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Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the April River, Fritz Urschitz, a missionary from Austria had been living among them for a couple of years. Gradually, they were emerging from their darkness, coming into the light, learning to live by the law of gentleness and love instead of the law of payback.(2) What a terrible way to live--in constant fear of your own neighbors, never knowing when a minor slight might launch a desire for the severest form of revenge. And yet many people in our world live like that--in constant fear. The bloody ...

2. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

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Arley K. Fadness

... seven years and another six years for a herd of cattle. Jacob agrees and after seven more years of labor, one wonderful day he marries his beloved Rachel. Jacob the deceived knows deception so well. He perfected its art long before and now it appears it's payback time! The biblical narrator gives a clue before Jacob is born that all will not be right. There is a struggle going on in Rebekah's womb. It is between the twin fetuses, Esau and Jacob. "Why is this happening?" Rebekah prays to the Lord. The Lord ...

3. Now Try Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the second woman with her arm. She apologized, and then stepped back to read her mail. She was about to walk away when the other woman came at her, head down, and rammed her in the stomach, knocking the breath out of her. The woman said, "That's payback for what you did to me." Then she added, "If your child hadn't been here, I would have been much worse." So dominant is the idea of confrontation, vengeance and retribution, that the Church's teaching about forgiveness will be heard in our time as news, as ...

4. Now What Do We Do?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

5. What Money Can't Buy

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... could have prompted her to bask in Naaman's misery. As retribution for being taken captive and being powerless to redress her condition, she could have watched him suffer day by day, delighting in his affliction and viewing it as a kind of perverse payback for taking her prisoner. However, empathy and compassion provoked her to share what she knew with Naaman's wife. All the money in the world could not buy this valuable information. All the money in the world could not have compelled this servant girl ...

6. What's In It For Me?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... sake of God! "What's in it for me?" is no longer an issue. Can you imagine forgiving someone who has wronged you? They have kicked you in the shins. They have hurt you. You have every right in the world to demand some justice. You deserve some sort of payback. But to forgive is to forego your legitimate right for justice. To forgive is to give up your right to get even. To forgive is to die a little. To forgive is not to demand your "pound of flesh." To forgive is to drink the cup. To forgive is to ...

7. The Merciful

Sermon

John A. Terry

... his old friend. So, instead of attacking him, the lion nuzzled up and began to caress him, whereupon the crowd was so astonished that Androcles was set free. Happy ending. And a tale of fantasy. Christians are not to be merciful because there is some payback system. If I lend my neighbor my hedge clippers when his break, then I can borrow his lawn mower when mine stops working. We are not merciful to receive reward but we are merciful simply because God is merciful. We are merciful because we are committed ...

8. The Merciful

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

John A. Terry

9. Pay Back Time

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... settles on the Near East. Jacob tells his sons to go to Egypt to buy some grain. They do and in the process meet Joseph -- only they do not know it is Joseph. It happens twice. Finally, Joseph reveals his true identity. The brothers are shocked and rightly scared - PAYBACK time! But Joseph does not do that. In fact, he stuns them with these words we heard a moment ago: "Do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you ...

10. But God...

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... settles on the Near East. Jacob tells his sons to go to Egypt to buy some grain. They do and in the process meet Joseph -- only they do not know it is Joseph. It happens twice. Finally, Joseph reveals his true identity. The brothers are shocked and rightly scared - PAYBACK time! But Joseph does not do that. In fact, he stuns them with these words: And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years ...

11. Grace Greater Than Our Sin

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... 't leave he will never grow. As he gets older, though, he wants to reconcile with his father. He goes home "with his heart in his hand." His father rejects him. His father says, "You're no son of mine."(1) As far as this father was concerned it was payback time. The boy had rejected his father; now the father would do the same. "You've made your bed; now you can lie in it!" That's one kind of father but there is another. A certain father said to his four children, "the last one up the stairs is ...

12. An Incredible Encounter

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... ?' â€˜I don't know about that,' he exclaimed, â€˜but look at that rat!' A rat had frightened him more than the bomb."1 Jacob had every reason to be terrorized. He had cheated his brother Esau, not only once, but twice and fully expected payback. He deserved retaliation. He expected a blow-up. A lady in Arkansas nearly stepped on an angry copperhead in her backyard. At first she did not recognize it and was intrigued, but then quickly shuddered because of the threat to herself and her young daughter ...

13. A Defiant Response to a Dangerous Theology: Does God Desire to Wipe Us Out?

Gn 6:1-8. 9:6-17

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Illinois. Michigan. New York. Massachusetts. The rest of New England and the northeastern seaboard. Buffeted by snow. Buried in snow. Blitzed with a blizzard of snow. It is clear that God is venting his wrath and visiting his payback upon the blue states. If, at the last minute, the storm were to miraculously bypass Ohio, there are some of you….or a few of you….well, maybe two or three of you….who might actually believe that. And when the next storm misses us….by riding north of us ...

14. Why We Need to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... this robbery were apprehended? Eleven days before the statute of limitations was to expire on the robbery, out of the blue, one of the robbers confessed. His motive? Anger. Revenge. The other members of the gang had let him down. This was his way of payback. Eleven days before the statute of limitations was to expire! Boy, I guess he showed them. Of course, he was punished right along with his buddies. Why? He couldn’t forgive. Lewis Smedes in his book Forgive and Forget? portrays a self‑righteous man ...

15. The Possible Dream

Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... The sons of Jacob thought they had rid themselves of Brother Joseph permanently. When they recognize and realize that this powerful Egyptian is really a Hebrew, and their brother to boot, they see their lives passing before them. This is the end of the road. It's payback time. They will be in front of a firing squad before another day dawns. But, that is not the case. Joseph moves quickly to comfort and reassure them. Joseph hugs them and cries over the lot of them. He tells them to hurry home and fetch his ...

16. Making Sure Our Robes Are Washed

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... bride was a wealthy oil man who had spared no expense for his only daughter’s wedding. Food, drink, decor, and music were all abundant to the point of elegant. The groom had played a lot of pranks at previous weddings so his friends decided it was payback time. The party was well into the evening when the friends of the groom tracked him down and threw him fully clothed into the swimming pool. The groom found no humor in the prank whatsoever. He climbed out, toweled off, and proceeded to punch one of his ...

17. Put Within Us

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... understand the significance of what I had seen that day until my parents later explained that the tribal leader of the group that had been attacked first, refused to walk between the carcass halves, thereby dooming the two groups to another round of senseless payback killings. In God's covenant with Abraham (still known as Abram then), though the carcass halves were laid out, only the presence of God passed between the pieces. The first covenant with the primal ancestor of God's chosen people, then, was ...

18. Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 19:1-29

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

... a judicial sentencing to death. See the Additional Notes. 19:17 Synthetic. Again, participles are juxtaposed in verse 17a. Kindness to the poor will be paid back by God, as it were, with interest (cf. 14:21, 31; 22:9; 29:7). Reward might be better rendered “payback.” God is not the debtor; the poor are. They are to be considered as though in the place of God (Meinhold, Sprüche). 19:18 It is clear that corporal punishment is meant (cf. 23:13–14). One could also translate “while there is (still) hope ...

19. A Message About Babylon

Jeremiah 50:1--51:64

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... Additional Notes). This serpent also has swallowed them but then spit them out. They have been used and treated with disrespect. Such acts lead to the desire for violence against Babylon as expressed in verse 35. The inhabitants of Zion want them to experience payback for their suffering. The desire of verse 35 leads (therefore) to the divine pronouncement in verses 36–44. Here God will take up Judah’s cause and avenge them. Speaking of Babylon God will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. Literally ...

20. Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia

Ezekiel 25:1-7, Ezekiel 25:8-11, Ezekiel 25:12-14, Ezekiel 25:15-17

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... permit to stand. Moab’s punishment is linked with Ammon’s: “I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession” (v. 10). The desert nomads of Kedar will also ravage Moab. This would have been payback for the Arabs, as during the seventh century the Moabite Kamashaltu had subjugated the Kedarites on behalf of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal (J. M. Miller, “Moab,” ABD, p. 890). Curiously, the frontier towns—Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim, with which Moab ...

21. The Good Life

Luke 6:17-26

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... this world, but instead the prospect of “reward in heaven.” Jesus had no hesitation in promising rewards for faithful service (especially in Matthew [see Matt. 6:1–6, 16–18; 10:40–42; 20:1–16]). Luke notes that sometimes there is “payback” already in this life (18:29–30), but the main focus of the disciple’s reward is beyond death (12:32–34). Some modern Christian teaching has been slow to recognize this essentially otherworldly aspect of discipleship. This section echoes the theme of ...

22. Protection of Property

Exodus 22:1-15

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... society was agricultural, the cases regarding theft and property damage have primarily to do with animals and land produce (22:1–15). While theft in general means a twofold restitution, the relative value and necessity of certain animals means that the payback when they are stolen is significantly more: five head of cattle for an ox and four sheep for one sheep. Oxen were working animals, and their loss would have had significant productivity implications. Likewise, flocks were valuable for milk, fleece ...

23. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 26:1-28, Proverbs 25:1-28, Proverbs 27:1-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ’s “on soda.” The point of either comparison would be that the so-called friend’s behavior would only make matters worse. (4) Be generous in a time of need, thereby possibly turning an enemy into a friend and receiving divine payback (25:21–22, quoted in Rom. 12:20). The meaning of “heap burning coals on his head” (cf. Prov. 6:28), unfortunately, remains obscure, since causing a foe great pain sounds contrary to the biblical injunction against taking revenge. Perhaps referring metaphorically ...

24. Love

Romans 12:9-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... with their secular contemporaries. The criterion of love applies not only to believers’ behavior in the church but also to their behavior in general. If they are discriminated against and persecuted, the proper response is to bless, not to engage in payback or to take actions that are evil (12:14, 17, 19, 21). Since Gentile Christians have no official permission to meet regularly, Paul advises that Christians avoid trouble. These exhortations are not simply tactical, however. They are themes of Old ...

25. Cloak of Power

Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , Jesus has you covered. His breath will be your breath. His spirit your spirit. Get rid of the sackcloth of guilt and grief, and wear the cloak that binds you to God and emboldens you to dance. Why? Because Jesus says, “I’ve got this.” No payback. No strings. No cost. Except… “Follow me.” “Trust my Way.” “Take up my yoke.” For “my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Wait for the covering of the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and covers you, go into the world ...

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1. What Are You Afraid Of?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

2. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

3. Now Try Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

4. Now What Do We Do?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

5. What Money Can't Buy

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

6. What's In It For Me?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

7. The Merciful

Sermon

John A. Terry

8. The Merciful

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

John A. Terry

9. Pay Back Time

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

10. But God...

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... settles on the Near East. Jacob tells his sons to go to Egypt to buy some grain. They do and in the process meet Joseph -- only they do not know it is Joseph. It happens twice. Finally, Joseph reveals his true identity. The brothers are shocked and rightly scared - PAYBACK time! But Joseph does not do that. In fact, he stuns them with these words: And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years ...

11. Grace Greater Than Our Sin

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

12. An Incredible Encounter

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

13. A Defiant Response to a Dangerous Theology: Does God Desire to Wipe Us Out?

Gn 6:1-8. 9:6-17

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14. Why We Need to Forgive