Sentences with phrase «jesus knew both his purpose»

Jesus knew both His purpose and priorities, and so completely fulfilled God's plan for His life.

Not exact matches

«to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Called - Out Ones of Christ to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord».

That purpose is that God may be known and loved, worshipped and served, in the Man Christ Jesus, in whom he is made so vividly and poignantly plain to us, and that as a result he may fill our lives with his grace and conform us to his image.

For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.

«You will know them by their fruits,» said Jesus, and the fruits of continuing acts of self - commitment are plain in lives made whole and right, given purpose and meaning.

Jesus wanted to restore the purpose of the Law, but knew that this could not be accomplished by restoring the Law itself.

Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz

Thank you that through our relationship with Jesus we can know God and the purpose of our lives.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

One knew beyond doubting that life was significant, that hideous circumstance — a broken leg miles from help — could be transcended through faith in Jesus and fierce moral purpose.

Evangelistic meetings, evening non-sacramental worship, outdoor preaching (as in London at the Tower and in Hyde Park), and similar times and places may very well include an address whose main purpose will be the presentation of the reality of Jesus Christ to those who otherwise would not know about him.

It is comprehensible for one thing, only if Jesus was and is pre-existent in the Godhead before the Incarnation, and in that Reality of God knows, wills, and sees all His meaning and purpose in the world of men.

So, as Jesus Feminist began to rise up in my heart as a book, I knew that my purpose wasn't to convince or argue or debate.

Knowing Jesus, studying the Bible, having a clear purpose always, reading on Holocaust and on North Korean Christians and desires to excel from early years made me extremely tough facing stress and tragedies and bullies, I can see.

For the present, however, the point is that the quality of the Spirit, and hence our criterion for knowing whether any given spirit is indeed to be linked with the Spirit of God, is for Christians the congruity which that spirit does, or does not, possess with what we have learned of God, God's character and purpose and manner of operation, through Jesus Christ in his revelation of the divine nature and agency in the world.

Peter encountered a Spirit he knew to be one with the extraordinary life of the Master he had followed, a Spirit to whom he could now fully dedicate himself in the confidence that the aims and directives it mediated served God's purposes, just as Jesus had served those purposes during his lifetime.

Jesus did not cut taxes, and if you ever cracked open a bible in your life you would know he defended the tax collectors O, if you had a shred of honesty, more likely, you could admit that Jesus purpose on earth was not to cut taxes, but your perpetual state of hypocrisy forbids that.

Luke 4:42 - 44 shows us that Jesus knew His priorities and purpose.

In truth the Revelation of St. John the Divine is the Ark of the Testament; and the Revelation of Jesus Christ was the Book hidden in this Ark and carried to me through the 2,000 years that seperated the time when John first got it; and then; (as it is written at chapter 10 of his own Revelation) at the very last sentence of that chapter; when it is said to him by the angel of the Covenant Jonathan (who John the Baptist was named after, by the way) that he «would have to prophesy again»; as to explain what his Revelation was all about: otherwise the Revelation would have absolutely sered no purpose at all; and it does; as all will soon shortly know.

Christ is present in the person in the obvious sense that the purpose of God, made known in Jesus Christ, is the fulfillment of God's Kingdom in all of life.

It means that in the Christian view Jesus Christ is the person through whom we know concretely the personal reality at the heart of God's purpose for the world.

While I don't know that Scripture exactly says that the primary purpose of baptism is public declaration or public witness of our faith in Jesus / desire to follow Jesus, it does appear from early accounts of baptisms that they definitely functioned in that way.

How much of this was merely ad hominem and how much represented Jesus» personal conviction concerning human destiny it is difficult to be sure, just as when Plato used demonology to serve his purpose it is difficult to know how literally he took the mental pattern he employed.

It is a clear Christian conviction that God wants all human beings to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth, but we know that, while God's purpose is for the salvation of all, he has worked historically through the people of Israel and through the incarnation of his own son Jesus Christ.

You cant know God unless He calls you first.So when anyone comes to accept the call of God accept Jesus and become a Christian he is actually starting on a journey with God.God has a plan and purpose for that person there are some God does not call.

I do not know of any being who has achieved a greater purpose for existence than Jesus

The image of Jesus as one who proclaimed his identity in the most exalted terms known to Judaism, who asked his hearers to believe his claims, and whose purpose was to die for our sins itself died.

Adopting «in Jesus» name» as the necessary minimal condition for a counting as a «Christian congregation» for the purpose of a theological school's study does not, of course, require any particular answer to the quite different question whether God is truly known and worshiped by groups who do not worship in Jesus» name or whether God is redemptively present to them.

The hope of Jesus never includes these elements, and from this it must be fully understood that his only purpose is to make known the position of man before God.

All this is expressly denied in the eschatological message of Jesus; he knows no ends for our conduct, only God's purpose; no human future, only God's future.

In this part of the work the principle has been «When in doubt, discard», for the purpose of the book came to be to establish what may be known with reasonable certainty of the teaching of Jesus.

Joel Osteen has made his preaching to gullible ones as a business, a money making scheme and not for the purpose making known «the good news of the kingdom» (Luke 8:1) in which Jesus taught his disciples to go «from house to house.»

You are not Jesus so you have no right to throw that frist stone which you did by quoting proverbs in a hatefull way for your own purpose.

Knowing that they have purpose and unconditional love through Jesus Christ can be very healing.