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1. One in Christ

Ephesians 2:11-22

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... 35) as well as in Galatians 2. The Good News in Ephesians is that Christ’s death abolished the legal distinctions that separated Jews and Gentiles: The former divisive effect of the law is annulled and has lost its power (cf. Col. 2:15). Instead of enmity between the two races there is peace; in place of two separate entities there is one new man (people). The effect of Christ’s work in breaking down the barrier is twofold: First, it resulted in the creation of a new humanity (his purpose was to create ...

2. Why Are We So Split Apart?

Matthew 5:9

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... , maintain, and restore right relationships between people. Our third relationship is our relationship with God. This may be a relationship of fear and alienation in which we try to hide from God, as Adam did in that Genesis story. It may be a relationship of enmity and hostility, because of our circumstances for which we blame God. It may be one of complete indifference in which we essentially live as if God does not exist. But when we can see the Creator, the Sustainer, the Governor of the universe, a God ...

3. Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:6-34, Numbers 35:1-5

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... ” is literally “out of hatred” (ESV). Animosity previous to the act provides evidence that it is murder, even if no weapon is used. shoves another or throws something at them intentionally . . . out of enmity . . . hits another. Hostility before the act provides circumstantial evidence that the act is intentional. “Enmity” (’ebah) is from the same root as a word for “enemy” (v. 23b). In such cases the killer is to be delivered to the avenger of blood for execution. 35:22–23 without ...

4. The Fall of Man

Genesis 3:1-24

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... found in this verse a fuller meaning that would one day be realized in the Messiah, when a representative of all humans would strike the serpent, the representative of the forces that oppose God, with a fatal blow. That victory would put an end to the enmity between the serpent and humankind. As Scripture unfolds God’s design, it becomes clear that the one to achieve such a major victory is the Messiah (Rom. 16:20), but it would take centuries before any audience would see that meaning in this text. 3:16 ...

5. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are idolatrous –they are not infused with the spirit of God, but a spirit of hostility. The similar word in Hebrew is ayab (to hate, to be hostile). Other similarities are eybah and awr. Ayab is the word used in the phrase from Genesis: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed….” (3:15). From the beginning of time, the “seed” of evil or temptation/inclination for hostility is compared to the seed of God. Yet it’s important to note that no one in humankind is ...

6. Parable of the Brain and Your Religion

John 14:1-4

Illustration

... different parts of our body are directed by different parts of our brain, having different functions to control. It is true, also, that "man cannot live by bread alone." If we fill our mind with evil thoughts, we have committed our lives to enmity with God and enmity with our selves. We are all our own worst enemy, doing things to ourselves that others cannot or would not do. We should be our own best friends in doing what is right. If we treat our enemies with Christian understanding, our friends would ...

7. Justification and Reconciliation

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... strategy for bringing peace. But the cosmic event does reveal God’s strategy for restoring broken personal relations both between God and man and man and man. Paul weaves both aspects together when he tells the Ephesians that the Christ who abolished the enmity between God and man also broke down the dividing wall of hostility between Jew and Gentile, reconciling "both to God in one body through the cross" (Ephesians 2:14-16). The cross reveals God’s way of bringing reconciliation, of healing rifts, or ...

8. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to cry out with him, "O wretched man that I am!" Ever since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden, sin has been the factor of human life that has ravaged our beings, torn us to pieces, set us at odds with God, and at enmity with each other. Did you see the movie "Amadaeus"? It was an absorbing drama that brilliantly chronicled how the shadow side of human nature can finally envelope and destroy a good person and his gifts. It was a dramatic witness of sin in our life -- ravaging our being ...

9. More!!!

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cards while wearing surgical gloves and a mask to protect you from any anthrax spores, don't wish that the government will catch these bio-terrorists and get new vaccines out to the public. · Ask for the end of all disease, for the end of hate and enmity, for the end of suffering upon this Earth! · Don't read the Christmas story and thank God for that baby born just over 2000 years ago, whose birth brought God's presence into this world. · Ask for that baby to be born again this Christmas 2002, bringing ...

10. Proper 8

2 Kings 2:1-18, Psalm 77:1-20, Luke 9:51-62, Galatians 5:16-26

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... all religious intolerance. Help all to remember that there are more ways than one to you, and that you have your own secret stairway into every heart. Take from all lands all enmity between class and class and party and party. Help all to see beyond their individual interests to the common good. Take from the world all enmity and suspicion between nation and nation, between race and race, between color and color. Help us to find a new sense of community which will transcend color and country and in which ...

11. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... peace,” (vs. l4). Paul is saying something radically new and revolutionary. Gentile’s are near to God - through Jesus Christ: “He is our peace.” In Christ God died for both Jew and Gentile, bringing them both into union with himself. In his flesh abolishing the enmity which the law had created. And what does that mean today? To you and me, to the world? It means that there is no person beyond the realm of God’s salvation – and that is Jesus Christ. He is our peace. Then the second word: “One ...

12. God’s Providence: The Long and Short of It

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... brothers, we see this marvelous and emotional reunion. People who had been cruel are forgiven. People who had been antagonistic to one another now embrace one another. And a father whose heart had been broken by tragedy — and whose family had been broken by enmity — will see his son again and have his whole family reunited. The events that lead up to this happy ending were entirely guided by the providence of God. Joseph is quite clear on that point. Five times in as many verses, Joseph makes explicit ...

13. Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... that Paul prays we might have the power to grasp. It is a love that flows freely, without consideration of reward or plan for recompense. This is a love that is not inherent to human nature. We are more inclined to return love for love and enmity for enmity. Scripture says, "... how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving ...

14. Boasting

2 Corinthians 11:1-15, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... and as demeaning to them (2 Cor. 11:8–9a). The congregation’s status was involved. In Roman societal structure, refusal of a benefaction was tantamount to a refusal of friendship and would have been construed as an act of social enmity (cf. Peter Marshall, Enmity at Corinth: Social Conventions in Paul’s Relations with the Corinthians [WUNT 2/23; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1987]). 11:13 Cf. C. K. Barrett, “PSEUDAPOSTOLOI (2 Cor. 11:13),” in Essays on Paul (London: SPCK, 1982), pp. 87–107. Martha ...

15. Judgment of Israel's Neighbors

Amos 1:1-2:5

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... of Jerusalem immediately after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 587 BC (Obad. 10–14; Isa. 34:5–8; Jer. 49:7–22; Ezek. 35; Joel 3:19; Ps. 137:7). For these reasons, this oracle too has been termed a later addition to Amos. But the enmity of Edom against Israel began already in the time of Moses (Num. 20:14–21), when Edom threatened to come out against the Israelites with a sword (cf. Amos 1:11) if they passed through Edomite territory. Though Saul and David both subdued Edom (1 Sam. 14:47 ...

16. The Birth of Jesus

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... around you and the pulpit, use you for a shield, and so on. Ask your listeners whether they have really made peace yet. Explain to your actors that the peace you want for them is not just a momentary ceasefire. Rather, you want them to fully release enmity and be restored to one another. Disarm them, place their hands in a handshake, and ask them to sit down side by side and enjoy the rest of the message together in the front row. Explain to your listeners that this is the kind of peace Jesus establishes ...

17. Adoption: Removing the Barriers

Ephesians 2:11-22

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... from their Creator. Ironically, the particular people through whom God intended to show his grace to all humanity became the chief obstacle to that goal, erecting a barrier between themselves and their mission. The universal, natural (2:3) enmity toward God results in enmity between groups of human beings and indeed between individuals within groups (2:12). But those outsiders, formerly excluded and far off, have now been brought near, within the circle, by the sacrificial death of Christ (2:13). Bringing ...

18. Boasting

2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 1:1-11, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

19. Knowledge

Genesis 3:1-19 · Psalm 90

Sermon

Will Willimon

... being." Which brings us to the end of the story. Do you remember how it ends? (Those of you who are Baptists and have heard this story before this morning - do you remember how it ends?) The story ends, not with this curse of pain and enmity of thorns and dusty ··· death. It ends by saying that the Lord God, the Creator, the Gardener, the Accuser, becomes the Tailor. God made, for the two creatures, clothes. Creatures who know that they are naked need clothes, some protective covering as they go out into ...

20. The Agony And The Ecstasy Of The Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... preached and got thrown out of the synagogue in Nazareth? Very likely. Did they participate in trying to throw him over the cliff? Quite possibly. The family conflict went from bad to worse. The conflict reached fever pitch. If Jesus had conflict and enmity in his family, we should not expect to escape the agony of the physical family. There are misunderstandings and conflicts in every family I know. There is pain and sorrow, suffering and death. Some family members judge others and even hate their own ...

21. The Taught Can

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... mess we have made of our world and our lives. No one can be blind to the desecration of the planet. No one can avoid the wickedness that kills and maims, impoverishes and starves people in every country and city. Each of us must acknowledge personal enmities and selfishness and deliberate misdeeds. It is bad enough to realize how self-centered we are; it is even worse to comprehend the greater stupidity it is on our part to think we can dethrone God from life's real center. People sometimes apologize for ...

22. Thankful Living

Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... us that " we have so secluded ourselves in human superiority, in intellectual arrogance, in a domineering attitude toward nature, to where we are incapable of perceiving the harmonious sounds of nature."2 Our deafness toward nature has tragically caused an enmity between humankind and nature, between nature and nature which makes thanksgiving, on our part, almost impossible. To the earth it's tough to sing those thanksgiving hymns when we realize what we have done through the greed of our commercialism ...

23. Proper 11

Amos 8:1-14, Luke 10:38-42, Colossians 1:21-28

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... come a long way, baby!" You once lived in BC (before Christ) and now you live in AD (after Christ). Before Christ comes into a life, the person is "estranged" and "hostile in mind." Out of that hostility comes evil deeds. Because we now belong to Christ, the enmity has ceased and we are free to live and love. 2. Provided (v. 23). Indeed Christ died for our sins. We can now stand before God as blameless because our lives are hidden in Christ. But there is a condition. We will be acceptable to God "provided ...

24. Proper 12

Colossians 2:6-23, Hosea 1:1-2:1, Luke 11:1-13, Psalm 85:1-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... a warm, tender, and personal name like "Daddy." It means that prayer is the time and means for a child to speak to the heavenly Father, the Almighty and Holy One. We can say "Father" on these intimate terms because Christ has atoned for our sins, removed the enmity caused by our sins, and thus we are accepted as God's children. 2. Evil (v. 13). Jesus refers to us humans as "evil." Jesus was a realist. He knew what was in humanity. By nature we are sinful, lost, and condemned. There is no health in any one ...

25. Lent 3

John 4:1-26, Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42, Isaiah 42:18-25

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... ; I just don't want things to change." Epistle: Romans 5:1-11 Sermon Title: Peace With God. Sermon Angle: "Therefore, since we are justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (v. 1). Our sins put us in a state of enmity with God, but Christ's death makes peace a reality for all who trust in him. Modern man needs to reckon with the possibility that his or her restlessness and dis-ease stems more from spiritual rather than psychological factors. We only find peace of mind after ...

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