I’m going to be posting quotes from the retreat sermons over the next few days. Here is the first installment. Enjoy!

Steve Whitacre
Exodus 34:6-7 — Now I See God

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, 1.

“Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.” A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, 13.

1. God is sovereign

“In the Bible, names often had a serious significance, and in the case of the Lord, his ‘name’ was his ‘story’, it summed up who he was and what he wanted to make known about himself.” J. Alec Motyer, The Message of Exodus, 68.

2. God is good

“The goodness of God is that which disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men. He is tenderhearted, and of quick sympathy, and His unfailing attitude toward all moral beings is open, frank, and friendly. By His nature He is inclined to bestow blessedness and He takes holy pleasure in the happiness of His people.” A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, 127.

[I didn’t get to use these two quotes because of time, but I wanted to…]

“God’s mercy is his goodness towards those in distress, his grace is his goodness towards those who deserve only punishment, and his patience is his goodness toward those who continue to sin over a period of time.” Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, 198.

“…the penitent will find Him merciful; the self-condemned will find Him generous and kind. To the frightened He is friendly, to the poor in spirit He is forgiving, to the ignorant, considerate; to the weak, gentle, to the stranger, hospitable.” A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, 130.

3. God is holy

“Divine love triumphed divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice.” John Stott, The Cross of Christ, 159.

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