Sentences with phrase «christ bestowed upon»

Matthew 18:18 explains that whatever is held bound or loose on earth... so it will be in Heaven... this is the authority Jesus Christ bestowed upon His Apostles and their successors.

The resurrection appearances confirmed this conviction, to be sure, but these visions may have been originally understood as grants of apostolic authority to their recipients, as fuller manifestations of the risen Christ bestowed upon the privileged few chosen to be their leaders.

Not exact matches

But when it comes to Shawn's greatest memory of his lengthy career (1984 - 2010), the wrestler would rather talk about the moment he committed his life to Christ than bask in any glory his fans would bestow upon him.

My salvation is not of works but purely of Grace as bestowed upon me through the knowledge that my sins are forgiven through the perfect work of Christ.

We look to Jesus Christ yesterday — that is, to the past — in thanksgiving for the blessings God bestowed upon Dad.

So far as any person is concerned, «so perfectly free is the power of moral causation which is bestowed upon him through the redemption wrought by Christ, that notwithstanding all this prevenient and assisting grace he is himself emphatically a causal agent in his own salvation» (FG 60f).

Jesus Christ came to show us eternal life and to bestow it upon us.

Similarly Christ bestows His Body and Blood upon the Church.

For if Christ is a bridegroom, he must take upon himself the things which are his bride's and bestow upon her the things that are his.

God had mercy upon his creation and bestowed upon them a new salvation through His Word, that is, Christ, so that men might learn by experience that they can not» attain to incorruption of themselves, but by God's grace only.»

The only Priesthood authority that can be given to man has to come after the Restoration of Christ's original Church and gospel (which can not come from the Catholic Church or any splinter group from this Church), so any claims to having divine endowments of authority are void because those who bestowed this upon you did not possess any priesthood themselves.

And coveting the honor which the infinite Father had bestowed upon His Son, this prince of angels aspired to power which it was the prerogative of Christ alone to wield.

He was also in Christ inasmuch as Jesus» personal existence revealed the divine perspective upon mankind, for he encountered and experienced our predicament with all the patience, the care, and the longing for our well - being that God bestows upon us.