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The pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
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Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.
— Jerry Bridges
It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent
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holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian. Paul's
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Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses
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When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
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We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
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May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
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Christ's death was the result of God's grace; grace is not the result of Christ's death.
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His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.
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We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.
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We are to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand, approaching every relationship and every circumstance in reference to Him.
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If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.
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Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit.
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True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.
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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
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We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.
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If I complain about the difficult circumstances of my life, I impugn the sovereignty and goodness of God and tempt my listener to do the same.
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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
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Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.
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We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.
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As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure
— Jerry Bridges
God wants us to walk in obedience - not victory. Obedience is oriented toward God; victory is oriented toward self.
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Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives
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Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
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If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.
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Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
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Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.
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Without this relationship with God, there can be no spiritual relationship with one another.
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The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
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Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.
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Only conduct arising from love is worthy of the name obedience.
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God expects every Christian to live a holy life. But holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian.
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Romans 7:21, and it distinguishes believers from unbelievers who lie serenely content in their darkness.
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But the reality is that many people are facing nonphysical persecution because of their stand for righteousness.
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I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.2
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Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
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All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
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But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.
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A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.
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God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.
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Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
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God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
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It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~ — Jerry Bridges
The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.
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The secret things belong to the LORD our God.
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No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
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God is serious about holiness in the lives of His people, and He will discipline us to attain it.
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God has called every Christian to a holy life. There are no exceptions to this call. It
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But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.
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How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I
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Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.
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Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.
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How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.
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Call, believe, hear, and preach.
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Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
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Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.
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It is relatively easy to serve those above us - even the world expects this - but Jesus served downward.
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The beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.
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God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.
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We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
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Grace is not a matter of God's making up the difference, but of God's providing all the "cost" of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ.
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Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
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But where sin abounded, grace superabounded.
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God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.
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All sin without distinction - is lawlessness.
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Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
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God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
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victory is a byproduct of obedience.
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This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
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The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.
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God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.
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Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
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If you are going to experience the joy of your freedom in Christ, you have to decide whether you will please God or people.
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Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
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Anxiety is a sin also because it is a lack of acceptance of God's providence in our lives.
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The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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The experience of holiness is not a gift we receive like justification, but something which we are clearly exhorted to work at.
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God is perfectly holy, then we can be confident that His actions toward us are always perfect and just.
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