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  TO KNOW GOD IS TO LOVE HIM
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: A.W. Tozer emphasizes that knowing God leads to loving Him, and
that love is cultivated through obedience and faith.

Topics: "Knowledge Of God", "Love for God"
Scripture References: Matthew 22:37, John 14:15, Philippians 1:9, 1 John 4:19

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DESCRIPTION
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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that God is the source of all love and commands us
to love Him with all our hearts. He explains that our ability to love
God originates from His love for us, and that true love involves both
willing and feeling. Tozer encourages obedience to God's Word as a means
to grow in love for Him, asserting that as our knowledge of God
increases, so does our love for Him. He concludes that knowing God
deeply leads to a greater capacity to love Him.

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CONTENT
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God is love, and is for that reason the source of all the love there is.
He has set as the first of all commandments that we love Him with all
our hearts, but He knows that the desired love can never originate with
us. We love him, because he first loved us, is the scriptural and
psychological pattern. We can love Him as we ought only as He inflames
our minds with holy desire. Yet there is also a love of willing as well
as of feeling. Though we may not be conscious of any great degree of
inward sensation, we may set our wills to love God and the feeling will
come of itself. Let us bring ourselves under obedience to His revealed
Word and our love for Him will grow.

Obedience will strengthen faith and faith will increase knowledge.

And it is a well-known law of the spiritual life that our love for God
will spring up and flourish just as our knowledge of Him increases. To
know Him is to love Him, and to know Him better is to love Him more.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/to-know-god-is-to-love-him/
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