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The title of this message is “Pursuing God,” but it could also be called, “God Pursuing You,” because both are true, and both are important to spiritual life.

In these verses are some of the most famous words in the bible about seeking God. Verse 29 -- “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.”

From where? From the point when you’ve come to the end of yourself; when the pursuit of the world has left you empty and void of meaning and life. From there; you will seek the Lord your God… and you will find Him… if you search for Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

And when you find Him, you will then discover that He was pursuing you. He was just waiting for you to seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses is giving his final speech. He is preparing Israel to enter the promises of God. He gives words of warning and admonition, but he also gives words of encouragement and revival.

If they would listen to the statutes and the judgments of the Lord, it would go well for them. He admonishes them not to add to the word, nor take anything away from the word which they were receiving. These words are words of life, “So keep them and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding. For what great nation is there that has a god so near as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him?”

Moses also gives a word of warning, “Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life … watch yourselves carefully lest you act corruptly and go after the images of the world… and beware, lest you be drawn away … so watch yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which He made with you… for the Lord your God is a consuming fire.”

Moses then foretells what will happen if they turn away from their God, if they serve the work of man's hands and let their hearts be drawn away. He warns them in advance that their lives would crash, their nation would be destroyed; they would be scattered among the nations.

These are words that also apply today. Many have found hope and revival only to then meander their way back, to be drawn back to the world - and the result is predictable; they crash their lives.

That’s where these words take an interesting turn. When their lives have crashed and they have been scattered among the nations, “from there, you will seek the Lord your God and you will find Him -- if you search for Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Pursue God and you will discover that He has been pursuing you. God is not finished yet; this is about revival. This is about who is pursuing whom.

I. Don’t Let the Fire Grow Dim

 CH Spurgeon, one of the greatest preachers in church history, once said, “I am on fire for God, and when I preach, they come to watch me burn.”

 My prayer is that we as a church would be on fire for God, and that people would come to watch the fire that burns because there is revival here.

 The words of Moses are an admonition to not let the fire, which burns within your soul, grow dim.

Illus – I have loved this song by Steve Camp, “O Lord, take your plow to my fallow ground. Let Your blade dig down in the soil of my soul. For I’ve become dry and dusty, O Lord I know there must be richer lines below. For I’ve been livin’ in Laodicea, and the fire that once burned bright I’ve let it grow dim.”

A. Be careful not to drift away from the Lord


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