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• God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.

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  Heart, Leaving, Dying

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• Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.

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  Roots, May, Fruit

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• The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

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  Integrity, Reason, Burden

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• Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

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  Grace, Merit, Humans

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• God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.

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  Sweet, Greatness, Depth

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• This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

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  Integrity, Believe, Decision

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• Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.

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  Husband, Jealous, Character

  Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.144, Tyndale House

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• Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.

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  Joy, Enjoy, Enjoyed

  Sam Storms (2013). “The Singing God: Feel the Passion God Has for You...Just the Way You Are”, p.159, Charisma Media

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• A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Hypocrite

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• The Spirit has determined that he will operate through certain means and at certain times and if we sinfully put obstacles or warnings or prohibitions in the way, he may well not do for us what he otherwise would have done.

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  Mean, Done, Spirit

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

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  Satan, God Bless, Curse

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• Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

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  Integrity, Mean, Grace

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• God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

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  Design, Creative, Joy

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• What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).

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  Spiritual, Religious, Hands

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• You need never fear feeling too good about God.

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  Feelings, Needs, Never Fear

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• There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

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  Spiritual, Threat

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together. His glory and your gladness are not separate tracks moving in opposite directions. Rather His glory is in your gladness in Him.

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  Moving, Opposites, Track

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• All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

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  Scripture, Inspired, Revelations

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus.

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  Jesus, Wine, Mean

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• When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There are no rules of temperance or laws requiring moderation or boundaries beyond which we cannot go in seeking to enjoy Him. We need never pause to inquire whether we've crossed a line or become overindulgent. You need never fear feeling too good about God.

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  Spiritual, Law, Feelings

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• Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

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  Rights, Adultery, Stealing

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• The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.

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  Goal, Doxology, Worship

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• God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party!

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  Inspiring, Music, Christian

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• The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

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  Jesus, Essence, Empowering

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• God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from God apart from prayer what he's clearly told us in Scripture will be ours only through prayer.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Scripture

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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