Sentences with phrase «life as a servant»

Rather than treating church polity as secondary, Jesus insists on the reverse: first live as servants of one another and then you will know what to say and do as my disciples.

He humbled himself and took upon him the form of a servant, but he did not come to spend his life as a servant in some private employment, attending to his tasks without in any manner making himself known, either to his master or to his fellow servants — such a measure of wrath we dare not ascribe to the God.

The dark night is a time of liberation when God weans us from our reliance on spiritual experience, empowering us to no longer live as servants but as friends (John 15:15).

Now, she's in a town far from her family with Derek Binder, the handsome, grieving widower, living as his servant and waiting to be his wife.Derek isn't interested in love, just a partner to help him work his family lands and raise his brother.

Not exact matches

From Jesus» life, as well as the rest of the New Testament, I see so many examples of tangible servant leadership that I can't help but take them to heart.

As the only surviving child of the late public servant, she gets that money for life as long as she remains singlAs the only surviving child of the late public servant, she gets that money for life as long as she remains singlas long as she remains singlas she remains single.

I can only hope that HE sees me as a good and faithful servant even with my flawed life.

Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..

Maybe it was a family friend — a bookish man who despite his job as a civil servant had a rich and lively intellectual life.

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

It is a summons from Jesus to live in the Christian community as the servants of one another.

In that sense, Francis of Assisi's life as a mendicant embodied in evangelical witness the truth of the Christological hymn in Philippians and its celebration of «Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

As Clifford Green has pointed out, «From the centre of life, under the lordship of the servant Christ, for the world: this is the manner of the non-religious interpretation.

While some, therefore, among the great prophets turned away from it as too misleading to be useful, others, like Ezekiel, clung to it and, by giving it sublimated meanings, made it a servant of their spiritual lives.

As Christians, we should pray for those whose lives have been enriched by the availability of insurance, and be ready to take up the mantle of servants and serve those who find themselves in need.

Again and again the faithful servant's life ends, and it seemed, at his death, as if he had accomplished nothing for the Good.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

There are three consequences to living as an unfaithful servant when Jesus Christ returns.

«She also brings strong experience of parish and cathedral life, and sees her vocational experience as nurse, civil servant, priest and bishop as a totality.»

Interestingly, many left - wing fans, who would hate everything the central family stands for if their lifestyle was preserved today, are quite happy to embrace the sight of Elizabeth McGovern as the wealthy Countess of Grantham, who drifts through life, barely able to dress without the help of a servant.

And the followers of Christ have to live as God's servants of reconciliation and healing.

To the other 99 % of the world Reverend Graham is recognized everywhere as a devoted and effective servant of the living God.

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

And if the mission of tile Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»

The «must» in verse 31 is a divine necessity, and it comes not only from Jesus» acute estimate of the forces already set against him but also from his meditation on the great suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53 which he was beginning to see as a clue to his own ministry and life.

Servant King started as an evangelical effort to live out scripture's vision of the church.

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for eviAs servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evias free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evias a pretext for evil.

It fights for its life and its honor, for if the decision wins, then cleverness is as if put to death — degraded, to become a despised servant whose talk is attentively listened to, but whose advice one does not stoop to follow.

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

One of the main points I remember him making and I think this relates to the excerpt from the Wright's book, is that Jesus came as the righteous king, and he also came as the servant king who would provide the grace necessary to live in the kingdom of a righteous god.

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

Taking both symbols as representative and interpretative symbols of the life and death of Jesus, expressing the meaning of that life and death and therefore the meaning of Jesus, they both speak of Jesus as living and dying for others, as giving self, of being broken and being poured out, as being servant.

By his resurrection from the dead, by his establishment as ruler of life, by the power of his resurrection as Paul has it, it is established that the Transcendent One is indeed what Jesus Christ in his faithfulness and trust acknowledged him to be, and it is equally established that the faithful servant is acknowledged by Reality itself.

About sons of Abraham the elder was Ismael since his wife Sara was not giving birth and that's why she married him to Hager her servant whom gave him Ismael and then he took Hager and Ismael to Mecca as a new found land for them to live on... At later stage at a different place when Abraham was visited by the Angels whom were heading for the people of «Lut / Lot» that they promised him that Sara will give birth towards which Abraham and Sara were surprised being at old age but Angels told them that for GOD is easy to give them same...

But soon it was realized — partly as a result of the remembrance of Jesus» own utter humility and denial of self, particularly as associated with his awful suffering and his uncomplaining acceptance of it as the will of God; partly under the influence of a fresh reading of the Suffering Servant passages in Isaiah; (commented on earlier) and, not least, as a consequence of the community's own experience of the forgiveness of sins — soon, I say, it was realized that the whole significance of Jesus» earthly life culminated in his death.

Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

If the challenge were simply criticism of ourselves in this generation as poor witnesses to the Gospel, excoriating us for failing to live as credible disciples of the standards of goodness we proclaim, then our response should be one of penance, redoubled prayer and renewal as servants of charity in the world.

As the years rolled by and my servant John helped me unseal the revelation of jesus Christ which is the book of Life of the lamb I was always struck by how easy it would have been to save Rev. Moon because he is specifically written of in two gospels: Matthew and Luke; and is; or was; the «Faithful and Wise Steward / servant» mentioned by both of them.

As said in Isaiah 53, this servant must «find his «seed», then offer his soul for sin, to «prolong» his days (life), and the «pleasure» of YHWH shall prosper in his hands, to be the intercessor,» this means he must turn his life completely around to YHWHs law of righteousness.

as for the poor, they'll always be there and I've learned to do less of recommending what others should do, and more of doing my part, remembering that we're not to judge others» servants — before their master they stand or fall — we shall also each give an account for our lives.

Great to have people dedicating their lives to seeking God and sharing their experiences with the rest of us, but a long tradition of seeing those people as either infallible, or personal servants is going to mean that people expect, and demand, far more than that... or else.

The self - emptying of the servant who lived among the people, sharing in their hopes and sufferings, giving his life on the cross for all humanity - his was Christ's way of proclaiming the Good News, and as disciples we are summoned to follow the same way.

Cindi, There is also much that has to be discerned about the book of remembrance, the so called OT, and this NT, that I call the (Not True), book, for it does not fulfilled the OT book, it changes the laws of life, as prophesied in Isaiah 24:1 - 5, and YHWH says He changes not in Malachi 3:6, and He also teaches us in this book that He does nothing without His servants the prophets, in Amos 3:7, so that we are not consumed, (lied to).

So I gather you all are fine with polygamy (as lived out by God's faithful servants Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Solomon, and others)?

If you read carefully in Isaiah 53:12, it reads this servant was numbered «WITH» the transgressors, meaning he did sin before, and that he bore the sin of many, until he turn his life around wholeheartedly, «finding his seed when he offers his soul for sin'through the spirit of YHWH, His anointment, and will be the intercessor, praying for our sins, praying that we come back to YHWH as He ask us all through this book, in Malachi 3:7, and to do the 10 commandments, and walk in the ways of righteousness, and of YHWH.

I will say this... Hodges» book, The Gospel Under Siege was at one time in my life hugely influential as was The Reign of the Servant Kings.

Hence it is a hidden new life, just as the glory of God and the reign of God in Jesus Christ were concealed under the humiliation of a Cross and the form of a servant.