Sentences with phrase «who hear the gospel»

At the time I thought: «I'll go back to good people, Christian people, but dispersed and relatively directionless people, who hear the gospel as but one element competing for their attention.

Now, there are many who hear the Gospel often but care little for it because they have not the spirit of Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Later he spoke of Christ being formed in those who heard the Gospel.

This call extends to all who hear the gospel.

In addition to the outward general call to salvation, which is made to everyone who hears the gospel, the Holy Spirit extends to the elect a special inward call that inevitably brings them to salvation.

Those who heard the gospel and yet choose to reject the message will not have a second Chance they will have to wait for the second resurrection or the resurrection of the evening.

Not exact matches

They had come to hear a recruiting rep share the gospel of Musk, who, a number of them told me afterward, is a «visionary» and an «innovator.»

And please don't tell me it's because he was a duplicitous liar who told anyone anything they wanted ot hear in order to spread the gospel... because tha» t just not an admirable trait in anyone.

Baptism for the dead is for those who don't have the opportunity to hear the fullness of the gospel during their lifetime.

First, those who will make a decision based upon a single hearing of the Gospel message will be few and far spread.

... we think that every believer has heard or read Paul's gospel, but a ponder for a minute those who lived and died and were unaware that there was such a person.It's not like Paul's letters were published and cd be bought in every market in the Roman wolrd.

But the gospel has power, and those who believe that, and preach it in the conviction that it can transform and ennoble lives, can still get a hearing.

We, as Christians are telling those who choose to hear about the Gospel.

A few years back I heard of a guy who was trying to rent an airplane so he could dump millions of «Gospel tracts» over a certain large city.

Imagine all the people who probably died, right there in the region of Galilee, during those 30 years, without ever hearing the Gospel!

So I ask, because I have never heard someone (you were around GES much more than I) who claimed that this statement under consideration, and this statement alone is the gospel.

There are so many people all around me who need to hear the Gospel.

He does not have enough knowledge to take him to heaven, but he does have enough sin to send him to hell — the person who never hears of the name of Jesus doesn't go to hell because he has never heard the gospel, he goes to hell because he is a sinner, he is a monster of iniquity, willingly disobedient to his own conscience that screams to him whenever he does wrong (Romans 2:12 - 16)-- and he loves it so...

Paul recognized that he had an opportunity to preach to some men who would probably never hear the Gospel in any other way, and these men had areas of influence and power that most people in the Roman Empire didn't have.

They're going to hear the gospel much clearer from Tyson Fury, someone they can identify with, and has behaviour, language and culture closer to theirs, and who is willing to very loudly and boldly proclaim that he loves and needs Jesus.

It's worth celebrating the good that is done, the people who hear the truth, the wounds that are healed, the Gospel that is preached.

Our hearts may sing as we hear the glorious prophecy of Isaiah, as repeated in Matthew's Gospel: «The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.»

The seed on thorny ground represents those people who rejoice when they first hear the Gospel but accept it only to lose faith when tribulation arises.

Those who call themselves «evangelicals» today are also often in the forefront of efforts to bring the gospel to those who have not heard it effectively.

Left unanswered is how this could come to be for those who have never heard the gospel.

The Jesus we see in Matthew's Gospel is the person who is perfectly obedient to the will of God, so that the one who calls us is the one who himself hears and truly obeys the Father's will.

All too frequently this turns out to be a substitution for the gospel; it consists of some set of propositions, however traditional and however true they may be, which can in fact obscure the basic affirmations of Christian faith and make the gospel itself of none effect for those who hear.

It is perfectly possible for us, and hence for those who hear our preaching, to get so bogged down in the traditional biblical picture, taken in its most literal form, that the whole point of the gospel itself is lost.

While I agree with the first statement, I have reservations about the second, and prefer instead to hold an agnostic yet optimistic view concerning those who have never heard the gospel or who subscribe to other religions.

The obvious question is the age - old dilemma, «What about those who have never heard the Gospel?»

We believe simply that there were many people that lived here who had they had the chance to hear our Gospel would have liked to have been baptized in our church!

Then there are some who say that God, in His infinite foreknowledge, looks into the possible futures of a person's life to see what that person would have done if they had heard the Gospel.

This is one reason He is delaying His coming and why He asks preachers of righteousness like Noah to go out and spread the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ to all who will hear and believe.

Weigh in below with your own perspective on what happens to people who have never heard the Gospel.

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

Some say that God gives people who die without hearing the Gospel an opportunity after death to hear and believe it.

And those of them who hear us preach are quite likely to believe that we are not ourselves honest when we preach the gospel, because they know perfectly well that in our «secular» moments we do not subscribe to any such scheme of things.

It is well illustrated by a verse in the Gospel of John (3:8) «The wind [pneuma] blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit [pneuma].»

The bottom line is this: We don't know for sure exactly what happens to those who have never heard the Gospel.

you could have added «We don't know for sure exactly what happens to those who have heard the Gospel.»

As for the matter of whether anyone who has never heard the gospel, or has heard it inadequately, can be saved... I leave that up to God — the God who treats all justly and fairly, and who wills that all be reconciled to him.

Even the Old Testament saints, who never heard the gospel as we have, will enjoy eternity with God because of what Jesus did for sinners.

The man who has heard the gospel will know that he does not need to support the church.

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

An age - old question is, «What about those who have never heard the gospel?»

I believe that, if my conscience tells me it is unjust for someone who never heard the gospel to suffer eternal torture for being born at the wrong place at the wrong time, I should listen to that conscience.

Jesus is not saying that God has chosen who the sheep will be before they ever believe in Jesus, and when people hear the Gospel, only those who are predestined to be God's sheep will actually believe.

The church is just a bunch of us sinners who have been brought together to hear that Word (of law and gospel), and receive Baptism and the Lord's Supper.