Sentences with phrase «god ended his work»

* Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

«And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made,» At the time that we were told we were made in the image of God, all we really knew about him was that he thought the world was good, that he wanted us to take care of it, and that it was time to take a rest.

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Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

We are saved by God's grace, but we are given free will to choose good and evil... otherwise anyone from Hitler to Stalin could of said the same words and say I can lie, cheat, steal, and kill right up to the end and be saved... sorry, it doesn't work that way.

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

Jesus is coming very soon that date may 21 2011 is not according to the bible at all neither is the rapture satan is working hard to counterfeit God's true word and to have people disbeileve the bible and scoff and laugh at christians if you read the bible carefylly u see clearly this is not found in the bible i beleive these people are followers thats why its so inportant for us to seek for ourselves and it so bovious God is soo real and its true also that there has to be an end because there is so much sadness and war in this world many people beleive the end of the world, but the end will be realy to sin..

The leadership style needed at the beginning of a new work (for advancing the kingdom of God) is very strong and protective — but must quickly change to the style of facilitator / servant when the Wind of the Spirit brings an end to the «strong leader» phase.

Rest is actually God's gift to us, a reward at the end of hard work.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

God had four decades to give me some evidence he was out there, and he didn't, and I'm not going to go vandalize a church and end up in jail to see if what worked for you will work for me.

Has no - one read Jonathan Edwards» work, on the chief end for which God created the world?

We aren't told what Thompson believes now» and his art does not require us to place him in any doctrinal camp» but by the end of Habibi he seems to have least worked his way to a beautiful observation: «God's followers worship not out of the hope for reward nor fear of punishment but out of love.»

We are commanded to work out our salvation, maintain good works, endure to the end, stay connected to the Vine, continue to obey God, walk in the Spirit, sow to the Spirit, overcome the world, keep ourselves pure, be doers of the word n not just hearers only to be eternally saved.

Nothing ever worked until I came to the realization that God's love and forgiveness for me was without end.

We all praise God for this work, but honestly, couldn't I have achieved the same ends with a secular group that was holding my accountable?

as in the denouement of some ancient tragedy the forces at work were now furthered, now hindered, until God's ends were achieved.

Three days before his death, Jesus said that in these «last days» (called by Jesus his (invisible) «presence» at Matt 24:27, 37, 39) a world - wide Bible educational work would be accomplished, with God's kingdom as the theme, saying: «And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.»

At the end of the day, even a figure like Thomas Carlyle, whom Taylor sees as part of the problem, retains the emphasis on divine immanence and God at work in the people, primarily through the hero who moves history forward.

Where human holiness offers itself as a means to his ends, God is not content to send forth in greater intensity his creative influence, the child of his power: he himself comes down into his work to consolidate its unification.

Still, that method has not ended if God has gifted someone as an evangelist to equip God's people for works of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»

If we say that we suppose the sense of that work to reside in the end in a definitive declaration of the ways of God with men, made in man for men, we will, I suspect, incline towards a view that diminishes the element of uniqueness we attribute to Christ's Resurrection.

Grace tapping us on the shoulder... And so, I reminded those seven pastors specifically, including the man who introduced me to grace, that the kingdom of God was just like that exact moment in which sinners / saints are reconciled to God and to one another... In the end, their calling, and their value in the kingdom of God comes not from the approval of a denomination or of the other works, but in their having been come - and - gotten by God.

For it is only if we believe that death was not the end of Jesus, the one man whose trust in God was complete and perfect, that we can accept Paul's brave advice: «Stand firm and immovable, and work for the Lord always, work without limit, since you know that in the Lord your labor can not be lost».

The ones killing witches thought they were doing thier gods work, but ended up simply being murderers.

But God doesn't work this way and its not until the very end of our life that most really realize the mistakes they have done in life.

At its end, Joseph's words about God make the theology of the story clear; God was at work in this family for its salvation and the salvation of many others.

The frequent mention of the LORD's presence might also work to assure the audience that God has not abandoned Joseph and the story will not end with Joseph in prison.

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Calvinism works quite well within its 5 points, but when you take the theology to its end you have a Sovereign God who is unjust or you have a Sovereign God who will save all... eventually.

However, the other end of the spectrum has been that my work has a feminist agenda, which God would not approve of.

Not the beginning or the end of prayer or proclamation, of the duty laid upon «all humankind to work for peace, and justice, and the integrity of God's creation.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Now that end is the salvation of souls from eternal punishment, now the cure of guilty souls through their apprehension of the love of God, now the reconciliation of God and man through sacrifice and sacrament and works of expiation.

(Ge 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31) The seventh day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this period, during which God has been resting from his creative works toward the earth, continued on.

Granted that our relationships with others mostly work toward an end, but I've noticed that the «faith - relationhip - with - God» takes on the look of «if we do this, then God will do that»... of course, when our expectations are not met, we often turn on ourselves and think,» what did we do wrong»?

The secret is that God is love; and it carries with it the corollary that God who is love «works in all respects for a good end to those who love him», in the natural order as well as in history.

But we must be brought to understand that along with such dedication to service or to work, there is another «end» — in the sense now of that which comes when the proclamation has been made and there has been repentance for wrongness, commitment to God disclosed and the divine power of loving released in the originating Christian event, and when the imperative to service has been accepted and implemented in action.

Tell your President that Christians can start flying to Iran and lets see how that works out... conjested airprorts will deflate the balloon of bananas this whole thing is... so will he kill me because I believe in God... tell him he should be happy I believe in something... losing my religion is shapeshifting here bubbas... peoples will believe in God and flavor of religion... ------------ On another note of Iran... tell Mr.President of Iran that» the wrong address» may have located» lost intelligence» and I might end up across the inlet in another country to listen to more retorics and lies... we are Soldiers of God... always...

But at the end, I was just praising God that I could still feel the elbows moving, the legs working, and the weight of the block in my hands.

When it comes to the end, we both bear the responsibility for this love affair, for our family, for the work that we are both called to do and the love we are meant to spill out to show the God we know as Love.

Rick i struggled for over 20 years as a christian in the end i said whats the point of struggling i feel powerless and useless so i gave in to sin that did nt work either but i was so sick of struggling and seeing the same results i became more miserable and even more powerless in my struggle with sin.I decided one day no more enough was enough i needed to get my life back in order.That was years ago and it was a process over 5 years that God dealt with all those things in my life that needed fixing most days i just said to him Lord i cant do this i just do nt have the strength and he said thats okay you cant do it anyway just trust me.So now now i l know what it means to be an overcomer in Christ sin does not have the victory over me anymore because Jesus is my strength in my weakness.I know i cant live a christian life in my strength but i certainly can with Christ in me he is my strength and in him i am an overcomer.If this is speaking to others just want to let you know that you to can be an overcomer you do nt have to struggle or battle with your walk or feel miserable because you give in to sin there is a better way.Just admit that you cant do it and ask for his help for the holy spirit is in you and he is the one who helps us in our weakness.regards brentnz

The long history of man's seeking to offer himself to God, as is his bounden duty, is here fulfilled as the worshiper is brought into union with Christ and by Christ is offered to the Father, that through such self - commitment and dedication to God, the will of the Father may more perfectly be done and our own lives enriched by His Grace, so that «we may do all such good works as he has prepared for us to walk in»; and, in the end, dwell with Him in heavenly places.

In the end, it is the Spirit of Christ that works through us whenever we do something that pleases God.

From the creation of the world before time to the consummation of all things at the end of time, the Bible describes the life of man with God as a series of events which taken together constitute the history of the work of redemption.

It may have worked centuries ago but isn't it time now to put an end to the Bible as a god's revelation?

All will be held and that God is at work to bring redemption and reconciliation, and at the end of all things, we don't escape from the goodness that pursues us, the life we are promised, the love that redeems.