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The unwillingness of others to repent will not hold the saints hostage. Hell cannot blackmail heaven into misery.
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Faith in God’s promises must be so real that the love it produces proves the reality of the faith.
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Saknas det avsnitt?
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What can sustain the will to die for others, when you are innocent? Jesus banked on love and future joy.
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The experience of future grace often depends on whether we will take refuge in God, or whether we will run for cover to other shelters.
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There is a fear that is slavish and drives us away from God, and there is a fear that is sweet and draws us to God.
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What’s at stake in fleeing covetousness and fighting for contentment in future grace is eternal life.
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Whenever we sense the slightest rise of covetousness in our hearts, we must turn on it and fight it with all our might using the weapons of faith.
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God is glorified when the power to be holy comes from humble faith in future grace.
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The fight for good works is a fight to believe in future grace. Therefore, learning to fight for holiness by faith in future grace is supremely important.
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. Faith embraces God — not just his promised gifts — as our treasure.
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Grace is not simply the pardon of our sins; it is the power to press on in obedience. We trust in God’s ever-arriving gracious power to enable us to do what we should.
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When we hear God’s promises and trust him with courage, fearing the reproach brought upon God by our unbelief, then he is greatly honored.
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Prayer ascribes to God the right and honor to be the free and sovereign God that he is to choose and to save sinners.
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The prayer of the upright that delights God comes from a heart that at first feels precarious in the presence of God. It trembles at his word.
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The Lord is pleased not by those who treat him as a needy watering trough, but as an inexhaustible, all-satisfying spring.
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With God the honeymoon never ends. He is infinite in power and wisdom and creativity so that there will be no boredom for the next trillion ages of millenniums.
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God’s anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but his mercy has a hair trigger. He is infinitely energetic with unbounded and unending enthusiasm to do us good.
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God did not spare his own Son, because it was the only way he could spare us and still be a just and holy God.
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Not only are spiritual gifts a work of God’s free grace in our lives, but so also is the very faith with which we use those gifts.
- Visa fler
