Just Content To Be A Son

Most people know me as a New Testament scholar. To keep my reading of Scripture balanced, however, I do most of my devotions from the Old Testament. Indeed, I have encountered God especially deeply in prophetic books such as Hosea and Jeremiah, where God laments over his people who have wandered far from him. God intended for his people to have an intimate relationship with him, a covenant relationship that the Bible compares with marriage. In Hosea, we hear God’s broken heart, his longing for his covenant people, who were so often unfaithful to him. And they actually turned against him, the very one who helped them (Hos. 13:9). God later lamented through the prophet Jeremiah, “My people have committed two wrongs: They abandoned me, the spring of flowing waters, and have dug out for themselves water pits—broken water pits that cannot hold water” (Jer. 2:13). Yet God, even in his anger, remained faithful to Israel. In his jealous love, God declared that he would strip them of w...

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Menjawab Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa Tulisan ini sebagian besar di ambil dari “Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock which lays out in a concise manner what to say to Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses when they knock on your door – Michael Licona” dengan sedikit penambahan Untuk yang mau membaca tulisan lengkap dari Michael Licona, bisa baca di sini: https://www.risenjesus.com/wp-content/uploads/behold-i-stand-at-the-door-and-knock.pdf I.       Siapakah Saksi Yehuwa [1]             A.     Sejarah: gerakan saksi Yehuwa di mulai oleh seorangyang bernama Charles Taze Russel. Pada tahun 1870 pada usia 18 tahun Russel membentuk kelas alkitab yang anggotanya kemudian menunjuk Russel sebagai pendeta mereka. Russel, menulis, melakukan perjalanan berkhotbah dan mendirikan Watchtower Society, sebuah badan organisasi SSY. Dia meninggal pada tahun 1916 dan di gantikan oleh Joseph F. Rutherford y...