Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes - Page 2

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• God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

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  Understood, Trusted

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• Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.

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  Worship

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• The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.

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  Needs, Redemption, Sin

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• The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

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  Heart, Character, Emotional

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• Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

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  Jesus, Able, Sin

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• We can never reflect too much on God's grace.

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  Grace, God's Grace, Too Much

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• There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.

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  Christian, Mean, Grace

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• There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.

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  Differences, Wells, Congregation

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• Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.

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  Christian, Understanding, Littles

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• True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

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  Mean, Essentials, Indifferent

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• We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

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  Scripture, Sensitive, Gods Will

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• Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

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  Character, Worship, Character Of God

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• Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

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  Christian, Identity, Flesh

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• For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!

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  Giving, Temptation, Worship

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.

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  Christian, Ambition, Contentment

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• The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.

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  Son, Order, Flesh

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• When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

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  Son, Looks, Faithfulness

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.

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  Israel, Holiness, Way

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.

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  Men, Firsts, Glory

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• The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

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  Darkness, Mind, Clarity

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• You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

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  Thinking, Identity, Christ

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• There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.

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  Two, Encounters, Tasks

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• Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.

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  Spirit, Worship, Has Beens

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• True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

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  Strong, Character, Quality

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• Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

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  Strong, Christ, Weak

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