Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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151. The Beginning
Genesis 1:1-2:3
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... accord with the origin of the solar system. Consequently some of its ideas are compatible with scientific explanations, while others seem far removed. For example, the description of the heavens as a solid dome holding back the heavenly ocean (1:6–8) yields no scientific meaning today, but God’s commanding and thereby empowering the earth to produce vegetation and living creatures of various kinds (1:11–12, 24) fits well with the view that species change, adapt, and produce new forms. Scientists put ...
152. Miscellaneous Oracles of Judgment
Ezekiel 21:1-32, Ezekiel 22:1-31
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... symbol of royalty in 19:1–9) so here the prophet toys with the image of the smelter. For Israel is not the silver, being purged and strengthened by its present trial. Israel—all Israel—is the dross, the waste metal left behind which will never yield silver no matter how hot the fire (vv. 18–19). The point of the image, then, is not purification, but destruction. To those gathered in Jerusalem, the Lord declares, “I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. As silver ...
153. Oracles of Restoration
Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... be safe (vv. 25, 28; compare Lev. 26:6, and see the Additional Note on 14:15). They will be safe from foreign nations (vv. 27–29; compare Lev. 26:6–8). God will send showers in season; there will be showers of blessing (v. 26; compare Lev. 26:4), yielding abundant crops (vv. 27, 29; compare Lev. 26:4–5). Most of all, however, the Lord says, “they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Sovereign LORD” (v. 30; see also v. 26 ...
154. More Parables of the Kingdom
Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:21-25
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... often tout the importance of investing regularly and starting at a young age. There is great wisdom in their counsel. Investors should be disciplined, and so too should disciples. Consistent reading of the Bible yields great benefit. What we invest in the reading of the Scriptures in terms of time and effort yields a much greater reward as the Lord gives us greater understanding and transforms our lives through it. As noted above, there is a superabundance of riches for those who search the Word carefully ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... care for them. The primary addition here is that this is extended to the Gentiles as well as the Jews. The one new theme concerns the grave danger of putting God to the test. We do not demand that God work in this world by our own criteria; rather, we yield to his wisdom and sovereignty in our lives. In other words, we do not tell him how to act; instead, we act the way he tells us and conduct our lives accordingly. Teaching the Text 1. God’s care for us is amazing. Ephesians 1:3, 7–8 describes how ...
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Grant R. Osborne
... to accept these terms was not reached easily, coming only after two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The call of every Christian is a full and complete surrender to the will of God. Although people often don’t make this decision (yielding their will and desires to God) easily, this surrender does bring wonderful guarantees to those who are willing to do so. For example, the Lord promises his presence, his peace, his joy, his strength, his help, and a forever home with him. This is ...
157. Sabbath Year and Year of Jubilee
Leviticus 25:8-55, Leviticus 25:1-7
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Joe M. Sprinkle
... do not plant or harvest . . . ? Sabbath Year and Jubilee Year rules raise fears of famine. God promises to provide Israel with food security during these years (vv. 18–19). Not sowing might seem foolhardy (v. 20), but God encourages faith that he will provide crop yield in the sixth year “enough for three years”—that is, enough to cover years six and seven and until the harvest of the eighth year (vv. 21–22). The same principle applies to the Year of Jubilee in the fiftieth year. 25:23–24  the ...
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Daniel J. Estes
... on in God’s wise plan than what we can understand and appreciate at the time. Yahweh makes it painfully evident that Job is unable to control the world, because that is Yahweh’s prerogative alone. Because Job cannot do what Yahweh does, Yahweh does not have to yield to Job’s demands. It is Job who will need to bend to Yahweh, and not the other way around. We are always creatures who live within the Creator’s world, so we must humbly accept our place in God’s sovereign design for his world. Yahweh ...
159. Job Comes to a Good End
Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6
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Daniel J. Estes
... (Ps. 139:23–24) and that he will lead us in his good way. Illustrating the Text Having seen God’s omnipotence, Job yields to God in great humility. Book: In God’s Waiting Room, by Lehman Strauss. In this book, Strauss writes, “I expect to meet ... back the life I owe, That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. O light that foll’west all my way, I yield my flick’ring torch to thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. ...
160. The Power of Persistence
Luke 11:1-13, Luke 18:1-8
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... driver, waiting for a traffic jam to clear, came to a stop on the expressway ramp. The traffic thinned, but the timid driver still waited. Finally, an infuriated voice came from behind shouting: “The sign says Yield, not give up.” The primary actors in today’s parables neither yielded nor gave up. In fact, that really is the lesson of these parables: The Power of Persistence. Jesus told two parables with almost identical messages about persistence. The stories are different only in their setting; they ...
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Gary M. Burge
... angry husband; cf. 6:34–35)—as a penalty for being caught in the act (5:9–10). (2) With poetic justice, the young man who yields to the “strange woman” (5:3, Hebrew zarah) will end up giving his strength to satiate “strangers” (5:10, Hebrew zarim)—the son has more ... drink,” verse 16 a promiscuous, public, and polluted “overflow” or “spill” (NLT). Thus the initial warning not to yield to the woman’s allure, lest one be forced to share one’s prized possessions (i.e., wealth) with ...
162. Proverbs of Solomon
Proberbs 10:1--22:16
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... NIV 1984’s “lamp” contrasts with Yahweh’s “lamp” in 20:27, but what this lamp illumines remains unclear. Following the NIV instead, the wicked are like an uncultivated field, which produces only sinful weeds. The following verses expand on the yield of the wicked. Unlike the plans of diligent individuals, who profitably carry out their plans, haste (and lack of planning) makes waste (21:5; cf. 14:23). Treasures gained through deception are as temporary as a vapor (Ecclesiastes’ favorite word ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... mutuality is remarkable) “and for a time” (lest prolongation lead to temptation) “so that you may devote yourselves [together] to prayer” (7:5). For the wife no longer has “authority over her own body but yields it to her husband,” and (most remarkably of all), the husband “does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife” (7:4). Paul’s desire is thus for all to be free from temptation as he is, whether through the gift of marriage or the gift of celibacy. So his counsel ...
164. One Heaven of a Party
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... .[3] A tree demonstrates the generous cycle of life. It receives life and gives back life. Is it any wonder that the psalmist compares those who follow the laws of God as “trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season” (Psalm 1:3)? I read a true story about a woman who yielded her first fruits in a very generous way. The story attracted so much attention that it appeared in the Boston Globe. The story began with her entering a Hyatt Hotel with her fiancé to plan their wedding ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... others it was not possible not to sin. As a human being he was tempted by sin, and he could have sinned, but he was not subject to sin as was humanity after Adam. Where the first Adam disobeyed, the last Adam obeyed. And whereas our yielding to sin brought our condemnation, Christ’s obedience to God brings sin’s condemnation! The mission and goal of the incarnation were to be a sin offering. God did not send the Son primarily as a moral reformer. The essential aspect of the incarnation is not ethical ...
Understanding Series
Robert W. Wall
... impart truth and grace to them. Currently, then, it is in the spiritual realm of the community’s righted relationship with God that the Spirit of the Risen Christ works to transform and empower God’s people in the historical realm. However, the yield of the Spirit’s activity is more than the spiritual transformation of individual believers. Certainly, the renewal of mind and heart, in the believer and in the believing community, is realized by the transforming grace of God as mediated in the Spirit of ...
167. The Seventh Trumpet
Revelation 11:15-19
Understanding Series
Robert W. Wall
... the kingdom of the world is challenged by a counter-kingdom of priests, made by Christ (5:10), to end the rule of those pretenders to God’s throne. It is John’s expectation that a life and faith that is an alternative to the world order will yield trials and tribulation. Evil is a defeated foe even though it continues to kick and struggle in the grasp of a victorious God. The first (i.e., present) stage of this new age of God’s salvation is dynamic and full of conflict simply because the realities of ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... era who were being persecuted by Antiochus IV. They trusted that God would intervene miraculously in their day as he had in the time of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. But if not, they remained as resolute as those three, preferring to die a martyr’s death than to yield to the pressure of the king by worshiping idols. The author was not naive in thinking that God’s people would always be rescued, for it is clear that he expected some to suffer and die for their faith (7:21, 25; 8:9–11, 24–25; 11 ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... host trampling?” The NIV paraphrases the opening of the statement by adding “to be fulfilled.” This smoothes out the translation, yielding “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled?” The NIV also adds the vision concerning (8:13). Though ... LXX in omitting “host,” but an alternative solution is to interpret “host” or “army” as “warfare.” This yields the reading “warfare will be given or made against the continual burnt offering” (the Hebrew preposition translated “on ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... . This seems a stretch also, so it is probably best to emend the Hebrew text along the lines of the Greek. Repointing notarti (niph. “I was left”) to hotarti (hiph. “I caused to be left”) and adding the direct object ʾoto (“him”) yields the more sensible rendering “I left him.” Rather than the king of Persia, the Hebrew actually has malkey paras, “the kings of Persia,” but this is problematic. It seems unlikely that the apocalyptist would also use “kings” to refer to the demons when ...
Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... responses to the proclaimed Word (as it seems to be in Mark). Rather, the emphasis is on what will happen when someone hears and obeys the Word. “In the face of various and persistent obstacles, the proclamation of the kingdom will yet produce an astonishing yield” (Tiede, p. 166). 8:9–10 These verses are taken from Mark 4:10–12, a passage that has perplexed interpreters since the time the evangelists Matthew and Luke took up their pens (see note below). Luke has retained part of the Marcan text ...
172. Hallelujah!
Revelation 19:1-10
Understanding Series
Robert W. Wall
... ” if “you fear God” (19:5). It is this point that establishes the criterion by which the community of faith must “test the spirits to see whether they are from God” (cf. 1 John 4:1–6). According to the author of 1 John, fear of the world yields to the love of God (4:18) when God’s children realize that their destiny is not the day of judgment of the world (4:17) but victory over the world (5:4). Additional Notes 19:1 The NIV translation, a great multitude, incorrectly places emphasis on number ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... who deny that the writer is following the common Jewish practice. 1:41 The first thing Andrew did. The Greek is simply prōton, “first,” used adverbially. Some ancient manuscripts read prōtos (yielding the translation, “Andrew was the first”). Others read prōi (“early next morning”). The last of these, while incorrect, yields an accurate picture of the sequence of events. 1:51 I tell you the truth: lit., “Amen, amen, I say to you.” This formula is used twenty-four times in John’s Gospel ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... 5 of Isaiah, the prophet told a story about someone who built a beautiful vineyard on a fertile hill, doing everything needed to create an ideal setting for the vines. But the vineyard failed. The owner said, “When I expected it to yield domestic grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?” He then tore down the protective wall and hedge, let the vineyard become overgrown with briars, and commanded the clouds to stop raining on it. That last detail makes it clear that the owner being described was God, and ...
175. The Surrendered Will
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Editor James S. Hewett
Laid on thine altar, O my Lord, Divine, Accept my gift this day, for Jesus' sake; I have no jewels to adorn thy shrine, No world-famed sacrifice to make; And here I bring within my trembling hands This will of mine, a thing that seemeth small; Yet thou alone canst understand That when I yield Thee this, I yield Thee all!
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