Sentences with phrase «lived lives of obedience»

who lived lives of obedience and faith, but never received the fullness of God's blessing to them.

Christ alone lived a life of obedience that truly had God at its center.

Yet, like the state, the school, the business and the labor union, the institutional church has its own distinctive sphere and task — not to save us from the state, once again, but to mediate God's saving grace, to nurture its members in the faith and to support them in living the life of obedience before God in Christ.

Not exact matches

In fact, they take theism to an extreme and portray Kim Jong Un as a living god who demands obedience and worship because of his divine nature.

Sad to say, many churches have permitted the revolution to redirect the faith away from the hard path of obedience to one that simply affirms everyone without seeking to transform their affections and their lives by God's word.

The book of Acts tells us that the first Christians referred to their own faith as «The Way» (9:2; 19:9; 22:4; 24:14, 22), indicating thereby that the faith is not merely a collection of dogmas but an active life of obedience to the God who has saved us through his Son.

Mum and Dad would say that resting in the promises of God made obedience to God's prompting in their life an attainable reality.

First, they undermine obedience to God in all areas of life, and circumvent the suffering necessary for holiness.

The root of the tree of life in them, which is to grow into the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, is obedience to this word.

I fail in life spiritually with obedience, but He has given me an awareness of His supernatural life and the demonic counterparts.

Or is living in «reasonable» comfort under such conditions a cop - out, with the only faithful response being obedience to the radical claims of the Sermon on the Mount?

If you are a Christian, and you are not actively pursuing a life of holiness in obedience to God, you are living in a fire damaged house, and it's no wonder that this Christian life isn't all you heard it would be!

The Living God calls us to obedience in the particular ways relevant to saving justice for the poor of our particular situation.

And please don't fail us by not calling us to live a life of radical purity and obedience to Christ either, because this is the best and most fulfilling life there is.

We can imitate the one man with the distorted conception of God, and thus disobey with the consequence of death, or we can be imitators of the other man who came right from the bosom of God with a perfect, exact conception of God, and who trusted his faithfulness in obedience, and received the gift of life.

And so how thankful we can be that He never, not once in all of Scripture, tells us that in order to receive eternal life, we have to promise Him certain things or a certain level of obedience.

Obedience to God, these texts suggest, can not take place in isolation from social structures; faith in the living God demands not only love of neighbor.

He will then go on to explain what following this call will mean: a life of charity, lived out in celibate chastity, in obedience to him and his successors and nourished and strengthened in prayer, focused especially on Our Lord in the Eucharist.

He now charged that obedience and conformity with the impersonal corporation - church are a fact in the life of Christians.

T here is only one way to overcome the disobedience of Adam and that is by a life of total obedience to the Father's will.

But our obedience will be called for, not only in major decisions — what job to take, where to live and serve, whom to marry or not to marry — but in dozens of daily opportunities to do what is clearly God's will: to seek justice, to be merciful, to put others before ourselves.

What Jesus reveals is both the true nature of God, his faithfulness and trustworthiness, and a model of obedience founded on a trust even unto death, that all men can imitate unto life.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

Adam's eagerness to snatch the prize of equality with God — the desire of Everyman to set himself up in the place of God as absolute master of a world which is really not his own, but God's — is replaced by the second Adam's total self - surrender: his obedience to the point of accepting the death of the Cross; death which paradoxically leads to life, whereas the consequence of Adam's self - glorification proved to be death.

Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

To live the Christian life is to assume the pattern of Jesus» obedience, to allow «Glory to God in the highest!

Baptism is an act of obedience in the life of the born - again.

Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

Let us say once more, for emphasis, what we have already said about the Call of the Fishermen: Jesus» summons to a life of faith and obedience desacralizes work.

Basic to the worship of God is the acknowledgment of God's oneness and Muhammad's heavenly purpose in life, the cleansing of the heart and soul, the strict observance of obedience to God in all actions.

Our concept of resurrection must be grounded in the Lord's promise that those who give their lives in obedience to God in love for others, keep — find — their lives forever.

However, the power of the Kingdom is inseparable from the «end» which it is bringing to the world, and, as Albert Schweitzer has so powerfully insisted, the new life of ethical obedience to which Jesus calls his followers is likewise inseparable from the liberation of the believer from the very reality of the world.

The movement was very popular because of its religious color, military discipline, the habits of simple living it inculcated, the unconditioned obedience to leaders which it enjoined upon its followers, and its utter disregard of rank and riches in the enforcement of its discipline.

In fairly short order, a community of laymen, lay women and priests dedicated to Our Lady were given permission by the Church to live together in poverty, chastity and obedience.

In such a case, it is possible to live with a faithful recognition that reception of Holy Communion is not possible, and quiet humble obedience to God's plan.

I REFUSE to try to serve Mammon, and so my only choice is a life of faith and obedience, which is the complete opposite.

I can tell you another thing... obedience to God is key to the power of God working and being demonstrated in your life.

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).

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

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.»

If we worship the Jesus that came down from heaven, He can only us into His kind of life — of love and selfless living, of obedience and trust in God.

But Duffy never wanders too far from this one persistent argument» that much of the vitality and resiliency of Catholicism is found in its rituals and worship, in lay devotions and Marian piety, in veneration of the Church's blesseds and saints, in acts of communal discipline and obedience that bind the faithful together as a living organism.

Christians are not whipping those in disobedience... they are defending the innocent and the ignorant who are scandalized by the errors by those who reject obedience and choose a life of rebellion.

And often, it is in the act of obedience that we stumble upon that elusive, indescribable thing that we all have in common: the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead living in each one of us.

This is what Barthians call the genus tapeinoticum, the genus of humility: If Christ lives a historical life as man, obeys, suffers, and dies, God is in some way subject to temporality, obedience, suffering, and death in his very nature as God.

Paul's readers are invited to choose whether they are to continue living according to the story of Adam (with dispositions of disobedience and mutual hostility) or the story of Jesus (with dispositions of faithful obedience and mutual acceptance).

Consider further that the Book of Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - 22).

Yet note that although the practice of obedience and righteousness is called for in Scripture, this in no way means that such practices result in eternal life.