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176. The Church Is the Place

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... who are members of Jesus’ family. We speak words of assurance to those who are confused or who struggle with issues of faith as Jesus would. Sometimes we lose sight of the purpose of the church when we think it is all about us, our personal likes and dislikes, when in fact the church is called by God. The church primarily exists for the sake of others who do not yet know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Like the Corinthians we need to work through our disagreements toward a common goal. God has called us ...

177. Come One, Come All

Luke 5:27-32

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James Merritt

... me tell you why it is so important to associate with missing persons and lovingly, gently, and naturally introduce them to Jesus. When people who are far from God, truly meet the Son of God, they want to draw near to God. Do you know who dislikes this kind of talk the most? Religious people. Listen to what happens? “And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” (Luke 5:30, ESV) Who are the Pharisees and the scribes ...

178. The Ice Bucket Challenge

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... bit outside of Boise). Noah is 8 and Lucas is 6. They have been amazingly close and enjoying each other since they were born. But the younger brother, Lucas, was born with a genetic condition, "lissenchepaly"— literally a "smooth brain." As much as we might dislike our own personal lumps and bumps and wrinkles, it turns out that in our brains those wrinkly conditions are a good thing. Lucas’ condition has made it impossible for him to walk, or to talk, or to feed himself. He is confined to a wheelchair ...

179. The Joy of a Thankful Heart

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... was simply distasteful. As Jesus walked, a group of ten lepers approached him. The group contains a curious mixture. For one thing, both leprous Jews and leprous Samaritans were traveling together.[1] The illness permitted them to rise above their mutual dislike and to bond as suffering human beings. Tragedy, illness, accident, and crisis will sometimes do that. It needs to be noted that even though they were all called "lepers" in ancient times, the group probably mixed people of differing diseases.[2 ...

180. Teenagers Understanding Parents

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... off the mortgage seem important. Be tolerant of their appearance. When Dad gets a haircut, don’t feel personally humiliated. Remember, it’s important to him to look like his peers. Most important of all: If they do something you consider wrong, let them know it’s their behavior you dislike, not themselves.

181. Paul and Silas In Prison

Acts 16:16-40

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... and Silas. But on the whole it seems less likely that their appeal was to legal precedent than to racial prejudice. Notice the emphasis on the two men being Jews. Though imperial policy generally favored the Jews, at the grass roots level they were generally disliked (cf. Cicero, Pro Flacco 28; Juvenal, Satires 14.96–106), perhaps never more than at this time when feeling against them was running particularly high in Rome itself (see disc. on 18:2). The girl’s owners were probably playing on this. Their ...

182. The Trial Before Felix

Acts 24:1-27

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... from the death of Agrippa I in A.D. 44, whereas Agrippa II’s reign is reckoned from Nisan 1, A.D. 50, so that his tenth year began on Nisan 1, A.D. 59 (see Josephus, War 2. 284). In any case, it is plain that Nero disliked Pallas and intended to dismiss him from the moment he become emperor. It is questionable, then, whether Pallas would have had any more influence before his dismissal than after it. Moreover, he was not disgraced by his dismissal and continued to enjoy a number of privileges, so that ...

183. Suffering for Being a Christian

1 Peter 4:12-19

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... fire—a purifying in a furnace (a “fiery trial,” KJV). Evidently Peter had heard of some experience of suffering his readers were facing beyond what might be expected in the course of their everyday life among unsympathetic pagans, who naturally disliked people who were different. It could possibly indicate some form of more or less official persecution. 4:13 A further cause of pagan bewilderment at the way Christians behave is their cheerful attitude toward suffering. When Peter tells his readers to ...

184. The Nations Judged

Joel 3:1-16

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... a prevaricator of truth is such a god,” he wrote. “What a dissembler with his own decisions. Afraid to condemn what he really condemns, afraid to hate what he does not love, permitting that to be done which he does not allow, choosing to indicate what he dislikes rather than deeply examining it! This will turn out an imaginary goodness, for the true God is not otherwise fully good than as an enemy of evil” (Adv. Marcion 1.26–27). The true God of the Bible is an enemy of evil, who will finally do ...

185. Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

Isaiah 50:1-11

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... like a model pupil, attentive to the Teacher’s every word rather than resistant like the nightmare pupils who sometimes appear in Proverbs (v. 5). The temptation to resist came from the cost that issued from attentiveness (v. 6). Someone disliked the message enough to attempt to silence the messenger. Now we have had plenty of indication that the community resisted the prophet’s message, but its members have been characterized more as depressed and incredulous (“faint,” indeed) than as actively ...

186. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... verse calls for explanation. Greenberg suggests that they “entered the text as a gloss to ‘my net’” (Ezekiel 21–37, p. 652), and then the scribes, who adjusted the pronouns to fit, mistakenly incorporated them. On the other hand, although he dislikes the directness of the language in this verse, Greenberg acknowledges that alternations between figurative and non-figurative elements in poetry are common in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 21–37, p. 651). The MT is meaningful as it stands, and the NIV is right ...

187. Jesus Proclaims Judgment on the Temple and the Nation

Mark 13:1-31

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... evil will be removed and a new eternal world created. Illustrating the Text Judgment coming Human Experience: Although no one likes getting a traffic ticket, most people are happy that the authorities work to ensure justice on the roads to protect all of us. Although we dislike being the one who receives a ticket, most of us do not mind when someone who is abusing the law is held accountable. In a similar way, there is great comfort in knowing that God will judge all people and put things right in the end ...

188. The Roman Trial

Mark 15:16-20, Mark 15:1-15

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Grant R. Osborne

... for the leaders and their charges. 15:10 out of self-interest. This continues the theme of Jesus’s popularity with the people and the resultant fear of the leaders to arrest Jesus (11:18; 12:12, 37). Thus the chief priests (generally disliked for their wealth and avarice) are acting out of “jealousy” (phthonos), and Pilate recognizes that behind all this is their envy. They are using Pilate to get rid of a troublemaker who has usurped their status with the people. The contrast between their ...

189. Feasting and Fasting

Luke 5:33-39, Luke 5:27-32

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... of Philip and Antipas as well as across the lake. But the presence in the town of “a large crowd” of other tax collectors suggests that in this thriving town there were also those responsible for the taxation of the general population. Jews disliked tax collectors not only because they were known to get rich by charging arbitrary amounts above the official dues (see 19:8) but also because they represented and were answerable to an oppressive and (despite Antipas’s part-Jewish pedigree) pagan regime ...

190. “Weak and Strong” Should Get Along

Romans 14:1--15:13

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C. Marvin Pate

... guide for what is right or wrong. Literature: The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis. In Letter XIII of this famous satiric piece (1941), Screwtape, a senior demon, counsels young Wormwood, a junior tempter, to make the Christian give up all “likings and dislikings” instead, of course, of thinking through what is right or wrong. He is to get the Christian to move away from personal preference, becoming neutral. Screwtape continues, I myself would carry this very far. I would make it a rule to eradicate ...

191. David the Conqueror

2 Sam 5:6-25

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... on the boastful claim of the Jebusites that even the blind and lame can defend the city (v. 6). If one follows the marginal reading, then the lame and blind are the objects of David’s disdain. But this does not mean that David dislikes those with handicaps (cf. his kind treatment of Mephibosheth); it refers instead to his attitude toward the Jebusites, who use the imagery in their taunt. In either case, the final statement in the verse apparently refers to any surviving Jebusites being banned from the ...

192. Joseph and His Brothers

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The Life of Joseph (37:1–50:26): Joseph gives his brothers three reasons to dislike him. First, he “snitches” on them (37:2). Second, their father openly loves Joseph more than any other of his children (37:3–4). Third, he has two dreams that his brothers interpret as arrogant and egotistical (37:5–11). The younger brother will have authority over the older brother, ...

193. Respecting Marriage and Sexual Relationships

Deuteronomy 22:13-30

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... rest of chapter 22 in Deuteronomy is concerned with six cases of those betrothed or married and the question of chastity. The first case concerns the virginity of a betrothed woman when her new husband makes a false accusation against her and thus comes to dislike (in Hebrew, “hate”) her (22:13–17). He is accusing her either of not being a virgin at the time of their marriage or of already being pregnant when he married her. Since the elders are involved, the offenses are against society as a whole ...

194. Bildad's Second Speech to Job

Job 18:1-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , for a season, they sometimes flourish (8:16–19). Bildad is certain that the wicked receive the judgment they deserve (18) and that God is in charge of a predictable world order (25–26). 18:1–21: Second cycle Review · Bildad continues to dislike what he’s been hearing. He finds Job insulting. Bildad, with rich imagery, hammers his point that the wicked receive the judgment they deserve. 18:1–4 · Bildad, having opened his first speech with “How long?” (8:2), begins his second speech with ...

195. Agur’s Message: Relying on God’s Word, Learning from His Work

Proverbs 30:1-33

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... the established or ideal social order (30:21–23): a male servant elevated to king, a “hardened fool” (NIV “godless fool”; Hebrew nabal; see “Structure and Theological Themes” in the introduction) apparently rewarded with plenty, a married woman who is disliked (cf. Deut. 21:15–17; 22:13, 16; 24:3), and a female servant who supplants her mistress. Four small, weak but wise animals achieve remarkable success (30:24–28): ants are amply supplied with food, rock badgers are protected by ...

196. Paul’s Ambition and Joy Is the Gospel of Christ

Philippians 1:12-30

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... to the truth of the gospel in Paul’s life. Next, while still discussing the mission of the gospel, Paul anticipates an objection. He claims that his witness is inspiring the Roman church to preach the gospel, yet what about those in the church who dislike him? He recognizes that people in the Roman community might be preaching the gospel for less than noble reasons (1:15), reasons that he thinks are incompatible with true Christian humility as he will identify it in 2:4. But here Paul does not worry ...

197. The Parable of the Sower

Mark 4:1-20

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... Jesus describes his disciples as his true family, and here another very positive privilege is theirs as well. The distinction between those outside and those given the secret may sound offensive to modern readers with a sympathy for fairness to all and a dislike for favoritism. Two points must be made. First, the idea of certain people being chosen has roots in the OT presentation of Israel as a chosen nation and the prophetic teaching that God would select a “remnant” of Israel for future salvation and ...

198. The Calling of Levi

Mark 2:13-17

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... with people deemed unacceptable by the religious purists of his day. In the one case, a tax collector, an employee of the Roman-installed-and-supported government of Herod Antipas, is invited to become a personal disciple of Jesus. Such people were disliked by many as religiously impure or even as collaborators with the Romans (see note). By calling Levi (see note) to personal fellowship and service, Jesus would have offended many, raising questions in their minds about his own judgment, loyalty, and purity ...

199. Gouge-Your-Eye-Out Sunday

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... . I've heard more than one priest say that the reason most of us want an assistant or a deacon is so that we can assign them the task of trying to explain how it is we believe in one God, in three persons, and so on. Clergy dislike of preaching on Trinity Sunday is pretty widespread. So-called, Stewardship Sunday is another. It feels to me like I'm singing for my supper. After all, besides the mortgage what costs a church the most? Clergy salaries. Plus, I can guarantee you that regardless of how many ...

200. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

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Robert Noblett

... !" Let's get this on the table before we go a step further. Christian men and women are not called to like everyone. The old camp song is titled "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love," and not, "They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Likes and Dislikes." If there are folks to whom you do not warm, know please that you are not in violation of any Christian norm. We are not called to like, but we are called and this is the burden of our text to love: "This is my commandment, that you love one ...

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