Jesus fulfilled His purpose of preaching in the synagogues.
Not exact matches
The author of Mathew even admits to
Jesus riding on a colt for the sole
purpose of
fulfilling a prophecy.
He was born for this specific
purpose or else
Jesus would have never been betrayed and prophecy would not be
fulfilled.
But
Jesus told Li Quan that he will
fulfill his
purpose in all eternity.
But just as Sabbath was created to help the Hebrew people
fulfill their mission and
purpose in the world, so also, church was created to help followers of
Jesus fulfill our mission and
purpose in the world.
The moral law also was
fulfilled by
Jesus (he died in my place for failing the moral law), but we Christians now want to live in light of the
purpose for which God made us.
As we saw in the case of Israel, God chose
Jesus, not to be the recipient of regeneration, but to serve a
purpose and
fulfill a role in God's plan of redemption.
Theology will continually look for new syntheses to incorporate the truth that we discover in the sciences and in other human studies into our understanding of all things, our understanding of God and his world and his
purposes fulfilled in
Jesus Christ.
Jesus doesn't break the law, He
fulfills the
purpose and intent of the law.
It is little wonder that in Galatians, Paul emphasizes that
Jesus was born under the law, for
Jesus» vulnerability to the law is the sign of the power of the One who was to
fulfill the whole
purpose of the law.
The New Testament describes worshipping God a little differently, as is to be expected in a series of books based around
Jesus»
purpose to
fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17) in a way that reinterpreted it for everyone.
But it
fulfills marvelously the author's
purpose as he states it at the original ending in John 20:31, «These are written that you may believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.»
God revealed himself through actual miracles in
Jesus for a short period of time with the express
purpose fulfilling prophecy and presenting the Jew and Gentile proof that Christ is who He claims to be.
The NT was written specifically for the
purpose of showing that
Jesus fulfilled a bunch of other prophecies, though there's not much evidence that some of those «prophesied» events took place at all.
Instead, I am calling the church to
fulfill the mission and
purpose given to it by
Jesus Christ.
These interpreters take the third meaning as normative and assert not only that
Jesus expected the imminent and catastrophic end of history and the present world and God's establishment of a new order in which his righteous
purpose would be perfectly
fulfilled, but also that whenever he spoke of the «kingdom of God» he used the phrase in that sense and in that sense only.
Jesus knew both His
purpose and priorities, and so completely
fulfilled God's plan for His life.
The death of
Jesus is not efficacious for «my sins» because he died nobly, or because he showed confidence in God, but because the cross is believed to have
fulfilled the
purpose of God.
That
Jesus died nobly or showed confidence in God are historical statements, subject to the vicissitudes of historical research, but that his death
fulfilled the
purpose of God in regard to «my sins» is certainly not such a statement, and it lies beyond the power of the historian even to consider it, even though, as a Christian, he might believe it.
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