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Pine Grove Church of Christ – 04/11/10
DILIGENTLY SEEKING GOD
Pine Grove Church of Christ – 04/11/10
Diligently Seeking God
Hebrews 11:6 – “But without faith it
is impossible to please Him, for he
who comes to God must believe that
He is, and that He is a rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him”
Diligently Seeking God
We Must Seek God First
We Must Seek God First
This is no room for putting God second
Matthew 10:37-38 – “He who
loves father or mother more than
Me is not worthy of Me”
Luke 9:57-62 – “Lord, let me first”
We Must Seek God First
We Must Seek God First
Matthew 6:25-33 – “But seek first
the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things
shall be added to you”
Diligently Seeking God
We Must Seek God First
We Must Seek God with All
Our Heart
We Must Seek God with All Our Hearts
No Half-Hearted Approach Malachi 1:6-8 – “You offer the
blind… the lame and sick” Matthew 6:19-24 – “No one can
serve two masters” Revelations 3:14-17 – “I know
your works, that you are neither cold nor hot”
We Must Seek God with All Our Hearts We must seek God with all our
Heart Deuteronomy 6:4-9 – “You shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart” Matthew 22:35-38 – “You shall love
the Lord you God with all your heart” Exodus 20:1-6 – “For I, the Lord your
God, am a jealous God”
Diligently Seeking God
We Must Seek God First
We Must Seek God with All Our
Heart
We Must Seek to Please God
We Must Seek to Please God We Cannot Let Desires for
Other Things Choke God Out Mark 4:18-19 – “the desires for
other things” John 12:42-43 – “they loved the
praise of men more than… God” James 4:4-8 – “purify you hearts,
you double-minded”
We Must Seek to Please God We Must Seek to Please God
with All We Do II Corinthians 5:9 – “we make it
our aim… to be well pleasing to Him”
Ephesians 5:10 – “finding out what is acceptable to the Lord”
Galatians 2:20 – “it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me”
Diligently Seeking God
We Must Seek God First
We Must Seek God with All Our Heart
We Must Seek to Please God
God’s Promise to the Seeker
God’s Promise to the Seeker
Jeremiah 29:12-13 – “you will seek Me
and find Me, when you search for Me
with all your heart”
Matthew 7:7-8 – “Seek, and you will
find”
James 4:8 – “Draw near to God and He
will draw near to you”
Diligently Seeking God
Having a deeper desire for God every day is what this life is all about. Diligently Seeking Him. This desire will push us to:
Know God more and more each day.Love God more and more each day.Serve God more and more each day.Please God more and more each day.
Diligently Seeking God
Psalms 27:4 – “One thing I have
desired of the Lord, that will I seek; That
I may dwell in the house of the Lord all
the days of my life, to behold the beauty
of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple”
Pine Grove Church of Christ – 04/11/10