Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
JUDAH SMITHGrace is God-given power to live differently.
More Judah Smith Quotes
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Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.
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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
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The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
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When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.
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Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.
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Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.
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Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
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