Sentences with phrase «act of obedience»

Many dog trainers and owners practice the «no free lunch» approach - they have the dog perform a simple act of obedience before giving him a treat or his meal.

Water Baptism is a simple act of obedience in faith, understanding, and belief, that Jesus paid the price of sin for us and only through this his blood can we gain heaven.

The dying on the Cross was the ultimate Act of Obedience by Jesus to the Father.

And faithfulness tends to happen in small, unglamorous acts of obedience — a grudge let go, a relationship pursued, a meal provided, an offer to help.

What I love about each of these stories is not just what God did with these faithful acts of obedience.

Eternal security (the belief that a person can not lose his or her salvation) is rejected, since Mormon salvation is based in large part on acts of obedience after an initial faith experience.

Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse (Colquhoun, A Treatise).

True spiritual surrender is far from passive — it is a willful act of obedience (Rom.

In other words, the real authority of the Bible lies in rescuing Christian ethics from platitudes about goodness and love, and in summoning people to specific acts of obedience and justice.

And I wonder if Jesus wasn't reminding his disciples that faith isn't manifested in flashy magic tricks, or pointless, self congratulatory displays of power, or in destruction and uprooting, but in daily acts of faithfulness — those quotidian acts of obedience that grow the kingdom, one carefully tended little mustard seed at a time.

It's an act of obedience and the desire to «wash» away the old self.

«Equal this Act of Obedience» challenges the Father to all Mankind.

When we believe in Jesus Christ and trust him alone for salvation — that's an act of obedience — not forsaking one's sin before repentance — that's lordship salvation.

They believe that baptism is merely an act of obedience or of public confession of the personal faith, after someone has become a believer.

Water does not save but it is a part of the act of obedience in regards to salvation and we know that the thief on the cross was saved unless you regard that as a different part of salvation.

It is in acts of obedience that we grow in the knowledge and love of God.

An act of obedience and a declaration, absolutely, a joining to a community, and a glimpse of resurrection all at once.

Eid al - Adha commemorates when God appeared to Abraham - known as Ibrahim to Muslims - in a dream and asked him to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience.

Baptism is an act of obedience in the life of the born - again.

It was a terrifying — and liberating — move, and an act of obedience to the Spirit of God.

And often, it is in the act of obedience that we stumble upon that elusive, indescribable thing that we all have in common: the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead living in each one of us.

The path of suffering which Jesus chose to tread, the agony in Gethsemane, and the cry of dereliction from the cross, all reveal the intensity of faith, just by virtue of the uncertainty that marked each act of obedience.

The image of the cross remains central, but gets defined more as an act of mercy done for the sake of the oppressed than as an act of obedience to God's will.

For faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.10

The blood of Jesus pays the debt (nothing i could do to pay the debt) and when I believe on him I shall be saved, then I must act on my belief and line up to the Word of God, which tells me to be baptized (not a work but an act of obedience) Mark 16:16 says He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned.

Even in acts of obedience to God there is an inner contradiction.

For what is this act of obedience but the exploration of the outskirts of the terrible mysteries of God?

But, as several folks have already pointed out, it is an act of obedience, not to mention a remembrance of what our Lord did on the cross for us.

This act of obedience to God by an obscure man was one of the most important events in the religious history of the human race.

This individuals see baptism as an act of obedience of the believer after he has become a believer.

For he would have missed exactly the obedience which Jesus desires; he would imagine that he could achieve and present an act of obedience when obedience is not really present as the determining factor of his life.

Even still: most of the blessings we receive don't come within 90 days of an act of obedience.

Before: I primarily experience God through religious rituals and acts of obedience.

Ishola who quoted various portions of the Qur» an and Hadith to justify his position, said hijab was a commandment from Allah and thus wearing it was an act of obedience to His commands.