Sentences with phrase «jesus gave up his life»

1 John 3:16 reads, «We know what real love is because Jesus gave up His life for us.»

What I find interesting is Jesus gave up His life it was not taken from Him.

April 14, 2012 at 2:04 pm @Scott: wrote on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 1:06 pm stating, «he Gospel: Jesus gave up his life so his murderers might have life.

As a college student I have no doubt it will be a bit challenging, especially during late - night cramming sessions and morning - after - nearly - all - nighters, but Jesus gave up his life for me so the least I can do is make this small sacrifice.

Did the guard see that men dying in front of him had their lives taken away and saw the contrast that Jesus gave up His life that made him a believer?

I am so thankful the Jesus gave up his life to pay for my sins.

Not exact matches

benevolent in nature — most certainly evil — no, Jesus was the spotless perfect sacrifice simply disinterested — gave up his life that we may live.

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

would jesus support all doctors give up their paychecks and go out into the street and set up tents and give free health care to anyone who needs it and do this nonstop for the rest of your life?

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 came to give up His life as a ransom for many.

In a story that is unique to Luke, Jesus heals a nameless woman by giving her the freedom to unbend and stand up straight after she has lived for years in crippling bondage.

I must stress, as I sum up, that your very appellation, Christian Conference of Asia, obligates you to battle for the values of human rights, global and Asian, for which Jesus, the first spiritually non-violent but irrepressibly militant campaigner and founder gave his life.

Since Jesus had no sinful nature, then He had to miraculously give up His life...

When Paul writes about being anathema from Christ, he is not stating a desire to be eternally cut off or separated from Jesus, but is instead stating his desire, if it were possible, to give up his life and his ministry within the Kingdom of God if such a sacrifice would help Israel come to the knowledge that Jesus is the Messiah.

That is why Jesus said «No one takes my life, but I give it up.»

Though as God incarnate, He had every right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of His own personal happiness, though He had the ultimate freedom to make His own religion, to say whatever He wanted to whomever, to call crowds of disciples to follow after Him, and to take up all the power and force of the universe in His defense, Jesus instead chose to give it all away.

But for Luke, this Jesus was a new and greater Elijah, who like the Old Testament prototype would be «received up» literally into heaven; then, in stark contrast to the Elijah prototype, who bestowed his enormous but still human spirit on Elisha, this Jesus would bestow his infinite spirit upon the church, giving it life for all ages.

Ultimately the religious will never give up their gun's because they don't really have any faith in God to save them and feel they have to take the key's to life and death away from Jesus, then sit back and claim they are defending God and their rights when really they are shouting loud and clear «I DO N'T TRUST YOU TO PROTECT ME JEJesus, then sit back and claim they are defending God and their rights when really they are shouting loud and clear «I DO N'T TRUST YOU TO PROTECT ME JESUSJESUS!!

When you stand up against the Fundamentalists who are giving you a bad name I will respect you and consider than you are actually trying to live like Jesus.

«I believe she gave her life to Jesus, though we didn't see the follow - up... There was nothing that was really saying «repent, you're a sinner», but she repented, and had this real emotional reaction.»

Sermons that make this second point about poor people tithing often transition over to Matthew 19:29 (or Mark 10:29 - 30) where Jesus promises that those who give up relationships, possessions, homes, and land for His sake, will receive one - hundred times as much in this life and in the life to come.

Such has not been the case with the terms «life», «biography», and «bios», which continue to be avoided, for the reason Käisemann gives:» «In a life of Jesus one simply can not give up outer and inner development.»

The new event is the birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus: the interpretation of this new event, which takes up the old interpretation into itself in a reinterpretation, is that Jesus is the Christ, who gives his people rest from the bondage of sin, a final rest the Israelites could not obtain under Joshua when he brought them into Canaan.28

Jesus replies that though the disciples have given up their actual families, in the new corporate life of the kingdom a new family will be given, and in the final summing - up of all things, they will enjoy peace and eternal life with God.

He contrasts the community's vision with that of the rural Southern Baptists among whom he grew up: «Jesus doesn't just forgive my sins, he gives a whole new way of life — the best way to live.»

The Church's existence, then, remains essential to revelation as the sign or «sacrament» of God's fidelity to the promise first given to Abraham and ratified in Jesus» being raised up to new life.

And if the mission of tile Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

* Believe in Jesus Christ, that he died for you This requires that you get rid of your old sinful ways If you TRULY believe, that is, love Him and give your life to Him, good works and fruit will come out, but these are not what make you a Christian, they are simply an indicator of your faith in Jesus Pray, Read the Bible, Love God, Love others, worship God (live for Him in all you do, take up your cross, and know that in all of this God is very patient and loving

For me I do believe in the Sacraments and the role they play in Salvation - Jesus did change wine into this blood and the bread into his body during the last supper and told believers to do this in his memory and he did foreshadow what would happen on the Cross he gave up his life so we maybe could be saved, because not all who profess Christ is Lord or believe in God will be saved, there are many people who claim they can abuse, sleep around, steal, cheat and that they'll still go to heave because 1 day they said the sinner's prayer, actions speak louder then words.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus» sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

I have a dream that one day the church of Jesus Christ will rise up to her God - given calling and begin to live out the true meaning of her identity — which is, the very heartthrob of God Almighty — the fiancee of the King of all Kings.

He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.

Jesus summed it up in verses 63 & 64: «3The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.

Jeremy i believe you are on the right track my take is slightly different but we end up in the same place if we look at the story we see the cross portrayed the condemned sinner judgement for sin condemnation and death Jesus the son of God intervenes on her behalf and forgives her and gives life restoration and the chance for her to start again without guilt or condemnation.That summs up our life storys.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

This same Jesus was crudified for the sins of he world and received up into glory... From that place at the right hand of Gdo he sat down expecting till all his enemies be made his footstool... I am his servant and I testify to you that he has filled me with his Spirit or if you like he downloaded himself; (his image in me) Christ dwells in me... near 34 years now... and I am building myself up into him... Because Christ lives greatly in me... I feel no need to force anyone to accept me... and I certainly need no one who like Bill can not discern the living God, yet... to defing to me what faith is... it is not an opinion because God has already proven himself to me... but Bill is free to his opinion... but I am goin got pray that God will be merciful to him and give him some proof... some pentecostal proof...

«For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus» sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh [the flesh of ministry].

His love is greater than anything we can conceive of as human beings Jesus suffered and gave up His life so that nothing can get in Gods way in revealing this love to the world He created.

As Jesus was on the cross ready to give up His life knowing all that He knew, could not even then pronounce a curse on those taunting Him.

Jesus cast out demons and healed the sick was divine in power by the Spirit and they couldn't kill Him by flogging but on the cross He gave up His life so how was sickness going to touch Him?

Now the operation of Faith comes with the Will of God to have Christ formed in us: The Faith of Christ will do (bring in His works) for that to be a reality in our own lives as we are fed the truth through the words of Jesus and Paul (Jesus said the words that I speak are Spirit and Life) Paul said; I am of Christ, therefore; as we heed to all that is written by Jesus and Paul to have that excellent work done in us, to even take us from Faith to Faith (in His greater works) and from Glory to Glory (up in His life as we mature); then we too can come to the place where even as Paul says: I am Crucified with Christ, yet; I live, yet; not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live now, I live by the FAITH of the Son of God who gave His life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in Life) Paul said; I am of Christ, therefore; as we heed to all that is written by Jesus and Paul to have that excellent work done in us, to even take us from Faith to Faith (in His greater works) and from Glory to Glory (up in His life as we mature); then we too can come to the place where even as Paul says: I am Crucified with Christ, yet; I live, yet; not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live now, I live by the FAITH of the Son of God who gave His life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in life as we mature); then we too can come to the place where even as Paul says: I am Crucified with Christ, yet; I live, yet; not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live now, I live by the FAITH of the Son of God who gave His life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in life I live now, I live by the FAITH of the Son of God who gave His life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in life for me: Paul ministers only in and by the Christ that he has become as Christ was formed in Him: Even as it was with Peter with Israel, when thouest is converted, convert thine brethren; it is also with Paul; I Labour again in birth with you until Christ be formed in you:

When life stinks, wouldn't it be nice if Jesus could show up in person and give us a big hug, with arms that we could feel wrapped around us?

Yesterday started Lent, a time leading up to Easter Sunday when many Christians give up things in their lives as a way of remembering Jesus» sacrifice.

Like God's love it is unbreakable, utterly faithful, without conditions, essentially fruitful, life - giving - because this is how God creates and loves, this is how Jesus loves the Church, giving himself up for her.

But on good days, I give up on trying to change the world, and get back to living like Jesus — in this moment, in every moment.

When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to gossip and manipulate, to worry less about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable of forgiving to the point of death, to live as Jesus lived and love as Jesus loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.