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2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Rom.8:16-17, 32
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory… He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
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With all this limitless resource to inherit in this life (resources of the Bible, of the Spirit, of the community of believers), why then, O why, do we settle for minimum spirituality? These scriptures just quoted shatter all our excuses for carnal Christianity and explode all our feeble bumper-sticker excuses on bumper-sticker evangelism: "Christians are not perfect, just forgiven." Some backslider must have written that one.
Leonard Ravenhill, What Do I Still Lack?
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