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126. Life in the Community of Believers

Acts 2:42-47

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... to ask for money if we would simply care as God has cared for us. There would be plenty. I am concerned, not simply because there are so many who need to receive our blessing. I am concerned because each of us as Christians needs to claim that we have been blessed and can be a blessing in the ways we give. They devoted themselves. They were committed. Thus, the Christian movement continued until you and I have had the opportunity of receiving the Word of God and of entering into its continuing fellowship ...

127. Proper 16

Lk 13:22-30 · Heb 12:5-7, 11-13, 18-29 · Jer 28:1-9 · Isa 66:18-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... me." "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Various religions are not roads to God. There is but one road and one door, Jesus, and that door is narrow. 3. Iniquity (v. 27). If Jesus is the door to salvation, some claim as in the penicope that they know about Jesus and had meals with him. Still they were excluded on the basis that to know about Jesus is not enough to be saved. One must believe in and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. People who know about Jesus, (and ...

128. The Lamb of God

John 1:29-34

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... the least, and the beginning of Jesus’ ministry would have been thrown into turmoil. Do you remember the tactics of Mehmet Au Agca, the Turk who attempted to assassinate the Pope a few years ago, in his 1985 trial? He seemed to be attempting to create confusion by claiming he was Jesus Christ, and, therefore, he was doing the bidding of God in his attempt to rid the world of one who really wasn’t on the side of God. From one twisted perspective, this could have been seen, if it were a genuine belief on ...

129. If You Had But One Request

1 Kings 3:1-15

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John R. Brokhoff

... tennis court, but all I truly need is a modest two-bedroom house. If this is the case, then you and I must figure out what is our deepest need. Do we agree with Solomon that wisdom is what we need most? Not everyone would agree on wisdom. Karl Marx claimed that humanity’s deepest need is the possession of things, goods, and economic equality. Indeed, this is a need of humankind, for we must have bread to live. It is no fun to be unemployed and have little or no income to put bread on the table and make ...

130. Sick Of A Sick Society

Jeremiah 14:1--15:21

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John R. Brokhoff

... not worth saving. The best thing to do is tear it all down and begin anew." Some are actually doing this through violence and terrorism. Literally, some actually put fire to buildings. In 1980 there were 200,000 cases of arson costing fifteen billion dollars in claims. We are living in a violent society because many of us think it is the only cure for our ills. Americans own fifty-five million handguns, some of which are used for murder. Each year, 22,000 murders take place, making America have the dubious ...

131. Will the Real Prophets Please Speak Up?

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

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Richard L. Eslinger

... corner. They are everywhere. We live in a time ridden with "prophets." There is a real over-supply problem, prophet-wise: all of them claim to speak the real truth, of the real religion, on behalf of the real god. We run into them everywhere we look, leaders of ... If not, it is not worthy, it is not the word of the Lord. Now a word has been spoken to us. It is a prophetic word which claims to be "Good News," spoken by the new Moses to the new Israel. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, ... ...

132. JESUS: Liar, Lunatic, Legend, or Lord

John 6:25-59

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Brett Blair

... with a skeptical mind. If it helps, imagine that you do not know that Jesus is anything else but a teacher. You are a first century person who has just been introduced to him. [Read John 6:35, 41-51] Pretty incredible isn't it? For someone to make such claims. What if, later today, you were introduced to someone and that someone said, "Hi, I am the bread that has came down from heaven." You would look at your friend who just introduced you to this person and you would say, "I'm sorry, what did he just say ...

133. The Christmas Promise: God With Us

Matthew 1:18-25

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James W. Moore

... Namely this - “GOD IS WITH US!” When we accept Christ into our lives, nothing, not even death, can separate us from God and His love. “God is with us” that’s what Christmas is about. “God is with us” the great people of faith have always claimed that promise. Just think of it: Moses, caught between the Pharaoh and the deep Red Sea in a seemingly hopeless situation, believed that God was with him and he went forward and trusted God to open a way and He did! Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego went ...

134. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

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Donald B. Strobe

... -230) It is just possible that Jesus’ enemies in this dialogue were flinging at Him an insult about His birth. That is a tactic people often fall back upon when they run out of logical arguments. They cast aspersions on your paternity. Jesus’ answer is that their claim is utterly false. They are not really children of God, for if they were, they would act like it. If God were really their Father, He says, then they would have recognized the Son of God who came into the world to reveal the Father. Here ...

135. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

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Maxie Dunnam

... that which your ancestors ate, they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever." (verses 54, 58) Is it any wonder that the crowd found those words hard to accept -- hard to tolerate. They knew what Jesus had been saying. They knew that He had been claiming that He was the very life of God come down from Heaven. If anyone was going to have eternal life they were going to have to accept and submit to Him. It was clear that the call to discipleship was a difficult call, a call that demanded making ...

136. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... daughter get pregnant . . . let the revelation come that a family member is a practicing homosexual -- and add the ominous threat to the fact -- he or she has AIDS . . . let cancer invade the bloodstream and the bone marrow of a 13-year-old -- and an auto accident claim the life of one of our brightest, most joy-filled students -- both of which have happened at Asbury in the past month Let these things happen and we know that there are ways of life that promise much but offer little. There are ways of life ...

137. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

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Phil Thrailkill

... Jesus is to immerse him in his culture and in the Book and people that shaped his earthly life. He does not appear out of nowhere but is laid in the cradle of God’s people the Jews whose intellectual and spiritual life was shaped by the books they claimed were from God. Anything that minimizes the continuing importance of the Old Testament or of our Jewish Savior is to be rejected in the church. There is not one God of the Old Testament and another of the New.3 Same God, same character, one Bible in two ...

138. True Reformation

John 8:31-36

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Stephen M. Crotts

... for men, truth for rich and for poor, for Christians and Muslims and atheists and many other faiths and non-faiths - but who's to say that one person's truth is true for another? Sometimes a basis for that idea of the relativity of truth is claimed in Einstein's theory of relativity. "After all," people says, "Einstein showed that everything is relative." Well, as a matter of fact, Einstein didn't say any such thing. Some things do depend on your point of view. Whether a car appears to be moving or standing ...

139. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

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James Merritt

... . 19:7 says, "The testimony of the Lord is sure." Ps. 93:5 says, "Your testimonies are very sure." Ps. 111:7 says, "All His precepts are sure." This past week, 100,000 people gathered at a farm in Conyers, Georgia. Why? Because Nancy Fowler, a former nurse, who claims to have had hundreds of visits from the Virgin Mary and from Jesus Christ since 1991, said that the Virgin Mary was going to give her a final message that she would speak to the world. They came by bus, by car, by plane, hoping to see a vision ...

140. Is Jesus The Only Way?

Matthew 22:1-14

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Bill Bouknight

... Now that’s an exclusive statement! CNN would never allow someone to make such a statement without an instant rebuttal. St. Peter made that claim of Jesus even more blatant when he said, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven ... us. If we reject his offer, we exclude ourselves. Some people believe that all religions are basically the same. These folks claim that it doesn’t matter which one you follow, as long as it works for you. Supposedly, all spiritual paths lead ...

141. John 18:33-38

John 18:33-38

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Leonard Sweet

... this world"; that it " ... is not from here." As proof, Jesus points out that he has no soldiers, no armies, no lawyers that are fighting for his freedom an observation that resonated with an official of the militarily based Roman Empire. By forcefully claiming a kingdom "not from this world," Jesus defines the nature of his messianic identity. The Jews were waiting for a Davidic messiah another glorious warrior-king who would free them from exile to a renewed position as the holy kingdom of Israel. This ...

142. The Calling of Our Baptism

Luke 3:21-22; Matthew 28:18-20

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J. Howard Olds

... airport in 30 minutes, I am here to tell you it can be done. I just don’t recommend it. At baptism we are claimed as children of God. Who is more loved than a baby surrounded by family and a community of faith being marked as a child of God? ... What is more meaningful than an adult who suddenly realizes that they belong to God and that they should come home to claim their true identity? The Church never gets better than at its baptismal moments because there we get our identity. We don’t earn our ...

143. Come On In The Water's Fine

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... our hearts. It's God's autograph and it says we are a child of God, a designer original. Baptism Names Us, and tells us who we are. But it also tells the world who we are and who they can be. III. Baptism Aims Us A. Baptism Claims Us, Baptism Names Us, and Baptism Aims us. Baptism tells us what we are called to do. And we are called to reach out with the Good News. An acquaintance, preacher and publisher of Dynamic Preaching magazine, King Duncan, tell his favorite Fred Craddock story. It seems Dr. Craddock ...

144. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... history of the miserable lands of Judah and Israel but also moves the great empires of the world. Yahweh’s power to bring change is not limited to the boundaries of Israel or Judah but spreads out over the mighty Persian Empire. Cyrus furthermore claims that the LORD . . . has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. We know that Cyrus was eventually instrumental in the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple and city walls. However, this remark not only functions on the level of history ...

145. Everything Is Meaningless

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... is a concentric pattern to the poem. At its center is the core statement, all things are wearisome (v. 8a). The Hebrew term for things (Hb. d e b?rîm) is broad enough to include both things (natural phenomena) and words (human expression). Bracketing this claim are the goalless repetitions of the sun, wind, and sea (vv. 5–7), along with the similarly unfilled eye and ear (v. 8b). The next bracket is the picture of one generation replacing another against the backdrop of a permanent earth (v. 4), and the ...

146. Jesus the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... Moses (cf. Exod. 16:2, 7, 8). Ironically, it was in response to their grumbling that God gave them the manna. 6:46 This time the narrator’s aside adds a qualification: “hearing” and “learning” from the Father is not the same as seeing him. Those who claim secret divine revelations are deceiving themselves and others. The thought is the same here as in the prologue. God reveals himself only in his Word (cf. 1:1, 18). 6:50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven: Once more the use of the ...

147. The Unbelief of the Jews

John 10:22-42

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... that matter. Jesus could easily have said, “I am God” or “I am God’s Son” or “I am the Messiah,” but it would not have had to mean any more than God meant when he spoke of “gods” in Psalm 82. The purpose of the quotation is not to claim for Jesus a fixed title but to reduce the whole matter of titles to an absurdity. In verses 37–38, Jesus resumes, and brings to completion, his own agenda for the discourse: Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. But if I do it, even though ...

148. Pressing on Toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... derivative in a different sense within a short interval is a common literary phenomenon. There is no need to write the word in its present occurrence within quotation marks, as though Paul were not committing himself to its use. To be sure, if any of his readers claimed to be perfect in a sense that could not be achieved short of the day of Christ, there may be a word of admonition for them: it was a mark of the mature to recognize that such perfection was unattainable during mortal life. Let no man think ...

149. Let Us Love One Another

2 John 1:1-13

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... Johannine writings, the author is thinking of love within the community, among those who are supposed to belong to the truth. This is what he writes to teach them (1 John 3:11, 14, 16–18, 23; 4:7–8, 11–12, 20–21). 6 Yet it is impossible to claim to practice love without also obeying God’s commands. Love is not just a feeling; it is seen concretely in the lives of those who obey God’s word (1 John 2:5). It is made visible “with actions and in truth” (1 John 3:18). Jesus taught his disciples ...

150. Imitation and Role Modeling

1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1, 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

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Preben Vang

... powers. This invariably will lead to a disfellowshiping of Christ (10:21). The antidote against this, says Paul, is to capitalize on the koin?nia, or oneness, of the body of Christ (10:17), which leads to worship of the one true God. 3. The claim that something is legal does not make it right. Christians, Paul says, are guided by a more significant question: Is it helpful? Questions of legal permissibility are helpful only from the negative side. If it is illegal or impermissible, it should not be done; if ...

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