Sentences with phrase «through death on the cross»

The great missionary God expresses his love for the world he has created by sending his Son, who reveals the character of that sending through his death on the cross.

through His death on the cross, then as we read Jesus back into the Old Testament, and as we seek to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, we must keep the mission of Christ to destroy the devil's work first and foremost in our minds, and especially the critical aspect of Christ's work upon the cross.

It is not something we do, but what Jesus does in us through His death on the cross and His resurrection from the tomb, triumphant over death.

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.

Not exact matches

God has already made us into one humanity that is completely reconciled through the death of his son on the cross.

Jesus went to the cross out of love, to rescue us from sin, death, and devil, but since the Gospels (or the rest of the New Testament for that matter) don't place much emphasis on the blood of Jesus or the pain He went through on the cross, maybe we shouldn't either.

So before we can talk about what exactly Jesus fulfilled through his sacrificial death on the cross, we must understand what the sacrificial system was for.

In all that Jesus said and did, in his death on the cross and in the living presence of Christ, a promise of victory over sin through the forgiving love of God is brought to us.

It is only through Christ's atoning death on the cross, a death suffered on my behalf, that I have been saved.

Therefore God's justice has been manifested apart from the Law through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ (3:21 - 22)-- through his obedient, self - sacrificial death on the cross.

It is on the cross, Paul says, that Jesus disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them through His death (Col 2:14 - 15).

It emphasizes the cruciform nature of God, that God is most fully revealed through the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross.

The road that he had followed through the winding hills and valleys of Galilee now led up a hill outside the city of Jerusalem, where Jesus was put to death on a cross.

To know love in its supreme radicality is to experience the forgiveness of sins available to us through the death of Christ on the cross.

Until the time foretold when her Suffering would end The one true cross will appear on earth All will see it in a single moment - all will wonder The cross will fall The cross will rise To unlock the Sacrament And bring forth a new age Through it's merciful death

Come to Life through Faith in Jesus Finished work on the cross to take away ALL SINS, his burial, which is the proof of death, and his resurrected Life on the third day.

The obedience of his human will through suffering and death on the cross restores our adoption as children of the Father.

This is what Jesus did on the cross, and what He revealed to us through His death and resurrection, and is how He now calls us to live our lives as His followers.

It was a sort of added dividend that when Holy Week and Easter came around, progress through the letter had landed me precisely at Philippians 2:1 - 11: «And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.

Through his sacrifice (his death on the cross) Jesus laid the basis for sacramental baptism: He has borne our sinful flesh, and resurrected in order to be our new life.

The «politics of Jesus,» to use Yoder's phrase, demands that through the collective witness of the Church Christians bring the gospel to the attention of the world with a compelling and revolutionary challenge to the powers of the age, as Jesus did by rejecting temporal power and accepting death on the cross.

Jesus» death on a cross was horrifying and, ultimately, revelatory; a royal progress through the world would have been more immediately useful.

We all need and receive God's forgiving and liberating grace portrayed through Christ's death on the cross.

Jeremy — «Jesus went to the cross out of love, to rescue us from sin, death, and devil, but since the Gospels (OR THE REST OF THE NEW TESATMENT FOR THAT MATTER) don't place much emphasis on the blood of Jesus or the pain He went through on the cross, maybe we shouldn't either» (emphasis mine)

The message of the Bible is that all who look to Jesus Christ alone as having taken on Himself the penalty for mankind's sin and paid for our sin debt in full through His sacrificial death on the cross, will be reconciled to God and spend eternity with Him.

The Gospel is the good news that God has sent his son Jesus Christ into the world in order to reconcile Creator to creation, which will renew all things and he has done all this through Jesus» perfect sinless life, bloody atoning death on the cross and subsequent resurrection from the dead.

The assent to the deity of Christ, the death on the cross, and the resurrection does not necessarily lead faith in Christ alone through His promise, whereby He is the Guarantor of eternal life to the believer in Him for it.

The early Christians were learning what Christians today believe, that God was in the process of revealing his message to them; and, the message is: the end will come soon enough; we will be judged for everything we have done while in the body; that only God through Christ's death on the cross can atone for our sins; and, we should remain vigilant and be prepared for the end — whether that comes in the form of natural death, through cancer, car accidents, coronary heart disease or some other form.

Thus it is possible through faith and evidence together, and through neither alone, to believe that Christ really and corporeally rose from the dead, not merely that his death on the cross had a supernatural silver lining significant for our salvation.

Through the conjunction of and the cross between Willy Loman, the legendary anti-hero of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Dante's Inferno, the photographic recreation of Gustave Doré's etchings of Dante's work and references to the US multinationals Chrysler, General Motors and Ford, the British - Nigerian artist suggests, on one side, the illusory nature of the «American dream» and, on the other, the parallel between Miller's exploration of greed and the human condition in the 20th century and our present situation, projecting it as its perverse, ill - fated legacy.