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1376. “They Will Proclaim the Works of God and Ponder What He Has Done”

Psalm 64:1-10

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... enemies, is pretty bold. However, this snapshot of God has another perspective. God enters into the fray of human conflict. In fact, God was not only there, but he was a participant in the conflict. This psalm does not deal with war, not in the real sense of the word, but uses the imagery of war to describe the conflict David is involved in (v. 8a), even though other psalms do describe the real carnage of the battlefield. This psalm then is a good reminder that when we are struggling with life’s issues ...

1377. Proclamation of Restoration

Isaiah 48:1-11, Isaiah 48:12-22

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... happened and will happen on this planet. However, the events themselves are directed toward the creation of a new era. Though God’s people may fail, Yahweh himself remains faithful to introduce and bring in that new era. The new era is not eschatological in the sense that it is far off. Instead, like the judgment, it is always near. The restoration of the Jewish people from exile introduced this era in a grand way. Its future lies hidden in the revelation of God’s name, which will be manifested in the ...

1378. Restoration of Isarel

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... the tone for the specific announcements that will follow. The “wound” (30:12; literally “brokenness”) is figurative for the calamity, namely, the takeover of the country by a foreign power and the removal of its population into exile. It is beyond healing in the sense that the pain of punishment for sin must be endured. The God who has afflicted is the God who will heal. God will deal decisively with the agents of punishment. The reasons for God’s dealing with them are not given here but elsewhere ...

1379. The Day of the Lord

Malachi 4:1-6

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... apostles will be fulfilled in them. That moment will mark the full establishment of his kingdom, which may come in gradually; and it may not always be apparent, but it will most certainly come. This will mark a time of great rejoicing. The joy and sense of fulfillment for God’s children is likened to calves that, when released from the stable, paw at the ground. The arrogant and practical atheists will be unable to resist the renewal of the strength of God’s children. A separation between the righteous ...

1380. Are You Sorry Enough to Wash Your Face?

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... we have regret, which is intellectual, and remorse, which is emotional. Remorse happens when intellect and emotion unite in shame. Jesus told a parable of contrast about a Pharisee, the personification of the hypocrite in our Ash Wednesday scripture reading, who prayed with a high sense of himself and a tax collector who was filled with remorse. "God," said the Pharisee, "I thank you that I am not like other men. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of everything I get." The tax collector, on the other hand ...

1381. Do You Have Your Key Ready?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... with your life and mine? Are there tombs in our lives into which we may be peering with a sense of helplessness and despair? Finally, is there a sense in which each of us can come through a crisis of doubt and uncertainty and be able to proclaim victoriously, “I have ... seen the Lord.” We should note, first of all, the sense of hopelessness that had enshrouded all those who followed Jesus after his crucifixion. If actions speak louder than words, those ...

1382. Called to Bigness

Isaiah 58:1-12, Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

James L. Killen

... a commode that had fallen through the bathroom floor because the floor had rotted out. Responding to human need seemed to be the right thing for God's people to do. But there was no hint of martyrdom in what they did. On the contrary, they developed a sense of masculine camaraderie and had a good time doing what they did. The impact of their work made a meaningful witness to the love of God, both to those who benefited from it and to those who saw it. In that same church, there were some compassionate ...

1383. The Visit of the Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... of his reign, see S. Perowne, The Life and Times of Herod the Great. The visit of the wise men is commemorated in the Christian celebration called Epiphany (January 6), also referred to as Twelfth Day or Little Christmas. 2:5 The Gk. gegraptai may be taken in the sense of “the inspired text runs” (Albright-Mann, p. 13). 2:9 The place: Justin Martyr said Jesus was born in a cave that served as a stall for cattle and donkeys. It would have been beneath the inn on the side of a hill. 2:11 Gifts: The giving ...

1384. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 10:1-42

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... original name but, after stigma was attached to the name by Judas Iscariot, he changed it to Thaddaeus (meaning “warmhearted”). The NIV’s Simon the Zealot interprets the Greek simōn ho kananaios (“Simon the Cananaean”), not in a geographical sense, but as derived from a Hebrew root meaning “zealous.” Whether this described his energetic character or referred to a former relationship with the Zealot party is uncertain. If Judas Iscariot means “Judas, man of Kerioth” he would be the only ...

1385. Jesus and John the Baptist

Matthew 11:1-19

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... -righteous cannot impair the evidence. Additional Notes 11:5 Jewish tradition held that physical healing would accompany the arrival of the Messiah (cf. Str.-B., vol. 1, pp. 593–94). 11:7 See: Gk. theaomai means “to look at” or “behold,” in the sense of gazing at a show or demonstration. Our English word theater is derived from the Greek. Reed: Gk. kalamos, “reed/stalk/measuring rod.” Reeds flourished along the banks of the streams and lakes of Galilee, some growing as high as twenty feet. 11 ...

1386. Despair, Hope, Easter, and Pentecost

John 20:10-18

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Tom Garrison

... that is now closing in upon her. It is an awful thing to feel that your very existence is not just broken, but broken beyond repair. That phrase "too broke to mend" is an awesome one, for it suggests there is no future, nothing left to live for, no sense of promise or possibility out ahead to beckon you forward. As I understand it, this is the functional essence of despair. It is to find yourself at a certain juncture in life where there is a past and a present but no future — nothing at all out ahead to ...

1387. Playing One Hand

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

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Tom Garrison

... was not a matter of fantasy either. Incredible things did begin to happen immediately. "The common people heard Jesus gladly"; they sensed in him an authority and a vitality that was not present in other rabbis. He began to heal all kinds of ... is a significant step of growth for any human being to take in moving out of adolescent idealism toward maturity. But alongside this chastened sense of realism is a note of hopefulness as well. One has missed the whole point of the parable if the beaten path and rocky ...

1388. Jesus Before Pilate

Mark 15:1-15

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... accusations of the chief priests in 15:3, which must also be understood as “false” in some way. Jesus’ silence suggests to the reader that there is something wrong about the charges, that they do not fairly represent who Jesus really is in some serious sense. For example, the false witnesses in 14:55–60 accuse Jesus of threatening to destroy the temple. As our discussion of this passage shows, this is regarded by Mark as a false charge, for what Jesus is recorded as having done was to predict the ...

1389. Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... with 61:1c and 61:2b, c omitted). Isaiah 61 and 58 are linked by common words and ideas (dektos [“acceptable”] in Isa. 61:2 and 58:5, aphesis [“release”/“forgiveness”] in 61:1 and 58:6). With regard to aphesis, Luke may acknowledge both senses (see Talbert, p. 55; Tannehill, pp. 65–66). Another noteworthy detail is the replacement of the verb meaning “to call for” in 61:2a with a verb meaning “to proclaim,” thus suggesting that the Anointed One does more than merely “call for” the ...

1390. Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two

Luke 10:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... :14). For more on the Elijah/Elisha background see Brodie, pp. 227–53. 10:1 seventy-two others: Though technically this is a mission of the Seventy-two, I—because of conventional tradition—prefer to use “Seventy.” The decision in no way affects the sense of the text or its interpretation. The ms. tradition is almost evenly divided over whether Luke 10:1 should read seventy-two or seventy. The reference may allude to the nations mentioned in Genesis 10 or to the number of persons who made up Jacob ...

1391. Sin, Faith, Duty

Luke 17:1-10

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... . “to stumble”). The idea is not simply to cause someone to sin, but rather to become less faithful disciples, or to stop following Jesus altogether (see note below). Jesus recognizes that such things will happen, but woe to that person through whom they come. In what sense is it terrible for the disciple who causes another to stumble? In v. 2 Jesus states that it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one to stumble. Elsewhere Jesus ...

1392. God’s Faithfulness

Romans 3:1-8

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... of the distance between God and man as a consequence of our supposed insight into His sovereignty. But we are not God: the sovereignty is His not ours. Evil remains evil, in spite of the good which God may bring out of it; the non-sense of history remains non-sense, in spite of the sense which is in it from God; infidelity is infidelity, in spite of the faithfulness of God by which it is not permitted to wander out of the way. The world is the world, in spite of the mercy of God by which it is enveloped ...

1393. Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

Romans 5:12-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... Genesis 3 the serpent tempts Eve to “be like God” (v. 5). There are two ways of being “like God.” One is positive, in which we honor and emulate God, whereby to “be like God” is admirable. But the temptation story carries a negative sense of rivaling God and willing to displace God. It begins with a desire to discredit God (“ ‘Did God really say?’ ”), and ends with a willful disobedience of God’s concrete command. In a mysterious and terrible way Adam’s sin becomes our sin. Genesis ...

1394. Living Sacrifices

Romans 12:1-8

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... pleasing than the odor of death. The presentation of our bodies is a spiritual act of worship (v. 1; see Deut. 11:13). The Greek word for spiritual, logikos, has no exact English equivalent, although the word “logic” (which derives from the term) carries the sense that the presentation of our bodies is a logical or reasonable form of worship. At a deeper level the word concerns the inner integrity of a sacrifice as opposed to its external form. Both Jews and pagans made a practice of placing the bodies ...

1395. Love

Romans 12:9-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... the present, enduring troubles prepares the soul for “an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Cor. 4:17). There is a logical connection between being patient in affliction and faithful in prayer (v. 12). Prayer makes endurance possible. The verb rendered faithful carries the sense in Greek of “holding fast to” or “persisting in,” and is frequently associated with prayer (Luke 18:1; Acts 1:14; 2:42; 6:4; Eph. 6:18; Col. 4:2; 1 Thess. 5:17). There is nothing either in the OT or in Judaism ...

1396. The Weak and the Strong

Romans 14:1--15:13

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... difficult) for people inculcated with such values to attempt to break them and seek the good of others above self, for the person to whom agapē calls me may neither please me nor enhance my reputation. Moreover, bearing with the failings of the weak means that in some sense we become like the weak. “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). 15:3 Paul’s appeal to the example ...

1397. Warnings from Israel's History

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... to see them through. Rather, they need to remember, to know, and to act on the one ultimate assurance that is their real security: God is faithful. The tendency to overread this verse is a temptation within itself, but despite the mysterious matters that it raises, the plain sense of the verse is a call to recognize and to trust God. Additional Notes 10:1 Paul often introduces critical items of basic Christian belief and life with the phrase I do not want you to be ignorant. See Rom. 11:25; 1 Cor. 12:1; 2 ...

1398. The Collection for God's People

1 Corinthians 16:1-4

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... by letter and then later he would send the representatives with the collection, than that he intended to provide a letter for the delegates chosen in Corinth as he sent them on their way. Thus, the NIV and similar translations may have a common-sense claim to accuracy. 16:4 More literally Paul states that he would go “if it may be fitting” (Gk. ean de axion ē). The Gk. word axios connotes something appropriate as being worthy. Paul does not name the standard by which this particular determination would ...

1399. The Throne in Heaven

Revelation 4:1-11

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... both. In Revelation, metaphor is always evocative, but it also carries within it some indication of the “real world.” In this sense, John intends to declare his essential understanding of reality that all of life is ruled over by a sovereign creator, the ... thanksgiving of Revelation, seems incongruous with the epistle’s evangelical message of divine judgment and redemption. This sense of incongruity is only heightened by our contention that the theological idea within the thanksgiving is foundational ...

1400. Eating Blood Forbidden

Leviticus 17:1-16

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... The material reveals a concern to maintain holiness, particularly in relation to other religions. Yahweh often speaks in the first person. Offenses and penalties are at the core of this chapter, which was probably of a piece when it came into the Holiness Code. In a sense it functions as a prologue to the Holiness Code. 17:1–7 When an Israelite kills an animal, it is to be offered as a fellowship offering at the tabernacle so that it will not be sacrificed to other deities. Sacrifices to Yahweh should be ...

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