Sentences with phrase «obedience to commands»

Oppressing the power and independence of children by demanding strict obedience to their commands

They have exceptional obedience to commands and have superior sense of smell, making them the favorite of law enforcement and search and rescue units for tracking and retrieval operations.

The only regimen we are in search of, is the obedience to your commands.

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands.

Ishola who quoted various portions of the Qur» an and Hadith to justify his position, said hijab was a commandment from Allah and thus wearing it was an act of obedience to His commands.

So, no, I'm hardly afraid of being outnumbered and run out of a God - fearing, bible - believing church by a huge crowd insisting they impose their concepts of Godliness and (lack of, or edited versions) of obedience to His commands.

The message was that people had a choice: they could continue to live in sin and be subject to the wrath of God here and hereafter; or they could accept Christ, live in obedience to his commands, and be rewarded with everlasting life.

«But when it comes to serpent - handling, it requires a belief in God and obedience to the commands of Jesus.

It is harder to live in obedience to commands to «love our enemies and pray for those who despitefully use» us.

It requires action and obedience to the commands of Christ as well.

I do not think that faith requires action or obedience to the commands of Christ to be «true» or «real» faith.

Nor is God's election conditional upon Israel's obedience to the commands that God imposes on Israel as the expression of God's will for Israel's conduct.

The claim of knowing Christ is meaningless apart from obedience to his commands.

Re: «couple this proper translation of Luke 24:21, with Mark's account stating the women purchase the spices AFTER the Sabbath, and Luke's account stating they prepared the spices and ointments and THEN rest on the Sabbath in obedience to the command, the ONLY day possible for the crucifixion was on Wednesday.»

Am just trying to say that i think Paul wanted us to understand that whatever we do in love has to be in line with God's will, intention to expand God's kingdom, obedience to his command and committment to his work on earth.

Conscientious Christians often wonder how love can be a matter of voluntary obedience to a command.

Sölle too speaks of a promise along with a demand, but she makes clear that the realization of the promise is a function of obedience to the command.

«Seeing» God is made possible by obedience to the command of Christ.

His accusers raised a large number of baseless and patently false accusations against Him, then felt that it was necessary to expel His evil from their midst, and they did all this in obedience to the command of God (so they claimed).

It is rather an image given with the office of the ministry in and by a church in obedience to the command of the Lord of the gospel.

So the bread that we bless in obedience to his command becomes one reality and substance with his risen and glorified human nature.

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.

Not exact matches

They are designed to command obedience, not participation.

(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

The command is to serve the great social vision of the Gospel, because that vision of God will only become reality when there is enough human obedience.

It is the more pointed because obedience to this revoking command is taken as a test of loyalty to God, and Saul's faint leaning to mercy is unsparingly condemned.)

If these are to be more than easy expressions of cheer and fleeting good intentions, they must be seen not as sentiments but as commands, words that summon not just a mood but a steady and faithful obedience.

Then they skim off the ointments, and run out of time before the weekly Sabbath starts, so they had to rest in obedience to the Commandment (weekly Sabbath command).

The «rigorists,» that is, those who hold that the Sermon on the Mount must be taken with radical seriousness — render obedience to God's command impossible.»

The young man cited I Corinthians 14:34 - 35 «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

He noted particularly «those superb chapters in the second part of the Summa Theologiae on paternal or domestic government, the lawful power of the State or the nation, natural and international law, peace and war, justice and property, laws and the obedience they command, the duty of helping individual citizens in their need and cooperating with all to secure the prosperity of the State, both in the natural and the supernatural order.»

Both these moral commands are logically prior to, and thus not derived from, the events and texts themselves, for in order to extract truth from them, obedience to these moral commands is a necessary precondition.

If a sinner, then, relies on his actings of faith or works of obedience to any of the commands of the law for a title to eternal life, he seeks to be justified by works of the law as much as if his works were perfect.

From hundreds of monasteries all over Persia and central and eastern Asia, there poured forth a constant stream of ascetics who had completed their training and went forth, in obedience to the Lord's command, seeking to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth.

Modern theology has been largely concerned with reconciling competing commitments: the value of human freedom with obedience to divine commands; the scientific account of the natural world with the doctrine of creation; the necessity of critical inquiry with the authority of revelation.

This vagueness doubtless is partly due to the conflict of traditions — a conflict in which exponents of the primacy of the «secret call» may take the position that it alone is adequate while others who emphasize the first importance of church call come to the indefensible position of renouncing the importance of command and obedience enacted in solitariness.

From hundreds of monasteries all over Persia, there poured forth a constant stream of ascetics who went forth in obedience to the Lord's command, seeking to carry the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

The effective motive of obedience to such a command was the desire to be righteous rather than the concern for the other as another.

(By the way, Observant Jews are commanded by scripture to put the word of scripture on their doorposts, so this is not a «choice of decor» for them, it is obedience to God) Do you really want to hinder someone in that way?

Ward's answer is that morality is a «reasoned response to Supreme Valueand neither a wholly autonomous decision about how to live nor blind obedience to a set of arbitrary divine commands».

And third, and perhaps most poignantly, in obedience to Aslan's command, Digory relinquishes the desire to pocket a magic apple which could, he suspects, cure his dying mother.

Its peculiarity consists in the fact that as a law it commands the spirit of love which must be something more than obedience to law.

«Evangelicals, whose faith hinges on obedience to God's commands, are far more interested in the character of candidates than any other segment,» stated founder George Barna.

The apostle insists that if one is in the law system — that is, if one is relying upon obedience to God's commands for one's salvation — one's obedience must be complete.

(I Timothy 2:11 - 14) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

1 Corinthians 14:34 - 36 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

Although the empowerment of its own members is an important goal for every marginalized social group, by claiming an authority based in epistemic privilege the group reinscribes the values and practices used to socially marginalize it by excluding its voice, silencing it and commanding its obedience to the voice of the dominant group.

Let us take the commands of Jesus as concrete, specific calls to obedience.

When one couples this with what we have said earlier about man's freedom, the openness to the future which is before each of us and all of us, and the importance of decision as to choices made, the moral question is radically transformed from obedience to arbitrary command to willing acceptance of the invitation of love.