So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today
Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.
Now the contrast is not between owner and thief, right or wrong entry and the true gate, but between owner and hired servant, between the one who runs from the wolf and the One
who lays down his life for the sheep.
Giving our lives «as a ransom for many involves making ourselves available to others in response to the One
who laid down his life for us.
The priest is asked to love the Church, to care for the people to whom he is sent, with the same love of the Good Shepherd
who laid down His life for the sheep (cf. John 10:11).
The former President was the one person
who laid down his life for the downtrodden and ordinary Ghanaians in general.
«This is the kind of thing that I think people want this country to do, that we pay back our obligations and our debt of gratitude to generations of Gurkhas
who laid down their lives for this country,» Clegg said.
May God bless
these who lay down their lives for these children, for their brothers and sisters, and for a scrap of the Bible (that we Americans take for granted).
Not exact matches
Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those
who do answer are those
who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own,
laying their
lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.
It also seems to me that many of you
who have been
down this painful slippery slide have become even more tormented because
for some time you've had to wear a mask,
live a pretense and deny your doubts even to yourself, until finally your whole
life starts to unravel and everything is
laid bare.
i don't think someone
who would
lay down his own
life for us (in a horrible way as one of the worst criminals at that) would take pleasure in other's suffering.
People
who live a good Catholic
life and
lay down their
life to save others will now be eligible
for beatification - the first step on the path toward sainthood.
This relation was made possible by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Who submitted to the Father's will by obeying Him to the extent of
laying down His
life for us.
To be united to Christ means to be the object of His love in
laying down His
life for His friends, and in return to love Him, to trust and obey Him, and to love all those
who belong to Him.
To summarize briefly, he is one
who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end
laying down his
life for the sake of others.
There's plenty of tension here, and more if we consider Peter's speech in Acts 4, where he seems interested in keeping strays out of the fold («There is salvation in no one else») and 1 John 3:16 - 24, which picks up on the theme of the One
who lays down his
life of his own accord and then sees an outrageous connection between Jesus» action and our own: «We ought to
lay down our
lives for one another.»
You do not have to believe what I believe but I truly hope you do because my faith has made me someone
who cares more about others than myself, cares more about people than things, and do everything I can
for the sake of my brothers and sisters in need, even
laying down my
life.
His message pitted people
who preferred
living according to the values of mammon against those of
who were ready to
lay down their
lives for the kingdom of God and its justice.
Thank you young man
for representing Jesus Christ and
laying down your
life for the care of this young woman
who God loves.
The Jews nor the Romans killed Jesus Christ... he
laid down his OWN
life for the remission of sins
for those
who believe on him ALONE!
It was a spiritual healing that reflects the dreams shared by a Nazarene
who said there is «no greater love than that a man
lay down his
life for his friends.»»
Jeremy good message and quite relevant
for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives
for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and
who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of
life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and
life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those
who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask
for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ
laid down his
life for us are we ready to
lay our
lives and the
lives of our families as a sacrifice
for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz
I don't know of anyone
who would
lay down their
life for me..
What Mary and Joseph, the angels and archangels, the shepherds and now, brothers and sisters in Christ, all of us» what they and we behold with nearly breathless wonder is the birth of the one
who, taking on our humanity, will
lay down his
life for us in the sacrifice of the cross so that we can become sharers in his divinity.
He's rather a God
who simply wants us to trust him, in the face of uncertainty, by lovingly
laying down our
lives for him in response the way he has lovingly
laid down his
life for us.
You are in a very small minority
who want Wenger to stay and I seriously suggest the club are clearly
laying the framework
down for next season and
life without Wenger.
I'd left the bassinet in the
living room and my husband,
who'd just gotten into bed, suggested that I
lay him
down in our bed — just until he wakes up
for his first overnight feeding — and then he'd bring in the bassinet.
Stewart,
who is now serving 33 years to
life for murder, claimed in his Manhattan federal suit that he got sepsis after cops
laid him face -
down on the floor of a cell at the 25th Precinct station house in July 2014.
(The geneticist J.B.S. Haldane,
who explored early concepts of kin selection in the 1930s, is sometimes alleged to have joked that, as a human being, he would
lay down his
life for two brothers or eight cousins.)
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