Sentences with phrase «comes as sacrifice»

Not exact matches

As one who came to upend and reorient the power structures around a system of love and selfless sacrifice, it's hard to imagine Jesus entrusting the hope of His Kingdom agenda to the agenda of Rome's political systems and power players.

As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30As Jephthah charged into battle with his countrymen behind him, filled with «the Spirit of the Lord» (Judges 11:29), he made a promise to God: «If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering» (v. 30as a burnt offering» (v. 30).

The «rules» for both personal responsibility and sacrifice on behalf of the collective good conflate as marriage and motherhood come into play.

As Jesus Christ is the «end of the story», it is encouraging to read the prophecies of his coming and to compare his one time sacrifice to the many and ongoing sacrifices necessary just to have a «figurative» cleansing.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

Even though Christ didn't come yet, through trusting in God, they were redeemed «on borrowed time» by the sacrifice He did for them also, as well as for us.

We who believe in Jesus» sacrifice are forgiven our sins and can pray to our Heavenly Father, who is in Heaven, whose name is hallowed, whose Kingdom has come, and whose will is done on earth as it is in Heaven.

The problem comes with seeing Christ's atoning sacrifice, as some Evangelical Protestants do, in terms of punishment.

Literal human sacrifice comes to mind as one such spiritual practice.

Tacia that is true one of my favorite verses is if we love him we will obey him thats how we express our love for him he does nt want sacrifice he wants obedience but not out of fear of judgement but because we love him with all our hearts and want to do all we can to show that we appreciate what he has done for us.The woman who offered the few mites gave everything she had the rich people gave out of there abundance.Big difference it wasnt the value it was the attitude she gave her all to God and God honored her.The verse that comes to mind that sums it all up that we are to love the Lord with all our hearts mind soul and strength and love our neighbours as ourselves.brentnz

Even in the early days, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, came to the shrine of Yahweh to pray concerning a personal and family matter, (I Samuel 1:9 ff) and in the second temple, as the Psalter reveals, the individual, as such, had part in the sacrifices, not simply as a member of the nation but in the light and right of his own private needs.

In place of the synagogue came the church; in place of circumcision came baptism; in place of the temple altars came the acceptance of Christ's sacrifice in the Lord's Supper; and while only the first suggestions of the early Catholic rubric are within the canon, these suggestions are there, presaging, as they are seen in retrospect, the repetition of all the good and evil fortunes that in every age and faith have attended sacramentalism.

Politics takes money — and that kind of money only comes from the elites of the system currently in place — and they won't sacrifice their lucrative positions to placate what they see as nothing more than an angry mob that they hope will soon disperse.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

In Hebrews 2:17 and 4:14 - 16 the Jewish cultus of the temple is brought to mind and Christ is seen as the supreme sacrifice which assuages God's anger and enables us to come before Him.

And thinking and acting more justly will come as we follow in the Way of Jesus, sacrificing ourselves on behalf of a world in need.

But these people who were doing it all wrong were not qualified priests to be performing such sacrifices that allows the killing of an animal so Krishna, the original preceptor of the Vedas, came as Buddha and told them to forget the Vedas and live a life of non-violence (ahimsa) and to just follow his precepts.

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.

You contradict yourself and coming from years of leading worship music and literally crying as I sing about His great sacrifice, you are telling me that to do so is to take away from a hooker's pain?

But when a person comes to see the ordering of sex impulse as a necessary means to serving a high good, the sacrifice of gratification can become a source of well - being.

As we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.&raquAs we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.&raquas that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.&raquas is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.&raquas you see the Day drawing near.»

Serving as a Bishop is a big sacrifice of free time for 4 - 5 years but comes with great rewards knowing you are doing a good work that helps others succeed.

And as you plan for sacrifice and cost, you can expect some of it will come in the form of friends and partners heading out the door.

Now we come to the key phrase: «whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.»

What, in part, assisted the transition to metaphor was the way in which the death of the hero for the city came to be construed by the Greeks and the Romans as equivalent to ritual sacrifice, and indeed as rendering the hero himself a fit recipient of sacrifices in turn.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

Christianity is simple: «He came down to earth as an incarnation of Himself, to sacrifice Himself to Himself in order to forgive His people, who he had made in the image of Himself, and save them from — wait for it!

«He came down to earth as an incarnation of Himself, to sacrifice Himself to Himself in order to forgive His people, who he had made in the image of Himself, and save them from — wait for it!

When the book on absurdity states things like a God made Adam and Eve and flooded the earth and came to the earth as a man to sacrifice itself to prove it was God.

Blessings on the blossoms, Blessing on the fruits, Blessings on the leaves and stems, Blessings on the roots, Loving hands together as we say, Blessings on our meal, And our time together, For all blessings come from the Lord Almighty Thank you for the sacrifice of your Son, For without Christ, we have no hope of redemption In your Son's most precious and Holy name, Amen.

That is why Christ's Sacrifice is the channel of the coming of the Holy Spirit, who is symbolised by the Blood - and - Water, that is, the living water, as Jesus had predicted (John 7:37 - 39, cf. 4:10).

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

1 Peter 2:4 - 8» 4 Coming to him as to a living stone, rejected, it is true, by men, but chosen, precious, with God, 5 YOU yourselves also as living stones are being built up a spiritual house for the purpose of a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Your disbelief in a «god who supposedly came to earth to sacrifice himself to himself as a loophole to laws that he put in place in the first place.»

Besides all that, I don't see how teaching that we are all somehow so disguisting and unworthy that we need salvation through a god who supposedly came to earth to sacrifice himself to himself as a loophole to laws that he put in place in the first place.

22 When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, «Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord» 24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: «a pair of doves or two young pigeons.»

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Is it really so complicated to understand that the cross as a symbol has come to represent More than just the God who sacrifices himself for humanity and wants us to love and respect each other?

He came to declare God, to reveal Him to mankind, and to offer Himself as sacrifice for OUR sins, so that by trusting in Him, we could be reconciled to the Father, or Creator.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

I think as a culture, we're struggling with not wanting to sacrifice enough to get to that place but also wanting deep, deep intimacy and everything that comes with that and how to get there.»

I often wonder as they came to offer sacrifices, how much in their heart did they believe that doing that performing this action actually forgave them or was it just a ritual for them.

The Mass as a sacrifice can go; the Eucharist can be seen in its «evolutionary role» as «fostering our future life and happiness together in union with the risen Christ» (pp131 - 139); the Incarnation and Christology can be reconfigured since Christ did not come to redeem or restore human beings.

And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.

It comes as no surprise that, after centuries, the Temple, the Levitical priesthood, the altar and ritual sacrifice are swept away with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies in 70AD.

Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago as the ultimate sacrifice for sin, he came as a babe, a lamb for the slaughter.

Occasionally the museum takes an impressive midrashic approach to the text, as when Adam and Eve's slaying of animals to make skins to cover themselves is seen as a hint of the sacrifices to come to repair their sin.

Therefore, dearest Father, Sir and Friar (the first title is due to your age and office, the second due to your merits, the third due to your Order), please honour me with your presence if time and your clerical or domestic duties permit and support me with your valuable presence and prayers, that my sacrifice may be acceptable to God... Perhaps you will bring along my relation Conrad, who was once sacristan at St Nicholas Church, and anyone you may wish as a travelling companion so long as he has freed himself from domestic obligations and will enjoy coming.

Lesser priests such as Zechariah, the husband of Elizabeth, were part of a highly organised structure in the hierarchy and took their turn in the «service rotas» supplying the needs of the sanctuary and those who came to offer prayers and sacrifices.

much less the reaction as the person bursts into tears because God came through... I think tithing puts giving into a legalistic box and castrates the potential for people to experience cheerful giving... because they tithe and their Christian duty is done, and then anything after that is a struggle / major sacrifice.