1. Pine Grove Church of Christ – 04/11/10

2. DILIGENTLY SEEKING GOD Pine Grove Church of Christ – 04/11/10

3. Diligently Seeking God  Hebrews 11:6 – “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him”

4. Diligently Seeking God  We Must Seek God First

5. We Must Seek God First  This is no room for putting God second  Matthew 10:37-38 – “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me”  Luke 9:57-62 – “Lord, let me first”

6. We Must Seek God First  We Must Seek God First  Matthew 6:25-33 – “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you”

7. Diligently Seeking God  We Must Seek God First  We Must Seek God with All Our Heart

8. We Must Seek God with All Our Hearts  No Half-Hearted Approach  Malachi 1:6-8 – “You offer the blind… the lame and sick”  Matthew 6:19-24 – “No one can serve two masters”  Revelations 3:14-17 – “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot”

9. We Must Seek God with All Our Hearts  We must seek God with all our Heart  Deuteronomy 6:4-9 – “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart”  Matthew 22:35-38 – “You shall love the Lord you God with all your heart”  Exodus 20:1-6 – “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God”

10. Diligently Seeking God  We Must Seek God First  We Must Seek God with All Our Heart  We Must Seek to Please God

11. We Must Seek to Please God  We Cannot Let Desires for Other Things Choke God Out  Mark 4:18-19 – “the desires for other things”  John 12:42-43 – “they loved the praise of men more than… God”  James 4:4-8 – “purify you hearts, you double-minded”

12. We Must Seek to Please God  We Must Seek to Please God with All We Do  II Corinthians 5:9 – “we make it our aim… to be well pleasing to Him”  Ephesians 5:10 – “finding out what is acceptable to the Lord”  Galatians 2:20 – “it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me”

13. Diligently Seeking God  We Must Seek God First  We Must Seek God with All Our Heart  We Must Seek to Please God  God’s Promise to the Seeker

14. God’s Promise to the Seeker  Jeremiah 29:12-13 – “you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart”  Matthew 7:7-8 – “Seek, and you will find”  James 4:8 – “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you”

15. Diligently Seeking God  Having a deeper desire for God every day is what this life is all about.  Diligently Seeking Him.  This desire will push us to: Know God more and more each day. Love God more and more each day. Serve God more and more each day. Please God more and more each day.

16. Diligently Seeking God  Psalms 27:4 – “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple”

17. Pine Grove Church of Christ – 04/11/10