Sentences with phrase «who repents from»

For I know that you are a gracious God who repents from evil.»

But only those who repent from their sin and believe that Jesus Christ has atoned for it and freed them from it are His Body, the Church.

Not exact matches

The LORD Jesus Christ arose from the dead and has ascended into Heaven and is preparing a place for all those who will admit they are sinners, who,» repent toward God and place their faith and trust toward The LORD Jesus Christ» (Acts 20:21) KJB.

As I said before, there is no punishment, neither from God nor from the church, to those who have repented and been forgiven for their sins.

Donna Many believe that the example of the criminal who repented to Jesus as they hung from the cross establishes that you can be the worst kind of person imaginable, repent with your dying breath, and still bet into heaven over a non-believer who never hurt a fly their entire lives.

Nothing will stop God from keeping his promises to Israel and those who repent and become the covenant people of the Lord.

A priest has asked thieves who stole a ciborium as well as a tabernacle, chalices and other sacred items from a church «to repent and to return what they have taken.

I wonder how many of those who believed Camping's teachings repented from their sins toward a God of love, and how many hedged their bets, kowtowing in fear to a vengeful deity?

RESOLVED, That we earnestly pray, both for those who advocate racist ideologies and those who are thereby deceived, that they may see their error through the light of the Gospel, repent of these hatreds, and come to know the peace and love of Christ through redeemed fellowship in the Kingdom of God, which is established from every nation, tribe, people, and language.

God requires repentance — whether it is from the man who hates sodomites, or whether it is the sodomite himself, BOTH are commanded to repent.

Even if we are relatively pious, it would be hard to keep a straight face if — on our way home from church, for example — we were beset by an itinerant preacher like John who wanted us to «repent.»

Thus God demonstrates his righteousness in the past in overlooking past sins for those who repent and trust him, like Abraham, and he's righteous to justify now those who trust him like Christ; both apart from the law.

But unlike other Jewish preachers, Jesus offered a way of salvation: he would take the blame for those who repent, and thereby save them from hell.

Those who error in theology need gentle correcting, but if they refuse sound doctrinal correcting then they are to be marked and removed from fellowship until they repent.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR Swho blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SWHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.

He did not know whether any allowance was made for the age of the accused nor «whether pardon is given to those who repent» nor «whether punishment attaches to the mere name apart from secret crimes, or to the secret crimes connected with the name».3 In reply, Trajan wrote that Christians «are not to be sought out, but if they are accused and convicted, they must be punished — yet on this condition, that whoso denies himself to be a Christian, and makes the fact plain by his action, that is by worshipping our gods, shall obtain pardon on his repentance, however suspicious his past conduct may be».4 The Emperor Hadrian (76 - 138; ruled 117 - 138) made clear that slanderous accusations against Christians were unacceptable and that it had to be proved that they had acted contrary to the laws.

For the one who repents, Jesus says, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life John 5:24.

Jesus was also born of a woman and he did not in any way inherit sin from his mother, He was the perfect sinless and totally innocent lamb of God which took away the sin of the world for all who repent and believe in Him, and are «born again».

A Christian is one who has repented from their sins, given their heart to Jesus, and follows Him.

As to heathens and tax collectors: A person who is put out of the church is being loved, no question — but he's being loved by being expelled from the assembly, in order that he might repent and be restored.

I know this will upset the legalists who have posted here, but I think God (I use this English word which comes from the German word Gott — rather than Yahweh since I am writing to English readers as opposed to Israelis) is not going to damn any believer who knowingly sins and later regrets doing so and repents (changes their mind / heart).

Judas who did not repent, but instead hanged himself or Peter, who bitterly repented and restored of the love intensly coming from the Creator and Redeemer of the world toward his unbelievable bitter denial of friendship to a much superlative gracious God!

Loving unconditionally as Jesus Christ does, does not mean that sin is loved, just people are loved... Those who are willing to acknowledge their sin and repent of it are those who are sorry for offending Love with sin; if pride gets in the way of repentance, that is what one can choose... it is taking steps away from God but He is still in love with the one who does become bored with loving Him, but He refuses to interfere with that person's choices.

«To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that He now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit to all who repent and believe.»

Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the truth was a made a real mess of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz

Greg is an internationally recognized theologian, preacher, teacher, apologist and author, who has authored or co-authored more than 18 books and numerous academic articles (among them Letters From a Skeptic, The Myth of a Christian Nation, and Repenting of Religion).

If God demanded the death of an innocent and blameless person before forgiving anybody, if God turned away even from those who repented until someone else suffered for their sins, if God demanded the pain and blood of the cross before admitting anyone into right relationship... what kind of blood - thirsty, sadistic being would this be?

I really feel for those who are struggling with adultery and it seems the reoccuring question is the same.Will God forgive me if i have committed adultery and the answer is yes we all are sinners and we all have sinned no sin is worse than the other to God.If you are feeling bad because for what you have done then it is the holy spirit drawing you to him repent and turn from your sin.God wants all of us to draw near to him to get our hearts right to stop making the same mistakes over and over again.If you feel weak he gives the strength to deal with it rather than trying sort it out on our own.He forgives us because he loves us but we may have to bear the consequence of our sin like David and his family suffered for his choices regarding his affair with bathsheba but God forgave him for his sin.

You are looking at the situation from our fallen perspective, not from God's perspective where our freewill is the same freewill that allows us to choose who on this earth to love (or not), and is the same freewill that seeks to repent from sin when our eyes are opened by God to His truth, and is the same freewill that will choose to praise and serve Him in our glorified bodies made clean by Christ forever.

We could probably say that lukewarm believers are those who are self - sufficient and think that they don't really need anything from God to get through life, and who don't really think they need to repent of anything, and who don't think that their life will be much better if they spend time with Jesus.

The point of these stories are not about unsaved people who become Christians, but rather, about sinning Christians stray away from God, and then who repent and return.

its so amazing there people is this world are so caught up in living for themselves, what if the rapture happened while reading my text, what then, will you stil care what clothes you are wearing or what what car you are driving,, while GOD is removed from this earth, and now society will have to make a real decision if they want to contine to live in sin or realize they now understand the truth and the warnings given before, but now bc of the anti christ have to denounce GOD (take the mark of the beast) or be killed, and if you do nt believe in christ now, will you be willing to die for christ then, i would rather be ridiculed by the world for being a true christian then be gay, seperated from GOD, and then cast in the lake of fire for all eternity tormented bc i refused to repent bc i wanted to live for myself, ready the story about the man in hades who to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIwho to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIWHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIRE?

at the end of the day, amorites is His creation... This also happen in Noah time, where God, patiently waited for people to repent and believe in Him, and I believed He already knew that only 8 people who will saved from the flood, but He still instructed Noah to make extra bunks.....

I have repented of these sins, and many others, and am now seeking God and His will in my life, but I continually face this fear of having committed the unpardonable sin, and therefore am not able to fully enter in to any uninhibited relationship with God or to feel that I am adopted because as many people who deal with this fear, I feel that I may have had the option of repentance withdrawn from me due to my actions.

It is tempting to reduce this parable to a lesson that even notorious sinners can come to their senses, repent and find their way home, while those who think they have never left home refuse to see the subtler sins of pride and self righteousness by which they exclude themselves from communion with God and prodigal brothers and sisters.

The God of Earth, Maruduk, who wrote parts of the Torah refuses to repent and heal, so the future is certain for most who don't heal from a sickness.

The God of Earth, through Maruduk and Mithras (Shamash), who wrote parts of the Torah refuses to repent and heal, so the future is certain for most who don't heal from a sickness.

And yet, as in Christian belief, there is a possibility for metanoia and forgiveness, and a person who has genuinely repented for his past need not be permanently treated as a transgressor, because in one sense he is different from the person he was formerly.

Likewise, in the New Testament I was reading from Luke 15: 11 - 32 where God is the «loving Father» ready to embrace and forgive those who repent.

The message has been that Jesus the Son of God was crucified for the sins of the humanity and that Jesus raised from the dead by God brings Divine Forgiveness and Salvation understood as access to God; as free gifts to all who repent and accept Him as Saviour and join the fellowship of the Church of Christ.

Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways: Draw near with faith, and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to Almighty God, devoutly kneeling.