Sentences with phrase «power of sin»

It is the type of release or liberation we get when we gain freedom from the damaging and destructive power of sin in our lives.

But in the meantime the faithful live in the tension between the change that has already come into being through their dying to the life of sin and the continuing power of sin.

It is from power of sin you are protected — not to become «sinless».

No, seeking to gain release (aphesis) from our sins through confession and repentance is about whether or not we gain freedom from the destructive power of sin in our lives which seeks to wreak havoc in our lives, our health, our marriages, our family, our finances, our jobs, and pretty much everything else.

Aphesis is simply one of the initial steps in gaining deliverance from the addictive power of sin in our lives.

As for his view that deliverance from the penalty and power of sin comes through Resurrection, and not justification — well, justification comes through His Death and Resurrection.

This confession and repentance is for your own good, so that you can gain freedom and deliverance from the enslaving power of sin in your life.

As a result of this ongoing power of sin in their lives, some of them begin to wonder if they are truly Christians.

When we do this, we receive release (aphēsis) from the captivating power of sin in our lives.

One of the important books on the atonement in the twentieth century is Gustaf Aulen's Christus Victor in which he finds three major motjfs in the tradition: the classic theme of Chtrist as victor in combat with Satan and the demonic powers of sin, death, and the law; the Latin theory, stated most adequately in Anselm, in which Jesus as man pays the penalty incurred by sin, a sufficient payment since he is the Son of God; and the moral influence theory in Abelard.

Certain of Calvin's tropes for sin, most notably his descriptions of the defiling and polluting power of sin, feed gender stereotypes about sexual purity that unfairly blame and shame women's bodies as the source of sin.

The Law came, so that the full power of sin could be seen.

The reason for this is not the rising power of sin; the reason is our failure to show how the rising powers of science can be applied to the purpose of human existence when this purpose is found in Christ.

Instead, we deal with individual sins that either remain in the private realm, or if projected into the wider social realm fail to deal with the collective power of sin and its relation to individuals.

This danger is manifest when Professor Macintosh describes the Christian experience in these terms: «Christ brings to us the salvation which consists in being indwelt and progressively delivered from the ruling power of sin....

Repentance helps us gain freedom from the damaging and addicting power of sin in our lives.

Irenaeus (130 - 200), bishop of Lyon, presents an early Christian understanding of salvation as victory over the controlling powers of sin, evil and death: «Mankind, that had fallen into captivity, is now by God's mercy delivered out of the power of them that held them in bondage.

Repentance for the forgiveness of sins has nothing to do with gaining eternal life and entering heaven, but about freedom from the captivating and addictive power of sin.

Think of it this way: God has freed us from the penalty of sin and given us everything we need for life and Godliness so that we can live our lives according to His Word and thus be freed from the ongoing power of sin in our lives as well.

They wanted deliverance and freedom, not only from Rome, but also from the controlling and captivating power of sin.

Aphēsis forgiveness is not about getting forgiveness from God, but is instead about breaking free from the addictive and destructive power of sin in our lives.

That's how Jesus broke the power of sin and death over you.

Last summer I read Lewis» Space Trilogy for a class, and I believe that it was the first time I actually saw the destructive power of sin.

Jesus did not die to liberate us from norms for living but to save us from the power of sin so that we might live for his glory in his good creation empowered by the Holy Spirit.

He is looking for ways to work with you in helping you gain freedom from the power of sin in your life and deliverance from the destructive consequences of sin.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law [I Cor.

But instead of this damaging line of thought, it is much better to realize that the way to gain release from the power of sin in our lives is not by wondering whether or not God has truly forgiven us and accepted us into His family (He has!)

I am clothed with Christ to fight the powers of sin and death.

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.»

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

For instance, although the adulterous woman's sin was condemned by Jesus, she was not.19 Instead, she was loved with God's regenerative mercy that truly freed her from the power of sin and death.

So we would argue that we have a right to speak of the orders of creation in the interim between the fall and the final consummation, with the proviso that there are no orders of creation that are not shot through with the powers of sin and death.

Though it is an oversimplification, we could say that if justification is deliverance from the penalty of sin, and sanctification is the deliverance from the power of sin, then glorification is the deliverance from the presence of sin.

The resurrection shows that God's love is stronger than the powers of sin and death that would otherwise overwhelm us.

The cross releases men not only from the guilt, but also from the power of sin.

It is inaccessible to a theoretical reflection which would abandon the hope of faith, and it leaves man under the threat of the world's power of sin.

It could never utterly defeat the power of sin or the multiple attacks of satanic powers — only God could do that; but it could invite us into a deeper relationship with God, serve as a barrier against the most overt forms of inhuman exploitation and provide a vision of God's righteousness in public affairs.

(Mat 21:43) and when «the power of the holy people has been finally broken» (Dan 12:7) and also when the law that was the power of sin would be broken (1 Cor 15:56).

The death of Jesus on the cross was to break the power of sin in our lives, and recapture for us the relationship with God that they have always wanted with us.