Jerry Bridges - The Pursuit of Holiness (1978)

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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.

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There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

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The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.

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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

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

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As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

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God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is through memorizing Scripture. David said, "I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You" (Psm. 119:11).

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

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When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

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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.

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Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

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True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.

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Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

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Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

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Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

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When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

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As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

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As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

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Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

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In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God's judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

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