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Not exact matches
John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor
with you...» Left out
of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence
of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for
God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your
hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»
So it had better be good and not some second
hand or half baked notion as he also famously wrote, «I want the presence
of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do
with religion... I want all that
God has or I don't want any.»
Just think
of him, hanging on that cross,
with nails pounded into his wrists and ankles (not
hands and feet like you christurds think), and a lance wound in his side, and he's dying and suffering and since he's
god — he can look down through time and then he sees YOU, Sheila, doing what he expressly told you NOT to do, and you made his suffering just THAT MUCH GREATER.
he is consistently GENTLE
with those far from
God (the Sadducees are the only exception I can think
of off
hand) and consistently HARSH
with those who * think * they are so close to
God (like you & me).
But we...
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory
of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit
of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right
hand of the throne
of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)
in the midst
of all this opposition, I still try to bear witness / preach / teach the kingdom
of God with the hope that a believer or a non-believer will have that aha or revelatory moment and truly realize the kingdom
of heaven is in deed at
hand, and one can actually live the kingdom life even while in this world.
My situation
with God was in tact and I simply needed one
of His reps to hold my
hand and link me once again
with my Lord.
By chapter 11, even after
God has purged the world
with a flood, we see righteous Noah's wayward descendants once again impressed
with their own
God - given ability to shape culture and seeking to replace him
with the work
of their own
hands.
I am a little astonished at the ease
with which a man who spent so many years immersed in serious theological dispute should suppose himself able to discern the
hand of God at work in our world.
One could also be terrified
of dying, or war or a million other realistic things... We need to deal
with our myriad fears somehow, and to believe that
God has matters in
hand, is actually helpful.
To Ephriam: Yes, my belief system is made up
of a living trinity
with God at the head; Jesus at the right
hand and the Holy Spirit in an intrinsic spot.
«Perfect Justice» for you may mean cutting off your wife's
hand if she touches the genitals
of someone ATTACKING you, but
God's ideas certainly don't ALL jibe
with those
of most INTELLIGENT people.
I bring
with me 172 witnesses that also experienced the same conversion on separate subsequent events and I can attest to their changed lives and new found ability to see the
hand of God which they previously rejected.
It is a verb that means to have intimate knowledge beforehand
of those whom
God elected to salvation and it goes
hand in
hand with the word «predestination.»
The mythical friend Gabriel was the mythical friend
of Jesus the Messaih accompanying him all time as per the Quran readings... this mythical friend is the right
hand for
God and was sent to nearly all messengers
of God to deliver teachings from
God to his messengers and Gabriel is the only Angel that has minimum number
of wings reaching the sixth heaven as a limit... as per my readings and narrow knowledge... Reality you are playin
with fire here show respect even if you are agnostic about all as you are only human and do not know the unknown
of see the unseen or touch the untouched or feel the unfelt because even when you are alone you are not alone.
Deut 20:12 - 16 And if it will make no peace
with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: And when the LORD thy
God hath delivered it into thine
hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof
with the edge
of the sword
But the voice that tells Abraham not to lay his
hand on the young boy is a messenger
of YHVH, the four letters that Jewish tradition identifies
with the embodiment
of God as the Transformer and Liberator from Egypt.
It's a simple story, but one that beautifully captures the heart
of the Easter story: a
God who enters our winter world as a child and, on a tree,
with nailscarred
hands and feet, brings the spring so that we too may join him in his own garden one day.
To make this claim is not to say, however, that the genius
of human creativity is always identical
with God's
hand at work.
They would not work; for Calvin, the common human obligation is to labor in the garden
of the Lord, in whatever manner is commensurate
with one's
God «given gifts and abilities on the one
hand, and the needs
of the situation on the other.
The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message
of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as
God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on
of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money
with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.
Unless
God himself came down and wrote those words with his own divine hands, those are words of men who believe to have been influenced by g
God himself came down and wrote those words
with his own divine
hands, those are words
of men who believe to have been influenced by
godgod.
Augustine's language is helpful here because it respects the mystery
of God's sovereignty on the one
hand and the fact
of his interactivity
with the finite and fragile world.
That the church ought to be put back in the
hands of the lay people — those wanting a closer life
with God?
Yet some Christians who believe and trust in
God are credited
with discoveries that lead to the importance
of medical
hand washing.
Revelation 14:9 - 10... 9 Then a third angel followed them, saying
with a loud voice, «If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his
hand, 10 he himself shall also drink
of the wine
of the wrath
of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup
of His indignation.
As Jephthah charged into battle
with his countrymen behind him, filled
with «the Spirit
of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to
God: «If you give the Ammonites into my
hands, whatever comes out
of the door
of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30).
May we proclaim the Kingdom
of God, your beautiful ways,
with our
hands and our feet and our voice and our pens to every soul in our care and influence.
May we proclaim the Kingdom
of God, your wild counter-cultural upside - down - kingdom beautiful ways,
with our
hands and our feet and our voice to every soul in our care and influence.
Now that I have fallen in step
with the man from Nazareth, I want to walk where he walked into the brokenness
of this life, and see the Kingdom
of God at
hand.
Christ illumines the relationship between the grace
of God and those
with bloody
hands in such a way that we can work
with God in the salvation
of creation.
we are walking
with God, holding his
hand, in step wherever we go, whatever we do, «important» to the eyes
of the world or not.
* Acts 5:31 Him hath
God exalted
with his right
hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness
of sins.
but if anyone truley had
God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your
hands and asking
God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy
of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved
God because No one
with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love
God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in
God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage
of this.
Pastors assured the parishioners that
God didn't do any
of this and was wringing his
hands on the sidelines, and feeling bad for us, like a maiden aunt
with the vapors.
Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The
God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord
of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made
with hands; 25 nor is He served by human
hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation
of mankind to live on all the face
of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries
of their habitation, 27 that they would seek
God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one
of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some
of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»
Hebrew 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne
of God.
Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths
of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres
of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is
of the whiteness
of snow, whose eyes are
of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose
hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode
of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out
with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my
God.»
We all will have to taste death and then raise on that day for accountability and there will be family reunion in heavens and outside
of heavens where no one wish to be... what a great loss for the one who would be reunited outside
of the heavens like the people
of Noah who did not believe in him, people
of Lot did things that they were not supposed to do, pharaoh
with his army and many more... on the other
hand Noah
with the ones who believed in him, Abraham and his family who are submitted as Abraham submitted to The One
God Almighty, Lot and his daughters and many more...
O
God of every nation,
of every race and land, redeem the whole creation
with your almighty
hand; where hate and fear divide us and bitter threats are hurled, in love and mercy guide us and heal our strife - torn world.
On the other
hand, the fact that
God created other creatures and saw that they were good quite independently
of their relation to human beings does not mean that each creature is
of equal value
with every other.
The Office
of Readings for the solemnity
of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one
of St. Augustine's sermons «de Ascensione Domini,» in which the learned Bishop
of Hippo takes as his text Colossians 3:1 - 2: «If then you have been raised
with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated, at the right
hand of God.
With hope for the future, not in any illusory «progress
of mankind onward and upward forever,» but in the confidence that the issues for time and eternity are in the
hands of God, remarkable staying power is generated even in the midst
of what appears to be social retrogression.
Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy
of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life
of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people
with the tangible realities
God had entrusted to human
hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.
The new life in Christ, the consequent transformation
of all their hopes and expectations, the sense
of fresh power to achieve the hitherto impossible, the vital awareness
of the change which had been effected in their relations
with God, the confidence
of sin forgiven and
of restoration to divine favor, the «joy in the holy Spirit,» and confident looking forward to great events still to come, and soon, as the result
of Christ's exaltation at
God's right
hand and
of his promised coming as Redeemer and Judge — all this lies behind the choice and the use
of technical terms or concepts borrowed, first
of all, from current Jewish messianism.
When it comes to living life and loving others,
God is not as concerned
with the cleanliness
of our
hands or the perceived purity
of our words, but
with the attitude and motivation
of our hearts.
In the Easter experience the disciples were assured «that
God himself had intervened
with almighty
hand in the wicked and rebellious activity
of the world, and had snatched this Jesus
of Nazareth from the power
of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord
of the world.»
Pentecostals combine a Wesleyan optimism
of grace, grounded in spiritual encounters,
with a premillennial perspective that places the consummation
of the kingdom fully in the
hands of God.
This means on the one
hand that in spite
of the tension between his faith and his public acts, peace is made
with God.