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• ‟ Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

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• ‟ Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

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• ‟ Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

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• ‟ The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

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• ‟ An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

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• ‟ When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself.

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• ‟ God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.

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• ‟ The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

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• ‟ Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

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• ‟ Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

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• ‟ My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

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• ‟ When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

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• ‟ Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

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• ‟ When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

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• ‟ I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

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• ‟ In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

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• ‟ God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

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• ‟ There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

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• ‟ The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

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• ‟ The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

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• ‟ We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

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• ‟ For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.

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• ‟ Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.

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• ‟ In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

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