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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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151. On-Beyond-Zebra Living

John 15:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... , we should be obliged to ignore the longings of our hearts and to put our trust in some authority external to ourselves.” (God in All Things [London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003], 113.) But we find the desires of our hearts by laying down our own desires and trading them up for God’s desires, and in so doing we find that God has turned our pigsty dreams into true palace dreams. Second, others-second. To live the mystery of Christ, to put on the “mind of Christ,” to live according to “things above ...

152. For What Are We Hungry?

John 6:24-35

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James L. Mayfield

... will done is a powerful drive. We see it at work in ourselves, and it is even easier for us to see it at work in others. However, the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, because of his experiences in a Nazi death camp, disagreed. He did not deny our human desire for pleasure and our longing to be in control. But when both of these were totally taken away in his experience in Auschwitz, he became convinced that the basic human hunger or the deepest drive within us is our deep longing for meaning and purpose. We want ...

153. Any Given Sunday

Acts 2:41-47

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James Merritt

... " literally means "learner." These people realize that though there is nothing to earn as a Christian, there is much to learn as a Christian. They don't want to just show up in church. They want to grow up in the church. In a sense, they are like people who desire higher education. One of the things that motivated me to want to go to college and get a college degree is that except for one cousin that I had, no one in my family had gone to college and gotten a degree. I was motivated to get as much education ...

154. Picture Perfect Close Up: Children - Get Under The Umbrella

Colossians 3:21

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James Merritt

... giving grace and forgiveness as they realize that there are no picture perfect families and there are no picture perfect family members. The good news is we can experience the love, and the grace, and the glory of God in our homes if we are simply willing to fulfill the desires and the expectations that God has for the family as a whole and for each one of us. We have a clean frame that we want to give you this morning. It is just a blank picture frame. We would like you to take this home and place it on ...

155. When I Am Tempted

Matthew 4:1-11

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James Merritt

... in his own way, taking matters into his own hands and, if you will, doing his thing. Jesus knew the power that He had. His hands were just like ovens. He could have become an instead bakery and turned those stones into bread and eaten to his heart's desire. Remember why He was fasting in the first place. It was because He had been lead by the Spirit of God to fast and He was simply obeying the will of His Father. One of the greatest ways that young people are tempted today is physically. For example, the ...

156. Living By The Spirit

Galatians 5:16-25

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... is no law against such things. [24] And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. [25] If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. The next few weeks we're going ... Live By The Spirit. Those rules are simple. Do No Harm! Do Good! Stay In Love With God! (1) Wesley said these three were evidence of our desire for salvation and continuation of our growth in the Spirit. Let's take a look at those three rules because they help us Live By The Spirit ...

157. The Wedding Was Saved, but the Marriage?

John 2:1-11

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King Duncan

... across the whole panorama of nature.” (5) The story of Christ turning the water to wine, far from being frivolous, gives us insight into the love and generosity of God. The Creator of heaven and earth is a loving, generous, grace-filled God who desires to provide His children with blessings untold. God does not seek to simply provide the barest essentials for our existence. God has more blessings for us than we can possibly imagine. In this miracle we see Christ’s concern for a young couple. We also ...

158. Luke 13:31-35

Luke 13:31-35

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Leonard Sweet

... one of the hallmarks of humanity. What the various individuals want in this week’s gospel reading is what creates the tension in our story. For what Herod wants, what Jesus wants, what the Pharisees want, are all at odds. Herod’s reported desire and the opinion voiced by “some Pharisees” reflect the changing wants and needs that make up the human condition. Only Jesus keeps his ultimate goal, his final destination, on a clear, unswerving path. Through the use of the connective “at that very hour ...

159. Discipline and Means of Grace

Romans 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... to happen?” Instead he again changed his direction. Because he was too ill to work hard on the apology, he devoted his final years to ministering to the poor. He didn’t go back to the world; he simply found a new way to carry out his desire to serve God. During his life, Pascal argued against the theology of the Roman Catholic Jesuits and the Protestant Calvinists, so there are, no doubt, plenty of traditions that could find fault with him, but when I read his biography I am virtually moved to tears by ...

160. What Would Jesus Say About Me?

Matthew 2:1-12

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J. Howard Olds

... a God. Our problem is that sin clutters our thinking, evil works on our mind. Poor choices make us slaves to secondary causes. In our desire to find the image of God, we try to become gods. In so doing, we miss the mystery and meaning of what it is to ... ? Jesus would say, 'You are endowed and designed as a child of God.' What do I want? Jesus says you are created with spiritual desires. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the time of King Herod, Magi came from the east and asked, “Where is the ...

161. Political Pardon

Matthew 18:21-35

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Wayne Brouwer

... is true, came the angel's reply. No one, not even God, can change the past. But sometimes the future can be changed. Sometimes hurts can be healed. This is why Fouke needed the Magic Eyes. "Where do I get them?" he pleaded. You only need to ask with genuine desire, he was told. But Fouke was too proud to ask for the Magic Eyes. After all, he was righteous. And besides, Hilda was a guilty woman; why should he look at her in any other way? She was the one who nearly destroyed their marriage. If it were not ...

162. Mugwumpers

1 Kings 18:20-21 (22-29) 30-39

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Stephen P. McCutchan

... of the Spirit. To be born of the flesh is to be shaped by the genes of your parents and their background. You come into this world with a heritage as a given. Because you live according to the demands of the flesh, you also possess the bodily desires and needs, emotional fears, and human vulnerabilities that all humans experience. To be born of the Spirit is different. To be born of the Spirit is not a given but a choice. We can choose to respond to a force that is beyond the natural universe. Often this ...

163. Parenting — Not For The Faint Of Heart

Hosea 11:1-11

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Chrysanne Timm

... , preventing them from bowing down to the Baals. God could control them like puppets on a string, keeping them from straying. God could, but God doesn't. When God created humanity, God's intent was that we would be stewards of creation. God's deepest desire was for a relationship with us. The first man and woman enjoyed the fullness of relationship with God. In Genesis 3, this relationship is characterized by God joining them in the garden at the time of the evening breeze. God created them to be partners ...

164. On the Ropes: Round 3 - Defending God

Habakkuk 3:1-19

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James Merritt

... he tells us what to do when we are in tough times. He tells us what to do when our faith is On The Ropes. I. Desire The Will Of God Habakkuk finally gets it. He takes his eyes off of his circumstances. He forgets about what he thinks is best and ... and God’s workings. His whole perspective has changed. Now, he no longer wants what he wants; he wants what God wants. He has one desire and that is that everything go according to God’s plan, because His plan is best and His plan is right. He no longer wanted ...

165. The Day of the Lord

2 Peter 3:1-18

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... is the one eternal reality. The principle is like that of the parable about building on sand or on rock (Matt. 7:24–27). 3:13 The dramatic events associated with the second coming have long been foretold. But they are not an end in themselves, however desirable the destruction of all that is evil may be. God has a much more positive and constructive end in view. In keeping with his (God’s) promise (Isa. 65:17; 66:22), Peter reminds his readers that as God’s people we are looking forward (prosdokan, as ...

166. Israel Punished and Restored

Hosea 2:2-23

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Israel’s harlotrous sin is summarized in the last line of verse 13: but me she forgot, says the LORD. “To forget” Yahweh, in the oracles of Hosea, is the opposite of knowing Yahweh (v. 8), of participating in that intimate communion of love that Yahweh so desires to have with the covenant people. “To know the LORD” is to know the sacred history and all the gracious acts that Yahweh has done for his people. As the Psalmist put it: “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits” (Ps ...

167. Jesus’s Ministry and Popularity Continue to Grow

Mark 1:40-45, Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:29-34

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... physical deficiencies with the compassion of Christ, care more for people than for “success,” and tell people what they need rather than what they want to hear. 3. When our life has been touched by Jesus, we must tell others about it. As part of his desire to keep his messianic nature secret, Jesus commanded the leper to tell no one. But that was not possible. Mark does not describe the man’s failure to comply as an act of disobedience; rather, it is the natural result of the joy he felt when Jesus ...

168. Jesus Is Tested in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32-42

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... verse 35 and the “cup” of verse 36 are synonymous, echoing 10:38–39, the cup of suffering and death. Jesus dreads bearing our sins (1 Pet. 2:24) and becoming sin for us (see on v. 33). Yet not what I will, but what you will. Jesus’s greater desire is for God’s will to be done, no matter the cost to himself. Here we see a true philosophy of prayer, the exact meaning of intercession. We confidently place our needs before God in the expectation that he will act, yet at all times we realize that his ...

169. Submit Yourselves to God

James 4:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... separate sentences: 1. You want something but do not get it. 2. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. 3. You quarrel and fight. However, most contemporary versions (including the NIV and ESV) divide this material into two sentences: 1. You desire and do not have; so you kill. 2. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. Although the “and” beginning the second sentence is a bit of a problem, this second alternative should be accepted. It results in a neat parallelism ...

170. I Wonder Why My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... today is that God always answers prayer. Now, God may not give us the answer we want or answer us at the time we desire, but God always answers us. And God will always answer us with our best interest at heart. Remember, Jesus said: “If you then, who ... better. We get what we need. We get what God wants. We find that as we move closer to our Rock, we begin to desire what God desires, so that what we ask for, knock for, and seek after becomes what God so desperately wants to give us. The truth of Jesus’ ...

171. God's Sovereign Choice

Romans 9:1-29

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... regard to election God remains totally free, not to employ arbitrary (or worse, malevolent) designs, but to express mercy. It is, then, God’s freedom and mercy which Paul advocates in these verses. God’s superior power, his ability to execute what he desires, is, of course, everywhere acknowledged. Our fear, however, is that God will use his power arbitrarily and without regard to his subjects, or even against them. Everyone agrees that God is free; but is he just? Here, as elsewhere in Romans 9–11 ...

172. Job Speaks

Job 3:1-26

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... of the verb that indicates the wish or will of the speaker, frames all the verses of this curse (vv. 3–10). The translation reflects the force of the jussive by the repeated use of the word may. 3:4–5 Job’s curse on that day expresses a desire that the light which is characteristic of the daytime be totally over-whelmed by darkness and deep shadow so that no light shine upon it. Job’s hopes for this day are obviously symbolic of his wish never to have been born into such a painful life, since it ...

173. Job's Reply to Bildad

Job 9:1–10:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... he wishes he had never come into being, to have gone straight from the womb to the grave would have been the next best thing! 10:20–22 Once again, as in 3:13–15, Job anticipates the approach of death: Are not my few days almost over?, and he desires a moment’s joy before passing into the inalterable darkness and oblivion that is death. The words he uses to describe Sheol, the abode of the dead, are common in imagery of the ancient Near East. Sheol is the place of no return (lit., “I will go and I ...

174. Zophar

Job 11:1-20

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... in the presence of God, and is ultimately persuaded that God would be forced to uphold his claims (see 13:3, 15–16; 19:23–27; 23:2–6; 24:1; 30:20–21; 31:35–37). It is particularly interesting that, in his final expression of desire to be heard and vindicated (31:35), Job employs the same explosive idiom (mi yitten li . . . shomeaʿ li, “Who will give to me . . . someone who listens to me”) found on the lips of Zophar here in verse 5. What Zophar expresses in snide sarcasm, Job will express ...

175. Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

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Will Willimon

... what Satan offered were manifestly bad. Bread, political power, spiritual blessedness -- financial security, knowledge, love. Satan appears to attack precisely at those places in our lives where desire is greatest, particularly when it is desire for good. At some moment when we're busy getting our hearts' desire, Satan hides among the good and too late we learn that the' path toward our desired good lay down the center aisle of Satan's sanctuary. ''Worship me," Satan says, ''and you shall have your soul's ...

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