Sentences with phrase «by grace when»

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Each person's compliance with the minimum stock ownership level will be determined on the date when this compliance grace period expires, and then annually on each December 31, by multiplying the number of shares held by such person and the average closing price of those shares during the preceding month.
The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.
It should be one of our main concerns to know what God intends when the Bible uses this language, so that by God's grace we may experience it and help others do the same.
When I was reluctant to receive that, he pointed me to the women and children I had rescued, and said, «Every day those women have a choice to make, whether they will live and be defined by shame or by grace».
As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.
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
When a pious ruler emerges that means a very great intervention by God in history, infinite grace.
When believers die and go to Heaven, God will be glorified by his Mercy and Grace.
In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.
When I drove by and saw those Jesus hands lifted up it made think of the love, grace, mercy, and hope that gives light in a dark world.
satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz
I appreciate ur grace based article but hope to understand Heb 12 disciplinary action by the Father when / if God gets angry with sin... any insight?
Thus Mary and I felt rescued when we were invited to join the staff of Grace Church, New York City, by FitzSimons Allison, who was then Rector there and who himself had been a lonely voice in the Episcopal seminaries.
For me, it was a showing of considerable grace when Tony chose to pause his previous criticisms and piece together a response that extended some humanity to someone who has clearly been called out — by Tony multiple times and now, it seems, by all of Christianity.
I love it when I am teaching about grace, and someone in the class objects by saying, «But if what you are saying is true, then why can't I just go sin all I want?»
Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.
They can not understand that repentance is when we humbly bow before God and receive forgiveness by Grace.
«Even when we were dead through our trespasses, God made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with him» (Eph.
Being unhindered and unburdened by self - awareness, there is a sincere expression that comes through when their young voices ring out with the melodies and lyrics reflecting the deepest mysteries of grace — mysteries they may not fully understand as they sing.
Paul explains to us in Romans 5 that if God, by His grace, can save us while we were yet sinners, it is a simple thing for Him to keep us when we are justified and righteous in His eyes (5:6 - 11).
Your grace is pleaded to continue that climb for America and the world... We ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously but cautiously when confronted with danger and to act prudently but deliberately when challenged by adversity.
Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»
(I hear so many Christians that take v 13 as a comforting promise, when in actuality it is a most solemn warning — God has made salvation available by His extension of Grace through faith that He enables in us by revealing Himself to us.
More important and more basic than that, it is because God's own purpose of self - expression does not there expect and provide for such adequacy as was achieved by him once for all in human regard, when by his prevenient preparation, his concomitant grace, and his effectual action he was «made flesh» in the person of Jesus Christ.
... and it happens, too, when words upon the printed page fall into place, and fit the moment and the heart and, by undivided Grace, what lies within, what lies without, converges into deepest sight.
Indeed, he believes that when the Catholic Church formally responded to the teaching of the Reformation at the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s (known as the Counter-Reformation), it denied the most important truth that scripture gives us: that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
When the Pope's highly anticipated encyclical, Laudato Si finally appeared, Detroit's Archbishop Allen Vigneron summed up its significance by calling it «a moment of grace
And by the same grace, sinful men and women could learn to call this Jesus the Son of God, a step beyond what they knew of sonship from the Old Testament — when Israel had been named Son of God (Exod.
«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.
My experience from helping people struggling with life and misery bears out what you described when you said «He destroys sin by tearing it apart from the inside, not violently, but through love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and revelation.
Thank God by his Grace we have eternity and will see heaven one day when we die.
I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz
Joel — You should assume that your soul needs to be saved because you are in essence turning your back on the God that created you by saying — I don't believe in you and I don't need you — So when you die and you no longer have the amazing grace of God that keeps us all alive here on earth and provides for all of your needs (whether you acknowledge Him or not).
And then — just when the fishing business was picking up again and your family beginning to let you hack into its good graces — Bartholomew had come over the hill and found you down by the lake shore mending the fishing nets.
i do nt know wheather you are still living in Law or Grace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and HGrace, but thats what i encourage you to find out, cause nothing seem to make since, when your still trying to live under the Law, you must except the free gift of righteousness by grace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hgrace through faith, if not, you will always come under condemnation, I experience this for years, Oh Thank God I Am Free, Read Romans, Galation, and ephisans, and Hebews
Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
The key phrase in Paul's Letter to the Ephesians is this: ``... even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have you been saved)» (Eph.
Though few of us will literally die for our spouse, by valuing their needs above our own, helping them to flourish and extending grace particularly when their limitations cost us, we deal death blows to our selfishness and pride.
By the way, I have read of a novel type of Arminian Prevenient Grace called «individualistic Prevenient Grace» which is applied to an individual when he or she first hears or reads the gospel message.
And when Jesus says that no one can come to Him unless it was granted to him by the Father, this is seen as proof for Irresistible Grace.
Perhaps the Eastern Christian Tradition can provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when Religious Traditions experienced Grace more deeply by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.
For example, when Luther treated Mary he tended to depict her as a model for justification by grace alone — that is, as further evidence for what he already believed.
We Evangelicals and Catholics gratefully acknowledge our unity in being reconciled to God through Christ, and pray for the day when that unity can be expressed and strengthened by agreement on all the means of grace that Christ intends for his Church.
So when a Mormon speaks of salvation by grace, he is usually referring to universal resurrection.
But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.
When a person «accepts Jesus» into his or her life, they admit that they are the guilty one, that nothing they can do can make up for all of their sin, and that only by receiving God's grace can they become righteous.
But when, saved by grace and faith, man finds a new self, the old and all - spoiling self has to release its tyrannical hold on his life.
Men know how selfish they are when they are scrutinized from the perspective of the absolute, and this must come before society can be healed by grace.25 Such preaching involves a pitiless analysis of the motives and self - justification of man.
Insofar as this authorization of freedom towards absolute being is experienced as absolute nearness to this goal permitted by grace, the character of creaturely freedom becomes clearer when this goal opens itself, even though this experience can become objective only through its interpretation in supernatural revelation and in faith.
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
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