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S. Michael Houdmann
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There are numerous references in the Bible addressing the Christian's commitment in various aspects of life: to our families, neighbors, employers, the church, our health, and in all things we do a...
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Jack Gutknecht
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W. L. Walker says COMMIT is used in the sense of “to give in charge” or “entrust” expressed by the Hebrew word, galal -- גָּלַל, --read Hebrew right to left--“to roll” (Prov 16:3 – “Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.”), and in the Greek term, tithemi -- τίθημι, “committed to us (the Revised Version margin has “placed in us”) the word of reconciliation” (2 Cor 5:19 –"…that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.”). Our commitment to Christ involves witnessing to the lost. ISBE, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, also lists the Greek word, paratheke -- παραθήκη, "that which I have committed unto him" (2 Tim 1:12 – “which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.”; the Revised Version, margin "that which he hath committed unto me," Greek "my deposit"). On Genesis 12:4-9 about "a commitment," Warren Wiersbe cites the seventeenth-century Puritan preacher Thomas Fuller as saying that all mankind was divided into three classes: the intenders, the endeavorers, and the performers. Terah may have been an intender, but he never made it into the Land of Promise. Lot was an endeavorer up to a point, but he failed miserably because he could not walk by faith. Abraham and Sarah were the performers because they trusted God to perform what He promised (Rom. 4:18-21). They committed their lives and futures to God, obeyed what He commanded, and received all that God planned for them. https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/wiersbe-be-bible-study/commitment-12-4-9
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