Sentences with phrase «judgment upon sin»

The very office of minister, which far too often is understood to symbolize only judgment upon sin, should be known as one expression in the Church of the forgiving spirit.

Nevertheless, the history of Jesus puts him clearly in the prophetic tradition of blunt speech concerning God's judgment upon sin.

Throughout the Bible the belief in God's supreme goodness and holiness carries with it the note of divine judgment upon sin.

Not exact matches

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

When the sin is too much, God bestows total judgment upon certain people to honor justice.

I would say say that the «judgment» of God on sin in Romans 2:3 is the natural consequences that come upon us in life as a result of sin.

The answer is, he was recognized, even by the demons, who had supernatural insight, and by his disciples, through faith; and yet the disciples were forbidden to declare it, and the demons were silenced; and if the Jews as a whole did not recognize him, it was because their eyes too were «holden,» and because they were already bringing upon themselves a judgment for their sins.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

If you are burdened by your sin, and you are distressed about God's judgment coming upon you, take note of this word!

It is interesting to note in this respect that in Whitehead's judgment the Jews «conceived one of the most immoral Gods ever imagined» and that he endorses Thomas Hardy's remark in Tess of the D'Urbervilles «But although to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature.

Yes He is sending us a message - return to Me and repent of your sins because judgment is coming upon you.

It is because sin is so serious and divine judgment is so real that hell (alienation and separation from God by persistent rejection of him) is a reality upon earth and may well be after death.

If you have not repented then you are in error (in spite of all your accusations) If you have repented and have called upon the Almighty God to save you and cleanse you from your sin, Then what is the purpose of these letters (unless you want to pass judgment on those that do not believe like you).

(Acts 3:17) But this ignorance was in part at least the result of a mysterious blindness that had come upon them as a judgment for their sins, their initial unresponsiveness mounting eventually to active hatred and a «blind» fury of malice by which they attributed everything he said or did to the inspiration of Beelzebul, the chief of devils.

Love is to the Christian a term which points to an infinite holiness which always stands in judgment upon man, but the judgment is against man's sin, not against his existence as a man.

Much of the Old Testament centers in the attempts of the Hebrews to live up to the requirements of this covenant, their apostasies, God's judgments upon them, his promise of a Messiah to deliver them even in spite of their sins.

And consonant with the immutable position of Yahwistic prophetism, whose primary proposition is always the effective impingement of divine life upon history, the meaning of Solomon's reign and of events subsequent to it is discerned in the scheme of sin and judgment: like Babel, apostasy results in the rupture of human community.

(Re 3:14) If he failed, he would reproach his Father's name as none other could.In selecting his only - begotten Son, Jehovah, of course, was not «laying his hands hastily upon him,» with the risk of being «a sharer in possible sins,» for Jesus was no novice likely to get «puffed up with pride and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil.»

Chapter in is comparable to the narratives of sin and judgment upon which the accounts of Saul and David turn (I Sam.

The destruction God brings upon them is just judgment for their sin.

By his sufferings and death Jesus satisfied the righteous judgment of God and took upon himself the punishment for sin that man deserved.

Before anyone attempts to judge me, don't forget that judgment upon others is also a sin and should only be left to our Holy Father.

When people repent of their sin, it withholds God's judgment upon them that he was otherwise going to pour out.