Failure to deal with the ...

Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ
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 Sinclair B. Ferguson

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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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 Sinclair B. Ferguson
It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find ourselves gripped with anxiety. The secret of freedom from anxiety is freedom from ourselves and abandonment of our own plans. But that spirit emerges in our lives only when our minds are filled with the knowledge that our Father can be trusted implicitly to supply everything we need.
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Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
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 Sinclair B. Ferguson
Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.
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Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
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 Sinclair B. Ferguson