Quotes About Jesus

Jesus himself used the term Hades as the location of damned spirits in contrast with heaven as the location of redeemed spirits when he talked of Capernaum rejecting miracles, "And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades" (Matt. 11:23). Hades was also the location of departed spirits in his parable of Lazarus and the rich man in Hades (Luke 16:19-31).

The stories sounded like the fantastic legends he would act out in his pantomime plays. But these were real stories. The people claimed to be eyewitnesses or actual recipients of the miracles. They couldn't all be lying, could they? Both brothers wanted to leave before the centurion recognized them. The woman continued, "Let us now pray for the ministry of Jesus and the disciples in the district of Tyre and Sidon.

may I ask what the name of this Nazarene is?" "Oh yes," said Antipas, "I nearly forgot. It is Yeshua. Jesus in Greek." Yeshua meant "Yahweh saves.

Malachi had foretold that Elijah would return before the great and dreadful Day of the Lord. But Jesus had then told them that John the Baptizer was Elijah preparing the way. He had spiritualized the prophecy that they thought was literal. But the Baptizer was now in prison at the fortress of that treacherous fox, Herod Antipas. It seemed to get more confusing the more any of their questions were answered.

Jesus turned sober. "Peter, get James and John. We are going up Mount Hermon." Simon gulped. Whatever had happened inside that cave, the incident at the Gates of Hades was a breach of the walls. But how could four unarmed commoners make an assault on the stronghold of evil itself?

Paul used the same hyperbole as Jesus when he wrote that the gospel "was proclaimed in all creation under heaven" during his own ministry. Colossians 1:23 The hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Now Jesus would send out his messengers—Christian believers—and would use the Gospel to gather his elect from the four winds into his kingdom, a mountain that would grow to fill the earth in God's time.

Do we then speculate that when Jesus said that "they were eating and drinking" that he meant the giants were eating humans and drinking their blood? (1 Enoch 7:2-5).

understood the larger picture they were all participating in. Jesus was binding the principalities and powers over the land, and his next target was at Caesarea Philippi.

Jesus looked outside the city just to the east where a cliff was visible, rising up a couple hundred feet in the air. It was the destination of the fleeing demoniacs: the sacred grotto of Pan. Jesus turned to the disciples and said, "Men, it is time to storm the Gates of Hades.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

When you look at the list of the five stops in the discipleship journey, where is your group already engaged and where do you need to focus in the future? Love of God Way of Jesus Leadership Calling Sending

May his joyous grace and total well-being, flowing from our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, rest upon you.

1Look at how much strength and encouragement you've found in your relationship with Jesus, our anointed Messiah! You are filled to overflowing with his comforting love. You have experienced a deepening friendship with the Holy Spirit and have felt his tender care and mercy.a

Fiery love for Jesus pushes our thoughts out of hiding and puts them into anointed words of adoration.

The Divine Kiss is metaphor that speaks of sacred intimacy with Jesus Christ. The most powerful gift God can to the human spirit is His "kiss." Kisses from God impart the deepest things that could ever be given to the human spirit. This "kiss" is the answer of why we are on the earth. The Lord kissed Adam and he became a living soul and we come alive again by this kiss of God.

We are those who boast in what Jesus Christ has done, and not in what we can accomplish in our own strength.

11Jesus, the Holy One, makes us holy. And as sons and daughters, we now belong to his same Father,n so he is not ashamed or embarrassed to introduce us as his brothers and sisters!

10By God's will we have been purified and made holy once and for allf through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah!

We feast on a sacrifice at our spiritual altar, but those who serve as priests in the old system of worship have no right to eat of it. 11 For the high priest carries the blood of animals into the holiest chamber as a sacrifice for sin, and then burns the bodies of the animals outside the city. h 12 And Jesus, our sin-sacrifice,

In 8:6 we find revelation-truth about Christ that hadn't been understood before: "For us there is only one God—the Father. He is the source of all things, and our lives are lived for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus, the Anointed One, through whom we and all things exist." Here Paul equates the one true God of Israel, Yahweh, with Jesus. Jesus is Yahweh, the only true God.

For God has not destined us to experience wrath but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. He gave his life for us so that we may share in resurrection life in union with him" (5:9–10). There you have it: God's good news explained!

Abitha managed to be astounded by the impossible: a Puritan minister and the Devil praying together, praying to Jesus and Mother Earth and who knew what else, all in an effort to save her.

Who is the God that Christians worship? He is the God who loves and forgives. Surely Jesus demonstrated that truth on the cross. But how do we demonstrate this fact in our behavior? Our lives should be a living demonstration that we know a God who forgives.