Sentences with phrase «grace of god also»

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

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It bothers me often when I think of the youth that I was a pastor to and those who I was placed in authority over, I seriously fear at times about what I have done, yet I also thank God for his grace and mercy.

We also need to reevaluate our relationships with God and find out if we have lost sight of that balance between walking in God's grace and doing what we can to serve Him here on earth.

I have also been hurt by the church in the past and it scarred me for a number of years but in due time God's grace is what got me through, not my own doing.

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.

It reminds the believer that the vision of God unfolds amidst the splendor of holiness while also pointing toward the way in which the final movement to ecstatic wonder is always grace - filled and joy - laden.

****** Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come: That we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken.

I want to testify to the exact type of situation... I had a2 demonic revelations... and in them I received a supernatural premonition... and I have always thought it was God in His grace providing not only a miracle but also the recognition of demonic activity.

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

Thus Original Sin (and its consequences) is not just the fact of a fall from grace and destination in God, it is also a fact of human biology, a fall from proper union and harmony in the flesh and in the psyche of Man.

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

I believe in The Grace of God and know that it has covered me whenever I have fallen and sinned as a Christian in word, thought or deed but I also know that when I have sinned and grieved The Holy Spirit within me that feels terrible, negating any pleasure to be experienced in sin!

He is committed to protecting distinctive characteristics of tradition and identity, but is he also trying to contain a God of love and grace by confining God's mercy and power to appropriate times and recipients?

He modifies what he wrote in Ephesians 2:5 by pointing out four additional things about this life which we received by the grace of God: He says this life is also (1) through faith, (2) is not of yourselves, (4) it is a gift of God, and (3) is not by works.

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

«This does not yet make it clear why the Proclaimer necessarily became the Proclaimed, unless it could be shown that Jesus» preaching of the law was differentiated from every other preaching of the law by being at the same time the proclamation of God's grace, which not only assumes freedom, but also grants it» (253).

So she is both the first beneficiary and also the unique vessel of God's redeeming grace.

Audaciously the self lifts both its sense of personal importance and also its expectation of God's invading grace.

He should also send us back to the infinite grace of God in Christ which changes every condemnation into pardon, or rather which sets every condemnation within the infinite love of God, who punishes to three generations but who pardons to a thousand generations.

But we also need to recognise the reality of God's grace.

Like me, I trust that as you also will come to to an understanding of God's infinite love, grace, and forgiveness.

This is also a way of teaching children about grace — only by God's grace can we forgive others — we can not forgive in our own strength.

Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..

Until the gospel actually enters the historical situation of a certain person, a non-Christian religion contains not only elements of a natural knowledge of God mixed with depravation caused by original sin and human elements, but also supernatural elements of grace.

Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and love necessary for eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.

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.»

The Church for them is not only the sacramental intermediary of grace and the teaching authority for the true statement of the hidden mysteries of God, but also has a pastoral power by which it can contribute quite considerably to determining the concrete action of its members in the tangible and sober reality of everyday life.

In such a situation the Church may finally have no other choice than to remain faithful to the gospel and to proclaim the hard message of the holy God, leaving everything else to the grace of him who can certainly also save men in a situation in which the Church can do no more.

The human son, whom we know as Jesus, through the descent of the Word to our human level, is full of grace, even as God himself is, so that he is also the Truth itself, even as God is.

The goal is not only a deeper understanding of the truth of Scripture but also a more comprehensive experience of the grace of God which is revealed therein.

The pastor should also focus on outreach to the sick and the sinner, showing them the love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness of God.

That done, the churches can get back to their mission, offering God's forgiving and sustaining grace to all of us disordered and disorderly human beings who are subject to temptations beyond numbering, also in the realm of sexuality.

Also Grace is often used in the new testament, not as an attribute of God, but a constant state of action.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

Though the authority of experience and character is gift of grace it is also achievement on the part of men who work out their salvation with fear and trembling because God works in them.

Not only did the concept of adoption help Paul explain how gentiles and Jews could be part of the same family of God, but it also allowed him to emphasize that salvation is not achieved through birthright but through God's act of grace alone.

The «theological life» in the title does not refer to the life lived by theologians, although theologians too, by the extraordinary grace of God, can also live the theological life.

There are also stories in culture that paint a bleak picture of humanity, and which clearly illustrate the need for God and his grace; the modern equivalent perhaps of that Athenian altar.

The absence of sanctifying grace in the new - born child is an effect of the first sin, for Adam, having received holiness and justice from God, lost it not only for himself but also for everybody else.

What I did not learn then, was Luther's suggested evening prayer, which also draws our attention to the cleaning up of the day that is just passed through the grace of God.

Stanley is also the author of more than 20 books, including last fall's The Grace of God.

He was a pioneer in the Christian rediscovery of the secular — the healthy affirmation that God's grace (the hidden Christ) is also at work outside the church.

Kevin Labby, the church's senior pastor, also announced to Patheos blogger Warren Throckmorton that he and four other board members (out of nine total) have resigned from the Liberate Network, a resource ministry focused on «God's inexhaustible grace» that Tchividjian founded in 2011.

(For a defense of postmortem grace, see Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation, chapter 5; see also Kyle Blanchette and Jerry L. Walls, «God and Hell Reconciled,» in God and Evil, ed Paul Copan, et al.)

Writer and speaker Kim Hyland knows perfectionism oh so well, but she also knows the antidote: not trying and striving harder but acknowledging our limitations and embracing the perfection of God through His grace.

and if i find that correction (Jesus» sacrifice, grace of God) i can surely teach Scripture and also see clearly to help others with their speck.

Just as the Kingdom of God does not refer to going to heaven when we die, and just as the Kingdom of God refers to God's rule and reign in our lives right now, so also, salvation does not refer to going to heaven when we die, but refers to the redemption and release from our captivity to sin so that we can live lives of freedom, grace, glory, and joy within God's family here in this life and for all eternity.

While all of these things are riches of God's grace, they also are conditional upon our living in light of them.

God's grace is manifested not only in the forgiveness of our sins but is also creatively redemptive, the power that works in us to make us perfect in love.

Injured freedom must accept this help freely, yet it can not do even this on its own initiative but needs the «prevenient grace» of God's unfathomable counsel, who «has mercy upon whomever he wills, and (who) hardens the heart of whomever he wills» (Rom 9:18) but of whom we must also believe that he «desires all men to be saved» (I Tim 2:4).