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Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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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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The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional (I feel full of worship or The atmosphere is so worshipful). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
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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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God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual fix for the day.
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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
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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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Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
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The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
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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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There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
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The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
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Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you
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How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
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Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
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The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
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God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
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