GLST 200 Liberty University Student Replies for Religion – Description
The student must then post 2 replies of at least 150 words each (not to exceed 300 words). Each reply must incorporate at least 1 citation from our material and/or the Bible. Student 1: So some of the ways we can see that God mission involves every tongue , nation and tribe is seeing how God use Jonah as a person to deliver a message to Nineveh. We see that Jonah was so angry because the people in Nineveh were a people who sinned and didn’t care about God. Jonah was so mad with God because He knew that God was a merciful God. In Jonah 4:2 it says this “So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.” (New King James, Jonah 4:2) We see that God plan along was to save Nineveh. He wanted to bring them in His plan all along to spread the good news of God. The Lord also uses Abraham as a person who he made a covenant with saying that he will bless all nation and tongue through Him. That their will be a seed ( Jesus) that will save the world and allow them to spread the message of Jesus. Israel role in the old covenant compares with the church right now is the two commandment Jesus said to do to love God with all your heart, mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. We are called to be set apart and tell the world about our God. Israel was supposed to be a nation that was set apart and have no other gods but the one and holy God, It shows how even in the church today we are called to be in the world and not of it. To make disciples of all nation and tongue. The message never changed the only thing that did is now we have Jesus. Student 2: Based on this past week’s reading, lessons, and course material, the evidence of God’s mission to include people from all nations is beyond clear! Starting as far back as the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, God had already given signs of redemptive hope. God’s first promise to Abram is recorded in this book. Abram, later, and more commonly, referred to as Abraham, was entrusted by God to rule the Land of Canaan (Genesis 12), where God would make a GREAT nation in Abrahams’s name. Throughout the book of Genesis, many failures and acts of disobedience done by Abraham and his family were shown. Throughout their “human-esque” mess ups, God still showed His kindness and faithfulness to them and allowed His will to be done through them. This is important to note not only to pronounce God’s unconditional love and faithfulness, but also to make a point to the first prompt of this assignment- a point that will bridge our first and second prompts. As mentioned in the video from this module’s learning, Abraham and his family were referred to as the “people of Israel” and Israel was known as “the Kingdom of Priests”. Israel was given such a regal and holy name to show other nations what God was like… and that’s what Abraham and his family were representing. Honoring God with how one lives his or her life will reflect God’s character and draw people to Him. God’s partnership with Abraham was so he would draw more and more people to God to be included in His great redemptive plan. Taking the same point that Israel was referred to as the Kingdom of Priests to show others what God is like, that is how Israel in the Old Testament can relate to the Church’s role today. We are not a building but a body of people called to reflect Christ Jesus; to tell His story; to love God; to allow others to see Light through us. The Church is a holy people, set apart from the currents of the world. Just like Israel, the Church messes up. We become weak and fall into sin. However, just as Israel hoped in the coming of their Messiah, their Heroic King, we today have hope in Jesus for what He did for us on the cross. His grace covers all of our failures. Now while on earth, we wait eagerly for our Savior, our Bridegroom. References: Book of genesis summary: Watch an overview video (part 2). BibleProject. (n.d.). https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/genesis-12-50/?utm_source=web_social_share&medium=shared_videoLinks to an external site. Bible gateway passage: Genesis 12 – new international version. Bible Gateway. (n.d.). https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+12&version=NIVLinks to an external site.
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