Sentences with phrase «fighting against sin»

More than likely, there's a lot of talk about loving each other, but not much about fighting against sin or fighting for each other.

Heres's how the video is right: The person gradually departs from a world of sinning (in this world) into a world of fighting against sin and temptations (in this same world) when you accept Jesus as your «Savior».

and this likewise, the birth of Christ is a fight against sin.

I have to daily fight against the sin that would easily ensnare me and steal my life (as it has stolen my marriage).

Our fight against sin is noble and good, but make no mistake: we are not fighting to be righteous.

Not exact matches

Molly Oshatz is the author of Slavery and Sin: The Fight Against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism.

This interior work of repentance for my own sins has transformed my fight against totalitarianism.

For this reason, some Lutheran theologians prefer to speak of «orders of preservation,» taking into account what God is doing to sustain the world under the conditions of sin, even using means sin - laden themselves, such as war and capital punishment, to fight against still more serious attacks on the goodness of God's creation.

Against all soft - centered optimism, Updike salutes the doctrine of original sin for acknowledging this obdurate fact: «The world is fallen, and in a fallen world animals, men, and nations make space for themselves through a willingness to fight.

Why do we struggle so much because its our old nature that fights against our new nature in Christ which ever one we give into is the one that rules us.But as a born again believer sin shall not have dominion over us.The battle has been won by Christ so by believing in him we also walk as he does as a victor not a victim.Its his holy spirit that empowers us to do what is impossible in the flesh.But to do that our old nature or heart must be crucified with Christ.brentnz

Notwithstanding, in the mean while they fight in spirit against the flesh, lest they should fulfill the lusts thereof; and although they feel the flesh to rage and rebel, and themselves also do fan sometimes into sin through infirmity, yet are they not discouraged, nor think therefore that their state and kind of life, and the works which are done according to their calling, displease God; but they raise up themselves by faith.»

However our flesh and our will still fight against our spirit and God's spirit and we all sin.

«What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and the reproduction of our race... so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe... Peoples that bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.»

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

People who became Christians as adults know from experience that prior to believing in Jesus, they often struggled with sin and fought against the desires of their flesh, usually to no avail.

On almost every page of the prophets there are predictions that Yahweh will fight antagonistically against Israel if they do not repent of their sins.

The sin of racism has proved especially pernicious in American evangelicalism on both sides of the border, but there have also been evangelicals throughout history who have found themselves on the front lines of the fight against racism.

For every heart, purity demands constant watchfulness, a daily fight against the flesh, and a firm attitude against sin.

It makes the important assertion that God fights for us against sin and death, yet it is hard to see how our personal decisions of faith and our acceptance of forgiveness are involved.

In Christian West, sin was a shame and something to fight against.

Remember when we had troubled times, where we fought with our parents and rebelled against them, when we despised our brothers and sisters for their prominent talents, and when we felt God has abandoned us and left you in the abyss of sin, not lending you the escape rope?

Along the journey, there's a Hollywood - worthy story of redemption as Walker reveals the sins of their past and what motivates them so desperately to fight against HUMNX.

Each fight will be tougher than the last as you wage war against sin itself.

During the story Fury will be fighting against physical manifestations of the Seven Deadly Sins, and it'll be an open - world adventure game will Zelda - like dungeons.

Some factions will fight this, as is the case in Nigeria, where the Boko Haram extremists, whose very name (the translation is «Western education is a sin») stands against a basic right, are threatening to sell hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls into slavery.

: — RRB - There are plenty of folks who fought against the HIV fight for a similar reason — it would only encourage gays to «sin».

It will likely be alone in any fights against Washington as the tech industry looks for a sacrificial lamb to offer up in penance for its sins.