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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

John Calvin

It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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Believe Creation Election God Himself World
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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Heart Myself Yourself
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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Belief God Man Ourselves
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.
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Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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