True Discipleship: Embracing the Call to Follow Jesus to Calvary with Faith, Sacrifice, and Devotion (Grapevine Edition) (The Essential A. W. Tozer: Teachings on Christian Life Book 3)

by A.W. Tozer

The greatest hindrance, of course, is the fact that God is unapproachable. Sin has created an unmana...

The good news, however, is that Christ has paid the debt and bridged that gap to God for all. But there are still at least three challenges that stand in ma...

The first obstruction is the moral bankruptcy of...

This debt must be paid.

our Lord had introduced into the world a superior system of ethics, based upon love and leading to brotherhood, and that His plan was to spread this new doctrine

Religion does it through what is referred to as “good works,” resulting in emptiness and a deep-seated sense of guilt that nothing can wash away.

But even if such a fund of merit could be achieved, it wo...

Secondly, man cannot enter the presence of God with the foul sc...

The very presence of sinful thoughts, for example, inhibits our approach in...

To come into the presence of God, we must conform in every way to His standard.

so that we may not only be forgiven but also cleansed.

arrogant picking and choosing among the words of Christ gave some persons the impression that these teachers were far less sincere than they claimed to be.

The blood of Jesus Christ accomplished this ...

Man’s moral conscience, crying for pardon and cleansing before the presence of the great God, has now found it by an event, an act of the eternal S...

He single-handedly purged our sins. He alone could do it, so He did it alone.

The present generation of Christians has also suffered what I call the lost concept of majesty.

we cease to appreciate the majesty of God.

According to the Bible the human race is morally fallen, spiritually alienated from God, lost and under the severe sentence of divine judgment.

the Majesty is still in the heavens. This Majesty still sits on His throne before which angels, archangels, seraphim and cherubim continue to cry, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabbaoth.”

the Church is a body of regenerated persons who have withdrawn from the world in spirit and in heart and have thrown in their lot with Christ to own...

The truly regenerated man is a new creature; he belongs to another order of being; he has another kind of life, another origin, another destiny.

our Lord had introduced into the world a superior system of ethics, based upon love and leading to brotherhood, and that His plan was to spread this new doctrine

The teachings of Jesus belong to the Church, not to society. In society is sin, and sin is hostility to God.

His followers will constitute an unpopular minority group in an actively hostile world.

The ethics of Jesus cannot be obeyed or even understood until the life of God has come to the heart of a man in the miracle of the new birth.

arrogant picking and choosing among the words of Christ gave some persons the impression that these teachers were far less sincere than they claimed to be.

a race filled with complex iniquities, where men inherit hates and where the souls of all are lacerated by jealousy, envy, egotism, greed and lust?

The hope of the individual is the new birth and the acceptance of the teachings of Christ as a way of life. The hope of the race is that Christ shall come again to earth.

According to the Bible the human race is morally fallen, spiritually alienated from God, lost and under the severe sentence of divine judgment.

the Church is a body of regenerated persons who have withdrawn from the world in spirit and in heart and have thrown in their lot with Christ to own Him as Savior and to follow Him as Lord.

the freedom of the human will. Everyone may come; no one need come. And whoever does come, comes because he chooses to. Ever...

The truly regenerated man is a new creature; he belongs to another order of being; he has another kind of life, ...

He decides which way his soul shall go. He chooses, and destiny waits on the nod of his head. He decides, and either hell enlarges hersel...

The teachings of Jesus belong to the Church, not to society. In society is sin, and sin is hostility to God.

No drama, no fanfare, no tramp of marching feet or tumult of shouting. A kindly Stranger walks through the earth, and so quiet is His voice that it is sometimes lost in the hurly-burly; but it is the last voice of God, and until we become quiet to hear it we have no authentic message. He bears good tidings from afar but He compels no man to listen. “If any man will,” He says, and passes on. Friendly, courteous, unobtrusive, He yet bears the signet of the King. His word is divine authority, His eyes a tribunal, His face a last judgment.

His followers will constitute an unpopular minority group in an ac...

The ethics of Jesus cannot be obeyed or even understood until the life of God has come to the heart of a man in the miracle of the new birth.

some will rise and go after Him, but others give no heed to His voice.

each one decides whether he will hear or ignore the voice of invitation.

Each hearer of the Voice must decide for himself, and he must decide on the basis of the evidence the message affords.

the morning of the judgment will confirm

And those who would follow Him must accept His conditions.

He will use no coercion, but neither will He compromise. Men cannot make the terms; they merely agree to them. Thousands turn from Him because they will not meet His conditions. He watches them as they go, for He loves them, but He will make no concessions. Admit one soul into the Kingdom by compromise, and that Kingdom is no longer secure. Christ will be Lord, or He wil...

a race filled with complex iniquities, where men inherit hates and where the souls of all are lacerated by jealous...

The hope of the individual is the new birth and the acceptance of the teachings of Christ as a way of life. The hope of the race is t...

Only the Lord of men could have risked the effect of such rigorous demands: “Let him deny himself.” We hear these words and shake our heads in astonishment. Can we have heard aright? Can the Lord lay down such severe rules at the door of the Kingdom? He can and He does. If He is to save the man, He must save him from himself.

the freedom of the human will. Everyone may come; no one need come. And whoever does come, comes because he chooses to. Every man holds his future in his hand.

Deliverance comes only by denial of that self. No man in his own strength can shed the chains wi...

He decides which way his soul shall go. He chooses, and destiny waits on the nod of his head. He decides, and either hell enlarges hersel...

No drama, no fanfare, no tramp of marching feet or tumult of shouting. A kindly Stranger walks through the earth, and so quiet is His voice that it is sometimes lost in the hurly-burly; but it is the last voice of God, and until we become quiet to hear it we have no authentic message. He bears good tidings from afar but He compels no man to listen. “If any man will,” He says, and passes on. Friendly, courteous, unobtrusive, He yet bears the signet of the King. His word is divine authority, His eyes a tribunal, His face a last judgment.