[Q34. Our Calling]

Q1. (Ephesians 4:1) According to verse 1, what is the standard of our behavior? What is the "calling" to which God has called us?

The standard of our behavior is that we should act like christains and christ like. GOD has called us to be christains and obey his laws.

[Q1. In Christ]

Q1. (Ephesians 1:3) What does it mean to you to be "in Christ" -- incorporated into Christ? What are the implications of this for your life?

What it mean to me is that i know that Christ is in me, and without Christ i can't do nothing without him.

[Q1. The Forgiving God]

Q1. Why was God's willingness to forgive essential to Israel's survival in the wilderness? Was Israel contrite after turning away from the Lord in Exodus 34? What is so amazing about God's forgiveness?

The Israelite would'nt have survive without God forgiveness, because they need God in order to survive in the wilderness. What is so amazing about God forgiveness is that God forgive us for our sins.

[Q5. The Metaphor of Father and Son]

Q5. What do we miss in our understanding of God if we remove the metaphor of Father and Son from our church vocabulary? Which feminine metaphors of God especially help you understand God's nature?

If we remove the Father and Son from our church it would'nt be the same,The feminine metaphors of God is that God cares for our his children just as a mother cares for her childrens.

[Q4. God the Jealous Husband]

Q4. In what sense was God the Husband of Israel? What is the New Testament extension of this metaphor? What causes God to be jealous?

God the husband of Israel is the maker, and the Lord of the host is his name,what cause God to be jealous is that you shall have no other God before him,you shall not bow down or whorship them,and he will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.

[Q3. I and the Father are One]

Q3. In what sense are Jesus and the Father one? In what way was Jesus distinct from the Father? Is Jesus God in the sense that the Father is God?

Jesus and the Father is one because of the Father,The Son and The Holy Ghost, Jesus is God because he come in the name the the Father.

[Q2. Abba, Father]

Q2. How was the intimate way that Jesus taught his disciples about God as "Abba" and "Father" different from the Jews' understanding of God as Father? How does God as Abba influence your relationship with him?

The intimate way Jesus taught his disciples they should always obey the way of the father and trust in him, God our father influence our relationship with him is to love,honuor,worship our father.

[Q1. God our Father]

Q1. What does the concept of "father" teach us about God, especially the formal way which the word is used in the Old Testament? According to the quote from Otfried Hofius above, which two aspects of a father underlie our understanding of Father in the Old Testament? How should they affect our behavior?

The concept of father is that he is the head of the house, and that we should obey all his rules,our understanding is that we should always obey and honour our father and be obedeint to his word, and our behavior is that we are to act according the the father who made us.

[Q4. Spring of Living Water]

I will never thirst again, he will always be their for me in my need.

[Q3. The Lord Our Helper]

Because we think we can do it by ourselves, and that we don't need nobody help especially God's help, we should let God help us.

[Q2. The Lord Is My Shepherd]

Yes i can remember when the Lord care for me as his shepard and in times of trouble,he have brought me a long way,I lost many jobs not because of my doing it was something that happen, my husband got sick with kidney desease he had to quit his job and then i was layed off because my job went out of business, then i found another job a job that i can say that i love working their, I had a boss that i could call my friend we both go to the same church she is the one who have gotten me the job, but things change on the job she move to another department and i have gotten another boss who has fired me for something that was not my doing but i could'nt help that because of my husband, i am the caregiver of him he is totally disable he can't walk are do nothing for himself, it get hard sometime, but i know that i have have the Lord on my side because without him i don't think i can make it.

[Q1. The Lord Will Provide]

Abraham beleive that God would provide the sacrifice not him he didn't think that he would have to give up Isaac for the sacrifice and he didn't trust that the Lord will have a sacrifice, but he was willing to give up Isaac, the support of my position is that i am willing to give up anything for the Lord because i know that the Lord will supply all of my needs, that including any conditions.

[Q4. God Our Keeper]

God is my keeper, i trust him to keep me from all harm and danger, he guard me against anything that try to get in my way, and try to bring me down, and that's why i will love the Lor d with all my heart and soul.

[Q3. God Our Rock]

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, my deliverer.God is the rock of Palestine.

[Q2. God Our Shield]

God is my shield he protect me from my enermy, and when my head is down he lift it back up again, and i will always trust him to be their for me in time of need.

[Q1. Shelter of the Most High]

In the time of danger God will hide me and protect me from anything that i am about to confronth. The metaphors are that he will hide me from the wicked,he is my shield, my buckler, my refuge and he shall give the angels charge over thee to keep thee in all ways.

[Q4. Jesus Is Lord]

I confessed that JESUS is the Lord of my life, it is necessary for salvation that thou shall believe that thou shall be save.

[Q3. Lord of Lords and Governments]

When the government know that Yahweh is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords they will be bless and have a rich nation under GOD,when removing "God" from our currency and pledges that will put our nature in a currupt world.

[Q2. Submitting to the King]

My personal implications is that Yahweh being my King is that i will always looked up to him because he is the LORD and he rein over everybody and everything, and JESUS being the Messiah is that he come to redeem us from our sins. The advantages of Yahweh as the King is that he is the King of Kings, I will always submit to the King because he the ruler of the earth and all that is on the earth. A person can reject Yahweh if he do not know that he is the King over him or her.

[Q1. Kingship and the Tithe]

If we don't tithe the Lord will give the blessings to someone else. The place that tithing have for us is that we should always give a tenth of whatever we give or do for the LORD.

[Q4. Justice, Vengeance, and Mercy]

Justice-fairness,Vengeance-is a fair treatment,Mercy-to be thankful and finaly the cross is that our debt is paid.

[Q3. Helper of the Fatherless]

A Christains commitment is that we should always take care of the Fatherless and the Widows and the poor that is what a christain suppose to do. And to help one another when we are down and out.

[Q2. Relativity and Righteousness]

We will understand the Righteous and upright God by picking up the bible and reading it,and we have to believe that GOD and the Son of JESUS is in a relativistic world is that nothing will be right according to our ways of thinking and that we should trust in the LORD.

[Q1. Call of Isaiah]

It effect Isaiah by letting him have a vision of the LORD. He was on his throne high above. Isaiah was afraid because he has seen a flaming creature with six wings each were flying over him, GOD makes Isaiah holy by seening the King, the LORD ALL Powerful. Isaiah response to GOD is sins are forgiven, and Isaiah said that he will go and speak this message to the people.

[Q4. Creator of the Ends of the Earth]

Repeated words are weary,tired and strength, The LORD is the eternal God, Creator of the earth. He never gets weary or tired, and the LORD gives strenght to those who are weary.