Sentences with phrase «god over any kingdoms»

Note: I know that for those of us who long for a day when a new generation of Christ - followers rise up together to pledge allegiance to the Kingdom of God over any kingdoms of this world, a move like this is frustrating.

Not exact matches

we as believers have a commission: Then Jesus called together the Twelve [apostles] and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healing.

There is a Word of God about Jesus - the descendant / offspring of King David that we should know: 2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 (NIV) 12 When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom.

«To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of FORTY DAYS and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.»

We want churches that emphasize an allegiance to the kingdom of God over an allegiance to a single political party or a single nation.

The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.»

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a loving intimate relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.

David Bentley Hart's reflections on the «ingenious ways» in which Christians over the centuries have sought to get around «the plain meaning of Christ's words» about wealth as an impediment to entering the kingdom of God brought to mind the old story of Angus the Scotsman.

Paul thanked God for personal victory over sin, (Romans 7:25) for the church's victory in the proclamation of its faith «throughout the whole world,» (Romans 1:8) for the lives of faithful Christians, (Philippians 1:3; I Thessalonians 1:2 - 8) and for deliverance «out of the power of darkness» into «the kingdom of the Son of his love.»

This sort of thing makes me so sad... and yet we are told over and over by megachurch pastors that this is what must be done to «grow your church» so it can be more «effective for the kingdom of God.»

1 Corinthians 15:20 - 28... 23 who are Christ's at His coming, 24 then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father... 28 When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

H. Richard Niebuhr taught us in The Kingdom of God in America that the triune themes of the sovereignty of God over the whole world, the reign of Christ in the heart and the expectation of a Coming Kingdom in and beyond time were all embedded in the term «kingdom of God,» and that these themes were decisive in the way Christian theology and ethics provided — with differing accents in different periods — a spiritual and moral rudder for American civilization, from its founding through the industrial era.

The biblical message of the kingdom is eschatological in orientation, for it proclaims God's ultimate lordship over creation, which lordship has already broken into history in the appearance of Jesus.

«While all the versions of the kingdom of the world acquire and exercise power over others, the kingdom of God, incarnated and modeled in the person of Jesus Christ, advances only by exercising power under others.

He understands the kingdom of God as the glory of the Trinity demonstrated in God's rulership over creation.

Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and He will exalt you in due time = every thing is His will, He rules over the kingdom of man.

A society made over by totalitarian edict, as in much of the life under communism today, would not be the kingdom of God.

Those who would seek the kingdom of God must renounce their anxiety over earthly goods and trust in God (Matt.

We can not, say the Southern Presbyterians, disguise the fact that the radically different nature of the Kingdom of God sets it over against the kingdoms of this world.

People all over the world are entering into the kingdom of God by believing in Jesus, however the world will never be a place of righteousness and peace until the Prince of peace returns.

As I have wrestled over whether it is appropriate for me as a Christian and citizen of the kingdom of God to feel love, loyalty, pride and a sense of belonging to a nation state, I have come to see there is an unresolvable tension at the heart of the question.

That's the superiority of the kingdom of God over church.

For the ancient Hebrew sages «kingdom of heaven» was a spiritual expression meaning the rule of God over a person who kept or began to keep the written and oral commandments.

And in 1 Corinthians 15:24 - 26 we read, «Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every mler and every authority and power.

In its most elemental meaning the kingdom of God means kingship, the just, righteous, and loving rule of God over his world.

Approximately 2000 years after the kingdom of God was modeled for us through Jesus, and we still debate over what this and that means.

Genesis does not, however, reflect philosophically on this signature; by depicting the act of creation and the result — a magnificent paradise well stocked with its birds, fishes, cattle, and so on, not to mention creeping things, a veritable kingdom over which the man and the woman reign in the peace of an integral nature — it simply shows that God's abundant goodness has been poured out, that his own nature has been «mirrored» somewhat as a mountain is mirrored in a clear lake.

As Israel had looked for the coming of the Messiah to establish God's kingdom and reign in glory over the people of God, so the Christian community was convinced that the Messiah had come, and that they, the followers of Christ, were now God's elect.

It seems clear enough that the kingdom of God means the rule of God over his world (especially over man, his supreme creation) and the assurance of God's presence and support that requires of us reciprocal obligations.

Speaking of those who have already «crossed over,» those who even now inhabit the kingdom of God, the first part of each beatitude identifies who is blessed and the second part names that group's relationship to God.

When he bids us to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, it is a costly demand all too easily glossed over.

This millennial imagery in the twentieth chapter of Revelation is sufficiently ambiguous to cause the premillenialists of today to place the victory over Satan at the beginning of Christ's return and reign, while the postmillenialists hold that God's kingdom will come to its consummation and fulfillment at the end of this period.

As the sole victor over the Egyptian army, Yahweh was to be the sole ruler in Israel.10 When Israel was settled in the land that had been promised, there were those who hoped that the kingdom of God was now present reality.

This also is what it means to refer to Jesus as the Son of God, except that Jesus does not only rule over the Roman Empire, but over every kingdom, empire, and country on earth.

God is raising up the servants of his kingdom so they can fulfill the human project and rule over the Earth in righteousness allngside God.

This kingly rule is not a kingdom in the sense of a particular realm that is ruled over; it is the kingship or sovereignty of God over all.

They aren't taught that the physical is an extension of God's kingdom, that He created it to be ruled over through us, and that it is being redeemed.

So just to understand this, I was told when I was a Christian if I don't believe in Jesus being the Messiah or the Virgin Birth I will be cursed and go to hell and anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus as our chosen Messiah will not enter into the kingdom of Heaven, yet Christians say biblical prophecy has been fulfilled with the state of Israel and God is watching over and blessing the Jews.

There is no way I could ever surpass the Prophets of Old or Jesus, Paul and the Apostles when it comes to crossing over into the promised land (the kingdom of God).

The kingdom of God is God's sovereignty over a community and a world that acknowledges.

«But as soon as you say the kingdom of God, you're taking over Roman terminology,» added Crossan.

Jeremias reports as an assured result: «Nowhere in the message of Jesus does the basileia (kingdom) denote the lasting reign of God over Israel in this age.»

Through the death and resurrection of that Son, God wiped out our sinful past, joined us to himself in an everlasting and unbreakable covenant, gave us instructions about how to live until his Son comes again to set up his rule over all the earth, and promised, to all who trust his ways and work, eternal life and joy in his kingdom which will have no end.

In the previous chapter I have already stated that I do not think it lies within human knowledge to say whether God's final victory over evil and the final consummation of his kingdom will come within human history or beyond it.

The word kingdom tends to mean to us an area of land ruled over by a king; in the NT the word rather means the Reign of God.

God then further reveals to David (through Nathan) that David was chosen to be ruler over Israel and that God would not allow enemies to harm him and that his offspring would be blessed and (check this) ``... I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

At an event where the god Osiris (Bryan Brown) hopes to peacefully hand over his throne and his kingdom to his muscled son Horus (Nikolaj Coster - Waldau), a mutiny ensues.

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Experience life - changing encounters with the Mayan kingdoms, where majestic temples pay tribute to the gods that ruled over these mystical people centuries ago.