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Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not on your performance. Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.

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Spiritual, Exercise, Forever

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Preach the gospel to yourself every day.

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Preaching The Gospel

Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.41, Tyndale House

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Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

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Character, Spirit, Virtue

Jerry Bridges (2014). “Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ”, p.30, Tyndale House

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Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

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Practice, Talking, Faithful

Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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God never allows pain without a purpose.

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Pain, Purpose, Romans 8

Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

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God, Religious, Jesus

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Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

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Feelings, Matter, Trust In God

Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.52, NavPress

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Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

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Cutting, Two, Broken

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This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the likeness of His Son by His grace. In all our trials and afflictions, He sustains and strengthens us by His grace. He calls us by grace to perform our own unique function within the Body of Christ. Then, again by grace, He gives to each of us the spiritual gifts necessary to fulfill our calling. As we serve Him, He makes that service acceptable to Himself by grace, and then rewards us a hundredfold by grace.

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Spiritual, Son, Unique

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Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

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Debt, Sin, Possibility

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Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.

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Jesus, People, Sin

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To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.

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Jesus, Acceptance, Grace

Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in Gods Unfailing Love”, p.59, Tyndale House

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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.

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Attitude, Struggle, Heart

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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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Lazy, Body

Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.88, NavPress

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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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People, Grace, God Love

Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.

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Christian, Grace, Should

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Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.

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Heart, Mean, Promise

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The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

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Godly, Focus, Grace

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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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Enterprise

Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day”, p.100, Tyndale House

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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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Self, Spirit, Willpower

Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.57, Tyndale House

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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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Christian, Grateful, Heart

Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.128, Tyndale House

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To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.

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Jesus, Mean, Son

Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.39, NavPress

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We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

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Attitude, Grace, Want

Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.81, NavPress

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God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.

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Believe, Comfort And Joy, Giving

Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.115, NavPress

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The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.

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Christian, Effort, Degrees

Jerry Bridges (1996). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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Born: December 4, 1929
Died: March 6, 2016
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