Not exact matches
Jesus speaking on little children said something
like this, «of such is the kingdom of heaven.»
So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning»
like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change
Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit)
speak for themselves.
Jesus has that, it's direct access to God, to have God
speak through him, or do God
like things.
In every office, there is someone who needs to know the love of
Jesus, who needs to hear the message of the Cross, who needs someone
like you to
speak truth and life into their circumstance.
Mankowski's review is a parade of hilarious zingers: «Mailer's
Jesus (Yeshua to his pals) turns out to be a Jewish seminary student who has converted to Methodism but isn't sure why»; «He generally
speaks in the kind of eco-aphorism that Hollywood screenwriters put in the mouths of Comanche elders when they want them to sound
like sages»; «Mailer's Yeshua turns out to be a Messiah Lite.»
I
like to give you one more Scripture referance from Revelations, the last book of the Bible,
Jesus Himself
speaking:: «I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and End,» says the Lord, «who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty... Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.
Whenst thou readeth too abundantly from the bible, thou begineth to sound
like Yoda
speaking Jesus - bonics.
While that may be «accurate» as to what
jesus says about marriage, etc.... I am
speaking to the * inference * that @barry, for sure and it looks
like you....
You are
like a hungry person looking for a fly in your soup when one is freely given to you; step back and look at the big picture of what is being said in Isaiah 40 and Malachi 3:1 and what
Jesus said about the prophet who
spoke of Him throughout the Old Testament.
The prophet,
like Jesus, claims to
speak as «one with authority» — that is, precisely as a prophet, one who brings from God a new and life - giving word.
Yes, the New Testament does
speak of the «coming of the Son of Man,» «meeting
Jesus in the clouds,» God's coming happening «
like a thief in the night,» and «we shall all be changed.»
Jeremy it just hit me
like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is
speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in
Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt
like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is
like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what
Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz
No one could ever
speak like that of
Jesus.
«Christians are so loving — so much
like the ideal story
Jesus (sarcasm)... many of the good Christian folks bash Caitlyn Jenner... Only I
spoke out» Sabio «Thanks Sabio for
speaking out» David
No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have
Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man
like Jesus, who
spoke the words that
Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him
like Jesus did, and
spoke the parabales and life lessons
like Jesus did... look at what
Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.
Anyone who has ever incurred the wrath of an old mother hen by threatening her brood can testify to the fact that
Jesus was probably
speaking like an «over-zealous,» «overprotective» «Jewish» mama here.
Jesus would grow to
speak the needed words, and hearing him would be
like listening to the voice of the giver.
The elaborate narratives of Matthew and Luke may be the result of legendary or literary development; but that
Jesus could
speak of his own inner experiences in figurative or perhaps visionary language is shown later by his exclamation when the disciples reported their success in casting out demons (Lk 10:18): «I saw Satan fall
like lightning from heaven.»
Like Professor MacKinnon in his Easter meditation, I based my sermon on the assumption that there was an objective Easter event, and that it was this event which produced the dramatic change in the outlook of the disciples; that to
speak of «Easter» is not a way of describing the disciples» growing conviction that
Jesus had been right after all; but that it was only because something real and objective and totally unexpected had actually happened at Easter that the disciples became changed men.
Speaking of the moment that he and his wife, Beki, felt called to move out of their affluent west London suburb, Cris says, «Every time we read the Bible it seemed
like Jesus was going to the group no one else would go to.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O
Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you
spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was]
like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
-- Individuals have a philosophy (or several, for that matter)... unspoken or
spoken... An individual can be very much
like Jesus.
even bloggers,
like reddit, with no religious affiliation know the Bible verse were
Jesus said that «no man knows the day or the hour» in
speaking of His return.
They want to meet the real
Jesus [Girzone
speaks from experience] and learn what He is really
like....
So were Warren Jeffs [Rapist / child molester], Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Baker [Adulterous johns], Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson [preach (ed) that god punished people through bad weather and
speak like through them
Jesus comes to bring water from a rock, but taking credit for themselves] and Billy Graham [preached that
Jesus was dark skinned].
Let us not be
like the Pharisees and the Sadducees who
Jesus spoke BOLDY against.
Had to figure out who was
speaking — looked
like it was the person next to
Jesus which had me confused for a moment.
This Psalm declares boldly that «He has not abandoned the afflicted» (vs. 24)... Psalm 22 is probably one of the most graphic representations of exactly what was going on and
Jesus is declaring the reality to everyone who can hear it... by only
speaking the first phrase his hearers would immediately know the rest of the Psalm and understand... the Psalm ends with the same phrasing that
Jesus ends with, he says «It is finished» the psalm says «He has done it»... its easy to miss - see from a Greek model rather than the Hebraic model... God di not forsake Him... that is not what the Father is
like... not even slightly.
IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not
speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people
like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ
Jesus.
Jesus was
speaking to me but from a distance I couldn't hear him, I could see myself shaking my head (
like I understand) then thru my eyes I saw the house where I had been sleeping.
To this day I don't remember my words, but I
spoke to those kids about
Jesus and salvation, their mouths just dropped open and then, class was over, I walked out of that room, feeling
like I had never felt before.
only reason y i say this is because of Santification, once we give our life to the Lord, we streight way (so to
speak) begin the process of Santification, this is Christ making us
like him, and this Is SUFFERING It does nt happen over night, but for the duration of our time here, as you have said, its sort of
like sin being done unto us, and we are handleing it just
like Christ did, (with Love) of coarse with the help of the Holy Spirit, This Does NOT feel Good At ALL since our soulful flesh is Corrupt, (but our spirit is saved) This is were your trails and tribulation, your own desire, and All play apart, Now Moment by Moment we choose by our own will, And
Jesus helps in these times, as he was tempeted, but without sin, The devil can do nothing but try and decieve the Christian into thinking that he has to work for his salvation as you have said, this thing here is about your Inheritance In Christ, Its gonna be some show nought broke christian in Heaven, because their trying to set of for themseleve trasure on earth, and their is going to be weeping and gnat of teeth, but it wont be, because of their going to Hell, It will be cause they miss out on what they could have had, and it is Devistation, cause they waste so much time, and they wont be able to attend the wedding, supper of the lamb, they wont be, getting the position over city, galacy, ectt... just check it out some of the points i have made, God Bless you!
A bunch of folks — at least 5,000, but probably more
like 15,000, because the original count didn't include women and children (sorry about that, Amy)-- were clamoring to hear
Jesus speak, heal and generally just be
Jesus - y.
Even when he starts calling himself
Jesus and mellows out a bit in the sequel, he still peppers his loving -
speak with sentiments
like (and I'm paraphrasing) «bring he who does not believe to me and slay him before me.»
When
Jesus spoke of prayer I am sure he would not
like using prayer as a political rally.
He seems to imply that all who believe in God and follow
Jesus are
like the tongue -
speaking, demon - vomiting, gay - hating, environment - polluting Christians he encountered at Cornerstone Church.
Before turning to the substantive issue of where
Jesus» ideas went, I would
like to digress a moment to
speak superficially, geographically, about where
Jesus himself went:
Jesus moved to Capharnaum on the northern edge of the Sea of Galilee, chosen perhaps because it was ideally suited to the lifestyle he had in mind.
Jesus did not
speak like just a human being.
Not only in John but in all the gospels, with slight variations, we read that when
Jesus was baptized «he saw the heavens torn wide open and the Spirit
like a dove descending upon him,» while a voice
spoke from heaven.
If
Jesus thus employed a familiar way of
speaking, not just casually but in circumstances which made it the vehicle of a partly veiled assertion of his vocation, then «Son of Man» came to be something
like a self - designation replacing the traditional title of «Messiah» That is how the writers of the gospels seem to have understood it.
How can we
speak truth to power when we have abandoned the powerful language of our past and acquiesced in trivializing the powerful and revolutionary message of Christ into bumper sticker messages
like, «Honk if you love
Jesus.»?
In talking about God with images we do not say that God is such and such, we say that God is
like such and such (the same way that
Jesus spoke about the Kingdom of God in his parables).
Like Jesus» call to Lazarus, I believe
Jesus wants to
speak a powerful word of resurrection into the Church today.
Jesus said repent which means you pay for your own sins, and as
Jesus spoke of in the Parable of the Lost Coin, doing work
like cleaning and seeking diligently is all a part of repentance... Also, note that correcting something as small as a lost coin shows
Jesus's views on repentance and sins (devations from «the way, the truth, and the life — economic health of life for a lost coin).
It was a great shock to liberal Protestant theology of the turn of the century when men
like Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) and Johannes Weiss (1863 - 19I4) drew attention to the eschatological character of the New Testament and made it clear that
Jesus, his apostles, and the early churches, all lived and
spoke in a thought - world which, in important respects, is completely foreign to us.
The sense we get here is that
Jesus will not appear in the flesh as the same
Jesus of Nazareth who was
speaking, but that it would be his spirit, the Christ, the same spirit with which mankind is (or will be, or is being) anointed, that will manifest across the entire corpus of humanity,
like bright flashes of lightning seen everywhere illuminating the darkness of the clouds.
Just would
like to call attention to 1 Corinthians 1:10 — «Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ that you all
speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.»
Those who heard
Jesus speak were amazed that he
spoke «as one having authority,» and not
like the religious teachers they'd been used to hearing.
When we sense its presence, it is
like a tone of a man's voice or a light in a man's face, and we know that across the centuries we have for an instant seen
Jesus and heard him
speak.
If it is good enough for
Jesus to be baptised then its good enough reason for me to as well that was why i wanted to be baptised.He says that it was necessary to fulfill all righteousness verse 15 in that sense he could have been talking of fulfilling the requirements of the law and in
Jesus we fulfill the requirements of the law.I do nt believe that it is neccesary step to be saved as some of the gentile believers Peter
spoke to received the holy spirit before they were baptised.Its a good picture of the old being washed away and we are raised up as a new person in Christ.When i was baptised in the holy spirit and
spoke in tongues it was exactly
like a water baptism i felt the water washing over me as it washed i just started
speaking in tongues.brentnz