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2176. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

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King Duncan

... , and what a tragedy that would be if that is as far as our discipleship got. St. Theresa put it this way: “Christ has no body now but yours . . . No hands, no feet on earth but yours . . . Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world . . . Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good . . . Yours are the hands with which He blesses all the world . . . Yours are the hands . . . Yours are the feet . . . Yours are the eyes . . . You are His body.” You are his body. You ...

2177. A Lost Boy

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

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King Duncan

... like one of your hired servants.” And so, with his tail between his legs, as the old cliché goes, he starts home. And then something extraordinary happens. Luke says, “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him . . .” The son begins his very carefully rehearsed speech about how sorry he is, but the father isn’t even listening to him. He’s too busy giving his servants orders. “Quick ...

2178. Grace Knows No Conditions

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Michael P. Green

... confiscating the poniard that she had hoped to plant into the heart of the sovereign. The would-be assassin realized that her case, humanly speaking, was hopeless. She threw herself down on her knees and pleaded and begged the queen as a woman to have compassion on her, a woman, and to show her grace. Queen Elizabeth looked at her coldly and quietly said, “If I show you grace, what promise will you make for the future?” The woman looked up and said, “Grace that hath conditions, grace that is fettered ...

2179. Our King's Righteous Attire

Col 3:12-17

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Michael P. Green

... Colossians 3, Paul said to “take off” practices such as fornication, lying, greed, and so forth. But the point is that we are to “put on” new practices to replace the old ones. Have we really donned those positive attitudes and actions of compassion, kindness, humility? Sometimes the answer is “No.” Instead, we parade around showing off our new clothes of righteousness and refusing to admit the truth: that we are really naked. And we walk about, blinded to the fact that the world is snickering ...

2180. The Most Important Occupation

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Michael P. Green

Here is a paragraph by Ashley Montague from “The Triumph and Tragedy of the American Woman,” which appeared in the Saturday Review: Women have great gifts to bring to the world of men, the qualities of love, compassion and humanity (that is, beauty of spirit). It is the function of woman to humanize, since women are the natural mothers of humanity. Women are by nature endowed with the most important of all adaptive traits, the capacity to love, and this is their principal function to teach men. There ...

2181. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

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Louis C. Jonker

... two verses that the Lord is actually behind the Babylonian destruction of Judah. This subsection furthermore emphasizes the killing of youths with the sword in the sanctuary and also that the Babylonians (called by their alternative name, Chaldeans, in the Hebrew text) had no compassion for either young or old. This summary relates to the source texts (particularly 2 Kgs. 25:1–7; Jer. 39:1–7; 52:4–11), which all mention the killing of Zedekiah’s son as well as the putting out of Zedekiah’s eyes ...

2182. The Storm

Acts 27:13-26

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David J. Williams

... of all was the uncertainty about where they were. Neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and so they were deprived of all means of estimating their position or even of determining with any certainty their direction (for of course they had no compass). As one day stretched into another all hope of deliverance “was being stripped” from them (imperfect passive). Passengers and crew alike settled into a state of despondency. 27:21–22 When matters were at their worst and they had gone a long time ...

2183. The Law and the Promise

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

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L. Ann Jervis

... such a separation would have been foreign to the Jewish mindset, for the covenant, the law, and the inheritance were regarded as expressions of God’s gracious love: “From thy love, O Lord our God, with which thou loved thy people Israel, and from thy compassion, our King, which thou bestowed on the sons of thy covenant, thou has given us, O Lord our God, this great and hallowed seventh day in love” (t. Berakoth 3.7; quoted from E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, p. 231). Yet Paul divorces ...

2184. The Lord's Grace to Paul

1 Timothy 1:12-20

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Gordon D. Fee

... is here reflecting on the OT distinction between “unwitting” and “purposeful” sinning (e.g., Num. 15:22–31). His former conduct is not thereby less culpable or grotesque, but for Paul this distinction at least explains why he became an object of God’s compassion rather than his wrath. 1:14 Still caught up in the wonder of it all, Paul says it again, only this time the emphasis shifts from his ministry (vv. 11–12) to his actual conversion. Although stated with some unusual turns of phrase (e ...

2185. The High Priesthood of Jesus

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Donald A. Hagner

... verb for sympathize with (sympatheō) occurs in only one other place in the entire NT, in 10:34, where the reference is to the readers’ participation in the sufferings of those taken prisoner, apparently through religious persecution (RSV translates it “had compassion”). Behind NIV’s just as we are lies the ambiguous kath’ homoiotēta, which can mean either “according to the likeness of our temptations” (as NIV takes it) or “because of his likeness to us” (as NEB takes it). Tempted (peiraz ...

2186. A Call to Persevere

Jude 1:17-25

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Norman Hillyer

... 6:8; 1 Tim. 6:19; Titus 3:7; Rev. 22:1–5. 22–23 The Greek MSS show many differences and give rise to a number of translations. Apart from textual variations of individual words, some MSS refer to two classes of people (“on some have compassion; others save with fear”). Other MSS refer to three classes (those who doubt; others who are snatched from the fire; and a third group who receive pity). The earliest known MS of Jude (P72, third century) has the shortest text of any, and omits v. 22: “Snatch ...

2187. Disobedience and Defeat

Judges 2:6-3:6

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Cheryl A. Brown

... , they do not hear the Lord, and they do not hear those whom he has sent to help them. Verse 18 highlights the Lord’s great mercy toward Israel in raising up judges to rescue them, this time even more emphatically: for the LORD had compassion on them as they groaned under those who oppressed and afflicted them. We hear echoes of Israel’s enslavement in Egypt (Exod. 2:23–25), even to the point of verbal correspondence. By this the author indirectly underscores the incongruity of the fact that Israel ...

2188. Jephthah

Jud 10:6–11:40

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Cheryl A. Brown

... his compassionate side. The statement that he could bear Israel’s misery no longer (v. 16) expresses God’s heart for his people and his readiness to act on their behalf; action would be immediately forthcoming. The Bible clearly teaches that loving compassion is the dominant aspect of the Lord’s essential nature. As he revealed his name (Yahweh, Lord) to Moses, he also revealed his nature, which was to show hesed (covenant love and faithfulness) to those to whom he was committed “to the thousandth ...

2189. Samson's Vengeance on the Philistines

Judges 15:1-20

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Cheryl A. Brown

... !” 15:19 Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi: This verse calls to mind imagery from Deut. 32, where the rock is a symbol of the Lord (vv. 15, 18, 30–31; note especially v. 36: “The LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is gone.” When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived: Repentance in Hb. thought is essentially relational; one turns around and moves toward God, instead of moving away from God. That is why the result or effect ...

2190. Wives for the Benjamites

Judges 21:1-25

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Cheryl A. Brown

... , in terms of scope, than Jephthah’s vow. With a little distance from the frenzied heat of battle, the Israelites began to question the wisdom of their oath not to give any of their daughters in marriage to a Benjamite. Passion had given way to compassion; they realized that if they honored their vow, Benjamin would die out with the death of the six hundred survivors. In their consternation, they cried out to the Lord (vv. 2–4). Although it is not stated explicitly, the text implies that they blamed God ...

2191. David Numbers the Fighting Men

1 Chronicles 21:1-22:1

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Louis C. Jonker

... the city. David’s observation that Yahweh is a God of mercy is then confirmed when Yahweh withholds the destruction at the last moment. In 21:15 the Chronicler’s addition (but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it) emphasizes the compassion of God for the city. Yahweh stopped the angel from destroying the city precisely when the angel of the LORD was . . . standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. This remark introduces the specific location of the threshing floor that will play an ...

2192. Flight to Egypt

Jeremiah 41:16--43:13

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Tremper Longman III

... recognize that God loves his people so much that it hurt him to have to judge them and he is looking passionately for an opportunity to restore them. As we will see, though, the people will once again miss their opportunity to experience God’s compassion. But before hearing the response of the people to the divine instruction to stay in Palestine, Jeremiah made clear to them the consequences of disobeying. If they say, we will go and live in Egypt, then they will bring on themselves punishments that are ...

2193. A Message About Egypt

Jeremiah 46:1-28

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Tremper Longman III

... 17–20. Their wound is mortal; there is no healing. Earlier in Jeremiah, the theme of the incurable wound was applied to Judah (8:18–9:2). Here, as there, not even the precious balm of Gilead would help. Interestingly, in this context God’s compassion for even Egypt is expressed through the epithet Virgin Daughter of Egypt (see Additional Notes). Even so, the downfall of her armies is certain and the result is that Egypt’s overweening pride will be turned to shame as their warriors fall down together ...

2194. How Deserted Lies the City

Lamentations 1:1-22

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Tremper Longman III

... and political leaders, are described as looking for food to keep themselves alive, presumably during the siege. 1:20 Resh. Personified Jerusalem is in emotional torment. She calls God’s attention to her state of mind, perhaps to elicit his pity and compassion. However, she realizes that she has only herself to blame. She does not blame God, but only her own rebellion. Death is all around her. Outside (literally, “in the street”) and inside (literally, “in the house”)—everywhere—there is death ...

2195. Remember, O Lord, What Has Happened to Us

Lamentations 5:1-22

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Tremper Longman III

... to their ancestors (our fathers sinned) rather than themselves. The fathers sinned and the present generation is punished for their sins. The praying community is pointing this out to God perhaps to distance themselves from the sin and elicit divine compassion for their sorry state. 5:8–9 Society has completely broken down so that slaves have assumed an oppressive leadership over the rest of the community. The wisdom literature worried about such a “world upside down.” Qohelet said, “There is ...

2196. Israel Punished and Restored

Hosea 2:2-23

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... in a life-long, faithful marital covenant. The brideprice that Yahweh will pay for Israel is not silver, however, but righteousness (ṣedeq) and justice (mišpāṭ), “covenant, steadfast love” (ḥesed; NIV: love) and “mercy” (raḥamîm; NIV: compassion), and faithfulness (ʾemûnâ), verses 19–20 [MT vv. 21–22]. Those are all terms describing relationships. Throughout the Scriptures, righteousness is the fulfillment of the demands of a relationship, and very often Yahweh’s “righteousness ...

2197. The New Covenant Acted Out

Hosea 3:1-5

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... s experience with Gomer does not teach him about God; rather, Hosea’s experience with God teaches him about Gomer. Only because of the love of God for Israel does Hosea seek out and buy back his adulterous wife. His action is not the result of human compassion but of obedience to the divine will. It is instructive to note the nature of “love” in this passage. The word ʾahab, love, is used four times in verse 1, and the content of Israel’s love is clear. The Israelites love other gods because they ...

2198. The Lord's Anger Against Israel

Hosea 13:1-16

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... NT (Eph. 6:12; 1 Cor. 15:26). But clearly also throughout the Scriptures, God is sovereign over that evil power (cf. Rom. 8:38–39). And here in Hosea, death is an instrument of judgment (cf. Rom. 6:23). Why? Because, God says, “Compassion is hid from my eyes” (so reads the Hebrew). The meaning of verse 15a is obscure, and many have emended it to read, “Though he flourishes among rushes,” understandingʾāḥû as “reeds” or “rushes” on the basis of Ugaritic (so Wolff, Hosea, p. 15; instead ...

2199. Repentance to Bring Blessing

Hosea 14:1-9

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... strength, and on their idols, verse 3. They were once the adopted son of God (cf. 11:1), but they have rejected their Father and become orphans. Now, in repentance and renunciation of their former way of life, they once again find yeruḥam, “mercy” (NIV: compassion; MT v. 4) in their God. 14:4 Hosea does not compose such a prayer for his people because he thinks they are capable of such repentance and renunciation of their apostasy. As he has stated before, Israel has no power in itself to return to ...

2200. Judgment of Israel's Neighbors

Amos 1:1-2:5

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... exile, though it is not said where. 2:1–3 Moab was located to the east of the southern half of the Dead Sea, with Edom bordering it on the south. In these oracles against the foreign nations, the prophet has been moving from one compass point to another—first to the north-east (Aram), then to the southwest (Philistines), the northwest (Tyre) and finally to the southeast (Edom, Moab), with the oracles against Judah (2:4–5) and Israel (2:6–16) returning to the center. Kerioth is mentioned elsewhere ...

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