How Can I Change?: Victory in the Struggle Against Sin"Originally titled From glory to glory"--T.p. verso. |
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... show himself strong on behalf of all whose hearts are fully his . Our goal in introducing the doctrine of sanctification ( that's the best we could hope to do in a book this size ) is that we might be conformed to the image of Jesus ...
... show himself strong on behalf of all whose hearts are fully his . Our goal in introducing the doctrine of sanctification ( that's the best we could hope to do in a book this size ) is that we might be conformed to the image of Jesus ...
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... show us the great gap between what we are counted or reckoned to be in Christ ( justification ) and what we are actually in ourselves in daily living ( sanctification ) in order to urge us to close the gap ... Paul's purpose is to urge ...
... show us the great gap between what we are counted or reckoned to be in Christ ( justification ) and what we are actually in ourselves in daily living ( sanctification ) in order to urge us to close the gap ... Paul's purpose is to urge ...
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... shows how various branches of the Church have handled this issue in the past , but let's see what we can learn about this essential doctrine as it applies to us today . The biblical meaning of the word sanctify is " to set apart ; For ...
... shows how various branches of the Church have handled this issue in the past , but let's see what we can learn about this essential doctrine as it applies to us today . The biblical meaning of the word sanctify is " to set apart ; For ...
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... show the contrast between our efforts and God's ? ( See Genesis 21 : 1-13 and Romans 9 : 6-9 ) ask " How can this be ? " , it's unlikely we have fully understood the mystery and miracle of regeneration . Nothing to Contribute What Jesus ...
... show the contrast between our efforts and God's ? ( See Genesis 21 : 1-13 and Romans 9 : 6-9 ) ask " How can this be ? " , it's unlikely we have fully understood the mystery and miracle of regeneration . Nothing to Contribute What Jesus ...
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... shows that regeneration has made us incapable of continuing to sin . John's meaning in this passage , according to Anthony Hoekema , is that the Christian " does not keep on doing and enjoying sin , with complete abandon ... [ H ] e or ...
... shows that regeneration has made us incapable of continuing to sin . John's meaning in this passage , according to Anthony Hoekema , is that the Christian " does not keep on doing and enjoying sin , with complete abandon ... [ H ] e or ...
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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.