Sentences with phrase «offer of eternal life»

I agree as well that the offer of eternal life is the main point, and you can get right to the point without spending too much time on sin.

Without the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, there would be no biblical gospel, no offer of eternal life, no hope of heaven, and no forgiveness of sins.

However, IF you are engaged in a lot of personal evangelism or crusade evangelism, I do highly recommend the notes in this study Bible to help you understand the free offer of eternal life in the Bible.

It is only because of this multitude of «first steps» by God toward us that anyone and everyone who wants to receive God's offer of eternal life may do so by simply and only believing in Jesus Christ for it.

But other people, recognizing that Christ's offer of eternal life to anyone who believes in Him for it is an audacious claim bordering on insanity, want to know how He can make such a claim and how we know He can fulfill it.

We were able to have a long and lively discussion about the gospel and the offer of eternal life.

Yes, the offer of eternal life by grace through faith originated with God (we will look at the so - called «gift of faith» of Ephesians 2:8 - 9 in the next post), but the fact remains that the way to be transferred from death to life is not by waiting for God to regenerate us, but rather by believing in Jesus for eternal life.

The simple offer of eternal life in the Gospel is that God gives eternal life to anyone who simply believes in Jesus Christ for it.

And while this invitation is referred to over and over in the Gospel of John (e.g., John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47), this offer of eternal life is often equated with the fact and foundation of God's love for humanity.

Grace means the way in which God deals with our human condition, his active purpose for the creation, his power to redeem and save history from its bloody tragedy, his offer of eternal life.

So who are you talking to about the free offer of eternal life through faith in Jesus?

No, God has done everything that needs doing when it comes to the free offer of eternal life.

After Paul and Silas saved the Philippian jailor from committing suicide, they told him and his family about God's free offer of eternal life, and they all believed (Acts 16:25 - 34).

Not a word about Jesus or His offer of eternal life.

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I commend Andy for sticking faithfully to a works - free offer of eternal life.

This would then have nothing to do with whether or not the unregenerate person could understand the offer of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, and believe in Him as a result.

And although «gospel» almost universally today refers to good news about forgiveness of sin and the offer of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the word itself carries no such connotations.

But also, this comic strip could be true of the offer of eternal life, how to be a follower of Jesus, and just life in general.

When the gospel, the kingdom of God, and the offer of eternal life are rightly proclaimed, they have great drawing power to all who are unregenerate, for they contain the light and life that people have been searching for, but not finding.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

Everybody will have to know some of the logical and theological foundations for the free offer of eternal life, but nobody can know all of them.

Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.

Did the offer of eternal life change?

That is God's free offer of eternal life.

The Gospel includes an offer of eternal life, it includes a message about the forgiveness of sins, it includes facts about the death and resurrection of Jesus, but these by themselves are not the entire Gospel.

You are free to reject Gods offer for your sin and free to reject Gods offer of eternal life.

Not exact matches

when the man and woman left their creator they gave up the health and eternal life he offered and were put out of paradise.

That title was given to us the moment we believed, the day we took our God at His Word and accepted the gift of eternal life He offered to us.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

We do not have the power to grant nor withhold the living water of eternal life that Jesus offers the Samaritan woman.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

Consider further that the Book of Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - Life, as it applies to unbelievers, is a record of those who have offered perfect obedience before God and are thus worthy of eternal life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - life when they are judged by God on the basis of their works at the White Throne Judgment (Romans 2:6 - 16, Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:10 - 12, Revelations 20:11 - 15), none of whose names will actually be found in the Book of Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - Life and will therefore be condemned (Matthew 19:16 - 22).

Eternal life is offered completely free of charge to anyone and everyone who will believe in Jesus Christ for it.

The important point, however, is not knowing every detail of all these things, but knowing and trusting the one who offers us eternal life.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

So now, the author of Hebrews says, if these Hebrew Christians return to the sacrificial system, then there is not sacrifice there which can offer forgiveness of sins or eternal life.

Jesus never died for the sins of Satan, nor did Jesus ever offer eternal life to Satan if Satan would believe in Him for it.

He offers us the gift of eternal life — of living forever with Him in heaven if we accept Him as our Lord and Savior.

The way of the master is an evangilism method in which an individual takes a few questions and asks them to another individual who is trying to get a realistic understanding of who God is and how Jesus Christ offers us the gift of salvation and eternal life.

14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, [c] so that we may serve the living God!

Consequently, «eternal life» is offered to all; for «all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.»

I'm going with the free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ offered to me by the creator of everything who knows exactly when we will die...

For example, he says God's gift of eternal life and you assume that he means that the gift is offered by God eternally with no possibility of revocation.

As the Christian Church makes memorial of Christ's life and work, bringing these from the past into the present; as through that memorial, it pleads before God the wonder of the self - offering which Christ made on Calvary; as the communicants know the presence of Christ brought from heavenly places into their heart of hearts — so they are in communion with Him, and with God and man through Him, the communion which is Life Eterlife and work, bringing these from the past into the present; as through that memorial, it pleads before God the wonder of the self - offering which Christ made on Calvary; as the communicants know the presence of Christ brought from heavenly places into their heart of hearts — so they are in communion with Him, and with God and man through Him, the communion which is Life EterLife Eternal.

The sociologist Rodney Stark makes some headway in answering the first part of this question: traditional religion, by invoking supernatural power, can promise eternal life, reunion with the departed, a perfected soul, and unending bliss, all of which have obvious appeal and none of which can be offered by merely secular competitors (Stark 169).

He wanted to win eternal life, but not at the price of giving up what this age offered.

He willingly gives his life for them, and offers them the fullness of life eternal.

Together, they endured the cross, despised it's shame, so that Jesus could once again sit down at the right hand of God the Father in heaven, and we could be offered eternal life.