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The lion is a symbol for royalty, the king of the land. the phrase "the Lion of the tribe of Judah" is referring to Jesus' as king and connecting him to a long line of people who are royalty. The phrase "the Root of David" is affirming his place in the line of David. He shares ties to King David, who God called a man after his own heart.

We should look forward to the coming wedding celebration when Christ is united with this church, his bride.

I agree with what everyone is saying here. You need to forgive as Christ forgave you. Its kinda like you are being two faced about your faith if you don't an take the lord's supper.

Q3. (Matthew 26:28) Why should the words, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" fill us with sorrow? Why should they fill us with joy? I think this should fill us with sorrow because our sin's price is so great, the blood of an innocent, perfect person was needed to cover it and allow us to be re-communed with God. It should fill us with joy also because we are free from our sins now and no longer held to that bondage.

I don't know a lot about the Jewish faith. When I read Kirs Ann's post, I thought it was very insightful and well explained.

Agree with this. Its exactly what i would have typed.

Q5. Extra Credit: In what sense have we been set free or released from slavery to sin? Why do we need the Holy Spirit to help us keep this freedom? Feel free to share stories of how Christ has freed you. we are set free and able to commune with God again. we need to holy spirit to help us stay in communion with God. The holy spirit is our guide and helps us to stay on the right path. God has set me free from a past filled with pain and false teachings. I had never known the sweet taste of freedom until i heard the real truth in the bible and not mans manipulated, second agenda version. I am free.

Q4. According to the slave-ransom analogy, who is the slave? What is he enslaved by? Who offers the ransom? If Satan is involved in the enslaving process, why isn't the ransom paid to him? Why isn't the slave-ransom analogy spelled out completely in the New Testament? We are the slave. We are enslaved by our sin. God offers the ransom. Satan deceives us and doesn't ever own us, thus no payment to him. Satan loses his power, not because he has been paid off, but because we have been forgiven. We can no longer accurately be accused of sin. When we realize that truth, we are set free (John 8:32), no longer hopeless and manipulated by lies.Since God "owns" us, the slave-ransom analogy breaks down at this point, since it God paying a ransom to God confuses the picture.

treat your life with value. your life is worth God sending his son to die in your place.

Old testaments: * Marrying a brother's widow if no children have yet been born, in order to raise up children in the brother's name (a main issue in the case of Ruth and Tamar), * Purchasing family lands that had to be sold because of poverty, in order to keep the land in the family, * Buying the freedom of relatives who had become slaves because of debts they couldn't pay, and * Avenging a kinsman who was murdered. * Rescuing a kinsman who was kidnapped. Jesus comforts the widow. we share his inheritance his blood bought our freedom from death he will always be our avenger, setting wrong to right he will always go after us if we stray away.

sinners. it was easily related to the people of that time. sin can make us feel trapped by it. like there is no other way to live or live for. settings us free from it is a beautiful thing to experience.

Romans 3:24-26 " * 24. * and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. * 25. * God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished-- * 26. * he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. I think it reflects Isaiah 53.

Q4. The Servant also bears the punishment deserved by sinners. In what sense, if any, did Jesus bear the punishment due you when he died on the cross? We are sinners from birth. The punishment for sin is death. So from the very beginning of our lives, we deserve to die for our sins. Because Christ acted on our behalf, baring the physical punishment for our sins. He was sinless, perfect and innocent for all that was brought against Him. By God's design, Christ had to die for us so we could be joined to God again without having animals or priests to speak for us.

Christ die for us and kept us from dieing for our sins.

Q2. Which New Testament parallels to Isaiah 53 convince you that Jesus himself saw his own mission and destiny spelled out in Isaiah 53? If you aren't convinced, what stands in your way? There are many parallels throughout the entire new testament that correspond to Isaiah 53 about the life of Jesus. John 3:16 came to my mind right away. I don't believe Jesus read this and knew this is what he must do right away. Isaiah was a man inspired by God as where all the men who wrote books of the Bible. I think it was through God's prompting and the Holy Spirit, Jesus was reveled what he must be do. God could have used this scripture to speak to Jesus and many other scriptures. Jesus' affirmation about what he should do with his life came from God himself, not just from reading Isaiah 53. I think saying Isaiah solely inspired Jesus is giving glory to Isaiah and not God.