How to Preach the Gospel to Yourself - Jerry Bridges
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Preaching the gospel to yourself is an incredibly important spiritual discipline. If you're wondering how to preach the gospel to yourself, watch author and theologian Jerry Bridges teach on the topic. Jerry Bridges is the author of books The Pursuit of Holiness, The Discipline of Grace, Respectable Sins, True Community, Transforming Grace, and Trusting in God.
The beloved Jerry Bridges went to be with the Lord on March 6, 2016 after suffering from heart failure. Until his final day, Jerry was spending himself for the gospel, visiting churches and teaching God’s people what it means to preach the gospel to themselves. He made one such visit to The Orchard Evangelical Free Church, where Pastor Colin Smith is senior pastor.
If you’ve become discouraged by your Christian life; if you often feel the weight of condemnation; if you think God has a low opinion of you or is often frustrated by your efforts; if you believe your good works get you higher marks on his judgment scale, you need to preach the gospel to yourself!
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Jerry begins speaking at 6:00
It is so inspirational how he served the Lord and continued learning from scripture until the day he left this earth to go meet Him. One of a kind man of God.
6:10 Jerry Bridges begins speaking. "The gospel is the mainspring of the Christian life, but it has to be wound every day." Thank you , Jesus, that you died for all my sins. Help me to not build my theology on my emotions, my feelings of unworthiness and failure, or even my 'victories,' but alone on what you have done on the cross.
What an inspiration!
What a beautiful man… The first book I’ve ever read front to back was “Pursuit of Holiness”… I read it in one sitting and it blessed me tremendously… Glory to God!!!
I absolutely love his book 'Transforming Grace'. It has been real blessing in my life.
That's funny I just sat down with it
What a woderfull man. His book, "disciplines of grace" is a great read. He was truly a good and faithfull servant.
I lovely short read! It’s part of my collection as well. Highly recommend
Wonderful explanation of the Gospel.
Thank you for explaining this. This is a topic that interested me as soon as I heard the term and I've been trying to learn more.
I love to sit at his feet!
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing.
he was such a sweet man.
Soli deo gloria
My life verse changes for every season. But I like Acts 4:12 and Genesis 50:20
Thanks for Sharing! Love to hear the messages of Late Jerry Bridges who had good revelation on the Word of God! 🙏
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Jesus forgives our past sins when we accept the cross and redemption plan of God GOD then expects us to journey towards forgiving others There is a journey of transformation towards HOLINESS and GODLINESS thru the power of the finished work of the cross and the Holy Spirit Following Jesus brings us back to our original design. We were made In the image and likeness of God back in the garden of eden
Por favor coloquem legenda em português e seria melhor ainda dublado
It has Portuguese subtitles now.
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May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, amen.
What church is this?
1 John 3:9: “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.” The practice of sin is the evidence and confirmation that one is not born of God. Doing confirms being. Not practicing sin is the evidence and confirmation
of being born again.
First John 2:1: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” In other words, John does not assume that if you sin, you are not born again. He assumes that if you sin, you have an Advocate, Jesus Christ. And only those who are born again have this Advocate.
John 17:15-18 I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” So we are to be in the world as Jesus was in the world, yet also not to be of the world, even as Jesus was not of the world. The way to keep this fine balance is to be sanctified (set apart) by God’s Word of truth.
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah died for his people! God resurrected the Messiah! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Matt 24
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
As good and as humbling as it may sound- I believe it's not biblically right for saved believers to still consider themselves "a practicing sinner" as Jerry is teaching. If I remain a practicing sinner, 1 John 3: 9, after I've been saved then Jesus didn't and couldn't do a complete job at saving me from my sin Matthew 1:21. He/she is not a Christian who is living in or is practicing sin. Sin should be "accidental" for the believer, not a practice! I beg to differ with Jerry (may his soul rest in peace) on this.
I don't think he meant it the way you're imaging.
I believe that Jerry was illustrating the posture of the tax collector-not saying “practice” as in ongoing deliberate, unrepentant sin, but the posture that rehearses, “I come to you Lord, a sinner, approaching boldly the throne of grace.”
@@erikpreston2393 the tax collector was a sinner. In our bid to sound "humble" we end up making statements that are sincerely "unbiblical". Many Christians like to say "we are all sinners". with the intention of being "humble" and acknowledging that we sin sometimes. A christian who sins is not a sinner, in the same way a sinner who does one good deed is not a saint. A christian is a saint- The righteousness of God in Christ, I believe seeing ourselves the way scripture states and God calls us, is more humbling and honest. Can anyone help me find biblical proof for believers to still call themselves sinners? It's different when you say we all sin sometimes but to say "I am a sinner" even after you've believed in Christ, is not scriptural no matter how humbling it might sound to people. It's not pride to know and acknowledge your place in Christ. Of all the names, in scripture given to the believer- Not Once is he/she called a "sinner".
@@rodbrown8306 i think so too but it's common knowledge that many Christians like making this statement "we are all sinners". It may sound humbling but is it scriptural? that's my question. If it's not scriptural, why do we keep saying it?
@@savedberean254 points well taken. Thank you. I think Jerry would definitely assent to this as well, our positional relationship--again, I get the hunch that he was speaking about posture... something helpful to him to start out his day. His book has been a real blessing, as has this wonderful talk he gave. Much like Spurgeons short prayer before he would take the pulpit, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner."