Hide and Seek

1. Hide and Seek
One of the first games a child learns is Hide and seek;
it is one of the oldest found played by man.
Adam and Eve instinctive enact “Hide and seek” after the
fall.
God Seeking
Gen 3:8
8) And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in
the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife
Hide themselves from the presence of the LORD God
amongst the trees of the garden.
Adam was Hiding when he should have been seeking.
Don’t wait for a convenient ‘cool of the day’ to run and
Hide; Seek God in the heat of temptation.
John 4:23
23) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in
truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

2. God Hiding
Isa 8:17
17) And I will wait upon the LORD, that Hideth his face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isa 5:19
19) That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his
work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the
Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may
know it!
Judah doesn’t understand the game. God is Hiding it is
their job to seek Him.
Rom 3:11-12
11) There is none that understandeth, there is
none that seeketh after God.
12) They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one.
Jer 29:13

3. 13) And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall
search for me with all your heart.
A Need for Man to Hide
Isa 8:13-14
13) Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread.
14) And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of
Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
1Pet 5:8
8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom
he may devour:
Israel is not Hiding from the enemy, they have come
out and offered themselves to be tagged.
Isa 8:12
12) Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom
this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye
their fear, nor be afraid.

4. Seeking in all the Wrong Places
Luke 24:4-8
4) And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed
thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining
garments:
5) And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to
the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living
among the dead?
6) He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake
unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
7) Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the
hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day
rise again.
8) And they remembered his words,
Most men seek God in places He is not to be found.
If they had placed more value on his word they would
have remembered his word.
You don’t go you a cemetery on search of a deliverer.
The Rules of the Game
Prov 25:2
2) It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour
of kings is to search out a matter.

5. Most men want to be king without earning honor; or
they want a god without glory.
Building Skill
Col 3:1-2
1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which
are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth.
“getting warmer”
you have a much better chance of finding God in his
word
than someone telling you their opinion of the Bible.
Fitness Program for the Game
Heb 11:6
6) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he
that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Heb 11:13-15

6. 13) These all died in faith, not having received the
promises, but having seen them afar off, and were
persuaded of them, and embraced them, and
confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth.
14) For they that say such things declare plainly that
they seek a country.
15) And truly, if they had been mindful of that country
from whence they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned.
You won’t accidentally find God;
you must focus,
and diligently seek Him.
The Advanced Level
John 12:36
36) While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be
the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and
departed, and did Hide himself from them.