Sentences with phrase «much grace by»

Not exact matches

It depends on if you're a «christian» or a Christ - ian... today a believer can pretty much get away with anything because they pull the grace card, and I'm not saying there is no grace (my mouth is not perfect, but I bridle it by the Holy Spirit in me.)

One must also understand the Wesleyan movement as preaching a gospel of free grace that at times sounds very much like the Reformation theme of «justification by faith.»

A believer reading George MacDonald will truly feel cleansed by encountering so much truth and grace.

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?»

Are we so driven by our revulsion toward that which caused us so much pain that we're willing to accept and applaud such emotional venting without even offering the most elemental grace to the accused?

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

There is a limit to what we can do with ourselves on our own (Pelagius gave too much of the job to us and not enough to God, according to the fifth - century Council of Carthage that declared him heretical), but in general humans are called to actively participate in the mysterious enterprise of being changed by way of grace into Christlike beings.

But it does, by the grace of God, manage to discover enough glimmers of meaning to continue to labor joyously despite great trials, hoping against hope, looking for significant ways to let the «least of these» know how much God loves them.

First of all, I thank God for this article, and for the grace shown by the author in the face of much contention and strife (which are works of the flesh, and those who practice it them are in trouble!).

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesGrace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesgrace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesgrace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesGrace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

How can we expect people such as this to comprehend, much less embrace a well ordered way of life unless and until their psychic wounds are healed, their hearts are mended and their souls salved by the grace of Christ?

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

If God required me to do 52 jumping jacks while holding my tongue out and crossing my eyes to be forgiven of my sin then I would still be saved by grace no matter how much sweat I produced in the process.

Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

It is much harder to believe that all we have and all we are given is simply and only by the grace of God.

Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

If salvation is «all of grace,» then it is only by the power of God that saints would persevere at all, much less be saved at all.

These forums are much better when we are enlighted by the various rodent deities who grace us with their presence.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

I am looking (by God's good grace) at things much differently than I use to and I really appreciate what you are doing.

They have to say it's not the same God otherwise people will start asking why God wants different people to follow different rules, the truth of the matter is Christians don't want to live by rules, they want to live by grace, they don't want anyone to tell them not to eat or drink too much or to do anything anyone else says.

Perhaps liberal churches have made too much of the Calvinist work ethic, of salvation through works rather than salvation by grace alone.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

By emphasizing grace as much as possible.

It's not about whether someone can conquer any particular sin, although by God's grace it does happen (other sins will remain), but rather it is the much needed realization that we are not who we were meant to be (we are fallen) and we need a Savior.

Deftly citing Luke 4, in which Jesus» townsfolk in Nazareth are said to want to kill him for suggesting that Gentiles are to be graced by God as much as Jews, Keller quipped that he couldn't be that good a preacher since nobody had yet tried to kill him.

Instead of a richly ironic story in which even Jesus» enemies are caught up in the symphony of grace, we get a Manichean morality play, in which evil is not so much transformed by God's love as merely beaten by it.

There is still much to be done on both of these fronts, particularly in regard to the troubling support of Sovereign Grace Ministries by some SBC leaders in spite of the organization's apparent systemic sex abuse cover - up.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

Yet from men and women inspired by the Christian faith have come efforts, unprecedented and unequaled, to counter the evils, so that where «sin abounded, grace did much more abound.»

KJV Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

We may be the 11th - hour workers who by grace receive as much from God as do those who have been working in God's vineyard since infancy.

By the same authority I release you from the office of prior... I do not want you to complain that I have judged you without a hearing, or that I have not accepted your defence... You have done as much as you had grace to do...» But «it is not enough that a man be good and pious by himselBy the same authority I release you from the office of prior... I do not want you to complain that I have judged you without a hearing, or that I have not accepted your defence... You have done as much as you had grace to do...» But «it is not enough that a man be good and pious by himselby himself.

Because at the end of the day, whether you believe it or not, there is a loving God who declares that by His grace you deserve that and so much more.

This is by FAR the easiest option you're going to find and it's become our saving grace for those really busy days when even the thought of doing anything more than lifting a finger is just too much.

Congressman Ackerman stated: «Much like myself, Grace was raised in Queens by a hard working, middle - class family.

Thank you very much, my target is to become the governor of Osun come 2018 by God's grace and that is an ambition I no longer hide.

«Much like myself, Grace was raised in Queens by a hardworking, middle - class family,» Ackerman said in a statement.

Last week's byelection in Henley was predictable and surprising in equal measure: predictable because it showed that David Cameron, riding high in the polls as the government falls from grace, can win a safe seat on his home turf; but surprising because the Conservative vote didn't go up by much compared with the 2005 general election, even though the party is a full 14 % higher in the national polls.

By periodically measuring gravity regionally, GRACE reveals how much a region's water storage changes over time.

Thanks to your efforts in all of the above videos and through much of the «no pain no gain» stretches, I'm on the mend by Gods grace.

The bride accessorized with diamond drop earrings, ivory sling - backs by Manolo Blahnik, and a custom headpiece from Marchesa, which was very much inspired by iconic bride Grace Kelly.