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126. Step Nine - Discipline

Mt 5:21-26 · Eph 4:25-32 · Num 5:5-10

Sermon

John A. Terry

... murder. Rather, he taught that our righteousness must exceed what is required. The Jewish teaching defined sin legalistically as consisting principally in the overt act. Jesus showed that God's law consists principally in the intention of the heart. Murder begins with hostility or hatred. Such hostility makes us guilty before God, even though we are restrained from the actual act of violence. The evil desire within us is the root of the sin to which it can lead. It is the attitude of the heart Jesus came to ...

127. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

... real concern is to stand up for the Gospel. The Gospel of Jesus Christ does challenge us, but the Christian message does not try to be offensive just for the sake of being offensive. The fact is that while John the evangelist views "the world" both as hostile to Jesus and as the object of God's love, the overall focus is upon God's love for the world. The overall tone is positive. The theme of judgment against the world is clearly secondary. The message of Jesus is not intended to create a small, cliquish ...

128. Jesus and the Women in His Life

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Thomas Blowers

... the Leper had invited us to his home for a pre-Passover celebration, none of us really wanted to go. But Jesus did, so we went. I don't mind telling you, the mood was very tense. Each little thing set off a whole chain reaction of hostile and troubled feelings. But nothing touched off more controversy than when one of the women took a jar of ointment and began anointing Jesus with its contents. Some of us thought the gesture was extravagant. After all such ointment was expensive and the money spent on it ...

129. Never Cry Uncle - Malchus

Matthew 26:47-56

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Thomas Blowers

... individual who got in the way, the harsh truth of how Jesus and I had been caught in the middle of the world's hostile push and shove. My worst suspicions had been proved. The great nightmare which is the truth about the world had overtaken me, had finally ... heard him speak -- calling me by name and saying, "So you think we are brothers and of course we are. But you think the world is hostile and angry and I think the world is good. You think the world is a place where cruelty, hate, and fear are at home. I ...

130. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

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... , "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:51-62) The people on the tour bus were not prepared for the hostility they encountered when they stopped in a small village in Samaria. They had visited Hebron before going to the north, and there they were met with hostile stares from the Palestinians who were in the town. But in Hebron, Israeli forces seemed to be everywhere, almost turning the ancient city into an armed camp. There were no untoward incidents in ...

131. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

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... to the theory, are basically deeply resentful of Jesus for imposing on them standards so unrealistically high as to seem practically unattainable. They cannot admit, however, that they resent, possibly even hate, Jesus for this. Instead, they seek an outlet for their hostility in some other direction. Since Jews were associated with Jesus and involved in his crucifixion, and have also been competitively present with Christians in community life, they have served as a convenient scapegoat. On them the ...

132. God Is a Mystery

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

... experience so etched upon their lives that it was preserved as one of the tales that had to be told when the story of Jesus’ life was written. But one thing was obvious to all. They had expected to see the crusty, old tax-collector rejected in hostility, and they had actually seen him accepted in love. How that could be remained a mystery. The Mystery One of William Cowper’s hymns begins, "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." That’s one of the lessons which can be learned from this ...

133. Whoever Would Be King

2 Samuel 5:1-5

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... our American doctrine of "Man As Master," of independence, we are, at our core, as dependent as all others. So dependent are we that we even live off our enemies. Many in the West eat three meals a day because the West is hostile to Russia. Many in Russia eat because of their hostility to Americans. Each engages in making arms against the other. If by nothing else, a spiral of global terror unites us. If nothing else, our common need for oxygen unites us. When there is no oxygen we die. We all eat. We all ...

134. Easter 3

Acts 9:1-19a, Revelation 5:1-14, John 21:1-14

Sermon Aid

... of Paul on the road to Damascus. This is the first of three Lukan accounts of Paul's conversion from hostility to support of Christ and the church. It is a key incident in the life of the early church. The risen ... BC and AC - before and after Christ. In Paul we can see the difference between BC and AC. Outline: Are you living in BC or AC? a. Life before Christ 1. Hostile to the church - vv. 1, 2 2. Persecute Christ by sin - v. 4 3. Blind to the nature of Christ - v. 8 b. Life after Christ 1. Prayer - v. 11 2 ...

135. Easter 7

Jn 17:20-26 · Acts 7:55-60; 16:16-34 · Rev 22:12-20

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . 2. Why Jesus Prays for Us Today (John 17:20-26). Need: If Jesus prays for us as the text says he does, there must be reason for it. Consider the situation: the church is deserted by her leader; the disciples are on their own in a hostile world with an impossible task to win the world. Jesus apparently realizes the disciples' need for help. What Jesus prays for indicates what Christians today need. It is important to note that in verse 20, Jesus says he prays for the Christians of the future, for us today ...

136. Blest Is the Tie

Illustration

Staff

... we sometimes sing. Well, there is such a tie. And it is blest. In the primitive church that tie was very strong. The first Christians were an island community in a vast, hostile sea. Fellowship was precious, and there was strength in it. A follower of Christ, meeting a stranger on the road, and not knowing if that stranger was a Christian or of some hostile camp, would often with his staff make the shape of a fish or a cross in the dust at his feet, watching for any reaction from the other. If the stranger ...

137. God's Best Gift In The Worst Times (Sermon Series No. 2)

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Messiah: I. FIRST, THE MESSIAH WILL FEED HIS FLOCK IN THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD. We must have food to exist, though it doesn’t take as much as we might think. The military teachers its soldiers how to survive if they are lost or shot down in hostile territory. Some years ago you might remember Captain Scott O’Grady who existed for six days in Bosnia by eating just grass and bark. Of course we can’t survive much longer without food and water, but to really live we must have spiritual food. Jesus called ...

138. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... ! The basic cause of war is in the hearts of humanity. The spirit of the king does not possess our hearts. Pride, hatred, love of power, and greed for economic advantage cause tensions and hostility which lead to war. America, for instance, has let it be known that if the oil fields in the Middle East are endangered by a hostile power, we have a fast deployment force to go at once to fight, for our national economic interests are at stake. Christ the King comes to bring love and goodwill to all peoples. The ...

139. In Which Direction Do You Travel?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of a change. We can learn much about helping people change the direction of their lives through examining Jesus’ method of "relating" himself to others. The fifth chapter of Mark contains an account of an unusual experience. Jesus encountered an extremely hostile person one day. This man was so hostile in behavior that his neighbors claimed he was possessed by demons. When Jesus asked the man for his name, the reply was "legion, for we are many." Now in the Roman army a legion was organized as a body of 6 ...

140. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... because the preaching is so true that it is unendurable to those who live with lies; in which event the ancient road to some form of crucifixion simply has to be taken. But then again people may be justifiably hostile, for the preaching may impress them as being of men rather than of God, as being a biased or partisan interpretation of events rather than the power of Christ; in which event the ancient road of repentance and prayer for forgiveness has to be taken both readily and rigorously. Much ...

141. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... toward you personally. Have you ever thought that if you could really get under their skin in terms of merciful understanding, the hostility might vanish? Long fellow, that giant of English literature, wrote: "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find ... in each man's life enough sorrow and suffering to disarm all our hostility." The key is to get under another person's skin. All of us will find changes to make if we start getting under ...

142. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... laugh and shout for joy. They are relaxed and permissive with their feelings. They are fun to be with for those who wish to sing for joy can always find a song. The third characteristic of this God who stands up in Jesus is that he can show hostility. That is, when sin stains and smudges the sons of men, Jesus cannot stand idly by. When men sell their souls to Satan and are used by satanical power, Jesus is filled with righteous indignation. God is not a big daddy; but a righteous and holy Father who loves ...

143. Song of an Exile

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... even to mention the names of their gods (Psalm 16:4). A Continuing Communication Having thus taken his stand for God the psalmist makes no attempt to go his way in his own righteousness. That, he realizes, would be foolish any time, but particularly so in hostile surroundings where he is being pressed daily to defect from his faith. Instead, he regularly seeks and receives counsel of the Most High (cf. Psalm 73:24). I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. (Psalm 16:7 ...

144. The Ultimate Christmas Gift

Psalm 85:1-13, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... He is our peace," declares Paul of Jesus Christ in our text from Ephesians. In His flesh, Christ has broken down the barriers of hostility between us, making peace between all people, and peace between all people and God. "Before we had no hope" because we were "without ... come to us at last in the person of Jesus Christ.2 Is this not what God has done by sending His own Son to our hostile, warring world? So long as Christ lives in our midst, there is peace in Him who is our peace. So long as He lives among us ...

145. Standing Room Only Religion

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... expectations of what a perfect spouse should be. But then it dawned on them that they were destroying no one but themselves. They had been anxious, dyspeptic, angry, hard, curt, and hostile and not infrequently sick. And no wonder. And then they learned to relax into the grace of God, like leaning back in a beautiful, bubbling hot tub, letting all the hostility and grudges go and then saying, "I give you your life back to start over again. Let's make all things new." And they did. And it was wonderful -- a ...

146. Strangers to Promise

Ephesians 2:11-22

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... of others. Leader: We are without Christ when we are so self-absorbed that we neglect loving others. People: We are without Christ when we separate ourselves from others and become as strangers. Collect Compassionate Creator, we would be makers of friendship rather than hostility. We would be with Christ as those who unite. We would be with Christ as peacemakers. In his name. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear God, help us to become aware of the walls that divide us from each other at levels of family, city ...

147. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... favor and compassion upon our strife-torn world. Bring new openness to the fractious parties in the former Yugoslavia, that a just peace might be negotiated. Let the ancient hostilities of the Near East subside into peaceful co- existence. Grant a just peace in Russia, in Northern Ireland, in Somalia, in the many troubled spots of our sometimes hostile world. Grant, O Lord, that we might make mighty advances toward a better life for all. And grant your blessing of power and peaceful strength to your Church ...

148. Days of Promise

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... who ultimately decides how things will turn out for the benefit of God’s people. Obviously, the rulers of this world, and the people of any age are not always cognizant of God’s will or purposes. People tend to frustrate the will of God. They can be hostile to the will of God. God must work around and against the will of those who oppose God. That can mean God must also work through the people opposed to the divine will. The result is that God must set the stage for working out God’s purposes through ...

149. The Healing of the Man with the Withered Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , to pray for others, to help others, to care for others, to serve others. Supremely in Jesus, God shows us that love is the answer, love is the way, love is what He wants… but we don’t think it will work. We rely on power plays, hostile threats, political strategies, and bureaucratic systems. We plot against one another. We flog one another with cruel words and deadly gossip. We crucify one another… trying to get our way. We don’t quite trust love yet. We don’t think it will work. Well, let me ...

150. All I Want for Christmas is Peace

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... that kind of love and respect, what a difference that would make in our relationships! What a difference that would make in our world! What a difference it would make in our society. Listen! If; you are estranged from anybody, at odds with anybody, don’t let that hostility go on! Go fix it today. Go set it right. With the help of God, go make peace today. Christmas offers us the gift of peace within and the gift of peace with others, but we have to accept the gifts. III. THIRD, CHRISTMAS GIVES US PEACE ...

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