Sentences with phrase «become flesh of his flesh»

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

As fellow participant Ya» ke Smith wrote, «Subjects that we'd hoped to explore... became flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone.»

Not exact matches

To glimpse the depth of love that is at work in this blessed exchange (our mortality becoming his, his immortality becoming ours) we need to discern the depth of humiliation behind it; and for that, we need to understand that mortality and corruption really are alien to his divine nature.Our Lord was not forced to lower himself so far as to share our materiality, flesh, and death.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

that's not being a chaplain: she's there as a representative of the God who spoke — the God who became «the Word in the flesh.»

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God» (St. John 1)

She became firm like adamant and unmovable — so much that the demons would cry out at her, «This is a woman, but she is stone, and instead of flesh she is iron!

As Hamann writes, «All philosophical resistance and the entire riddle of our existence, the impenetrable night of its terminus a quo and terminus ad quem, are dissolved by the charter of the Word become flesh.»

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

He said He would build His church on those getting the understanding «NOT» from «Flesh and Blood» and this would be the large rock (Petra) of which Simon had become a small rock (Petros or Peter).

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

«The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage» (March) is a clear articulation of the importance of marriage in Christian theology and the need for churches to remain faithful to Christian teaching.

The Evangelicals and Catholics Together statement «The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage» was an appropriate summary of the many articles on this question in First Things.

The Son of God, by becoming flesh, summoned us to the revolution of tenderness.»

Then, this plan became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ and tabernacled among us.»

For the virgin it is perhaps the desire to bear flesh from her flesh, for the faithful husband it is perhaps the desire to once — just once — be unfaithful, to taste the opposite of what has become a life style.

We like to say that being ordinary was part of the game plan when God became flesh... not an oversight.

It's because the Son of God became flesh and emptied himself of his omniscience.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Only the true word of god, the one that became flesh, Jesus, shows us how god really is and how to see and deal with the human / error sides of the bible.

To be sure, the Word became flesh, identified with us, was tempted in every way as we are, knew the common human condition of suffering and death, and in that identification provided us with not only an example but an intercessor who understands our infirmities.

Its instinctive tendency, therefore, is to become a religion of the Word alone rather than of the Word made flesh.

Through our thoughts and our human experiences, we long ago became aware of the strange properties which make the universe so like our flesh:

5:19) The Gospel of John tells us of the mystery of salvation concretized in Christ's dwelling among us: «And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us» (1 -14).

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

Christ became flesh to remain flesh, to become a living symbol for the man of radical faith living in the time of the death of God.

The God of innocence, after passing through self - annihilation, becomes the God of total experience and flesh.

To this exhortation, in Mark and Matthew, Jesus adds a gentle expression of sympathetic insight (Mk 14:38; Mt 26:41) that has become proverbial: «The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.»

Remembering the radical Christian affirmation that God has fully and totally become incarnate in Christ, we must note that neither the Incarnation nor the Crucifixion can here be understood as isolated and once - and - for - all events; rather, they must be conceived as primary expressions of a forward - moving and eschatological process of redemption, a process embodying a progressive movement of Spirit into flesh.

Folks need to stop paying attention to the sins of the flesh (meaning the lies in this world) and read Jesus» truth how to think and become spiritually minded through life.

He, we believe, is the eternal Logos who became flesh in order to reconcile man to God and reveal the underlying reason of all things.

23 If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, 24 and he is merciful to him, and says, «Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; 25 let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor»; 26 then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.

And in the fullness of time the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.

[1] «a conjugal act which is suitable in itself for the procreation of offspring, to which marriage is ordered by its nature and by which the spouses become one flesh», as the Code of Canon Law # 1061 § 1 puts it.

The ironic tragedy is that God willed us precisely to become co-sharers of the Divine Nature through the Word made flesh.

This is because the movement of the energy of passion is kenotic or sacrificial, both in origin and in goal: therefore an energy becoming actualized or incarnate in the flesh must be self - subdued in self - annihilation.

It was pride on my part that stopped me entering into that deeper walk i wanted to do it in my strength but we can not the more we walk according to the flesh the more of a foothold the enemy has on us so we struggle.When we crucify the flesh and the works of the flesh and draw closer to God and rely on him we become as he is and that is who we are called to be.So we do not fail but continue to overcome in his strength not looking to the flesh at all but to Christ.You and i were called to be overcomers more than conquerers.May the Lord continue to strengthen you in your walk and faith as you grow in him.Your brother in Christ brentnz

The Bible, in a similar way, as the Word of God is secondary to the Word or Logos who became flesh in Jesus Christ The Bible, like the creeds, points beyond itself to a living relationship with God in Christ.

The issue in Romans, in Jewett's reading, is not humanity's alienation from God because of sin and the ways in which sin is revealed through boasting over others and in which the law becomes implicated through the deep urges of the flesh.

3:16: «He was manifested in the flesh»; and above all of the classic formula of John 1:14: «The Word became flesh.»

It means that the Christian Word becomes fully incarnate in the concrete actuality of human flesh, that it is present wherever that which has been becomes anew, or wherever the present seeks fulfillment in a redemptive and eschatological future.

The two become one flesh, but not the same way as the beasts of the field.

This insight of Christian faith has been expressed in the phrase «the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.»

Alas, it is only useless and unused when you will not let yourself be helped by it up to the highest — for perhaps you killed the wish and became spiritually like dead flesh that feels no pain, otherwise it is just at the point of the wish that the sufferer winces and that the Eternal comforts.

Vulnerability to mere flesh; vulnerability to the law; vulnerability to death: these will be the signs of the power of the One coming in, the signs of his confidence in us, in what we can become, and in what he can make of us.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

He writes: «The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son.»

In the old tent, the glory of God hid behind curtains, but the Word's tent of flesh was transparent to glory: The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and we beheld His glory.

How can a book, even the Book, substitute for the clear and concrete symbolism of sacrifice on the part of our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, who became flesh and suffered on the cross for our sake?