J. D. Greear Quotes
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
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When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
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A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
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Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
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Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria
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Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
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Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
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We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
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It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
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The Gospel Prayer In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more, and nothing I have done that makes You love me less. Your presence and approval are all I need for everlasting joy. As You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
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Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved
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As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
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My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
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Repentance is belief in action.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life - more than money, romance, family, health, fame - and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we'll gladly let everything else go to possess Him.
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Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
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Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
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At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
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God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
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When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
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Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.
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We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
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Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.
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What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
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In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
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Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to heaven because of it even though there is no detectable difference in their lifestyles from those outside of the church. On this issue- the most important issue on earth- we have to be absolutely clear. We need to preach salvation by repentance before God and faith in the finished work of Christ.
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If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
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Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.
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