First, people who argue that we must obey the Mosaic Law do not understand what Jesus
Christ accomplished in His life, death, and resurrection, do not understand the Gospel of grace, and do not understand the difference between Israel and the Church.
But we can't get much further than this until we carefully examining what the biblical authors understand that we do and don't deserve, and the nature of what
Christ accomplished in his life, death, and resurrection.
Not exact matches
If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One
in whom the love and light and
life of God possessed completely a genuine human
life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the
life of God is seen
in him
in human
life» — then we can preach Jesus
Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and
accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.
There is something
in the gospel and all that
Christ has
accomplished on the cross that equips women to deal with the difference — longing for what God declared good, yet
living abundantly
in Christ until His kingdom fully comes and restores all that lacks now
in our
lives.
There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that
in the action of God
in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission
accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with
Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met
in Christ with healing and eternal
life....
My own manner of doing it is by no means the only possible one; doubtless there can be and there are other and perhaps better ways of
accomplishing the task,
In any event, we need to bear in mind Whitehead's remarkable statement that «Christ gave his life; it is for Christians to discern the doctrine.&raqu
In any event, we need to bear
in mind Whitehead's remarkable statement that «Christ gave his life; it is for Christians to discern the doctrine.&raqu
in mind Whitehead's remarkable statement that «
Christ gave his
life; it is for Christians to discern the doctrine.»
Only the Holy Spirit can
accomplish the miracle of taking a fool and bring him to new
life in Christ.
There is a remarkable parallel between the Eucharist as an action
in which the Christian fellowship regularly engages and the meaning of preaching as it proclaims the event of Jesus
Christ, what that event has
accomplished, and what its «benefits», or results
in the
life of the believer, bring to the believer.
Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that
life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we
accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus
Christ and his purposes.»
«a conviction that
life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we
accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus
Christ and his purposes.»
Because our hope is
in God and what He
accomplished through Jesus
Christ, we can know we have eternal
life.
«
In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will, we who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glor
In him, according to the purpose of him who
accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will, we who first hoped
in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glor
in Christ have been destined and appointed to
live for the praise of his glory.
from the moronic article — «a conviction that
life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we
accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus
Christ and his purposes.»
The bishop, invested with the fullness of the sacrament of Orders, is «the steward of the grace of the supreme priesthood,» above all
in the Eucharist, which he himself offers, or ensures that it is offered, from which the Church ever derives its
life and on which it thrives -LSB-...] For «the sharing
in the body and blood of
Christ has no other effect than to
accomplish our transformation into that which we receive.»
What the event of
Christ accomplished was the purification of ancient Jewish insight and the completion of ancient Jewish aspiration;
in him Love was seen at work
in a fashion that those who responded knew to be both mysterious and full of meaning
in their
lives.
From the beginning of time the
Christ has been yearning and striving to incarnate fully
in us,
living within us though we knew (the
Christ) not, finally
accomplishing that completeness
in the physical Jesus.
Therefore, discipleship —
in general — and recovery ministry
in our churches — more specifically — must begin by laying the foundation of what Jesus has
accomplished on the cross for those who believe (gospel truths) and then bid people to
live out the call to follow
Christ (gospel imperatives).