Q17 By what picture does God teach us about the dependence of faith?
Know ye not that the Lord He is God; it is He that hath made us and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
I am the good shepherd. John 10:14.
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. Psalm 23:1
NOTE: A sheep is a very helpless creature, they got lost, they need help, they need a shepherd. They have to rely on a shepherd for everything in life. They are dependent creatures.
Q18 How does describe the separation of the good and the evil in the final day of reckoning?
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: Matthew 25:32-34
Q19 What is given in the Bible as one of the principal characteristics of the victorious ones, who will inherit God’s new and perfect world?
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14:12.
NOTE: The life of Jesus was for us, the supreme example of a life of faith. Jesus said of His Father while He was in human form, I do always those things that please Him. John 8:29.
We too, should always take God at His word, and trust and obey in all that is revealed to us in the Bible.
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