THE NEED FOR PROPHETIC VISION

 ”We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist–Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.” – A.W. Tozer

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The Man Upstairs????

By Philip@ReformedVoices

“Worship… rises or falls with our concept of God; that is why I do not believe in these half-converted cowboys who call God the Man Upstairs. I do not think they worship at all because their concept of God is unworthy of God and unworthy of them. And if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is. We’re too familiar with God.” -A.W. Tozer

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A Conquest By the Most High God

“Salvation is from our side a choice; from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ‘accepting’ and ‘willing’ are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.”
-A.W. Tozer from The Divine Conquest

The New Birth

from Reformed Voices:

“We believe that our Christian faith is a continuous perpetuation of a major miracle, the new birth. It is a vital and unique work of God in human nature. It is not reasoning yourself into a position, but something happening that cannot be explained; for what happens to a Christian can never be explained by a psychologist. In that great and terrible day there will be those white with shock when they find that they depended on a mental assent to Christianity instead of on a miracle of new birth.”
-A.W. Tozer

Music, Creation, and the Love of God

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements-surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Job 38:4-7According to the Book of Job, God’s work of creation was done to musical accompaniment…. John Dryden carried the idea a bit further than this, but not, perhaps, too far to be true:

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, this universal frame began;

When nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, and could not heave her head,

The tuneful voice was heard from high, “Arise, ye more than dead!”

Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, in order to their stations leap, and Music’s power obey.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, this universal frame began:

From harmony to harmony through all the compass of the notes it ran,

The diapason closing full in Man.

From

“A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”

Music is both an expression and a source of pleasure, and the pleasure that is purest and nearest to God is the pleasure of love. Hell is a place of no pleasure because there is no love there. Heaven is full of music because it is the place where the pleasures of holy love abound…

From The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer

Some Things Are Not Negotiable

“A new Decalogue has been adopted by the neo-Christians of our day, the first word of which reads ‘Thou shalt not disagree;’ and a new set of Beatitudes too, which begins ‘Blessed are they that tolerate everything, for they shall not be made accountable for anything.’ It is now the accepted thing to talk over religious differences in public with the understanding that no one will try to convert another or point out errors in his belief. Imagine Moses agreeing to take part in a panel discussion with Israel over the golden calf; or Elijah engaging in a gentlemanly dialogue with the prophets of Baal. Or try to picture our Lord Jesus Christ seeking a meeting of minds with the Pharisees to iron out differences.

The blessing of God is promised to the peacemaker, but the religious negotiator has better watch his step. Darkness and light can never be brought together by talk. Some things are not negotiable.”
-A.W. Tozer

 

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