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• The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.

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  Christian, Effort, Degrees

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

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• Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

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  Debt, Sin, Possibility

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• One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

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  God, Religious, Jesus

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• If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

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  Heart, Needs, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.21, NavPress

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

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  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

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  Character, Holiness, Conformity

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.75, Tyndale House

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• God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

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  Work Out, Way, God's Plan

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

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• To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.

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  Fashion, Encouragement, Adversity

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• Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we would trust God when decisions of government in our own country go against our best interests, we must pray for His working in the hearts of those officials and legislators who make those decisions. The truth that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord is meant to be a stimulus to prayer, not a stimulus to a fatalistic attitude.

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  Country, Brother, Kings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.81, NavPress

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• We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

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  Temptation, Grace, Enabling

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• Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

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  Cutting, Two, Broken

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• I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

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  Adversity, Choices, Feelings

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.52, NavPress

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• Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

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  Feelings, Matter, Trust In God

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.52, NavPress

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• We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

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  Prayer, Would Be, Cupboards

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.212, NavPress

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• Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.

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  Wrath, Cups, Exhausted

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• Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.

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  Christian, Attitude, Weather

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.99, NavPress

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• The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

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  Grace, Holiness, Pursuit

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.10, Tyndale House

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• We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

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  Law, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.54, Tyndale House

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• Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

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  Guilt, May, Christ

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• Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

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  Character, Holiness, Conformity

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.52, NavPress

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• How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

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  Christian, Godly, Becoming

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.87, Tyndale House

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• We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

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  Heart, Grieving, Victory

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.15, Tyndale House

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• Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

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  Two, Grace, Favors

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.98, NavPress

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• This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

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  Essence, Independence, Empires

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.33, NavPress

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• We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.

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  Spiritual, Acceptance, Guilt

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