Sentences with phrase «covenant persons»

Those whose status is relatively unhappy or unfortunate through no circumstance of their own creation are to receive compensation from the law and the community: they are covenant persons.

Nothing will stop God from keeping his promises to Israel and those who repent and become the covenant people of the Lord.

And although the Bible recognizes the existence of individual non-Jewish monotheists, they are regarded in one way or another as «invisible» extensions of the covenanted people of Israel.

Their cherished expectations of what it meant to be the covenant people had crumbled along with the destruction of Jerusalem.

In sharp contrast to the Old Testament testimonies to the wrath of God and the yearning of God for the covenant people to mend their ways, Clement wrote, «God is impassible, free of anger, destitute of desire» (4.23).

And the everlasting love that God has for God's covenant people, articulated throughout the Old Testament, comes to fruition for Christians in the embodiment of divine love manifest in Jesus Christ.

Yet Christians believe that He chose Abraham (and not any other person in the ancient world), and from Abraham's descendants (through Isaac, but not through Ishmael, and through Jacob, but not Esau), He created for Himself a covenant people.

Then, at a particular time, in a particular place, among this particular covenant people, He became a particular man, Jesus Christ.

If the FPCJG of Rom 8:29 - 30 is an unbreakable chain of salvation that occurs for ALL of God's covenant people, then the «calling» of that passage can not possibly be the explicit NT gospel call of I Corinthians 15:3 - 4, because clearly not ALL of God's elect were given the privilege of hearing and believing the explicit NT gospel call during their natural lives (Job 9:2, I Kings 14:13, Ephesians 3:5, Colossians 1:26, and Jeremiah 31:15 - 17 + Matthew 2:16 - 18).

Destruction is predicated on the present faithless and rebellious structure of the total life of the covenant people.

Now, in the mind of classical prophetism Israel was destined to «return to the land of Egypt» (Hosea 11:5) as Yahweh's judgment for her failure to fulfill herself as the covenant people.

Historical studies have made clear that both under the Old and the New Covenants the people and the book were far more closely associated than was once thought to be the case.

They record the inception of the covenant in the calling of Abraham, its establishment under Moses in the giving of the Law, and the vicissitudes, changes and developments in the relations of the covenanted people with their God, before the coming of Christ.

When we understand God's character, we understand a piece of our own character and role as God's covenant people.

Mormon 3:21 21 And also that ye may believe the gospel of Jesus Christ, which ye shall have among you; and also that the Jews, the covenant people of the Lord, shall have other witness besides him whom they saw and heard, that Jesus, whom they slew, was the very Christ and the very God.

The Bible, as a unified collection of God's setting the world to rights over time through a specific covenant people, primarily located in one geo - political area, records only a thin slice of human experience in the grand scheme of things.

For example, God had to remove the Canaanites to make a place for the covenant people Israel.

Israel (of course, always in the person of her king in whom all Israel is embodied) must be a Yahweh - covenant people or no people, she will be a Yahweh - community or a Babel, she will be what Yahweh created her to be or chaos.

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

WLGM is an evangelistic ministry comprising a group of covenant people that have given their lives for the preaching of the cross.it works in conjunction with community housing, human development agency and social help.

It is the overarching context within which the merely temporary consequences of God's righteous wrath are experienced.39 In contrast to the behavior of the covenant people, it is love that is not fickle or transient.

Church history matters because the history of the Church — the new covenant people of God — is the continuation of the divine drama canonized in Holy Scripture and equally «as divinely superintended by the Spirit,» as Kevin J. Vanhoozer put it in his book The Drama of Doctrine.

So it is in the midst of the covenanted people that the human relationship with God and the relationship of humans with each other can be lived most coherently.

The covenant people of the northern kingdom have proven unfaithful.

At the same time, the king is also himself, an individual man, a covenant person.

This is not to say that in the initial establishment or acceptance of the covenant the people foresaw all this, but it laid the groundwork on which all the rest could be erected.

Before the face of all of the people of the earth, they were to be the bearers of the name of their God; so every act, every word, every thought of a member of the covenanted people was a reflection of the God whose people they were.

Every word a member of the covenanted people spoke, every word of every Hebrew, was spoken under the oath of that covenant.

The word of a Hebrew, a member of God's covenanted people, was given in the name of the Lord, and that name stood for the whole being of God himself.

Heretofore a woman who had always obeyed the orders of others, she now became God's woman, acting courageously and intelligently to preserve the covenant people.

The basic issue in this Commandment is the integrity of one's word when spoken in the name of the Lord: the people of Israel were a covenanted people at Sinai.

Jesus Christ fulfills God's promises to every generation of covenant people.

In this context, the true significance of Ruth and Esther can begin to instruct God's covenant people today.

In the Jewish religious tradition these purity rules formed a closely interlocking network which clearly marked off the sacred precincts of the Temple, the holy land of Israel, and the covenant people of God (or groups of the «separated» within the people), from the «profane» world peopled by the «demon - ruled nations» outside.

They were, in fact, part of the holiness code prescribing how God's covenant people were to conduct themselves in distinction to the surrounding nations.

God intended to rid the Promised land of sin and idolatry, Haman intends to rid the world of God's covenant people.

There are still members of the covenant people in Judah and the remnant can not be destroyed, no matter how mighty the powers of the world may be.

A consideration of Jesus Christ Superstar underlined that the Christian covenant embraces all human beings — that the atonement of Jesus as the Christ; the covenant person, includes everyone and permits no ethical divisions.

This community is a network of culture for the life of the covenant people.

Fourth, I do not say that the biblical texts I referred to must bear the exact interpretation I suggested, but to deracinate Mary from the storyline of God's covenant people in the Old Testament is to veer dangerously close to a Marcionite hermeneutic.

But this is nothing more nor less than the faith of DH that Israel is a covenant people, that to violate the covenant is to make chaos of the life of the people and that to keep the covenant is to fulfill Israel's creation in order and meaning.

Chapter 2 opens with the prophetic plea that the covenant people of Judah - Israel turn back to Yahweh in righteousness and humility, so that «perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of Yahweh.»

It is, in short, to create a people, a people of Yahweh, a people of God, a covenant people.

It is a moving speech, revealing the vitality of the sense of relationship between Yahweh and covenant people.

This is conceived to convey out of Israel's full torah the very essence of Yahweh's total will with respect to himself but at once also every other covenant person.

But all of this deterioration of form, this negation and destructive judgment, is seen as the positive work of Yahweh's word toward that original purpose — the creation of a covenant people and through them the blessing of all the families of the earth (Gen. 12:1 ff.)

Not exact matches

Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's people hold with the hill folk, but their army is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks are enemy hands.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

What is striking is the way the covenant with Israel democratizes the people.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.