Sentences with phrase «sanctifying faith»

Perseverance in a sanctifying faith is I believe a sign of a Spirit sealed, saved believer.

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But the Holy Spirit has called me by the gospel, enlightened me with his gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith.

In the same way he calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian Church on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith.

But the Catholic faith teaches that God gives actual grace, not sanctifying grace, to those in mortal sin.

In the same way He calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian church on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith.

I believe that I can not of my own understanding and strength believe in or come to Jesus Christ my Lord, but that the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel and illuminated me with His gifts, and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith..

Instead, she speaks of sin from the eschatological perspective of God's desiring the full flourishing of all persons, and of women who know themselves to be justified and sanctified in faith.

I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness... to whom I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Further, while some contend that the soul sanctifies biology, thus delineating the uniqueness of human life, the simple presence of the soul fails to engender life as the Christian faith understands it.

It is we who are sanctified, made fit for divine service, by the call of Christ to faith and obedience, just as the fishermen were given roles in God's great drama of salvation.

He is faithful to sanctify us as we progress in our faith from glory to glory.

The biblical faith, with roots in revolutionary messianic hope which is itself rooted in the prophetism of ancient Israel / Judah, is even now, and daily, used to sanctify and perpetuate the life, culture, security, and privilege not now of imperialist Rome but of the imperialist United States.

How, minister to royalty, who call The prophets troublers of the church, Disturbers of the Christian peace, meddlers In matters — so they say — irrelevant To life in faith and hope and love; for whom The double altar is imperative; Who seek to shape the deity in form That sanctifies the royal of the earth?

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

If faith is the automatic gift of God to those whom He sovereignly regenerates, then it only makes sense that God also automatically and sovereignly would make sure that they are sanctified in holiness and obedience.

[14] In this way Jesus «sanctifies» those who share in his faith - trust in God in the face of personal death.

For Niebuhr, then, the symbols of eschatology express the faith that God's final act is to perfectly justify and sanctify history; God's final word to history is the perfect fulfillment of grace.

Sanctifying grace, in Catholic theology, is a stable disposition that quickens our spirit to act in union with the Holy Spirit and gives us the gift of faith that works through love and is active.

That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's life, sanctified by prayers, matured in conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.

I still have faith in Christ and His Cross (so I am still a believer) but I am not exercising faith in the Holy Spirit to sanctify me (so I am walking in the flesh and my faith is destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative).

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

If we are the Messiah's and have been justified by faith then we will be sanctified by the power of God working in us.

The followers of Christ, called by God... have been made sons of God in the baptism of faith and partakers in the divine nature, and so are truly sanctified.

Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.