Sermon Quotes on Spiritual Death | The Pastor's Workshop

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Genesis 22:1-14, Exodus 3:1-12 , Isaiah 6:1-8, John 12:24-26, Romans 6:3-11, Psalm 46:10

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we...

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Watchman Nee

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Galatians 5:24, Luke 15:11-32, Acts 9:1-19, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Colossians 3:3-4, Galatians 2:20, Romans 6:6-7

It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to re...

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G. K. Chesterton

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John 19:38-42, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:4, Acts 2:24, Colossians 2:12, Isaiah 53:9, Luke 24:6-7

They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb in his garden the Romans setting a military guard lest there...

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N. T. Wright

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Matthew 28:5-7, John 20:19-20, Acts 2:24, Romans 6:4, Revelation 1:18, Psalm 16:10

There is no form of early Christianity known to us- though there are some that have been invented by ingenious scholars- that does not affirm at its heart that after Jesus’ shameful death God raised h...

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Hans Urs von Balthasar

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2 Corinthians 8:9, Romans 6:4, John 12:24, Galatians 2:20, John 15:13

This total self-giving, to which the Son and the Spirit respond by an equal self-giving, is a kind of “death,” a first, radical “kenosis,” as one might say. It is a kind of “super-death” that is a com...

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C. S. Lewis

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Matthew 16:24-26, Colossians 3:1-3, Romans 8:12-13, Romans 6:18-19, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:5, 2 Timothy 2:3-4, 1 Peter 4:1-2, Luke 9:23, Mark 8:34-38, Luke 14:26-28

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end...

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Robert Farrar Capon

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Genesis 22:1-14, Ezekiel 37:1-14 , Job 1:20-22, John 12:24, Romans 6:3-5, Psalm 30:5

Death is not an eventuality that with luck, waits for another day. It is today’s cup from which God now insists you drink. If you think that somehow you can choose today not to carry the deaths of you...

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R. C. Sproul

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Romans 6:4, Colossians 2:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 11:25-26, Ephesians 2:4-5

God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of...

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Gregory of Nyssa

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John 3:5-8, Titus 3:5-6, Matthew 3:13-17, Romans 6:4, Matthew 3:11, Acts 2:38, John 3:8

For ‘the Spirit breathes where He wills, and thou hearest His voice, but canst not tell whence He cometh or whither He goeth.’ He blesses the body that is baptized, and the water that baptizes. Despis...

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Brennan Manning

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Romans 6:1-2, 2 Corinthians 7:10, Acts 3:19, Isaiah 55:7, Psalm 51:10-12

Many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently all we can do is pretend to believe we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo repentance and pseudo bliss.

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C. S. Lewis

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Matthew 12:36, Ephesians 4:25, Proverbs 6:16-19, Galatians 6:7-8, Romans 6:23

It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into nothing. Murder is no better than lies if lying does the trick.

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N. T. Wright

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Romans 6:null, Acts 9:1-19, Ephesians 2:10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 8:1-11

Romans 6 shines a bright spotlight on the dangerous half-truth, currently fashionable, that ‘God accepts us as we are.’ Will ‘God’s acceptance’ do as a complete grounding of Christian ethics? Emphatic...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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John 4:7-26, John 21:15-19, Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 10:17-22, Matthew 16:24-25, Romans 6:1-2, James 2:17

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace ...

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Barbara Brown Taylor

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John 4:13-14, Romans 6:23, Acts 3:19, Isaiah 59:2, 1 John 1:8-9

Neither the language of medicine nor of law is adequate substitute for the language of [sin.] Contrary to the medical model, we are not entirely at the mercy of our maladies. The choice is to enter in...

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Martin Luther

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John 3:5, Mark 16:16, 1 Peter 3:21, Colossians 2:12, Galatians 3:27, Romans 6:3-4, Acts 2:38

Thus, we must regard baptism and put it to use in such a way that we may draw strength and comfort from it when our sins or conscience oppress us, and say: ‘But I am baptized! And if I have been bapti...

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N. T. Wright

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1 Corinthians 15:20, 1 Peter 1:3, Romans 6:4, Philippians 3:20-21, Colossians 3:1

The resurrection of Jesus is not simply the basis for Christian hope; it redefines the future toward which hope looks.

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Billy Graham

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Proverbs 6:16-19, Psalm 5:4-5, Romans 6:23, Romans 3:23, Colossians 3:5-6, Proverbs 15:9, Psalm 7:11, John 3:36

Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God.... The sinne...

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Eugene H. Peterson

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Titus 3:5-6, John 3:16-17, 1 John 1:9, Ezekiel 36:25-26, Romans 6:23

Defilement is what sin does to us; damnation is what sin introduces as our eternal end. Except for God’s intervention. We have needs, and God addresses our needs. Even our sin, the most destructive re...

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Romans 6:23, John 1:12-13, Ephesians 1:3-10, Ephesians 2:1-10, John 3:3-6, 16-18, Galatians 2:20

The work of salvation is God’s work from beginning to end. He loved us when we were dead, and made us alive in Christ.

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Jeremy Begbie

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Luke 2:34-35 , Philippians 2:8, Isaiah 53:3-5, Hebrews 2:14-15, Isaiah 9:6 , Galatians 4:4-5 , Romans 6:23

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most dangerous feature of our Church and culture-and the senti...

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Francis Chan

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Romans 6:1-2, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 1:9, James 2:14-17

Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

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Stanley Hauerwas

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Colossians 3:5, John 8:34, 2 Peter 2:19, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Romans 6:16

Nothing enslaves more than that which we think we cannot live without.

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Dave Miller

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John 10:28-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:6-7, Galatians 2:20, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 34:17-18, Romans 7:24-25

“What’s wrong with me is me. Somebody needs to pull me from the raging waters I call ‘me.’

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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2 Corinthians 7:10, Isaiah 53:5, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-19

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

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Henry Fairlie

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Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 5:16-17, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-20

If we acknowledge that our inclination to sin is part of our natures, and that we will never wholly eradicate it, there is at least something for us to do in our lives that will not in the end seem ju...

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J. R. R. Tolkein

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1 Peter 1:3-4, Romans 6:4, Matthew 28:5-6, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Philippians 2:6-8

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

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Sharon Hersh

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Exodus 20:3, Proverbs 14:12, Romans 6:16-18, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Psalm 34:18

Addiction goes deeper than obsession and compulsion. It is worship. It is giving my heart and soul over to something that I believe will ease my pain and provide an outlet for my fury at being out of ...

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Walter Brueggemann

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Isaiah 45:18, Genesis 1:27, Romans 8:24-25, Jeremiah 29:11, 1 Peter 1:3-4, Romans 6:4

It is there within and among us, for we are ordained of God to be people of hope. It is there by virtue of our being in the image of the promissory God. It is sealed there in the sacrament of baptism....

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Erroll Hulse

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Matthew 5:17-18, Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, Romans 6:23, Proverbs 14:12, James 4:17, 1 John 1:8-9

Postmodernism (the thinking of our age) is fiercely antinomian (without law). It is admitted that people make mistakes, but the word ‘sin’ is seldom mentioned and the idea that we all sin against God ...

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C. S. Lewis

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Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 14:12

And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pl...

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