J. D. Greear Quotes
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True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
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As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
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God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!
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God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
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Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.
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If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.
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Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
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Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
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Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
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The Gospel Prayer
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Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria
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At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
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In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
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Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
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Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
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Repentance is belief in action.
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We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
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My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
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It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
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Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart:
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Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts