Homem de Deus
O homem de Deus é aquele que busca a justiça, a piedade, a fé e o amor. A Bíblia apresenta modelos de homens íntegros que andaram com Deus e marcaram a história.
Características do homem de Deus
O homem de Deus foge das paixões e segue a justiça, a piedade, a fé, o amor, a perseverança e a mansidão.
But, thou, man of God, flee these things; but follow thou rightwiseness, piety, faith, charity, patience, mildness.
No man despise thy youth, but be thou ensample of faithful men, in word, in living, in charity, in faith, in chastity.
Walk ye, and stand ye in the faith; do ye manly, and be ye comforted in the Lord,
and be all your things done in charity.
I shall show to thee, thou man, what is good, and what the Lord asketh of thee; forsooth for to do doom, and for to love mercy, and be busy for to walk with thy God.
Exemplos bíblicos
Noé era justo e íntegro entre seus contemporâneos. Jó era homem reto que temia a Deus e se desviava do mal.
These be the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations; Noah went with God,
In the land of Uz was a man that was called Job; and that man was simple, that is, without guile, and rightful [or right], and dreading God, and going away from evil.
A man was sent from God, to whom the name was John.
This man came into witnessing, that he should bear witnessing of the light, that all men should believe by him.
Wisdom shineth in the face of a prudent man; the eyes of fools be in the ends of earth.
Viver como filho de Deus
Quem faz a vontade de Deus é eleito. Medite na Palavra e ande nos caminhos do Senhor como verdadeiro discípulo.
But how many ever received him, he gave to them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name;
the which not of bloods, neither of the will of flesh, neither of the will of man, but be born of God.
And we know, that God heareth not sinful men, but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, he heareth him.
[Beth.] In what thing amendeth a young waxing man his way? in keep-ing thy words.
In all mine heart I sought thee; put thou me not away from thy behests.
In mine heart I hid thy speeches; that I do not sin against thee.
Lord, thou art blessed; teach thou me thy justifyings.
In my lips I have pronounced; all the dooms of thy mouth.
I delighted in the way of thy witnessings; as in all riches.
I shall be exercised, either busily occupied, in thy behests; and I shall behold thy ways.
I shall bethink in thy justifyings; I shall not forget thy words.
Blessed is the man, that goeth not in the counsel of wicked men; and stood not in the way of sinners, and sat not in the chair of pestilence.
But his will is in the law of the Lord; and he shall bethink in the law of him day and night.
And he shall be as a tree, which is planted beside the runnings of waters; that shall give his fruit in his time. And his leaf shall not fall down; and all things, whichever he shall do, shall have prosperity.
Not so wicked men, not so; but they be as dust, which the wind casteth away from the face of the earth.
Therefore wicked men rise not again in doom; neither sinners in the council of just men [nor the sinful in the council of the rightwise].
For the Lord knoweth the way of just men [or the rightwise]; and the way of wicked men shall perish.
Do ye away by the old living [or after the first living], the old man, that is corrupt by the desires of error;
and be ye renewed [or made new again] in the spirit of your soul;
and clothe ye the new man, which is made after God in rightwiseness and holiness of truth.