Sentences with phrase «jesus at the cross»

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But we... with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)

(Isaiah 55:6) Indeed, even the two thieves on the cross on either side of Jesus at His crucifixion found in those last moments where they stood in terms of their relationship to God: to the one, repentant, «today you shall be with me in paradise»; to the other, mocking and indifferent, Jesus offered no such comfort.

It wouldn't happen if a man named Jesus was actually executed on the cross at that time.

He set the captives free who believed in the coming Messiah (those who lived before Jesus), but had to wait until their sins were paid at the cross.

Seems like every common item ever found at a historic site is somehow turned into a cross or a picture of Jesus.

the shortest answer to your question is the cross, where God tells us two things clearly: 1) we are much worse off than we want to admit (that's what I deserve)... but at the very same time... 2) we are much more loved than we ever dared hope (Jesus takes what I deserve)

I would contend a contrary, Jesus was more courageous for expressing His own temptation to abandon the cross and then reject that temptation than to have suffered no temptation at all.

I have what I think is a sound logical and theological explanation for these violent texts, which is discovered by looking at Jesus on the cross.

The crucifixion scene was real at two points: where the cross was raised and Jesus groaned from the pain of his own sagging weight, and when his side was pierced and blood flowed from the wound.

Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those who believe in Jesus sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.

If Scripture calls us to love our enemies as Jesus loved his enemies at the cross, we must either accept the way of nonviolence or abandon our affirmation of scriptural authority.

Just want you to know that what Jesus did was not done in the fathers presence either, at the point he was about to die on the cross the father had turned away and Jesus knew he hung there alone at one point.

Tomorrow we will look at how to understand the tenth plague in light of Jesus Christ dying on the cross.

Jesus carries a cross around the wreath, around the world, around time and the cosmos and at the heart of the universe is a servant bending low, giving away His heart, never doubt this.

Even among the closest twelve followers of Jesus, one betrayed Him, one denied Him, nine ran away and hid, and only one showed up at the foot of the cross.

And because of this, if you want to understand the violence of God in the Bible, you need to begin by looking at Jesus, and especially what Jesus did on the cross and how He appeared on the cross.

Stripped entirely naked, Jesus hung on a cross at almost eye level, unprotected, uncovered, unmasked.

Hebrew 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Some commentators think that the words with which John records Jesus» death, «He bowed his head and gave up his spirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologically.

He doesn't seem to remember that at the cross Jesus made it clear that he, too, deserves death for the things he has done.

having ssid that i think that for God sin is sin and only sin he can't forgive is the unpardonable sin of unbeliving that Jesus is the the word made flesh who paid the penalty for sins on the cross at calvary he loves homosexuals as much as heterosexuals.

The Romans tortured, mocked, scorned and laughed at Jesus all the way to his hanging on the cross.

From this contradiction they escaped in part by claiming that Jesus» divine nature or messiahship descended on him at his baptism and left him just before his death on the cross.

As we look at Genesis 2:16 - 17, we will be talking about Jesus Christ and Him crucified and how His death on the cross reveals something about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Now, some claim that Jesus was crucified at 9:00 am, equating that crucifying means putting Jesus on the cross at 9 am.

At least there can be no doubt that Jesus like other agitators died on the cross as a Messianic prophet.

But Jesus was not on the cross at 9 am, nor was he crucified at 9 am.

Had James and John understood, they would never have asked to be at his right and left hand, places that would ultimately be taken by criminals on either side of Jesus» cross.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

i am nt a expert but this is what i see: As jewish time starts from 6 pm to next day 6 pm, technically speaking when Jesus died on the cross at 3 pm — it was night time in the eyes in the jewish culture.

It begins by looking at Jesus, and specifically, Jesus dying on the cross.

At this juncture we should note the point made recently by N. A. Dahl, namely, that any historical understanding of the ministry and message of Jesus must make sense of the fact that that ministry ended on the cross.

Now I have a question for those who choose to believe that Jesus had a wife: If he had a wife; why was not Jesus» wife standing before him, and / or kneeling in agony at his feet when he was on the cross.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

Jesus became man (God manifest in the flesh) at a point in time and His death on the cross and His resurrection occurred at a point in time.

Yeah, I have lots of questions too, and know that while my attempts at answers will not be satisfactory to all (they don't fully satisfy me either), I hope that what I write can help move people toward a deeper conversation about these things and a way of viewing God that looks like Jesus on the cross.

He drew out of the New Testament, and particularly from the faith of the apostles as they looked back at the cross of Jesus, the belief that it was the world which was dying, not God who was dead.

Like Moltmann, Mühlen then presents the Spirit as the personified bond of love between the Father and the Son, who at the moment of Jesus» death on the cross is breathed forth upon the world to unite human beings with one another and with the triune God (VG 23 - 24, 33 - 36).

If want to see God, we can look at the entire life and ministry of Jesus, but God is especially revealed through Jesus on the cross.

I have always found it funny how so many Christians will look up at their churches version of Jesus on the cross and pray but would freak out if a brown skinned, bearded, long haired, robed middle eastern man came in and sat down beside them...

Do not fear sin, Jesus took that away from you at the cross, instead focus on Jesus, ask for forgiveness daily.

At the center is our Savior Jesus Christ crucified on a cross, the most horrific of all technological distortions, built by transforming a tree from the natural world into a tool of death.

This is at the end the credal statement listing the appearances of Jesus» resurrection, a credal statement that agnostic New Testament critic Bart Ehrman traces to 1 year after the cross.

And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus... and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, in the failure of the cross.

I've always thought at the cross itself, there is that moment where the thief says to Jesus «remember me when you come into your kingdom.»

Through the event we name when we say «Jesus Christ,» and supremely through what happened on the cross on Calvary with all this implies, human existence is made «at one» with God.

His question at Caesarea Philippi is not Jesus» final question to his disciples: they will have their last supper together, the moments at Gethsemane, the last words from the cross.

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

Blacks looking at the images of lynching victims took heart from Jesus» suffering on the cross and his resurrection, Cone said.