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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

D. A. Carson

When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.
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Heart Long People
We are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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Abandoned God Sinner Told
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.
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Hate Liars Wrath
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
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Genuine Liberty Please
Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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Christian Inspired Worship
A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Context Pretext Proof
A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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Courage God Little Love Sympathy
The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
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Fountain Interesting Stories
To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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Father God Knowing Loving Resolution
There’s a change in the heart; there’s a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with.
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Away Change Figure Orientation People
That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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Doe Humble Ought
When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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Believe Christian Mistake
God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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Limitation May People Self
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Moral Want
Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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Archeological Information Often Sunday

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