Sentences with phrase «life eternal through»
I recall my grandfather's prayer, a formula that always began: «Our most gracious and loving Father, we praise and thank thee for the gift of thy son Jesus and for life eternal through him.
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Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!
Isaiah 25:8 — Jesus has done this for the believer through eternal life.
He goes on to say that just as sin came into the world through Adam, so has eternal life come into the world through Christ.
We have the best product ever invented — hope, eternal life, and salvation from hell through Christ.
If she's not witnessing to the person and talking to them about eternal life through Jesus Christ, she's not ultimately doing them any good.
Romans says «For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.»
But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Only through Jesus Christ can we receive the free gift of eternal life.
If that is true of the gospel's most counterintuitive claim — that it is through the unjust death of a just man that the world is redeemed — it is also true of his claim to be the truth that is the way to authentic human life, and to eternal life.
Apparently you just ignored the whole point that there is a difference between the concepts of «immortality», where everyone will be resurrected and become immortal no matter who you are since physical death came abut through Adam and the fall, and «eternal life», which is living with God or in other words it deals with the quality of that immortal life.
They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).
I do believe in eternal security, so I would say that although we are citizens of the Kingdom of God through faith in Jesus, we can still live according to some of the rules (and consequences) of the Kingdom of Darkness.
These verses, though quite popular as texts about how to receive eternal life by grace alone through faith alone, are actually about what God has done to rescue us from the condition described in Ephesians 2:1 - 3, so that we can become what is described in Ephesians 2:11 - 22.
God is the only one that can give eternal life and this life is given through His Son who is the person of Jesus Christ by way of the Blood that Jesus shed on Calvary's Cross.
«saved through childbirth» is my favorite verse to show that «saved» can not in EVERY passage refer to the usually understood definition, «obtaining eternal life through faith in Christ»
To receive the free gift of eternal life by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
But we must differentiate between how to receive eternal life (faith alone in Jesus Christ alone), and how to live out our eternal life (through ongoing faithfulness and discipleship).
As part of the package, he has made eternal life available through faith.
And be willing to repent, and receive His gift of eternal life through faith in Christ.
Only one theological position has ever resulted in the Romans 6:1 question, and it is the position which says that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, and that once a person has received eternal life in this way, it can never be lost.And when we realize the truth of this, it is incredibly liberating.
But then, through time and prayer and Bible study, he came to the conclusion that eternal life is freely given to all who simply and only believe in Jesus Christ for it.
The Bible says that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us with the possibility of eternal life.
When we left sin through faith in Christ we became his slaves and inherited eternal life.
If eternal life is not forever, it can not be through faith alone.
The crux of the matter reduces down from halls of rationalism to be the person of Christ by means of his Holy Spirit speaking through the heart and mouth of the believing saint, revealing himself as The Gift of eternal life.
John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.
Only so is God able, through sharing our human flesh in the Incarnation, to impart eternal life to that flesh, rather than succumbing to our death and being extinguished by it.
Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.
This is not eternal life by works; this is eternal life by grace along through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.
I am glad, however, that Martin Luther helped remind the church that eternal life is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
Here then is where we arrive at the point: Just as God calls people to respond to His Word with obedience and righteousness through the exercise of their choices (non-meritorious though they might be) and fully expects them to be able to do so, in the same way, God calls people to believe in Jesus for eternal life, and fully expects them to be able to do so (cf. John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).
The assumption is always that the Jewish people received eternal life through obedience to the Law and following the sacrificial system instituted by Moses.
If you have not yet trusted in Christ as Savior then receive Him, be willing to follow Him as He leads you, and ask God's forgiveness through faith in Christ and you will have eternal life.
Thank you for the gift of eternal life through faith in Your grace!
He wants everyone to come to a knowledge of the truth, and calls everyone to believe in Jesus for eternal life, which is possible through the will.
I know I have eternal life through faith in Christ Jesus as my Savior.
But His yoke becomes easy and His burden becomes light when we look to Him for wisdom and guidance, when we lean on Him for strength to sort through the difficult choices in life and when we see people how He sees them — with loving, eternal lenses.
«We will, indeed, attempt to provide for those in physical need, but we will also point people to the crucified and risen Lord Jesus... To all who wish to hear we will share the hope of eternal life and the forgiveness of sins through repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.»
Here I can not, of course, discuss the contents of these decrees, but I should only like to draw attention to one thought from the Constitution on the Church: The Church is the holy people of God seeking eternal life through the sufferings and the wilderness of this time, and we are this Church.
This does not mean that what is revealed through creation and conscience is sufficient in itself to grant eternal life to those who believe in what is revealed to them.
Rather than see eternal life as a continuum begun in our baptisms and extended through life into eternity, we were tempted to posit instead a radical discontinuity between «time's wild wintry blast» and our destiny in time to come.
And although «gospel» almost universally today refers to good news about forgiveness of sin and the offer of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the word itself carries no such connotations.
Indeed, it is scarcely too much to suggest that solitude is the strait gate, spoken of in Matthew, through which all must pass in order to reach eternal life.
This thrust toward immortality can be expressed in, a variety of ways — biologically by living on through one's sons or daughters or one's community or nation, theologically through resurrection or eternal life, or culturally through works and contributions which persist beyond ones death.
Though it can sometimes refer simply to an encouraging message (1 Thess 3:6), and Jesus often used the term to describe the coming of the Kingdom of God (cf. Matt 4:23; 9:35), Paul is the one who used the word in his writings, and he uses the word most often in reference to describe the complete chain of events regarding what God has done for sinful humanity through Jesus Christ to provide eternal life for them.
Your final sentence -LSB-... eternal life is received by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.]
It teaches that we are able to merit, through our works, eternal life for ourselves and others.