sahala p.s.

The responsibility of the next of kin to someone in his family who was in trouble was to help him. As having been writen by Dr. Ralph Wilson: If a close relative lost his property to a debtor, it was the responsibility of his kinsmen to redeem it. If a relative was murdered, his kinsmen were responsible to avenge his death. If a relative was in prison or in slavery, a kinsman was obligated to pay whatever was necessary to get him released. Jesus played the role of Kinsman-Redeemer for us by this following way. We his kin have fallen so far into debt of our sin. We can not do anything to redeem ourselves out of sin debt. The only one can do is our Kinsman Jesus Son of God. He redeem us by his own flesh and blood. He sacrificed his life

God has shown his grace to me and our family by these ways. He appointed Christ Jesus to choose me and my family to share in His eternal glory. But because of this I and may family will suffer for a while as long as living in this world. This suffering is not without intention, but with it God will make me complete, steady, strong, and firm. Through suffering we will become perfect in faith Peter describes Him as the God of all grace, because God is the only source of all of grace we can get. All kindness or favor that is undeserved to us is stem from God, no one else can give such grace. We have been saved by his grace, we have been accepting spiritual blessings because of his grace, all kind good for us is given because of grace even our suffering for our favor.

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The requirements or conditions one can be called faithful are that he/she can be trusted and can keep his/her word, and if he/she not so, we will call him/her unfaithful. Faithfullness is firmness and steadiness in doing a promise or a agreement done. The faithfull God inspires in me that God can be trusted or I can count on Him that He will do what He has already promised or wiil be consisntent in what He has said. So I don

Because of the sin of Israel, that is they had made a gold idol to be their god, God was angry with them. God punished the people of Israel with a terrible disease. Also God was willing to destroy them all. God would not go with them to the land He promised, so that He would destroy before they got there. So without His forgiveness, all of the people of Israel would be destroyed. They needed His forgiveness. Yes, Israel was contrite after turning away from God, but not all, only a apart of them. God punished the people who were not contrite. So amazing about God

If we remove the metaphor of Father and Son from our church vocabulary, we miss a lot of things. In the metaphor God as Father God want to state that He is like a good father of world, a father guiding and educating his children to walk in the right way but correcting them if they do wrong, and a father ready to protect his children from their enemies, disaters and to be helper any time we need Him, a father want If removing that metaphor we only imagine that God is only a ruler, God does whatever He want to do to us, and God is far from us. About metaphor of Son. We know that Son was delegated by Father to the world to execute a plan. The plan was The Son had to die on the cross to save man from their sins. Only by His Son that was unsin God can save man. This is the duty of Son. We can imagine if the metaphor Son is not exist, it means the saving plan is not exist too. About feminine methapors of God, I like the metaphors of a mother quieting her child on her lap and of a mother comforting her son. Both pictures the gentleness and care of God like mother to her child. God will quite us if we are depressed or sickheart, and God will comfort us if we are sad, sorrowful.

God was the Husband of Israel in sense of that God had made agreement with the forefather of Israel, in which God would love, take delight in and bless Israel like a Husband to his wife if they obeyed His commands and they did not worship other gods except God. But in that agreement God was faithful and the forefathers of Israel were unfaithful and astray, they broke the agreement, they worship other gods The New Testament extension is that Christ is as bridegroom and Church is as His bride where the fulfillment of the marriage will happen in His second coming to the world. The causes of God to be jealous are first, we astray and worship other gods. Second, we are oppressed by our enemy seen or unseen and God will avange that.

Jesus and Father are one. Two but one, they can be separated. Talking about unity of two person, Jesus and Father, although too simple, I think they can be analogozied as two sides of an coin. One entity having two features. We can be separated the two sides away. If we seperate them, the coin will be nothing. Jesus was distinct from the Father was in one thing that is the special duty of Jesus concerning of the salvation of man. Jesus came to the world to become a human being and died on the cross for redeeming human sins. For the third part of the question, my answer is yes. Jesus is God and and the Father is God, they both are egual. Jesus and Father are God.

God is our Keeper means that God always keeps His eyes in us at day and night, from this time on and forevermore, never leaves us or foresake us. Keeping or guarding us without He will sleep and slumber. He keeps us from evil from our enemies. He keeps or guards us in way that He send to us guardian angels or in way like what we have already learned before in chapter 2 in story in 2 Kings 6: 15-17 about what Elisha and his servant saw when they were surrounded by the army of King Aram, that God sent His armies from heaven to protect us from our enemies and evil.

Before replying these questions. I want to intoduce myself briefly. My name is Sahala Simatupang. I am Indonesian, living in Bekasi, a city close to Jakarta that is capital city of Indonesia. According to Romans 10:9 there are two conditions for getting salvation from God, the first is to confess the Lord Jesus and another is to believe that God has raised Jesus from the dead. These two conditions can not be separated. Concerning the former condition, I think if someone confesses that Jesus is Lord, it means he will commit to obey what Jesus command and want not himself anymore, or not obey other lords. About the latter condition, I think it is the only way God can redeem sins of human because of his justice.