June 2, 2013
Esther 1:1–9
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• 43:00
• ID: 2956
was actually doing has to do with the big picture. Because through the line, we were gonna get not only to King David but to “[King] David’s greater Son.”[14] So, God, although his name doesn’t appear all the time, is working. You’ll find as you read
April 24, 2005
Acts 8:26–40
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• 42:37
• ID: 2445
: An Introduction and Commentary, The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), 161. [2] Psalm 121:8 (KJV). [3] John Calvin, The Acts of the Apostles 1–13, trans. John W. Fraser and W. J. G. McDonald, ed. David W. Torrance and Thomas
February 8, 2004
Luke 24:13–27
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• 42:20
• ID: 2369
be the abiding portion of all who believe, today and forevermore. Amen. [1] Justin Hayward, “Question” (1970). [2] Burt Bacharach and Hal David, “Alfie” (1966). [3] Paul Simon, “I Am a Rock” (1965). Lyrics lightly altered. [4] William Shakespeare
(paraphrased). [5] See Matthew 25:14–30. [6] Matthew 13:3–8 (paraphrased). [7] See Isaiah 55:11. [8] 1 Corinthians 9:20–23 (paraphrased). [9] William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 4.3. [10] John 10:10 (paraphrased). [11] Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
January 16, 1994
Nehemiah 1:4
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• 48:52
• ID: 1715
of commotion caused by a crowd would be a matter of intrigue to him. And so, Luke 18:36: “When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening,” and “they told him, ‘Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.’” And so “he called out, ‘Jesus, Son of David
that we have and all that we are. And so to get away with 10 percent would be to sneak out. Well, I’ve said enough on that. I would add to it: true giving is to be sacrificial and yet cheerful. David says, “I won’t offer to the Lord that …
redemptive purposes throughout all of the Bible—fabulous stories about David and Goliath, Gideon and his armies, Daniel and the lions’ den, and so on. Great, great stuff. People who “were stoned,” sawn “in two,” “put to death by the sword,” “went
. [4] See Acts 17:11. [5] John Brown, An Exposition of the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Hebrews, ed. David Smith (Edinburgh, 1862), 2:254. [6] Oprah Winfrey, commencement address, Wellesley College, May 30, 1997, https://www.wellesley.edu/events
January 12, 1997
Hebrews 1:1–3
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• 41:39
• ID: 1901
, the angel said, “He”—speaking of Christ—“he will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him”—“give him,” he will inherit, he will become the heir of—“the Lord … will give him the throne of his father David, and he
May 11, 1997
Hebrews 11:1
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• 44:01
• ID: 1933
. Think about Barak, and think about Joseph, and think about David and all of these different people,” he says. “And as you go through and view this portrait gallery, may it be a stimulus to you to become individuals of faith.” And he says, “I want you
November 9, 2003
Luke 22:63
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• 41:32
• ID: 2354
. Not in terms of an insurrection. But sure, he was stirring up people. Stirred up blind Bartimaeus, didn’t he? “Son of David, have mercy on me!”[14] And Jesus healed him, and he went down the road.[15] Stirred up the community in Nain when the funeral
January 25, 1998
1 Timothy 4:6–16
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• 48:04
• ID: 1979
to the Corinthians, and the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, trans. T. A. Smail, ed. David W. Torrance and Thomas F. Torrance, Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964), 248–49. [18] R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St
could have gone for the easy way out. David went for the easy way out with Bathsheba.[12] Joseph took the hard road with Potiphar’s wife.[13] He could have gone for immediate gratification too. Don’t let’s kid ourselves. All hell is unleashed against
March 3, 2015
2 Timothy 4:1–5
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• 46:08
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, 1934). [14] W. E. Sangster, The Craft of Sermon Construction(Phila delphia: Westminster, 1951), 11. [15] See 2 Timothy 3:16. [16] William M. Taylor, The Ministry of the Word (New York, 1876), 4, attributed in Iain Murray, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
March 23, 1997
Hebrews 9:1–14
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• 42:54
• ID: 1923
. In the 1970s, when the late David Watson was working very successfully and effectively with university students in evangelism in the United Kingdom, he described how on one occasion, speaking at an English university, he had talked at the end of one of his
] J. I. Packer, “Some Perspectives on Preaching,” in Preaching the Living Word: Addresses from the Evangelical Ministry Assembly, ed. David Jackman (Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus, 1999), 28. [2] Bruce W. Thielemann, The Wittenburg Door 36 (April–May
Christ.” He is the Suffering Servant. He it is who is “descended from David,” a reminder of his humanity; he it is who is “raised from the dead,” reminding us of his divinity. And the reminder of the Lord Jesus comes not only in Paul’s words
California in the summertime, and in the course of what was essentially the David Letterman show with a theological twist, the pastor, who’s a dear soul, stood up at the end and assured all of us that God did not want any of us to go away feeling any other
June 20, 2004
Romans 5:1–11
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• 39:08
• ID: 2395
, which, as we saw, reaches the pinnacle of the kingly time in Judah and Israel in the days of David and Solomon. And then the prophesied kingdom: the remnant of Israel, the inclusion of nations, a new temple, a new creation, a new covenant, a new
January 14, 2001
Luke 12:35
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• 42:48
• ID: 2197
, “Make the Book Live to Me.” Language modernized. [2] Hal David, “Alfie” (1966). [3] Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” (1970). Lyrics lightly altered. [4] Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
