Pursuit of God Review

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Calvary Chapel Bible College
The Pursuit of God
A.W. Tozer
OT310 Genesis
Pastor Clark Van Wick

If the “Roman’s Road” through Paul’s epistle can be described as a path to salvation, then A.W. Tozer’s book, “The Pursuit of God” could be described as a culmination of Biblical wisdom as to what to do with one’s salvation once he receives it. Now, to be sure, this book is not Gospel, but in much the same way as the Bible was written, the Holy Spirit has surely spoken through it into the lives of many readers because of the Christ-driven, knee-bent, God-fearing heart of Tozer himself. INSERT THESIS STATEMENT. The Pursuit of God takes the reader on a journey through the truths of Scripture, lovingly
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The next point is surmised from the acceptance of God’s work in our lives from the very beginning, speaking to us, living in us. That still small Voice urging us to hear while giving us the ability to refuse Him. “We learn that faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.”9 When God made the heavens and the earth, He said it was good. When man sinned, that relationship was torn and we fell out of good graces with God. Faith is the avenue by which God gives us to willingly return to Him so that His fellowship with us can return. Thus, we need to continue in faith to restore our relationship with God.
If all else were for not, restoring our relationship with the God of the universe should be enough, but His blessings go deeper still and a relationship with Him is so much more. God offers us rest in this life. Though the natural corruption of man incites attitudes that are directly controversial to the Jesus’s teaching of the Beatitudes10, if we accept His teachings and nurture in our lives the meekness He speaks of in the gospel of Matthew, we will begin to experience God’s kingdom manifested in this life. No longer should we see through the corrupt lenses of this world into the kingdom of God, but we are to see through the pure and perfect eyes of God into the kingdom of man. Keeping a heavenly-sighted mind as described earlier in the
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