Sentences with phrase «of the wicked world»

Don't say, the power of evil, of the wicked world, is great, but we, we are guiltless....

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The real world of growth businesses, though, is messy and packed with wicked problems.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

The flood story was like the movie Titanic captivating the audience in presentation and they left the reading with tears in their eyes and the hope of being rescued from this wicked harsh world in their hearts.

That is, what we can observe today (states and their populations become more and more profane or secular), and moreover it is predicted in the book of Revelation of the Bible that finally the whole world will worship the Arch-Blasphemer (the head of the Beast) or the Wicked.

Those frightened by the seeming power of the wicked in the world today can take heart from what John Paul II said to young people in Cracow in June 1979: «Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity.»

* Matthew 13:38 - 39 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

More words of peace and wisdom from Jesus Christ: Matthew 13:49 - 50 49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Dear friendly peoples of world, hope the all mankind could kindly arise with joint effort to save this peace loving people from the wicked and severe tortures and baseless accusations.How mankind in this century of light can treat another human being simply heap false accusations and put in prison for so many years when they have done no wrongs.l.

However, God is not the author of sin and only the wicked and evil heart blame Him for the evil in the world.

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

Traditional western doctrines of the world beyond have generally included a distinction between a «heaven» for the righteous souls, and a «hell» for the wicked, sometimes with a «purgatory» for those who must undergo purifying punishment before entering heaven.

In the Easter experience the disciples were assured «that God himself had intervened with almighty hand in the wicked and rebellious activity of the world, and had snatched this Jesus of Nazareth from the power of sin and death which had risen up against him, and installed him as Lord of the world.»

The people of Israel wanted a warrior Messiah, one who would slay the enemies of Israel, overthrow the corrupt and pagan Roman Empire, slaughter the wicked, and set up Israel as the ruling nation over all the world.

The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one: 1John 5:19.

20 - 21): at the end of the present world order, «God will refine in his truth all the deeds of a man, cleansing him with a holy spirit from all wicked deeds.

Some of us look forward with great eagerness and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the evil governments and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world in bloodshed, burns away all those who did not follow Him, and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to suffer and burn for all eternity.

We will look at this verse in more detail when we discuss the Calvinistic idea of Limited Atonement, but for now, it is enough to note that even if the whole world lies under the control of the wicked one, Jesus has done what is necessary to liberate the whole world from the evil one so that they can respond to the gospel and believe in Jesus for eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:7 - 13).

They think that their hatred of Christianity is justified by the examples they post of the tiny percentage of the world's three billion Christians who do extreme and wicked things.

1John 5:19, says that the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one, Satan the Devil.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

In the image of Psalm 82, the world is given over by God to judges who «judge unjustly» and «lift up the face of the wicked.»

Satan rules this world and sins of men are wicked.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

The impression I was left with was that the best of the forces of good and the worst of the forces of evil would finally engage in all out war, releasing creatures and demons and angels and monsters into the agonized world ruled by intelligent but wicked men who would overthrow everything and anything that was established.

It will not pride itself on this, and not think itself superior to earlier ages of the Church, but will obediently and thankfully accept its own age as what is apportioned to it by its Lord and his Spirit and not merely what is forced on it by the wicked world.

But the only reason people looked upon Jesus in this way at that time (few look upon Jesus in that way now), is because Jesus had incarnated Himself among men and had taken the sin of the world upon Himself so that He died among the wicked (Isa 53:9), bearing upon Himself the curse of the cross, and even crying out that He had been forsaken by God (Matt 27:46).

It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.

If His law of life had been taught properly, this world would know what a true civilization is, and the wicked, and selfish, would be no more.

We have to take into account the whole company of saints and wicked, the once - born and the twice - born, the strong of spirit and the weak, the kindly and the ruthless, those who have saved their souls by withdrawal from the world, and those who have assumed the moral risks of ecclesiastical office and public trust.

In this new world, with Satan conquered, the righteous would be taken to dwell with the King in a realm of glory, and the wicked would be consigned to eternal punishment.

The world of wicked man do not understand Jehovah's Wisdom because to him the wisdom of this world is foolish they all blinded by that powerful corrupted Demon Satan and his demons....

While in no way do I want to associate George W. Bush with wicked forces, if I wanted to emphasize who he was, I could refer to him as «the president, the man in the White House, the ruler of the free world, the head of our country.»

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

And the Great Contraption shall be built by His humble children who dwell upon the earth upon which lays the tainted sand onto which the writing about the Great Contraption shall be written by Him... (10:15 - 21) And so shall the Great Contraption serve the humble children and transport them to all corners of the world in half the time of the fastest contemporary propeller - driven aircraft, thus shall the need no longer be great for the consumption of the foul in - flight meal, nor the mingling with the wicked air hostess in her offensive garment which does reveal the calfs of her shapely, comely and smooth white legs and nubile curvaceous buttocks which call as like a siren to the very soul of a devout man, and her breasts.

No; because he believed that «the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one and because man has dominated man to his own injury.»

Blind or Powerless or Wicked World Justice is,,, The W / bank lands are being taken from the natives although many go deeds of ownership that date to before and at the Ottoman, some date back to British Colonial rule.

He asks us to cry with our eyes like fountains for the sins of the world that the wicked may live and change towards God.Don't blaspheme God's love.Pray, God's heart longs for redemption By A pathetic Judas Iscariot saved by the cross of father Jesus.

Then I found 1 John 4:8 which says: «The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.»

This is especially the concepts that good works must follow and accompany faith in order for the faith to be considered genuine, the understanding of repentance as turning away from sin and as necessary for assurance and «final salvation,» of the Kingdom of God referring to God's final salvation for the redeemed and punitive judgment for the wicked, and God's punishment of Jesus for the sins of the whole world to satisfy His wrath.

It comes right out of Disney's film productions, a place where we meet animated «real - life» versions of goodness personified (Snow White, the third Little Pig, Dumbo, Pollyanna) and the essence of evil (the Wicked Queen, the Big Bad Wolf)-- and thus learn to divide the world into good and evil, watching goodness triumph with a smile and a song.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

The cities, tribes and world became increasingly wicked (according to the Bible) when they turned from God (a good example would be Baal worship that included putting live children into the red hot arms of a bronze Baal statue).

The divine decision to go with a wicked world, come what may, means for God a continuing grieving of the heart.

2 — If no, then — the fishon's and Steve's of the world should occasionally focus their venom on those vile monsters who exceed the posted speed limit by 1 mph / kph, or those wicked glutinous enemies of God who go back for a second slice of pie.

The problems of the world do indeed have to do with the problems of imperfect, ignorant and wicked people.

You judge the rest of the world to be wicked.

Since Jesus referred to the wicked one, Satan, as «the ruler of the world» or its «prince» (John 12:31) he would have nothing to do with the decisions made in ANY political system.

I will pray for all of you who are lost in the wilderness of today's wicked material world which will pass sooner or later.