a. Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations: This word of the Lord through Ezekiel concerns Jerusalem and the depths of her wickedness. Throughout this chapter, Jerusalem is used as an accurate representative of the people of Israel as a whole. i. “Ezekiel was charged by God to declare ...
i. “Acts 16:23-24 records that the suffering included a public flogging and having their feet in stocks while confined in the city’s inner prison. Such a Roman flogging was no light matter; it was an experience not soon forgotten.” (Hiebert) ii. “We know that indignity and persecut...
In this chapter, I examine the loophole through which women using pain as a means to alter consciousness create a way to speak within regimes that would silence them. They articulate a spiritual rationale, but their performances also function within a gendered system of communication, and their ...
As well, in Acts 16:3 Paul had Timothy circumcised – again, not because it was necessary, but because it could be helpful in getting ministry done among the Jews. ii. “To the Gentiles he behaved himself as if he himself had been a Gentile, that is, forbearing the observances of ...
1. (16) Why we do not lose heart. Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. a. Therefore we do not lose heart: Paul began the chapter (2 Corinthians 4:1) by declaring since we have this ministry, ...
· In perils in the city: Paul experienced many hostile mobs in the cities where he preached (Acts 13:50, 14:5, 14:19, 16:19, and so forth). · In perils in the wilderness: In his travels, Paul spent many dangerous days and nights in the wilderness. · In perils in the sea: ...
1. (16-19) God’s judgment upon a disobedient Israel. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying: “Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her ...
i. “The same word in the Greek is used for ‘covenant’ and ‘testament,’ and although the double use is difficult, there seems to be no doubt that in verse 15 the word means ‘covenant,’ and in verses 16 and 17 ‘testament,’ and then in verse 18 ‘covenant’ again.” (Thomas...
i. The Bible does explain that there will be a significant outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the last days (Joel 2:28-29,Acts 2:17-18); but this passage from James doesn’t seem to be relevant to that outpouring. ii. Instead, the sense here is more as Moffatt explains: “The farme...
Then, we are commanded to obey God before man (Acts 4:19). i. “God, as their supreme governor, shows them that it is his will that they should act uprightly and obediently at all times, and thus confound the ignorance of foolish men, who were ready enough to assert that their ...