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Jerry Bridges Biography

Jerry Bridges (December 4, 1929 – March 6, 2016) was an evangelical Christian author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators. Born in Tyler, Texas, United States, he was the author of more than a dozen books, including The Pursuit of Holiness, which has sold more than one million copies. His devotional Holiness Day By Day garnered the 2009 ECPA Christian Book Award for the inspiration and gift category, and The Discipline of Grace received a similar award in 1995 for the Christian living category.

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Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

Daily, Lives, Ordinary, Scripture, Sovereign

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Contentment, Cure, Envy, God, Jealousy, Sin

God is at work in all the circumstances of your life to bring out the good for you, even if you had never heard of Romans 8:28. His work is not dependent upon your faith. But the comfort and joy that statement is intended to give you is dependent upon your believing it, upon your trusting in Him who is at work, even though you cannot see the outcome of that work.

Believe, Comfort, Comfort And Joy, Faith, Giving, Intended

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

Believe, Doubt, Faith, Son, Union

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

Children, Doe, Majestic, Neighbor, Sin, Spouse

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

Expression, Prayer, Tangible, Trust

Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

Faithful, Practice, Spending, Talking

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

Character, Conformity, Dos, God, Holiness

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Mind, Natural, Obedience, Unreasonable

Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.

Jesus, People, Sin, Purify, God

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Christ, Degrees, Mutually, Smallest

The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

Believe, Biblical, Key, Lying, Preoccupation, Things

Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God. . . Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.

Appreciate, Giving, God, Grace, Infinite, Sinful

Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real. . . There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

Insists, Instances, Practice, Real, Religious, Unspoken

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.

Attitude, Grace, Honesty, Humility, Replace, See

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Fact, Grieving, Heart, Sin, Sins, Victory

Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. " Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.

Direct, God, Grace, Our Relationship, Romans, Way

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate. . . we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

Spiritual, Humble, Humility, Scriptures, Deep, Taught

. . . God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

Court, Disaster, Doe, Holiness, Potential, Responsibility

Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

Give, Giving, Jesus, Life, Peace, Wrath

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