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Antonyms: do nothing

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1. Measure for Measure

Matthew 18:21-35

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Lori Wagner

... upon you in fair share what you have done? Will you say, “God give me exactly what I deserve?” Or will you plead for God’s mercy and forgiveness and grace? Jesus knew how hard it is for us to carry out God’s command of mercy and forgiveness, measure for measure. So Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice. He gave his own life, so that we could receive freely God’s forgiveness and mercy, despite our failings. It is we who ask God to aid us in our attempts to live the way we should, when we pray together ...

2. Extreme Measures

1 Kings 21:1-29

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... not shirk the awesome task of exacting justice and speaking truth to the powerful. Elijah was courageous in his confrontation of King Ahab. He prophesied that Ahab, too, would meet an awful end for his evil deeds. We might say that Elijah also went to extreme measures in bringing judgment on Ahab. Here was one man with limited resources. He had no armies that marched by day and by night. He had no arsenal of deadly weapons with which to vanquish enemies. He had no judiciary system which could manipulate the ...

3. The Measure of Love

1 John 4:7-21

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Eric Ritz

... we do. As St. Frances de Sales would say, what is so surprising is not solely the fact that God loves, but the full measure of God''s love. As the writer in I John makes perfectly clear, God took the initiative in declaring His love for us. It is ... was God''s love made known in Jesus Christ that awakens within us the ability to love ourselves and other people. His love will be the measure and standard. The love of God does not wait for you and I to repent to receive it. We repent because we have come to ...

4. The Measure of Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

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Brett Blair

... great. We have a desire to be the best at what we do. To excel. No one wants to be no one. But what is it, that measure of greatness that will get us there? And how can we recognize it when we see it? Let’s leave this question for a few moments ... Therefore, I am the greatest.” The brothers James and John at this point speak up: “You both miss the point. Greatness is measured by the amount that you have sacrificed. We stood to inherit our father Zebedee’s lucrative fishing business. We gave all of that ...

5. The Measure You Give Is the Measure You Get

Mark 4:21-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... ) All these parables have to do with growth, and they have to do with the Kingdom. In the context of the parables – Jesus speaks his cryptic word which is the core message we want to appropriate today – the little of our sermon. The meaning you give will be the measure you get. There are two big lessons. The first is obvious - we lose what we do not use. Now don’t let the trite sound of this stop your ears to hearing it as a momentous truth. We love what we fail to use. Alec Waugh, the English author ...

6. The Dailyness of Healing Measures

Luke 17:11-19

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Leonard Sweet

... most serious infirmities, our most malicious malignancies, were all wiped out by this radical act of spiritual surgery. Through Jesus' sacrifice, the destructive power of death was crushed, leaving in its place our choice for health and wholeness. But God gives us healing measures - physical and spiritual - every single day. What are some of the healings that have taken place in your life this past week? (Go now into a karaoke sermon where you get your people to talk about what healing is taking place in ...

7. Measured Salvation

Matthew 20:1-16

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Lori Wagner

... . Yes, you heard me right. And I’ll say that again to be clear. God is not fair. God is gracious. And the two are completely different concepts. You see, we are brought up in our world to believe that our value lies that “achievement” paradigm, and that we measure our worth with that trusty invisible yard stick we keep by our sides. We all have one. Well, I want you now to reach into your pocket, and pull out that yard stick. Go ahead. Reach down deep into your soul and pull it out, and now toss it ...

8. When God Measures The Church

Amos 7:7-17

Sermon

Stephen P. McCutchan

... and as a nation and not to punish us for our sins. Then came this third vision. Amos saw God holding a plumb line against a wall. God announced that he was setting a plumb line in the midst of his people, Israel. God was going to measure Israel against his standards of justice and compassion. Amos was called to enter the largest sanctuary in Israel and proclaim his vision. He proclaimed that the great sanctuaries would become desolate, and the king of Israel would be killed and the people would be led off ...

9. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

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Lori Wagner

... own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time ...

10. Playing Outside the Rules

Luke 6:27-38 · Genesis 45:3-11, 15

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Lori Wagner

... : You want an eye for an eye? Do you really want God to reward you with what you’ve done? You want justice for what’s been done to you? Do you really want God to exact justice from you for everything you’ve done? You want equality –measure for measure? So, you really want God to give you grace equal to your sins? No one wants that. We expect from God total mercy, even while we want equal justice. No, what Jesus is asking of us is still challenging for us today: to throw away our rules-based ...

11. Free to Forgive

John 20:19-31

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Lori Wagner

... have become his most ardent disciples. To those he has shown unexpected grace, they have become his most passionate followers. When we bestow forgiveness and grace upon others, no matter what they’ve done or not done to us, we act out our own version of “measure for measure.” As Jesus has forgiven us –for we all fall short of the glory of God—so we will forgive others in his Name. And in so doing, they themselves will experience the power and glory of God in their lives, often for the very first ...

12. How High Is Your Faith Quotient?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Leonard Sweet

... into the divine, whose knowledge of God – God's presence and God's absences – has so altered their perception of this world that they are able to move beyond all notions of human measures – measures of wealth or poverty, measures of power or powerlessness, measures of success or failure, measures of action or stillness, measures of winning or losing. Instead of all these artificial extremes and separations, high FQ people see only the wholeness of God's design, the unity of God's love and law. The ...

13. The Whole Load

Luke 6:27-36

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Maxie Dunnam

... old fellow, could you tell us how to get to Carnegie Hall?" Without even looking up, the rag-picker muttered, "Practice, Practice, Practice." That's the way it is, and that's the reason Jesus said it in so many different ways. Give -- for the measure you give will be the measure you get. Give -- "and it will be given unto you." "A pastor sent to one of his affluent laymen a request for a donation. The man returned the letter with this sentence penciled on the bottom, "It seems to me you preachers have come ...

14. The Possibility Mindset

Mark 10:17-31

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Lori Wagner

... for most of us. Why? Because our “Acquisition” and “Achievement” mindset keeps us conveniently locked up in a multitude of “boxes.” And they are hard to break out of. [Show a ruler.] Here in front of you I am holding a ruler. We all know what it is. It measures things. It tells us how large something is. It tells us how much we are falling short or how far we need to go. Ever been to a carnival in which you have to be “this high” in order to step onto your favorite ride? Rulers are in a ...

15. Plumb Line Prophecy

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... and leadership, but they do not know the One who is the King and Head of the church and who went to the cross to redeem it for himself. Perhaps God leaves them among us to remind us how even the mighty are susceptible to falling when they fail to measure themselves daily against God’s plumb line. And we have all known people like Amos, dedicated servants of God called with a holy passion and an urgency to do his work and speak the truth for God, who has a plumb line for us. For them, Paul’s words hold ...

16. No Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... want to feel good about what we’ve earned. We want to survey our hard-work and feel justified that we deserve our house, our car, our salary, our pay-grade. Far from being glad when others have what we have, when we come across someone who does, we start measuring….. What job does he have? How many years did she work for that raise? What title did he first attain? How many hoops did she have to jump through to get to that point in her career? We have a sense that in order to have what we have, others ...

17. Mercy Me!

Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you dislike, whom you disagree with, whom you believe to be threatening you in some way. And yet, Jesus calls us to do just that for the sake of our own hearts. The heart is the focus of this teaching. And Jesus reminds us of God’s way of “measure for measure.” Will you spend your life criticizing others? Are you prepared to have God to the same to you? is the question posed. If you swing a pendulum out, it will fly back at you again in full force and cut you down as well. We damage ourselves more in ...

18. A Double Share of the Spirit

2 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... now that he's gone, I often think that if I could ask for one more thing from him, it would be for a double measure of his spirit. I would stand with Elisha, who was bidding his master and mentor farewell. And rather than more time with Dad; rather than ... , the question comes as to what we have done with the great gifts we have received. What will we do with the gift of spirit, double measure or not that we have received as pure grace? Are we to go on and try to fill the shoes of our benefactors? Are we to ...

19. The Knot: Tied

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... talk to the other person. Mark Twain said, “Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” How does your love measure up to this quality and how is it working out for you? “It does not envy.” (1 Corinthians 13:4, NIV) Love isn’t jealous ... t love them. If you are not willing to hear the truth from your spouse, you don’t love them either. How does your love measure up and how is it working out for you? I could stop right here and say nothing else and most of us, if not practically ...

20. House of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

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Lori Wagner

... from God to live in covenant. It’s a strength we get from God and not from ourselves. We need this strength, because the next part is likely to scare the freakin’ daylights out of us! It’s a line in the Jewish tradition called “measure for measure.” It can be found all through Jesus’ teaching (although we like to ignore those parts). And it basically means –God will forgive you to the extent that you will forgive someone else. God will bless you to the extent you bless someone else. Remember ...

21. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

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... by God. We may see life in length, and maybe in breadth, but God sees it also in depth. Now this parable of the laborers in the vineyard - we are inclined to read it from point of fairness, what we deem to be just. Our minds are commercially oriented, we measure and equate, we put things in the balances to see how they tip. We think in terms of more or less of this and that. Obviously, the Lord does not think this way. Remember the time when Jesus sat by the temple watching people cast their money into the ...

22. Are You on the Gospel Side?

Colossians 3:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... phrase he heard when growing up that was uttered when "someone filled your coffee cup or ice tea glass to the rim, loaded your plate with food or served you a heaping dish of fresh fruit or homemade ice cream." The phrase was: "Now that's what I call gospel measure." Shelby remembers "wondering as a small boy how people could use the Bible to measure or weigh such things, and then I learned how the phrase came from Jesus' promise in Luke 6:38: 'Give, and it will be given to you. A good ...

23. Have You Checked Your Love Levels Recently?

Mark 9:2-13

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Leonard Sweet

... Christmas carol, “Silent Night,” the third verse reminds us of those “radiant beams from thy holy face.” A transfiguring light was present at Jesus’ birth, a light that brought us “redeeming grace.” In this scientific world of actuarial risks and measurable outcomes, it is increasingly difficult to “believe” in the power of an immeasurable moment of divine light. But that is what this Transfiguration Sunday demands of all those who confess Jesus is Lord and Light of the world. We are ...

24. Come, Learn Your Worth

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Various Authors

... him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."1 Here is the most dramatic evidence of our worth: Christ died for us. The Ultimate One made the ultimate sacrifice. In our common world our worth is often measured on the basis of who will stand up for us, or speak in our behalf. In juvenile court, for instance, a youngster is sometimes spared if a responsible citizen will vouch for him. Then hear this: the Christian Gospel declares that Jesus Christ has not only spoken ...

25. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... to hear? (Paul calls it prophetic power). Not all of us can speak for God with such clarity and power. But even to speak for God is not as important as to be a vehicle, a conduit, a transformer for authentic love. Everyone can do that. (Love is the measure of the Kingdom). "Are you ready to sell everything you have, all your assets, all your precious treasures, and give the proceeds to the poor? Are you ready to lay your life down for the sake of the Gospel? I think of the Christian martyrs of the third and ...

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