“The modern way with God is to set him at a distance.
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He who often thinks of God,
will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around
this narrow globe.
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Nothing will so enlarge the
intellect... as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of
the great subject of the Deity.
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Would you lose your sorrow?
Would you drown your cares? Plunge yourself in the Godhead's
deepest sea... you shall come forth... refreshed and
invigorated.
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Disregard the study of God...
sentence yourself... no sense of direction and no understanding
of what surrounds you.
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Godliness means responding to
God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship,
prayer and praise, submission and service. We shall have to take
note of what pleases Him, what offends Him, what awakens His
wrath, what affords Him satisfaction and joy. God is a Spirit,
infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power,
holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
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Knowledge puffeth up.
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Our aim in studying the
Godhead must be to know God Himself the better. (We must)
enlarge our acquaintance... with the living God.
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We must seek, in studying
God, to be led to God.
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Turn each truth... into
matter for meditation before God.
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Its effect is ever to humble
us, as we contemplate God's greatness and glory, and our own
littleness and sinfulness.
Those who really know God... never brood on might- have- beens; they
never think of the things they have missed, only of what they have
gained. A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal
of knowledge about Him.
First, one can know a great deal about God without much knowledge
of Him.
Second, one can know a great deal about godliness without much
knowledge of God. We have known God, and that because we have known
God the unpleasantness we have had, or the pleasantness we have not
had, through being Christians does not matter to us. We have said
that when a man knows God, losses and 'crosses' cease to matter to
him; what he has gained simply banishes these things from his mind.
Qualities of Those Who Know God
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Those
who know God have great energy for God.
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Those
who know God have great thoughts of God.
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Those
who know God show great boldness for God.
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Those
who know God have great contentment in God.
First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God.
Second, we must seek the Savior.
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What were we made for? To
know God.
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What aim should we set
ourselves in life? To know God.
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What is the 'eternal life'
that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God.
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What is the best thing in
life, bringing more joy, delight, and contentment, than anything
else? Knowledge of God.
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Once you become aware that
the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of
life's problems fall into place.”
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