Sentences with phrase «kingdom come through me»

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The Fourth Gospel attributes to Jesus the words, «Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God»; (John 3:5) the Epistle to Titus says the same thing in other language — «He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit»; (Titus 3:5) and in the Shepherd of Hermas, which in some of the earliest canons was included in the New Testament, the baptismal water is called «the seal of the Son of God» into which they descend «dead,» and out of which they come «alive.»

When Jesus said that to the disciples of his day of this generation he was talking figuratively i believe of born again believers born of the spirit not a physical generation.Because the holy spirit was prophetic of the spirit coming upon the nation or nations as spoken in Joel that occured at pentecost and that established the kingdom of God on the earth through believers so we have always been the last generation because we never know when the Lord will return but we live as if it was tomorrow.brentnz

And when our last hour shall come, support us by Thy power and receive us into Thine everlasting kingdom; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord...

H. Richard Niebuhr taught us in The Kingdom of God in America that the triune themes of the sovereignty of God over the whole world, the reign of Christ in the heart and the expectation of a Coming Kingdom in and beyond time were all embedded in the term «kingdom of God,» and that these themes were decisive in the way Christian theology and ethics provided — with differing accents in different periods — a spiritual and moral rudder for American civilization, from its founding through the industrial era.

The kingdom of God, whether thought of as that which gradually comes on earth through a transformed society or as that which comes only in God's eternal kingdom beyond death and earthly history, is always a social concept.

He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way» is NOT the Holy Spirit through believers hindering him from comming till they be taken away in the «rapture»... It is The Holy Spirit Himself who is restraining satan from comming ahead of God's appointed time for him to come, because satan has done it thru many attempts in past history, even as his last of the attempt was through Hitler, desiring to establish his kingdom on earth.

With a final word of assurance of God's power and victory — «thine is the kingdom...» — and the ascription of the prayer in Christ's name — «through Jesus Christ our Lord --» the natural movement is rounded out, and the prayer comes to an appropriate close.

Now it came to pass, afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God.

Then the one prayer will be: «THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN»... And if the victory is to be won, it will be by the power of Christ through man, for there is no other Name under Heaven by which we can receive health and salvation, but only the name of Jesus Christ» (pp. 238 - 239).

If this is accepted, it follows that the kingdom does not come automatically or even supernaturally, but it advances through the creativity of God as Christ's followers accept their responsibility as God's servants.

The difference lies mainly in the fact that the earlier exponents of the social gospel thought of the coming of the kingdom of God as progressive growth toward a better world through the conquest of these social evils.

As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.

Nevertheless, even attempted unity, especially through recognition of diversity, reflects the ultimate reality of God's restored creation: Jesus says in Luke 13:29, «People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.»

God has promised that he will work through everything for those who love him, and as I have viewed the experience of the life of [my little son], I can see how the kingdom has come....

Furthermore, there are first - rank theologians and biblical scholars who, though they have rejected the crude literalism of a descent of Christ through the clouds as the mythological product of a prescientific age, nevertheless use the language of a second coming to designate the final consummation of the kingdom.

Because of these acts we know him to be real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and in that knowledge we find the promise of both the coming of his kingdom and the ultimate fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy of our God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.»

19 Such concepts, familiar to his hearers, as the awful fate of the unrighteous, the bliss of the redeemed, and the expected dramatic coming of the Son of man, were employed by Jesus to drive home to his hearers the ultimate and absolute nature of the kingdom and its entrance into history through the message which God had given him to proclaim.

This is certainly how Matthew 24:14 has been understood, from the age of the apostles right through the dawn of the modern ecumenical movement: «And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.»

Pawlikowski says that «what we Christians in our faith now profess is that through the coming of Christ we have a clearer vision of the final dimensions of this kingdom.»

What we Christians in our faith now profess is that through the coming of Christ we have a clearer vision of the final dimension of the kingdom.»

«The Son of Man, therefore, means the agent and inaugurator of the coming kingdom who will enable others to share with him his special relationship with God through a voluntary acceptance of death».46 Whenever we think about the church, John Taylor suggests, we must never forget that when Jesus chose the title «Son of Man» He was using a figure with a plural meaning.

Namely, God's mission works primarily through Jesus Christ's sending the people of God to intentionally cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith, to proclaim by word and deed the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ through the Church's participation in God's mission of reconciling people to God, to themselves, to one another, and to the world and gathering them into the church, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, with a view to the transformation of the world, as a sign of the coming of the kingdom in Jesus Christ.

Your kingdom come around and through and in me your power and glory, let them shine through me Your hallowed name, oh may i bear with honor And may your living kingdom come in me THE BREAD OF LIFE!

Through the death and resurrection of that Son, God wiped out our sinful past, joined us to himself in an everlasting and unbreakable covenant, gave us instructions about how to live until his Son comes again to set up his rule over all the earth, and promised, to all who trust his ways and work, eternal life and joy in his kingdom which will have no end.

He also noted the irony of so many premillenialists, convinced that civilization will steadily decline until the second coming of Christ working for all the world (as it were) like postmillennialists intent on bringing in the kingdom through hard, faithful effort.

through Jesus Christ first estate saviour all shall know Amen thy Father who art in Heaven Holy be his name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

And this, it must be realized, was to come about not through some deep transformation in which they would «become the kingdoms of our God»; instead they would live on as pagan and alien kingdoms.

The Christian concept of the coming kingdom of God runs counter to this mood of pessimism and redeems it through hope.

This comes through frequently in his Gospel exegesis, which gives little weight to Scriptural interpretation within Tradition: «Jesus preached the coming of the kingdom of God and it is very improbable that he gave precise instruction for future ecclesiastical discipline» (p. 41).

Fear and hatred are ubiquitous conditions in the animal kingdom; figuring out how to fly through space and come home again, to put it mildly, is not.

God then further reveals to David (through Nathan) that David was chosen to be ruler over Israel and that God would not allow enemies to harm him and that his offspring would be blessed and (check this) ``... I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

I am stoked about this new series, and wish to kingdom come I had had a big sister to guide me through how to maximize my options when I was enmeshed... [Read more...]

But, come on girl, it's time to fess up: if you didn't have a couple pints of ogre blood running through your veins, you'd be shacking up with Prince Charming right now in the kingdom of Far Far Away and you would've given Shrek the dreaded «we can still be friends» talk years ago.

Blow the opposition to kingdom come and skid your way through twelve stunning levels!

A few people in the industry have speculated that Romance of the Three Kingdoms (android version) could be one such game coming to the Fuze console through this deal and we could also see other Koei Tecmo games coming to multiple platforms in China through this deal.

«JERUSALEM 1000 - 1400: EVERY PEOPLE UNDER HEAVEN» The financially pressed Metropolitan Museum came through with two classic historical spectacles this year, the other being the astonishing «Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World.»