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• The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

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  Christian, Father, Son

  Twitter post from Oct 19, 2015

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• One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

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• In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

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  Exercise, Age, Church

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• I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

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  Alive, I Can

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “Knowing Scripture”, p.12, InterVarsity Press

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• Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

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  Men, Fallen, Inclination

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• The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

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  Grace, Our Relationship, Relationship With God

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• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

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  God, Faith, Christian

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• In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

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  Prayer, Why Not, Want

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• Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

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  Fall, Heart, Men

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.199, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Grace and mercy are never deserved.

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  Grace And Mercy, Grace, Mercy

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• The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

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  Views, Choices, Decision

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• It's easy to be an educated fool.

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  Fool, Easy, Educated

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• The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

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  Christ, Righteousness, Justify

  Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017

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• Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

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  Christian, Kingdoms, Speak

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• If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

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  Liars, People, High Standards

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• We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

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  Mother, Baby, Church

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• For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

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  Christian, Organization, Church

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• To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

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  Goal, Existence, Humans

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2016

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• The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

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  Jesus, Perfect, Christ

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016

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• God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

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  Humanity, Deities, Human Nature

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• In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

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  Reality, Events, Doe

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.66, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

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  Anchors, Promise, Today

  Twitter post from May 02, 2016

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• The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

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  Men, Slavery, Irony

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

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  People, Church, Boring

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• Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

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  Grace, Fallen World, Definitions

  R. C. Sproul (2012). “God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children”, p.120, David C Cook

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