Sentences with phrase «words of judgment»

When that people nevertheless rebelled against God's rule, he constantly wept and worried over them, repeatedly forgiving their waywardness and sending them prophets to speak his words of judgment and mercy.

The «voice of the Lord» in the storms of Psalm 29, in John's words of judgment and promise, and in Jesus» baptism suggests that presumption is a decidedly inappropriate response to our belovedness.

He had to become a virtuoso in the Word of God before he could speak words of judgment against the people of God.

In «fear and trembling» we hear these words of judgment spoken in the shadow of the cross.

Words of judgment do not necessarily achieve self - disclosure for those who will not see.

Dr. John Bennett remarks in his discussion of the Gospel record that the recorded words of judgment spoken by Jesus against the faithless generation, the exploiting groups, and the pride of the «righteous» are more prominent than the words of forgiveness.6

Luther's theology seeks to stay close to the perspective of the self addressed by God's words of judgment and promise; Aquinas» theology seeks to view all things as much as possible from the viewpoint of God's all - encompassing wisdom, in which the human mind is allowed to participate.

The New Testament Gospels portray Jesus as speaking against the oppressors of his people with prophetic words of judgment that focus extensively on issues of money and power.

The prophet, in consequence, feels himself called upon by means of the speech of invective to interpret and direct, to point and apply the word of judgment, the revealed Word of Yahweh.

It is his prophetic obligation to determine how, in what context, when and to whom, and in what way most effectively this word of judgment is to be delivered.

Must we as Christians offer only an ideal or a word of judgment?

They made it difficult for the Christian faith to relate itself in a word of judgment and redemption to the newly developing culture and intellectual life of America.

So identified were they with the new cause, that they had difficulty both in relating themselves to the old and in pronouncing the ever - needed word of judgment on the new.

As growing numbers of ministers and teachers began to speak a word of judgment against the society of their day, a movement arose at Grinnell College, in Iowa, crying for the complete reconstruction of society on the basis of the New Testament teachings.

For just one example, consider Jonah's word of judgment to Nineveh: in forty days, Ninevah will be overthrown (Jonah 3:4).

It is also worth emphasizing that God's word of judgment often leads to repentance and ends in mercy and redemption.

Implicit in the word of judgment was an invitation to repent.

God in His freedom raises up men who speak His word of judgment against all «holy» orders and institutions.

It is confronted by a word of judgment from beyond the desires, expectations and ideals of its members.

If it is a word of judgment, the preacher will speak the word in pain.

Let the positive word come first, so that the gospel may undercut the fears which cause men to harden their minds and hearts against any criticism; but then the word of judgment is needed to prevent all that is positive in the gospel from creating false peace of mind in personal life or complacency about our national culture.

Have we accepted only the gentleness and love of God and quietly set aside the word of judgment?

That is the Word of judgment that YHWH speaks in history.

We have come more and more to mirror our culture, or certain strands within it, rather than to speak to it an effective word of judgment or healing.

From the wording of the judgment, it appears that HMRC's arguments may to some extent have been contradictory.

Not exact matches

She said: «But it is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market — in other words, how far away we are from a full - employment economy.»

While judicial review still occurs in many of the Fed's regulatory determinations, in places where value judgments are of the most consequence, the Fed's lawyer is the first and last word on what the law allows or forbids.

We should remember his words: «It was the greatest and boldest operation ever undertaken by the Federal Reserve System, and, in my judgment, resulted in one of the most costly errors committed by it or any banking system in the last 75 years.

igaftr, Matthew 12:36 - 37 — But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

------ My Quote for you was the verse 2:214 explaining that we are passing a test of good and bad, what was our choice we will be rewarded for it... ------ my own words are of my own Holy Book... and what I do is out of my Iman in the words of this book and my Iman that by what am doing is «All in support of God and his messengers» may I by that deserve the mercy of God before death, after death and on resurrection, judgment date...!?

36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

At the last judgment, the Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us, Christ «will pronounce the final word on all history.

Sometimes, headlines are so compelling, that people will simply make a judgment based on 9 words of summary instead of the 600 words of nuanced, information - heavy copy the headline is referencing.

Man may be more lost in our age, but God — who sustains all things at all times, who knows the secrets of every heart, and who will have the last, fair word at the judgment of each soul — is always close.

Since, then, we degenerate to the very level of the devil and observe his will more than the Word of our Lord God, it must follow that we are obliged to share this judgment.

Matthew 12:26 — But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment...

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Ordinarily the word designates the residence of the chief Roman official, where cases were often tried and judgment pronounced.

These words sound more like John than like Jesus, though we must beware of letting our judgment be warped by the traditional «gentle Jesus, meek and mild.»

The conventional literary - critical judgment that the following verses (17 - 19) were not part of the original unit is doubtless correct, but the standard critical conclusions on vs. 16 — fragmentary, a corrupt text, distorted in transmission, et cetera — result from the failure to recognize the difference in form and the functional relationship between Scheltrede and Drohwort, the deliberated and composed invective called forth by the received Word, the divine threat or judgment.

In the second it is entirely at the Inspiration and direction of the Word that the prophet devastatingly confronts and convicts the king, and it is the content of the Word which he then pronounces in judgment («Thus says Yahweh!»

The promise of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel is eminently applicable to the preaching in which he is proclaimed: «Verily I say unto you, He that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not unto judgment, but hath passed out of death into life....

Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»

A radical Christian would interpret these words as meaning that the glory of the God of the old covenant is abolished, for apart from an abolition of the God of judgment, there remains no possibility of transforming humanity into the likeness or image of the glory of Christ.

Be careful and slow to speak when it comes to the MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST because the word of GOD says Matthew 12:36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment GOD BLESS THE BELIEVERS

The words said to us on Ash Wednesday as our truth, our comfort and our indictment are written in Scripture at the beginning of the history of mankind; they are a statement and a judgment of what man is from the beginning.

Since no one else in the New Testament uses this Greek word for hell to talk about hell, I surveyed a dozen texts that mention two possible outcomes of final judgment, to see what words they do use to discuss the dreadful option.

Contrasting judgments often arise from studying the Niagara of words that justified the American War for Independence — together with all the words that circulated anxiously during the parlous years under the Confederation Congress — which rose to a great flood in the period 1787 to 1790 in....

If you are burdened by your sin, and you are distressed about God's judgment coming upon you, take note of this word!