Sentences with phrase «christ in the new body»

Not exact matches

Throughout the New Testament, we see the body of Christ relying on one another in a variety of circumstances.

There is a description of Jesus Christ color of his body in the New Testament and old testament when he is in Heaven.

They understand at least the theory of a congregation being a cohesive community — the «body of Christ» in New Testament terms — even if they have little sense of what they must let go of to contribute to the shape of this community.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

Objectivity could perhaps lead Roman Catholic theologians to see that formal institutionalism is alien to the New Testament while voluntaristic Protestants might see that the mystical body of Christ has «space» in the world and is where Jesus Christ is to be found.

Jesus in the scriptures speaks many times of His Bride but His Bride is not human but is the Holy Catholic Church (The New Jerusalem) who is the mystical body of Christ.

Our sins are forgiven — Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 and 2:13, Galatians 1:4 We have peace with God — Romans 5:1 We have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 We are a new creature in Christ — 2 Corinthians 5:17 We are baptized into the body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:13 We are indwelt with the Holy Spirit — 1 Corinthians 6:19 We are sealed with the Spirit — Ephesians 1:13 We are sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption — Ephesians 4:30 We are preserved in Christ — Jude 1 We will be confirmed to the end by Christ — 1 Corinthians 1:8 We are citizens of the household of God — Ephesians 2:19 We are children of God — Galatians 3:26 We are in the kingdom of God's Son — Colossians 1:13

I also believe that many / most of the injunctions commanded and addressed to Israel don't apply to me in the 20th century as a believer baptized into the body of Christ in a new covenant.

But it is worthwhile to recall that within the first generation it was possible for Paul not only to describe the «breaking of bread» at the fellowship meal of Christians as «sharing in the body of Christ,» 24 but to pass on from that to the idea that the church (the new Israel as it emerged in history) is itself the «body of Christ,» each member of which is «in Christ,» as Christ is «in him.»

Our sins are forgiven — Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 and 2:13, Galatians 1:4 We have peace with God — Romans 5:1 We are accepted by God — Ephesians 1:6 We have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 We are a new creature in Christ — 2 Corinthians 5:17 We are baptized into the body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:13 We are indwelt with the Holy Spirit — 1 Corinthians 6:19 We are sealed with the Spirit — Ephesians 1:13 We are sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption — Ephesians 4:30 We are preserved in Christ — Jude 1 We will be confirmed to the end by Christ — 1 Corinthians 1:8 We are citizens of the household of God — Ephesians 2:19 We are in the kingdom of God's Son — Colossians 1:13

We can, indeed, partake of the divine nature, but only insofar as we respond to God's initiative in Jesus Christ, and in doing so are incorporated into the new reality which arises out of his death and rising again — a reality which is referred to again and again as his Body.

... Election is not God's choice of a restricted number of individuals whom he wills to save, but the description of that corporate body which, in Christ, he is saving (Klein, The New Chosen People, 266).

In the priesthood of all believers it seems to include all, the body of Christ is only complete when all are recognized as equal, forgiven, and a new creation.

But Christ's coming had issued in the forming of a new community, a social event, and Augustine insists that the City of God is a corporate body, an association of believers.

It means that the Christian wherever he is has been called out by God to become a member of the new community, the Body of Christ in the world.

But it appears to me that in other areas pertaining to church life, the good Lord actually wants us to participate more aggressively in bringing about this death that ushers in this eagerly anticipated «new life within the Body of Christ.»

Those who do not believe in God or Christ must have never thought about the universe, its order and continued existance, or thought about the human body and all it's functions and enjoyed a new born baby, or thought about the earth and how it continues to show proof that God did in fact create it like described in Genisis, or thought about hundreds of other examples that prove beyond a doubt that God made all this happen and keeps it operating daily!!!! The only being that messed some of it up is people and that is why God gave us Christ to bring us out of our depraved state and back to the proper relationship with HIM.

The «Cambridge Platform» written by New England Puritans in 1648 says, «The office of... teacher is to attend to doctrine and therein to administer a word of knowledge... given by Christ for the perfection of the saints, and edifying of his body.»

«Now he has the opportunity to use his gifts in new communities, to lead and grow the Body of Christ in Bro Moelwyn.»

The New Testament way of summing up these realities of the Christian church's life is in the phrase so often used by Paul, «the Body of Christ.»

There is indeed in baptism the assurance of forgiveness of sins to those who repent; but above all, and chiefly, there is the guarantee of spiritual strength to live as Christ's man or woman and the grafting of the new believer into the body of Christ's church, which is «the blessed company of all faithful people.»

Two particularly important points that he makes are that there is no evidence in the New Testament for the importance Gerhardsson has to ascribe to the Twelve in Jerusalem and the teaching emanating from them, and that there is every indication that the centre of gravity for primitive Christianity was not a transmitted body of words and works, but Jesus Christ, past, present and to come.

If one will examine the occurrences of e n C r i s t y in the New Testament, one will find that they divide rather evenly as between those which are used in allusions to God's action (when the meaning «event» would be paramount) and those which are found in references to the situation of the believer (when the conception of community, the body of Christ, is dominant).

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Bread and wine, for example, become the Body and Blood of Christ, just as baptismal water effects or actualizes the new life of sanctifying grace in the believer.

In this progressive unification, a new «organism» is created, the «Body of Christ» (I Cor.

If Rachael Jean would learn to rightly divide the word of truth putting scripture in its proper context Rachael Jean would know that when a person is saved they are baptized into the body of Christ and indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption which is when we get our new spiritual bodies.

When a person is saved their sins are forgiven, they are united with Christ, baptized into His body, receive His righteousness, become a part of His family, His household, His kingdom, are new creatures in Christ Jesus and are indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption which is the day we get our new bodies.

Once you get saved you become a new creature in Christ Jesus, baptized into the body of Christ, and indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

(I Corinthians 15:35 - 44) In the New Testament, therefore, our earliest written testimony to the resurrection of Jesus comes from one who devoutly believed that Christ was «raised on the third day» (I Corinthians 15:4) but who could not, consistently with his other thinking, have conceived it as the revivification of a physical body.

And Christians will recognize that continuity when they call the new shape and form of the body of Christ living in the 21st century a church.

In a person's union with Christ, dramatically enacted in the body at baptism, they enter into the death of Christ and into the resurrection of Christ and it brings them into a «new life.&raquIn a person's union with Christ, dramatically enacted in the body at baptism, they enter into the death of Christ and into the resurrection of Christ and it brings them into a «new life.&raquin the body at baptism, they enter into the death of Christ and into the resurrection of Christ and it brings them into a «new life.»

«Through baptism, man becomes a part of the new humanity which is the body of Christ, and thus comes to share in the resurrection of the heat of the body, Christ the Lord,» is the way a study on Iranaeus has been summed up.

Already in the proclamation of Jesus, however, and in the New Testament messages of Paul and John, we discover the Christian promise of the forgiveness of sin, or the release of the sinner from his bondage to law and judgment, a liberation effected by his participation in the body of Christ or the dawning Kingdom of God.

If we disengage ourselves; if with courage and trust we release our hold on what we have been conditioned to believe was the immutable form of the church; if, to use a newer Testamental image, we lose our life, ecclesiastically speaking; then we may in fact gain our life as Christ's living body.

It is precisely by a radical movement of turning away from all previous forms of light that we can participate in a new totality of bliss, an absolutely immanent totality embodying in its immediacy all which once appeared and was real in the form of transcendence, and a totality which the Christian must name as the present and living body of Christ.

Today's generation of Catholics is being infuenced by a much more nourishing diet than was available in the 1970s, and takes for granted the good things available: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, World Youth Day, St JPII's Theology of the Body, the New Movements, Veritatis Splendor, Benedict XVI's teaching on the relationship between faith and reason, and his emphasis on truth, beauty and a personal encounter with Christ, to name just a few.

Our faith in Christ sees the Incarnation of God in human form as securing a definitiveness to the human being; while the human physical make - up is open to a degree of change - such as getting gradually taller - a species able to commune with God in virtue of being made up of body and soul will not mutate into a new one.

In responding to this opportunity, churches are discovering deeper meanings in the New Testament image of the church as the body of Christ (1 CoIn responding to this opportunity, churches are discovering deeper meanings in the New Testament image of the church as the body of Christ (1 Coin the New Testament image of the church as the body of Christ (1 Cor.

It is from the body of sin and death that we are delivered; it is through the body of Christ on the Cross that we are saved; it is into His body the Church that we are incorporated; it is by His body in the Eucharist that this Community is sustained; it is in our body that its new life has to be manifested; it is to a resurrection of this body to the likeness of His glorious body that we are destined.

The New Testament pictures the body of Christ as composed of many members, but in our state churches the body of Christ consists of one big mouth and many little ears.

In the thought of Jesus and the New Testament writers, it is the inclusive body of Christ's followers who have become God's redeemed, obedient, and faithful servants.

The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».

Colossians 3:15 New International Version (NIV) 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.

«In the new millennium, an incredible opportunity has appeared to the Body of Christ: the new self - publishing paradigm.