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  The Old Testament is the story of God reaching out in love to a rebellious people. Why is this significant?

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  Austin

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  07/26/2021 at 15:01

  God ‘s Love is significant, it is what we all need, it is what we crave, but even with that we still sin, and God still loves us. That is what we all need to remember, even when we make mistakes, or fall short, God will always be there with his love, forgiveness, grace, and mercy, to pick us back up if we so choose and ask him to forgive us and lead us on the right path.
  The Old Testament tells us this, it shows of the horrible way we as humans treated our God and his love was still available to us. It also shows how God isn’t afraid to use tough love on us humans, and I believe that is something many of us forget, just because God may not play by your rules he will wait for us to play by his.

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  Austin

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  07/17/2021 at 14:00

  This is significant because it reminds us that God will continually seek us in all things. We can look at these different periods of time and see the similarities to our struggles and find comfort and resolution. This comfort and resolution is then a place for us to pray and find calmness in our time of need. Each individual, each piece is shown to have been broken, hurting and sinful and yet God’s love came together time and time again. That can be a needed reminder for us walking in our anointing against the spiritual warfare of today.

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  Austin

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  07/16/2021 at 05:26

  All we need to do is look at a mirror and we will see Israel staring back at us. How many times have we gone through our days of worshipping God only to be in our private place and commit the same old sins time and time again. I will tell you I have. I used to sit back and try to figure out why the people of Israel never stayed faithful and true to God, then I look at everything we have; our Bibles, churches, all the technology that puts God right at our fingertips, and yet we still sin. We are doing the same thing Israel did and we do not see it.

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  Austin

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  07/12/2021 at 13:07

  The Old Testament is the story of God reaching out in love to a rebellious people and is still significant because God loves us. God first loved us. God always loves us and God is always calling us back even if we begin to fall away. God is reaching out in love waiting to forgive us. And…God is always waiting to be gracious to us.

  It is difficult for us to fully understand the extravagant expanse of the love of God for us and to truly accept that love for us. God, the Creator of all called each soul into existence. God sustains us every moment of our lives out of love. God will never stop loving us.

  The story of the Prodigal Son /The Loving Father that we all know so well is the parable of the love of God as a father in relationship with His children. If we deeply reflect on how it is that The Father (God) who reaches out to the son who has so shamefully sinned . In the story when the son was still far away, the father saw him and ran to meet him. The father drew him back into the circle of love. The father had been watching and waiting each day for his son to return and loved him back welcoming him home. The son was willing to return home as a slave. The elder son says, “i have slaved for you all these years.” He believes his relationship with his father is one of a slave.

  To quote and old movie, “God made men. Men made slaves.” (The Ten Commandments…Charlton Heston) We do not relate to God as slaves. God has drawn us into existence out of love. Our relationship to God has to be one of love and can be one of love because God loves us. God is not a harsh taskmaster or a slave master. God has drawn us into the circle of God’s own life. We are sons and daughters of God, loved at every instant by God. It is love unlimited, unconditional and everlasting.

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  Austin

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  07/02/2021 at 09:18

  It is significant because it bring hope to us to human being, because all men have fallen to sin and rebellious to God.

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