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2376. God Has the Last Word

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... testimony. As he was preaching, the Holy Spirit fell upon those who heard him! I am not an eyewitness as Peter was, but I am a witness nonetheless. And there is no other time this is more clear than Easter Sunday. I, like Peter, have been commanded by my Lord to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ. And my fervent prayer is that as I lift high the message of Easter, God’s Spirit will fall upon you, and you will come to experience God’s amazing power of creating new life. Today we celebrate the truth ...

2377. A Light In the Darkness

John 1:1-6, 19-28

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Charley Reeb

... love is what will heal you, me, this country, and this world. “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it” (John 1:5). Let us pray: O Lord, our hearts break with your heart when we hear the news of children and adults killed at schools. We cry out with fear, anger, and despair. Lord, comfort those who have lost loved ones. Strengthen law enforcement officers and public officials. We also pray for the family of the perpetrators. This is Advent, the season where we celebrate ...

2378. Does Prayer Make Any Diﬀerence?

Mark 1:35-39

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Charley Reeb

... God replies, “Just hang out with me for a while. Let’s spend some time together. I want to show you some things.” We persist, “Lord, really. I don’t need that much of you. Just give me a yes or no.” God replies, “Just abide in me and my love from ... wants to hear from you. Be sure to include not only your own needs but the needs of others. Before you end your prayer time, pray, “Lord, I want to please you. I want to do your will. Whatever it is you want, that’s what I want too. I want to fit ...

2379. The Temptation of Jesus

Luke 4:1-13

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... this ordeal victorious, Jesus is now ready to announce the Gospel. Additional Notes Concerning the order of the three temptations, Talbert (p. 47) notes that “Psalm 106 gives the temptation of Israel in the same order as in Luke’s narrative (food, false worship, putting the Lord to the test), an order also found in 1 Cor. 10:6–9.” This could suggest that Luke’s order is traditional and that it was Matthew who altered the sequence. 4:1 Mark 1:12 states, “At once the Spirit sent him out into the ...

2380. The Weak and the Strong

Romans 14:1--15:13

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... self-fulfillment are the sole guarantors of happiness, but Paul exults not in who we are, but in whose we are, for we belong to the Lord (v. 8). Since our lives belong to him, we are not our own (see also 1 Cor. 6:19). We cannot (and do not, in fact ... . Moreover, bearing with the failings of the weak means that in some sense we become like the weak. “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich” (2 ...

2381. Final Greetings

1 Corinthians 16:19-24

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... and the eschatological call is Aramaic that has been transliterated into Greek, yet the words form a sound pair that contrast spiritual discord and spiritual concord. 16:23 The greeting is the typical fashion in which Paul concluded his letters, The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. At times this element of final greeting is expanded with an explicit mention of God and, less frequently, of the Spirit. Throughout this letter Paul’s concern has been with the reality and the experience of grace in the ...

2382. Samuel Anoints David

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... work. It is more probable that he had not reached the age of maturity; he may have been only eleven or twelve years old. However, Samuel insists that they will not be able to sit down, that is, to begin the sacrificial meal, until David arrives. The Lord speaks, David is anointed, and Samuel goes home to Ramah. There are none of the extensive conversations that Samuel had with Saul when he first anointed him (1 Sam. 9:25, 27) or hints that David or any of Jesse’s family were made aware of the significance ...

2383. Epilogue

Job 42:7-17

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... Job chooses to continue to fear God regardless, whether he is vindicated or not. The restoration of Job’s financial fortune begins with the acknowledgment of his restored reputation and associations: each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. 42:12–13 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first. God’s blessing of Job is abundant and free. There is no causal link here other than the gracious care of God for his servant. We have learned that the servants of God may ...

2384. Whose Son is the Christ?

Mark 12:35-40

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... ’s work and person; but Jesus’ quotation of Psalm 110:1 as a reference to the Messiah shows David addressing him as my Lord, implying that David is not a fully adequate model and that the Messiah is actually greater than David. In the light of Mark’ ... s readers would have been able to supply the answer. They know that the resurrection declares that Jesus the Messiah is David’s Lord, since Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of God, where he rules in divine power. 12:38–40 Having just shown ...

2385. One Like a Son of Man

Revelation 1:9-20

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... concrete occasion for John’s vision of Christ’s triumph (Revelation, p. 82). 1:16 Some argue that the image of seven stars relates directly to the emperor cult, which utilized astrology to predict future events. If this is John’s intent, then the Lord’s political authority, symbolized by his right hand, is asserted here as a repudiation of the imperial cult of Rome. 1:18 According to Jewish mythology, Hades is the place of the dead. In this light, the phrase, dead and Hades, is a poetic redundancy ...

2386. David In Saul's Service

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

2387. Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

John 14:15-31, John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... the subject of the third interchange. The terms where I am going and the way have now been replaced by “the Father” and “the Son” respectively. Thus Jesus’ introductory statement, If you really knew me you would know my Father as well (v. 7), echoes Thomas’ complaint, Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way? (v. 5). So when Philip asks Jesus to show us the Father (v. 8), he is actually raising for a third time the question, Where are you going? The problem is still ...

2388. Jesus Appears to Thomas

John 20:24-31

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy (16:22). The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord (20:20). I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor … the Spirit of truth (14:16–17). The Counselor, the Holy ... used to denote resurrection signs, like the “many convincing proofs” of Acts 1:3. They are words or actions of the risen Lord that either made him known to his disciples or reinforced the instructions and commands he gave them (e.g., vv. 16, ...

2389. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... -minded man, unstable in all he does. The pre-Christian Jew Sirach had already said, “My son, disobey not the fear of the Lord, and approach it not with a double heart” (1:28), and, “Woe unto the fearful hearts and faint hands, and unto the sinner ... figure of the swaying wave was popular in Jewish and Greek literature, e.g., Sirach 33:1–3: No evil befalls the man who fears the Lord, but in trial he will deliver him again and again. A wise man will not hate the law, but he who is hypocritical about it ...

2390. Elijah Taken Up to Heaven

2 Kings 2:1-18

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... is happening (Hb. ʿlh haššāmayîm, v. 11). Of the characters in the narrative, however, only Elisha “sees” that this is so (v. 12). The prophets are merely bystanders (cf. at a distance, v. 7). They are aware, no doubt, that whirlwind and fire are signs of the LORD’s appearing (Exod. 3:2; 19:18; Ezek. 1:4ff.; Job 38:1; 40:6), but they are not privy to what is happening in the storm’s midst. For all they know, the Spirit may simply have picked Elijah up and deposited him in a different place, as ...

2391. Healing of the Water

2 Kings 2:19-22

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

2392. Elisha is Jeered

2 Kings 2:23-25

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

2393. Ministers of Baal Killed

2 Kings 10:18-36

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... decisively dealt with Baal-worship, and yet, it turns out, he does nothing at all about the worship of the golden calves (vv. 29, 31). It is somewhat surprising, then, to find him addressed in verse 30 as one who has done what is right in the eyes of the LORD (Hb. yāšār, “right”; cf. the additional notes to vv. 3 and 15 for Jehu’s own claims in this regard). Apart from 2 Kings 10:30, the authors of Kings use yāšār positively only when speaking of David (1 Kgs. 15:5) and of the relatively good (i ...

2394. Shishak Attacks Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 12:1-16

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... of source material from 1 Kings 14:21–28 indicates that this subsection presents the turning point in Rehoboam’s reign. As soon as his kingdom was established (Hebrew kun) and he became strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the law of the LORD (12:1—a radical adaptation of the source text in 1 Kgs. 14:22–24). This abandoning (Hebrew 'azab) of Yahweh and his Torah stands in sharp contrast to the “seeking” of Yahweh still prominent in the previous subsection. In the next verse this downward ...

2395. The Book of Law Found

2 Chronicles 34:14-33

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... king (34:18). 34:19–28 The reaction of the king is described in this subsection, which was taken over from Kings very precisely, with only minor changes here and there. The king’s order to a group of officials is: go and inquire (darash) of the LORD for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found (34:21). The term darash (“to seek/inquire”), which we know by now plays an important role in the programmatic language of the Chronicler, is already ...

2396. The Sacred Power of a Listening Heart

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19

Sermon

King Duncan

... was gradually losing his vision. But he was faithful in his teaching of young Samuel. He also gave Samuel light duties around the tabernacle. One night when Samuel was about 11 years old, he had a life-changing experience. He was lying down there in the house of the Lord, trying to go to sleep, when he heard a voice in the night. He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down. Again the voice called, “Samuel!” And ...

2397. The Lazarus Experience

John 11:17-44

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April Yamasaki

... and hope, and about death and dying. But most of all, the story of Lazarus is about the life-giving, resurrection power of God revealed in Jesus Christ. This theme runs throughout scripture. Psalm 130:1-2 begins, "Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!" Then the psalm goes on to speak of God's forgiveness and unfailing love, how even for those in the depths of sin and despair, there can be forgiveness and full redemption in ...

2398. Three Men Changed by God

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

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King Duncan

... mouth and said, ‘See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.’ “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ “And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” What a marvelous piece of Scripture! Keep ... in life‑‑those are the first two steps. But there is a third. That is the call to a purposeful life. The Lord asks, “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?” And Isaiah cries out, “Here am I, send me.” Jesus says ...

2399. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... the darkness. But even with that specificity, David could say “I shall fear NO EVIL, for thou art with me.” David was a “mountain man.” He knew WHO he was and he knew WHERE he was. And he knew where his help came from. “My help comes from the Lord.” In Psalm 22 there is a Mountain . . Mt. Calvary, where Jesus was crucified and died, the culmination of his First Coming. In Psalm 23 there is a Valley . . . the Valley of the Shadow, where we look to the left for the light, and to the right for the ...

2400. The Proof is in the Roof

Luke 5:17-26

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Lori Wagner

... All were amazed and glorified God. Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Healing of a Paralytic One day, while he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law [scribes] were sitting nearby (they had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem); and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. Just then some men came, carrying a paralyzed man on a bed. They were trying to bring him in and lay him before Jesus; but finding no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and ...

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