Sentences with phrase «whom god sent»

Let's assume that this person reads about this One whom God sent into the world (His Son) to give eternal life to those who believe in Him.

This has been predicted by all the prophets, who have assured you that you are the people of the covenant to whom God sent Jesus.»

Abstract theories or learned theologies can hide from us him whom God sent for our salvation.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

«I am passionate about helping all whom God sends my way.

Not exact matches

Everything about us, our human history tells a story, our human story and God's story of redemption of mankind through His own initiative, by sending His Son Jesus Christ who declared Him and explained Him so that we would KNOW Him and be able to have living, active relationship with Him, by believing on the Name of His son whom He sent to redeem us.

-- The Only True God & Jesus Christ Whom He Has Sent by Jeffery R. Holland.

And on the night before his death, Jesus prayed to his Father, saying: «This means everlasting life, their (his loyal disciples) taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.»

When Moses asked God whom shall I say sent me and God replied «tell them I AM sent you».

(John 17:3) Jesus clearly identified that his (and ours) Father is «the only true God», distinguishing himself from him by saying «and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.»

Statistically, traditionally, historically, and Scripturally, rather than listen to the messengers of God, we are far more likely to reject, despise, slander, condemn, rebuke, persecute, and even kill those whom God has sent to speak His truth to us.

It is a constant refrain in The Priest and His Loving that the love of a priest for the Kingdom of God within and for the people to whom he is sent is the «most close to the loving of Christ Himself» (TPL p. 1, p. 5, p. 8).

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

The Christian is called, not to reproduce the externals of the life of Jesus, but to live in the spirit of Jesus: as St. Paul would say, to know the indwelling presence of the Spirit whom God has sent into our hearts, by whom we can venture to call God «Father».

I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness... to whom I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

«This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent» (John 17:3).

But in the final analysis it can only mean «Save all those whom it is possible to save,» for the salvation of those who are finally impenitent is an intrinsic impossibility (just as it would be an intrinsic impossibility for God to send rain and withhold rain in the same place simultaneously).

Instead of this, Luke reads (11:49), «Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, «I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute»» — a curious anticlimax, probably the result of condensation.

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Clement, furthermore, refers to the «paideia of God» and the «paideia of Christ» and closes with a prayer thanking God for sending us Christ «through whom thou hast educated and sanctified us and honored us.,» In this Clement echoes the frequent use of paideia by the Septuagint and by Ephesians.

Most significantly, we will not be capable of properly welcoming those children whom Christ sends into our lives and may thereby lose the ability to welcome God.

And ask those of Our apostles whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshiped besides the Beneficent God?

Jesus announced God's ultimate plan: «And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent» (John 17:3).

* John 17:3: «Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.»

This slave is the Father's eternal Word, whom God has vindicated, and so ten thousand immemorial certainties are unveiled as lies: the first become last, the mighty are put down from their seats and the lowly exalted, the hungry are filled with good things while the rich are sent empty away.

This incident marked a major turning point in Buber's theological understanding, a turning away from otherworldly ecstasy and a turning toward the concrete other whom God has sent.

Was it the God Yahweh who spoke to Moses but hasn't yet sent the Messiah, or God Jesus who claimed to be one with his Father, or the God Allah who spoke to Mohamed the last prophet, or the God who spoke to Luther and said Catholics got it wrong, or the God who spoke to Joseph Smith, or one of the Gods with whom a thousand other people have claimed to have had a revelation?

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

Even so, those whom God will send to him as his very own must want to come, must remain with him and adopt his ways, if they are to be the recipients from him of everlasting life.

The early apostles also knew, however, that the church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.»

Love and obey, for there is no other way; to get eternal life; but to love and obey — Jesus Christ says: «And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.»

«Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.»

Some Calvinists (though not all) hold to reprobation — which is the belief that God not only decided whom He would choose for eternal life, but also chose whom He would send to eternal damnation — while others flatly deny it.

«1 Paul, an apostle — sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — 2 and all the brothers and sisters1 with me, To the churches in Galatia: 3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever.

But Jesus is telling them that their actions and behavior reveal the same mindset and perspective which led their ancestors to kill those whom God had sent.

In Matthew 23:34 - 36 Jesus tells the Jewish people that they murdered all the prophets, wise men, and scribes whom God had sent.

And again, «Say (O Muhammad): O Mankind, I am the Messenger sent to all of you by Allah to Whom undoubtedly belongs the sovereignty (and possession) of heavens and earth, and there is no God save Him Who gives life and death» (Surah VII, 158).

The latter is apt to be rather more aware of himself as primarily a person being professionally trained to fulfill a key - office, as an administrator, executive and leader in a vast and important department of the community life of the American people, than as a man on whom God has laid an arresting hand calling him out of that life in the first instance in order to be sent back into it on that basis to a ministerial and prophetic task.

It is important to note that in the passage from John which you quoted, Jesus didn't say ``... that ye believe on me» but ``... that ye believe on him whom he (God) hath sent.»

Whoever loves God, loves the Son whom He sent.

This in summary means, «for this is Life, that they may know You, the One true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent».

In order to accomplish this salvation of those whom He had previously chosen, God sent Jesus to die specifically and only for the sins of those whom He had chosen so that they might have eternal life (Limited Atonement).

Jesus answered and said to them, «This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.»

«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.

«A priest is called by God to work with the bishop and with his fellow priests, as servant and shepherd among the people to whom he is sent.

«This,» he writes, «is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.»

John 17:3, RS: «[Jesus prayed to his Father:] This is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God [«who alone art truly God,» NE], and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.»

There is a vast difference between the man made religion and God's revelation of Himself through Jesus Christ His Son whom He sent to declare Him and explain Him.

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Because their hearts were expectant, they were able to recognize in Jesus the one whom God had sent, and thus they could become the beginning of his worldwide family.