Sentences with phrase «given the spirit which»

The prophecies are fulfilled; God has shown His «mighty works»; the Messiah has come; He has been exalted to the right hand of God; He has given the Spirit which according to the prophets should come «in the last days.»

Not exact matches

They argue that zero - rating violates the «spirit» of net neutrality since it gives ISPs the power to decide which services can and can not receive a technical advantage over everyone else, thus putting them beyond the status of «dumb» pipe providers.

My business plan, which is already off the ground in multiple states, is one that will not only create jobs and encourage that entrepreneurial spirit, but give the ever so desperate auto industry the boost that it has been looking for.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movspirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movSpirit with the growing environmental movement.

If the Spirit is denied as a person from that text (John 14:16 - 17), «And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever «the Spirit of truth,» then one must also deny the personality of the C - h - r - i - st, which is impossible.

Gives me hope that the human spirit will always survive, despite the hate, intolerance, and lack of compassion which seems to be everywhere, especially during election season.

«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and life as when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures.»

«The spirit of God [«the breath which God gave him,» see margin] is in my nostrils.»

And the spirit which he gives to live in us teaches us his thoughts through his word.

God may give us a Church, which is lively and where God is present by His Holy Spirit (a good example was the Confessing Church, which fighted against Nazi rule in Germany during the Third Reich.)

The self - giving of the Father evokes a like response from the Son; it gives rise to a mutuality in love, the bond of love uniting Father and Son, which is the Spirit.

God gives me His revelations from His written Word, which His Spirit is confirming inside of me.

Conformity does nothing to encourage the creative mind (which God gave us) and it squelches the spirit within.

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

But that deeper knowledge of God which comes to know Him as personal - Father, Son and Spirit - can only be given by God Himself.

This has resulted in creating social mechanisms which are uncontrollable, corrupt and which give birth to criminalisation of politics, degeneration of architecture and art in all forms, and the prevailing sickness of the body, mind and spirit.

Giving up on doing such things because it is deemed to be too difficult, ineffective, cumbersome, shaming, paralyzing, pointless, or whatever could be better interpreted as a loss of faith in the Savior Jesus Christ and his power to change us, and an absence of the Holy Spirit which seals us unto holiness and eternal salvation.

Dr. Dodd has given us a brief summary which is very useful in stating the essential elements in that declaration: how that the God of Israel, who had spoken by the prophets, had acted decisively in Christ, pouring out the gift of the Spirit, and how that this Christ, now exalted, would return in glory for the establishment of God's kingdom.

I also think that we've been given the Holy Spirit through Jesus and the fruits of the Spirit taste like paradise to me and I am satisfied to eat His flesh and Drink His blood to be one with His body... which seems to be both Spirit and flesh as He reunites the dead and the living.

Some commentators think that the words with which John records Jesus» death, «He bowed his head and gave up his spirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologispirit», were also intended to mean that as he died he handed over the Spirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologiSpirit to the few representative believers who stood at the foot of the cross (John 19:30).10 Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, separates chronologically what John holds together theologically.

When legalists look to the Bible to give them a clear outline on what to do in every facet of their lives, they are engaging in idolatry by worshiping the book and the letter rather than the Spirit which produced the book.

For these, and those who have followed since, to respond to the Spirit of the universe, which is God, is to give up the security of habitual, customary and socially approved actions and to live in terms of a radically new and open future.

Hence their «It is written, but I say unto you...» The virtuoso, however, is interested in the letter even though it has been neglected, domesticated, taken captive or muffled, for it houses the spirit which gives life.

The sacrament of baptism, the Catechism (1213) tells us, «is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments.»

Jesus «gave up his Spirit» on the cross, which anticipates the gift of the Spirit to the «ecclesial community» in serving as the Lord served.

I guess that C.S. Lewis — here at least — spoke of pleasure rather than of Christian happiness which, of course, can not be found in any outwardly oriented religion if we are not indwelt by the Holy Spirit who gives us love, joy, peace, and much more (Gal 5:22 - 23).

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

The protest is NOT against science and structure, rather, the protest is against the «dehumanization» of the human being by reducing him / her down to only matter and rules, and is against dismissing the «spirit & soul» which give every individual his / her unique «person.»

So much for Gopnik's argument that Chesterton's «national spirit» and «extreme localism» led him to his supposed anti-Semitism: they were, in fact, precisely what gave him his respect for other nations and other cultures, including that of the Jews, to which the world owed its knowledge of God, «as narrow as the universe».

Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason.

True, the constitution of the Church does not provide an absolute guarantee that these charismatic elements which are given her by the freely acting Spirit of God are always accorded the necessary freedom for their development.

Nevertheless, we are bound to hope and pray that God may give to his Church the power of a courageous spirit which risks the future, even though this spirit should also include special and unexpected charismatic gifts.

Hegel, in those difficult, often cryptic, but nevertheless profoundly rewarding pages in the final sections of The Phenomenology of Spirit, where he discusses Christianity as the «absolute religion,» gives witness to the advent of an absolute form of Christianity which both negates all previous religion and promises a reconciliation of all those antinomies which have plagued human consciousness throughout its history.

In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures».

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

Akin to this is the idea of spirit as that which leaves the body at death, as in the common expression rendered by the KJV (Job 3:11 etc.) «gave up the ghost» (RSV «expire» — i.e., ex-spire, breathe out).

For the ministry of the Church is from the very beginning a service of the free charisma, of the discernment of spirits, a service of the unity and loving community of the many charisms which the one autonomous Spirit of God gives to his Church.

Max Weber noted that as the pursuit of wealth becomes devoid of religious and ethical meaning, «it tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport» (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism).

I still believe that nobody except God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit will give strong messages to Their believers, to be ready, which, incidentally we've been warned and cautioned since I was born again, in 1979.

1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

When I mention base - type communities of faith I am referring to congregations in which reading and interpreting the Bible and developing all the gifts of the Spirit given to the community are central.

In the Hebrew Scriptures, God promised to give a new spirit to His people (Ezek 36:26), which we now know was the «Holy Spirit» that came at Pentecost (Acspirit to His people (Ezek 36:26), which we now know was the «Holy Spirit» that came at Pentecost (AcSpirit» that came at Pentecost (Acts 2).

It meant that «the light of the Holy Spirit, which is given in a particular way to the pastors of the church,» as Humanae vitae describes it, does not guarantee lack of error or replace human analysis.

We are made in God's image to respond to him with the God - breathed spirit that gives life to our finite bodies; and we are called by name in the waters of baptism, in which we are incorporated into the life of the One whom the Father calls his beloved Son.

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

Effective prayer, that is always answered, is that prayer which comes through the Holy Spirit given to believers.

So... when the Holy Spirit gave inspiration to the Apostle Paul in Roman 1:26 - 28 to write; «For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature (Lesbianism): and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with me working that which is unseemly (Homosexuality), and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

This book the Holy Bible which is much more than a book, but is in fact the Spoken & Written Word of God, God Breathed & Inspired given not «by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

It is proper to call him doctor of doctors, the agility of the spirit without which there would be no doctor who could give good instruction; through the treasury of his writings they have enriched all they have gained; and through his commentaries they have acquired the ability to interpret; from him I have learned the habit of meditation of the divine word; his meditation became for me the guide towards scripture; and he has elevated me towards the understanding of the books of the spirit.