Sentences with phrase «jesus came to the place»

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, «Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.»

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But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Perhaps you are missing something in understanding why Jesus came to earth in the first place.

Not by their merits but by the merits of the One [Jesus] who came to this world and lived a sinless and righteous life in the place of all who trust in Him for eternal life.

I think Jesus may well have come back to earth in the form of this priest (at least possessing his body and mind) to try to make the world a better place us all to live.

A church is a place where hurting man can come into contact with the one who has the power to heal and forgive in Jesus Christ.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Jesus is basically saying grace is more likely to come from non-sanctioned places than from sanctioned places.

In the third place, Christianity recognizes that in this Jew, Jesus, the liberating God of the chosen people comes to all who are in need.

In it, Lazarus tells the story of when Jesus came to His hometown Bethany and all the amazing things that took place there.

This is not the place to get into a debate about the tribulation so all I will say is at least be open to the possibility that Jesus was warning the Church to ready for persecution and be therefore prepared to endure to the end in the face of whatever might come.

When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, «This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves; Jesus said to them, «They need not go away; you give them something to eat.»

But Jesus came along and took our place on the cross, so that we would not have to suffer and die like He did.

Most of us would no doubt say that the gospel is, first of all, Jesus» own proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the terms of admission into it and the conditions of its coming; and then that it is, in the second place, the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation, with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

It is easy, when comparing these two texts, to see Jesus performing miracles near the peak of the mountain, then coming down to the level place to preach.

One of the reasons some people think that this sermon is not the same sermon as the one recorded in Matthew is because in Matthew it says that Jesus want up on the mountain to teach, whereas here it says he came down and stood on a level place.

For example, Jesus Christ hated religion and came to drive it out of the places of worship.

Those who say that these are the same sermon argue that Jesus went up the mountain to pray, and then he came about half way down the mountain to a level place on the mountain where he chose his disciples, performed the healing we see here, and then began to teach.

It's ok to ridicule Christians all over the place, then call them not the actual Christians, equate Jesus, Moses, etc. to someone coming out as gay, but those who «traditionally» don't like depictions of their prophet should be «respected».

Even if those who are to come from all directions to put to shame Jesus» fellow - countrymen are really Gentiles and not Jews of the dispersion, the words none the less naively assert that the chosen people and its heroes hold the central place in the Kingdom of God; afterward the Gentiles would join them, according to ancient prophecy.

The last judgment is no longer an imminent cosmic event, for it is already taking place in the coming of Jesus and in his summons to believe (John 3:19; 9:39; 12:31).

I think people get pulled into these arguments... how many times did the Pharisees seek to get Jesus to commit to» one side or the other» and he would come back at them from a place they were not expecting.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

And we are divided spiritually, as some place great hope in the political system and other believers in the Jesus Christ increasingly realize that «here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.»

I am ashamed that the Church has become the scariest place to come out instead of the safest, that it routinely shuts out the most vulnerable, the most hurting, the most despised, when those were the people Jesus started with, the people he loved most.

In the first place, it is impossible to know what the tense was in the original Aramaic; secondly, the tension may be Lukan, for Luke certainly believed that the Kingdom was both present in Jesus» ministry [4.21] and to come [9.27]; and, thirdly, the future tense may be due to the «then» in the parallel Mark 13.21 [«and then if anyone says to you...»]-RRB- and the meaning of entos hymon.

Jesus came to this child to show her that Hell is a real place and told her to warn everyone!

The basis of your belief system appears to be that, you will go to a place of eternal fire and torture, unless you accept that 2000 years ago god sent a piece of himself to Earth in human form (Jesus) knowing in advance that this Jesus would live, be crucified, died, then come alive again, then ascend to heaven to rejoin himself, and that this was the only way that humans could be cleansed of the evil that is inherent in them because a rib woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat an apple.

For me, Yeshua (the actual name of Jesus) was God in flesh and came here to die in my place.

i pray all pastors would be filled with the holy spirit, come down off their earthly thrones, humble themselves to the needs of the and obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit and give Jesus his rightful place!

The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).

I came to Jesus Christ from a place of deep skepticism and cynicism.

To be right with God, we simply place our faith in that Jesus Christ died for our sins, was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, making Jesus our Savior and LorTo be right with God, we simply place our faith in that Jesus Christ died for our sins, was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, making Jesus our Savior and Lorto life the third day after His crucifixion, making Jesus our Savior and Lord.

«I made the point that public statements condemning people will place a barrier between the church and the world (and I note that Jesus came to save and not to condemn), which is why at Hillsong, we don't want to reduce the real issues in people's lives to a sound bite.»

I proposed that much of what we say and do these days comes from a place of feeling frightened and defensive for a Jesus who is not afraid and does not need our defense; that this is a time to stand with Jesus rather than to stand up for Him.

The first one takes place between Adam and Eve and the last one between the risen Jesus Christ who has come to claim His bride, the worldwide body of believers.

Derek says the themes on the album include battling cynicism («Everything Will Change»), coming to terms with who God made you to be («Eye of the Hurricane»), Jesus» nearness to those who are disenfranchised («Closer Than You Think»), unity among the divisions of the church («A Place at Your Table»), the hard work of marriage («The Vow»), and God's great love («Love Part 3»).

Sure, church is a place for joy, but not so that you can get an emotional charge... That's NOT what Jesus came to do.

And just as Jesus came to a sinful world, He wants us to follow Him into places where sin and it's consequences abound.

He placed the blame upon the Jews for the death of Jesus, which he implied justified what the Germans were doing to the Jews: «The self - imposed curse of the Jews, «His blood be upon us and upon our children,» has come true terribly until the present time, until today.»

Jesus comes camouflaged as those needing safety and a place to be welcome.

The Jesus place is a favorite spot for members of the ashram and visitors to come and pray and we made our way back there several times.

When Jesus son of Sirach came to sing the praises of «Moses of blessed memory», he said that «The Loan made him equal in glory to the angels», 23 and this suggests that he was destined for an honored place with Elijah in the heavenly realm.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

The historical study of the New Testament records has not confirmed the traditional view that the physical body of Jesus (either transformed or not) came forth from the tomb within thirty - six hours after it had been placed there, later to ascend into heaven.

In the first place, if the biblical passages affirming the ascension and coming again of Jesus through the clouds are to be taken literally, this runs counter to all we know of astronomy and the space world.

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

«Come away» Jesus said, «to a secluded place and rest a while» (Mark 6:31).

Just as some Jews had learned to hear God's voice and follow Him, and so they recognized the voice of Jesus when He came, so also, some Gentiles had been seeking a place in God's family by faith, and so naturally believed in Jesus when they heard that God had accepted them by His grace.