If
abiding with Christ was automatic, these genuinely saved apostles would not have denied Christ, or fled from Christ when things got scary.
Abiding with Christ, or remaining with Him, is a prominent theme in John 14 - 17, and the first letter of John, and in both contexts it seems that to abide with Christ simply means to always be aware of His presence.
What is often neglected in these ministries is that the emphasis in the context of these Scriptures is not on the kind of faith or the amount of faith, but on
abiding with Christ and asking according to the will of God.
To
abide with Christ means to talk with Him and go through life with Him as you would someone who is always by your side.
What does it mean to
abide with Christ?
Praying according to God's will is not difficult, if we learn to pray Scripture and
abide with Christ by being aware of His constant presence.
Not exact matches
One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination
with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the
Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the
abiding Signpost in the desert.
What more can we ask for than an
abiding awareness of the presence of
Christ in our lives, and a growing capacity to
abide with others?
It speaks of
abiding in
Christ, having uninterrupted fellowship
with Him in our day to day life.
But if you refuse to
abide, if you refuse to stay in fellowship
with Him, and
with Christ, and
with other Christians, then there is nothing God can do to force you to produce fruit.
It is a matter of
abiding in
Christ, living together
with Him and
with other believers in a world that desperately needs to see the oneness of the Believer and
Christ.
Like a curate or vicarius (vicar) whose office is integrated into that of the parish priest («Curates come and go, but the parish priest
abides forever»), so it is
with the Pope in relation to
Christ.
This Christian Church, which started
with the confession: Jesus
Christ is Lord, will
abide by this confession, lest it betray its true foundation.
He hates God, he hates Jesus
Christ His Son
with all the hatred he has, and he will do anything in his power to separate those human beings which God created for Himself to fellowship
with, who by loving Him and allowing Him to become their Lord, become His living temples, where He
abides in their hearts, from God who created them.
Jesus said if love the Lord
with all our heart and all our mind and strength and love our neighbour as ourselves we fulfill the Law.The truth is none of us can live it without the holy spirit and
abiding in
Christ only in him can we do that.We are no longer bound by the Law which brought condemnation and death but have been set free through
Christ righteousness which we receive by faith.
In fact he said that given our Lady's relationship to
Christ, and that the Eucharist is
Christ, we can call her a «woman of the Eucharist in her whole life» (EdE53 and
Abide with Us Lord 10).
Christ is the only substitute and we must
abide in fellowship
with him to be safe.
Objective The identify the significance of different forms of music used in worship and how music expresses Catholic beliefs about eternal life,
with reference to Faure's Requiem Powerpoint lesson that includes examples of funeral music (Faure's requiem,
Abide with me, Face to face
with Christ my Saviour).
The saga of hardship and enduring love both Will and Katherine had for
Christ, along
with their
abiding love for each and for the people they ministered to in countless ways is indeed very moving, inspirational and poignant.