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• Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

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  Jesus, Giving Up, Commitment

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.72, NavPress

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• Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

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  Trusting Him, Results, Gods Will

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

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• God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.

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  Responsibility, Giving, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.49, Tyndale House

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• If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.

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  Son, Sacrifice, Looks

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.143, NavPress

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• God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

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  Christian, Wisdom, Suffering

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.185, NavPress

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• ...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

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  Responsibility, Doe, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.41, NavPress

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• Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.

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  Mean, Desire, Use

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• The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

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  Hero, Promise, Pathways

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• If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

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  Believe, Adversity, Work Out

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Trusting God”, p.23, NavPress

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• May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

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  May, Sin, Subtle

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Respectable Sins”, p.121, NavPress

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• The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

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  Temptation, Firsts, Goodness

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• The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and...want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Years

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• Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

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  Real, Heart, Doe

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• It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

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  Degrees, Circumstances, Difficulty

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.38, Tyndale House

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• As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

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  Hatred, Holiness, Sin

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.15, NavPress

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• God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

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  His Love, Failing, Christ

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.149, NavPress

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• Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

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  Exercise, Mind, Looks

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• Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

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  Biblical, Community, Firsts

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia”, p.7, Tyndale House

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• Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

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  Evil, Sovereign, Rulers

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• We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

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  Wrath, Justice, Might

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• In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon, 'but I propose and dispose too.' How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.

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  Army, Men, Thinking

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• The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

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  Use, Holiness, Spirit

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.30, NavPress

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• Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

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  True Joy, Joy, Holiness

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.90, Tyndale House

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• Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

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  World, Godliness

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• The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

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  Christian, Glorifying God, Glory

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