Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 9, 2025
                
                
                
                    [025]  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - BALANCE OF GOD’S ATTRIBUTES
One area where it takes deeper study to understand, is the attributes of God.  The attributes are what is the completeness in God and they are many.  It is what God is.  We speak about love and mercy and compassion, but we also have
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a law in Tokyo around the year 1900 that no foreigner could take up residence there unless he had a "substitute."  There were natives who hired themselves out for this purpose.  If the foreigner broke any law, the substitute suffered the penalty for it, even if the penalty was death.
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 26, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Galatians 4:4-5 says “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.”
We’re sons.
We’ve been redeemed from UNDER the Law.
Those UNDER the Mosaic law lived UNDER the strict rules and
                    
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                    AN EXAMPLE OF GRACE
I just received a letter from a friend who just initiate a prison ministry in my home church, Viorica Negosanu… The first inmate she encountered was a lady, a doctor who murdered her best friend, cut her in pieces and spread them all over the city. She got life sentence. Now
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Mar 1, 2008
                
                
                
                    “By looking at the Genesis account of the fall of man, we know that we are looking at a fallen, cursed world.  Death and suffering is the penalty for sin, and our sins are responsible for all the death and
                    
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                    Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Mar 30, 2010
                
                
                
                    Dr. Earl Radmacher said in his book, SALVATION, 
‘The Law of Moses was not a means of deliverance from the penalty of sin. The Law was given that mankind might have a vivid
                    
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                    Contributed by John Harvey on Mar 31, 2004
                
                
                
                    Crucifixion was a form of capital punishment reserved for slaves and those who were a threat to Rome.  This explains why Pontius Pilate chose crucifixion as the penalty for Jesus Christ, since Jesus claimed a
                    
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                    In the middle ages–another time of global warming, by the way–the Church imposed penalties upon those who warred in the forbidden times.  There were periods of respite from combat, when warring
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    Indecency Challenged TV networks claim in a filing, the F.C.C. overstepped its authority, in an attempt to regulate content protected by the First Amendment, acted arbitrary and failed to provide a clear and consistent
                    
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