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How We Change?

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Or, specifically, how we can be sanctified or holy:

“If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain–we must begin with Christ.  We must go to Him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on Him by faith…If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.”  — J.C. Ryle in You Can Change by Tim Chester (p.44)

Chester helpfully summarizes this as “We become Christians by faith in Jesus, we stay Christians by faith in Jesus and we grow as Christians by faith in Jesus.”

Today, if there’s something in your life you’d like to change ever and only look to Jesus for help.

1st vs. 2nd…

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J.C. Ryle, from his Commentary on Mark, p.210…
“The second coming in Christ will be utterly unlike the first. He came the first time in weakness, a tender infant born of a poor woman in the manger at Bethlehem, unnoticed, unhonored, and scarcely known. He will come the second time in royal dignity, with the armies of heaven around Him, to be known, recognized and feared by all the tribes of the earth. He came the first time to suffer – to bear our sins – to be reckoned a curse – to be despised, rejected, unjustly condemned and slain. He will come the second time to reign – to put down every enemy under His feet – to take the kingdoms of this world for His inheritance – to rule them with righteousness – to judge everybody, and to live forevermore.”