Seek God's Face Continually
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
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11 Seek the Lord and his strength, Seek his face continually.
Seek God’s face…
Fiercely
Fiercely
Boldly Draw Near.
Boldly Draw Near.
The Hebrew writer writes…
16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Summary
Summary
We can confidently or boldly draw near to the throne of grace because we have a High Priest that not only understands our situation temptation but overcame it.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Christians are to seek God’s face continually with a fierceness that is found in the strength of our God not being ashamed of the gospel but fiercely proud of it.
We also must seek God’s face…
Academically
Academically
Study To Know God.
Study To Know God.
It isn’t enough to say we are seeking God’s face we must put the effort in academically, i.e., through studying God through his word.
Jeremiah 9:23–24 (ESV)
23 Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Summary
Summary
We can say all day long we are seeking God’s face and striving to have a relationship with him but if that relationship is not built on “actually knowing God” through the only source that provides who God is, his word, then we are not truly striving to seek God’s face.
We also can only truly seek God’s face when we understand it is done…
Collectively
Collectively
Through Fellowship.
Through Fellowship.
God face cannot be sought i.e., a relationship with him cannot be had fully unless we understand the importance God has placed on “his children seeking him collectively.”
By that I mean we are seek God together with like-minded people.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Summary
Summary
It is only through our fellowship and thus loving one another as God loved us that we can seek God’s face continually.
Lastly we seeking God’s face means we seek his face…
Everlastingly
Everlastingly
Not Part Time.
Not Part Time.
Seeking a relationship with God is not a part time thing, but a continuous or everlasting endeavor.
We seek him all the days of our lives here on earth and then get to spend and eternity with him in heaven.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Summary
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Conclusion
Conclusion
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Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
