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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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• In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

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  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

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  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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• Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God.

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  Blessing, Thinking, Discipline

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• Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

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  Christian, Should, Treats

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.181, NavPress

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• The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

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  Lying, Believe, Biblical

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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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• 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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• 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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• Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

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  Mind, Obedience, Natural

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, 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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• Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.

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  Important

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.106, Tyndale House

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• God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

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  Children, Pain, Son

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.169, NavPress

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• The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.

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  Hurt, Grace, Forgiving

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.27, 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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• The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Home, Giving

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• In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.

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  Perseverance, Pain, Order

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.111, NavPress

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• We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

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  Trying, Clean, Slate

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.13, Tyndale House

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• God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

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  Action, Gods Will, Accord

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.72, NavPress

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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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• 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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• In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense. And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing the message of the gospel (Romans 10:17), so the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone. It is only in the Scriptures that we find an adequate view of God's relationship to and involvement in our painful circumstances. It is only from the Scriptures, applied to our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in adversity.

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  Heart, Adversity, Eye

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

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  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

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  Exercise, Law, Motive

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.55, Tyndale House

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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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