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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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• 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 God’s Unfailing Love”, p.59, Tyndale House

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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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• That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

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  Powerful, Suffering, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.243, NavPress

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• God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

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  Desire, Doe, Needs

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

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• Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.

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  Attitude, Biblical, Love Is

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

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

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  Responsibility, Doe, Praying

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.111, NavPress

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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 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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• It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

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  Doubt, Important, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.15, NavPress

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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