Jerry Bridges Quotes - Page 6

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• Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.

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  Moving, Trials, His Love

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.179, NavPress

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• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

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  Religious, Real, Practice

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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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  Doe, Obedience, Worthy

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.100, NavPress

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• ... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way.

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  Perseverance, Character, Long

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

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  Practice, Drawing, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.83, NavPress

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• No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

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  Christian, Father, Details

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.24, Tyndale House

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

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  Forgiveness, Jesus, Mean

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• Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.

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  Prayer, Love Is, Expression

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.105, Tyndale House

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• Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

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  Pathways, Holiness, Obedience

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

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• Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

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  Character, Godly, Reality

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.54, NavPress

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

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  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

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  Christian, Holiness, Spirit

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• Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

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  Blessing, Two, Feet

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• The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

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  Christian, Discipline, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.125, NavPress

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• Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

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  Degrees, Christ, Smallest

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• There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

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  Commitment, Temptation, Victory

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.74, NavPress

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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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  Biblical, Community, Important

  Jerry Bridges (1992). “The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fellowship”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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• The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

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  Christian, Levels, Determined

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.70, Tyndale House

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• Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

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  Jesus, Giving Up, Commitment

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.72, NavPress

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• Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

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  Trusting Him, Results, Gods Will

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

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• God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

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  Responsibility, Giving, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.49, Tyndale House

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• If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.

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  Son, Sacrifice, Looks

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.143, NavPress

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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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  Christian, Wisdom, Suffering

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.185, NavPress

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• Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.

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  Attitude, Heart, Humble

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.222, NavPress

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