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176. Ephesians 1:3-14

Ephesians 1:3-14

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Leonard Sweet

... has two meanings: 1) plan, and 2) "management of the household." God is at work in the world, where we who are "in Christ" are members of God's house and thus must live by the rules of the household. If we stay "in Christ" (v. 4), the hostile powers do not need to dwell "in us." We are chosen in Christ and incorporated into him. We must not let other things become incorporated into us that would compromise our incorporation. But our chosenness has a direction: "to be holy and blameless before him in love ...

177. 2 Kings 5:1-14

2 Kings 5:1-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... authority by eagerly embracing the advice and direction of his wife's insignificant Israelite slave girl. Naaman next risks his favored position with the king by using this slave girl's unproven words as the impetus and inspiration behind a journey into the hostile lands of Israel. With the king's blessing in this fool's mission behind him, Naaman risks his considerable wealth, taking with him an extravagant sum to offer the prophet-healer for his services. Finally, don't forget the enormous physical risk ...

178. “Bad Form” and Bad Jesus

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus.” The Ephesians’ text declares that in the new reality that has been created by Christ, Jew and Gentile are now bound on the common ground of “Christ.” All that divided and distanced Jew and Gentile was demolished, broken down, eradicated. Instead of hostility and suspicion there was a new wholeness found in Christ: “For he is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). What does Jesus’ “peace” mean? True peace, authentic “shalom,” is not defined by absence. The absence of wars, the absence of ...

179. Bad Form and Bad Jesus

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

180. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... There is a world out there that is covered with the leprosy of sin. God wants to use us to reach out in the spirit of kindness and touch those people and love those people and bring those people to God. That world is hostile to not only what we believe, but many of them are hostile to the One we believe in. The way we can reach out to them and touch them is to "kill them with kindness". [1] Anonymous, Quoted in John Lawrence, Down To Earth. [2] USA Today, "Wanted: Good Citizens, Close Communities," 12-16-96 ...

181. Prophet or Profit?

Luke 4:14-21

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Gary L. Carver

... journey from the way things are and the way things can be?" We can expect controversy. Not everyone is going to understand. They did not understand in Nazareth. They knew and loved Jesus, but did not understand him. Change is a difficult thing and very often elicits hostility. But we can be that kind of individual who embodies the promise as did Jesus. First of all, simply find something that we like to do and do it. Find something we do well and do it for the glory of God. One single person, one individual ...

182. Ministering When You Are Not Welcome

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... clear. One of the best ways to do this is to send "I messages" rather than "You accusations." An "I message" just states how things are from your end. A "You accusation" has a way of attacking the other person. It almost always raises anxiety, if not hostility. An "I message" says, "I get mad when that happens." A "You accusation" is more like, "You make me mad when you do that." See the difference? Now, sometimes, there's a little resistance to this exercise, since from day one we've been taught that it ...

183. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... gathering, which would have been unheard of even ten years ago. But the barriers have finally come down. It doesn’t take too much spiritual perception to see that within some the harshest most demeaning, and destructive barrier is still there - inner estrangement and hostility. That has the crushing power of forced segregation behind it. It is a revelation to talk to my Mom and Dad, now in their mid-70’s who were victimized by a system that would not al1ow the faintest expression of broken barriers for ...

184. You Are Accepted

Lk 7:36-50

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King Duncan

... strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy ...

185. From Anger to Courage

Mark 11:12-19

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J. Howard Olds

... , easy-going, Christian man, flew into a fit of road rage. The episode sent another driver to Vanderbilt Hospital in critical condition. The incident got the father of three arrested and put in jail and tied up rush hour traffic for more than two hours. Anger – rage, wrath, hostility, hate – it's never very far away from any of us. You can find a 100,000 books and articles at Amazon.com to help you deal with it. The Bible is full of it and no one can walk the road to Calvary without facing it. So ...

186. Luke 10:1-11; 16-20

Luke 11:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... both welcome and rejection on their journeys. While they are to offer “peace” to every house they enter, that peace may be warmly received and reciprocated with hospitality, or it might bounce back to them off a wall of hostility. Whether hospitality or hostility, it will be the message, and not the messenger, that is judged, accepted, or rejected. Jesus instructs his envoys to abide by the traditional rules governing hospitality. Like a parent he admonishes them to eat and drink whatever is offered ...

187. How Beautiful the Feet

Romans 10:5-15

Sermon

Larry Lange

... and for me." "You are welcome," said the new pastor quietly. It was in this way that the good news, the gospel, effective in the simple words of Judy's husband, of Judy, and of their new pastor had obliterated the distinctions, the hostilities held between them and made them one. As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" - Romans 10:15As it is written, Howbeautifularethefeetofthosewhobringgoodnews! - Romans 10:15 For a while, the cleaning staff had another view of Judy ...

188. 1 Timothy 2:1-7

1 Timothy 2:1-15

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Leonard Sweet

... , yet the expected parousia still did not come, there was a need to establish a definitive set of rules and roles for the new “Christian” churches. Furthermore, there was the need for these faith communities to survive in the midst of the suspicion and hostility their presence evoked from their Roman rulers and from pagan culture in general. With that in mind, it is easy to read some of First Timothy’s admonitions as a kind of “go along to get along” directive. But this epistle is also concerned ...

189. Our Magnificent, Mysterious, Mischievous God

2 Kings 5:1-14

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ministry of the prophets, it does not occur to this king to turn the problem over to God. All he sees is all hell about to break loose, an imminent international incident, a threat to "pick a quarrel," the king of Aram's transparent excuse to resume hostilities. He should know better. That is one more irony. Now we meet a new character - Elisha. Somehow word reaches him (we are not told how). He contacts the Jerusalem court. What is the problem? "Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and ...

190. A Loaded Sermon

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Staff

... . One Sunday, matters reached a climax when 200 armed militiamen showed up under the command of Osborne Sprigg, threatening to shoot if he dared mount the pulpit. In the ensuing scuffle, Boucher grabbed Sprigg by the collar, and holding a loaded pistol to his head, eased his way through the hostile mob. He reached his horse and escaped, sailing to England on the last ship before ...

191. Ephesians 2:11-22

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... bring about this state of peace because he himself IS peace. Jesus himself is Shalom, the saving presence of God. The first act of this “peace” Paul describes is that of breaking down “the dividing wall” (“Mesotoichon”), and of erasing the “hostility” that existed between Jew and Gentile. While some hear in this description a reference to the literal “wall” that separated the court of the Gentiles from the other inner courts in the Temple, others suggest this “wall” refers to the Law ...

192. Zombie Zone or Beulah Land?

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

193. A Story of Meeting Christ

Eph 5:1-21

Illustration

Michael Card

... barbed wire. I was dragged from the village and left to die in the bush." Joseph somehow managed to crawl to a water hole, and there, after two days of passing in and out of consciousness, found he had the strength to get up. He was puzzled about the hostile reception from family and friends whom he had known all his life. "I decided that I must have left something important out of the story I told them about Jesus. So I practiced it over and over, then limped back to tell them the good news. I went again ...

194. Jesus Makes All the Difference

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... . We, too, as wise people have found in Jesus a king, spiritual leader, and Savior. God sent a messenger to us to deliver that good news of salvation. All stand at a fork in their paths and must choose which way to travel, for the places we enter are also hostile to God's message of forgiveness and love. Robert Frost can help us to make a right decision with his famous verse from the poem, "The Road Not Taken." Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all ...

195. Checked the Ditch Lately?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... . And unless we know who they are, we can't love them. We really are in a crisis. We don't know how to deal with Islam. Islam is not going to go away, and we can't continue to maintain hostilities and war. It just doesn't work. We need to transform our relationships so that we are no longer hostile with each other. Who is my neighbor? "Of course," the lawyer says to Jesus, "the one who showed mercy!" The good news is that, in Christ Jesus we have received mercy and in turn get to show mercy to others ...

196. Sing Praise

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... of creation, the head of the church, the one who holds all things visible and invisible together — this is the one who brings about reconciliation for us and for the world. For the Colossians, that reconciliation meant they were no longer "estranged and hostile" — now they were "holy and blameless." They were no longer engaged in "doing evil deeds" — now they were "irreproachable" and beyond criticism. For Paul's own life, it meant that he was no longer an enemy out to destroy the gospel — now he ...

197. Re-thinking Our Mission

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... and got together a contingent of thieves, prostitutes, indigents, and sent them off to this harsh planet. And, quite remarkably, where the able had failed, the disabled succeeded. Why? Well, for several reasons. First of all, they already had learned to survive in a hostile environment. Second, they had no place to go but up. (1) The Pharisees grumbled about the kind of people who came to hear Jesus. Those who gathered around the Master were uneducated persons who had little use for pomp and circumstance in ...

198. Ring Those Bells

1 Peter 3:8-22

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Leonard Sweet

... “U.S.S. Consolation,” a floating hospital capable of caring for over 800 patients and housing a host of medical professionals. These “white whales” offered the best medical treatment possible under hostile, combat conditions. Although hospital ships were painted white and were emblazoned with a red cross to advertise their non-hostile identity, their close proximity to battle zones did not ensure their safety. The business of saving lives is always hazardous duty . . . without hazard pay. The U.S.S ...

199. The Messed Up

John 4:1-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... unspeakable by speaking to her. In that day, a man, particularly a stranger, not only would not talk to a woman, but he wouldn’t even make eye contact with her. Not only does Jesus break the sexual barrier He breaks the racial barrier. He ignores this 700-year hostility that had been going on between Jews and Samaritans and here is a Jewish man speaking to a Samaritan woman. That is why John adds this detail in verse 9. “The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from ...

200. The Church in Antioch

Acts 11:19-30

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... (v. 21, lit., “the hand of the Lord”; see disc. on 4:28). 11:22–24 When the church in Jerusalem heard of these developments, they (apostles and elders? see note on v. 30) sent Barnabas to Antioch to investigate (v. 22). This was not necessarily a hostile reaction. There were those, of course, who held that Gentile converts should accept the “yoke of the law” (see disc. on 15:10; cf. 11:2f.; 15:1), but not all shared that opinion or held it as strongly as they did. It is better, perhaps, to see ...

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