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Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.
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Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ' no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.
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God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.
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Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
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I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!
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We can never reflect too much on God's grace.
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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
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Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.
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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.
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God made everything else but man after its kind' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
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The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
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You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ
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Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.
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Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.
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