Sentences with phrase «grace and mercy as»

Beyond translations and interpretations, though, and of far greater import, what seems to get lost in the spanking debate is that Jesus brought grace and mercy as his methods and message for a reason.

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but Paul killed christians, so there is no man who by merit attains what God gives as grace and mercy.

So as you question His existence, recall the times in your life when you were given grace and mercy when you didn't deserve it.

By your standard, everyone might as well live in hedonism and selfishness, since no one can be good anyway and people are only saved by God's grace / mercy.

They might not use the word «mercy» as much as he wants, but they talk extensively about divine love, grace, the sacraments, and charity, all of which pertain to God's mercy, and which they develop into soteriology, the study of the saving action of God.)

By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and grace, and acceptance of God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like that!

When there was not grace and when the world was under the law, when there was as issue that God handle he had no mercy on us, we he instructed David to go and kill everything man women and children and including animals don't leave anything alive.

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

We will teach as good teachers who resemble Christ, the Teacher.18 Then, we will effectively proclaim the joy of the good news of marriage and the family, asking married people to be open to conversion and to God's grace and mercy.

As you said Jeremy, «God's main concerns are justice, compassion, grace, mercy, generosity, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control.»

Use this clip as Valjean begs for mercy so that he can rescue Cosette to stimulate discussion around the conflict between grace and the law.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

God's love, righteousness, grace, mercy, and wrath are the same today as in eternity past, and will be the same in eternity forward.

As a result to women that chose abortion I want to show them Father through love, compassion, mercy and grace and I'll let Father take care of the unborn.

As soon as I repented, God in His mercy and Grace forgave me, giving me that saving faith, a new heart and allowing His Spirit to dwell within mAs soon as I repented, God in His mercy and Grace forgave me, giving me that saving faith, a new heart and allowing His Spirit to dwell within mas I repented, God in His mercy and Grace forgave me, giving me that saving faith, a new heart and allowing His Spirit to dwell within me.

Steve Martin... and they'll throw in some grace and favor as a free gift if you order right now... just don't ask for mercy!

It is only because of the mercy and grace of God upon you that you are not in the same situation as they.

For as the Church prays, the sufferings we endure, if taken to Christ in the Sacrament designed for forgiveness, can bring us «increase of grace and the reward of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne of God's mercy isset on my wretchedness».

Saving all sinners would be inconsistent with the exercise of God's perfect justice, just as punishing all sinners would be inconsistent with God's grace and mercy.

It is important for Christians to remember that every structure of justice, as embodied in political and economic institutions, (a) contains elements of injustice that stand in contradiction to the law of love; (b) contains higher possibilities of justice that must be realized in terms of institutions and structures; and (c) that it must be supplemented by the graces of individual and personal generosity and mercy.

And even Paul in his letter to the salve owner Philemon tells Philemon to treat his runaway slave as «a brother in Christ,» and to recieve him and have grace and mercy upon hAnd even Paul in his letter to the salve owner Philemon tells Philemon to treat his runaway slave as «a brother in Christ,» and to recieve him and have grace and mercy upon hand to recieve him and have grace and mercy upon hand have grace and mercy upon hand mercy upon him.

He believed that Paul's interpretation of grace as justification and sanctification were «closely related to Jesus» insistence that the righteous are not righteous before the divine judgment; and to his conception of the suffering Messiah as a revelation of the justice and mercy of God.

We learn of God's love and mercy in hymns such as «Amazing Love» and «Amazing Grace.»

Why is it, when the Gospel is so clearly about God's mercy and grace, that from around the 2nd century onwards, Christianity has seen it necessary to define itself first and foremost as a «moral system»?

Its been a tough journey being a born - again, accepting and giving my life to Christ Jesusover 2 years ago... aside from being in his word throughout my walk, watching sermons of bold preachers such as David Wilkerson, Leonard Ravenhill, Paul Washer... I totally missed out on the love, mercy, grace side of things.

And as He is, I hope for grace and mercy and prayers from all those who really care.&raqAnd as He is, I hope for grace and mercy and prayers from all those who really care.&raqand mercy and prayers from all those who really care.&raqand prayers from all those who really care.»

As a Christian, I believe that God created man, man sinned and disobeyed God, God in His grace and mercy sent Jesus, who lived a sinless life and died on the cross and rose again on the third day to give salvation to the world.

I'll remember the grace and mercy and loving - kindness in His character, and I'll pray to a Father who can give the blind eyes to see and who is working even now to create a world free of pain, suffering, crying or death, where many tribes worship as one, holy people.

Instead, they are sheep who have believed in the grace and mercy of God, and as a result have received eternal life from God, but who must now recognize that the true source of their eternal life is Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, their good and true Shepherd.

And when they hear His voice, they believe in Him, just as they have already believed in the grace and mercy of GAnd when they hear His voice, they believe in Him, just as they have already believed in the grace and mercy of Gand mercy of God.

To walk in God's favor is to never think of yourself as being so «righteous» that you are above being reminded that He is ALWAYS in control, and if you lose sight of His grace and mercy; then you have truly lost sight of God.

It's so important to have the correct perspective, as the world is constantly trying to twist the meaning of the Bible so that people don't recognize, or have a distorted understanding of, God's love and mercy and grace.

In the end, Isaiah 54 shows us once again that behind the terrible death and destruction of the flood, there is a beautiful theme of God's love, grace, and mercy as He seeks to rescue and deliver people from the storms of life.

but unless God gives mercy, and supplies grace, strength, power to cherish Christ, behold his beauty, and turn from sin, all our efforts will fall as dead in his sight.

Just as grace, and mercy for the people was, an is accepted with Moses in Exodus 33, for their sins, and disobedience to YHWH.

Jeremy I agree its not about what we can do but all about what Jesus has done for us it is all about his grace not following mans laws or trying to please the pastor or the church.Be respectful for those in authority and show them Gods love work hard as for the Lord as you serve them and pray for them but do nt try and please them.We no longer follow the ways of the world we live to please the Lord and worship him not man because that is idolatory.Thats why religion does nt work we can do nothing to add to Gods grace.Grace is also not a licence to sin as some christians believe and God is not fooled if we do not repent and turn from our sin he does nt hear our prayers if the intents of our heart are wrong.God listens to the humble and the repentent sinner or saint.The journey in following Christ is about how much do we want to follow Jesus to discover the abundant life and richs in Christ we must fully give him all our hearts and serve him wholehearted out of thankfulness for his grace and mercy towards us.brentnz

Providing grace and mercy to people as a result of their story opens the door for more listening / help and sharing the good news when the time is right.

Closing down church as we know it may actually allow the church of Jesus to rise from the ashes, allowing the people of God to passionately live out the love, grace, compassion, and mercy of Jesus in a world full of guilt, pain, and fear.

At the end of the day I think there are a lot of reasons to be against the death penalty, but for a Christian who believes that Jesus died to spare us from death and this idea of grace or as Scripture says «mercy triumphs over judgement.»

So I want to take what for moderns is the most scandalous of these scandalous laws as our hard case — those related to sexual sins — and press Jesus on his claim that these and other laws in Moses reveal him and his grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love (Lk 24:27, 44, cf., John 5:46).

... I'm not interested in talking about «capital punishment» as much as I am in talking about the ramifications of grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love.»

You see mercy and grace throughout the Bible as well as punishment for sin.

If I can not get Jesus and the God of the Old Testament to fit together in a coherent way which maintains the love, grace, and mercy of God, then I may find myself within the ranks of those who simply write off much of the Old Testament as hopelessly full of errors.

God's saving grace and mercy gained new positiveness and new dimensions, becoming more actively seeking and sacrificial than it had ever before been pictured as being.

The penalty for sin is death as sinners we all deserve to die but God in his mercy and grace sent his only son to take our punishment on himself.Though his blood we are forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.When Christ spoke the words it is finished the term he used was a legal one that means the cancelling of a debt that was owed Christ paid our debt in full through his blood and death on the cross.brentnz

As children of God, we are drenched in the grace and mercy of God.

Note also in the reading that this is the word, it is what God said to Moses; that the quality of divine compassion and mercy and grace here comes through as it has not previously in Exodus; that this is a recital of faith in the nature and purpose of God (see the emphasis upon the divine «I,» even more pronounced in Hebrew, and compare the same feature in Joshua 24); and that all of this is an expansion of the single, simple, eloquent theme which opens and closes the recital: «I am the LORD,» conveying in the very name all the essential meaning of the divine Life.

In the case of blasphemy, a person is not only denying who God says He is, but mocking His character and attributes, such as unconditional love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, and justice.

It is the Word of God only in so far as it is a word which happens on specific occasions, and not in virtue of the ideas it contains — e.g. the mercy and grace of God (however true these things may be).

Interpreted ontologically as a metaphysical treatise and juridically as a moral manual the bible is may transmit knowledge about the God of Nature; but it will not be a means of Grace by which we come to trust in the Loving - Mercy of God the Father of Jesus to stand before God in the psycho - spiritual nakedness necessary for a deeply intimate relationship.