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    Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer
    Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer
    Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer
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    Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer

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    You know those “mmmmm…” moments? You’re reading a pretty good book and then suddenly you stumble upon that one paragraph. It’s a paragraph so rich and profound that you find yourself reaching for the nearest underlining device before you know what hit you.

    A. W. Tozer was famous for embedding such paragraphs in all of his writing. Gems from Tozer is a collection of the “mmmmm…” paragraphs from Tozer’s most popular books, booklets, and leaflets. So, you can get the best nuggets of wisdom from over twenty sources in one profundity-packed volume.

    And these gems are organized by topic so you can focus on what’s most relevant to you. Whether you want to learn more about worship, the Holy Spirit, or the pursuit of God, you’ll find concise and timeless wisdom herein.

    Discover Tozer’s greatest treasures today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJan 1, 1980
    ISBN9781600663444
    Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer
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    A. W. Tozer

    The late Dr. A. W. Tozer was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.

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      The editors of this book have drawn from the voluminous writings of A. W. Tozer and extracted what they consider to be the best of his thoughts. They have divided the book into categories such as "Error and Truth Travel the Same Highways" and "Dangerous Misconceptions--the Devil's Booby-Traps" and dropped the gems under the appropriate headings. With gems such as, "We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them," Tozer, theologian, preacher, prophet, speaks with warning about the condition of present-day Christians and Christianity.

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    THE KNOWLEDGE AND PURSUIT OF THE MOST HIGH

    The gradual disappearance of the idea and feeling of majesty from the Church is a sign and a portent. Our God has now become our servant to wait on our will. "The Lord is my shepherd, we say, instead of The Lord is my shepherd," and the difference is as wide as the world. 2

    The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men.

    The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking. 3

    The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. 6

    To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate, but He remains personally unknown to the individual. For millions of Christians God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian.

    Over against all this cloudy vagueness stands the clear Scriptural doctrine that God can be known in personal experience. A loving Personality dominates the Bible.

    But why do the very ransomed children of God know so little of that habitual conscious communion with God which the Scriptures seem to offer? The answer is our chronic unbelief. God and the spiritual world are real. But sin has so clouded the lenses of our hearts that we cannot see. The great unseen Reality is God.

    As we begin to focus upon God the things of the spirit will take shape before our inner eyes. Obedience to the word of Christ will bring an inward revelation of the Godhead (John 14:21–23). A new God-consciousness will seize upon us and we shall begin to taste and hear and inwardly feel the God who is our life and our all. God will become to us the great All, and His Presence the glory and wonder of our lives. 6

    In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure, although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him. 3

    Love and faith are at home in the mystery of the Godhead. Let reason kneel in reverence outside. 3

    Satan’s first attack upon the human race was his sly effort to destroy Eve’s confidence in the kindness of God. From that day, men have had a false conception of God. Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God. The God of the Pharisees was not a God easy to live with.

    From a failure properly to understand God comes a world of unhappiness among good Christians even today. The Christian life is thought to be a glum, unrelieved cross-carrying under the eye of a stern Father who expects much and excuses nothing. The truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and His service one of unspeakable pleasure. He loves us for ourselves and values our love more than galaxies of new created worlds.

    Unfortunately many Christians cannot get free from their perverted notions of God, and these notions poison their hearts and destroy their inward freedom. These friends serve God grimly, as the elder brother did, doing what is right without enthusiasm and without joy.

    How good it would be if we could learn that God is easy to live with. 7

    God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him. 2

    All of God’s acts are consistent with all of His attributes. All that God does agrees with all that God is, and being and doing are one in Him. He cannot act out of character with Himself.

    I think it might be demonstrated that almost every heresy that has afflicted the church through the years has arisen from believing about God things that are not true, or from over-emphasizing certain true things so as to obscure other things equally true. To magnify any attribute to the exclusion of another is to head straight for one of the dismal swamps of theology, and yet we are all constantly tempted to do just that.

    For instance, the Bible teaches that God is love; some have interpreted this in such a way as virtually to deny that He is just, which the Bible also teaches. Others press the Biblical doctrine of God’s goodness so far that it is made to contradict His holiness. Or they make His compassion cancel out His truth. Still others understand the sovereignty of God in a way that destroys or at least greatly diminishes His goodness and love.

    We can hold a correct view of truth only by daring to believe everything God has said about Himself. It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God’s self-revelation such features as he in his ignorance deems objectionable. 3

    The Persons of the Godhead never work separately. Every act of God is done by all three Persons. 2

    What peace it brings to the Christian’s heart to realize that our Heavenly Father never differs from Himself. In coming to Him at any time we need not wonder whether we shall find Him in a receptive mood. He is always receptive to misery and need, as well as to love and faith. He does not keep office hours nor set aside periods when He will see no one. Neither does He

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