The Pursuit of God
Introduction Following Hard The
• Learned about After God Blessedness
A. W. Tozer • To know God of Possessing
• Writing this Experientially Nothing
wonderful • Worship God • Matthew 5:3
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Matthew 5:1
“And seeing the
multitudes, He went up on a
mountain, and when He was
seated His disciples came to
Him.”
(NKJV)

“Blessed are the poor in
spirit: for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:3 KJV
Mount of Beatitudes
Israel

“Blessed are the poor in
spirit: for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:3 KJV
Mount of Beatitudes
Israel

Pastor Paul Sheppard
Total Surrender
Without Attitude

Our woes began when within the human heart
things were allowed to enter and have taken over
and God was forced out.

Luke 12:34
“For where
your treasure
is, there your
heart will be
also.”
(NKJV)
Caesarea, Israel

Luke 12:15
“Jesus said, \"Take
heed and beware of
covetousness,
for one's life does
not consist in the
abundance of
the things he
possesses.\"
(NKJV)

The Roots of our hearts have
grown down into things, and we
dare not pull up one rootlet lest
we die. Things have become
necessary to us, a development
never originally intended. God’s
gifts now take the place of God.

Matthew 16: 24-26
Then Jesus said to His disciples, \"If anyone
desires to come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow
Me. For whoever desires to save his life will
lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake
will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he
gains the whole world, and loses his own
soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for
his soul? (NKJV)

These blessed poor are no longer slaves to
the tyranny of things. They have broken the
yoke of the oppressor; and this they have
done not by fighting but by surrendering.
Though free from all sense of
possessing, they yet possess all things.
“Theirs is the kingdom of heaven”.
Matthew 16:24-26

Abraham & Isaac
“Now it came to pass after
these things that God tested
Abraham, and
said to him, \"Abraham!\"
And he said, \"Here I am”.
Then He said,
\"Take now your son, your only
son Isaac, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah,
and offer him there as a burnt
offering on one of the
mountains of which
I shall tell you.\"
Genesis 22:1-2 (NKJV)

Abraham & Isaac
“But Isaac spoke to Abraham
his father and said, \"My
father!\" And he said, \"Here I
am, my son.\" Then he said,
\"Look, the fire and the wood,
but where is the lamb for a
burnt offering?” And Abraham
said, \"My son, God will
provide for Himself the lamb
for a burnt offering.\" So the
two of them went together.”
Genesis 22:7-8 (NKJV)

Abraham & Isaac
“…Do not lay your hand on
the lad, or do anything to him;
for now I know that you fear
God, since you have not
withheld your son, your only
son, from Me…..”
Genesis 22:9-13 (NKJV)

Rebecca Tozer

Surrender Everything
Loved
Ones
Things
Talents
Give All to God’s Control

Surrender Everything
Loved
Ones
Things
Talents
Give All to God’s Control

Matthew 19:20-21
“The young man said to Him, “All these
things I have kept from my youth. What
do I still lack? Jesus said to him,
“If you want to be perfect, go, sell what
you have and give to the poor, and you
will have treasure in heaven; and come,
follow Me.”

Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
Mark 8:34-38
Each of these Luke 12:15-34
verses remind us
that we need to Luke 9:57-62
surrender all to
God! Luke 14:26-35

Only one life,' Twill soon be past;
Only what's done for Christ will last.

Father, I want to know Thee, but my cowardly heart
fears to give up its toys. I cannot part with them
without inward bleeding, and I do not try to hide
from Thee the terror of the parting. I come
trembling, but I do come. Please root from my heart
all those things which I have cherished so long and
which have become a very part of my living self, so
that Thou mayest enter and dwell there without a
rival. Then shalt Thou make the place of Thy feet
glorious. Then shall my heart have no need of the
sun to shine in it, for Thyself wilt be the light of it,
and there shall be no night there.
In Jesus' name. Amen.