Sentences with phrase «holy nation»

The fourth model, which I believe is more biblical and is indeed followed in some congregations is the church as holy nation.
Let me now outline what I see as five tasks for the church as holy nation in relationship with government.
Through ceremony, the group asked permission from the Creator and Holy Nations before implementing its five - stage plan, which began with construction of the Rosebud project and aims to expand to 150 megawatts (MW) each of wind power on 20 reservations.
That's because we recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation that is bound together by a living faith in Jesus rather than by man - made, blood - soaked borders.
«You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of God who called you out of darkness into marvelous light».
(Luke 12: 32, cf. Daniel 7: 27) And a saying in a different form is preserved in which the chief authority in the Messianic age is promised to the Twelve as the representatives of the twelve tribes of the holy nation.
Or, as Peter told his congregation in what may have been part of an early baptismal liturgy: «You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people....
and like lnivig stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
«But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.»
cit., p. 24) In this breaking - up of the nation and faith the purpose of becoming a holy nation is repudiated.
You shall be my people, my special possession, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation» (Exodus 19:3 — 6).
According to the apostolic witness, the call to holiness begins with divine election: God's summons to Israel, and later to the Church, to be a holy nation, a people set apart as God's own treasured possession, called to worship, witness, and good works (see Ephesians 1:4, 1 Peter 2:9).
Before Sinai, before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the world.
No one has yet asked, How does a holy nation of priests live?
We are to be a holy nation, a people of God's own choosing, called to proclaim the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light.
But ye are a chosen people (Isaiah 43:20; Exodus 6:7), a kingdom of priests, royal priests (Exodus 19:6), a holy nation (Exodus 19:6), a people of treasured possession (Exodus 19:5; Malachi 3:17), for this purpose: that you may declare the wondrous deeds of the One who gave you the calling and summoned you out of darkness into his marvelous light [Isaiah 43:21; 42:12].
In addition to a «royal priesthood» and a «holy nation,» the King James Bible speaks of Christians in 1 Peter 2:9 as a «peculiar people.»
The very foundation of Judaism itself, the Second Commonwealth, the work of the pioneers — Haggai, Zechariah, Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, Ezra — was idealistic and utopian enough, and rested upon a firmly fixed «social» ideology, namely a holy nation devoted to the worship and obedience of the one, true, holy God.
19:6) the fellowship in Christ is declared to be a «chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people» (I Pet.
They are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, therefore they must live with the discipline of strangers and pilgrims (2:9 - 11).
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
This is what Peter meant when he called the church «a holy nation, a people set apart,» a people who are supposed to live as «aliens and strangers in this land.
In the Old Testament, it is the entire people of Israel who are addressed as a royal priesthood, a holy nation.
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
They were mystified that God, with all the great civilizations of antiquity to choose from, should select a slave people to be His «holy nation
Twelve centuries after the children of Israel escaped from bondage in Egypt and embarked upon their stormy career as God's «holy nation,» there appeared among them an extraordinary person, namely Jesus of Nazareth.
Of His church, He says we are a holy nation and a royal priesthood.
Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you [a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
First, they are categorizing themselves as members of what Peter calls «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people» (I Pet.
They were called to be a holy nation, a royal priesthood; and they had been signed with the mark of Yahweh.
Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
The formation of a people, «a holy nation», was important because only a community could adopt a life of obedience and justice.
It is in assuming this sacrificial task that we Israeli Jews uphold the charge given to us by God in Exodus 19: «For all the earth / land is mine; and you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
God, Yahweh, who had acted in history to bring this people out of slavery in Egypt, was now going to bind this people to himself and in the Covenant to make Israel a holy nation, a royal priesthood.
To call the church «a holy nation,» is to quote from 1 Peter 2:9, which itself paraphrases Exodus 19:5 - 6.
KJV 1Pe 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
If the church is a holy nation, it will be doing many of those things itself.
The initiates are now living stones of a spiritual house; they are a royal priesthood and a holy nation (2:1 - 10).
sonix, God can decide to be selective as we know Him to have selected Moses, Aaron, David and a host of others including the whole nation of ISRAEL to be a holy nation unto him.
Develop a philosophy of education essential to the preparation of a holy nation's citizens.
This examination is done within the educationally relevant context of what it means to be a citizen in God's holy nation (1 Peter 2:9).
1st Peter talks about us as being Chosen, a Royal Priesthood, a holy nation, a people of God; belonging to God and that God's love is not based on them, their performance, but merely the character and nature of God Himself.
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