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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 340-341 | Adicionado em sábado, 29 de novembro de 2014 10:08:31

point should be made about divine beauty: God is the only place true beauty is found. There simply is nowhere else and no one else who has it. All true beauty in the universe is found either in
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 340-341 | Adicionado em sábado, 29 de novembro de 2014 10:08:37

point should be made about divine beauty: God is the only place true beauty is found. There simply is nowhere else and no one else who has it. All true beauty in the universe is found either in God himself or in the direct reflection of God.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 632-636 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 17:47:43

But in essence the beginning of the Christian life is a sovereignly granted explosion of new life, a change so radical, carrying with it such a break with the past, that it is nothing less than a second birth. In the new birth we are, for the first time, alive to beauty. This is unsettling to us, even frightening, because it rests solely in the hands of God. Yet it is refreshingly liberating too, because it affirms what our hearts know: true and lasting transformation cannot come from any humanly wrought strategies or efforts. We can’t change ourselves.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 651-653 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 17:49:54

New Birth Is Necessary It is “absolutely necessary for everyone,” says Edwards, “that he be regenerated, or born again.”
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 666-667 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 17:53:15

The great distinction between sinners is not between those who need new birth and those who do not, for all need it; the great distinction is between those who know they need it and those who do not. Jesus
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 668-669 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 17:53:35

New Birth Changes Us
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 700-700 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 23:29:42

New Birth Is Completely a Work of God
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 734-735 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 23:35:31

New Birth Does Not Perfect Us
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 732-733 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 23:35:50

It was God and God alone who gave us new life, and it is God and God alone who will sustain us in that new life. Those who have been given new birth “are a soil in which this heavenly seed has been sown and in which it abides.”
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 743-744 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 23:37:33

Edwards goes on to explain that it is not the absence of sin that is the key mark of regeneration but the hatred of it.28 Sin dwells, but no longer reigns, in believers.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 751-751 | Adicionado em domingo, 30 de novembro de 2014 23:38:28

New Birth Is the Source of Real Joy
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 806-808 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 00:14:14

The purpose of regeneration is to make us spiritual people, those who live and walk by the Spirit. This life is a life of intimate communion with God in Christ. Though believers are made new creatures in Christ, this does not mean that their created nature is qualitatively transformed.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 808-810 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 00:14:21

Believers remain fully human, fully created image-bearers of God as in the beginning. As in creation itself, no new substance enters into the world with redemption; the creature is liberated from sin’s futility and bondage. Sin is not of the essence of creation but its deformity; Christ is not a second Creator but creation’s Redeemer. Salvation is the restoration of creation and the reformation of life.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1103-1103 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 00:34:01

Love Sums Up the Entire Christian Life
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1102-1102 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 00:34:05

We move, then, to considering seven core axioms that draw out Edwards’s magnificent vision of love in the Christian life.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1106-1107 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 00:34:22

“the greatest and most essential thing, and indeed the sum of all that is essential, distinguishing and saving in Christianity, and . . . the very life and soul of all religion.”
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1137-1137 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 07:48:41

Christian Love Lies beneath Every Other Virtue
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1237-1241 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 11:33:09

He who loves money is influenced by his love of that enjoyment in his practice, and kept in continual pursuit of it. And he who loves honor is governed in his practice by that. His actions through the course of his life are regulated by such a principle. And so lovers of carnal pleasures; how they pursue after them in their practice! And so also he who truly loves God is influenced by that in his practice; he earnestly seeks God in the course of his life, seeks his favor and acceptance, and seeks his glory.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1271-1272 | Adicionado em segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2014 11:36:32

Love without truth is rootless. Truth without love is lifeless. Neither is true Christianity.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1333 | Adicionado em terça-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2014 00:20:30


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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1602-1603 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2014 00:38:34

The Father is the sun itself, the Son is the brightness of the sun, and the Spirit is the warmth of the sun.12
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1740-1744 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2014 02:27:51

And at that glorious appearing of the great God, and our Savior Jesus Christ, shall the whole elect church, complete as to every individual member and each member with the whole man, both body and soul, and both in perfect glory, ascend up to meet the Lord in the air, to be thenceforth forever with the Lord. That will be a joyful meeting of this glorious bridegroom and bride indeed. Then the bridegroom will appear in all his glory without any veil: and then the saints shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father, and at the right hand of their Redeemer.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1874 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2014 02:33:26


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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2334-2335 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2014 02:17:15

“Show me the condition of your Bible,” wrote A. W. Tozer, “and I will accurately predict the condition of your soul.”
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2473-2474 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2014 02:29:34

Prayer is God the Holy Spirit bringing us to commune with God the Father through God the Son. Far
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2497-2499 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2014 02:34:40

But Edwards saw the vastly greater significance of what is happening to us on the inside versus what is happening to us on the outside, and the strange way we tend to treat the two in inverse proportion to their eternal significance when we pray.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2891-2893 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2014 01:45:03

All these church leaders of the past have pointed out that there are not two ways to live (obedient and disobedient) but three: disobedient, sullenly obedient, and joyfully obedient. And, of course, since we are commanded to obey joyfully, sullen obedience is in fact disobedience.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2896-2897 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2014 02:03:38

real obedience is living out of a new sense of the heart, in which God and holiness now appear beautiful rather than ugly.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2929-2930 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2014 02:09:34

Obedience is fruit, not root. Obedience Is Required
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu marcador ou posição 3050 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 12 de dezembro de 2014 22:56:56


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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 3077-3078 | Adicionado: sábado, 13 de dezembro de 2014 01:22:13

Both sin and obedience consist in doing what we want to do. What makes the difference is whether we are alive to the beauty of God or not.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 3095-3095 | Adicionado: sábado, 13 de dezembro de 2014 01:26:16

Real obedience is freely doing what we now love to do, not forcing our wills to do something we are loathe to do.
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Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Theologians on the Christian Life) (Ortlund, Dane C.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 3645-3662 | Adicionado: sábado, 13 de dezembro de 2014 21:03:46

Edwards makes five points. First, heaven is a world of love because God is there. “Heaven is the palace, or presence-chamber, of the Supreme Being who is both the cause and source of all holy love.”8 The point is not that heaven is a lovely place and God is there too; heaven is lovely because God is there. Because God is “a full and overflowing and an inexhaustible fountain of love,” God fills heaven with love the same way the sun fills a cloudless day with light. Second, there is nothing unlovely there, and everything in this world that is a mixture of loveliness and unloveliness will be purged of the unloveliness so that only what is beautiful and pure remains.9 Third, moving from the objects of heavenly love to its subjects, the love that is in heaven pours forth from God himself, especially to his own dear Son and then also to the saints.10 Believers are caught up into the never-ending, calm explosion of love transpiring between the Father and the Son, love that is itself the Holy Spirit.11 Edwards then, fourth, considers the love itself.12 Here we find some of the most beautiful reflection on heaven the church has ever been given. Edwards explains that while the saints will have different degrees of glory, this will be no problem—for heaven is a world of love. Those in lower places in glory will not envy those in higher places, but due to their perfect love those in lower stations will actually be perfectly delighted on behalf of those above them. They would have it no other way. And those above them will know no condescension, because they too will be perfectly full of love, looking with exquisite joyous delight on those in lower stations. The beauty of this confounds us because we do not have a category for such a sin-free delight in one another. Yet this love for one another is what makes heaven heaven. Fifth and finally, Edwards reflects on the “circumstances in which love shall be expressed and enjoyed”—such as the way in which perfect love is always mutual: the saints expressing their love for Christ to their hearts’ content, and Christ