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• Power
  ...as from a vase containing the fragrance of what is no longer visible. Its power within the heart is exhibited in Romans 8, and its energy of diffusion in R ...as follows: "all are within my power; but I will not put myself under the power of any one of all things." See Authority , B, No. 1. </p> &nbsp;Revelation
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• Work
  ...ul, <i> Cross Currents </i> 35 (1985): 43-48; G. Goosen, <i> A Theology of Work </i> ; H.-C. Hahn and F. Thiele, <i> NIDNTT </i> 3:1147-59; G. Mendenhall, ...&nbsp;John 17:4; &nbsp;John 19:30). Through faith in him and his finished work, people can have forgiveness of sins and eternal life (&nbsp;John 6:28-29;
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• Miracles
  ...elieved (see above, <b> 3 </b> ) that even evil men and evil spirits could work miracles, they would not have said that a miracle-worker must be a true tea ...t wicked one, the man of sin, shall be after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders." </p> <p> The same three terms occur for Jesus
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• Jesus Christ
  ...aited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call to work and danger. </p> <p> <strong> 9. Duration of the Ministry </strong> (cf. ar ...o enter the kingdom by our own effort is impossible; it takes the renewing power of God to make us new people and establish us in God's kingdom. </p> <p> <i
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• Antichrist
  ...etical spirit, present in the world already but destined to come in fuller power. The ultimate authority for our thoughts on the subject must be found in th ...to God and religion, a claim to God's exclusive prerogatives, lawlessness, power of lying miracles and of beguiling souls under Satan's energizing, having a
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• Force
  ...ons </i> of Cremer and Grimm-Thayer, <i> s.vv. </i> On Christ’s miraculous power see art. ‘Miracles’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; Mozley, <i> B ..., </p> 1. To compel to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible. Men are forced to submit to conquerors. Masters force their
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• English Versions
  ...s (including Calvin and Beza) who were then engaged at Geneva in a similar work of revision of the French Bible. In the NT their principal guide was Beza, ...hough disfigured by credulity and bitter prejudice." For Tyndale's special work see <i> William Tyndale </i> , <i> a [[Biography]] </i> , by R. Demaus, new
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• Power Of The Keys
  ...e rules pertaining to this subject. On the other hand, Calvin referred the power of the keys altogether to the preaching of the Gospel and the exercise of C ...he authorities of the Church to admit or exclude from church membership, a power the Roman Catholics allege conferred at first on St. Peter and afterwards o
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• Holy Spirit
  ...s (&nbsp;John 14:26; &nbsp;John 16:12-15; &nbsp;1 Peter 1:12). Through the work of the Holy Spirit in those men, the New Testament Scriptures came into bei ...estament [[Theology]] </i> ; G. F. Hawthorne, <i> The [[Presence]] and the Power </i> ; W. E. Mills, <i> The Holy Spirit: A Bibliography </i> ; G. T. Montag
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• Satan
  ...... destroy ( '''''Katargeesee''''' , "render powerless") him that had the power of death." Satan seeks to "get an advantage of" believers (&nbsp;2 Corinthi
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• God
  ...a somewhat less explicit form, in the [[Pauline]] Epistles. Christ is ‘the power of God and the wisdom of God … made unto us wisdom from God’ (&nbsp;1 C ...the command to tarry in the city until the [[Apostles]] were ‘clothed with power from on high’ (&nbsp;Luke 24:49 ); this is interpreted in &nbsp; Acts 1:5
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• Providence
  ...toiling and spinning as a necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but le ...ty? God is present every where. He sees all that happens, and it is in his power, with perfect ease, to order all for the best. Can he then possess goodness
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• Christianity
  ...he <i> Encyc. Brit </i> .9 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] </p> <p> W. T. Davison. </p> ...er of God and of truth? And it has been supported in the world by the same power through a course of many ages, amidst the treachery of its friends, the opp
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• Sanctification
  ...e deepens, the work of the Spirit in sanctification is identified with the work of the Risen Christ. The sense of present fellowship with Him becomes more ...ursue" sanctification (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14 ). God wil
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• Egypt
  ...ed their deliverance from Egypt, reminding themselves that God’s grace and power alone had saved them (&nbsp;Leviticus 23:43; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 16:1-3; &nbs ...n nature), at Thebes. The Labyrinth, and the artificial Lake Moeris, their work. </p> <p> [['''Thirteenth:''' Diospolites]] (contemporary with the Shepher
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• Sabbath
  ...e Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. For in six days th ...e true Sabbath and ought still to be observed by Christians (see a curious work by Francis Bampfield written to show that the seventh-day Sabbath is the de
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• Hand
  ...ess carelessness sloth. &nbsp;Proverbs 10 </p> <p> The right hand, denotes power strength. &nbsp;Exodus 15 </p> <p> HAND, To give or transmit with the hand. ...y which the sacred substance is conducted from one body into another … the power passes not primarily through the spoken formula, but through the physical c
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• Omnipotence
  ...ii.; Thomas Aquinas, <i> Summa </i> , iii. Qu. 13; B. B. Warfield, <i> The Power of God unto [[Salvation]] </i> (1903), 91. </p> <p> J. Dick Fleming. </p> ...ew of the supernatural and miraculous. Thus &nbsp;Exodus 15 celebrates the power of Yahweh in the wonders of the exodus. It is God's exclusive prerogative t
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• Atonement
  ...e practical schism between these two experiences of faith in the objective work of Christ and personal union in His death and resurrection is too real for ...reparation to the violated law of righteousness is not necessary. Christ’s work, while bringing forgiveness, conserves holiness, magnifies law, vindicates
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• Messiah
  ...s Lord over the [[Sabbath]] &nbsp;Matthew 12:8). He will appear clothed in power at the last day (&nbsp;Mark 14:62). But the title is also used in immediate ...nality in whom His spirit was particularly resident to empower Him for the work of salvation. Thus in the history of Jesus and in Christian experience this
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• Creation
  ...e reason and articulate speech; general words used by all prove in all the power of abstract reasoning; the absence of the former proves the absence of the ...ence between right and wrong. Having divided his own substance, the mighty Power became half male, half female. He whose powers are incomprehensible, having
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• Peter
  ...ssionary activities had brought him into contact with Gentiles. It was the work of the reactionary Judaizers that made the problem acute, but in the nascen ..., as to Peter (&nbsp;Matthew 18:18; &nbsp;John 20:23.) Peter exercised the power of the keys only in preaching, as on Pentecost (Acts 2), He never exercised
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• Arminian View Of The. Will
  ...will; if he cannot govern the world when much of its history is within the power of his creatures, when much that is, is determined and enacted by the free
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• Regeneration
  ...d in many passages of the Epistle and is represented as produced by Divine power. The blood of Christ cleanses the conscience from sin, and makes it possibl ...hrist with full and fast faith (&nbsp; Ephesians 4:16 ). Last of all, this work of regeneration is completed when the soul is brought to the point of absol
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• Miracle
  ...st and his apostles, and were actual witnesses to their mighty works." The power of working miracles is supposed by some to have been continued no longer th ...r and refutes the "name it and claim it" heresy that tries to force God to work miracles upon demand, if only one exercises adequate faith. </p> <p> [[Crai
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• Justification
  ...al and justify the world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it ...vilege of justification is annexed, is such a belief of the Gospel, by the power of the Spirit of God, as leads us to come to Christ, to receive Christ, to
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• Elijah
  ...heir mouth," i.e. at, their word; &nbsp;1 Kings 17:1; &nbsp;2 Kings 1:10; "power to shut heaven that it rain not," &nbsp;James 5:17; &nbsp;Luke 4:25; and "t ...led after Moses and Elijah (&nbsp;Revelation 11:3-6 ). They were given the power to shut up the heavens and to bring the fire of judgment like Elijah in &nb
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• Resurrection
  ...Paul’s teaching. Hence we find two lines of thought of unequal strength at work in St. Paul’s treatment of the subject. </p> <p> (1) On the one hand, he ...en we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection to life is brought about (&nbsp; Romans 8:11 , &n
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• Church
  ...ip. Except in the form of ‘Mysteries,’ the old Greek religion had not much power; its gods and goddesses were openly ridiculed. But Mithraism was full of li ...sp; Luke 17:21 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ) in His own Person and work. It is revealed as a historical institution in the parables of the [[Tares]
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• Salvation
  ...ouraged the exercise of faith as a mere theoretical belief in supernatural power. The performance of a sign from heaven, such as men might have witnessed wi ...ile its present dimension is depicted in terms of the Spirit's sanctifying work. Its future dimension is said to be glorification, the culmination of the s
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• Grace
  ...God and Christ, working in the Pauline scheme as righteousness and wisdom, work here as light, life, love, driving away darkness, death, sin; restoring lif ...these attributes as "gifts" throughout the chapter implies that they are a work of grace as well, but the connection with grace is explicit in the parallel
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• Elisha
  ...l cell, upon a sudden inroad of the Moabite bands; a type of the vivifying power of Christ's dead body (&nbsp;Isaiah 26:19). Other antitypical resemblances .... The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp; 2 Kings 6:8 ff., &nb
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• Spirit
  ...to be so far identified that the former lived and acted ‘in spirit and in power’ (ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει, &nbsp;Luke 1:17), <i> i. ...Satan is called the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is at work in those who are disobedient (&nbsp;Ephesians 2:2 ). </p> <p> One of the pe
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• Faith
  ...he Apocalypse we have described for us in words and pictures the unity and power of God, the dominion of Christ over the Church and the world, and the trium ...ews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the redeeming work of Jesus in the cross. According to the whole tenor of the NT, the forgivin
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• Papacy
  ...ied about 886), who, however, is the author of the last biographies of the work only. It was edited by Busaeus (Mentz, 1602); Fabrotti (Paris, 1649); [[Bia
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• Merit
  ...<i> Lehre [[Jesu]] </i> 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , 1901 [English translation from 1st ed. 1893]; Anselm’s <i> Cu ...use no man can demand a right to it by his own righteousness, or any other power in himself, but by the free grace of God only, they say no man can merit Pa
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• Power Of Keys
  ...olders of the keys. To that extent, and in that sense, alone, is there the power of "legislating" within the kingdom. This is only interpreting and applying ....com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/keys,+power+of Power Of Keys from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• John The Baptist
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , art. ‘Johannes der Taufer’; Haupt, <i> [[Johannes]] der Tä ...11:3 ); but if John learnt from Jesus what was His ideal of the Messiah’s work, it may well be, as Garvie says, ‘that Jesus for a time at least raised J
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• Devil
  ...god of this world’ or age (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 4:4 ), ‘the prince of the power of the air’ (&nbsp; Ephesians 2:2 ), ruling over the evil spirits who are ...ctful expressions of him they would punish with death, did not the Turkish power prevent them. Whenever they speak of him, it is with the utmost respect; an
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• Ordination
  ...assignment to them, under the direction of the Holy Ghost, of an extended work among the Gentiles, and all the accompaniments befitted this new departure. ...cy, Imposition Of Hands, Independents]] and [[Ministerial Call]] in this work; James Owen's [[Plea]] for Scripture Ordination; Doddridge's Tracts, 5: 2:
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• Mediator
  ...in His own Person. But it cannot be said with justice that the mediatorial work of Jesus in this Gospel is only of this prophetic nature. St. John records ...the final <em> Judge </em> of the quick and the dead, to whom is given the power of distributing the rewards and penalties of eternity. See ATONEMENT and Se
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• Trinity
  ...ture of the Deity, whose existence is commensurate with eternity, by whose power the universe was created, and by whose wisdom it is governed; whose presenc ..., we see throughout the book the essential Deity of the Holy Spirit in the work attributed to Him of superintending and controlling the life of the [[Apost
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• Gift Of. Tongues
  ...e." He recognized precisely the same sounds in the Irish revivals of 1859 (Work and Counterwork, p. 11). Those who spoke, men of known devotion and acutene
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...ne literature Bardenhewer (Freiburg 1877) collects all the notices of this work discusses the different extant fragments and restores the original as far a
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• Inspiration
  ...we might reasonably suppose would have been granted to the Apostles in the work of teaching divine truth, is the very thing which Christ promised them in t ...to the most ordinary actions of life, according to this view, are not the work of man but of Omniscience. The only use which has been made of human agency
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• Prayer
  ...h </em> ’). </p> <p> (ii.) (1) A distinctive Idea in NT prayer is <em> the work of the [[Holy]] Spirit </em> . He aids us in prayer (&nbsp; Romans 8:14-16 ...iness, ought not to be indulged, unless persons are aged or infirm, or the work of prayer be drawn out so long as to make it troublesome to human nature to
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• Ethics
  ...ging absolutes, inarguable authority, effective motivation, and redemptive power. The Old Testament emphasizes that God's requirements enshrine the secrets ...ect for the civil government, and its tasks, the spiritual significance to work, the stewardship of possessions and wealth, and much else. </p> <p> The eth
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• Apostle
  ...h intention. The apostles wore commissioned to found a living Church, with power to supply itself with ministers and to organize them. </p> <p> Literature.- ...them out two by two, that they might be assistants to each other in their work; and commanded them to restrict their teaching and services to the people o
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• Almighty
  ...tion, we never hear in them, as in the Scriptures, "the [[Thunder]] of his power." </p> ...<p> The name Almighty will appear again when God works out his purposes in power and judgement. It was revealed in connection with promises made in time, as
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• Persecution
  ...ise no jurisdiction. But Roman Emperors would not admit that view, for the power of the State, in the person of the ruler, was absolute, and it covered all ...o make mankind such curses to one another? [[Merciful]] God! by they great power suppress this worst of all evils, and let truth and love, meekness and forb
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