Sentences with phrase «promised kingdom»

Despite all our sins, he does not allow his church to be destroyed or his promised kingdom to be frustrated.

In a world where the majority of those who do not know Jesus are the poor of the earth, those to whom he promised the kingdom of God, how essential is to share with them the Good News of that kingdom!

In the Old Testament God promised a kingdom to Israel; a real literal kingdom.

The Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah and their promised kingdom has been set aside for a future fulfillment.

In the opinion of the Council the poor have been promised the kingdom of heaven not in order that others, whether individuals or nations, should alone be and remain rich.

And not only does it promise liberation from present oppression, but even liberation from the limited dreams of the oppressed for the eternal vision and dream of God, his own promised kingdom.

Liberation theology not only promises liberation of the oppressed, the poor and the marginals of society, but even liberation from the limited dreams of the oppressed for the eternal vision and dream of God, his own promised kingdom.

And, in fact, we are hard pressed to find better imagery with which to describe the promised kingdom - imagery for which there is dominical warrant.

Slashing through our eager ambitions, our goals, our hopes, he promises the kingdom of God to the «poor in spirit.»

Not exact matches

The promise of heaven is an invitation for us to be in the kingdom of God for eternity.

Similarly the promise was given to King David that the Messiah should be one of his descendants, as the King eternal, the one of whom God said, «I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever» (II Samuel 7:13).

The same Jesus whose call may draw out of the orbit of the family could describe the promise of the coming kingdom precisely in familial terms.

When Jesus came He and His disciples proclaimed the gospel / good news of the kingdom that had been promised to Israel.

Their main focus was on the kingdom that was promised to them.

Before the cross the message the disciples was taking to Israel was the gospel of the kingdom that had been promised to them.

It is because the biblical teaching about the kingdom of God promises joy, contentment, and significance to those who live under the rule and reign of God that the invitation to enter into the kingdom by faith in Jesus Christ has such persuasive power.

Considering that most of the contemporary followers of christ believed he was the messiah promised in the OT, sent to liberate the Jews from oppression and establish an earthly kingdom.

He has seen that Isaiah's promise of a sign relating to a kingdom flows into the much fuller sign that is happening now, quietly and offstage.

The world makes promises that we tend to believe align with the promises of the kingdom.

I bet many young ministers preparing sermons on these texts are more embarrassed by the word about the kingdom of heaven than they are by those promising possession of the land.

Christian exegesis began with the event of Jesus» death and resurrection and the promise involving the church and the kingdom of heaven.

It is not, of course, the peace of the kingdom promised in scripture.

In that statement we affirmed that the justification of sinners, which is not earned by any good works or merits of our own, leads us toward the fullness of salvation that is promised in the final kingdom.

Here, in contrast to the Messianic promise of Isaiah, it is not the king but the nabi who is appointed to be deputy of God's kingdom.

It was to the poor, humble, oppressed common people that Jesus promised the blessings of the kingdom of God.

He promises them his presence, until the very end of human history itself, when all people will inherit the kingdom of God and see him face to face.

Marx, too, unfurled the banner of freedom, promising that the communist path would eventually lead to the kingdom of freedom in which politics is displaced by rational management and every man would be his own master.

The kingdom that Jesus taught was both a literal material physical kingdom that was promised to the Jews in the OT plus He taught God's spiritual kingdom ruling in man's heart.

Thus, the kingdom is both presence and promise; both within and beyond human history; God's gift and man's task; we work for it, even as we wait for it.

to be heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.

Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised those who love him?

At the end of the previous chapter the reader was promised a statement of what the author believes about the nature of the kingdom of God.

The promises were unmistakably intended for all who were humble and merciful and pure in heart, all who accepted the kingdom like little children.

Thrones promised to the twelve in the Son of man's kingdom.

The world needs Spirit - inspired celebrators who can rejoice with every evidence of the coming of the expected kingdom, never ceasing to live in the faith that God loves and never finally loses, always loving the life that God has given, and always hoping for the good future he has promised.

God has promised that he will work through everything for those who love him, and as I have viewed the experience of the life of [my little son], I can see how the kingdom has come....

It designates membership in God's new and final creation, the kingdom of God, and in the church, which is (more than the promise) the actual in - breaking of that kingdom.

The presence of the Lord, the Spirit, in the church was more than the promise of a future kingdom; it was the kingdom already beginning to come.

If one is not stuck with Luke 21:25 - 36 on the second Sunday of Advent he is not thereby released from the thundering New Testament words about the signs of the times, the invasive and convulsive power of the kingdom, the perils of drunkenness and stupidity in the midst of crises which are rich in threats of damnation and promises of redemption.

Because of these acts we know him to be real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and in that knowledge we find the promise of both the coming of his kingdom and the ultimate fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy of our God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.»

As the sole victor over the Egyptian army, Yahweh was to be the sole ruler in Israel.10 When Israel was settled in the land that had been promised, there were those who hoped that the kingdom of God was now present reality.

The spirit of fiesta, the sharing of bounteous, if humble, food, is a promise of God's awaited kingdom.

Even so, the kingdom of God, the promised time of shalom, is already at work in the world and will surely come!

In his person as well as in his vivid images of the kingdom, Jesus sacramentalizes the compassionate God whose promise is coming to fulfillment.

Jesus came to Israel as their promised Messiah to bring in the kingdom that was promised to them.

God's kingdom is not built on human institutions or promises, but is built and planted in God's grace - filled will to make it happen.

No greater words on this subject have ever been written than Paul's in I Corinthians 15, while the author of the Fourth Gospel cites in Jesus» farewell message great promises of peace and joy in God's eternal kingdom.

As the Northern and Southern kingdoms fought bitterly, leaving them vulnerable to enemy attacks, and eventual ruin, God promised them a Savior: «Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.»

Just like the promise, this fundamental hope was articulated in particular hopes — hopes for a more or less cataclysmic interruption of history, when God would establish his kingdom of justice and of peace upon earth, when Israel would be saved from enemies without and sinners within, to serve their God with singleness of heart.

There is here a double credibility test: A proclamation that does not hold forth the promises of the justice of the kingdom to the poor of the earth is a caricature of the Gospel; but Christian participation in the struggles for justice which does not point towards the promises of the kingdom also makes a caricature of a Christian understanding of justice.