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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