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126. Be Holy

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... :9–19; Eph. 4:2; 5:19–21; Col. 3:16; Heb. 13:5), reproducing the rabbinic Hebrew practice of employing participles to express rules of conduct. See D. Daube, “Participles and Imperatives in 1 Peter,” in Selwyn, pp. 463–88. Evil desires (epithymia, longing, in good or bad sense): a favorite word with Peter (2:11; 4:2, 3; 2 Pet. 1:4; 2:10, 18; 3:3), but always with its negative meaning. The expression can characterize Gentile behavior (Rom. 1:24; Eph. 2:3; 4:22; 1 Thess. 4:5) and corresponds to the ...

127. Whom Shall We Obey?

Acts 5:17-42

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Douglas J. Deuel

... had gotten in a fight with the others in his cell. The minister looked around and the other men all looked older and bigger and much harder. For the first time, the minister saw this young man as something other than the thief who had stolen his money. He could sense the futility of this man's life, and he could feel some of the young man's pain and anguish. The man had told the minister on the phone he wanted him to come down to the jail to pray for him. The minister had been dreading that. What prayer ...

128. In Search of a Leader

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Robert Noblett

... , p. 3) One cannot speak of Christian vocations without immediately implying the role of God in that process, and arduously struggling with that dimension bestows upon one’s life (and one’s ministry too if one feels that God is indeed doing the calling), a blessed sense of redemptive struggle. Not As We Judge In God’s search for a leader, our story also reminds us that in matters of evaluation, God’s criteria are apt to be different from ours. The man I am remembering was quite polished. He found it ...

129. Why Did Jesus Have To Die?

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Mark Ellingsen

... a consequence of God's struggle against the forces of evil. This way of thinking about Jesus' death is also attractive for the picture of God it paints. It portrays God as more loving than the first explanation of Christ's death does. For while that first view in a sense made God the enemy (God's wrath must be satisfied if salvation is to be given), this second view of Christ's death as a consequence of the warfare with evil portrays God only as a God of love. God is not the enemy! He is fighting the enemy ...

130. Do We Want to See?

Luke 6:17-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

... to be so." Mental vision is seeing with the eyes of the mind. We also have spiritual vision. When the eyes of the heart, sensing a spiritual presence, go beyond the eyes of the body which see a material object, or the eyes of the mind which understand ... look in two directions, splitting our loyalty in half, giving one part to God and holding the other for ourselves robs us of a continuing sense of the divine presence. If we want to see God, if we want to know his presence as strong and real, we must find out ...

131. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

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Robert Noblett

... we need more of the civic center in the sanctuary and more of the sanctuary in the civic center. If in the sanctuary something is said that ignites the fires of humor, what harm in laughing? If in the sanctuary one is suddenly seized with a sense of religious assurance, what harm in bellowing out the next hymn? If in the sanctuary one finds herself resonating with the Scriptures, what harm in reading the responsive reading with gusto instead of reading it as though it was intended to be a dirge? Some of ...

132. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... . For this is, of course, the whole point. Namely, that the Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified on the cross was nothing less than the fullness of God portrayed in a man. Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God. And because this is so, the cross begins to make sense. We don’t understand it completely until we get to the resurrection, but we understand it in part. For here we are shown that God is willing to forgive man. To me the whole gospel is summed up, not in John 3:16 with all its beauty, nor in Romans ...

133. Winning When It Really Counts

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... of right or wrong to cause her shame. Little does she know that living only for one’s self is a sure path to despair. Paul speaks of those whose end is destruction. They live only for today and its pleasures. IN THE SECOND PLACE, LOSERS FEEL NO GREAT SENSE OF DIVINE PURPOSE TO THEIR LIVES. Losers sit back and wish for a better world. Winners understand that a better world is up to them. I heard a silly story about three men who went on a fishing trip. Their boat was wrecked in a storm, but they managed ...

134. The Peace That Christ Gives

John 14:15-31

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King Duncan

... peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid." What a promise! What a gift! Peace of mind and heart. He can give it to us. How? Let me suggest some ways. FIRST OF ALL, CHRIST GIVES US A HEALTHY SENSE OF WHO WE ARE. Oliver Wendell Holmes was walking down a street one day. A little girl joined him. When the girl started to turn back home, the famed jurist said, "When your mother asks you where you've been, tell her you've been walking with Oliver Wendell Holmes ...

135. Humility You Can Be Proud Of

Micah 6:1-8

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King Duncan

... tells of a missionary who went out years ago to teach in a school in China. She had begun the whole venture with a deep sense of God's calling. However, in the long voyage over the Pacific by boat, all kinds of fears began to crop up. Just like Peter, ... had been standing, appeared out of the depth. Every step she took was met by support emerging from the deep. She woke with a new sense of confidence and trust in God. (5) At times in our lives all of us will be in deep water. At such times where will ...

136. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

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Edward Inabinet

... Christ. We can never pay the debt we owe to God; we can''t cancel out yesterday''s disloyalty or disobedience or meanness or their effects on us or God or others. We can''t remove the stain of our wrong doings from our memories, we can''t remove that sense of guilt. That''s the way God has made us. The knowledge of sin makes mischief in our minds and in our bodies and corrupts our relationships. We lose control and only God can help us. That''s why the second truth we find in this beautiful phrase, "Forgive ...

137. A Memorial Forever - Memorial Day

Proverbs 1:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... soldier who had been wounded and had lost his memory entered the ring holding aloft a large piece of cardboard carrying the question, "Can anybody tell me who I am?" Having lost his memory, he had no identity. He had no name, no past, no roots, no history, and little sense of self. To have found a memory would have been to recover a person--not only a past but a present and a future. (2) Our family, due to the nature of my vocational calling, has had to move a number of times. One of the first things that ...

138. Living With The Nitty Gritty

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

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Maxie Dunnam

... . But Peter adds to that self help, the more that is essential, he gives the larger picture and offers the bedrock certainty. Set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you in Jesus Christ. Unless we do that as Christians, we will not sense that life is meaningful and that our particular existence has purpose. It will not take the crises in life to reduce us to nothing, the nitty gritty will do it. Without meaning and purpose, we find ourselves moving from day to day under constant threat and ...

139. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... of the transcendent, because we are a do-it-yourself people. We are dependent upon our own selves, our own institutions, our own organizational and management expertise, to do for us what needs to be done. Yet, our desperate need, our desperate need is for a sense of mystery - the experience of the transcendent, that power beyond ourselves that notes the fall of a sparrow, and is concerned about the coming in and the going out of every one of us. And you know, it’s really no new mystery – it has been ...

140. True Reformation

John 8:31-36

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Stephen M. Crotts

... 's special people. We could spend a lot of time analyzing all the different truth claims of today and yesterday, and can recognize a certain amount of truth in many of them, but we're kidding ourselves if we think that they set us free in the fullest sense. The Jews say that they "have never been slaves to anyone" - as they stand under the watchful eye of the Roman occupation authorities. Let's cut to the chase. What the Gospel of John, as part of Holy Scripture, presents as the truth is Jesus Christ. If we ...

141. Looking for Shoots or Roots?

Matthew 11:1-19

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Leonard Sweet

... with all who show up, or by loving your enemies. Who was it who said that you could measure your love for God by measuring how much you love your worst enemy—that’s how much you love God. Finally, to live Adventually is to live with a sense of what I call the magic-of-the-moment. When I was in college, one of my favorite authors was Kurt Vonnegut, who died earlier this year. In many ways, the Canadian fiction writer Douglas Coupland (born 1961) is today’s Vonnegut among college students, but I cut ...

142. Shame on You

1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was not overcome by this guilt. He was not paralyzed by his shame. He used his guilt as a goad - as a reminder of what he needed to make up for. And he used his own lowliness as a foil to help him elevate Christ before others. Feeling a sense of shame for our environmental mess, the on-going horror of hunger and homelessness, and the pornography of violence is only the first, most basic step we need to take in our own moral rehabilitation. While no one person can rectify all those evils, there are things we ...

143. Said the Night Wind….

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... so connected to the rest, that when one part suffers, all suffer. And when one part rejoices all rejoice. When our spiritual senses are working as God intends, our tears express both pain and joy. Recently I read a book entitled, same kind of different ... . It is the story of Christmas. In Jesus we see that to be divine is to be fully human. It is to have all our senses, physical and spiritual, turned on. So when we see, we see more. When we hear, we hear more. The one-dimensional world becomes a wonder- ...

144. A Vision of Hope

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... in your life. There may even be times when something unexpected happens that thrusts you in some new uncharted course. The people living in Ezekiel's day were living in exile, taken against their will living in a foreign land, Babylon. Hope was beginning to fade as a sense of doom overshadowed them. Ezekiel stepped up to the task and became a powerful voice offering the people a vision of hope. He emerged as one of the leaders of the exile and, like the prophets of old, told it as he saw it, which from time ...

145. Peter Addresses the Crowd

Acts 2:14-41

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 29, 35ff.; 132:17). David, in fact, may not have written the psalm. And in any case, the singular is used in a collective sense. It was of a line of kings that the psalmist wrote and not of any one king in particular, as verse 12 clearly ... the general thrust: Save yourselves from this corrupt generation. The corrupt generation were the Jews, in consequence of their rejection of Jesus. The sense of the verb in he warned them is to testify to the truth while protesting against false views that stood in the way ...

146. Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

Acts 7:1-53

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... to the three periods of forty years that made up his life (cf. vv. 23, 30). First was his providential upbringing. At birth he was no ordinary child (v. 20; cf. Exod. 2:2; Heb. 11:23), literally, “beautiful to God.” This may be a Hebrew idiom with the sense almost of a superlative, “a very beautiful child” (GNB, cf. Jonah 3:3, “a very important city,” i.e., “a very large city”). Or it may mean that in God’s judgment he was beautiful, that is, that he found favor with God (cf. 23:1). If the ...

147. The God of All Comfort

2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... himself alone, especially in 2 Corinthians (see, e.g., 1:3–4; 5:18–21). In that case, Paul may be emphasizing a special sense of brotherhood that exists between Timothy and himself. Insofar as Paul sees himself as a Moses figure who is embroiled in a Korah-like ... –5; 8:2; Phil. 4:14; 1 Thess. 1:6; 3:3, 7; 2 Thess. 1:4, 6). The other use of the word, in the sense of an inner “distress” or “anguish,” occurs only in 2 Corinthians 2:4 and Philippians 1:17. That the former use of the term is intended ...

148. The Living Stone and a Chosen People

1 Peter 2:4-12

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... a kingdom of priests,” which is not dissimilar. Both expressions involve royal and priestly status, duties, and privileges (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6). A holy nation is another phrase from Exod. 19:6; 23:22 LXX. A people belonging to God (laos eis peripoiēsin). The sense of peripoiēsin suggests a collector who has set his heart upon a rare prize of great value, as in Jesus’ parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl (Matt. 13:44–46). Peter’s phrase recalls Isa. 43:21; Mal. 3:17 LXX; cf. Ps. 134:4 ...

149. The Sin and Doom of Godless Men

Jude 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... spilades is in fact rare; only one other example is known, and that is from the 4th century A.D. So, despite Jude’s use of the corresponding verb spiloun to mean “to stain” in v. 23, “rock” is the more likely translation here. It certainly makes good sense. These men are like treacherous reefs to others sailing the sea of faith. Shepherds as a metaphor for “ministers” is frequent in both OT and NT (e.g., Num. 27:16–17; Eccles. 12:11; Ezek. 34:1–10; John 21:15–17; 1 Pet. 2:25). Uprooted ...

150. Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

John 13:1-17, John 13:18-30

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... discourses the significance of what he has done and will do (cf., e.g., 15:16; 17:17–19). The common theme of sending supports the view that verses 18–20, despite their apparent reference to the traitor Judas, belong with verses 1–17, not 21–30. In a sense, they serve the same function in relation to verses 12–17 that verse 11 serves in relation to verses 6–10. But it should be noted that the reference to Judas in verses 18–20 is not explicit (in v. 11 it became explicit only as a comment of ...

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