Sin enslaves, Jesus gives freedom and life!
Whereas continuing in
sin enslaves us to the passions of the body, dying and rising with Christ frees us for life in the Spirit.
Sin enslaves, but its sinful to the utmost to walk around with the idea that my religiosity is pleasing to God.
Not exact matches
They remind us what was wrong with our old way of life, namely that we were in bondage to
sin,
enslaved by the devil.
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.
We were
enslaved to
sin and death and Satan.
While we do not claim that human beings are
enslaved by
sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.
Scripture tell us that we were
enslaved by
sin and death and Satan.
He took
sin and death and Satan, the three things that held us in bondage, and Christ made them His prisoners so that they could never
enslave us again.
She saw the prostitutes as young girls
enslaved to
sin.
We were
enslaved to
sin the moment we fell (partook of the tree in disobedience to God).
As a result, they have become fully
enslaved to
sin, to the point that they no longer care about spiritual things and will never believe in Jesus.
Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the
sin that has
enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.
4) The law did not
enslave us to
sin as the «non-violent» view suggests.
But we do not condemn the people who are
enslaved to these
sins.
According to this understanding of revelation,
sin means the obscuring of our true possibilities from ourselves, a circumscription that leaves us unfulfilled and
enslaved.
He wants us to be free and prosperous (not in the material sense), not
enslaved by
sin which destroys us and our relationship with Him.
No longer
enslaved by
sin and death, the disciple is equipped to challenge evil,
sin and death through this initiation into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
When we remember that there are two kinds of forgiveness, one which is unconditional and freely given to all, and the other which grants release and deliverance from the
enslaving power of
sin, we see that this idea that God does not forgive ongoing adultery is false.
Non-Christians can repent of and turn from their
sin, but unless they fill their lives with the Word of God and a growing relationship with God, they will only end up being
enslaved to something else as we saw from Bill Wilson.
The natural man is
enslaved to
sin; he is a child of Satan, rebellious toward God, blind to truth, corrupt, unable to save himself or to prepare himself for salvation.
Calvinists sometimes quote from Romans 7 as a text which teaches Total Depravity and total inability, for Paul seems to describe a lack of ability to do anything good (Romans 7:15, 19, 24), and refers to being captive and
enslaved to
sin (Romans 7:14, 23).
True, Scripture presupposes rather than enlarges on man's freedom of choice, and its explicit theme, especially in the New Testament, is the paradox that man's continuing responsible freedom is
enslaved by the demonic powers of
sin and death and even by the law, and that it must be freed to the love of the law by the grace of God.
Christians are often far too eager to condemn everything within a culture simply because it is different or because it is used to
enslave people in
sin.
You parrot the position of those around you and are
enslaved in your own
sin.
Through His death on the cross, Jesus willingly submitted Himself to the violent death of ritualistic sacrifice as a way of exposing to humanity the
sin to which humanity is
enslaved.
male centred theology has missed the divine feminine, it has
enslaved sensuality, feelings, body, trustfulness, creativity, eros and playfulness — and condemned this aspect of self as
sin.
Whatever opens the gates of God's reign to women and calls one people
enslaving another
sin also welcomes GLBT people to God's embrace.
The rejection of
sin is not merely an opposition to personal
sins, but also to its structural forms, namely, the unjust power structures that keep millions
enslaved, hungry, and impoverished, that oppress, alienate and dehumanise God's children on earth.
If a family member is
enslaved to
sin, we must do all we can to deliver them from captivity.
Furthermore, the term «
sin» in the Bible primarily refers to the sacred violence that has
enslaved all of humanity in a never - ending cycle of rivalry, accusation, and scapegoating sacrifice.
The unbeliever is
enslaved to
sin, and can not do anything but
sin.
Simply assuming that some book written thousands of years when people believed that everything was made of earth, fire, air, and water; When people believed that people with mental disorders
sinned and should condemned, and when people believed that it is all right to
enslave people; is a complete joke.
They are the ones who are
enslaved to
sin.
It is
sin that
enslaves and destroys life.
Judas, cursed for his
sins, is the spirit of Death — he is without form, and has
enslaved young Eve to carry out the most heinous of acts.