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Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification
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R.C. Sproul
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
We neither surrender to the world nor flee from the world. We are to penetrate the world with a new and different spirit.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? Every Christian should have a passion to please God. We are to delight in honoring Him. It should be our greatest desire to please our Redeemer.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
Regeneration is the beginning of a journey. It is a journey with successes and failures, with growth amid stumbling. At times, the progress seems painfully slow, but progress is there.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
When God quickens a human soul, He does it immediately. When I say "immediately,
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
In this life, we need the second touch of Christ. Indeed, we require a third, fourth, fifth, and continual touch. Though the scales are removed from our eyes, we still need to be led by the hand of Jesus.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
Regeneration does not take place in stages. It is instantaneous. It is accomplished by one touch of the Holy Spirit on our souls. It is a sovereign work, a thoroughly effective work accomplished by the immediate power of the omnipotence of God. Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death. Only God can quicken the human soul.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
To seek God is a lifelong pursuit.
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They are seeking the benefits of God. Natural humanity's sin is precisely this: wanting the benefits of God without God Himself.
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we need to learn to "read with a comb"-that is, developing a value system that gives us the ability to be critical of what we study. Here the word critical does not mean approaching our studies with a negative attitude. It means being cautious and discerning.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes what He starts. He does not abort His handiwork in the middle of its creation.
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Pleasing God: Discovering the
There is a poisonous doctrine-one that dies hard in Christian circles-called the doctrine of perfectionism. It teaches that some people have already attained spiritual perfection in this world. Those who teach this doctrine promise a "second work of grace," a "second blessing" of instant sanctification. Turn away from such teachers.
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