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2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... , for normally you do not expect anyone from above you to be looking down upon you. It wasn't the first look that got David, but it was the second look that nailed him. David should immediately have turned his head, tucked his tail between his legs, and run hard for the door. But instead we read in vv. 3 and 4 that he sent for Bathsheba. I am sure that Solomon, David's son, thought about this very day in his dad's life when he wrote these words: "Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding ...

2. When We No Longer Recognize Ourselves

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... not matter who we become. What matters is who God is. What would we have to believe about God to trust that God would answer David’s prayer? “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love . . .” There it is. God’s love. A theme we will sound ... have mercy!” At that moment, he heard the sound of three blood-stained nails falling on the good side. They didn’t look that heavy. After all, how much could three nails weigh? But as they dropped onto the scales, the scales tipped back to the ...

3. Building A Church

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... said he noticed the wheels turning in his son's little head. Suddenly his son asked, "Daddy do you use that hammer on the church board?" "Needless to say," says David Bissell, "when I shared the story with the board members, we all had a good laugh." (3) Well, I'm certain there are church boards and pastors who would like to drive nails in one another, but how much better it is when people share a common purpose. Dr. Lloyd J. Ogilvie, in writing on the passage we read from the book of Acts, ponders how ...

4. Six Nails of the Cross II: The Nail of Infidelity

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the sunshine and the moonlight but where are you when they do not shine and there is only darkness around me?" The stories of David and Jonathon, Ruth and Naomi are glorious examples of the value which God places upon our human relationships. Jonathon was willing to face more ... silver, then whatever the reason was, it wasn't good enough. His betrayal, this act of infidelity, was like driving a nail into the flesh of Jesus. It wasn't that Jesus had never known or experienced hatred before. How well we remember ...

5. The Passion of the Christ – The Rest of the Story

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

James Merritt

... through his father, Joseph. Isaiah 11:1 prophesied that the Messiah would come from the family of David. "Out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot – yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root." (Isaiah 11:1, NLT) Luke 3: ... see clearly happening to Jesus before He was even crucified. In other words, Jesus was already in critical condition before He was even nailed to the cross, but the worst was yet to come. No other form of capital punishment has ever been invented in history that ...

6. Proving Your Love

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... begged him to take the floor as a gift. David wouldn’t do it. "No," he said, "I will buy it of you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing." David felt an obligation to God. He knew that man ... . That is to remember that one dark day, when it thundered over the Palestine hills, a young man full of life allowed himself to be nailed down and his blood poured out on the ground in sacrifice so that we might have abundant life. His cross is not just a wonderful ...

7. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... of a child, Jesus, in nine months. He would be the Son of the Highest and the Lord God would give him the throne of David, and his kingdom would never end. I was confused and perplexed, but my fear was gone. "How can this be since I have no husband ... cried. My heart of pain was suddenly healed of its sorrow. Jesus was not dead! Pilate with his merciless conviction, the cross with its cruel nails, the tomb with its smell of death, had had no power over him! Jesus was alive before me! I reached for his hand to ...

8. A Glimpse of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

George Bass

... as did Thomas. Philip had a similar problem to Thomas - "unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe." Before Jesus’ death and resurrection, Thomas had asked ... and tell me." It tasted like a communion Host but, David said, "It’s not consecrated." So Blacker offered the boy the electric train if he would steal a consecrated wafer and give it to him. David did - the next Sunday - by holding the wafer under ...

9. Remember Jesus Christ…

2 Timothy 2:8-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... register in the presence of a Secretary of the London Missionary Society. The Secretary was surprised to see among the bills and coins a sixinch nail. What was it doing there? Mettler explained, "I keep this nail with my money to remind me of the price that Christ paid for my salvation and of what I owe him in return."[1] Remember Jesus Christ, the descendant of David, the man. But remember something else as well: "Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead" (2 Timothy 2:8). Remember that early on that ...

10. Victorious, but Not Unscarred

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’ “But [Thomas] said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.’ “A week later his disciples were in ... the world who does not pay a price. On this April 15th we might remember a well-known tax evader named Henry David Thoreau. Unlike modern tax evaders who are interested only in their own welfare, Thoreau willingly went to jail rather than pay ...

11. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... and correct. That kind of brokenness is sad, too. Ah, but there is another kind of brokenness that is absolutely beautiful. King David described it in Psalm 51: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will ... that I had to go back to the cross for grace to sustain me." When was the last time you grieved because your sin caused nails to pierce the holy flesh of Jesus? When was the last time you admitted a fault to a Christian brother or sister and asked that ...

12. Jesus Is Crucified

Mark 15:21-32

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... explicitly quoted in John 19:24: “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment”), as the powerlessness of David before his enemies is fulfilled by Jesus the righteous sufferer. 15:25 It was nine in the morning. Mark frames the death ... the offense that earned crucifixion, was worn by or paraded before the prisoner on the trip to the execution site, where it was then nailed to the cross.5 John 19:20 tells us that it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek so that all might read it. ...

13. The House on The Rock

Lk 6:12-49 · Mt 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... way. Communal house raisings. It took a community to build a house. Similar to their house was their faith. Rock-solid and tough as nails, they got through everything in life with God, and with each other. They knew, like with a house, it takes a community to build ... of the Lord is the House of the God of Jacob) 2 Samuel 7 / 1 Chronicles 17 (God’s promise to flourish the House of David) Psalm 84 (Psalm of praise for the courts of the Lord) Psalm 18 (The Lord is my rock) Ephesians 2 (You are members of the ...

14. The Passion of Our Lord

2 Corinthians 5:21

Sermon

... suffering takes place. As Our Lord slowly sags down, more weight is placed on the nails in His wrists; this causes excruciating pain in His hands. As He pushes Himself upward to avoid the pain, pressure is placed on the nail in His feet; this causes searing pain there. Either way He moves, as He pushes ... precious wounds, pondering over them within me, and calling to mind the words which David, Thy prophet, said of Thee, my Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all my bones."

15. Sweet-Smelling Fragrance

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence in the yard. The first day the child had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next several weeks, the number of nails gradually dwindled down as he began ... one another is one of the ways we present God to the world. Sometimes presentation is everything. 1. K. David Cole develops the faith journey in an incisive sermon, "Through This Portal," in Out of Mighty Waters: Sermons by ...

16. Encounter with a Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Robert Allen

... home that they recognized him. Was it the way he broke the loaf of bread? Was it a familiar gesture? Was it a glimpse of a hand which had known the print of a nail? Whatever it was, a silence falls over the table. No one moves. No one speaks. They just know. There is a recognition of love. And, there is joy at that recognition. David Redding tells of having a big, black Scottish shepherd as a pet when he was growing up on a farm in the country. He named the dog Teddy and they became inseparable companions ...

17. When You're Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... his superior skill carved the David that has thrilled the world for 500 years. (3) Christ was despised and rejected for our sakes. And yet, “the very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner....” Perhaps I am not talking to you this morning. Perhaps you have never been rejected. Perhaps you’ve never been wounded. That’s wonderful in a way. It is also sad. That means you have never known what it is to feel the ministering touch of a man with nail prints in his hands. You ...

18. Get the Picture?

John 18:1; 19:42

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I did not hide my face from shame and spitting?” Or could the words of David in Psalm 22:16, “Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers have encircled me; they have pierced my hands and my feet…” have ... says where Peter had out-posted himself during the gruesome events. It does tell us where Mary, his mother, was. She stood and watched each nail. She heard his cries of anguish and felt the pain as only a mother can do. All of you who are mothers know what ...

19. Gifts of Lent VI: The Thief Who Gave Nothing

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... was that one who named Jesus as my Savior in the last moments of my life. How did I come to be there on that gloomy Friday nailed to a cross beside Jesus? Oh, don't think I didn't know better. I won't give you any tear-jerking story about how disadvantaged I ... were strewn on the path to make a carpet for the king, no palm branches were waved. There were no Hosannas to the Son of David. The wails of the women who had come to lament the dying pierced the silence. The other thief and I cursed and struggled to ...

20. Disillusioned Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Israel someone who would throw off the yoke of the despised Romans. He believed that right up until the time the soldiers drove nails into Jesus’ hands and feet. How could the Messiah possibly be put to death? Thomas wondered with horror. The Messiah should wear a crown ... ://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/mann_3615.htm 4. (New York: Doubleday, 1997), pp.150-151. Cited by Rev. Dr. David E. Leininger, http://www.presbyterianwarren.com/overdoes.html. 5. Tony Campolo, Letters to a Young Evangelical ( New York, NY: ...

21. TGFGF - Good Friday

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... crucifixion. It was the most painful method of public death in the first century. The victim was placed on a wooden cross. Nails . . . were driven into the hands and feet of the victim, and then the cross was lifted and jarred into the ground, tearing ... by crucifixion, extreme exhaustion, severe torture, and loss of blood. “Jesus Christ, descendant of Abraham, was a member of the house of David. He was son of the late Joseph, a carpenter of Nazareth, and Mary, his devoted mother. Jesus was born in a stable ...

22. The Crucifixion

Luke 23:26-43

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... righteous sufferer of the Psalms. Moreover, since these Psalms were attributed to David (see their superscriptions) allusion to them would only underscore Jesus’ relationship to King David, the prototype of the coming Messiah. In v. 35 the people are ... already in place. There the offender was stripped and flogged. The prisoner’s arms were affixed to the crossbar with ropes or nails, and the crossbar was then raised and attached to the upright stake. A small wooden block attached to the stake beneath the ...

23. Jesus Appears to the Disciples

Luke 24:36-49

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... : Although not stated, it is quite probable that the showing of his hands and his feet was meant to reveal the marks of the nails as evidence of identity and as an evidence of being more than a ghost. (Compare the wording in John 20:20, another point of ... the Christ will … rise from the dead. In his Pentecost sermon Peter cites Ps. 16:8–11, in which the Psalmist, understood as David, the father of the Messiah (or Christ), declares: “For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy Holy One see ...

24. The Mighty Wind of God

Acts 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... one signature for the nails, they said, the government was taking back all the nails. Amazingly, the soldiers went throughout the whole church structure removing every single nail. The building, as you might imagine, collapsed without any nails to hold it ... receptive to His Spirit. Then, and only then, will we sense the mighty power of God come upon us. 1. David Phillips, Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisholm (San Diego: Advantage Publishers Group, 1998), p. 122. 2. William Hartston, The Encyclopedia of Useless ...

25. Cut Your Losses!

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... of his dubious accomplishment. "I haven't had a good night's sleep for 30 years," he complains. He had a vision of how his nails would look one day in a glass case attached to a plaster replica of his 56-year-old hand. The problem was that no one ... their law office at 53 Wall Street early in 1966, Koch made a startling prediction. Schwartz's wife had just given birth to a son, David, and the two men were talking about it. "He will have his bar mitzvah in Gracie Mansion," Koch said, sounding as if he meant it ...

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