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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

Timothy Keller

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Attractive Cross Down Give Jesus Look Myself Think
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Attach Comit Faith Faithful Love
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Destroy Fire God Himself Refine Suffering Walk
In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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Astonished Before Fear Joyful Language Lord Mean Original Sustain Wonderful
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Accuse Cause Look Our Satan Savior Sin
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Bad Good Jesus Lot One People Think
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Both Cost Destroy Grace Grasp Infinitely Need Ridicule Righteousness Save Self Sinner Unworthy
Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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King Like Plan Priest Prophet Think
The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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Able Against Bible Break Jesus Christ Overcome Purpose Save Sin
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Basic Good Jesus Life Live Morality Most Person Premise Religion Upright Wrong
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Done Jesus Make Proud Religion
So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic

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