Sentences with phrase «message of eternal life»

The second is a message of eternal life by grace through faith plus works.

The first is a message of eternal life by grace alone through faith alone.

The whole world is being exposed to God's message of eternal life, there for the asking, without measuring up or meeting some kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.

The message of eternal life in God should not be proclaimed in such a way as to obscure death as the teacher of wisdom.

But the message of eternal life in God should not be proclaimed in such a way as to obscure death as the teacher of wisdom.

But now I am ready and have had opportunity to share the clear and simple message of eternal life several times.

You have the message of eternal life».

The Word of God is the message of eternal life.

What if all our people knew how to share the message of eternal life?

In Acts, we read about Cornelius, a God - fearing Gentile, who heard the message of eternal life and believed in Jesus for it (Acts 10:22, 44 - 48).

St. Peter said to the Lord: «To whom else shall we go, you have the message of eternal life» (Jn 6:60).

Only the latter course will lead us to the «message of eternal life» given us by «the Holy One of God.»

That is why it contains the message of eternal life by faith in Christ so frequently.

You have the message of eternal life, and we believe; we have come to know you are the Holy one of God» (vv.

There is a difference between the mechanism of justification (the death and resurrection of Jesus, along with a myriad of other things) and the message of eternal life (believe in Jesus for it).

Certainly, the message of eternal life is central to the gospel.

Not exact matches

The Gospel includes an offer of eternal life, it includes a message about the forgiveness of sins, it includes facts about the death and resurrection of Jesus, but these by themselves are not the entire Gospel.

Without the truths of the death and resurrection of Jesus, there is no gospel, but the gospel is way more than a message about justification and how to get eternal life.

They needed to be among the assembly yesterday of about 3000 believers in three different services that heard the message of the cross given and the simple message of the gift of eternal life by believing in the one that was nailed to the cross for our sins.

All who are born again have freely responded to God's drawing and have trusted in Christ and Him alone for eternal life (See Bob Wilkin, «The Lord Opened Her Heart»; «What About Those Who Die Without Hearing the Message of Christ?»)

The content of the gospel as eternal salvation is either reduced to a social message to ameliorate the conditions of life in this world, or it is equated with the loftiest wisdom of philosophy and heroic examples of moral achievement.

Art. 7 of the Decree on the Missions says in so many words that God can give in ways known to himself the grace of faith and thus the hope and love necessary for eternal life also to those whom the actual message of the gospel has not reached.

In the end, Paul's message in the first half of his letter to the Romans points to one single truth: Because God has done everything necessary as far as our eternal life is concerned, there is absolutely nothing we (or anyone or anything else) can do to lose our eternal life once we have it.

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.

Only Christ knows what is in a persons heart, this pope is reaching out to the lost in a positive way with the message of Christ love, which is very important as there are many lost souls that need to hear the message of Christ's love, hope, forgiveness and eternal life that is available only in Christ Jesus.

When a society is preoccupied with death, one will hear the message of resurrection and eternal life.

And I ended up rejecting it, because I think that the emphasis on the law completely misses the point of the law and misrepresents the good news message of Jesus that anyone and everyone can have eternal life simply and only by believing in Jesus for it.

Or some hear the gospel as a metaphorical message about how to live a better life in the here and now and view any talk of after - lives, eternal damnation, and saving as only metaphor that tends to get abused when it is used to stir up fear in order to get converts and tithing members.

These sorts of examples are found all over the place in the Bible, and the consistent message and expectation of biblical authors is that anyone and everyone can hear and understand the Gospel, and having heard, believe in Jesus for eternal life.

While it is appealing to say that eternal life is by grace alone and nothing else, the cry of the Reformation and the center of the Gospel message in the Bible is that eternal life is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.

In other words, though God may order the events which allows a person to hear the message of the Gospel, and while God gives eternal life and confers the status of sonship to those who do believe, God does not force anyone to believe or restrict others from doing so.

... Those who hear the good news and reject it are condemned not because they were unable to believe, but because they rejected the saving message and hence in effect judged themselves unworthy of eternal life!

Sure, life after death and eternal happiness with God in heaven is part of the gospel message, but it is not the only part — or even the main part.

The context from which Jesus's message is derived is that this life is a part of a greater, longer (eternal) existence.

First of all, it should be pointed out that an inability to hear and understand the message of Jesus is not necessarily the same thing as an inability to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

When we refuse to help others with their physical needs because their greatest need is eternal life, the «Good News» message that many people hear is, «Your suffering in this life at the hands of wicked men will be followed by suffering in eternity at the hands of a loving God.»

He argues convincingly that since our eternal life will be like this present life (only without all the negatives), we should live in this present life the way we will live in the eternal life, and that this is the message of the Kingdom and the Gospel.

So, gospel, in it's narrow sense is «the message leading to eternal life,» the content of which is defined in 1 Cor.

The message of justification and eternal life is a part of the gospel.

Which message is more dangerous: «God gives eternal life to anyone who simply believes in Jesus for it» OR «God gives eternal life to those who turn from sin, obey God, and live a life of ongoing good works»?

But based upon a plethora of New Testament passages, Christians have also recognized that there IS indeed also a technical usage of the term «the gospel» that came into effect after Christ's resurrection that refers not to good news in general, nor to the general revelation of God given through the Old and New testaments, but to the specific message that must be preached to the lost and must be believed by the lost to receive eternal life.

In light of the denial of «the gospel» as a technical term for this message by GES advocates and the insistance that «Jesus guarantees eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&raqlife to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege&Eternal Life Under Siege&raqLife Under Siege».

When you present the Gospel message of how to receive eternal life, there is one thing and one thing only that must be included.

How sad the message of Scripture necessary for eternal life called «the gospel» has been abandoned by GES advocates and replaced with «the saving proposition».

I believe all of these show, beyond any doubt, that there IS a technical usage of the term «THE GOSPEL» that refers to the specific «message of the cross» that MUST be preached and believed by the unsaved in order to receive eternal life, justification, salvation, regeneration, forgiveness, or whatever you want to call it.

Frequently, whenever someone hears the message of God freely giving eternal life to anyone who believes in Jesus for it, their immediate reaction is «What?

Write it with liberal doses of love messages and promises of eternal life... they'll eat it up; and then he just sits back and watches y» all fight over it.

They couched the promise of eternal life (in other words the terms to receive eternal life, which is faith into Jesus Christ in His promise) in the message of the gospel, which has as one of its purposes, to persuade and convince its hearers that Jesus Christ is worthy, sufficient, authoratative, qualified, and trustworthy to receive our faith in for eternal life.

Antonio, judging by your reply, it sounds that you believe I am teaching a «false gospel» (if you even use the word «gospel» for the message of salvation anymore) because I believe that to receive eternal life, a person must believe in a «Jesus» who is God (John 8:24, 58) and man (1John 4:2; 2John 7) who died for his sins and rose again (1Cor.

The difference between the Gospel message and the Offer (promise) of eternal life: http://free-grace.blogspot.com/2007/06/difference-between-gospel-message-and.html