Sentences with phrase «holiness does»

True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.

For the Church's holiness does not in some Pelagian sense directly depend upon her members» deeds - even though by their lives the saints among her do manifest her saintliness to the world and contribute through their graced cooperation to her growth in goodness.

Preaching holiness does not make one holy.

Not exact matches

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

Having come out of that sort of extreme mentality (holiness oneness pentecostal), I really have a hard time with people acting as they did / do.

I do remember to have a sign that says «holiness to the Lord» in Leviticus... but Mormons have that on their temples.

These were their thoughts, but they erred; for their wickedness blinded them, And they knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls» reward.

Christians don't follow Leviticus anymore, it's part of the holiness code.

The lives, then, do not present a single ideal of virtue, nor do they offer one paradigm of holiness.

The lives of the saints do not present us with a new theory of virtue, but a new way of teaching, a new strategy that builds on the tradition of examples, but enriches it by unfolding a pattern of holiness over the course of a lifetime.

It does not matter if you are in south america or the pope all that is not pure is consumed by this burning holiness.

You're right, the carnal man can and does justify sinful behavior, only when the spirit is quickened by the Holy Spirit can man begin to experience God's holiness.

«If you invoke Leviticus, how much of the Holiness Code do you adhere to?

What does sexual holiness look like long term?

In Christ alone does the feminine structure of holiness become real: he literally pours his blood out for the sake of another, he literally lays his life down to bring forth the life of another, he literally opens up the table of his own body to feed and calm another.

But in our steering away from legalism, I wonder if we left the road to holiness or began to forget that God also cares about what we do and how we do it and why.»

I've been wondering lately if we didn't actually reject holiness but a caricature of the real thing.

But it was in God's eyes - He said to Moses «Because you did not display My holiness in the sight of the sons of Israel, you shall not enter the Promised Land.»

Someone Who Is Holy isn't pacing down the grocery store aisle with three tinies hanging off the cart and coupons in her purse, she isn't running the dryer again to «fluff» the clothes that have sat in there too long, she isn't snorting while she laughs at television shows on Netflix, she isn't on her hands and knees wiping up someone else's vomit, she isn't locking the bedroom door and throwing a saucy look of promise at her husband because clearly good sex isn't included in the holiness life, she doesn't sweat, she doesn't turn on cartoons for three - minutes - of - peace - for - the - love.

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.

Have we steered so far away from legalism that in doing so, we also abandoned a pursuit of holiness?

Do I think there are a lot of preachers that aren't pursuing holiness?

We talk about holiness in the Church, but we don't talk about the fact that there's a reason God wants us to be holy.

Support missions work being done around the world, serve God in holiness and righteousness.

Only through this second experience of Joy did Lewis fully recognize Joy's «bright shadow» for what it was: «holiness.

Judy didn't say much about it, but she read us William Carlos Williams and showed us the holiness in a red wheel barrow, glazed with rain.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

For that reason, the celebration of a sacrament always results in an encounter with Christ, if the recipient is well disposed, because the encounter itself does not depend on the holiness of the minister (usually the priest).

(Jude, vs. 20) One does not mean by this that other elements of the original tradition are not present in the New Testament's thought of holiness.

It does nt matter what your background is He will come and consume your heart with his Love and holiness (being free from the contamination of hate, twistedness, and everything that is anti-love) I HAVE met a few Christians who truely follow the commands of Jesus and They really acted like Jesus and that's what drew me to it.

In discussing the virgin birth, I argue that locating the body of Jesus in the eternal (and, for Mormons, procreative) relation of Father to Son does not demean the holiness of Mary's body.

The trick for any preacher when treating of sin, not least because he is a sinner himself, is to steer between this dilemma: First, he must not do anything to mitigate the Bible's uncompromising demand for Christian holiness; but second, he must avoid the tub - thumping rhetoric of those preachers who think that mere denunciation will motivate their flocks to the abjuration of sin and the pursuit of holiness.

The first point he makes is this: «As we gain happiness through suffering,» he says, «so do we arrive at holiness through infirmity, because man's very condition is a fallen one; and in passing out of the country of sin, he necessarily passes through it.»

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

The original purpose of human existence, and the existence towards which we are headed because of what God has done and will continue to do until the last day, is to worship and glorify God in holiness.

To me it would make him a much more relatable human and doesn't take away from his holiness.

This doesn't mean that we aren't capable of goodness and holiness; it just means that things are much more vulnerable than we like to realize.

... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.

I think what is important here is the fact that David is repenting of his sin and in so doing is confronted with the holiness of God just as Isaiah did when God called him to be the prophet to Israel.

God is infinitely holy, and could never look favorably upon sin, and an offense against the holiness of God is an infinitely wicked deed done in open rebellion against the God who created you — that deed requires an infinite amount of retribution to atone for, and one that you, being a mere person could never repay though you attempted to do so for all eternity.

R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»

I don't know, I'm not a very good judge on what would be an adequate punishment for the one who dishonors God in his holiness.

But it sounded to me like he is saying that Christians do NOT have a part in «perfecting» holiness.

Second, while God is just and holy, and while the death of Jesus did satisfy the holiness of God in regard to our sin, this was not the only — or even the primary — reason for the death of Jesus on the cross.

Thats cute but it really enforces the idea that the only thing on Gods mind is holiness codes... it was kid of funny but the underlying theology does not soften because you laughed..

Those who are in Christ are declared holy; however, Christians DO have a part in enriching and elevating holiness within.

I doubt that now, but I do predict a greater self - consciousness of a Holiness bloc of denominations grouped under the CHA, where there is already very close cooperation in such areas as publishing and preparing Christian education materials.

To interpret the statement as a straightforward affirmation of Reformed commitments, as de Chirico does, smacks of the way Pentecostal and holiness churches were initially invited to join the National Association of Evangelicals for their numbers, not their theology, a history Molly Worthen has chronicled in her Apostles of Reason.

«It was also an opportunity for His Holiness to meet his flock and to encounter some of the work being done under the various ministries within the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom.»

It does contradict any doctrine of holiness which assumes that either through an initial regeneration or a «second blessing» we shall achieve on earth the ability to live without sin.