Chapters 1 + 2
According to Bridges, your word days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of "this".
What is God's grace?
In discussing the content of the Gospel, Bridges centers his discussion on this chapter of the Bible.
What is Romans 3?
For Bridges, discipleship and discipline is not a matter of performance but must be based in God's this.
What is grace?
Bridges says that in reading Deuteronomy, a key way in which we love God is to do this.
What is to obey his commands?
The commitment to holiness is not just a commitment to refrain from doing things for one's own self-esteem but to develop Christ-like virtues and to commit to who?
What is to God?
This word is what Bridges thinks that we should hear as believers after we have received the Gospel.
What is discipleship?
This feature of Jesus is imputed to us in a real sense and not just a "legal fiction" according to Bridges.
What is righteousness?
What is share it?
In contrast to race-drive obedience, Bridges uses this feature of a car to illustrate a wrong approach to obeying God that is set to our comfort level.
What is cruise control?
Bridges recommends that in addition to making a general commitment to be pursue holiness, it is also helpful to do this.
What is to list specific areas of temptation?
Bridges points to these two feelings/attitudes as pitfalls in the Christian life.
What is self-righeousness and guilt?
According to Bridges, while we are saved by faith alone, it is not faith that has merit. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by God's this through faith.
What is grace?
The following lines are from this famous puritan book by Bunyan: Run, John, run. The law commands/ But gives niether feet nor hands./ Better news the gospel brings;/It bids me fly and gives me wings.
What is The Pilgrim's Progress?
The proper motive for obedience is not fear but this.
What is love?
To mediate on God's word "day and night" does not mean literally continually but it does mean doing this instead.
What is to meditate on God's word consistently and habitually?
Bridges belives that this "motivation" which is reinforced by preaching the Gospel to ourselves, is what allows us to live for God and not ourselves.
What is love?
What is propitiation/sacrifice of atonement?
Grace tells us to act. It calls us to have self-control which refers to actions with regard to this, to be upright which refers to actions with regard to this, and to be godly which refers to actions with regard to this.
Who is ourselves, one's neighbor, and God?
What do we need to be reminded of in order to grow in love for God?
What is the gospel?
Bridges says that when Paul tells us to be transformed by the Word of God, this does not mean that we transform ourselves. Instead, it means to do this instead.
This type of sin is the sin of "nice people" that Christians can regularly commit and still retain their positions in the church.
What are refined sins?
This first person is the representative head of humanity and this second person is the representative head of all believers.
Who is Adam and Jesus?
This term is used to refer to a new birth when the principle of spiritual life is planted within us.
What is regeneration?
This term stands for activitides designed to train a person in a particular skill.
What is discipline?
This term means putting sin to death. It is something that we are tasked to do and requires us to say no to desires that are contrary to God's known will.
What is motification?
In addition to love, this positive trait is mentioned over 40 times in the New Testament and is a corrective for pride.
What is humility?
According to Bridges, believers have become dead to the legal reign of sin and its corrupting process because of this bond.
What is union with Christ?
This term is the carrying out of regeneration to its intended end of being transformed like Christ. It is also inseparable from justification.
What is santification?
Rather than a passive approach or the self-discipline approach, Bridges recommends that we take this approach to discipline that is illustrated by Paul's metaphor of farming.
It is through this that we develop holy character.
What are righteous actions?
This seminary professor wrote the following to his son: "I now see that every period of my life has been marked by ... struggle. But the persistence of the failures, together with a growing understanding of the past, has made the struggles of recent years exceptionally intense and painful.
Who is William Carey?
While we are still sinners, Bridges distinguishes the activity of sin which believers still engage in from this state which is common only to unbelievers. (hint: starts with the letter d)
What is the dominion of sin?
Bridges points out that this person is responsible for the transformation that happens through santification
Who is the Holy Spirit?
How do we grow in conscious dependence on Christ?
What is through the discipline of prayer?
Bridges recommends to do these two things as a defense against Satan.
What is to mediate on the Word of God and prayer?
What is sin?
In talking about our status as dead to sin, Bridges uses two "I" words: the indicative and "this". Hint: In his illustration, once a slave is freed, they must also believe that they are no longer a slave and no longer act as if they were a slave.
What is the imperative?
Bridges points out that one means by which we are santificied is to behold this aspect of God.
What is His glory through the Gospel.
In using Nehemiah as an example, Bridges recommends two types of prayers of dependence.
What are planned and unplanned spontanoeus prayers?