Sentences with phrase «in obedience to the law»

And he lived his whole life in obedience to the law, so that, according to Galatians 4:1 - 7 and Romans 6:14 - 17, we do not have to.

The letters of Paul reveal that he had tried with desperate earnestness to find salvation in obedience to the Law.

They had hoped to gain eternal life by living in obedience to the law.

Not exact matches

It's not about a law or legalism... If you are truly Born of God obedience is just the natural outcome of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit where the topic just never really comes up because it's not in God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.

(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

No, obedience to such laws are for peace and harmony in society and culture as we live life with other human beings.

That is a central Christian teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain saved by our obedience.

All of a sudden, «The soul knew in its very depths that it was living a lie, and this knowledge, together with the will to perform could only be communicated to the body as a resistance against its law of total obedience to the universal law of the Good and the True.»

These are real decisions and not just acts or good works done in obedience to God and in response to his known will, his law, his clear commandment.

The young man cited I Corinthians 14:34 - 35 «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

13) is not barely the professing a belief in the person of Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole doctrine, and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will save no man.]

Linearly, if law, conduct, or obedience in any way are my entry point to Jesus then I have to give myself some credit in making the deal happen.

We will see that Mary and Joseph's careful obedience to the law were key factors in preparing Jesus for his earthly ministry.

He noted particularly «those superb chapters in the second part of the Summa Theologiae on paternal or domestic government, the lawful power of the State or the nation, natural and international law, peace and war, justice and property, laws and the obedience they command, the duty of helping individual citizens in their need and cooperating with all to secure the prosperity of the State, both in the natural and the supernatural order.»

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.

What would have happened if, even a year ago, Cardinal Law had confronted them and other blatantly gay priests with the alternative of living in obedience to their vows or leaving the priesthood?

If you want to believe in your god, then more power to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to ancient laws and beliefs.

Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse (Colquhoun, A Treatise).

Committed as they are to Christ as the source and model of all that is holy, Christians are in no way exempted from obedience to the moral law permanently inscribed by the Creator in human nature (Romans 2:15).

Obedience to any item of the law was in itself an ethical act, and in this sense, the relation of the individual to God was ethicized.

Hence, the whole hierarchy of evaluations based upon law and obedience was overturned as the initiative was seen to be in the hands of the loving Father rather than with the ethical striving of man.

In this situation obedience to the many laws or rules governing what is usually understood to be the righteous life is irrelevant.

There would have remained the dispute as to whether salvation comes through obedience to law or participation in the faithfulness of Jesus, but this could have continued as a debate that might prove fruitful for both parties.

This same line of thought is continued in the new version of the Professio fidei and the Oath of Fidelity of 1989.3 Although Canon Law had already required it, «religious obedience» must also be promised and sworn to by all theologians and office holders.

But his concern for the law persisted in his summons to distinguish between the external obedience required by it and the inner fidelity to a higher law required of a life reborn by the love and mercy of God.

Obedience to the law became an end in itself.

Their chief focus is on helping people develop a personal and saving relationship to Jesus Christ and to live in peace with their neighbors by cultivating an obedience to universal principles of moral law.

It offers protection to its people and in turn demands obedience to its laws.

Its peculiarity consists in the fact that as a law it commands the spirit of love which must be something more than obedience to law.

But the obedience that He is after in us is not obedience to the law... but the obedience of faith.

His teachings indicate that he wanted his followers to be obedient to GOD above all and that when no conflict between the two exists, the the former obedience (Caesar or the LAW of the land or government as it were) was in essence obedience to God.

The apostle insists that if one is in the law system — that is, if one is relying upon obedience to God's commands for one's salvation — one's obedience must be complete.

This view finds rather crude expression in the assumption that the Law, even where it is wholly incomprehensible to man, requires obedience.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to Law.

Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces of the universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent years; the order in the construction of a flower or of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the life of man.

(I Timothy 2:11 - 14) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

1 Corinthians 14:34 - 36 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

And by «moral earnestness» I do not mean the sort of moralism which centers itself in obedience to codes or laws or sets of commandments, whether they be ten or of any other number.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

There is no love of the brother, no holy and responsible care except that which proceeds from the deep roots in a man of the love of God and his rightful obedience to the creative Unity - Law.»

If God is God, then all life should be lived in obedience to God's laws.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virg = inia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

The task of teaching us the law and helping us to apply it is the function of the state and the Church, and one can expect his reward or punishment in this life or in eternity, according to his obedience to civil and divine law respectively.

A law which properly has only this meaning: to release man from the world, to separate him from any interest in an independent cultural development, and to humble him in obedience to the transcendent power of God — of a God, whose image is not in any sense determined by the conception that man has of his own highest spiritual life.

Its true center, he saw, lay in obedience to God's law, not in feasts, solemn assemblies, and burnt offerings, and divine election meant election to moral responsibility.

What is vital to our study is that from the time of Moses onward the people felt themselves to be in a particular relationship to their God.2 This relationship centers in a covenant voluntarily initiated by God, offering Yahweh's protection and support in return for obedience to his will and law.

Yahweh's chief pleasure was not in the blood of the rams or bullocks, though the ceremonial law might require them; it was in obedience to his holy will, which came in the insights of the prophets to mean «mercy and not sacrifice.»