Jerry Bridges Quotes - Page 6

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• Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

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  Responsibility, Practice, Community

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• Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

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  Christian, World, Body

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• God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain

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  Pain, Heart, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Is God Really In Control?: Trusting God in a World of Hurt”, p.39, Tyndale House

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• Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.

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  Jesus, Motivation, Two

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.26, Tyndale House

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• God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in out lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never overtrains by allowing too much adversity into our lives.

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  Teacher, Adversity, Son

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• We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.

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  Believe, Thinking, Individual

  Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

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  Christian, Father, Details

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.24, Tyndale House

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• Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.

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  Jesus, Children, Water

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• Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

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  Sunshine, Sky, Guilt

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• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

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  Religious, Real, Practice

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• God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

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  Doe, Obedience, Worthy

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.100, NavPress

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• ... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

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  Practice, Drawing, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.83, NavPress

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

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  Forgiveness, Jesus, Mean

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• Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.

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  Prayer, Love Is, Expression

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.105, Tyndale House

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• Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

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  Pathways, Holiness, Obedience

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

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• Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

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  Character, Godly, Reality

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.54, NavPress

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

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  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Hands

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• Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

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  Blessing, Two, Feet

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• The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

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  Christian, Discipline, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.125, NavPress

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• Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

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  Fighting, Battle, Tools

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

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• Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

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  Degrees, Christ, Smallest

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• The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

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  Christian, Levels, Determined

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.70, Tyndale House

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• A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

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  Biblical, Community, Important

  Jerry Bridges (1992). “The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fellowship”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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