Sentences with phrase «eternal kingdom of»

2Pe 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; 2Pe 1:11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

He was the Christ, not because he inaugurated the kingdom in the apocalyptic sense or ever will (although it would be rash and presumptuous to affirm absolutely that he never will), but because in him the eternal kingdom of God was in a unique and unprecedented way present and active within history, was not only seen and declared supremely and unmistakably as righteousness and love, but was actually present as judgment and salvation.

The message of what is to come (and that is what the Church is) can not itself be what is to come; the Church of time is not as vast as the eternal kingdom of God.

Today we also remember in prayer the friends and family of Richard Twiss, who passed into the eternal kingdom of the Creator this week after a massive heart attack.

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

Not exact matches

Hopefully, they have an eternal supply of lube in the KINGDOM.

Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life... there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God.»

Similarly the promise was given to King David that the Messiah should be one of his descendants, as the King eternal, the one of whom God said, «I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever» (II Samuel 7:13).

Jeremy in theory eternal life i believe can not be discarded once given there are two choices to enter into Gods kingdom or to reject God and be thrown into the lake of fire.The same consequences are in effect now when we choose God we choose life when we choose sin we suffer the consequences of death to our body soul and spirit.But the choice is always ours.brentnz

Liberation theology not only promises liberation of the oppressed, the poor and the marginals of society, but even liberation from the limited dreams of the oppressed for the eternal vision and dream of God, his own promised kingdom.

And not only does it promise liberation from present oppression, but even liberation from the limited dreams of the oppressed for the eternal vision and dream of God, his own promised kingdom.

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In» The Inferno,» Dante tells of his imagined journey into hell, his entry into a» kingdom of eternal night» where he hears the voices of the damned rise» in a bestial moan» and sees sinners stung by wasps, burnt by falling fire and frozen in a sheet of ice.

It has often been charged that by focusing attention away from «the world» to God, the kingdom of heaven, and eternal life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly element that nullifies human culture.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

When the gospel, the kingdom of God, and the offer of eternal life are rightly proclaimed, they have great drawing power to all who are unregenerate, for they contain the light and life that people have been searching for, but not finding.

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So the door is shut to them to the door of the celebration, not to eternal life, or even to the kingdom.

The kingdom of God, whether thought of as that which gradually comes on earth through a transformed society or as that which comes only in God's eternal kingdom beyond death and earthly history, is always a social concept.

Thus with the condemnation of sinners to eternal punishment God's kingdom would come suddenly and dramatically.

A study of Beliefs That Count will provide a fine opportunity for rethinking our basic Christian beliefs in regard to such doctrines as God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, man, the Bible, the meaning of sin and salvation, the kingdom of God, and eternal life.

One must be more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees to enter the kingdom of heaven (i.e. gain eternal life).

Jesus replies that though the disciples have given up their actual families, in the new corporate life of the kingdom a new family will be given, and in the final summing - up of all things, they will enjoy peace and eternal life with God.

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The «kingdom of heaven» is not the same thing as getting eternal life, being justified, or going to heaven when you die.

If this be the case, then an understanding of the kingdom in three senses — the eternal, righteous rule of the sovereign God; the call to moral obedience in love; and an apocalyptic final consummation — seems less inconsistent in the thought of Jesus than they have often been assumed to be.

In the first sense, the kingdom of God means the eternal, ultimate sovereignty of God.

I believe that Jesus was teaching an interpretation of the Mosaic law which would make it easier for Jews to keep, and which would open the door of the kingdom to all people, not just to Jews, and that ultimately, eternal life is not about keeping the law anyway, but is all about grace, from first to last.

Whether we are talking about receiving eternal life, OR experiencing the kingdom, either way, you can not do it unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharisees.

To get into the kingdom of God, to enter through the Door, all you have to do is believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life.

«But in the next century», he wrote, «where this specific doctrine of the kingdom is abandoned, and the righteous are regarded as rising either to heaven itself or to the eternal Messianic kingdom in a new heaven and a new earth, the nature of this resurrection is, of necessity, differently conceived.

To Jesus the kingdom of God was the universal, eternal, righteous reign of God, only partially accepted amid the world's evil yet a present fact, a sphere of human existence to be entered and furthered by moral obedience in love to the will of God.

This gives an important emphasis to the fact that there would be no kingdom at all apart from the eternal rulership of God, and no Christian understanding of the kingdom, with its challenge and hope, apart from Christ.

That Jesus was aware with every breath he drew of the eternal kingship of God everyone will agree; that he believed men could come even now in some real sense and measure under the righteous and loving rule of God is almost equally clear; and only by the most tortuous methods of interpreting the Gospels can one escape the conclusion that Jesus expected the kingdom of God as a future supernatural order.

Jesus was not announcing a future event or referring to a future order when he spoke of the kingdom; he was referring to an eternal Reality which, nevertheless, was then and there making itself known — that is, was present and active within history — in a way both unprecedented and unduplicable.

It may well be true that the whole meaning of eschatology is for us fulfilled in the revelation in Christ — that is, in the active presence in Christ as known within the church — of the eternal order, the kingdom of God: the Fourth Gospel has some such conception.

So when i say repent then remove your arrogance of the idea that you deserve heaven and acknowledge that you are deserving of death and you are not worthy to inherit the kingdom of heaven or even the next breath you take as long as you pledge to the United States of America or any (false gods) and live under the rules of Satan which is sin then you will not inherit eternal life.

No greater words on this subject have ever been written than Paul's in I Corinthians 15, while the author of the Fourth Gospel cites in Jesus» farewell message great promises of peace and joy in God's eternal kingdom.

Back then, he said, «The danger in all of this discussion is that Christians sometimes are willing to sacrifice the temporal for the eternal, that in order to get their candidate elected, to enact those laws that they feel are crucial, somehow we fool ourselves into thinking we are going to bring about the kingdom of God here on Earth.

Here the contrast between entering life or the kingdom of God and being thrown into the eternal fire of Gehenna clearly connects the kingdom of God with the coming age.

Thus for the Fourth Gospel, being saved, entering the kingdom of God, and having eternal life are all terms identifying the need and goal both of Nicodemus and of the rest of humankind.

The present, therefore, in Jesus» thought, was not simply Satanic, as current teaching claimed; the kingdom of God was an immediate experience as well as a future expectation and those who were in the kingdom, possessing, as they did, a life with eternal issues inherent in it, could triumphantly surmount affliction.

Continued life after Sheol meant to him not the escape of an individual soul to the realm of «pure being» or reabsorption into the eternal Spirit, but the shared life of a divine kingdom.

The terms are «kingdom of God», «eternal life», and «salvation».

It is impossible, therefore, clearly to distinguish, in Jesus» thought, the kingdom on earth from the eternal destiny of the righteous in heaven, for the former idea has been so elevated and sublimated that it blends with the latter.

Significant for us is the observation that to the Jesus of the Synoptic story, entering the kingdom of God was tantamount to receiving eternal live.

Buddhism says, Crush your desires; Christianity says, Elevate and intensify your desires, for the goal is not nirvana, but a kingdom of righteousness, and an ultimate triumph of the eternal purpose which God purposed in Christ.

This kingdom of God, inaugurated by Israel's victory, would be eternal, the final consummation of Yahweh's will for man.

His kingdom includes all of time and of eternal life.

Now, it is right to emphasize the future - oriented flavor of the above verses and exhort believers to place their hope in God's eternal kingdom.