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  (AUDIO SERMON CLIP) SEEKING AND SEEING GOD
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of having a high view of
God, highlighting how the Church's perception of God impacts the
spiritual life of its members. It contrasts the reverence and worship
that come from a high view of God with the worldly and superficial
attitudes that arise from a low view. The speaker calls for a
restoration of the vision of the Most High God, pointing out that a
proper understanding of God simplifies church services and leads to a
faithful generation that stays true to the faith.

Topics: "High View of God", "Impact on Spiritual Life"
Scripture References: Psalm 99:5, Isaiah 6:1, Proverbs 9:10, Psalm 34:9, Psalm 111:10

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of having a high view of God,
highlighting how the Church's perception of God impacts the spiritual
life of its members. It contrasts the reverence and worship that come
from a high view of God with the worldly and superficial attitudes that
arise from a low view. The speaker calls for a restoration of the vision
of the Most High God, pointing out that a proper understanding of God
simplifies church services and leads to a faithful generation that stays
true to the faith.

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I believe that I have surveyed the whole Church of God and I know
something of Church history and the development of the work of God
through the years, and I believe I know something of the Scripture, and
I'm in a position, I think, where I speak to tell you these two things.
One of them is, I say, the restoration of the vision of the Most High
God. You see, we have too low a view of God now, and that is why the
Church has such a low place.

The Church rises or falls altogether depending upon her view of God. If
she takes a high view of God, her people are inclined to be reverent and
worshipful and solemn and brave. If she takes a low view of God, they
become funny and flippant and foolish and live worldly lives and give up
to the flesh.

If she takes a high view of God, she simplifies her Church services
immediately. If she takes a low view of God, she has to drag in every
kind of theatrical touch in order to keep her people coming. It depends
upon her view of God.

The old Presbyterians used to have such a high, noble view of God. What
is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever. Many of
that school of thought held high views of God.

Rarely do you know the result of that. The result of that is that
generation after generation following generation they stay true to the
faith. But as soon as you take a low view of God and get to thinking of
God chiefly, as they think of him now, chiefly, that God is a pal or
that he's my partner or that he's the go upstairs or that he's uh that
he you call him by some other name a living ball one girl said he was
well now as long as we think like about God like that we've never seen
God imagine Moses tumbling in the fire and smoke on Mount Sinai
referring to God in any other way than in awful solemn terms what we
need in the United States is a revelation of what the philosopher called
the mysterium tremendum the tremendous mystery and what the Bible calls
Jehovah high and lifted up Isaiah saw him with his train filling the
temple the trouble with you dear young people and God knows I love you
as I've told you before I do I love young people I love the twinkle in
their eye I love their their little giggles and I love everything about
kids I love you and I don't like the word youth at all but I love young
people I love them but they're being cheated in this awful hour in which
we live they've never seen God and they've never seen very many people
that have and so you poor kids are victims of an elder generation that
never saw God and so they've had to teach you to crash and drag in every
kind of crap that try to keep you happy and if you tell me the truth you
don't respect them for it you go along with it but you don't respect
them for it my brethren we need to see God again

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