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" God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. "
John Piper
Known
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God
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" God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity. "
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" It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people. "
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" I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? "
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" Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections. "
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" Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed. "
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" God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that. "
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" God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. "
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" Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! "
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" When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. "
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" Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. "
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You
" Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. "
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First
Strength
" The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. "
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" God tests His people through hardship. "
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Hardship
" The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. "
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Positive
" If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command. "
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Like
" There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. "
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" You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. "
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Authority
Over
" As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do. "
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Truth
" Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. "
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" My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. "
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" God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. "
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" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "
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" You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation. "
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" I want to learn from everybody. "
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" Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls. "
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" You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. "
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