Job cannot discern how this all makes sense. when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. Job is clearly convinced that God is not punishing him for his sins, so it is not likely that he here is referring to God’s process of refining impurity out of his life. Rather, what God is ...

1366. “Have Mercy on Me, Lord, for I Am Faint”

Psalm 6:1-10

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C. Hassell Bullock

... Human Experience: When your congregants can relate to the struggle of David, they are more likely to consider David’s response in Psalm 6. In the first seven verses we see that David is at a very low point in his life. He has a sense of God’s displeasure that has brought emotional and physical fatigue as well as an inability to sleep. As Peter C. Craigie writes, “For most sufferers, it was in the long watches of the night, when silence and loneliness increase and the warmth of human companionship ...

1367. “The Lord Looks Down . . . to See If There Are Any Who Understand”

Psalm 14:1-7

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C. Hassell Bullock

... 53) is that it gives us an inside look into God’s mind—by way of the psalmist, of course—a look at how God views those people who deny that he exists. Although the God-deniers of this psalm are most likely not “fools” in the intellectual sense, they look at the universe and cannot see God in the incalculable wonders of nature or hear his voice in the beauty of love. Lamentably our increased understanding of the universe has done little or nothing to change the way we human beings treat one another ...

1368. “Lord, Who May Dwell in Your Sacred Tent?”

Psalm 15:1-5

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C. Hassell Bullock

... this rubric will instruct us that entrance into God’s presence (or our personal relationship to God) demands an ethical life both for entering and for living in relation to him. The third of the “Key Themes” is the security this lifestyle will bring. Perhaps in the larger sense of the word, our world is no less a changing one than that of ancient Israel, but with modern technology the changes seem so rapid. And with the changing climates—social, political, economic, and so on—we desperately need a ...

1369. “The Lord Is My Shepherd, I Lack Nothing”

Psalm 23:1-6

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C. Hassell Bullock

... of Egypt and through the wilderness, supports the position that ancient Israel, even as early as David’s day, had a sense of individual personality, not merely corporate. God looked on Israel as a corporate people, and on individuals as persons, and his ... parallel to “all the days of my life” in the first half of the verse (23:6a) and should be understood in that sense. The fact that Christians have given this phrase an eschatological meaning calls not so much for a reprimand of our exegesis as it does ...

1370. “Lord, I Love the House Where You Live”

Psalm 26:1-12

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C. Hassell Bullock

... be a more general consideration of his moral character, that he is worthy to enter the Lord’s house, than a specific liturgy in the sense of Psalms 15 and 24. Psalms 25 and 26 share verbal links. The psalmist trusts in the Lord (25:2; 26:1) and prays for ... KJV). The noun “habitation” (rendered verbally in NIV) originally meant a hiding place or retreat, and in Old Testament poetry it has the sense of God’s dwelling place, both in heaven and on earth (Deut. 26:15; 2 Chron. 36:15; cf. 2 Chron. 7:1–3 ...

1371. “The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation—Whom Shall I Fear?”

Psalm 27:1-14

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C. Hassell Bullock

... preliminary statement to the psalmist’s petition for mercy.[13] Others believe that in part 1 he laid out his vision for the future, and in part 2 he awakes from his dream to the reality of present dangers.[14] I prefer the first option, in the sense that he lays out his trust in God’s faithfulness, which becomes an affirmation of faith to precede his petition for divine mercy and help. This frame of mind is affirmed by the reaffirmation of confidence in 27:13. 27:8 My heart says of you, “Seek his ...

1372. “Ascribe to the Lord the Glory Due His Name”

Psalm 29:1-11

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C. Hassell Bullock

... all creation into passionate jubilation.[1] See the sidebar “Psalms of Praise” in the introduction. In both a literary and theological sense, Psalm 29 is beautifully balanced. The call to worship of 29:1–2 is balanced by 29:10–11, the final ... to his people” and “blesses his people with peace,” a welcome peace after the storm (29:11). Teaching the Text In a literary sense, Psalm 29 is one of the most beautiful psalms in the entire Psalter. Here is an excellent opportunity to build a lesson or ...

1373. “Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit”

Psalm 31:1-24

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C. Hassell Bullock

... to the prayer of 31:1–18.[17] The NIV’s translation “good things” in place of “your goodness” obscures the fact that this is an exclamatory word of praise for the “goodness” of God’s character (“Oh, how abundant is your goodness,” ESV), in the same sense as Exodus 33:19, where the Lord denies Moses’s request to see his glory but causes his “goodness” (cf. Ps. 25:7 ESV) to pass before him. 31:20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them. See Psalm 27:5. 31:22 “I am cut ...

1374. “Blessed Are Those Who Have Regard for the Weak; the Lord Delivers Them”

Psalm 41:1-13

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C. Hassell Bullock

... abruptly. The psalmist does the same thing in the second half of 41:2 (“You do not give him up to the will of his enemies,” ESV). The verb rendered as “restores” is the Hebrew verb hpk, which can mean turn over or upside down. Hakham gives the sense as follows: “You, O Lord, overturned his entire bed, in the manner of someone attending a sick person, who turns over the bed on which the sick person is lying, in order to clean and arrange it.”12 41:4 I said, “Have mercy on me, Lord; heal me ...

1375. “Truly My Soul Finds Rest in God”

Psalm 62:1-12

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C. Hassell Bullock

... in which I have positioned the word “alone” at the beginning of the sentence as it occurs in the Hebrew: Refrain: Alonemy soul rests in God (60:1) Aloneis he my rock and my salvation (60:2) Alonethey will topple him from his lofty place [in the sense that their onlygoal is to topple him] (60:4) Refrain: Alonemy soul rests in God (60:5) Aloneis he my rock and my salvation (60:6) Aloneare lowborn men a breath, [alone] are the highborn a lie [“lowborn men” are nothing but(alone) a breath,” etc.] (60 ...

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