Jerry Bridges Quotes
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The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
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We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.
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God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.
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Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will.
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
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We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.
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We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
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Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
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I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.
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The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontentment is - a questioning of the goodness of God.
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No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.
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But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.
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We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.
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The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.
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Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.
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Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.
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As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.
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Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.
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To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.
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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
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Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
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Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.