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May 26, 2008 · He says, “Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy.”. He substitutes joy for faith. And he says, “My apostolic vocation is to labor for your joy.”. And he’s just called it faith. 2. Believing is Receiving. John 1:11–12: “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
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When I entered the Christian life, I had no idea I was walking into war. I felt, at first, like a man parachuting over the glories of salvation — finally awake to Christ, finally safe from sin, finally headed for heaven. But soon I landed in a country I didn’t recognize, amid a fight I wasn’t ready for. The conflict, of course, was within me. I had...
Then came Ryle. In a chapter simply and aptly titled “The Fight,” he proved to me, with arresting intensity, that “true Christianity is a fight” (66), and every saint a soldier. “Where there is grace, there will be conflict,” he wrote with his manly matter-of-factness. “There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to hav...
If “the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh” (Galatians 5:17), then what could be more normal than for Christians to feel divided, split, torn asunder in our inner being — or as Ryle says, to feel that we have “two principles within us, contending for the mastery” (72)? As long as we carr...
The Christian fight is not just any war, but the best war the world has ever known. “Let us settle it in our minds that the Christian fight is a good fight — really good, truly good, emphatically good,” says Ryle (80). Yes, the war is fierce. The battle sometimes beats and bloodies us. At our lowest, we can feel tempted to despair. Even still, oh h...
Romans 6:11-12. To fight the good fight of faith means that we stand firmly anchored in the word in the power of the Spirit, reckoning ourselves dead to our feelings and our human reasoning, not letting sin rule in our mortal body by obeying its lusts. We have to do what Jesus says: Take up our cross daily and deny ourselves.
Fighting the Good Fight of Faith. Fighting the good fight of faith and living a life worthy of our calling doesn't mean that we should strive for our salvation and attempt to earn it. No, we'll never ever earn it. Only Christ's atoning sacrifice is able to provide salvation for us, and satisfy the requirements for our forgiveness.
Jun 23, 2023 · 4. Wait with hope (Jude 1:21). To contend for the faith, we must keep the fire of hope alive in our hearts. When Jude says to wait “expectantly for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life,” he is referring to living every moment of life with the confident expectation that Jesus Christ may return at any moment (Titus 2:13 ...
Nov 24, 2021 · Men of Faith Are Men Who Fight. Men professing faith in Christ have been walking away from him since the church began. “Some have made shipwreck of their faith,” the apostle Paul reports in his first letter to Timothy. In fact, the language of leaving is all over 1–2 Timothy: men were wandering away from the faith, departing from the ...
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May 31, 2018 · The word “good is from kalos, meaning intrinsically good—noble, excellent, or virtuous.” 1 This battle is good and virtuous. John MacArthur said this about the Christians’ good fight: There is the duty to God and the church of Jesus Christ to motivate the embattled preacher—and the knowledge that it is the noblest warfare in all the ...
