Sentences with phrase «of the servants went»

When he returned, he found that two of the servants went out, and worked to trade them to make more money.

Not exact matches

The announcement this week that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not going to intervene in the sale of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan to the Australian conglomerate, BHP Billiton Ltd., speaks volumes about how Bay Street  and its servants in Ottawa are so willing and eager to sell off Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate assets to foreign corporations.

This servant leader says his greatest struggle has been in letting go of the things that were always important parts of his daily routine, prior to his assuming the role of CEO.

The angel says, «Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?»

No, «sure, we have differences, but how can we go out together and serve the world as people of God and servants of Christ?»

For the first time we prayed «For the faithful who have gone before us, and especially for the servant of God, Richard John.»

But was there really a landowner who went away and when he sent back servants to receive the income from the land, the tenants of the land killed all the servants?

But as I waited for John to go get permission to let me in, as I was standing there at the door, the servant girl, who was in charge of the door, was staring at my face.

At this point Jesus tells the story of the king who went over the accounts of his servants.

6:11 Each of them was given a long white robe and they were told to rest for a little longer, until the full number was reached of both their fellow servants and their brothers who were going to be killed just as they had been.

The friends of the poorer servant go to the king on his behalf in an exquisite show of Christian concern for the brother.

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel (of the great tribulation), when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets (Rev. 10:7), and if you go to Revelation 11:15 - 18 the rapture of the bride as the seventh and last trumpet of the great tribulation begins (Paul's twinkling of an eye 1 Cor.15: 50 - 52) to sound.

As I think about debt, I recall the Parable of Talents in the Bible where the master going on a journey gave three of his servants» talents to manage in his absence.

There are some cultural things going on here with the act of baptism, and the fact that family members and servants usually followed the religion of the head of their household, but again, the most straightforward way of reading these texts is that more than one person believed, and those that did believe were baptized.

This verse goes on to say that it is such faithful and wise servants whom God will appoint to manage his household, and provide food for the family of God.

Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, «The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!»

the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 «Take some large stones in your [a] hands and hide them in the mortar in the [b] brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's [c] palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of [d] some of the Jews; 10 and say to them, «Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, «Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

When the suffering servant is allowed to go up and be a light for the nations, the servant Israel, redeemed and cleansed, will establish God's sovereignty upon itself and serve as the beginning of His kingdom.

As the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.»

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

When a girl who can tell fortunes starts following St. Paul around as he goes to prayer in Philippi, shouting that these men are servants of God and have come to tell the citizens how to be saved, Paul loses his temper and tells the spirit that gave her this insight to come out.

now hes in the kingdom on his throne how much more powerfull now and us being his servants and conduits we have all the power of heavenat our disposal by his will.and we are to walk in the darkest places but we have a brighter light and when we go to the dakests we leave that light the darkest place bescomes the brightest place becuause the power used there stays if accepted and kept.we leave a lighted path for others to receave and gets the all deserving glory praise and thankfullness and worship and love he wants.we are always should have the servent humblness.to learn to lead we serve when we lead we still serve and people will do the same when they see how well its system works.bless you and follow his path and make ways for him and others.

The most generous interpretation I can think of goes something like this: Virginity would disqualify one for office, not precisely because it is a moral failing, but because it bespeaks a lack of experience, a naiveté we can ill afford in our public servants.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

Since these promises of God are so, since they are wonderful blessings from our Heavenly Father, we should live just like that assassin who became a servant — with gratitude and thankfulness for all that He has done and what He is going to do.

But in three subsequent poems dealing with the person of the Servant, his function and mission, all in the second division of chapters (49:1 - 6; 50:4 - 9; and 52:13 - 53:12), the Servant clearly can not be Cyrus, and the Servant's mission has gone quite beyond any historical accomplishment of Cyrus.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

(Gen. 12:16) When Abraham's servant went on a long journey to Mesopotamia, he «took ten camels from the camels of his master.»

A good example: I've been playing a videogame of late with a combination Greek / fantasy pantheon in which the player - character is a very faithful servant of a particular goddess, knows other gods exist (because killing them / beating them up is the main plot of the game), and winds up with an ally who can clearly see that the gods exist but only cares about following himself — so there's a mix there of misotheism with a few of the gods (they are there, but they're evil), faithful worship (serving a good goddess), and nay theism («You gods are selfish jerks, I'm going my own way!»).

5But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully and killed them.

How should we make sense of these cases, and what if the Servant, the nurse or the clerk were «going through the motions» at the point of a gun, rather than merely (as in the condemned Servant view) in fear of their jobs or an «angry look»?

When Mary and Joseph took their infant son to be baptised in the temple, Simeon blessed Jesus by saying the «Nunc dimittis»: «Now, Master, you are letting your servant go in peace / as you promised; / for my eyes have seen the salvation / which you have made ready in the sight of the nations; / a light of revelation for the gentiles / and glory for your people Israel.»

Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her.

Great to have people dedicating their lives to seeking God and sharing their experiences with the rest of us, but a long tradition of seeing those people as either infallible, or personal servants is going to mean that people expect, and demand, far more than that... or else.

God The Father and God The Son and God The Holy Ghost are HOLY, SANCTIFIED and commands that HIS SERVANTS be HOLY, SANCTIFIED and SEPARATE, we go into The World to Preach His Gospel, but we are NOT to be «of the world» Meaning, we are not to follow WORLDLY STANDARDS in our lives, but apply HIS MOST HOLY STANDARDS to our lives.

If one read in Isaiah 40 vs. 13, YHWH tells us of this servant who will work for Him, and that YHWH is who taught him, and counseled, and instructed him, he is the arm of YHWH, then you go to Isaiah 40 vs. 18, and 25, 28, of who YHWH is, and that we are not to compare Him to no one, for in Isaiah 40vs.22, YHWH says He is who sits on the circle of the earth.

We are nearing the end times, and all christians need to get prayed up, fasted up, and be willing to go wherever the father is leading and do whatever it is that He wants us to do because one sweet day we know it will be worth it when He says, «Enter into the kingdom of Heaven, thy good and faithful servant».

As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee: then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.»

Throughout human history this conflict between the «servants of Heaven» and the «servants of earth» has gone on; but only since the birth of the idea of Evolution (in some sort divinising the Universe) have the devotees of earth bestirred themselves and made of their worship a true form of religion, charged with limitless hope, striving and renunciation.

While He is gone, He wants to leave some of his money in the possession of His servants so they can invest it for Him while He is gone.

«All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live.

It really was nothing more than a servant that is the kind of slave the bible speaks of, but when it goes past that and the owner starts to treat the servant wrong and control and beat on him..

With this information, the warden no doubt recalled the announcement of the little fortune teller before her gift of divination had been taken from her: «These men are the servants of the most high God» (16:17), for he commanded a light and went to Paul and Silas and asked them what he must do to be saved.

Many of his students have gone on to become amazing missionaries and powerful servants of God.

Frederick's policy was to keep himself away from direct personal contact with events, but to have a very efficient information service, and a few chosen servants, to bring him news not only of everything going on in his own lands, but everywhere in Europe.

He is the suffering servant of Isaiah chapter 53, and his disciples should go the way of the cross.

Jesus» prophecies about Jerusalem in Luke represent another way in which people are tempted to escape the gap between effort and result, and to avoid the hard lessons of patience, endurance and even suffering that go with being a servant of God.

Jeremiah 43:8 - 13 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 8 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 «Take some large stones in your [a] hands and hide them in the mortar in the brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's [c] palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of [d] some of the J.ews; 10 and say to them, «Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, «Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

All of the blood, sweat and tears that you sowed in that 30 years, is going to be nothing compared to what you will get when you hear «Well done, good and faithful servant».