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This classic still makes one think, pray, get real with God, repent, and find joy in wise obedience more effectively than any other book I know. I cannot recommend it too highly.
J. I. PACKER
Professor of theology, Regent College; author of Knowing God and Rediscovering Holiness
The Pursuit of Holiness richly deserves to be regarded as a modern classic. Jerry Bridges dispels some dangerous misconceptions while motivating readers with a passion for true holiness. This is surely one of the most important books produced in the past fifty years.
JOHN MACARTHUR
Pastor, Grace Community Church
When Jerry Bridges speaks, I listen. His teaching on holiness is not an exercise in abstraction; it is an expression of a passion that has gripped his life and ministry.
R. C. SPROUL
President and chairman, Ligonier Ministries
The Pursuit of Holiness
Copyright 1978, 1996, 2006 by Jerry Bridges. All rights reserved.
The Pursuit of Holiness Study Guide
Copyright 1978, 1996, 2006 by Jerry Bridges. All rights reserved.
A NavPress resource published in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Cover illustration by Julie Chen. Copyright Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible, copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture verses marked PH are taken from The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips, copyright J. B. Phillips, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1972. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version.
Some of the anecdotal illustrations in this book are true to life and are included with the permission of the persons involved. All other illustrations are composites of real situations, and any resemblance to people living or dead is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bridges, Jerry, author.
Title: The pursuit of holiness with study guide / Jerry Bridges.
Description: Colorado Springs : NavPress, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016015950 (print) | LCCN 2016030734 (ebook) | ISBN 9781631466397 | ISBN 9781631466427 (Apple) | ISBN 9781631466403 (E-Pub) | ISBN 9781631466410 (Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Holiness.
Classification: LCC BT767 .B83 2016 (print) | LCC BT767 (ebook) | DDC 248.4 dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016015950
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L ORNE C. S ANNY
whose life has,
for more than twenty years,
served as an example
in my own pursuit of holiness
Jerry Bridges has given the world one of the most incisive, appealing, and conscience-stirring treatises on scriptural holiness ever written. Without doubt, the Lord has enabled His servant to prepare a volume that will have a far-reaching impact upon the lives of countless numbers who read it.
The dominant theme of this heart-moving study is the need for increasing pursuit by believers for the holiness of life which God, whose holiness is ever gratefully remembered, can alone make possible. Pursuit is the key word which the author, whose personal pursuit has been long and strong, constantly repeats.
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson declared that one of the inherent and unalienable rights of men is the pursuit of happiness. Professing Christians must be brought to realize that the preeminent desire and demand of God for us is that of the continual pursuit of holiness of life, and the reflection of His own holiness. Be ye holy, for I am holy.
Well over one hundred years ago, William Blake urged his readers to put off holiness, and put on intellect. But divorced from divine holiness, intellect is like a ship without a captain, and doomed to disaster. In our quest for holiness the prayer must ever rise from the heart,
Take my intellect and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose.
This is why we must warmly commend this compelling coverage of practical holiness, in which the author fully shows that the whole of life must be permeated with the holiness a thrice-holy God can impart.
Dr. Herbert Lockyer, Sr.
A farmer plows his field, sows the seed, and fertilizes and cultivates all the while knowing that in the final analysis he is utterly dependent on forces outside of himself. He knows he cannot cause the seed to germinate, nor can he produce the rain and sunshine for growing and harvesting the crop. For a successful harvest, he is dependent on these things from God.
Yet the farmer knows that unless he diligently pursues his responsibilities to plow, plant, fertilize, and cultivate, he cannot expect a harvest at the end of the season. In a sense he is in a partnership with God, and he will reap its benefits only when he has fulfilled his own responsibilities.
Farming is a joint venture between God and the farmer. The farmer cannot do what God must do, and God will not do what the farmer should do.
We can say just as accurately that the pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely, no one will attain it without effort on his own part. God has made it possible for us to walk in holiness. But He has given to us the responsibility of doing the walking; He does not do that for us.
We Christians greatly enjoy talking about the provision of God, how Christ defeated sin on the cross and gave us His Holy Spirit to empower us to victory over sin. But we do not as readily talk about our own responsibility to walk in holiness. Two primary reasons can be given for this.
First, we are simply reluctant to face up to our responsibility. We prefer to leave that to God. We pray for victory when we know we should be acting in obedience.
The second reason is that we do not understand the proper distinction between Gods provision and our own responsibility for holiness. I struggled for a number of years with the question, What am I to do myself, and what am I to rely on God to do? Only as I came to see what the Bible teaches on this question, and then faced up to my own responsibility, did I see any progress in the pursuit of holiness.
The title for this book comes from the biblical command, Pursue holiness, for without holiness no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14, authors paraphrase). The word pursue suggests two thoughts: first, that diligence and effort are required; and second, that it is a lifelong task. These two thoughts form a dual theme throughout this book. While seeking to set forth clearly and accurately Gods provision for our holiness, I have deliberately stressed our responsibility, feeling that this is an emphasis sorely needed among Christians today. At the same time I have sought to emphasize that holiness is a process, something we never completely attain in this life. Rather, as we begin to conform to the will of God in one area of life, He reveals to us our need in another area. That is why we will always be pursuing as opposed to attaining holiness in this life.
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