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Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

Judah Smith

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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Affirmation Goal God Himself Hurry Love Priority Protection
We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
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Abandonment God InterAction Kindness Need People Right
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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Choice Difficult Hope Situation Trap
Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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Cheap Himself Pay Sacrifice Try
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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Embrace Eyes Grace Motivational Right Sin
Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.
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Depend Ourselves Performance Present Right
It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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Goodness Grace Ourselves True
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Care Himself Scandal
Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.
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God Image Life People Style Understand Willing
The common denominator is that we all need help.
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Help Kindness Need Requirement
Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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Person Personally Private Public
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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Concept Goodness Opinion People Shape Yourself
A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Father Follow Myself Way
It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.
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Definition Himself Interest Level People Understand
We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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God Himself Judgement
Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Appeal God Sin Yourself

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