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Seeking God

 

Seeking God

Commanded - Isa 55:6; Mt 7:7

INCLUDES SEEKING

• His Name
- Ps 83:16
• His word
- Isa 34:16
• His face
- Ps 27:8; 105:4
• His strength
- 1Ch 16:11; Ps 105:4
• His commandments
- 1Ch 28:8; Mal 2:7
• His precepts
- Ps 119:45,94
• His kingdom
- Mt 6:33; Lu 12:31
• His righteousness
- Mt 6:33
• Christ
- Mal 3:1; Lu 2:15,16
• Honour which comes from him
- Joh 5:44
• Justification by Christ
- Ga 2:16,17
• The city which God has prepared
- Heb 11:10,16; 13:14

By prayer - Job 8:5; Da 9:3

In his house - De 12:5; Ps 27:4

SHOULD BE

• Immediate
- Ho 10:12
• Evermore
- Ps 105:4
• While he may be found
- Isa 55:6
• With diligence
- Heb 11:6
• With the heart
- De 4:29; 1Ch 22:19
• In the day of trouble
- Ps 77:2

Ensures

• His being found
- De 4:29; 1Ch 28:9; Pr 8:17; Jer 29:13
• His favour
- La 3:25
• His protection
- Ezr 8:22
• His not forsaking us
- Ps 9:10
• Life
- Ps 69:32; Am 5:4,6
• Prosperity
- Job 8:5,6; Ps 34:10
• Being heard of him
- Ps 34:4
• Understanding all things
- Pr 28:5
• Gifts of righteousness
- Ho 10:12

Imperative upon all - Isa 8:19

Afflictions designed to lead to - Ps 78:33,34; Ho 5:15

None, by nature, are found to be engaged in - Ps 14:2; Ro 3:11; Lu 12:23,30

SAINTS

• Specially exhorted to
- Zep 2:3
• Desirous of
- Job 5:8
• Purpose, in heart
- Ps 27:8
• Prepare their hearts for
- 2Ch 30:19
• Set their hearts to
- 2Ch 11:16
• Engage in, with the whole heart
- 2Ch 15:12; Ps 119:10
• Early in
- Job 8:5; Ps 63:1; Isa 26:9
• Earnest in
- So 3:2,4
• Characterised by
- Ps 24:6

Is never in vain - Isa 45:19

Blessedness of - Ps 119:2

Leads to joy - Ps 70:4; 105:3

Ends in praise - Ps 22:26

Promise connected with - Ps 69:32

Shall be rewarded - Heb 11:6

THE WICKED

• Are gone out of the way of
- Ps 14:2,3; Ro 3:11,12
• Prepare not their hearts for
- 2Ch 12:14
• Refuse, through pride
- Ps 10:4
• Not led to, by affliction
- Isa 9:13
• Sometimes pretend to
- Ezr 4:2; Isa 58:2
• Rejected, when too late in
- Pr 1:28

They who neglect denounced - Isa 31:1

Punishment of those who neglect - Zep 1:4-6

Exemplified

• Asa
- 2Ch 14:7
• Jehoshaphat
- 2Ch 17:3,4
• Uzziah
- 2Ch 26:5
• Hezekiah
- 2Ch 31:21
• Josiah
- 2Ch 34:3
• Ezra
- Ezr 7:10
• David
- Ps 34:4
• Daniel
- Da 9:3,4
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