Sentences with phrase «to keep the covenant»

In the Mosaic tradition, the blessedness of the people of God was associated with keeping the covenant of law.

«We are not keeping the covenant with our children in the poorest and most rural school districts,» the lawyer told the court on Dec. 8.

How do I capture Joshua's passion for keeping covenant with God without sounding judgmental and damning of persons whose human covenants have been broken, either by design or default?

The Book of Hosea in the OT reveals this same Divine perspective that Jesus» testimony about his Father reveals, a God of Unconditional Love & Mercy who always keeps his covenant with us even when we fail fulfill our obligations to God.

How in God's holy name does anyone keep the covenant to keep on loving?

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

As for Abraham (and his seed), the obligation is simple: Keeping the covenant simply means remembering it, that is, marking its token or sign in the flesh of every male throughout the generations, by the act of circumcision.

Jesus is our inheritance and victory, who announces Jubilee and keeps covenant so that we can enjoy the Father's blessing.

If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.

And beside that, it was MAN who didn't keep the covenant.

We fight, we cry and our hearts will almost assuredly be broken, but the Lord's compassion never fails; it is new every morning and we will wake up with another chance to keep that covenant.

It was only God's faithful word to keep the covenant he made with our ancestors that allowed us to survive and defy the impossible odds against us.

Jesus sees the most broken parts of our hearts that we are most terrified of being seen — and He keeps His covenant to see us fully — and never leave us, ever.

Those are just daily reminders to keep our covenants with the Lord.

This God enters into a covenant relationship with humanity, and keeps that covenant with unfailing steadfastness.

Other folks in the EC community feel that Adam and Eve are typological figures, such as a representation of the failure of Israel to keep the covenant.

As long as you do what He tells you / keeps the covenant.

Keep the covenant, and keep your pension benefits in the hereafter.

He keeps the covenant that we break.

«Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me from all the peoples, for all the earth is mine» (Exodus 19:5).

In order to get a clearer perspective on the development of the doctrine of love we must examine the main themes of love in the Old Testament, including the covenant with the Hebrews as God's act of love, the human love required in faithfulness to the covenant, and the suffering of God as a result of human sin in failing to keep the covenant.

But it is explicit in Solomon's prayer of dedication: «O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk before you with all their heart» (1 Kings 8:23).

God is always faithful and just to keep his covenant.

They are simply undergarments with symbols on them to help faithful Mormons remember the covenants they have made and the potential blessings that they can hope for if they keep their covenants.

5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.

Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

But when God walks through alone, He shows Abram that there is absolutely nothing Abram or his descendants have to do in order for God to keep this covenant.

If we keep the covenant — preserve the global common good — we will flourish; if we do not, we and the world will perish.

But this is nothing more nor less than the faith of DH that Israel is a covenant people, that to violate the covenant is to make chaos of the life of the people and that to keep the covenant is to fulfill Israel's creation in order and meaning.

In the meantime, we are left to sort out our relationship with the firstborn sibling of this God — the same God we know in Jesus Christ — who keeps covenants.

Prayer for the Day: «Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting.

A defined ritual, that of circumcision is given as a sign and means of entry into the covenant, and formal obligations are needed to keep the covenant.

Once we put it out of our power to reconsider, we have made and will keep a covenant with the past, with the victim, our fellow citizen who the government failed to protect from the predator.

We who advocate an unpleasant daily life for the worst of the worst — serial killers, professional assassins, sadistic murderers, terrorists — keep a covenant with the past.

Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant — in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.»