Sentences with phrase «obedience to other»

Experiencing that joy and the blessing that results from obedience to other commandments as well, I have come to a new appreciation of the wisdom and mercy embodied in the divine instructions given us in the Scriptures.

The problem is that participating in any federal program exposes an institution to obedience to other federal programs and their guidelines.

Not exact matches

«But obedience to the Fourth Amendment always bears that cost and surely brings with it other benefits.»

You established a condition of what man needs to be saved other than salvation: OBEDIENCE.

The result was that he condemned elements of every group for their sinfulness and refusal to obey God, while affirming others for their obedience.

Faith is a curious obedience, a dynamic not static commitment to our own dignity and that of others.

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.

If you can not find another verse, and if you can't change the definition of «ONE», then you need to step into obedience and make sure that you never go to any other mediator, such as Mary, or any saint, or an Angel, in prayer.

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.

We affirm that we can achieve the highest and best for ourselves only through obedience to God and service to others.

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.

No, obedience to such laws are for peace and harmony in society and culture as we live life with other human beings.

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.

This is the Latin from Eph 5:21 to indicate that each one is to be subject to the other: «Give way to one another in obedience to Christ,» as the New Jerusalem Bible translates this verse.

Christ's true wisdom is self - giving, self - offering obedience to God for the benefit of others.

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.»

Furthermore, it's hard to believe such obedience is anything but the product of coercion given it is flanked on one side by a promise of reward and on the other by a threat of punishment.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

Even though the image of the cross has been misused to subordinate women and other Christians, the NT»S understanding of faithful obedience to God is impossible without it.

In the one case it is the principle that, in each of a series of succeeding ages, God has tested his people in terms of their obedience to a particular form of his revelation; in the other, it is the proposition that God's salvation is divinely initiated and established, that it is the same salvation throughout the Bible, and that it is the notion of covenant which articulates this.

What would have happened if, even a year ago, Cardinal Law had confronted them and other blatantly gay priests with the alternative of living in obedience to their vows or leaving the priesthood?

When God touches our hearts to help others, we must follow in obedience whether the outcome is good, or not so good.

I didn't celebrate Halloween recently anyway but did in the past occasionally so I am not Judging others but now I must walk in obedience to the revelation I have received now about these celebrations.

Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse (Colquhoun, A Treatise).

The constant tension throughout the Bible is between the demand for us to be individuals of legalistic obedience and ritual purity, on one side and on the other, the call for us to be a community of justice and compassion.

Rather than choosing between sinful - but - scrumptious indulgence on the one hand and godly - but - tiresome obedience on the other, the challenge is to select between enslavement to unwholesome and distasteful foods — bondage to Boston cream pie is one author's illustration — and deliverance into the possibility of living a truly energetic, salubrious and meaningful existence.

Students, on the other hand, have the duty to render obedience to teachers within the limits of their recognized authority.

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.

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

(Is it just my imagination or do many people who call Jesus «lord and master» shy away from discussions with those of other views because — acting in obedience to someone else's interpretation of Jesus — they have no reasoned convictions of their own?)

Others say, «No, we don't have to do anything to gain eternal life; it is the free gift of God (Eph 2:8 - 9), but if we want to keep eternal life, we have to live a life of holiness and obedience.

The religious person allows the dogma of their religion to override their conscience without empathy of others due to blind obedience or personal integrity.

The objections to fasting — the resistance of the flesh and «evangelical liberty» — must not deter one from fasting as a form of discipline.31 When the Christian has failed in obedience, is guilty of sin against others, has lost the joy of Christian grace, and has come to little or no prayer, he needs to fast and pray.

Just as the actual breastplate on a soldier protects his heart, lungs, and other vital organs, so the breastplate of righteousness, the practical holiness of a life lived in obedience to God, is what protects the heart of a Christian.

«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 other thing I know is that she, in every part of her life from diet to family to work to worship, exercises a discipline and orderliness and obedience that I could never attain to in a hundred lifetimes and that, by her own admission, those ways of being and doing come up out of her Mormon faith and are her praxis.

Since in him there has been established a relationship of obedience between God and humankind, others are taken to share in that newness of life.

As I read Rabbi Shaul's / Paul's instructions, in the letter to the church in Rome, about how to live out life, I see him encouraging believers to provoke others, especially the Jewish people we encounter, to envy — to live a life that challenges them to desire a closer walk with the Lord, to live a life of more faithful obedience to His Word.

And the dynamics of this delight will not bear too much scrutiny in terms of the truth of the gospel, the obedience to Christ, and other such properly elevated rubrics.

If the church really is, among other things, the community that remembers Jesus, then liturgy is but the obedience of the practice of the church to the reality of its mind!

Although no other person has been provided with the same ideal aim and thus the same opportunity as Jesus, there is no reason, Cobb suggests, why others can not imitate Jesus» complete obedience to God in responding to the ideal aims with which they too have been provided.

And by «moral earnestness» I do not mean the sort of moralism which centers itself in obedience to codes or laws or sets of commandments, whether they be ten or of any other number.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

It is the obedience of one lover to another: a willing, positive response and openness, in the knowledge that the other has our best interests at heart.

Writing about Humanae Vitae just a month after Pope Paul VI issued it, at which point lots of Catholics, including a goodly number of Jesuits, had popped a cork, the then - superior general asked his fellow Jesuits to assume an attitude of «obedience which is at once loving, firm, open, and truly creative» and «to do everything possible to penetrate, and to help others penetrate, into the thought which may not have been his own previously» - precisely because they were Jesuits, and this is what Jesuits do.

If you look at all those statements in that list above (and the myriad of others that I did not list), they all require some sort of obedience, commitment, or faithful living in order to earn, keep, or prove your eternal life.

«Thou shalt have no other gods before me» is more than a summons to obedience to law.

Chrissy from what you have written i believe you have always had a sensitive ear to God that shows obedience and godliness that is not the norm.You must of had godly influence from parents or someone close to the family.Its shows wisdom beyond your years what you know instinctively has taken me years to learn as my heart was stubborn and hard hearted.By your words i see humility and surrender to the Lord that is a powerful testimony may he continue to strengthen you in your Christian walk and may you be a blessing and a witness to others who do nt know the Lord.It shows God has no boundaries he is able to reach people in any situation if they have ears to hear.brentnz

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».

Israel was thus vowed to God in poverty, chastity and obedience: in the denial of empire and power, in the purity of her marriage covenant that did not permit her to go after any other religion, and in the fidelity of her worship by an unwavering revealed Faith.