Sentences with phrase «consequences of obedience»

It means we have the protection of One who bears the very consequences of obedience to Him.

This freedom through learning is a consequence of obedience to truth.

Man's power is nature's power released to him in consequence of his obedience to truth.

Not exact matches

We can imitate the one man with the distorted conception of God, and thus disobey with the consequence of death, or we can be imitators of the other man who came right from the bosom of God with a perfect, exact conception of God, and who trusted his faithfulness in obedience, and received the gift of life.

Adam's eagerness to snatch the prize of equality with God — the desire of Everyman to set himself up in the place of God as absolute master of a world which is really not his own, but God's — is replaced by the second Adam's total self - surrender: his obedience to the point of accepting the death of the Cross; death which paradoxically leads to life, whereas the consequence of Adam's self - glorification proved to be death.

To walk in love and obedience to Him, or suffer the «eternal» consequences instead of everyone suffering the temporal all at once.

We can not make a chronological distinction between faith and obedience, nor determine which is the logical consequence of the other.

In Conscience and Obedience, William Stringfellow has it right, I think: «The principalities (governments, institutions, and even the church) are autonomous in relation to humans; they are created beings in their own right, not simply projections of human life, and their demonic character as fallen powers is no mere consequence of human sin either personal or corporate.»

He goes to great lengths to show that the effort to overcome the consequences of idolatry by obedience to law is not successful.

When humans persist in sin despite God's frequent attempts to call them toward obedience and to warn them of what will happen if they continue down the path they are on, there comes a point where sometimes, God simply withdraws His hand of protection and allows people to suffer the consequences for their sin, for chaos to reign, and for Satan to bring death and destruction.

But it does imply, as a consequence of these characteristics, that we surrender in obedience to its demand for inclusiveness and breadth.

The woman, for her part, also says the thing which is not, albeit in innocence: she answers not the question that was asked, says more than was called for, identifies the forbidden tree as the one «in the midst of the garden,» adds «neither shall ye touch it» to the prohibition, and, most importantly, converts the predicted consequences of disobedience («for in the day thou eatest thereof, dying you will die»; 2:17) into the reason for obedience («Ye shall not eat of it... lest you die»; 3:3).

The force of this first conversation, begun by the Bible's first question, is to call into question authority and obedience; by challenging the goodness (3:1) and the truthfulness (3:4) of the author, by denying the announced consequences of disobedience (3:4 - 5), and by suggesting attractive alternative benefits of eating (i.e., goods beyond food and sex, namely, godlikeness though knowledge [3:5]-RRB-, speech and reason erode the force of the prohibition.

The staple of LCMS preaching was the three - point sermon: you have sinned and by that sin merited eternal separation from God; Christ died to save you from the consequences of your sins; you should in grateful response strive to live in obedience to God's will.

The language of the rebuke might have still contained elements of blessing for obedience, and cursing for disobedience, as these were consequences stated within the law (Deut 28), but it is doubtful that God would have accused the people of robbing Him in the same way that He was accusing the priests.

If you don't continue to exert some control over the consequences of your dog's behaviour, his obedience will become unreliable.

One of the best methods for instilling obedience in your dog is creating a rewards and consequences system.

The game's equation of obedience = failure could be seen as a roundabout way of simply saying don't obey, but setting it up as a choice changes the player's perception makes it a meaningful and purposeful decision whose inevitably deadly consequences carry more weight.

Fact:» [1] Fathers who reported strong authoritarian views were involved relatively less in weekday caregiving, playing, teaching, and nighttime soothing and in weekend teaching during early infancy... Attitudes consistent with authoritarian parenting, in which demands for obedience and behavioral control of children are prominent, appear to have lasting, negative effects on fathering even early in life, long before parent - child conflicts and matters of discipline become common...» [2] Consistent with prior work linking maternal attitudes and father involvement, fathers engaged in relativelyless caregiving, playing, and teaching on weekends during early infancy when their partners held highly protective attitudes... Although an initial lack of experience or support might be expected to diminish father involvement over time, relations between maternal protective attitudes and fathers» relative involvement did not hold longitudinally... the lack of longitudinal relations may suggest that father involvement is primarily self - determined and that mothers» attitudes are in part a consequence of how involved fathers actually are in childrearing.»