Sentences with phrase «own against enemies»

Among the many missions Navy SEALs tackle is to conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping.

It is an axiom of power politics to defend against the enemy that potentially could materialize.

«When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.

The bible has specific instructions on the conduct for Israelis against their enemies:

Bill, fighting against enemy combatants in warzones is a different thing.

The power of prayer is one of the greatest weapons God has given to us against the enemy, yet too many of us neglect it in our lives.

The Spiritual armor Paul writes about in verses 10 - 17 is given to us for our personal protection against the enemy.

Yes, to fight a battle against our enemy, but not the enemy they all thought of.

Should we trust in Gods hedge of protection against our enemies?

All three insisted therefore that Protestantism should be characterized more by its positive witness than by a negative self - definition over against its enemies.

The Jews did not have the right to strike out against their enemies unless their enemies attacked first.

This is a striking picture of God's design for the local church - His own spiritual house in which disciples are born and raised and trained to fight against the enemy for His purpose in the earth.

Will this One vindicate him against the enemy who holds him in a dungeon?

Maybe they were experiencing the need to have control over their surroundings and their future, to be safely gathered and protected against their enemies, to dominate.

You use violence against the enemy.

Deut 20 for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

It seems, however, that as taken as Jews were with defending Jews and Israel against their enemies, they were equally enamored with the possibility of shedding their Jewish identity in the arms of other peoples and nationalities.

This is not to criticize you but to speak gods word against the enemy's word, and to empower my fellow brothers and sisters.

Also, for the first time, Abraham is told that his seed shall be victorious in wars with its enemies — which means, of course, that there will be later need for God - fearing men to sacrifice their sons, this time in battle; in the absence of fathers who are willing to pay such a price, God's way on earth can not survive in the world against its enemies.

But more than that, Jesus welcomed these outcasts into table - fellowship with himself in the name of the Kingdom of God, in the name of the Jews» ultimate hope, and so both prostituted that hope and also shattered the closed ranks of the community against their enemy.

(Deuteronomy 21:10 - 14 NAB) «When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.

But if God truly does have a violent and bloody side then Jesus was being deceptive, for nowhere in His life or ministry did He reveal God as someone who goes to war against His enemies or commands the genocide of people who do not love or obey Him.

In this view, since Israel was a theocracy, God, as the «Commander in Chief» sent Israel to war against her enemies.

Yes, Christians are supposed to love their enemies, but that hasn't prevented Christians from rightfully engaging in «just wars» against their enemies.

And far from taking up the sword and calling angels to defend Him against His enemies, Jesus told His followers to put away their sword (Matt 26:51), and did not call legions of angels as protection (Matt 26:53).

Instead, however, He inspired the biblical writers to record that He was the one giving the Israelites the commands to go to war against their enemies.

It has almost seemed that in every epoch there were some who were primarily interested in naming the name of Christ, clarifying its doctrinal and theological meaning, and defending that meaning against its enemies — but who named the name without giving the cup of water.

All too often the Christian church seems far more eager to take up arms against our enemies than we are to take up our cross and follow Jesus in dying for our enemies.

The individual may constantly descend into the void and time and again be tempted to rebel against the enemy, discovering perhaps only intermittently the companion whose presence is all the more intensely felt by virtue of the other phases.

The Bible supports retaliating against our enemies.

When Christians go to war against their enemies in the name of Jesus Christ, we are not worshipping the God who told us to love our enemies, but are worshipping the demonic being who loves nothing more than to get us to do his bidding while blaming it on God.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

As late as the 1940s King George VI could still seek divine help against the enemy in World War II by calling for a national «Day of Prayer» (though the enemy was making similar appeals to the same God).

Pipiteca, gather yourselves together with me in the house of war against your enemies, gather yourselves together with me.19

Amanteca, gather yourselves together with me in the house of war against your enemies, gather yourselves together with me.

Even though we are a mostly a Christian nation, we must defend ourselves often with drones and hell fire missiles against our enemies.

Last year, my wife, Bobbie, led a movement on social media called #middaybabymidday — mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people to set their alarms for midday and pray for the nations, to warfare against darkness and take a stand against the enemy that his plans shall not prosper.

The signers emphasize that they have no illusions about the brutal threat posed by the enemy, as well as the moral temptations and threats inherent in the necessary effort to protect ourselves against that enemy.

But Frank and his wife, Cathie (a presence throughout the book), learned to talk not about «waging a war against the enemy, cancer.

I am sure, if we would daily live the Christian Life, God would protect us against our enemies.

Representative of such cases are the household codes of the Epistles (for example, Col. 3: 18 - 4: 1), the pleas for divine retribution against enemies (for example, Ps.

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

arms must not be taken up against the enemy.

Have you been learning the defensive moves to stand against the enemy that is trying to knock you down?

Have you ever noticed that ALL of the characteristic «marks of the victim» are brought forward over and over again in the Old Testament as justification for the violence carried out against the enemies of Israel?

Throughout its history Israel relied upon the military prowess of Yahweh, first in the prosecution of holy war in defense of the tribal amphictyony, then against the enemies of the Lord's anointed (Psalm 2), and finally in expectation of the destruction of all powers oppressing Israel in the last day.

All we are told is that it was «justice... against my enemy.»

(Frankly, how she behaves at the end of the story — ordering a second day of massacres against the enemies of the Jews — is more troubling to me than how she behaves at the beginning of it!)

The helmet on the soldier's armor was never intended to be the first line of defense against the enemy.

In it is rooted also their trust in God through the worst vicissitudes of their struggle against nature, against their enemies, against strange gods that competed with Yahweh for their loyalty.