Sentences with phrase «life as a sacrifice»

By an arrangement of the Creator, Jesus was permitted to offer his perfect human life as a sacrifice, a ransom, to repurchase a further opportunity at life for sinful mankind.

He gave His life as a sacrifice; taking upon Himself our sins.

Not exact matches

He was willing to sacrifice so many things in his life in order to, as he would say, put a dent in the universe,» Sculley remembers.

This kind of «hustle porn,» as Ohanian put it, often establishes an unhealthy standard for entrepreneurs to live by, reinforcing the idea that they need to sacrifice their health to be successful.

Think and talk about why you're making this sacrifice: the hope that your weekend business will ultimately lead to a more fulfilling life as a full - time entrepreneur.

But individuals who are willing or able to sacrifice some basic aspects of normal life, such as sleep or friends and family time, to pursue these extreme sports are the ones who have the mettle to succeed when faced with entrepreneurial challenges.

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.

This might be too much of a sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.

This movement witnessed many sacrifices; some labour activists even lost their lives as a result, in order to obtain justice for all workers.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

The Amalekites as you recall offered live sacrifice of infants and children into the red hot bronze arms of their fertility god while they danced and had orgies.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

So in the (not so distant) future look for him to do animal sacrifices in his yard, beat / kill his kids when they mouth off, torch his neighborhood when he realizes he lives next to people that don't believe as he does, own and beat his slaves, and we won't even discuss how he'll treat his wives.

That a God, to undo a rule he created, sends a man to be sacrificed as a blood atonment for all our sins, which he is directly responsible for so that we can all go and live in a cloud theme park.

One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».

For others who sacrificed their lives such as our brave soldiers, it was FOREVER.

She says that churches should BEND towards what people today want in order to allow their sin, to allow their desire to live as we ought not, and to make our selfish hearts even harder, to not realize sacrificing self is not about the church sacrificing the Message, but for people to turn to their own hearts and how hard they have become.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The virtue of self - discipline features heavily in the New Testament; it's one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5, a key element of Paul's famous athletics metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9, and implicit in the idea of Christians as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1 - 2), «transformed by the renewal of your mind [s]» (ESV).

The perfect adoration of God is when we give our body as a living sacrifice, that means when we overcome our selfish nature through Jesus» love which he can give us.

How much effort and self - sacrifice am I willing to give so as to live my life for God?

I've been ashamed of this, feeling as if I've sacrificed my local life to just keep swimming.

St. Paul said: «Present your bodies as a living sacrifice!»

As our subst.itute, «He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness» (1 Peter 2:24); «He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God» (Hebrews 10:12; cf. Ephesians 1:7; 4:32; 1 John 2:1 — 2).

By being both genetically and behaviorally flawless, the Last Adam's life would be a sufficient sacrifice for the sin nature inherent in all men, as well as for all their sinful behavior in the future.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

When these characters consider living like common people they think of that as freedom rather than a duty of shared sacrifice.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

(I John 4:7 - 8) As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»

Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality of inward spiritual life and outward social service on the part of those who in the sacrifice of the Mass see Christ verily present.

[57] St Paul says the same: «Present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.»

Hebrews offers us an album of snapshots of a love life offered as a sacrifice of gratitude to God, whose Christ has already given himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God (Eph.

Only in the light of Jesus Christ's sacrifice of himself can man be compelled to live as man.

The tragedy was that the new situation demanded a willingness to sacrifice principles and attitudes previously regarded as essential to the life of the community and its relationship with God, and for this many were unprepared.

In order to... re-establish unchallenged U.S. control over a region which it regards as its backyard,» the report continues, «the U.S. has sacrificed... Nicaraguan lives... and caused untold suffering.

We can only offer our lives to God as a living sacrifice through the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, in which we participate in the sacrifice of the Mass..

No longer do we offer sacrifices to represent our commitment and contrition, rather as Paul says, we are living sacrifices.

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

It would then be an attempt to convey in a vivid pictorial form the truth, or the belief, that self - sacrificing love is so supremely valuable that in comparison with it even death is of small significance; that although the enemies of Jesus won their victory over him, yet in retrospect his life has become a more potent influence than theirs, for his memory has survived as an inspiration and example for all men.

The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.

Big Bang, Cyclic or Ekpyrotic Universe Scenario, Biblical Creation and Truth of Calvary sacrifice all can become one when we visualize universe as a Living Being that is capable of self - sustaining through transformation process.

For example Romans chapter 12 starts with a «Therefore» and implores the reader to present themselves as a living sacrifice.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

Under this criterion, questions of proportionality are properly considered: Do the benefits outweigh the risks and harms attendant to warfare, including such potential costs as further geopolitical destabilization, increased insecurity, the sacrifice of other important values in the midst of war, the loss of life and resources?

It is not easy, nor without cost, but didn't He ask of us to lay down our lives as a living sacrifice.?

Other living things have been sacrificed as required.