Example sentences of "god [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good news of the Christian gospel is a covenant agreement , a contract which God offers to us . |
| 2 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 3 | If the question is asked whether Gandhi is not aware of the dangers of contradiction in his use of personal and impersonal terms to describe God , the answer might be that it would depend whether the personal use of the term God refers to an entity , or being , in the form of an extra-mundane person , whether or not a contradiction is involved . |
| 4 | God longs for all people to come to him like the son returned to the father in the parable . |
| 5 | In union with him , all of you are being built together into a place where God lives through his Spirit . |
| 6 | I to you young men because you are strong and the word of God lives in you and you have overcome the evil one . |
| 7 | God lives in you by the power of his spirit and he will guide you into truth , life and peace . |
| 8 | In this desolate spot , at a moment of unutterable loneliness , God stands beside Jacob . |
| 9 | In her mind she associates the act of translation with transubstantiation through a chain of associations ( see 13/407,20/414,112/506,139/533,164/558 ) , and the lapse in her relations with God corresponds to similar ‘ flaws ’ in her use of language . |
| 10 | It will incorporate through proclamation the awesome truth of the love God has for us , and our involvement in actions to help people to believe in a real God . |
| 11 | It will be hard for us to be away from Andrew and Peter over Christmas and New Year but the boys have been really encouraging , telling us to go for all God has for us . |
| 12 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 13 | But does this not mean that God has to be affected by what happens in the world and that the challenges and frustrations which the world 's freedom continually presents to Him force ever new responses from Him , so that He is continually changing ? |
| 14 | And the Holy Spirit is given as a firstfruit of the harvest God has in store for us ( Rom. 8:23 ) ; |
| 15 | As young people of the diocese , we are prepared to do our bit to help create the kind of world God wants for us — but we ca n't do it alone . |
| 16 | So when God looks at you he does n't see FAILURE stamped across your face , because you ( and every other human being ) are the best thing that he ever created . |
| 17 | For Rolle , because God looks on the heart and not the outward appearance , and judges the will not the deed , it seems self-evident that the contemplative life , seeking to be one with God 's love , must be preferred , because actives are too distracted by what they do . |
| 18 | The third is that God looks after it . |
| 19 | I told her gently that no one really knows what God looks like . |
| 20 | This is the focus of the Bible , which tells us that while ‘ man looks upon the outward appearance , God looks upon the heart ’ . |
| 21 | The holiness of God lies at the root of his self-revelation as Yahweh ( Exodus 3:5 ) . |
| 22 | For Hilton , the key to the means of curing the sickness which obscures and thwarts the brightness and power of the image of God lies in the Incarnation . |
| 23 | She put down her needle and thread and went on , her voice calm with conviction , ‘ Of course we do not know what God plans for us , so we must be ready to accept His will in all things , but sometimes prayer alone will heal the one who is ill and this is the best way . ’ |
| 24 | Nor is the final planned dispensation of eggs out of place in a ‘ basic ritual scheme in which ‘ the cooking and eating of a Feast ’ are ‘ canonical ’ , part of a ‘ sacramental meal … through which the God passes to his resurrection ’ . |
| 25 | And over in the last verse in that chapter it says , he who believes in the son , has eternal life but he who does not obey the son , shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides on him . |
| 26 | Look what Jesus says here in Luke chapter thirteen , in verse twenty four , just let me pick a few phrases out , verse twenty four it says shall not be able in verse twenty five there was their cry Lord open to us and in verse twenty seven their response depart from me the result in verse twenty eight there was gon na be weeping it was n't gon na be universal , they were not all gon na be saved , they were not all just gon na be swept in in the last day and did n't really matter , you 're all buddies together now in heaven , not at all , this surely what Jesus says here makes it very clear that all will not be saved if at first we 've already mentioned in John er no sorry verse further on in John three this done verse thirty six he who believes in the son has eternal life , but he who does not obey the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides upon him , there 's no suggestion there of being ultimately brought in to God 's heaven and ultimately being saved , no it is the wrath of God abideth upon that person . |
| 27 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 28 | In other words , I have to hang on to what God says about himself . |
| 29 | God says to us , ‘ Yes , you are guilty , unworthy and deserving of punishment but I have provided for your forgiveness . ’ |
| 30 | God says to this jelly-heap of a man , ‘ The Lord is with you , brave and mighty man . ’ |