Quotes used in the message

“The Approach to God” Pt.3 ( We Walk Out )

 

PSALMS 100:1

  1       A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

 

PSALMS 100:2

  2    Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

 

PSALMS 100:3

  3    Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

 

PSALMS 100:4

  4    Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.

 

PSALMS 100:5

  5    For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.                                                                                                                      

 

 

INFALLIBILITY.OF.GOD'S.WORD_  CHICAGO.IL  WEDNESDAY_  56-0404

  E-23    From the beginning God... We'll take, for instance, the patriarch Jacob. He was a wondering boy; he was run away boy; he'd run away from home because he was afraid that--that Esau was going to kill him because of something that he had done. And he run away from home. Yet that boy was anchored in God by a Divine promise that was made to Abraham. That's right.

And just the same promise that laid anchored in Jacob, lays anchored in every born again believer tonight. God calls sovereignly without anything you done about it; there's nothing you done. Men say, "Oh, I sought God." No man has sought God at any time. But it's God seeking man, not man seeking God, God seeking man. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." You get it? It has to be God drawing man.

 

FAITH_  CHARLOTTE.NC  FRIDAY_  56-0427

  E-27    So Abraham, a man seventy-five years old, married to his half- sister, Sarah, and they came down from the land--from Chaldea the city of Ur and dwelt in the Shinar valley. Perhaps lived a good, long lives of people then. They'd go out in the morning and get some berries out of the bushes and eat them, and then along noontime go out and kill an animal with their bow or--or spear and have their proteins and so forth, and a few berries, and go to bed at night, lived a good normal life.

But this man, not because he was different, but because God... Oh, I just love to push it down. See? Because God saw grace in the heart of Abraham and saved him by election. Give him the promise. "You haven't chose me," said Jesus. "I chose you."

People said, "I just toiled and wrestled seeking God." Oh, no. It was God seeking you. You just wouldn't turn loose. No man seeks God. No man has sought God at any time, but man is a coward. He runs from God, but God seeks man.

Started in the garden of Eden: Adam running, hiding behind the bushes, God out running up-and-down the garden saying, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?" Father seeking his lost child, not the lost child seeking the Father... Same today... How we could dwell on that a while if time would permit.

 

APPROACH.TO.GOD_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  55-0123A

  E-44    He had ten thousand head of cattle, he had twenty. He had ten thousand head of sheep, he had twenty. If he had thirty thousand head of--of a goats, why, he had--he had a--a sixty: God doubling to him. And then again, I believe he had seven children. And God restored his seven children. Did you ever notice? He never doubled his children, He just restored his children to him. Amen.

Why? How did He do it? Through the approach, the burnt sacrifice. That's right. Yes, sir.

They were all in glory, waiting for him to come. God restored Job his children after they were dead. He never restored back, making him fourteen children. He restored his animals and so forth back, but he restored to him. Because why? He become God's provided way of approach through the burnt offering. That's the approach.

 

APPROACH.TO.GOD_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  55-0123A

  E-60    It's not because they desired to see it, not because you want to see something happen. If you want to see whether Christ is right or not, come through God's approach to Him. Then you'll know.

Now, the uncircumcised tried to come the same thing, to do the same thing, and they drowned. If you don't want to get wrecked up in life, you quit pretending to be a Christian. 'Cause you're going to find yourself wrecked up out here somewhere. Yes, you come through God's provided way of approach.                       

 

THOU.KNOWEST.ALL.THINGS_  HAMMOND.IN  WEDNESDAY_  52-0716

  E-17    Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It's bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose--you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a--a faith that you have laid it out before God, said, "Now here, God, here it is. And I--I want to get well for, this cause." Or, "I want You to do this for me, for this cause. I want You to heal me from--from--from this cancer, or this TB or--or this anemia condition," or whatever it is. "I will walk before You, I will--I will do everything I can. I will give this testimony everywhere I go. I will be happy to do that, Lord. And I will use my life, not for myself. I will--I will use it for Your glory, to help others to see You."