Sentences with phrase «fulfillment of the promise of»

This is a concrete case, in our age, of the fulfillment of the promise of which the puritan John Robinson has spoken: «The Lord has yet more light and truth to break forth...»

This was a hope and a longing for an unremoveable fulfillment of the promise of presence, which is the promise of the Name.

Expositors through the centuries have generally failed to deal with the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70 as a fulfillment of the promise of «the end of the age» that looms so large in the pages of the New Testament.

The Federal Government, on Thursday, handed over the Presidential Lodge, Marina to the Lagos State Government in fulfillment of the promise of President Muhammadu Buhari to entrust the edifice to the State for tourism development.

Brave men and women have already waged this battle, sitting in defiance of discrimination at lunch counters to insist on service and the fulfillment of the promises of equality that this nation was built upon.»

The impact on society when everyone has access to justice will be nothing less than the fulfillment of the promise of our constitution and equality for all.

Not exact matches

It might make you feel better in the short term, but I promise: the long - term fulfillment of saving and growing your money far outweighs the temporary satisfaction of retail therapy.

Apparently all of the money Bezos spends on fulfillment centers ($ 2.3 billion in Q1) is not reducing the cost of delivery as promised.

Finding backers and keeping the campaigns going are two of the initial challenges; however, the biggest hurdle is how to manage the fulfillment of the promises your fledging startup made when the campaign began.

However, it also recognizes what could promise toward a fulfillment in terms on of one's own.

(Revelation 20:3, 7 - 10) Those who resist him will enjoy the complete fulfillment of the Bible's promise: «The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.»

We are consumed by our jobs, as psychiatrists, divorce lawyers, and millions of latchkey children know all too well, and are locked into an endless pursuit of the power, cash, status, and pleasure that promise «personal fulfillment» and happiness.

Being true Christian is to experience the fulfillment of all the promises of the same God of Torah.

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

The deceptive, brutal and obscene features of this festival derive from the fact that there can be no question of a real fulfillment of its promise.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

Perhaps living according to the promise of God locates us where we are most likely to regularly encounter the One who is life, fulfillment and freedom.

This is time redeemed: all time is marriage — all time is love, the promise of engagement moving towards the fulfillment of marriage.

In our mundane existence, we know God only partially, and the gifts of the Spirit appear to be more promise than fulfillment.

Moltmann's hermeneutical predilections for promise over fulfillment, for ethics over aesthetics, and for mission over rest also cause him to ignore play's self - contained meaning and instead to explore the function of play in contemporary society.

If God makes promises to you, note that fulfillment of these promises may take a long, long time.

They are the fulfillment of a promise.

As members of the body of Christ, we are the fulfillment of that promise.

The words are neither a salutation nor an attempt at ironic humor, but the fulfillment of a promise.

The fulfillment of all God's promises will come through someone who is of the now failed and insignificant line of David.

And it is out of this «futurity» of the divine that the revelatory promise is issued and the cosmos lured toward its fulfillment.

For the Christian the person of Jesus of Nazareth constitutes the decisive breaking in of the promise of fulfillment originating with Abraham.

For Abraham, the lesson could not be more pointed: His excessive preoccupation with God's personal promise, with his own merit and its reward — that is, with personal justice — is in fact at odds with the fulfillment of the purpose of God's promise that he become a great nation, steeped in righteousness, to become a blessing to all the others.

And believers in revelation feel a trusting responsibility to the universe itself to allow the promise of fulfillment to lure them forward into the future.

It is the true fulfillment now in time of the Emanuel promise... God with us... no longer «up there» high above separate in the heavens but now among us, with us, in us, through us, as us, the All in all, the through all things reconciling all to the All.

Both communism and National Socialism claimed many of the prerogatives of religion and made many of the same promises — from the creation of a «new man» to the fulfillment of many of the communitarian ideals found in religion.

Despairing of the fulfillment of the promise, Abraham and Sarah attempt to actualize the promise themselves through Sarah's maid, Hagar (16:2 ff.)

Here, too, Israel reads her own experience of seeking to take matters of the covenant, the Yahweh covenant, into her own hands, to force, by her own means, in her own way, in trust in her own devices, the fulfillment of the divine promise.

It is hardly accidental that the story of the denial of the wife is repeated three times: Israel thus underlines her own repeated effort to take the divine promise into her own hands and to manipulate its fulfillment.

We can make appeal to experiences of planning, frustration, hope, fulfillment, promise, disappointment, etc..

The remnant or the one, and we find both concepts before as well as after the Fall, is a projection of faith, an assertion of hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the covenant promise.

Sarah's words convey the denial of God's power to bring the promise to fulfillment:

The fulfillment of the promise requires an heir to the promise.

God has given us his son, Jesus Christ, and through unity with him, we find the fulfillment of every promise we may ever want or need.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

In the light of this belief we better understand how Israel's hope and faith in the ultimate fulfillment of tile divine promise survived her own violation of the terms of the covenant and her destruction as a nation.

Israel's persistent, obstinate hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the promise is itself an act of faith, made defiantly in the face of her own repeated abandonment of faith.

In the month of Shawwal 628, Muhammad ordered his followers to obtain sacrificial animals and to make preparations for a pilgrimage (umrah) to Mecca, saying that God had promised him the fulfillment of this goal in a vision where he was shaving his head after the completion of the Hajj

Israel's present relatively ordered existence is the creation of God out of former disorder and is to be understood and accepted as his creative gift in fulfillment of his free promise to the patriarchs.

The deposit of revelation is said to be finished or fixed, but this can be a salvific teaching only if it means that there is sufficient evidence in our past history to convince us that we live within the horizon of a promise which by its nature always looks to the future for fulfillment.

Science itself does not — nor should it be expected to — discern this promise of fulfillment.

We continually recount our common past and seek to incorporate it ever more coherently within our memory, but we concretely experience revelation only by looking forward along with this past to the fulfillment of God's promise.

8 It is the time when the history of Israel, with all its unfulfilled promise, reaches fulfillment.

The intuition that Christ is the fulfillment of a cosmic promise, one that has a breadth that carries revelation beyond the sphere of human existence, is already present in Paul's letter to the Romans: «The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Clearly, the Lord's timing in the fulfillment of a promise may not coincide with our plans, but this does not negate the validity of the promise.