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  THE PURSUIT OF GOD
  by Matt Brown
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Summary: This sermon delves into the paradox of love in pursuing God, as
exemplified by A.W. Tozer's experience on a train ride where he penned
the bestseller 'The Pursuit of God'. It explores the idea that while
finding God brings satisfaction, there is an insatiable hunger to know
and love Him more, leading to a lifelong pursuit of experiencing Him
through His Word, prayer, worship, and community.

Topics: "The Paradox of Divine Love", "The Lifelong Pursuit of God"
Scripture References: Psalm 42:1, Philippians 3:12, Matthew 6:33, James 4:8, Colossians 3:1, Psalm 63:1

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This sermon delves into the paradox of love in pursuing God, as
exemplified by A.W. Tozer's experience on a train ride where he penned
the bestseller 'The Pursuit of God'. It explores the idea that while
finding God brings satisfaction, there is an insatiable hunger to know
and love Him more, leading to a lifelong pursuit of experiencing Him
through His Word, prayer, worship, and community.

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A.W. Tozer once wrote, To have found God and still pursue Him is the
soul's paradox of love. Tozer penned these words in the 1940s on an
overnight train ride from Chicago to Texas where he was headed to do
some ministry. And as he knelt down on his knees in that train, he began
writing and he couldn't stop, and he wrote throughout the night, and
when he arrived at his destination the next morning, the rough draft of
his book was done, and it became a bestseller, The Pursuit of God.

And what A.W. Tozer was trying to pen that evening was this idea that
when we accept Christ, we've found God and God's found us, and yet we
quickly realize that we can never get enough of Him. We're always hungry
to know and to love Him more. And the crazy thing is when we find God,
we're satisfied like we've never been before, and yet we quickly realize
that there's so much more we can continually and daily experience from
Him in His Word and seeking Him in His Word and in prayer and in worship
and through the community of the local church.

So even if you've found God, let's spend our lives pursuing Him to know
Him and to love Him more and to let our lives be utterly changed by His
love.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/EOL8Lw3iTd8.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/matt-brown/the-pursuit-of-god/
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