Sentences with phrase «free grace of god»

I have been a proponent of the radical free grace of God for about fifteen years now, by which we get eternal life as a completely free gift of God, with no strings attached, and no works required on our part to gain, keep, or prove that we have eternal life.

As a result of the above, the necessity of the doctrine of the free grace of God becomes apparent (not only from the above logic, but from Scripture itself).

I am so confident in the free grace of God, that I think that if someone believes in Jesus for eternal life, God gives it to them.

A while back I tried to start a church planting website to promote and encourage churches that focus on the free grace of God.

Scripture teaches the radical, outrageous, shockingly free grace of God.

2012 Note: A while back I tried to start a church planting website to promote and encourage churches that focus on the free grace of God.

People who believe in the free grace of God also need to develop a vision for the future about planting churches.

I also knew that it had to have something to do with the radical, free grace of God in Jesus Christ.

Not exact matches

The gospel of God's grace in Jesus Christ frees the Christian from both these erroneous tendencies but only if Christians respectfully strive to follow God's commandments and practice agape love.

We are saved by God's grace, but we are given free will to choose good and evil... otherwise anyone from Hitler to Stalin could of said the same words and say I can lie, cheat, steal, and kill right up to the end and be saved... sorry, it doesn't work that way.

He means that if free will first existed on its own and subsequently encountered God's grace, then free will might collide with grace, but in fact our being free at all is itself a gift of God's grace, and so there is no possible antagonism between the two.

It will be too late for Millennial to take responsibility but then it would not be their fault it would be the leaders of the free, love church's like my Pastor said this morning God's grace is killing us!

Lent is a period in our life to remember the suffering of Jesus who never sinned, he came to this world to free us from sin and to be the children of god not only by law but also by grace.

And if we believe the promise, if we believe what God has said, if we believe in Jesus for eternal life, then we have received the free gift of grace.

It is a free gift of God, offered by grace alone, through our faith alone.

But a strong, Biblical understanding of God's grace, a grace that gives us everything for free, a grace that is not earned, not worked for, and can not be lost or destroyed, a grace that covers over all our sins, this kind of grace leads to one thing — eternal security.

St. Paul's Letter to the Romans gives it classical articulation in the Christian Bible: «For all alike have sinned, and are deprived of the divine glory, and all are justified by God's free grace alone, through God's...

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Christianity, Discipleship, following Jesus, free grace, grace, religion, Theology of Salvation

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

To spread the message of God's free grace, we must plant churches.

We may easily give up on each other and believe ourselves incapable of the call to holiness; but God never ceases to call us and to offer us his grace, which is «the free and undeserved help that God gives to those who respond to his call» (CCC 1996).

Yes, God's love and grace truly frees us from the addictive and destructive power of sin in our lives.

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: eternal life, free grace, gospel, grace, sin, soteriology, Theology of Salvation

For me, we receive the free gift of salvation by God's grace through faith.

Peculiar Christendom, whose most pressing problem seems to consist in this, that God's grace in this direction should be too free, that hell, instead of being amply populated, might one day perhaps be found empty.

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: crossless gospel, eternal life, forgiveness, free grace, gospel, grace, heretic, Jesus, resurrection, scripture, sins, Theology - General, Theology of Salvation

However, if a person uses his God given free will, he can accept the grace of God and the Holy Ghost will place within him a new heart that can easily adapt to the will of God.

And that is incredibly freeing as it opens all of us to Gods grace.

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

Free will is aoubt making choices and some of these choices have consequences for ourselves and others, we have to live with these and through prayer we are proveded with the graces and relationship from God that enables us to do so.

And there are ways in which God's actions upon us still leave us free, such as our acceptance or rejection of grace.

We have one purpose toward those who seek us out and grow and maintain our membership, (which is NOT documented anywhere) we pass on for free what has been freely given to us (this is a manifestation of God's Grace!)

We know he did not reject the necessity of grace, but thought of it as leaving man free for co-operation with God.15 But Augustine has always been given credit for having preserved the essential Christian doctrine that God's grace is necessary to give to man what he can not give to himself, that is forgiveness, and the empowerment of his will to love God and his neighbour.

On the contrary, man's free response to God is itself again the gift of God's grace.

What we call salvation or justification is given to man, the creature and sinner, only through the free and undeserved grace of God, that is through God's free self - revelation in Jesus, the crucified and the risen Christ.

It's a free gift of God's grace for all the people of God.

Having preached the sovereign grace of God — grace for a Syrian army officer or a poor pagan woman at Zarephath — Jesus demonstrates that he is free even from the community that professes to be people of the Book.

We are here then, to lend our prayers to that perfecting, to that final work of God's grace, in freeing Dad from every encumbrance of sin.

It is only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

God shows his mercy and love to all, but He only gives grace to those who receive the free gift of salvation by faith.

Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead accept God's free gifts of grace and forg... More

Yet i was transformed by the grace of God offered to all people for there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ and in Christ there is neither jew nor gentile, slave or free, male or female, for all are one in christ.

All who are strict advocates of free will are strangers to the grace of the sovereign God (W. E. Best, Free Grace Versus Free Will, 35, free will are strangers to the grace of the sovereign God (W. E. Best, Free Grace Versus Free Will, 35,grace of the sovereign God (W. E. Best, Free Grace Versus Free Will, 35, Free Grace Versus Free Will, 35,Grace Versus Free Will, 35, Free Will, 35, 43).

Don't swallow Satan's lies, writes Jeff Lucas, instead accept God's free gifts of grace and forgiveness.

Eternal life is a free gift of God's grace to all who simply believe in Jesus Christ.»

«This False Prophet and His Blind Lemmings Welcome You to Our Whore House for God's Grace and Free Donuts,» Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle announced on his blog this week after learning that Westboro plans to picket one of his churches on Father's Day.

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

Grace alone seems to have the power to free us from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully human in the sense of being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior is easily achieved or sustained.

It is the free gift of God's grace who «shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.»