Sentences with phrase «spirit in her new life»

She intends to explore then employ this spirit in her new life that she has created for herself.

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Thus the new Israel worshiped, obeyed, and proclaimed the one true God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — in faith - filled anticipation of participating in the divine life forever (Hebrews 12:18 - 24; John 16:3; Acts 1:8).

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

Almost every New Testament book speaks about the power that Christians have been given through the Holy Spirit living in their lives.

There are only 2 - 3 verses in the New Testament that are used to teach this idea, but a study of the context indicates that either Spirit baptism is in view (not water baptism) or that the result of the water baptism is not eternal life, but something else entirely.

Though still in the Old Age of sin, death, injustice and limitations, they are called to live according to the New Age inaugurated by Jesus Christ and made present by the Holy Spirit.

The virtue of self - discipline features heavily in the New Testament; it's one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5, a key element of Paul's famous athletics metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9, and implicit in the idea of Christians as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1 - 2), «transformed by the renewal of your mind [s]» (ESV).

Paul wants his readers to put off that old way of conduct, and live their new life in the Spirit with the new man which was created by God for righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:22 - 24).

The perichoretic movement of God, in the power of the Spirit, enables a new way of living, calling forth «a broad place where there is no cramping,» a holistic expression of eschatological life in which the freedoms of God are expressed in passionate and creative freedom.

In spite of all the destructive forces man lets loose against life on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its patIn spite of all the destructive forces man lets loose against life on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its plife on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its pLife is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its patin ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its patin its path.

Matthew 3 and Mark 1 tells us that John baptized with water for repentance of sin, but in the new and better Covenant that Jesus gave his blood and life for, Jesus now baptizes with His Spirit.

The new life in Christ, the consequent transformation of all their hopes and expectations, the sense of fresh power to achieve the hitherto impossible, the vital awareness of the change which had been effected in their relations with God, the confidence of sin forgiven and of restoration to divine favor, the «joy in the holy Spirit,» and confident looking forward to great events still to come, and soon, as the result of Christ's exaltation at God's right hand and of his promised coming as Redeemer and Judge — all this lies behind the choice and the use of technical terms or concepts borrowed, first of all, from current Jewish messianism.

For these, and those who have followed since, to respond to the Spirit of the universe, which is God, is to give up the security of habitual, customary and socially approved actions and to live in terms of a radically new and open future.

One's participation in the adventure of playing, even given the risk of injury or defeat, finds resolution at the end of the experience, and one re-enters ongoing life in a new spirit of thanksgiving and celebration.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

«You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first - born who are enrolled in heaven... and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant» (Hebrews 12:22 - 24).

The very decline of the influence of the Christian Church, itself partly due to failure to find a new synthesis of faith and reason, and then to live it in fervour of spirit, has thrown increased formative responsibility upon the State.

The text indicates Paul's belief that they are relevant to persons, 1) who share a new life in fellowship with Christ, 2) who are open to and are guided by God's Spirit, and 3) who live with an expectation that the Christ event includes a final fulfillment of God's loving purpose.

Yet in the last resort he clearly means by «Spirit» the possibility of a new life which is opened up by faith.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Then God begins a work in our lives through His word and by His Spirit to develop His character, the fruit if His Spirit, within the new nature that has been birthed in us.

The church can be to you not only an inspiring fellowship in which your spirit is kindled to new life, but also a challenging opportunity to invest hard work.

Paul makes some qualifications concerning the adequacy of human judgment, even his own, in specific cases; but we see that commitment to the spirit of love as an alternative to legal obedience requires responsible living and the honouring of authentic forms of behaviour appropriate to the new life.

Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.

First, there is the doctrine, especially as interpreted by Paul, that the spirit of love is the fulfilment of all righteousness, conjoined with a conception of the new life in Christ as committed to specific patterns of pure and responsible living.

The man of faith lives in the new world without appealing to the ancient gods of heaven, for the very spirit of God is within him.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

As for death... we are already dead (in our sins) unless we receive the Holy Spirit, are born again to the new life in Christ and follow Him by the leading of the holy Spirit that dwells in our heart.

I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, I walked the aisle, I am born again, I will rise up to be with Christ at the rapture, I name and claim many things over my life and my childrens, (I have never name and claimed a mercedes, or useless materialstic worldly things), I have prayed the sinners prayer and am a Christian, a Christ follower, a faithful believer in Jesus Christ, I am Spirit Filled, I am forgiven, redeemed, a new creation.

But for Luke, this Jesus was a new and greater Elijah, who like the Old Testament prototype would be «received up» literally into heaven; then, in stark contrast to the Elijah prototype, who bestowed his enormous but still human spirit on Elisha, this Jesus would bestow his infinite spirit upon the church, giving it life for all ages.

For one reason, his own interest was so centered in the new life in Christ through our Lord's death, resurrection, and living presence as the Spirit, that he did not focus attention on the details of Jesus» life and teaching.

On the other hand, Jesus» ascent through the resurrection and new immortal life truly re-enacts the miracle of the primordial act of the actualization of existents in a sort of «upward» or «backward» sense — that is just as creative aspect of Jesus who brought humanity into being through «the Spirit or the Thought», the word kun — out of the recesses of the darkness of non-being [SN], his return through resurrection, potentially leads humanity back to the state of uns in him.

My encouragement to you is to not worry too much about which forms new followers choose to keep or cast aside, but to focus on developing the transforming life of Christ inside them (breath and reality) and let the Spirit show them how to express what's inside in a way their community can understand.

Yet he turns his lodgings into a center of evangelization, calling the Roman Jewish community to consider Jesus anew and to reconsider the criticisms of the new Christian «sect» they had heard, while explaining how God, in the Spirit, had extended life - giving salvation to the Gentiles.

Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,

In the New Covenant the chief thing is not the wonderful treasure of strength and unmerited favor it contains, nor even the heavenly security that that treasure never can fail, but this, that the living mighty ONE gives of this One's self, and makes the Spirit of YAHWEH known, and takes possession of us as our Mighty One.

Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.»

It is our hope that this new perspective will throw light on persistent human problems, and open the way to some new assessment of the forms which the spirit of love may be taking in contemporary life.

The prophets, we may recall, had spoken of the Spirit of God as the power which would give new life to His people in the age to come.

The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring men into the new life for which Jesus has opened the way.

The claim of Christians is therefore validated only in so far as it is really true that they possess a unique and powerful treasure - house (the Gospel) from which new life (the Holy Spirit) is available for the healing, restoring, and recreating of sick, delinquent, and perishing men.

When he arrives in the new Age to Come he will reward the «Living» of spirit who now reside in flesh.

The Spirit convicts us of our imperfections, and demonstrates the power of God to bestow a new life in which imperfection is not removed, but where the great good of love is fulfilled in a new and humble community.

Only the Holy Spirit can accomplish the miracle of taking a fool and bring him to new life in Christ.

At Pentecost, the gift of the Spirit with new life in Christ as its accompaniment will be the central theme.

By interpreting his death as both the revelation and empowerment of new life in God's Spirit, Christians claim that God's promises are fulfilled and our destiny made possible.

To be redeemed is not merely to be absolved of guilt before God, it is also to live in Christ, to be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, to be in Him a new creature, to live in the Spirit.

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz