Sentences with phrase «who lays down his life for»

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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That the enemy makes heroes out of thugs, cr00ks, and l1ars is no reason not to honor those who daily lay down their professional lives, enduring v1le s1ander and worse for right.