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1351. Blessed Are the Abnormal

James 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... in Southern California. Among the many boats they passed was a huge luxury yacht. On the side of the yacht was painted only one word: Deserved. (6) And I’ll bet that’s how its owner felt. That’s normal for people in that economic bracket. You and I understand that. What James is saying to us this day is that following Jesus calls us to an abnormal attitude toward people. We are to see all people as Jesus sees them--as loved, as worthy, as important in the Kingdom of God. Let me tell you about a woman ...

1352. How God Looks at Marriage

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... is the word that is used when we are told the boat rolled from side to side--from rib to rib. So, if it pleases you, don’t think of God removing a single rib from Adam, but dividing Adam into two human beings. “Which is the better understanding?” Dr. Butler continues, “I’m not sure it makes a difference. The point is this: in creating Eve out of Adam, not out of the dust like Adam, Adam and Eve were not merely like beings, they were two halves of the whole . . . thus establishing the equality of ...

1353. A Fig Tree Sprouts Leaves

Luke 21:25-36

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King Duncan

... Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” Does that mean we can trust every promise that Christ ever made to us? Of course it does--including the promise that, no matter what happens, he will give us a peace that passes understanding . . . if we will trust in him. We can trust his every promise . . . including the promise that he will never forget us or forsake us . . . including the promise that he has prepared a mansion for us, that where he is so shall we also be. Then he ...

1354. Peace Comes to Our Hearts

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... from Radcliffe College, cum laude? Even more amazing, through the course of her life, she became close friends with kings and presidents and some of the most powerful and well-known people on earth. When her teacher, Anne Sullivan, finally brought her to where she could understand and receive ideas and concepts, she also came to know about God and about Jesus. Helen Keller said, “I always knew there was a God, but I never knew what to call him.” Helen Keller had few of the blessings you and I enjoy. But ...

1355. An Unforgettable Baptism

Luke 3:21-22

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King Duncan

... descends on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice comes from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” Theologians have argued over the centuries about how much consciousness Christ had of his own divinity. After all, could Christ really understand what we go through as human beings if, in the back of his mind, he knew that secretly he was God? Was he just pretending to be human? Then how could the Bible say that he was tempted in every way as we are (Hebrews 4:15)? A more ...

1356. Ananias and Sapphira

Acts 5:1-11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... feature of miracle stories (cf. v. 5; see disc. on 2:43). In bringing the narrative to a close, Luke uses the word church for the first time in Acts. Whether or not the Christians themselves were using this word at the time, Luke may have meant us to understand by it that there was a growing consciousness among them of their role as the people of God. Ekklēsia, “church,” is one of two words used in the LXX for the congregation of Israel. Since the other, synagōgē, had come to be used more and more by ...

1357. Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

Acts 7:1-53

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... that it would establish him as their leader—Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them (v. 25; cf. Josephus, Antiquities 2.205–216). He did not reckon, however, with their unresponsiveness, and in fact, they did not understand (v. 25; cf. vv. 35, 39). 7:26–29 This was borne out the next day when he would have acted again as their leader. Two Israelites were fighting, and when Moses attempted to reconcile them by appealing to them as brothers, the man who was ...

1358. Paul in Ephesus

Acts 19:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... is that it was by contact with the clothes that their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them (v. 12). He does say that the miracles were extraordinary. It may have been a case of God meeting the needs of these people at their own level of understanding. The Ephesians set great store by amulets and charms (see vv. 18f.), and now, by these very means, they were being taught that in Paul’s God there was a greater power than they had ever known before. In itself this was not enough. But it was a ...

1359. Paul Speaks to the Crowd

Acts 21:37--22:21

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Jesus is given the title of Nazareth (but cf. 26:15). 22:9 Paul explained that the men who were with him saw the light, but did not understand the voice of him who was speaking. As in 9:4 and 7, so here in verses 7 and 9, the Greek text varies the case of the ... The word Lord does not actually occur in these verses. The Greek of verse 18 has simply, “I saw him,” but we understand from verse 19 that the Lord is intended. He is not further identified, for obvious reasons, but Luke’s Christian readers would ...

1360. Paul's Concern for the Galatians

Galatians 4:8-20

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... , was the crucible in which they knew blessing. 4:16 Paul’s next statement rests on the conviction that to oppose him is to oppose the truth and that his opponents are enemies of the truth (cf. 5:7). Paul equates the gospel with truth (2:5, 14) and understands his preaching and teaching, both now and in the past, as truth telling. If he is now regarded as an enemy it is not because his message was wrong. The implication is clear—what is false is the portrait of him created by the rival evangelists. 4:17 ...

1361. Hagar and Sally

Galatians 4:21-31

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. In the Greek the phrase “born in the ordinary way” is “born according to the flesh (sarx).” While the Genesis text does understand Isaac to be the child of God’s promise (Gen. 21:1–3) Paul’s description of Ishmael as “born according to the flesh” goes beyond contrasting Isaac’s special birth with the normal birth of Ishmael. In the context of this passage, which uses dualistic ...

1362. Not Circumcision but a New Creation

Galatians 6:11-18

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... the Spirit of God (2:12). 6:15 Paul does not often use the term new creation, but the concept is prevalent throughout his writings. The idea that believers have been given a new life (Gal. 2:19–20; cf. Rom. 6:4–6, 11) is key to Paul’s understanding of the significance of faith in Christ. Believers know a new life in this present time and also wait for it to be manifested more fully (Rom. 8:18–25). 6:16 The phrase follow this rule has in the Greek the verb (stoichēsousin), found also in 5:25 ...

1363. The Coming of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... and to bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him (cf. 1 Cor. 15:23). The verb anistēmi is used here, with reference to Jesus, in an intransitive form (second aorist active), “he rose.” But Scripture also testifies that God raised Jesus, and we should understand this reference in those terms (see, e.g., Acts 3:15; Rom. 8:11; 2 Cor. 13:4; Eph. 1:20; Col. 2:12; also 2 Cor. 1:9). Significantly, while Paul describes the Christian dead as sleeping, he nowhere uses that expression of Jesus. On the ...

1364. The Man of Lawlessness

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... servant of God (Paul was writing in the relatively good years of Claudius’ reign, A.D. 41–54). But the empire and the emperors have long since gone and, as far as we can tell, still the man of lawlessness has not come. It may be better then to understand what is holding him back as the principle of law and order, of which Roman rule was but one instance and of which there have been many others (cf., e.g., Gal. 3:19, 24), and “the one who restrains him” as the human authority that in any particular ...

1365. Request for Prayer

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , not apparent in NIV). Either way it amounts to the same thing: namely, that the maintenance of the good work begun in them (cf. 1:3; 1 Thess. 1:6–8; 2:13f.; 4:9f.) depended on God’s faithfulness, specifically as expressed in the previous verse. Again we understand the Lord of this verse and the next to be the Father (see note on 1 Thess. 1:1). The things we command includes earlier teaching whether by word or by letter (cf. 1 Thess. 4:1 and see disc. on 1 Thess. 4:11 for parangellō, “to command ...

1366. The Lord's Grace to Paul

1 Timothy 1:12-20

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... it must be noted, is referred to not as apostleship but as the work of a servant, to his service (diakonia, “service, ministry.” a Pauline favorite). As in 1 Corinthians 15:9–10 and Galatians 1:13–16, passages very similar to this one, Paul’s understanding of his conversion and ministry as expressions of grace finds its focus in the vivid memory of his past. The wonder for him—and what thus magnifies God’s grace—is that Christ should ever have considered him at all (v. 12), since at the time ...

1367. Instructions on Worship

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... life free from trouble or distress (which hardly fits the point of view of 2 Tim. 1:8 and 3:12) but that they should live in such a way that “no one will speak evil of the name of God and of our teaching” (6:1). This understanding is supported by two other factors: First, in 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 Paul uses identical language (“lead a quiet life”) for the selfsame reason (to “win the respect of outsiders”), where “busybodies” are disrupting things (cf. 2 Thess. 3:11 with 1 Tim. 5:13); and ...

1368. Paul's Charge to Timothy

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... he himself, the false teachers, and the people, will have to give a final account at Christ’s appearing. 4:2 The charge itself is a series of five imperatives. The first, preach the Word (see disc. on 1 Tim. 4:5 for “the gospel message” as the proper understanding of “the logos of God” in the PE), is the rubric for the others. Above all else, Timothy must proclaim the message of the gospel, which here has the same effect as the charge to “guard the deposit” in 1 Timothy 6:20 and 2 Timothy 1:14 ...

1369. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Philemon 1:1-7

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... of every good thing we have in Christ. RSV—“and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ.” GNB—“My prayer is that our fellowship with you as believers will bring about a deeper understanding of every blessing which we have in our life in union with Christ.” The best way to approximate what this verse means is to see it in the context of the letter as teaching these truths: All Christians share a common faith; faith should be an active ...

1370. Doing What is Good

Titus 3:1-11

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... Paul is moved to speak about the gospel he takes up the personal self-identification of we too (cf. 2:11–14; 2 Tim. 1:9–10; Gal. 1:4; etc.). What we too were—and they by implication still are—includes foolish (perhaps “without understanding,” Williams), disobedient (“to God” is implied; cf. 1:16), deceived (or “misguided” [Kelly]; it is Pauline theology that people living in sin are “duped” by Satan: cf. 1 Tim. 4:1–2; 2 Cor. 4:4). Because they are being led astray they become ...

1371. The Blood of Christ

Hebrews 9:11-28

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... is applied both to the conscience (in 9:14 and 10:2) and to ceremonial purification (as in 9:22 and here). See F. Hauck, TDNT, vol. 3, pp. 423–31. But do the heavenly things themselves need to be purified? Again, there is no need to understand this literally. Our author is drawing a contrast between the old and new that involves the use of parallel language for things that are similar but not equivalent. The point in the present passage is that just as sacrifices were necessary in the old covenant context ...

1372. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... . A wise man will not hate the law, but he who is hypocritical about it is like a boat in a storm. A man of understanding will trust in the law. 1:7–8 The chief term in these verses is dipsychos, translated as double-minded. The term itself is found ... partially a textual problem. It is obvious from the state of the Greek text that early copyists had problems in understanding exactly which phenomenon James had in mind: changing constellations, an eclipse, or nightfall. It was well known that the heavenly ...

1373. Favoritism Forbidden

James 2:1-13, James 2:14-26

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... the problem was also acute, opted for Paul and almost rejected James from the canon. Luther was correct that if James knew and understood Paul’s doctrine so that he used his words with the same meanings, then James is directly contradicting Paul. What Luther failed to understand was that he was reading Paul’s meaning backwards into James. James uses words so differently from Paul that if he had ever heard Paul’s teaching (as he might not have before A.D. 49), he had only heard it in the form of second ...

1374. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... Greek has two meanings. On the one hand, it means: “You have enjoyed yourselves on the day of slaughter.” Since the fresh meat was soon dried or salted, it was customary to have a big barbecue when one slaughtered animals. But on the other hand, James understands the double meaning, which the NIV correctly expresses. The wealthy have plenty to eat; they enjoy life. But it is the biblical day of slaughter, the day God slaughters his enemies (e.g., Isa. 30:33; 34:5–8). They have enjoyed life as if on a ...

1375. Submission to Rulers and Masters

1 Peter 2:13-25

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... , which might well prove inadequate. In the same confidence that Jesus had, they are to hand over their whole situation to God, for God, as all-knowing and all-seeing, judges justly. He alone can be relied upon to view all the evidence and to understand all the motives which lie behind every human action—and in the final analysis to dispense perfect justice (Gen. 18:25). But it is noteworthy that Peter uses the present tense: God, he says, judges justly. At all times and in every situation, God’s ...

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