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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
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Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
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If God is not sovereign, God is not God.
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For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
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Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.
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There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
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Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
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If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.
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Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.
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The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there’s no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
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Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
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To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.
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No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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