Sentences with phrase «dying upon the cross»

First, when Jesus «became sin» and died upon the cross, I tend to get the visual of Jesus acting as a spiritual sponge....

He transforms the world as he dies upon the cross, even as he transforms it in expelling the money - changers from the temple.

He cried out «Why hast thou forsaken me» because in that moment he took on the sin, sickness, pain, and death upon himself and became that sin dying upon the cross.

Though he was divine by nature he did not snatch at equality with God but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

Not exact matches

I think it is so sad that we as American's can not display the cross symbol that Jesus died upon to save us all for our sins.

In Islam, Jesus, known as Prophet Isa, Peace Be Upon Him, is said to have risen to heaven, rather than dying on the cross.

But the only reason people looked upon Jesus in this way at that time (few look upon Jesus in that way now), is because Jesus had incarnated Himself among men and had taken the sin of the world upon Himself so that He died among the wicked (Isa 53:9), bearing upon Himself the curse of the cross, and even crying out that He had been forsaken by God (Matt 27:46).

During the first Holy Week, Christians profess, a lowly cabinetmaker named Jesus came out of the woodwork to die an excruciating death upon a wooden Roman cross on a Friday, lie in a borrowed, dusty grave on Saturday and rise to defeat death early Sunday morning.

Who suffered in Gethsemane, taking upon himself your sins and mine, hung and died on a cross only to resurrect three days later.

Now one might expect that this pattern of interpretation would have been retained by Paul, if historical — that is, if set forth by Jesus himself or found in the earliest tradition of his sayings or expounded in the early church — or one might even think it possible that Mark derived from Paul some hint of this system of exegesis of the Old Testament and of interpretation of the career of Jesus as a heavenly being appearing upon earth prior to his exaltation and his dying (as a heavenly being) upon the cross, though unrecognized in his true nature until the Resurrection.

Like the cross that must be carried and upon which we must daily die, so is wisdom.

When God does finally reveal Himself in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the pinnacle and apex of this revelation is seen on the cross where Jesus takes the sin of the world upon Himself and dies as a criminal for all to see.

As the Spirit leaves the dying figure upon the cross, the world is consecrated to the Lord.