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1. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... flowed beyond all bound; When Jesus groaned, a trembling fear Seized all the guilty world around.2 The world was put on notice when Jesus arrived in Bethany that day. He wept tears of sympathy, choosing to associate himself with those who mourn. He wept tears of indignation, affirming death as our common enemy. Yet the good news is Jesus wept tears of action. It was not enough for him to weep over the world's pain, or to distinguish between God's way and the ways of the world. Jesus committed himself to ...

2. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... a child shall not enter it." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them. Mark 10:2-16 (RSV) And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God ..." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them." (vv. 13, 14) The Christian home, once the stable element in the ...

3. The Flame, The Wind, And The Walk

Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Marion Fairman

... to his people, then - Man: (Interrupting) Then it must be the fire, first time for fire! Leader: (Shaking his head) Still I have to say "no." The fires also rushed on Sinai - the clouds on the mountain were half darkness and half flame! (Exodus 19:18) Man: (Indignant) Pentecost wasn't even the first to have flames? Well, then the day we celebrate was not unique! Leader: (Firmly) Yes, it was. Jesus had said to His disciples, "I will pray to the Father and He will send another Counselor" (John 14:16) - Woman ...

4. The Law of Unintended Consequences

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... circumstances that we are not aware of that keeps God’s will being exercised at the moment we ask, but God never wills anything except our best good. Of course we can’t know what was going through Jesus’ mind. All Mark says is that Jesus was indignant when the man came up and asked to be healed. And yet, Jesus reaches out his hand and touches the man. “I am willing,” he says. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left the man and he was cleansed. We see something very important about leprosy in ...

5. Jesus’s Ministry and Popularity Continue to Grow

Mark 1:40-45, Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:29-34

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... It is very unlikely that Jesus was unhappy with the man breaking with tradition by approaching him, for he never worried about such issues in his ministry.5In 3:5 Jesus is angry about the “stubborn hearts” of the leaders, and in 10:14 he is indignant because of the disciples’ rejection of children. The case here is unlike either of those and is probably similar to John 11:33, 38, where Jesus is angry at the power of sin and death in this world, specifically the physical, emotional, and social anguish ...

6. Surprised by Joy

Luke 2:8-14

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... . It was joy. And it caught me by surprise. It was a gift from God, right there in the store. Brothers and sisters, let us, just for this one, special day, put away our anger and our fear. Let us set aside our bitterness, our resentment, and our indignation. Let us take a vacation from our doubt, our annoyance, our exasperation, and let us open ourselves to the possibility of joy. Let us look upon this holy child and remember the message he will bring to us — that we are loved and accepted, that our sins ...

7. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Christians

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

William L. Self

... 1,247,240, to Israel with him.1 The king was honest enough to admit he could not heal Naaman. However, he was reminded of the prophet Elisha and his miraculous powers, so he sent Naaman to him. Elisha bid Naaman to bathe seven times in the Jordan. Indignant, Naaman at first refused. The Jordan, a muddy river between two muddy banks, is not like the clean, pretty rivers of Syria. Finally, he agreed to do this as instructed, and was healed. To how many of us do these words apply? They were mighty but were not ...

8. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... you." Jesus then turned to Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men" (Matthew 16:23). Those words cut deeply into Peter. A stern rebuke it was. Jesus was not apologizing for showing indignation. One day this Jesus took some rope and drove the animals out of the temple and he threw out the racketeers for they were defiling the house of prayer. This Jesus was known to walk clear through a lynching mob and yet not a hand was laid on him ...

9. Time For Action

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... of him. "Sure, Pop," said the second son, but he never did go do the work. "Which son," asked Jesus, "did the will of his father?" Like most of Jesus' parables, we see here perfect representations of human nature. THE RESPONSE OF THE FIRST SON IS THAT OF INDIGNANT PROTEST. "No, I won't go. How dare you ask me to do that! You know I was going swimming with my friends." Many of you who are parents have encountered that kind of response at some time or another. We all know people whose first response to ...

10. The Agony of Defeat

2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... that he was more concerned with the life of a sheep than he was the life of a man. Today, we have a nation so far from God that they're more concerned with whales, spotted owls, and snail darters than they are with unborn babies. David with his righteous indignation says, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity." (vv. 5-6) How little did David know that he was not just being a king, he ...

11. Mark 10:35-45

Mark 10:35-45

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... " of the other disciples at James' and John's request is not elaborated upon - it is left to the reader's discretion and generosity of spirit to surmise whether the other ten are indignant at the foolish, self-serving, unperceiving nature of the brothers' request or indignant that James and John have gotten their names in first on the list for the coveted position at Jesus' right and left hands. Turning to all of his disciples, Jesus now elaborates more fully on what following him requires of them ...

12. The Coming of the King

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

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... 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,” by B. B. Warfield. The renowned Princeton theologian Warfield (1851–1921) writes in this chapter of his Christology, Perhaps in no incidents recorded in the Gospels is ...

13. God's Wrath Against Mankind

Romans 1:18-32

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... . “It is precisely because Romans was written to testify to the grace of God (5:12–21) that it belongs to those parts of the NT which witness powerfully to the wrath of God. We understand nothing of grace if we do not sense the depths of divine indignation with which God opposes all evil. The degree to which we measure the truth and seriousness of divine wrath is the same degree to which we measure the truth and greatness of divine grace. It is pure nonsense to say that God’s wrath makes faith all the ...

14. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... . but his self-inflating introductory words go on for another seven verses! (If Hollywood were casting the role of Elihu, I think the only possible choice would be the marvelous comedic actor John Cleese in his Basil Fawlty incarnation, spouting his righteous indignation with an exaggerated posh accent and rolling eyes.) I am about to open my mouth. Surely the author of this material is toying humorously with the reader. Clearly Elihu’s “mouth” has been “open” for some time now. The Hebrew for my ...

15. Acquittal for the Falsely Accused (Ps. 7)

Psalm 7:1-17

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... ’s protecting “the righteous” and judging “the wicked” justly. A note of God’s mitigating his anger would seem out of context. (c) Verses 9–11 describe defining attributes of God by Hb. participles (“who searches,” “who saves,” “who judges,” “who is indignant”), which are characteristic of “doxologies of judgment” (Amos 4:13; 5:8–9; 9:5–6). They give praise to God who judges decisively. Among them Zeph. 3:5 bears a close resemblance to Ps. 7:11: “Morning by morning he ...

16. What Makes You Angry?

Matthew 20:24

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

The disciples were irritated by a mother whose love for her sons induced her to ask a favor of Christ on their behalf. The disciples were indignant when they heard of it. But these same men were soon thereafter to stand by, or flee, without venting their indignation while Christ was maligned, beaten and put to death. One of the tests of a man or woman is what stirs him to anger. The self-centered individual is stirred to ire when anything disturbs his comfort, but the suffering of his fellow man, or great ...

17. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Kushner, in his bestselling book When Bad Things Happen To Good People, suggests that, rather than being angry at God for the suffering and injustice in the world, we should understand ourselves as being angry together with God at this suffering and injustice. Righteous indignation, he contends, is a gift from God. It is God, he says, who gives us our sense of what is fair or unfair. Our feeling of compassion for the afflicted is a reflection of the compassion God feels in response to suffering. God's ...

18. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . If there's a moral here, a point of edification for all us good church-going people, it is not the one we wanted. Tamar has committed those sins which good bourgeois church people condemn--deception, illicit sex. Judah reacts, at first as the world reacts--indignant condemnation. Reminds you of King David and the prophet Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1-6). ''The man who did this ought to hang," says David. ''Thou art the man," says Nathan. A woman was involved there, too. ''She is more righteous than I," King David ...

19. The Interpretation of the Vision

Daniel 8:15-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... . Except for ch. 9 (see, e.g., 9:7–8), they are not presented as sinners on the receiving end of God’s anger in punishment for their guilt (Collins, Daniel, p. 339). On the other hand, in support of the latter notion, “wrath” almost always refers to God’s indignation (verb: Zech. 1:12; Mal. 1:4; Ps. 7:11 [7:12 MT]; noun: Jer. 10:10; Ezek. 22:31; Nah. 1:6; Hab. 3:12). In one instance, the Assyrians are the rod of wrath in God’s hand to punish Israel for their iniquities (Isa. 10:5). In ...

20. The Narrow Gate

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... gate, or of any other narrow gate humankind can construct to control access to the healing power of God. His mercy is as wide as the Steppes of Siberia, as vast as the world. It knows no limits. It has no narrow gate! This ruler of the synagogue was so indignant that he said to the woman and to all the people standing around, "There are six days on which work ought to be done. Come on those days to be healed and not on the sabbath day." Well did Jesus speak to those who followed that command: "Strive to ...

21. Speaking Truth to Power: The Ministry of Nathan

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... your life, and you can readily gain a sense for the cruelness of what this rich man did. Can you imagine the pure cruelness, the unadulterated meanness of this man? The story must certainly hit the bulls-eye with King David, because it instantaneously aroused his indignation. “I swear by the living Lord that the man who did this ought to die.” (2 Samuel 12:5 TEV) It summoned his passion for capital punishment, and for justice. “For having done such a cruel thing, he must pay back four times as much as ...

22. Bold Talk Of Faith

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John P. Rossing

... was approachable, he wanted to see him. One might have expected him to turn his back on God, the way it seemed God had turned his back on Job. I'm sure we all know neighbors or family members who haven't spoken to each other in years out of indignation over some injustice or hurt feelings. You may also know people who don't believe in God any more because God let their child die, or their business fail. That's just what Satan was hoping Job would do when he proposed his test. Satan suspected that once the ...

23. The Therapy of Song

1 Samuel 16:14-23, Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , and in the midst of agony, speaks a word in behalf of peace and sanity. During the conflict in Vietnam over a decade ago, we heard a number of folk singers burst forth with songs of indignation and hope. But the same has happened during other periods. In 1916 Carl Nielsen, the Danish composer whose works are just now coming into their own, composed his Symphony No. 4 which is felt to be a protest against the First World War, but even more importantly, a musical assertion ...

24. The Forbidden Anger

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of presumption. Jesus is not claiming here that all anger is sin. The Hebrew word for anger occurs 455 times in the Old Testament; 375 of these refer to the anger of God. The Lord does get angry. Nahum the prophet asked, "Who can stand before his indignation? What can endure the heat of his anger?" (Nahum 1:03) Jesus got angry at times. In Mark, chapter 3, we have an example. One Sabbath Day in the synagogue Jesus met a man with a withered hand. Some of the Pharisees were standing around ready to pounce ...

25. Lent 6

Isaiah 50:1-11, Mark 15:16-20, Mark 15:21-32, Philippians 2:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... Exegetical Note This so-called "Third Servant Song" of Deutero-Isaiah is also the first reading for this Sunday when it is observed as Palm Sunday, as well as for Wednesday in Holy Week. The prophet here tells of having to suffer resolutely indignation, anger, and physical abuse because of his own prophetic devotion to the often unpopular task of delivering the Word of God to them. He is nevertheless confident of God’s support and ultimate vindication of him. Call to Worship Leader: Rejoice, sisters and ...

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