Wendy Reid

Q4. Extra Credit: In what sense have we been set free or relased from slavery to sin? Why do we need the Holy Spirit to help us keep this freedom? We are no longer a slave to the power of sin. We need not fear because Jesus has paid the price. HALLELUJAH !!!!!!! To lead us into all truth. He will cvontinually convict us when we sin. He helps us to stay true to Jesus and God's word.

Q3. 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 all slaves, all of humankind, before we accepted Jesus Christ as our Saviour. We are enslaved by, the power of sin: pleasures of this world, disobedience to God etc. Satan never owned us, only God. It would get very confusing trying to explaon that God owned us, and that the ransom should also be paid to Him.

Q2. How should we disciples apply the principles: "You are not your own, you were bought with a price"? How should this affect our living? Jesus bought us with a great price. We belong to Him and should obey Him and lovingly serve Him. We should always strive to bring Honor to His name.

Q1. In the New Testament world, what class of humans were freed by payment of a redemption price or a ransom? Why do you think that Jesus, Peter, and Paul used this analogy in this week's theme verses. What about the Christian life does it help explain? The slaves. The listeners would understand the terms redeem as that is how a slave is set free, their freedom has to be purchased. Sin entraps us and we become slaves to its power, just as the slaves could not buy their own freedom so too we cannot purchase our freedom from sin. Only Jesus Christ could redeem us from the power of sin.

Q5. Which single New Testament passage best sums up for you the lessons of Isaiah 53? Why did you chose this passage? 1 Peter 2:24-25 -- "To this you were called, because Chist suffered for you........ This sums up Isaiah 53 because Jesus suffered for us, He died that we might live and have fellowship with God the Father. He gives us His peace that we might keep focused on Him alone.

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? I deserved to be punished for my sins, to go to hell and never have a relationship with Father God. I deserved to be beaten and scourged and ridiculed. Not Jesus. He took my punishment, even when His Father forsook Him on calvary, because He knew that I could never bear this.

Q3. Isaiah 53 teaches what theologians call "the substitutionary atonement." In what sense does the Servant act as a substitute to bear our sins? Put it in your own words. Jesus knew that we could never pay the price of our sins. "The wages of sin is death...." The Father in His love wanted to reconcile us to Himself. As a servant would do anything for his master, so too Jesus lay down His life for us. He took our actual sin, on His body with Him to calvary. His life in exchange for ours.

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? Mark 9.12 "Jesus replied, To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?" I believe that Jesus new before He came, what His mission was. How mucj he must love us to have to suffer such a cruel death.

Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? I think that God wants us to know that ONLY BLOOD, and a life (as the life is in the blood) can take away sin. It took the blood of His dearly beloved Son to take away the sin of the world. God cannot abide sin becasue He is so Holy. Holiness cannot have filthiness colese by. That God so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotton Son that whoever believes on Him shall not die but have eternal life. If thats not love I don't know what is.

Q5. In what sense is God's provision of animal sacrifice for forgiveness of sins an expression of his mercy? Were animal sacrifices actually adequate to atone for human sin? God expressed His mercy by animal sacrifice because the Jews could not attain to Gods law, the scarifice covers over their sin. They are not punished, the animal carries there sin for them. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin (Hebrews 10.4)

Q4. What are the basic elements involved in a sacrifice for sin? (Leviticus 4:32-35; 5:5-6) Which of these are still necessary for forgiveness of sins today? Which are no longer necessary? Why? Confession of sin, to bring female Lamb without belmish, lay hands on the animal and to slaugher it, priest shall take some of the blood and place it on the horns of the alter, the rest poured out at the base, all fat to be removed and burnt. Confession, acknowlegement of sin and beliving in your heart is imperative to salvation. Identifying Jesus as the sacrifice, and that we"die" with Him. Jesus was the sacrifice for all humankind. To bring an animal sacrifice for the sins we commit as Jesus is the perfect sacrifice, once to die.

Q3. Why is animal sacrifice repulsive to modern people? How much of this has to do with a city vs. a farming way of life? Because we have been alienated from the relaities of slaughter. We buy meat in a supermarket or butchery already "wrapped". We don't have anything to do with the actual killing, or draining of the blood.

Q2. Why is anger an appropriate response to sin? What is the difference between capricious or uncontrolled anger and anger that brings about justice? Even God gets angry at SIN. Uncontrolled anger hurts people, the person being angry and the person that it is directed at. Anger that brings justice - The end results are thought about before doing anything in anger. This is normally a restorative action.

Hi I'm Wendy, I live in South Africa. I so enjoyed the Gideon Study, that I just had to sign on for this one.

Q1. How do you know that John the Baptist's statement about the Lamb of God refers to sacrifice? (John 1:29). How was the comprehensiveness of "sins of the world" so radical a concept? Lambs were used as sacrifies in the old testament. "sins of the world" must have meen a radical concept because one person had to sacrifice a lamb for his sin, you could not do it on behalf of someone else. The whole world would include Jews and gentile alike.