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2226. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

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Steven Tuell

... C., mentions “Parsua and the land of the Medes” (Katzenstein, History of Tyre, p. 156 n. 146). Perhaps Ezekiel’s source cited Paras as an exotic place name from the east, forming, with Lud in the north and Put to the south, a circuit of the compass and effectively symbolizing Tyre’s global (for the time!) reach. 27:12 The word translated “merchandise” in the NIV (Heb. ʿizbonim) appears only in this chapter, and mostly in this list (see vv. 12, 14, 16, 19, 22); it is derived from an old Ugaritic ...

2227. Oracles of Restoration

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

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Steven Tuell

... them from impurity on God’s own initiative, out of God’s own character, and for the sake of God’s own honor. There is no mention, here or elsewhere in Ezekiel, of God’s love or mercy (the sole exception, the reference to God’s compassion in 39:25, likely belongs to an editor rather than to the prophet). As Gowan frankly observes, “Ezekiel does not speak of the love of God, as other prophets do, and as the nt does, and his theology seems deficient for that reason” (Ezekiel, p. 118). Indeed ...

2228. A Prophecy Against Gog

Ezekiel 38:1-39:29

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Steven Tuell

... house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God” (v. 22). 39:25–29 The Gog material concludes with a return to the language of Judah’s restoration. This is the only place in the book where the Lord is said to have compassion on all the people of Israel (v. 25)—although, consistent with the remainder of Ezekiel, it is zeal for God’s name that primarily motivates Judah’s restoration. In contrast to the consistent message everywhere else in this book, the people of Israel will forget their ...

2229. Sermon on the Mount: Praying, Not Judging

Matthew 7:7-12, Matthew 7:1-6

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Jeannine K. Brown

... so. As Jesus has done a number of times in the Sermon on the Mount, in 7:7–11 he grounds an exhortation (here to prayer) in right ways of thinking about God. He addresses any tendency to see God as capricious and acting on a whim without compassion. How could anyone think that the Father in heaven would be a lesser parent than a human parent, who would never give a stone to a child asking for bread? Yet without attentiveness to Scripture, we are prone to such wrong theology. And theology, right or wrong ...

2230. Jesus as the Isaianic Servant of the Lord

Matthew 12:15-21

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Jeannine K. Brown

... of Jesus.2In the immediate context, the Pharisees reject Jesus’ teaching and ministry and plot his demise (12:14, 24). 12:20 A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. These two images from Isaiah are compelling visions of compassion. The Lord’s servant, now identified as Jesus by Matthew, will not even break off a reed bruised at its bending point, though this seems a natural enough thing to do. And while it is commonplace to snuff out a wick that no longer has a ...

2231. Jesus’s Authority to Forgive and Heal Sinners

Mark 2:1-12

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Grant R. Osborne

... you really helped her? Jesus understood that the man’s deepest need was spiritual, and he responded to both the physical and the spiritual need. Ask your listeners this important question: “Have you received the forgiveness of God that comes through faith in Jesus Christ?” The compassion and power of the healer Scenario: Imagine that you and a friend decide to go on a day hike. Expecting to be gone just a few hours, you bring only a few bottles of water, two bags of trail mix, and your cell phone. The ...

2232. Jesus as Lord and as Archcriminal

Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 2:18-22

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Grant R. Osborne

... tendency to define the seventh day by strict adherence to regulations has dogged the church ever since. The problem with a legalistic approach to God and worship is the tendency to feel that rule keeping is sufficient in our relationship to God. We too easily forget compassion and good works. We forget the basic principle of Hosea 6:6: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” There are only two requirements for the Sabbath: worship and rest. It is a day set apart for God and family. It is not to be just another ...

2233. Jesus Turns to His New Family

Mark 3:31-35, Mark 3:20-30

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Grant R. Osborne

... :9) surrounds and fills the house. Here we get a further picture of the intensity of Jesus’s ministry. He and his disciples are kept so busy with the people that they “are not even able to eat,” a comment that shows the depth of their compassion and commitment to people and their needs. 3:21 his family . . . said, “He is out of his mind.” The RSV attempts to remove the stigma that this verse places on Jesus’s family by translating, “for people were saying, ‘He is beside himself.’” The ...

2234. The Roman Trial

Mark 15:16-20, Mark 15:1-15

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Grant R. Osborne

... the Spirit “groans” for us while knowing God’s will, and it is the Spirit who guarantees that “all things work together for our good.” Every aspect of our lives parallels Jesus in the sense that God is sovereign and guides us in accordance with his compassion and mercy. 2. No one is absolved of sin, but all are offered forgiveness. Every one of us, not just the Jews and the Romans, put Christ on the cross (see the sidebar “Guilt for Jesus’s Death”). In Isaiah 53:11–12 the Suffering Servant ...

2235. “Love Your Enemies”

Luke 6:27-38

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R.T. France

... Do not judge . . . Do not condemn . . . Forgive. The reference is to personal relationships, not to the judicial function of a court of law. What Jesus prohibits is taking a hard, critical, dismissive view of other people’s failures rather than offering understanding and compassion. This does not mean that we are never called to take a stand against wrong, or to warn others of ethical and spiritual danger; it is the attitude that is at issue, a desire for the good of others instead of simply pointing out ...

2236. An Encounter across the Lake

Luke 8:26-39, Luke 8:22-25

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R.T. France

... amazement (8:25). The Gerasenes who had been afraid of the violent demoniac (8:27, 29) were filled with a different type of “fear” of the man who had made the demoniac harmless (8:35, 37). Jesus’s ministry was characterized by love, compassion, and gentleness, but at the same time there was an inescapable element of otherness about him that left people feeling uncomfortable. In the case of the Gerasenes, this discomfort prevented them from gaining any further benefit from the presence of the Jewish ...

2237. “Who Is This?”

Luke 9:10-17, Luke 9:1-9

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R.T. France

... ) writes, Our Lord was not the kind of person who could teach the Word and then say to hungry people, “Depart in peace, be ye warm and filled” (James 2:16). The disciples were only too eager to see the crowd leave. . . . They had not yet caught the compassion of Christ and the burden He had for the multitudes, but one day they would. . . . This miracle was more than an act of mercy for hungry people, though that was important. It was also a sign of our Lord’s messiahship and an illustration of God’s ...

2238. Jesus’s Fallible Followers

Luke 9:51-56, Luke 9:46-50, Luke 9:37-45

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R.T. France

... perhaps explains why Jesus gave this pair of brothers the nickname “Sons of Thunder” (Mark 3:17). Their proposal to call down fire from heaven recalls the story of Elijah in 2 Kings 1:9–15. Their sense of special authority is greater than their human compassion, and again Jesus has to rebuke their self-centered interest. 9:56 went to another village. Jesus puts into practice the principle of 9:5 (cf. 10:10–11) by not staying where he is not welcome. But instead of threats of judgment, he seems to ...

2239. Lost and Found

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32

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R.T. France

... above). 5. Kenneth Bailey lists the following five words as summing up the message of the parable of the two sons: sin, repentance, grace, joy, sonship. Do these accurately represent the content of the parable? Is there anything missing? (E.g., might “compassion” [15:20] be added?). In your teaching or study group, spell out the implications of each word. Illustrating the Text God will go to extraordinary lengths to rescue the lost, and he welcomes them back with joy. Story: “The Runaway,” by Philip ...

2240. Lessons in Discipleship

Luke 17:11-19, Luke 17:1-10

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R.T. France

... : The Gift of Peace, by Cardinal Bernardin. In these personal reflections (published in 1997) as he was dying of pancreatic cancer, the devout Chicago cardinal Bernardin (1928–96) tells about being falsely accused by a troubled young man, Steven. Bernardin, full of compassion, reaches out to him and hears his repentance and says a mass for him, noting, “In every family there are times when there is hurt, anger, or alienation. But we cannot run away from our family. We have only one family. . . . So ...

2241. The Coming of the King

Luke 19:45-48, Luke 19:28-44

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R.T. France

... Our melody we raise. Jesus’s most poignant and unrestrained wailing was over Jerusalem’s stubborn unbelief. Hymn: “O Patient Christ,” by Margaret Wade Deland. This more recent hymn, by the American poet Deland (1857–1945), highlights Jesus’s patience and compassion and calls on him to “rouse us” to live for him, even as he is patient still. The intensity of Jesus’s language demonstrates his absolute indignation over the defilement of God’s house. Quote: “The Emotional Life of Our Lord ...

2242. Jesus Takes the Initiative

Luke 21:5-38, Luke 21:1-4, Luke 20:41-47

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R.T. France

... poor woman’s offering is an example of how the scribes “devour widows’ houses”: the excessive demands of the temple treasury that they promote have forced this widow into making herself destitute, and Jesus is shocked at their callous demands and lack of compassion. That interpretation, which takes “all she had to live on” very literally, might be derived from 21:4 alone, but 21:3 is more naturally understood as praise for the widow’s gift rather than as saying that she should not have had to ...

2243. Getting Ready for the Passover

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

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R.T. France

... Solzhenitsyn. In this story by the Nobel Prize–winning Russian author Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), a young man finally sees the beauty of a peasant woman’s tenacious struggles against cold and hunger and the selfishness of those around her. She retains compassion and unquenchable good humor, and she is sacrificial to the end. The narrator concludes, She never tried to acquire things for herself. She wouldn’t struggle to buy things which would then mean more to her than life itself. All her life ...

2244. The Risen Jesus Revealed

Luke 24:13-35

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R.T. France

... was a Savior who had saved them not from political enemies but from themselves. The guilt they placed on others was the guilt they found hidden in themselves. And the one whose death they mourned cancels their guilt. A whole new future is opening up for them. Their life compass is pointed in a new direction. They want to drink and eat more and more of what this stranger has to say. Later they say to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn as he talked with us along the road?” What does it mean to have a ...

2245. The New-Covenant Blessings: Peace and Hope

Romans 5:1-11

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C. Marvin Pate

... unknown. This prayer is attributed to a battle-weary Confederate soldier whose body was found near the end of the Civil War. In his poem he expresses the irony that in response to everything he asked from God he was given the opposite, which created in him compassion and growth and blessing. I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for ...

2246. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Preben Vang

... type, and we should be too. We need to be willing to openly and honestly address explosive issues surrounding divorce and remarriage with the honesty that says, “This is not God’s best” or “The church cannot endorse that choice,” while displaying the compassion and tenderness that say, “I am willing to get down on my knees and dig in with prayer until God brings you the restoration and healing he desires.” Life’s Circumstances and the Christian Testimony Big Idea: Because the time until the ...

2247. Worship and Humility

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Preben Vang

... shedding of Jesus’s blood on our behalf. As we look around at one another, we ought to see what Christ sees: the absolute dereliction we all experience under the law and the absolute acceptance we all experience in the gospel. Communion without compassion and charity is an unbiblical abomination. Hymn: “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love.” This old standby is a convicting picture of the love that ought to mark Christian fellowship. Many listeners may have opinions on the song itself, but ...

2248. Resurrection and Transformation (Part 1)

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

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Preben Vang

... them from the power of Sheol (“the grave”). I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? “I will have no compassion, even though he thrives among his brothers.” (Hosea 13:14–15a) Paul combines these two quotes and changes the Hosea text from “death, where is your dik? [‘judgment’]” to “death, where is your nikos [‘victory’].” Resurrection, then, is the event where ...

2249. The Celebration of the Great Multitude in Heaven

Revelation 7:9-17

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J. Scott Duvall

... made to the exiles returning to Jerusalem from Babylon now provide a fitting description of how God plans to remove all pain and suffering: “They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water” (Isa. 49:10). These promises are especially meaningful to people living in a hot, dry climate where water and shelter are prized. This protection and care comes from the Lamb at the center ...

2250. God’s Judgment of Babylon Calls for Celebration

Revelation 19:1-10, Revelation 18:1-24

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J. Scott Duvall

... We rejoice when God judges evil, not when people suffer. Drama: Perhaps you’ve experienced it yourself. An amazing piece of theater has played itself out. A tragic story has been told. You have been moved. You have been outraged. You have felt compassion and the connection that comes when the fiction of characters on a stage touches something true and deep about your life. The curtain falls. A silent pause. A burst of applause. Is the audience applauding the tragedy and brokenness? No, they are applauding ...

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