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1951. Pop Verses: Proverbs 3:5-6

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... . But take a look at what our text says next: …do not rely on your own insight. –Proverbs 3:5 Again, easier said than done. Why? Because basically this verse is telling us not to think we have all the answers. Or another way you could put it: Stop trying to control everything! Wow! I know a few toes hurt right now. I know mine do! Trusting in the Lord will sometimes mean going against what you think is right or smart, or common sense. Trusting God will sometime mean giving up control and what you think ...

1952. Pop Verses: Lamentations 3:22-23

Lamentations 3:22-23

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... for healing and were truly healed. I don’t why that is. But I do know this: God answers prayer and his love never fails us. God may not show up the way you expect him to, but God will show up. And I also know this. The day we stop expecting miracles to happen is the day we stop believing in the power of God! Are you in darkness? Ask God for help and help will be on the way! “God may not come early, but he will never be late.”

1953. Judging Others

Matthew 7:1-6

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... with the minor offenses between people. In any case, the plank is to be removed from our own eye before we indulge in removing the speck of sawdust from the eye of another. Taken in an unqualified sense, this would put a complete stop to helping others with their moral difficulties. Undoubtedly it is intended to restrict hypocritical correction of others rather than to prohibit all helpful correction. 7:6 Verse 6 is proverbial and difficult to interpret in its present context. Dogs and pigs are derogatory ...

1954. If There is A God, Why Is There Suffering In the World?

Jeremiah 12:1, Romans 8:18-28

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... is a God then why do people suffer?” Another way people ask this question is, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” In theological circles it is called the theodicy question. The process of the question goes like this: If God can’t stop suffering, then he is not great. If God can stop suffering and doesn’t, then he is not good. So many folks ask, “If you are telling me God is great and good, then why is there suffering in the world?” It is a great question. It is my experience that the ...

1955. As You Go, Remember…

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... primal goodness is not just present at the beginning. "By the grace of God, you have been kept, all the day long, even until this hour." There is a mercy in the unfolding of history that is just as great as the goodness that lies behind it. When we stop to think of all of the things that could have happened to us up to this moment, all the diseases we could have contracted, the accidents in which we could have been involved, then we realize how slender is the thread that sustains us all! The fact that we ...

1956. Joseph: The Righteous Carpenter

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... on that! I know some of you find this hard to believe. Mr. Right or Mrs. Right has not shown up. You are still stuck in the same tired situation. That problem at work doesn’t seem to ever go away. That personal struggle in your life just doesn’t stop. You can’t see your life changing for the better. You think your life is going to be more of the same forever and ever. You think you will have to live with failure and disappointment. The good news is that Advent is all about preparing ourselves for God ...

1957. Discharges Causing Uncleanness

Leviticus 15:1-33

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... is to limit contagion. 15:13–15 These verses focus more explicitly on the means of purification. When the discharge stops, the man must wait seven days and then move to the familiar cleansing procedures: washing clothes and bathing with ... wash the clothes, bathe, and be unclean till evening. The sacrifices mandated reflect the abnormality of the discharge. After the discharge has stopped, a woman must wait seven days, and she will be clean. The number seven indicates the completeness of the waiting period. ...

1958. David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan

2 Samuel 1:17-27

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... poetic assonance, is found in Mic. 1:10. Maybe by the time of Micah it had become a kind of proverb. 1:21 Shields, in most instances made of leather, were rubbed with oil to keep them in top condition and ready for immediate use (Isa. 21:5). The oil stopped the leather from drying out and cracking. Perhaps Saul had had a reputation for keeping his armor ready, maybe related to his habit of always keeping his spear close by (1 Sam. 18:10; 19:9). 1:24 The men of Judah are commanded to learn the poem, but it ...

1959. Eliphaz

Job 4:1-5:27

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... death. Proverbs also recognizes that the wise and righteous can experience poverty, oppression, and injustice (see esp. the “better . . . than . . .” statements such as Prov. 15:16; 16:8, 16; 19:1; 22:1). Clearly in Job’s case the suffering has stopped short of death, although the friends’ mourning and their speeches betray their conclusion that he is not long for this world without some form of repentance. The use of the question format prevents Job from ignoring Eliphaz’s claims and presses him ...

1960. Job's Reply to Bildad

Job 9:1–10:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... in a context that suggests the meaning “be fragile.” If this usage also reflects that nuance, then Job might be saying “my life is fragile.” The verb for free rein is ʿzb, “abandon; let go of.” While this could mean that Job is going to stop complaining, it is clear by what follows that is not the case. NIV’s complaint is interpretive for the noun shikh, “what concerns/interests one.” 10:3 The Heb. for oppress is ʿshq (Holladay, Concise Hebrew, p. 286). It is interesting to note that the ...

1961. Eliphaz's Third Speech to Job

Job 22:1-30

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... Both the Job and the Isaiah passages introduce the result of turning to God with the temporal adjective ʾaz, then, making the connection between these contexts even clearer. The parallel with Israel suggests that Eliphaz assumes Job is sinning and needs to stop in order to experience restoration. The NIV obscures a causal link between God becoming Job’s “gold” and Job “finding delight” in the Almighty. In the Hebrew text, verse 25 begins with the particle ki (“for; because”) that most often ...

1962. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... . The power of the storm is so great that it dwarfs the wicked oppressors. They may wield life and death power over the poor and defenseless, but the storm remains unimpressed. It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place. There is no stopping or standing in the way of such power. The “place” of the wicked is the space his body occupies—the evidence of his continued existence. In Job, to be removed from one’s “place,” so that the place cannot remember you, is to exist no longer ...

1963. Daniel’s Vision of a Ram and a Goat

Daniel 8:1-14

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... about Daniel 8 is that Antiochus IV is somewhat victorious in his attack on heaven. He actually throws some of the starry host down to the earth and tramples on them (8:10). Whether the biblical writer is merely acknowledging that the evil king was able to stop the Jerusalem sacrifice and persecute Jews for a time, or whether he is really affirming that in the heavenly battle some of the good angels were defeated and thrown down, is difficult to say. It is bold imagery to say the least. While it may seem ...

1964. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... his own country with great wealth (Dan. 11:28; see also 1 Macc. 1:19), leaving Egypt in the control of his vassal nephew, Ptolemy VI Philometor. But his heart was set against the holy covenant (Dan. 11:28). On his way back to Syria, Antiochus stopped to take action against it (11:28) in Jerusalem. He plundered the holy temple, stealing most of its wealth: “He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar, the lampstand for the light, and all its utensils. He took also the table for the bread ...

1965. Life Through the Son

John 5:16-30, John 5:1-15

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... story of the paralytic, in which healing and the forgiveness of sins are virtually equated (Mark 2:5–11), Jesus warns the man to stop sinning or something worse may happen to you (v. 14b; cf. Jesus’ warning to the adulterous woman in 8:11, at the end of ... that God rested on the seventh day (Gen. 2:2–3; cf. Exod. 20:11). Their conclusion was that God did not actually stop working after six days, for if he had, the world would have ceased to exist. Instead, he simply ended his work of creation ...

1966. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... Gospel) because she was using it, not as a form of address preliminary to saying something else, but as a cry of recognition in itself. 20:17 Do not hold on to me. The present imperative suggests that Jesus is telling Mary either to stop doing something she is already doing, or to stop trying to do something she is attempting to do (some ancient manuscripts add, at the end of the preceding verse, the actual words “and she ran toward him to touch him”). The point of the words Do not hold on to me is not ...

1967. The Call of Abram

Genesis 12:1-9

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... history, or toledoth, of Terah, which begins here, and continues through 25:18. Members of this family set out from their home in Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan (11:31). They stop at Haran, where they decide to settle. Later God commands Abram to go on to Canaan, and Abram obeys. Once there, he moves through the land, making three stops for indefinite periods: at Shechem (12:6), between Bethel and Ai (12:8), and in the Negev (12:9). At the center of this account is Yahweh’s call of Abram and the ...

1968. Bezalel and Oholiab (II)

Exodus 35:30--36:7

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... had been received and presented, the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. This daily interruption of the craftsmen’s work ironically prevented them from working on the tabernacle. They had to ask Moses to stop the people (v. 5) and he gave an order for the people to stop making materials. They were restrained from bringing more . . . what they already had was more than enough (v. 7). The gold the people had given for the golden calf had clearly been but a small token of ...

1969. Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan

Deuteronomy 3:21-29

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... of the pain and disappointment that the divine refusal caused Moses can be seen in the number of times he refers to it. (1:37; 3:26; 4:21; cf. 31:2; 32:48–52; 34:4). So even if he stopped talking to God about it (v. 26 suggests he had been making a persistent request), he didn’t stop reminding the Israelites of it: because of you the LORD was angry with me! The exclusion of Moses from entering the promised land figures so largely here, and was probably as much a surprise to the original readers as it is ...

1970. The Golden Calf

Deuteronomy 9:7-29

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... to an act of human enterprise. The horrific import of the words was not missed by Moses, as we shall see from his intercession. It seems that Moses immediately began protesting such words, leading God to exclaim, Let me alone . . . ! (v. 14; cf. Targum, “Stop your prayer from before me”; see also below, after v. 29). Worse was to follow. The second striking feature of this section is when God threatens, not only to repudiate the Sinai covenant by disowning the people, but even to abandon the Abrahamic ...

1971. The Temple Musicians

1 Chronicles 6:31-81

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... , associated with Moses. Second, one should observe that the writer changed the format of this excerpt from the longer list slightly, making it more compact. And third, one should also take note that the present, shorter version of the descendants of Aaron stops with Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, taking the reader chronologically only into the time of David. Why repeat the priestly genealogy? On the one hand, the repetition results in the genealogy of the temple musicians being enveloped by, and therefore tied ...

1972. The Death of Josiah

2 Chronicles 35:20--36:1

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... came against him. The message is quoted in Neco’s direct speech: What quarrel is there between you and me, O king of Judah? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you (35:21). This is one of five direct speeches by foreign monarchs in Chronicles (the others being those by Hiram of Tyre and the queen of Sheba in the Solomon account, Sennacherib in the Hezekiah account, and Cyrus in ...

1973. How Well Do You Listen?

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... her being, and he had an eerie sensation that he had touched her soul. What surprised him even more was that she was doing the same thing to him. He could feel her spiritually pouring herself into him. She stopped her quacking. He says he had never heard of her doing that--but in that moment, she stopped quacking. Then she lifted her eyes and looked around at the sky and the trees and the people nearby, and she said, “It’s wonderful, really is wonderful, isn’t it? It’s really wonderful!” Before he ...

1974. The Baby or the Window?

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... stands were all on the feet cheering Tracy on toward home plate. But as she neared home plate, something wondrous happened. An old dog loped onto the field and parked itself just off the line between third place and home. Moments away from her first home run, Tracy stopped dead, knelt in the dirt beside the dog, and gave it a big hug. She never made it to home plate, but the crowd cheered her anyway. She had showed them what was really important to her . . . and it wasn’t winning at T-ball. (3) What is ...

1975. The Power to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... the power of forgiveness. “I never regret forgiving the person who caused me pain, which gave me relief I never thought I could have.” The Jewish philosopher, Hannah Arendt, once had these wise words to say, “Forgiveness is the only power which can stop the stream of painful memories.” Now please understand. Forgiveness is not passive resignation to a bad situation. We do not shrug our shoulders and say, “Well, there’s nothing else to do. I might as well forgive.” There is little healing in ...

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