Sentences with phrase «love by our obedience»

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It's not about a law or legalism... If you are truly Born of God obedience is just the natural outcome of love, not trying... If you find yourself trying to not cuss, well, that's works and legalism... but if you walk by the Spirit where the topic just never really comes up because it's not in God's, Jesus» or the Holy Spirit's vocabulary.

Shortly after arriving at the Keller household, Sullivan wrote, «I am convinced that obedience is the gateway by which knowledge, yes and even love, enter the mind of the child.»

The struggles faced today by East and West demand a new insight into the human condition, an insight realized in the cross of a self - giving God and consummated in the response of human love and obedience.

«Obedience is the gateway by which knowledge, yes and love, enter» our minds.

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.

The authenticity of the Sunnah is proved by the Qur» an, for it orders that the Prophet should be obeyed and it made obedience to him a form of obedience to God and a recognition of His love, «But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission» (Surah IV, 65).

And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

And yet he was a faithful servant, who willed the Good in truth, and he was also loved by the Good, that prizes obedience more than the «fat of the ram.»

We must learn that the unity of the faith and the will to obedience and love are not abolished by certain tensions.

If there is one God who made and loves all people and seeks from them an answering love and obedience, then perhaps spiritual experience is that which unites, and the world of religious differences is caused by cultural and historical variations.

The character of the divine love is shown by Jesus» obedience, his acceptance of his vocation, and his giving of himself for all.

Not having our love, by way of obedience to Him forms the problem (John 14:15; 1John 5:3).

It may be that kerygmatic allusions to Jesus» humility, meekness, gentleness, love, forgiveness and obedience derive from historical memory of Jesus; but the «historical value» which such material may have is far from its kerygmatic meaning, which is more accurately stated by Bultmann, in language actually intended to state the significance of the pre-existence in the karygma: «That Jesus, the historical person, did this service for us, and that he did it not out of personal sympathy and loveableness, but rather by God acting in him, in that God established his love for us through Jesus dying for us sinners (Rom.

Since love was no longer to be expressed by obedience to many principles, it had to be a matter of the heart.

But his concern for the law persisted in his summons to distinguish between the external obedience required by it and the inner fidelity to a higher law required of a life reborn by the love and mercy of God.

Thus, as C. F. Evans points out, «the evangelist indicates that this spiritual ascent takes place at the cross and by means of it, and through the love and obedience which lie within it.

To Jesus the kingdom of God was the universal, eternal, righteous reign of God, only partially accepted amid the world's evil yet a present fact, a sphere of human existence to be entered and furthered by moral obedience in love to the will of God.

So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and richness of experience which were God's aims in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures of a «lower» order.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Authoritarianism denies fulfillment of the child's need for unqualified love by making acceptance contingent on obedience.

We are not to shut ourselves off from the world in a spirit of asceticism, but to live in the everyday world inspired by the radical obedience that is demanded by the love of God.

This love by God requires the partner's obligatory love, especially expressed in covenant obedience.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

That is a far, far different meaning than the «instant obedience» often held up as the epitome of Christian faith and evidence of love for God and, by extension, the goal of so - called «Biblical parenting.»

He enjoys playing with you, going on walks with you, obedience training with you and getting loved on by you.

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO have too little time to devote to their dog, who have unruly children, who expect instant and total obedience, who expect their dog to live in a back yard, or who are embarrassed by sharing love with an animal.

Labs also love to burn up energy on hunting trips or at field trials, as well as by participating in canine sports such as agility, obedience, tracking, and dock diving.

Whether it is positively applied obedience, rolling on the ground with petting and affection, throwing and fetching a ball, or simply veg» ing out on a dog bed in the middle of the family room surrounded by loved ones, a dog needs others to interact with and be near.

James Dobson does insist upon obedience and parental control, but he tones his rigid approach down a little by saying that children need unconditional love.