Sentences with phrase «own fleshly»

This is why I say to you (as representing the nation of fleshly Israel), the Kingdom of God will be taken from you and be given to a nation producing its fruits.»

Ezekiel 37 is not applying to the nation of fleshly Israel returning to their homeland in 1948.

(Matt 23:37 - 39) The nation of fleshly Israel were murderers, as corrupt as any other nation on earth.

Simply put, Jesus told the nation of fleshly Israel just three days before his death: «Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent to her — how often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings!

I've actually dealt with a large number of homosexual individuals (worked in an HIV program) plus in various other ministries... the whole «wired» thing I get but it isn't any different from other «fleshly» wiring that anyone else has... everyone has fleshly challenges that pull them from «The Way».

«Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self - abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind and not holding fast to the head, Christ, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.»

Apparently it will be superior to our current fleshly bodies and yet capable of experiencing many of the same functions.

However, I (or rather Ratzinger / Pope Benedict) did not cite 1 Corinthians 15 in order to subvert the idea of material continuity, but rather to support the idea that resurrection will involve a profound transformation and not a mere «return of the «fleshly body,» that is, of the biological structure» in the form that we know it today.

Catholicism is a fleshly (i.e., incarnational) thing, and this book exults in that truth.

And the saddest thing about having to be on that «demigod» pedestal is that there are too many people in the pews who forcibly place you up there because it's easier to follow a fleshly person than it is to follow Jesus.

Born of water refers to our natural fleshly birth, not baptism.

Today, the vast majority of mankind are in no way imitating our Creator, but are permitting fleshly tendencies to dominate, casting aside «love of God» and «love of neighbor».

Ah, yes, and this is what happens when people are choosing to do whatever they want to please their fleshly desires, without discerning right, from wrong as taught to us they would do, prophesied in Malachi 3v13 - 15, and is why we have the troubles, and sufferings of today.

To claim that our fleshly bodies are that Kingdom runs into great dificulties when understanding that the scriptures teach that these bodies will be destroyed and we will then be given new bodies that will only then be part of the kingdom.

This will require spreading our own evangelical creed: that we are not disembodied subjects but fleshly icons of the invisible God; whose worth comes not from extorted approval of our personal choices but from His infinite, undeserved love.

That is just plain old fleshly, lustful crap, in the guise of spirituality.

That's what you're teaching; that even though a person begins in the Spirit they have to be made perfect by their fleshly efforts.

So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us into itself and out of fleshly, sinful mortal [s] makes spiritual, holy, living [persons].»

Infact, the knowledge of good and evil is good — but not for fleshly mankind.

This earth is hell and we have to shed our fleshly and carnal desires it hurts to be more like Jesus I have asked all these prayers and boy is he changing me....

And since our hope is to participate in his Resurrection life, and since we clearly can not expect to be raised in our fleshly bodies, then our resurrection from death (which will not be physical) can not be different in kind from his.

At one end of the gamut is Acts 20:10, where Paul, finding a supposed dead man still breathing, cries, «Make ye no ado; for his psyche is in him»; at the other is I Peter 2:11, where the full spiritual meaning of the term is evident — «Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.»

Steven thanks for your testimony I agree with your view that homosexuality is not an orientation we are not born that way but its a choice.We can choose to live by what our flesh dictates or we can live by what God reveals through his word and by his holy spirit.If we are serious about following God we chose to follow him so it does nt matter whether gay or straight our choice is to follow God with all our heart.I have never been gay but have battled and was overcome by my fleshly desires not until i turned from them and asked the holy spirit to help me have i been changed for that i will always be grateful to the Lord.So in that sense we are no different our testimonys are important and are powerful.Thank you for your witness and may the Lord continue to use you as his vessel to touch lives and hearts for him.brentnz

refer to idle speculation, or, in the phrase «fleshly mind,» (Colossians 2:18, 21 - 23.)

I suspect that he might affirm that what is resurrected is the spiritual body of which Paul spoke rather than the fleshly one.

How will our understanding of the Word of God survive, if the fleshly, tangible heart of Jewish and Christian faith is obliterated?

«3 More than fleshly wisdom or human cleverness is required if one is to encourage a balance of behavioral excellences without eliciting new behavioral deficits.

Sometimes the risen Presence is bodily: indeed, fleshly.

Edom can be translated either «of wheat» or «of earth,» Bozrah as either «of flesh» or «fleshly.»

Paul and others worked hard to get believers to think in spiritual, not fleshly, terms.

«We know that if our earthly house, this [fleshly] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.»

Your comments suggest that you dismiss anyone with a different take on at least this topic as just catering to their fleshly desires and not being sincere in their searching of scripture or their desire to honestly follow God.

When we are facing a fleshly weakness, but resist it and submit to the Spirit of God out of love for Him, God always works it together for good so that we are conformed to His image.

2) You are fleshly minded.

So before God had created the universe, let alone humanity and thus His own fleshly incarnation in the form of Jesus, He wanted to show His love for Himself by giving Himself a gift.

American King James Version Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

American Standard Version Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

1:27) Can that be said of those whose clergy and other members are involved in politics, or whose lives are largely built around materialistic and fleshly desires?

But such comparisons are not spiritual, but fleshly.

Though the Word now becomes flesh, the fleshly become unaware of their own understanding ways... For as one sees one does nary understand yet as one thinks one dares to know things and while one and all beget themselves they become set apart and distanced from each others ways.

Paul's criticism is that the entire argument is «fleshly» and he wants it to stop.

If that man chooses to do any of the works of a regenerate believer in Jesus, he can — from his dead spirit and from his natural soul, ultimately from a source of fleshly self - pride.

Despite all the determined efforts to maintain a triumphal optimism about the liberating possibilities of weight loss, the oppressiveness of fleshly disciplines may well prevail, as the command to love oneself, including the body, is contradicted and undermined by the directive to amend its defects and unceasingly refine its contours.

If we find that we are really fleshly, worldly persons, we need to examine ourselves to see if we are in the faith!

If our fleshly, carnal bodies can become perfect, why do they die?

The verse is not talking about just normal human fleshly sin, but decidedly day after day purposeful rebellious sin.

But fleshly persons reveal their fleshliness when they make these faithless statements!

To persecute the house of Israel is to persecute Christ, not in his mystical body as when the Church is persecuted, but in his fleshly lineage and in his forgetful people whom he ceaselessly loves and calls.

I was fleshly, worldly and full of unbelief.

Within the immediate context of 1 Corinthians 2:14, Paul talks about three types of people: the natural — soulish (Gk., psuchicos) man (1 Corinthians 2:14), the spiritual (Gk., pneumatikos) man (1 Corinthians 2:15), and the carnal — fleshly (Gk., sarkinois) man (1 Corinthians 3:1).