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201. Getting Ready for the Passover

Luke 22:7-38, Luke 22:1-6

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R.T. France

... important to Jesus that their last meal together be a Passover meal, even if held a day in advance. The explanation of his coming death in 22:17–20 will depend on the Passover theme for its symbolism, and it will be this that enables them eventually to understand his death, which he now clearly says is imminent, not as a political disaster but as redemptive. 22:16 I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God. A similar statement will be made about the drinking of wine in 22 ...

202. Job Feels under Attack by God

Job 16:1-17:16

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Daniel J. Estes

... to his already deep pain. 16:4–5 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place. Job says that their talk is cheap, because it is easy to criticize someone else who has the problem. The friends know how to talk, but they do not truly understand what they are talking about. Job goes on to say in verse 5 that if their roles were reversed, Job would do better for them than they have for him. Job contends that he would provide them words to solace them in their pain, not accusations that rub salt in ...

203. Job Replies to the Lord

Job 42:1-6

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Gary M. Burge

... and ashes—Job has changed his mind now about the human condition; 5. I retract my words and am comforted about dust and ashes—Job is at peace with the human condition; 6. I recant and relent being but dust and ashes—being human and not God he thus now understands that he must recant (so NJPS) (Newsom 1996, 629). What does one make of these speeches? Just how is God answering Job? Newsom’s insight is worth our time (Newsom 2003, 239–41, 252–56). God and Job are vastly different. Their respective ...

204. Israel's Unbelief

Romans 9:30--10:21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... interprets verse 4 in the second sense, i.e., that Christ annuls the law. “When God revealed His righteousness in Christ, He put a definite end to the law as a way of salvation,” said Bishop Nygren (Romans, p. 379). But if our understanding of chapter 4 was correct, Paul argued that from Abraham onward righteousness had always been by faith, even if Judaism mistakenly thought otherwise (e.g., 10:5–6). In reaction to this position, and in a desire to avoid anti-Semitic overtones, recent scholarship ...

205. Divisions In the Church

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... of their boastful comparisons concerning their status in the church. 1:17 As one sees from Paul’s statement in here (1:17), he is able to relativize the importance of baptism (which the Corinthians apparently think gives them special identities and status) because he understands his call as a call to preach. The sentence begins with for and looks back to the last phrase of verse 16, “I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else.” Baptism is a part of the larger picture of Christian faith and practice ...

206. Bildad

Job 8:1-22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... sages, but also to “buy into” the prevailing ideology instead of picking away at its flaws. 8:9 Job should join ancient tradition and rely on it because individual sages—even single generations of sages—have but limited experience to observe and understand life’s intricacies. As Bildad cautions Job, we were born only yesterday, and as a result we know nothing. The insubstantial and ephemeral nature of human life (our days on earth are but a shadow) prevents individual sages from hoping to gain ...

207. Eliphaz's Third Speech to Job

Job 22:1-30

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... 27; 15:1–35). In those utterances Eliphaz sought to undermine Job’s claims of innocence by arguing that no human can be declared innocent before God (4:7–9, 17–19; 15:14–16). Since even the angels—who stand above humans in Eliphaz’s understanding of creation order—are charged “with error” by God (4:18–19; 15:15–16; see also Ps. 8:5), how then can sinful humans hope to escape the divine punishment they all deserve? Now Eliphaz takes a further step to argue that God remains essentially ...

208. God’s Goodness Redefined: The Nearness of God

Psalm 73:1-28

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... note the enchanting image created by verses 2 and 23: the speaker is like a child (note the reference to “your children” in v. 15) whose feet slip from underneath him but whose parent holds him by the hand (cf. Isa. 41:13). The new understanding related in the second half of this psalm, however, is not simply a repetition of the pilgrimage and temple entry psalms. It also contains some profound breakthroughs in OT faith. What is distinctive in the revelation of verses 18–26 (concluded in vv. 27–28 ...

209. The Bethsaida Boys

Mark 8:31-38

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John Jamison

... Peter. He said that what was actually coming was a time of tremendous suffering that would lead to Jesus being killed. We’re told that it was all finally just too much for Peter, and he pulled Jesus aside from the group to rebuke him, to get him to understand once and for all that this kind of negative talk was not the way to become successful. I would love to have seen the look on Peter’s face as Jesus turned away from him, saying “Get behind me Satan!” (v. 33) saying that he was focusing on the ...

210. Elohim

John 1:29-34, Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Lori Wagner

... swears he was inside of the vault. What he saw was all that he could believe. Only later would it be revealed that the room was an elaborate sham, and the man was merely transported to a space under the stage. We can only relate to what we understand from what we experience. And sometimes, the thrill exists in what we do not know. If you knew all of the magician’s secrets, there would be no intrigue in the show, no respect for the artist’s craft. But something extraordinary is revealed to you. And that ...

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Psalm 73:1-28

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

212. Look How You Listen

Mark 6:14-29

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George W. Hoyer

... him in love" (Ephesians 1:1-4)? All of you, to whom again today God "has made known the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure ... set forth in Christ" (Ephesians 1:9), do you not feel the Spirit's urging to perceive, to hear, to understand, to receive him as your Savior, not only in your head but in your heart? When Paul lost his head for Jesus' gospel and testimony, the Christians in Rome buried his body. And they continued as faithful followers even though he did not rise from the dead. When ...

213. A Mother's Love -- A Godly Passion

Luke 13:31-35

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... her young. But then it became obvious what she was up to: She was offering herself as a decoy. She wanted the intruders to notice and follow her, away form her ducklings. She was willing to sacrifice herself in order to protect her offspring. Now maybe we can understand the lament and the passion in Jesus' own voice. It is the cry of a mother who is worried to death about not only Jerusalem, but about all of us. Like a mother, Jesus sees far more clearly than do we, the children, the danger we are in ...

214. Confession

Job 42:1-6

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John A. Stroman

... became primary. The person is able to say with Job, "I heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you." Job confesses, "But now my eye sees you." Job states that he now perceives God in a way that transforms his understanding of himself and his situation. "Seeing" involves more than just having one's eyes open. Not only does it involve seeing God differently, but when we see God differently we also see others and our world differently. One becomes conscious of the needs of others. A new ...

215. Pentecost

John 20:19-23, Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, Genesis 11:1-9, John 14:5-14, Romans 8:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... 20:19-23 1. The Spirit of Jesus (20:22). Need: The Gospel lesson connects Jesus with the Spirit. On Pentecost, we do not leave Jesus in heaven and now deal with the Spirit as a separate entity. Jesus identifies with the Spirit. The church needs to see and understand the relationship of Jesus and the Spirit. It will help people to know who the Spirit is and to solve the problem of having Jesus with you always as well as having the Spirit. Outline: In this text we see that – a. The Spirit is of Jesus. b ...

216. Uzziah is Dead!

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Donald Zelle

... ! It will not be an easy one, as Isaiah is also told just beyond this selected portion of his sixth chapter. "And God said, 'Go, and say to this people: Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.' There will always be those who will sense no need of forgiveness. They will not understand; they will not hear; and they will not see the need for the message of a forgiving God. Some will think that the talk of forgiveness is making too much of sin. Others will think that forgiveness ...

217. Why Did Jesus Do That?

Matthew 3:13-17

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Johnny Dean

... morning in 1990, I stood before my congregation, listed the reasons I had gleaned from the commentaries, and talked about baptism in very general terms, all the while praying (as I do every Sunday) that the Holy Spirit would use my words to help someone gain a better understanding of the good and perfect will of God. To this day, I don’t know if that happened. If it did, as always, it was God’s doing and not mine. Some days are diamond, some days are stone, as the songwriter said. In my mind, that day ...

218. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

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Larry Powell

... people enjoying every kind of music imaginable. There was a spiffy eight-piece Dixieland band, a loud, thirty-piece swing band, and everyone was dancing. The puzzled rabbi returned to heaven and asked permission to see God. "Forgive me, Lord," he began, "but I don't understand why there are only three people here in heaven and they are all reading, while down in Hades everybody is dancing and having a grand time. Why can't we have something like that here in heaven?" The Lord replied solemnly, "I can't hire ...

219. Pentecost

Jn 14:8-17, 25-27; 20:19-23 · Acts 2:1-21 · 1 Cor 3-7, 12-13 · Gen 11:1-9

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John R. Brokhoff

220. Misunderstanding Jesus

John 6:25-59

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... better for us all to stop, be quiet, and ask God what he thinks and wants us to do. We need to discern the will of God in our lives. We misunderstand Jesus because we push for our own ways too often. The first step in understanding Jesus is to listen to him. The Jews listened to Jesus, but they did not learn. There are different kinds of listening. There is the listening of criticism; there is the listening of resentment; there is the listening of superiority; there is the listening of indifference; there ...

221. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... child was secondary to the fact that she was a Gentile. For them, the issue was not their Lord’s ability to heal a sick child, but would he step over the forbidden threshold that protected the purity of the Jews as the children of God? To understand the serious implications of what Jesus did that day, we need to view it against the background of Old Testament history. Here there were two views in tension. One view held Israel to be a closed nation of the chosen children of God. The other saw Israel as ...

222. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Allan J. Weenink

... can serve. Draw back ..." As he turns away from the pool, bewildered, he is caught hold of by a distracted father ... "You may be next, my brother. But come with me first, an hour only, to my home. My son is lost in dark thoughts. I ... I do not understand him, and only you have ever lifted his mood. Only an hour ... my daughter since her child has died sits in the shadow. She will not listen to us ..." (as told by John M. Krumm in, The Art of Being A Sinner.) And so the physician learns the profound truth ...

223. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

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Louis H. Valbracht

... morning that is to the Jew a stumbling block? He can’t get over it. He can’t get around it. He can’t get through it. It’s there! A tremendous stumbling block! And to the intellectuals of this world, utter idiocy. Does these infants’ lack of understanding limit the power of the Holy Spirit to come to these children through this crude vehicle of the water, and begin to exercise his power in the lives of these infants? As Paul asks: "Does Almighty God need our advice on how to conduct the business of ...

224. Ode to Wisdom

Job 26:1--31:40

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Alton F. Wedel

... s best confidence that wisdom can be found not in our own achievement, but as a gift of God. Wisdom never comes as a result of our own effort, but only as God gives it and God speaks it. "Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?" Let this be known. "It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air." Our deepest insights cannot reach it. Abaddon, which means "destruction," and death cannot provide it, for they have only heard a rumor of it on the gossip ...

225. The Flow of Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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Gregory J. Johanson

... may have heard the particular verse or phrase or image before, but until now have been unable, or perhaps unprepared, to hear and understand the full truth that is there for us. I remember a woman, a patient whom I knew in my work as chaplain in ... things. In coming to us and risking in that way, God touches us most effectively and lets us know he is with us and that he understands and cares. He has made life this way, he has participated with us in it, and he knows how lonely and painful it can be. Still ...

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