(remember, these are unedited/draft show notes, not a transcript — listening is always better…and if you listen AND follow along below, you’ll see why)
Focus Question:
What about the cross is offensive?
INTRO:
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NEW TESTAMENT SEGMENT:
Passage: Galatians 5:16-6:18
Translation: CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Verses: 29
Words: ~604
Awareness of the Significance of the Preceding Truths (1:18) This theme of spiritual comprehension continues in verse 18 with the phrase the eyes of your heart. Paul uses the metaphor of sight also in 2 Corinthians 3:3–6. Satan has blinded the minds of unbelievers, but God’s light shines in our hearts. Unlike our figurative use of the word heart to convey the idea of emotion, and unlike the common Christian use of the word to express sincere inward response to gospel truth in contrast to “head knowledge,” the Greek word for heart (kardia) refers to the whole thinking, feeling and volitional inner person.
Walter L. Liefeld, Ephesians, vol. 10, The IVP New Testament Commentary Series (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997), Eph 1:18.
OLD TESTAMENT SEGMENT:
These two chapters serve to introduce the two oracles in chapters 9–14, just as 1:1–6 introduces the visions of 1:7–6:8. Themes such as ceremonial days, for example, the holiness of God’s dwelling, universal worship of the Lord, regathering the exiles, and the repopulating of Jerusalem are introduced in chapters 7–8 and reappear in chapters 9–14.
Almost two years after the night visions, a little over two years after the rebuilding had begun, a delegation came to Zechariah from Bethel. They came to inquire whether the time for fasting and mourning over Jerusalem had passed. To commemorate various aspects of Jerusalem’s fall the Jews had appointed fasting days in months four, five, seven, and ten (v. 5; 8:19).(2)
Passage: Zechariah 7-8
Translation: CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Verses: 37
Words: ~932
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Sources and resources:
(1) Walter Russell, “Galatians,” in CSB Apologetics Study Bible, ed. Ted Cabal (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), 1463.
(2) David S. Dockery, ed., Holman Bible Handbook (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 1992), 497.