Jerry Bridges Quotes - Page 2

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• Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God... Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.

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  Appreciate, Giving, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.161, NavPress

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• God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

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  Children, Pain, Son

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.169, NavPress

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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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  Important, Essentials, Messages

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.28, Tyndale House

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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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  Justified, Ifs

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• Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

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  Valentines Day, Love Is, Justice

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• Because God is sovereign, He is able to answer. Because He is faithful to His promises, He will answer.

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  Faithful, Promise, Answers

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.93, NavPress

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• Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

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  Children, Doe, Majestic

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• God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

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  Believe, Son, Doubt

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.163, NavPress

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• We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

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  Son, Grace, Unions

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• The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

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  Lying, Believe, Biblical

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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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  Heart, Bitterness, Sovereign

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.72, Tyndale House

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• Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

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  Giving, Suffering, Lord

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ”, p.107, Tyndale House

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• The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.

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  Hurt, Grace, Forgiving

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.27, Tyndale House

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• We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

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  Mind, Emotion, Truth Of God

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.146, NavPress

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• Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

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  Character, Holiness, Conformity

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.75, Tyndale House

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• This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

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  Secret, Favors, Spirit

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.98, NavPress

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• To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.

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  Fashion, Encouragement, Adversity

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• Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

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  Christian, Character, Mean

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• Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God.

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  Blessing, Thinking, Discipline

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• In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel (Romans 10:17), so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. It is only in the Scriptures that we find an adequate view of God's relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. It is only from the Scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in adversity.

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  Heart, Adversity, Eye

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• We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

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  Temptation, Grace, Enabling

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• We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

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  Trying, Clean, Slate

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.13, Tyndale House

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• Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

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  Mind, Obedience, Natural

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

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• God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

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  Work Out, Way, God's Plan

  Jerry Bridges (1990). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

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  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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