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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your self-sufficiency.
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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
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I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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