self-reflection essay

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Nov.3.txt
17:31:00 From Yan Cheung : Hi professor, I have sent you an email. And my car battery is dead.
17:37:58 From Ivan De Silva : Exod. 20
17:38:33 From Ivan De Silva : 1. Do not worship other gods
17:38:45 From Ivan De Silva : worship?
17:39:12 From Ivan De Silva : respect,
17:40:10 From Ivan De Silva : praise it, love it
17:40:18 From Ivan De Silva : sacrifice
17:41:11 From Ivan De Silva : what is a god?
17:42:30 From Ivan De Silva : something powerful,
17:42:48 From Ivan De Silva : faithful
17:43:52 From Ivan De Silva : super power
17:44:00 From Ivan De Silva : supreme being
17:44:43 From Ivan De Silva : god=anything that gives you security and significance
17:50:57 From Ivan De Silva : in Israel if you want to know what God looks like, read his law
17:53:10 From Ivan De Silva : 1-3 how to treat God
17:53:28 From Ivan De Silva : 5-10 how to treat others
17:53:50 From Ivan De Silva : 4. both how to treat God and how to treat humans
17:54:31 From Ivan De Silva : logical= you must first get right with God before you can get right with people
17:55:49 From Ivan De Silva : 10 comm are all about how to have a just and fair society
17:57:16 From Ivan De Silva : no murder = not to take innocent life, or take life illegally
17:59:37 From Ivan De Silva : 10 comm=Israel's constitution
18:02:52 From Ivan De Silva : law is a boundary marker
18:03:06 From Ivan De Silva : it separates the insiders from the outsiders
18:05:14 From Ivan De Silva : who is Israel and what is her purpose?
18:05:31 From Ivan De Silva : Exod. 19:5-6
18:07:21 From Ivan De Silva : in rescuing Israel God did it all
18:07:56 From Ivan De Silva : God showed a new characteristic in the Exodus
18:08:03 From Ivan De Silva : exit=out of it
18:08:26 From Ivan De Silva : exodus= out of Egypt
18:09:02 From Ivan De Silva : God is Warrior
18:09:39 From Ivan De Silva : Grace
18:10:12 From Ivan De Silva : God's unearned/underserved favor
18:12:11 From Ivan De Silva : 1. Israel is God's special treasure
18:15:00 From Ivan De Silva : 2. a kingdom of priests
18:15:11 From Ivan De Silva : what is a priest?
18:15:33 From Ivan De Silva : to preach
18:15:59 From Ivan De Silva : priests connect god and humnas
18:16:46 From Ivan De Silva : Latin=pirest=bridge builder
18:17:29 From Ivan De Silva : God and the nations
18:18:12 From Ivan De Silva : 3. Israel is a holy nation
18:18:19 From Ivan De Silva : holy =
18:19:20 From Ivan De Silva : holy = separated from ordinary use for special use
18:21:01 From Ivan De Silva : holy does not mean perfect or better than others
18:22:47 From Ivan De Silva : keeping the law does not make Israel God's people, Isreal is already God's people before the law.
18:44:25 From Ivan De Silva : 120 yrs.
18:44:44 From Ivan De Silva : Joshua
18:45:10 From Ivan De Silva : problem with the land is there are people in it
18:45:21 From Ivan De Silva : Canaanites
18:46:30 From Ivan De Silva : Joshua is Hebrew
18:46:45 From Ivan De Silva : In Greek = Jesus
18:47:19 From Ivan De Silva : Holy War
18:47:31 From Ivan De Silva : = God's war
18:48:09 From Ivan De Silva : Is it fair for God to take away the land of the Canaanites and give it to Israel?
18:49:14 From Ivan De Silva : take the land by destroying the Canaanite cities
18:49:36 From Ivan De Silva : is not genocide
18:51:26 From Ivan De Silva : not for ethnic cleansing
18:52:01 From Ivan De Silva : it is judgement on the Canaanites for their evil activities
18:52:38 From Ivan De Silva : Gen 15
18:53:35 From Ivan De Silva : why did God command Abraham not to attack the Canaanites; but commanded Joshua to attack them?
18:55:22 From Ivan De Silva : sin of Amorites not yet complete
18:55:36 From Ivan De Silva : Amorite = Canaanite
18:56:19 From Ivan De Silva : Canaanites not yet bad enough to be judged by God
18:58:05 From Ivan De Silva : finally God's patience is over
18:58:53 From Ivan De Silva : what kind of things did the Canaanites do that angered God?
18:59:04 From Ivan De Silva : Lev. 18
19:01:15 From Ivan De Silva : what are the Canaanites practising?
19:01:31 From Ivan De Silva : v. 6. incest
19:04:04 From Ivan De Silva : love is love
19:08:46 From Ivan De Silva : 2. adultery
19:08:59 From Ivan De Silva : 3. child sacrifice
19:09:18 From Ivan De Silva : 4. homosexuality/lesbianism
19:09:24 From Ivan De Silva : 5. Bestiality
19:11:50 From Ivan De Silva : Joshua and the army is God's sword to punish them
19:13:03 From Ivan De Silva : Jericho
19:13:49 From Ivan De Silva : prostitute in the bar rescues the Israelite spies
19:14:31 From Ivan De Silva : Rahab
19:16:57 From Ivan De Silva : Rahab repents
19:17:18 From Ivan De Silva : Rahab is not killed with the rest of the Canaanites
19:18:29 From Ivan De Silva : she marries the leader of the tribe of Judah
19:19:09 From Ivan De Silva : Matt. 1
19:22:15 From Ivan De Silva : Rahab beomes Jesus' great, great, great, great....grandma
19:23:45 From Ivan De Silva : 1. God takes a nation's sin very seriously
19:24:44 From Ivan De Silva : 2. God is patient with nations
19:25:13 From Ivan De Silva : 3. But there is a time when the period of grace will end
19:27:50 From Ivan De Silva : 1. Joshua took the land by war
19:28:12 From Ivan De Silva : 2. Joshua distributed the land to the 12 tribes by lot
19:28:24 From Ivan De Silva : lot = dice
19:29:18 From Ivan De Silva : 3. Every family in every tribe got some land
19:33:01 From Ivan De Silva : 4. how does Israel keep the land?
19:33:13 From Ivan De Silva : 1. by practicing God's law in the land
19:33:56 From Ivan De Silva : All the land of the earth belongs to God
19:34:12 From Ivan De Silva : Gen. 1:9 - He made the dry land