Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
A.W. Tozer
Started reading
November 6, 2020
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We ought to live with a knowledge and consciousness of God and heaven on us day by day, whether we are businessmen, farmers, schoolteachers, housewives, students or whatever we are.
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In the fourth place, there was suddenly the clear sense of the reality of all things.
God never put a preacher in the pulpit to ask questions. He puts the preacher in the pulpit to answer questions. He puts him there with authority to stand up in the name of God and speak and answer questions.
The fifth thing was this: The filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world.
The sixth great difference was this: They took a great delight in prayer and communion with God.
The seventh and final thought concerns the manner in which they loved the Scriptures of God.
Well, you don’t get it by eating it, but the Word of God is sweet to the Spirit-filled person because the Spirit wrote the Scriptures. You cannot read the Scriptures with a spirit of Adam, for they were inspired by the Spirit of God.
There was only one good Man that ever came to the world. He managed to stay alive just thirty-three years—then they took Him out and nailed Him on the cross.
we’re going to have to face what Wesley called “The Great Assize”
But I won’t stay sour at anybody. I refuse to have resentment and ill will and an unforgiving spirit eating at my vitals.
We are fundamentalists, sure we are!
Much of our Christianity is social instead of spiritual. We should be a spiritual body with social overtones, but most of our churches are social bodies with spiritual overtones.
I. Jesus ruled this view of truth inadequate.
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II. Today’s evangelical rationalism also holds an inadequate view.
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I think Jesus has given us reason in this passage to take a look at those in His day who held truth to be intellectual merely, capable of being reduced to a code.
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They marveled at Him, and they said to one another, “How does this man know letters, having never learned?”
Then, to know truth, it was only necessary to learn and memorize the code.
They had reduced Divine Truth to that status.
I believe that this Bible is a living book, that God has given it to us and that we dare not add to it or take away from it. It is revelation.
You can memorize all of the texts of the Bible, and I believe in memorizing, but when you are through, you’ve got nothing but the body. There is the soul of truth as well as the body. There is a divine inward illumination the Holy Ghost must give us or we don’t know what the truth means.
Textualism is as deadly as liberalism.
My brethren, your faith can stand in the text and you can be as dead as the proverbial doornail, but when the power of God moves in on the text and sets the sacrifice on fire, then you have Christianity. We try to call that revival, but it is not revival at all. It is simply New Testament Christianity.
I am not afraid of the word ‘mystic’—because the whole Bible is a mystical book, a book of mystery, a book of wonder.
One of our philosophers has said that there are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents.
This other birth, this mysterious, spiritual birth was by a particular grant—altogether other than, different from, and superior to the first kind of birth. This new birth is a birth that gives an unusual right—the right to be born into the Father’s household and thus become the children of God.
He is not the father of the sinner.
God is the Father of those who believe, and I am not going to let the liberal and the modernist chase me out and run me down an alley and back me up against the wall and make me deny the Fatherhood of God.
