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You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
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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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The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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Worship is not something we work up, it is something that comes down to us, from the character of God.
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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...it is theological.
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If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.
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Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
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Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
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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 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 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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Contentment is an undervalued grace.
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The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.
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