How Can I Change?: Victory in the Struggle Against Sin"Originally titled From glory to glory"--T.p. verso. |
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... faith , doctrine , and practice . Those who resist its authority will be blown off course by their own feelings and cultural trends . □ Knowledge without application is lifeless . In order to be transformed , we must apply and practice ...
... faith , doctrine , and practice . Those who resist its authority will be blown off course by their own feelings and cultural trends . □ Knowledge without application is lifeless . In order to be transformed , we must apply and practice ...
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... faith puts on , must be our only righteousness , the name of Christ our only confidence , the Lamb's book of life our only title to heaven . With all our holi- ness we are no better than sinners . Our best things are stained and tainted ...
... faith puts on , must be our only righteousness , the name of Christ our only confidence , the Lamb's book of life our only title to heaven . With all our holi- ness we are no better than sinners . Our best things are stained and tainted ...
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... faith and knowledge to goodness until self - control , perseverance , godliness , brotherly kindness , and love are had in abundant measure ( 2Pe 1 : 5-9 ) . He warns that when these are lacking , a per- son may forget ... ... that he ...
... faith and knowledge to goodness until self - control , perseverance , godliness , brotherly kindness , and love are had in abundant measure ( 2Pe 1 : 5-9 ) . He warns that when these are lacking , a per- son may forget ... ... that he ...
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... faith . These must characterize our response to regeneration , and they are essential to conversion and our ongoing sanctification . But from my perspective they are the result of the new birth , not the cause . Theologian A.A. Hodge ...
... faith . These must characterize our response to regeneration , and they are essential to conversion and our ongoing sanctification . But from my perspective they are the result of the new birth , not the cause . Theologian A.A. Hodge ...
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... faith , and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me , and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day , and I desire to make this my constant confession , ' I ascribe my change wholly to God.'5 Meditate on Titus 3 : 4-7 ...
... faith , and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me , and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day , and I desire to make this my constant confession , ' I ascribe my change wholly to God.'5 Meditate on Titus 3 : 4-7 ...
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Page 73 - My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand.
Page 96 - For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin -- because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Page 80 - O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 77 - For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Page 95 - About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Page v - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Page 28 - We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death : that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Page 28 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ' God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death...
Page 70 - Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross!
Page 34 - Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.