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176. A Man for All Seasons

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

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Donald Charles Lacy

... people in ways we can hardly imagine. This is a privilege and a powerful dynamic, I dare say, many do not understand in the slightest degree. While the gospel is not for boasting, it is for proclamation and we must not fail to do so! In a sense he is God's "secret weapon" in that he is able to stand with an unfulfilled Judaism and a promising religion evolving from it called Christianity. Perhaps no one in the ancient church was as well qualified and equipped. History bears this out in a remarkable fashion ...

177. God Is Amazing

John 1:43-51

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Richard Gribble

... so amazing only a few years ago are seen today as routine. We complain when our Internet connection is broken or its speed is slower than we want. We are not only not amazed; we become frustrated. Yes, familiarity can breed contempt. We need to recapture that sense of amazement at the presence and power of Christ in our lives. We can do so in many ways, both ordinary and extraordinary. Tomorrow when we awake there will be numerous ways to be amazed at the power and presence of God in our lives. The mere ...

178. A Clock or a Compass?

Mark 1:9-15

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David T. Ball

... receives mercy from, of all people, a judge (Luke 18:2-6); a peasant farmer is miraculously able to find the land and seed he needs in order to cultivate a sustainable harvest (Mark 4:1-9).1 To the extent we lock in on our modern, linear, precise sense of time and view Jesus’ words from this perspective, we create such problems for ourselves that when we stop and think about it make it nearly impossible to get excited about the idea that a new heaven and a new earth are taking the place of the old ones ...

179. Altar Your Gifts

Malachi 3:10, Luke 6:27-42

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... what we say or do, THIS is what we think of You." I laughed but then I had a very sobering thought that in one sense he was actually right. Our giving IS an expression of our faith. It's an expression of what we believe about money and possessions. It' ... It's not filled with resentment but it's not filled with life and joy either. It's that giving that comes out of a sense of obligation, a sense of duty. This is the kind of giving that says, "Well, I'm a member, so I ought to at least give something." And ...

180. Will I Really Live Forever?

John 11:18-27, 39-45

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J. Howard Olds

... fathers, and I have buried close personal friends and family. I want to tell you my faith is built on the sure and certain hope that Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life and without it we have no faith to proclaim. Immortality. It makes a lot of sense. Of course, eternal life is not just something in the future. It is radically present now. The whole message of John’s gospel was to present to us a notion of eternal life, not just over there, but now. And the way you think and believe about what ...

181. Step By Step

Acts 11:1-18

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... do the same thing in raising our children. Over the long haul, what we hope our children learn from us is: A sense of destiny: We want them to know they are unique, special, so they can have confidence for daily living; We want them to have a sense of purpose; a sense of mission in life; We want them to have a sense of love and we want to leave them a legacy of love; We want them to have a sense of security. We want them to know they are safe; that their family is their refuge; no matter what. We want them ...

182. You Are God's Temple

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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King Duncan

... ’t cope. Contrast Robert Howard with the twelve-year-old girl in Flannery O’Connor’s short story. This girl is moved by the idea that she is the dwelling place of God. What a healthy idea to grab a young woman’s brain. This idea gave her a heightened sense of her own worth. St. Paul writes, “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” That’s who we are. So that’s the first thing it means to have God dwelling with us. We have the presence of ...

183. Flesh and Spirit

Romans 8:12-17

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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... so much because he knew that money has the capacity to answer our existential questions of dependence and separation in a demonic way. In our modern world, materialism has become the answer to the questions of the meaning of our lives. We may indeed have the same sense of dependence and separation that troubles every generation, but in our time we have come to believe that if we can just get enough stuff, we won't need anybody. We can answer the anxiety by seeking to get enough money so that we can fool ...

184. Seeking Christ

Mark 1:29-34

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King Duncan

... and find in him that for which we are so desperately searching. We see in him what we were created to be sons and daughters of the Divine. We are precious people who have been bought with Christ’s blood. When we turn to Jesus, we rediscover our purpose, our sense of direction. But there is a second thing we find in Jesus we find someone we can follow. Christ not only points the way, but he goes with us and leads the way for us. Indeed, he is the way. There is another true story that comes out of World ...

185. Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas

Acts 1:12-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... authority was that of God (1 Thess. 2:13), and they themselves were subject to God (1 Cor. 4:1). It could be said that the authority of the apostles reposed in the gospel, so that even they could not with impunity preach another gospel (Gal. 1:16). In a sense, therefore, they were subject to the church, servants of Christ, administrators only of God’s gifts to his people (1 Cor. 4:1; 7:23; 2 Cor. 4:5). But their role was a key one, and therefore, they are named first in the lists of ministries in 1 Cor ...

186. The Choosing of the Seven

Acts 6:1-7

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... ; 15.8). To wait on tables: This could mean to serve food at tables (cf. Luke 16:21; 22:21, 30), but “tables” was also a figure of speech for financial transactions, because money lenders sat at tables to do their business. The word is used in this sense in Matt. 21:12; 25:27; Luke 19:23; John 2:15, and probably here, with the apostles asserting that they should not leave their primary ministry to serve as bankers and money distributors. 6:3 Choose seven men: There are a number of parallels in rabbinic ...

187. Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders

Acts 20:13-38

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... (v. 28). This task had been given to them by none other than the Spirit himself. It is noteworthy that the verb, made (v. 28), is in the middle voice, as is the comparable verb in the account of Paul’s own commissioning for missionary service in 13:2, the sense being that the Spirit had appointed them for himself and for his own purpose, not theirs. No mention is made either here or in chapter 19 of the ordination of these men to their office, but on the basis of 6:3ff. and 14:23 we may suppose that they ...

188. Paul Before Agrippa

Acts 25:23--26:32

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... proverbial saying too closely with regard to his state of mind (see disc. on 9:1–19). He may simply have added it now to stress (with the wisdom of hindsight) the foolhardiness of what he had been attempting to do (cf. 5:39; Ps. 2:3, 4). The general sense of the proverb is that it is foolish to struggle against one’s destiny. Paul’s question in verse 15 and Jesus’ response are much as in the earlier accounts. As in 22:10, Paul fell back into the Christian habit of calling Jesus the Lord. 26:16 Next ...

189. Accusations

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... he returns to Corinth this next time, he will not “spare” them (13:2). Evidently, he had warned them during his second, painful visit of possible punishment for the church when he returned. The term used in each case is pheidesthai, which Paul uses, for example, in the sense of God’s not sparing his own Son but giving him up to death (Rom. 8:32). Hence, just as Paul calls upon God to take his life if he is not telling the truth to the Corinthians, so also the Corinthians’ very lives are at stake (cf ...

190. The Law and the Promise

Galatians 3:15-25, Galatians 3:1-14

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... everyone, Jew and pagan, was in slavery to the law (cf. 3:23), for whether one was a Jew or a pagan, there was no other way to deal with sin than through the law one knew (cf. Rom. 2:14). The ancient world understood law in a general sense to be that which reflected justice. As Aristotle says, “ ‘The just’ therefore means that which is lawful or that which is equal and fair” (Eth. nic. 5.1.8 [Rackham, LCL]). Law was a way of measuring and achieving justice. By broadening the field to speak about law ...

191. Warnings Against Idleness

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... was common to refer to the letter in this way) is that they should “stand firm and hold to the teachings” (2:15) and, in particular, as 3:6–16 makes clear, the teaching concerning idleness. The verb semeioō, “to take note,” has much the same sense as skopeō in Romans 16:17, “to keep an eye on” (NIV “watch out for”). It is another word peculiar to this letter in the NT. Anyone marked out as not heeding this particular teaching was to be disciplined by excluding him from the fellowship of ...

192. The Day of the Lord

2 Peter 3:1-18

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... discernment (Eph. 4:18; Col. 1:21; 1 John 5:20). 3:2 This verse has a succession of genitives in the Greek, making translation difficult. The problem is often eased in English versions by the addition of through (NIV, RSV; not in the Greek). But the general sense is clear. Possibly a word has dropped out of an early MS, or the expression tou kyriou sōtēros, of the Lord and Savior, may have been added by the writer as an afterthought: “the command of your apostles, or, rather, I should say, of the Lord ...

193. Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 12:1-28

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

... the use of chiasm and the repetition of Hb. ʿad (“until”). 12:25 Despite the disagreements in gender between subject and verb in v. 25a, and between the suffixes of the verbs and the antecedent (lēb is masculine), there can be no doubt about the sense of the entire verse. 12:26 V. 26a cannot really be translated. Perhaps the MT says: “A just person explores [causes to explore?] his friend.” If the Hiphil of tûr (which the MT puts in the jussive!) can mean “show the way” (so André Barucq, Le ...

194. Exhortations

Philippians 4:2-9

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... known to the Philippian church but can only be guessed at by us. Repeated Call to Rejoice Paul repeats and emphasizes the exhortation of 3:1. 4:4 The adverb always makes it plain that this is no mere formula of farewell; the verb rejoice has its full sense. Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:16, “be joyful always.” Here clearly the Lord is to be the object of their joy. I will say it again: the verb is unambiguously in the future tense (erō). “I have said it once,” Paul means, “and I will say it a second ...

195. Walking in the Light

1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... letters. First John 1:9 is the only instance in which homologeō means to confess or admit sins. All of the other uses are in the positive sense of making a confession of faith, esp. in Christ. See John 1:20; 9:22; 12:42; 1 John 2:23; 4:2–3, 15; 2 John ... ), a word which never appears in the Gospel or letters of John, but the ethical imperative to love one another. 2:8 But, in a sense, it is also a new command, both because it was called the “new command” by Jesus (John 13:34), and also because of the new ...

196. God’s Love and Ours

1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... the devil (3:10; cf. John 8:44), who have seceded (1 John 2:19). The Elder uses of the concept of born of God as a way of showing why it is only logical to love both one’s brother and God. The author’s point depends on the sense of three forms of the verb gennaō in this verse. First, believers in Jesus are described as born of God (ek tou theou gegennētai, perf, pass.; lit., “has been begotten of God”). Next, God is “the one who begat” (ton gennēsanta, aor. act.). Finally, the expression, his ...

197. The Only Place of Worship

Deuteronomy 12:1-32

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... single site, and that site is assumed to be Jerusalem, then the instructions for building an altar on Mt. Ebal (27:1–8) contradict that whole agenda and are thus inexplicable in terms of the theory. (d) The syntax of v. 14 can be understood in a distributive sense—i.e., “at whatever place Yahweh will choose in any of your tribes.” This would then imply that the single central sanctuary of v. 5 was not envisaged as necessarily one sole place for all Israel’s history. The view that v. 5 was a later ...

198. 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

... 25:8, 12–14), reflecting the role Edom had played in the sack of Jerusalem. By contrast, the oracle directed to the mountains of Israel (36:1–15) is a stirring promise of restoration. Ezekiel 36:16–38 continues this theme, underlining that the restoration is in no sense due to any righteousness on Israel’s part: “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone” (36:22 ...

199. Unity and Community (Part 1)

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... quality as expressions of a generous patron’s care for his clients, they are empowerments for the believers to push back on the consequences of the fall (Gen. 3). They reveal the presence of the coming new age (Mark 1:15; Matt. 12:28). In a very real sense, they demonstrate what Jesus pointed to when John the Baptist’s disciples came and asked Jesus if he was the one to come. Jesus replied by pointing to the restoring power of God’s kingdom presence (Matt. 11:2–5; Luke 7:20–22). Each of the gifts ...

200. The Revelation of Jesus Christ

Revelation 1:1-3

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J. Scott Duvall

... authors often provided the title of the book and a summary of its contents in the opening line.1The Greek term apokalypsis (“revelation”) means something unveiled, revealed, or made known. Elsewhere in the New Testament, the same noun is used for the revelation of truth in a general sense (e.g., Luke 2:32; Eph. 1:17), for more specific revelation as in a prophetic vision (1 Cor. 14:6, 26; 2 Cor. 12:1, 7; Gal. 1:12; 2:2), for making known the gospel (Rom. 16:25; Eph. 3:3), and for end-time disclosures of ...

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