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176. The Story of Israel and the Story of Gentiles

Romans 1:18-32

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C. Marvin Pate

... Douglas Moo notes, the vices in Romans 1:29–32 fall into a threefold structure: (1) the first four are general in scope (“wickedness, evil, greed, depravity”); (2) the next five revolve around envy (“envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice”); (3) the last twelve begin with two depicting slander (“gossips, slanderers”), move on to four focusing on arrogance (“God-haters, insolent, arrogant, boastful”), and conclude with six that are less closely related (“inventors of evil, disobedient to ...

177. The Lord Chooses a New King

1 Samuel 16:14-23, 1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... now-familiar lines: “Here at last / We shall be free. . . . Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven!” (1.258–59, 263). Satan’s plans to get revenge will backfire; God will oppose him and have the last word. Satan’s “malice” does exactly the opposite of what he wants, because it serves to “bring forth / Infinite goodness.” He will experience “treble confusion.” God changes him and his followers into serpents. “Who aspires must down as low / As high he soared” (9.169–70).

178. Adversity of a Righteous Man

Job 1:1-22

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Daniel J. Estes

... involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment” (chap. 44). Literature: Paradise Lost, by John Milton. The craft and malice of Satan are featured in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) on the grandest scale. In fact, Satan is so grand and larger-than-life in this epic that some critics have called him the hero of the poem, a contention C. S. Lewis ...

179. Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

Job 6:1–7:21

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Daniel J. Estes

... God—believing him to be utterly evil. In response to a warning about his blasphemy, Captain Ahab cries out for vengeance, “The white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. . . . He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate. . . . I will wreak that hate upon him.”2 In contrast, Job’s experience with loss points to his faith in a God who fortifies him. We must depend on God when friends are disloyal or ...

180. “I Confess My Iniquity; I Am Troubled by My Sin”

Psalm 38:1-22

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C. Hassell Bullock

Big Idea: When our sins and their consequences are misconstrued by our adversaries, God will dispense his discipline without malice. Understanding the Text Psalm 38 is an individual lament (esp. 38:2–14) about the psalmist’s sickness that, in his view, has been caused by his sin, which he confesses (38:3–4, 18). Generally this genre includes, according to Westermann, complaints against God, against an enemy, and against ...

181. Focusing on the Core of God’s Guidance

Deut 4:44–5:33

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Gary M. Burge

... have the promise of life standing over them (Deut. 4:1; 8:1; 16:20; 30:15–16). Commandment 6 (5:17). The sanctity of life is affirmed with the use of one of seven Hebrew words that refer exclusively to taking life by malice and forethought or premeditation. This prohibition does not include accidental homicide, self-defense, just war, or the like, for which other Hebrew words are used. So sacred is life that no “substitute/ransom” can be accepted for premeditated murder (Num. 35:31), whereas other ...

182. Upholding the Sanctity of Life

Deut 19:1-21

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Gary M. Burge

... s death. The illustration of an ax flying off the handle and killing a victim while the two are chopping wood (19:5) shows that although such a case still involves a killing, the offender can be protected in one of these cities, for it was “without malice aforethought” (19:6; cf. Num. 35:22–28). Provision is also made for an additional three cities to come later, making a total of nine, if Israel ever enlarges its territory (19:8–9), but there is no evidence Israel ever raised the number to nine. In ...

183. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 26:1-28, Proverbs 25:1-28, Proverbs 27:1-27

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Gary M. Burge

... place. The series climaxes in an extensive description of the hateful person (26:24, 26, 28; NIV 1984 “malicious man”; NIV “enemies”), whose warm and witty words disguise a corrupt and conniving heart (26:23–25). Ultimately, however, such people’s hidden and harmful malice will be publicly exposed and recoil upon them (26:26–28; cf. Ps. 7:15–16). 27:1–27 · Proverbs 27 offers more general advice on a wide range of topics. A primary emphasis in 27:1–22 is on one’s relationship with ...

184. God’s Response

Isaiah 65:1-16, Isaiah 65:17-25

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Gary M. Burge

... The sorrow of past sufferings will cease because of the comfort of the Lord. The new era is described in terms of physical health and longevity, the enjoyment of God’s benefits in physical ways, answers to prayer, and peace and the absence of malice and corruption. Even their children will know the Lord and will be blessed by him. Those who returned from exile experienced these blessings to some extent; however, many of them were only partially realized. Jesus reaffirmed that it is the Father’s will to ...

185. The Lord’s Conquest of the Enemy Restores Productivity to the Land

Joel 2:18-27

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Gary M. Burge

... “make whole” (NIV “repay”; from the same Hebrew root as shalom) his people for the losses they have endured as a result of the drought, the insect invasion, and the Babylonian conquest (2:25). God does not punish his people out of malice but rather to chastise them and purify them so they may once again enjoy a relationship with him. Consequently, the deliverance and restoration of Israel to her land and the renewed productivity and prosperity she enjoys testify to the benevolence and faithfulness ...

186. The Lord Comes and Reigns

Zechariah 14:1-21

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Gary M. Burge

... not by political or military considerations but by the satanically inspired motive of crushing the last major stronghold of resistance to the antichrist. But as in the case of the crucifixion of Christ, God is in control, using the ambition and malice of humans to accomplish his own ends (Acts 2:23). Initially the nations will have great success, capturing the city, ransacking the houses, raping the women. The attackers, however, will be suddenly and unexpectedly interrupted in their looting and pillaging ...

187. Clean and Unclean

Mark 7:1-23

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Gary M. Burge

... —is the real source and nature of “uncleanness.” “What comes out of a person is what defiles them” (7:20). From the “heart”—the depth and center of human personality—come forth “evil thoughts . . . sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly” (7:21–22). None of these behaviors and attitudes is the result of an external cause that can be regulated by the oral tradition. Rather, “these evils come from inside” (7:23 ...

188. God’s Wrath against Mankind

Romans 1:18-32

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Gary M. Burge

... same-sex relationships any decency or dignity. (The question whether homosexuality is a genetic disposition or a “natural” and personal tendency does not come into view; Paul would surely argue that just as other patterns of sinful behavior—such as malice or deceit—represent natural predispositions or personal preferences, the decisive question is not what people prefer and what their natural or genetic “makeup” is but whether God regards it as transgression of his will.) In 1:28–32 Paul ...

189. Expel the Immoral Brother!

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

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Gary M. Burge

... Paul the continual call to “put off” the old sinful nature as well as to “put on” the new [Eph. 4:22–24]). In this sense Christians are indeed to “keep the Festival,” to “get rid of the old yeast . . . the yeast of malice and wickedness,” and to become what they “really are,” a “new batch without yeast . . . the bread of sincerity and truth” (5:7–8). Furthermore, this must be done quickly, for the festival is already in progress: Christ, “our Passover lamb,” has already been ...

190. Dead Hearts and New Beginnings

John 3:1-17

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King Duncan

... physicians like Dr. Barnard, but we’re even more thankful that we worship a God who is the only surgeon who can put an entirely new heart in an individual. That is the only heart transplant that really matters. It is when God replaces a heart filled with malice, anger, hatred, envy, guilt and a host of other negative, destructive emotions with a heart filled with love, joy, peace and wholeness. I don’t want you to hold up your hand, but I wonder if there is anyone here today who needs that kind of heart ...

191. No One Is Righteous

Romans 3:9-20

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... of the Jews he speaks in the third person, but when he strips them of their advantages he includes himself among them and speaks in the first person (Romans, p. 124). Paul’s persistence in demonstrating the unrighteousness of Jews is not because of any malice towards them. Paul was himself a Jew who empathized deeply with his people (9:2–5). His argumentation rather has a strategic purpose to show that if the Jew, the best of the lot, cannot make the grade, then no one can. Paul’s case against ...

192. Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

Romans 5:12-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... madness. Barth speaks of “total help over against total guilt” (Dogmatics in Outline, p. 107). Milton’s poetic pen again bespeaks an infinite wonder, that grace turns even wickedness to good. While [Satan] sought Evil to others, and enraged might see How all his malice served but to bring forth Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shown On Man by him seduced (PL, 1.215–20). Adam, evil, and sin will be engulfed in an avalanche of love. “Death has been swallowed up in victory” (1 Cor. 15:54). Joshua ...

193. Expel the Immoral Brother!

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... with God’s will for their lives. He admonishes them and apparently all other Christians, Therefore let us keep the Festival. If Christ is the lamb and yeast is immorality, those celebrating Christ are to free themselves by the power of God of malice and wickedness and to devote themselves to sincerity and truth. This admonition is not a mere exercise in moral cheer-leading; rather, Paul is calling the Corinthians to live freed from sin and freed for godliness because God has already acted in Christ ...

194. Job's Reply to Eliphaz

Job 6:1–7:21

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... words gain validity. For this reason Job’s very integrity is at stake, a point that increasingly dominates the dialogues. If Job is a man of integrity (as the reader knows from the very mouth of God himself), then his claims are not the result of malice or wickedness. The conflict is in full swing by this point in the dialogue. Job’s friends are willing to sacrifice his integrity in order to preserve their carefully ordered worldview at any cost. On the other hand, Job’s knowledge of his own integrity ...

195. To Be Spared from the Lord’s Judgment on the Wicked

Psalm 28:1-9

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... of evil” (Hb. pōʿalê ʾāwen, NIV “those who do evil”) provides a clear contrast to the description of the “doer of righteousness” (Hb. pōʿēl ṣedeq) in 15:2–3, in terms of how they speak with neighbors and whether or not they intend “malice” or “wrong” (both Hb. rāʿâ) in their hearts. Both psalms give attention to deeds (Hb. pʿl, 28:4; 15:2, “who does”) and what they have done (Hb. ʿśh, 15:5, “he who does”), and both appear to have been performed directly before the ...

196. Visit

2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... Moses figure who confronts a Korah-like rebellion in Corinth. Hence, the situation that Paul fears when he comes is that the opponents will have entrenched their position within the congregation and will have formed a strong alliance against him, fueled by pride and malice. The first sin is quarreling or “strife, discord, contention.” The same word appears in other lists of vices (cf. Rom. 1:29; 1 Clem. 46:5), sometimes along with jealousy (zēlos), the second sin in our list (see the vice lists in Rom ...

197. Various Laws

Deuteronomy 21:22--22:12

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... homicide. Like Exodus 21:33f., this was probably a paradigm law, setting a precedent for similar cases where injury or death was caused by avoidable accidents. The number of human deaths around the world that are caused, not by malice, but by negligence and carelessness, industrial dangers, inadequate maintenance, unhealthy work environments, etc. must be simply incalculable. Christians (like the Clapham Sect in Britain) were in the forefront of the struggle for basic safety, hygiene, and worker protection ...

198. The Three Kings

Matthew 2:1-12

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King Duncan

... yet comforted, Remembering what the Angel had said Of an endless reign and of David’s throne. Then the Kings rode out of the city gate, With a clatter of hoofs in proud array; But they went not back to Herod the Great, For they knew his malice and feared his hate, And returned to their homes by another way. Thus wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. We know the basic theme of Epiphany well. The magi followed a star to where the Christ child lay. The star, besides guiding the magi to the house where the ...

199. Hope for People Who Are Angry

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

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King Duncan

... lesson for the day from the Epistle of Ephesians when he wrote: “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant ...

200. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

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Lori Wagner

... Kings 5) Psalm 12: The Perils of the Tongue Psalm 15: Those Who Utter Truth and Not Slander Psalm 39: I Will Keep My Tongue from Sin Psalm 52: Those Who Speak Evil as Opposed to Those Who Speak of the Lord Psalm 73: The Wicked Speak with Malice Psalm 109: The Wicked and Deceitful Speak Evil The Evil Tongue of Haman (The Book of Esther) God’s People Deceiver and Slander Each Other and God (Jeremiah 9) The “Leprosy” of the Deeds of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1) Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Healing of ...

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