Yahweh's
holiness makes exacting demands in cult and ritual; it also requires a sweeping righteousness in his people.
Man has no worth which gives him a claim upon the love of God, either before it is given or afterward.8 Man is brought into fellowship with God, but this is not the fellowship as in the eros way of holy men with a God to whom
their holiness makes them acceptable, but it is fellowship of a forgiving God with forgiven sinners.
The experience of God's
holiness makes us sensitive to the importance of Christian teaching.
Pray «
Holiness makes mission possible.»
Hallelujah, at least
His Holiness made me read and even post comment here, which is a never before.
Not exact matches
Since World War II, the United States has taken on a dual role that
makes distinctions between
holiness and buccaneering harder to draw.
1 Timothy 2: 1 - 4 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be
made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and
holiness.
«I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be
made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and
holiness.
The verses says... 1I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be
made for everyone — 2for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and
holiness.
As a generation known for reacting (and often over-reacting) against those who've gone before us, have we
made this mistake with
holiness?
But we would aim to
make as great a contribution to the salvation of the world in this new century as Wesley
made in England in the eighteenth century and Methodism
made in the United States in the nineteenth century as it spread scriptural
holiness across the land.
He then ends the chapter with «But now being
made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto
holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Heb.12: 14 «
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without
holiness no one will see the Lord.»
I lead worship in a Nazarene church, and although the denomination has
made huge strides in its philosophy and practice, it has a strong «
holiness» background.
He sped up saint -
making in 1983, a move meant to lift up contemporary role models of
holiness.
2.9 - 11); he is
made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36); in this sense he is «appointed Son of God according to the Spirit of
holiness by the resurrection of the dead» (Rom.
I have
made no secret of my disagreement with the historical and theological reasoning Mark Noll employed to lump together dispensationalists,
holiness churches, and Pentecostals in his indictment of evangelicalism's anti-intellectual impulse.
He runs the risk, then, like the Apostle Peter, of denying the Lord, even if he is present to us and speaks in His name; the
holiness of the hierarchy of Mother Church is obscured,
making it less fertile.
I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow
making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his
holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.
As in Adam all men die so in Christ are all men
made alive (1 Cor 20:22), and that life is a real, active regeneration and growth into perfection, not just an imputed
holiness.
Even when we seem to be
making great strides in
holiness if we slip into presumptuous pride it is possible for us to fall from grace.
The first point he
makes is this: «As we gain happiness through suffering,» he says, «so do we arrive at
holiness through infirmity, because man's very condition is a fallen one; and in passing out of the country of sin, he necessarily passes through it.»
Sensing an opportunity to be heard by unprejudiced ears, and, writes Las Casas, «knowing the odor of
holiness that they produced, he let himself into the straw hut which had been given to the religious for their quarters and
made an account of his life.»
To me it would
make him a much more relatable human and doesn't take away from his
holiness.
Just
make sure you blame it on me and my
holiness.
The closest principle, avoids the renderings, «
made different by
holiness» for «transfigured», and «I should take sin away from them» for «I should heal them» etc..
12:14
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without
holiness no one will see the Lord -LCB- NIV -RCB-.
-- especially when, as most of you would know, the law prohibiting homosexual behavior is imbedded in a context in Leviticus in the
holiness code, the purity code, as it's sometimes called, which also prohibits the planting of two kinds of seed in the same field, or the wearing of garments
made of two kinds of cloth.
His
Holiness Pope Tawadros II, 118th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, will
make his first pastoral visit to the United Kingdom on Friday.
In the Pentecostal
Holiness church, one almost has to be perfect to
make it to heaven.
The World Youth Day is the best gathering for all the young people form all over the church to be united and to increase their faith ~ The visit of His
Holiness is the presence of God, I think this person whom protest is a bit too sensitive or he doing this on purpose to
make the situation chaos!
When the Holy Spirit is working in our lives to bring us back to a walk of
holiness, He may
make us feel very uncomfortable until we are back under the covering of God.
He is without wrath, because we have
made this image wrathless; his love is not holy love because we have painted the icon without
holiness.
«Even when Christianity includes the natural life in its sacredness, as in the sacrament of marriage, the bodily life is not hallowed, but merely
made subservient to
holiness.»
Amazingly, many even find themselves overcoming their reluctance to
make a regular confession, having learned from him what a great aid this is to a life of
holiness and joy.»
If faith is the automatic gift of God to those whom He sovereignly regenerates, then it only
makes sense that God also automatically and sovereignly would
make sure that they are sanctified in
holiness and obedience.
Preaching
holiness does not
make one holy.
One widespread theory held after the Reformation is that the souls of the righteous are
made perfect in
holiness at the point of death.
God, the process in human nature identifiable as
holiness or transcendence, becomes the power
making for salvation in organic human societies which achieve self - consciousness (INNW 38).
Take Paul's words out of the New Testament and out of Christian experience and what have we left of Christian hope — «and may the Lord
make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men... so as to strengthen your hearts and
make them blameless in
holiness.
Numerous sects today — sometimes called
holiness groups and sometimes Pentecostal, although the two terms are not exactly synonymous
make much of the experience called «entire sanctification.»
The souls of the righteous, being then
made perfect in
holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies; and the souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day.
Just as God, who is ever and by nature sinless and can not sin, comes to the sinful world because he loves it, so the saint goes into the world because the
holiness of God has
made him real and overflows his humanity into human fellowship.
What
makes the gospel offensive isn't who it casts out, but who it lets in, and the true mark of our
holiness as a Church is in how well we love the least of these.
«You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be
made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and
holiness.»
So I will display my greatness and my
holiness and
make myself known in the eyes of many nations.
Next year will likely see His
Holiness Pope Francis
make his first visit to the United States in support of the World Meeting of Families, hosted by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The first requirement in attracting new apostles is a
holiness that appeals to the good and the noble of heart, because it
makes friends of them, a friendship which is not merely social, but which derives from the touch of God within, draws further upwards to union and communion with God, and walks a common way with Christ and for Christ.
The subtitle is a bit misleading — it's not really about «homemaking» or «women's work» (both phrases can
make me a bit nervous)-- it's really for men and women and it's about knowing the role — and the
holiness — of the daily work in our lives.
[2] But it also lists three other motives for the Incarnation:»... so that we might know the love of God»; for Christ»... to be our model of
holiness» and»... to
make us partakers of the divine nature», citing St Irenaeus and quoting St Athanasius famously that «God became a man so that we might become God».