Sentences with phrase «true life of the spirit»

The spirit is in fact the only thing that matters; the particular actions of the body and forms of worship are only more or less useful tools to discover the true life of the spirit, and once that is found they can — and should — be cast aside.

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Faithful believers in every generation live by the memories and hopes of the actus tradendi of the Holy Spirit: this is true whenever and wherever the word of God is faithfully translated, sincerely believed, and truly preached.

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).

But as the true modems they don't realize they are, they have remembered these traditions faithlessly — by the letter and without the spirit of traditional piety — and have erased the life - affirming themes of Israel's covenant.

Now the Dynasau and Leviathan have to be subjugated to the God the Gardener, and the injured human coqunity and natural order have to be healed and revitalized, and the Spirit of the life must be filled so that there may be true justice, koininia, and shalom in the Garden.

All the curses came true, I've committed the unpardonable sin because the center of my spirit has an unclean spirit.No conviction, no enlightenment, no message, no hope of heaven, seared concuss, constant torment, lost weight, pupils used to be dilated, lost 3jobs, get made fun of at current job, had to drop out of college, addicted to sextual immorality, 2 women left me, 25 and live with parents.

This He did and since Pentecost the Holy Spirit is demonstrated in the lives of true believers.

I believe the proportion of true believers in Jesus, His life, death, and resurrection have always been far smaller than those living a form of Christianity without the substance, i.e., the Holy Spirit.

In this world, so full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the human being, let us learn true freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others by our lives that we are free and how beautiful it is to be truly free with the true freedom of God's children.»

And even if at the same time the connection between them is assumed, and symmetrical development is the shining goal, still the spirit is the guiding principle, and the life of the spirit is the true meaning of human existence.

The fruit of the Spirit is found in the life of a true follower of Christ.

thats why we have to debate more and realize that our diferrences are just superficial misunderstanding, that to be united to a common belief in him can be logical and true only with the belief that we are evolving to attain a better relationship for all of us.Proven by science that all humans evolved from one parent, who evolved from lower forms of life, who evolved from pure energy through the big bang and guided by the spirit or conciousness of His Will.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

You tell a true brother that he is deceived for believing that the resurrection power of Yahshua is strong enough to cause him to die to all sin, becoming a mature man, giving Yahshua a place to live in the earth in him by His Spirit, and so have a place in the earth to live out His nature, and character, to His glory, and the glory of the Father.

As a colleague of mine recently wrote, a true church emerges when Christ's Spirit empowers human participation in the life of the triune God's and all living as Christ's disciples is lived as outgoing, self - giving love to others.

The true supernatural life, now brought into being by Christ, is the life distinguished by the «fruits of the Spirit» as described in Gal.

17 - 21, that this life in the Spirit marked the Church as being the true «Israel of God» in its final, «eschatological,» manifestation (Gal.

These two verses, like the previous treatment of the sixth commandment, are recorded by Matthew only; but nothing could be more characteristic or more true to the spirit of Jesus» whole life.

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.

God, the spirit, must give them life; there is no life without the fleshly events, but there is no life either without God's spiritual gift of faith, the ability to discover the true meaning of the events of fleshly history.

Or, The Heidelberg Catechism states «That the Son of God from the beginning to the end of the world, gathers, defends, and preserves to himself by his Spirit and word, out of the whole human race, a church chosen to everlasting life, agreeing in true faith; and that I am and forever shall remain, a living member thereof.»

It is especially true in writing that it is The Blessed Holy Spirit who Breathed Life into The Bible, The Living Word of God: Our «Love Letter» from Our ABBA ~ FATHER.

I agree with what you have said, that the revelation of scripture is received from Holy Spirit and I know this to be true in my life as well, as I to have had no biblical teaching of a professional nature.

the work of the Holy Spirit in human life» and «willingness to do the Will of God... the measure of a man's true understanding of His will» (pp. 241 - 42); and such remarks leave little doubt in my mind that Grenstead was consistently speaking of the Creator as the «higher Power.»

Although it is true that the Hebrew word translated «soul» commonly denotes the appetites, and in other cases the physical life, and although that rendered «spirit» can mean something approximating our idea of personality, actually such distinction is not consistent, if indeed it was ever consciously applied.

They are «spirit and life,» revealing the face of Christ, and bringing true joy and fulfilment to our lives.

This is the true and authentic life of man, a life based on invisible and incalculable reality, a life in the «Spirit».

We do wait for the adoption — that will come at the fulfillment of all things, which, however imminent, is still future; but even now we possess the Spirit of adoption, that is, God's miraculous gift of forgiveness and grace, an advance installment, a token payment, a foretaste, a «first - fruits,» of a life which in its full, true character belongs only to the world to come.

True, a man could accept insult in this spirit — so long as he was living in a community which recognized the dignity of the individual and therefore could be touched by the spirit of the act.

Very true, the baptism of the Holy Spirit does not require any water but brings about great change in the life of an individual.

As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349).

«He that believeth hath eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life»; (John 5:24) «This is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception of immortal life as a present gift, inhering in the quality of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic of the Fourth Gospel.

Where such proclamation is faithful to the living and written Word of God and enlivened by the Spirit, it is an effective means of grace and a sure sign of the true church.

We worship God not with flesh but with Spirit and truth.In the Spirit that is the true life of the person the body made would not provide life it takes the spirit to give life to theSpirit and truth.In the Spirit that is the true life of the person the body made would not provide life it takes the spirit to give life to theSpirit that is the true life of the person the body made would not provide life it takes the spirit to give life to thespirit to give life to the body.

The coin is a temporal thing that is given to Caesar in exchange for particular «blessings,» but the true blessing of life, of breath, of body, of soul, mind and spirit are from God and should be offered back to God.

-21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

As we allow, God's spirit (love) comes into our lives and untwists us from the state we are in into a state of true humanness, beings created to love.

The man who spent his early life as a worker behind the Iron Curtain became the instrument of the Holy Spirit in teaching the world about the true dignity of man, of human labour, and about the unfathomable power of Divine Mercy to transform evil into good, despair into hope, and oppression into freedom.

As someone who was raised within the evangelical camp (not strictly fundamentalist, however), and now lives anew within the broader Christian church (the only true church, the Body of Christ, whose members strive to follow Jesus in Spirit and in truth), I can surely appreciate what Hugh, Tara and Jeannie are talking about.

The Christian calling is not only to service, not only to self denial, not only to a nature that is foreign to the status quo — it is a calling to life, abundant life — to express realities in the here and now that affirm the true value of creation and redemption as the work of the Father, Son and Spirit — to serve and give ourselves up in a manner that truly allows that to be made evident, that the world may become aware of the true fragrance of God — Jesus Christ.

Amazing how when I needed answers for the deep questions of life I had two choices to make them with: Follow (by rote) what the Bible said or remember what is the true spirit of who Jesus is and how he would react to an issue or problem.

Jesus, whose love is more extravagant than we can measure, came to sacrificially die for us so that we might gain through His grace what the Bible defines as eternal life through His death and resurrection: to know the only true God and take hold of this present life by the direction and abundant strength afforded to us by through the Spirit.

At the same time the Church teaches us how the gift of the Holy Spirit «renews us interiorly...» and «enlightens and strengthens us to live as «children of light» through «all that is good and right and true»» (CCC 1695).

But it is not in fact true that nature is set apart from spirit by the hard - and - fast dichotomy which Kant defined, and the continuous life of Catholic Christendom testifies to the contrary.

The fleet of classic vehicles, with wood seats and brass bells that hearken to the true spirit of Californians who are determined to remember its history and unique flavor, offer the ideal way to enjoy all of life's celebrations.

As a tribute to Mike, a man who served his country and lived his life by the true Spirit of America — honor, pride, integrity, and hard work.

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In the true spirit of our party's long tradition, I urge all party members and sympathisers to rally in unity behind leadership and government, as we seek to fulfil the pledges made to Ghanaians, and, thereby, improve their living conditions.

In the true spirit of the seat, and in the best interests of the people who live here, he should not be running for this office at this time.