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[21] The term Lord reflected the belief that God had exalted to a divine status "at God's 'right hand'." [ 22 ] The worship of God as expressed in the phrase "call upon the name of the Lord [ Yahweh ]" was also applied to Jesus, invocating his name "in corporate worship and in the wider devotional pattern of Christian believers (e.g., baptism ...
The phrase is used many times in the Bible to describe God's powerful deeds during the Exodus: Exodus 6:6, Deuteronomy 4:34 5:15 7:19 9:29 11:2 26:8, Psalms 136:12. The phrase is also used to describe other past or future mighty deeds of God, in the following sources: II Kings 17:36, Jeremiah 21:5 27:5 32:17, Ezekiel 20:33 20:34, II Chronicles 6:32.
The Economy of God, first published in 1968, is one of Witness Lee's principal works and is a compilation of messages he gave in the summer of 1964 in Los Angeles. These messages build on one of Watchman Nee's classics, The Spiritual Man, which reveals that man is composed of three parts - spirit, soul, and body.
David Hill notes that the word God (του θεου) is left out of many of the better early manuscripts of the Gospel, and it thus might be a later addition. "Kingdom of God" is a somewhat unusual phrase for Matthew's Gospel, whose author generally prefers Kingdom of Heaven.
On the other hand, it requires God's election to be a "predestination by foreknowledge". [48] God's foreknowledge of the future is exhaustive and complete, and therefore the future is certain and not contingent on human action. God does not determine the future, but He does know it. God's certainty and human contingency are compatible. [49]
Psalm 108: Plea for help through God’s right hand (v1). Psalm 109: Depicts an adversary at the foe's right hand (v6) and God as the protector at the right hand of the needy (v31). Psalm 110: Invites a figure like Melchizedek to sit at God's right hand, with God aiding in battle at the man's right hand (v1, v5).
The Power and the Glory is a 1940 novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer : "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen."
The right hand is good works, or the active life, which offends us when we are ensnared by society and the business of life. If then any one is unable to sustain the contemplative life, let him not slothfully rest from all action; or on the other hand while he is taken up with action, dry up the fountain of sweet contemplation.