?_Xullɇ1How to Seek and Find the Lord ( @ ໻  ໻  ໻ p    p   ໻p  ໻   pp    ໻p   p  p {pw   { ໻w໻ {   p  BrowseButtons()-CreateButton(`btn_print',`&Print',`Print()')*CreateButton(`btn_exit',`E&xit',`Exit()')Zmain?main;How to Seek and Find the Lord xOm##O,l>ZsecondaryGGS;Grace Gospel Softwarehe Lord xOG##O,l$|/&;)z4 u|CONTEXT|CTXOMAPo|FONT|SYSTEM|TOPIC|TTLBTREEz|bm0آ|bm1VLrLMD GS1SPlease Read this FirstH + &:PLEASE READ THIS FIRST S& Note: THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT TEACHING "HELP FILE" - IT DOES NOT FORM PART OF ANY OTHER PROGRAM.The original booklet that forms the basis of this Windows Help File was written for people who want to find the Lord. The author shows that finding God is not a vague matter, for there is a definite way of salvation provided by God, and revealed in the Bible. Responding to this message (and this alone) leads to conversion - a great change within us which brings us to know and relate to the living God.QH< FThe response we must make is to believe - but what exactly is believing? Drawing on the teaching of King Solomon in Proverbs, the booklet (and this Help File) shows what kind of belief will lead us to find the Lord.Dr Peter Masters, the author, has been minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in central London since 1970.* "EThe original Booklet is a "Sword and Trowel Booklet" published bySWORD & TROWELMetropolitan TabernacleElephant & CastleLondon SE1 6SDISBN 1 899046 02 XH$ gThis and other booklets in the "Sword & Trowel Booklet" series are available from the Tabernacle Bookshop at the above address or any good Christian Bookshop at a modest price.N91( 9* How to Seek and Find the LordL!+ &B _AHow to Seek and Find the Lord^99V | "G^   Grace Gospel SoftwarepresentsHow to Seek and Find the Lordby Peter Masters&_# 9d + $"My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments within thee; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God". (Proverbs 2. 1-5; the words of Solomon, king of Israel 971 -931 BC)._t w 3 sL鉂:NKdԉ" BZv'ω㴪z>R5@:IClick Here to Read This FirstGod's sympathetic appealGod's message in plain wordsResponding leads to conversion1. To believe is to receive God's words2. To believe is to make a lifelong commitment3. To believe is to give undivided attention4. To believe is to yield and obey5. To believe is to surrender up pride6. To believe is to grasp our distance from Godud * A R〜Qt9G^7. To believe is to desire conversion8. To believe is to be a persistent seekerGrace Gospel SoftwareIt s 1s BGod's sympathetic appealD* ( 8God's sympathetic appealGs BA8 >  'There's no fool like an old fool', the saying goes, and there is no one so stubbornly fixed in a futile, purposeless lifestyle as the person who has been that way lifelong.People wander far from God, exploring all the attractions of this present world, but finding nothing substantial, and much pain and disappointment along the way. Yet, as the years pass, they cling almost desperately to the lifestyle which has failed them.'If only,' King Solomon seems to say, ' we could put old heads on young shoulders and deliver the next generation from the duplicity and fraud of a vain world which will steal their minds, hearts and souls, and never keep its promises.' There is great tenderness in his appeal - 'My son, if thou wilt receive my words.' If we would only liste BA* n to God and turn to Him we would make such discoveries, and receive so many experiences of His power and involvement in our lives. And wisdom and discernment would be ours also. 'If. . . if . . .if,' says Solomon. If only we would receive his words. That little word is both a condition and a promise. B) W To get the full impact of Solomon's appeal we shall look first at his description of how God communicates His message to human beings, and then how we must seek Him.MBAcB1( cBBDGod's message in plain wordsH BB( @God's message in plain wordsRcBBGE X     'My son, if thou wilt receive my words.' They are Solomon's words, but more significantly, they are God's words. But would it not be more natural for Solomon to speak of our receiving his teaching or instruction! Why words? It is to emphasise and underscore the fact that God's Truth is expressed in meaningful words, and this is of great importance.The message of God to the human race is not unfathomable or mysterious. It is not some vague, shimmering, complex thing which you have to spend your lifetime trying to discover and figure out. Certainly there are complex and deep things in God's revelation, but the entire message of God is revealed led to us in plain words. The facts about God - Who He is, what He is like, His purpose in creating mankind, how mankind has gone wrong, what He has done to save us, how we may find Him and how we may walk with Him - all these things are expressed in plain words in the Bible. The fundamental things which can light up our lives and bring us to God have been revealed by God in a meaningful form of words, and these truths never change.BI%  God's message, then, is not a mystery. We do not draw near to God by spending years in transcendental meditation, or by chasing after strange feelings and mystical insights. It is not like that. There is a tangible form of words which may be read, taught, explained and understood. Nor is the message sage of God a form of words which means one thing to one person, and something else to another. It is not strange, religious mumbo-jumbo, which cannot be pinned down. Solomon says, in effect, 'Listen to my words. I am going to teach in plain language, by a series of propositions and plain statements, the truth about God, and how to find Him.'9BG*M' % The Scriptures are the Book of God. In the Bible we are given a logical message about our separation from God, the atonement made for our sins by Jesus Christ, and about the availability and nature of conversion.We are told of how Christ the Saviour came from Heaven to suffer the punishment of sin in the place of all who trust in Him for forgiveness, and we are urged to seek Him and to enter into a personal relationship with Him. We are told that if we do so we shall find Him, and He will change our lives wonderfully, bringing us to know Him in this life, and then for ever. All this is set out in plain words in the Scriptures. It is not hard to follow, and the same basic truths are repeated many times through the books of the Bible, to confirm our understanding of them.I>? L     If we learn nothing else from Solomon's appeal, let us learn this - that we cannot find God through the research and study of various religions, but only by listening to His revealed Word of explanation about Himself, and His method of saving souls. It is as we believe this, and comply that we find Him. Says Solomon - 'My son if thou wilt receive my words.'Solomon describes God's message by another term when he tells us to hide His commandments with us. Commandments are simply commands, and this term reminds us that the message of God is not an option, but something we are bound to obey. God's words carry the force of law for every human soul.*M>B What would we say if stopped by the police for speeding? 'I'm not surprised, officer, to hear you say that I was going as fast as that. But if you will excuse me I'Il just drive on and give some consideration to the matter of what may be a reasonable speed.' This would be a sure way of getting charged.*MD/ ,  Remember that we shall eventually be judged for how we react to God's Word. The Lord, in His mercy, speaks persuasively and appealingly, but make no mistake about the fact that He commands all people everywhere to repent and obey. We must not lose sight of the authority of the message just because it is full of compassion. There is no alternative to God's method of saving us, and there is no scope for us to work out some original and different way of our own.O>1݃_Responding leads to conversionJ"D݃( DResponding leads to conversion = H    Some of the benefits of being converted are brought out by Solomon's appeal to - 'incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding.' Do we realise what God is ready to give us! He will give real wisdom - skill to handle life. He will give us the capacity to relate to Him; to pray, to understand His Word, and to know His guidance. God is ready to impart these 'skills' to all those who listen to His words, and respond. z݃%  Solomon goes further, describing the experience of finding the Lord in these words: 'Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.' Here is a great picture of conversion. One moment I am not a believer, and have no consciousness of God, and no relationship with Him. Then, at conversion, I experience His power in my life, and find the eternal and holy God to be full of mercy and kindness. Now, suddenly, I know why Christians stand in awe of Him, and love Him. Now I know why their emotions are completely taken up by Him. I can see it now, because I have felt His kindness for myself. _* "a Before conversion, God was not there, or He was merely a theory, or a possibility. Now I have tasted and understood His mercy and power, changing my character and my desires. That is what it means to be converted - to 'understand the fear of the Lord'. How, then, can we come to this experience? What does it mean to believe in the Lord, and to find Him? Let us look at the verbs which Solomon employs to show us the way.Y(1 1. To believe is to receive God's wordsT,_ ( X1. To believe is to receive God's words8 >   First, Solomon urges us - "My son, if thou wilt receive my words." Receive is the operative word, and the Hebrew means just that. It means - accept, embrace. In other words, you listen with great respect. You do not listen with suspicion, as though to say, ' What's this I'm hearing! I'Il give this some thought, but I'm going to question every part of it, every sentence, and will only accept any of it with great reluctance.' You must not listen steeped in prejudice, or with haughty coldness. The only right way to listen to God is with humble openness. To receive means to take something to yourself, and value it and possess it. We must yield to this Book of God, Saying, 'Lord, speak to me.' ^ * " Most of all, to receive this message is to accept that every word of it is true. ' This is true,' you must say, ' and a merciful God is offering salvation as a gift. He is teaching me about Himself. Here am I, cut off from God, a sinful rebel, and the mighty God of Heaven is giving me information about Himself and how I may find Him. What will my response be? I'Il take it and make it my own. I'Il believe it and embrace it.'This is the on_ly way to come to God's Word. Listen, certainly, with all your reasoning powers, but not in a critical way, as though God's message is a distasteful thing. Nor in a condescending way, as though you are the superior mind, and God is an inferior being Who must persuade you of His case. Listen to God as your Maker and Judge, and be receptive, and you will hear clearly the words which will lead you to life.`/1ۆc2. To believe is to make a lifelong commitment[3c( f2. To believe is to make a lifelong commitmentcD V?    Solomon's next key verb in telling us how to believe is - "Hide my commandments with thee." This is vital counsel. The Hebrew word translated hide means hoard. It is a good thing to hide or hoard God's commandments in the heart in the sense of memorising them, but that is not what Solomon is speaking about here. When he says, 'receive God's message and hoard it,' he means: make it yours for ever. God's salvation changes people for the whole of their remaining lives, and for eternity. Do we realise this is the issue!icT%  When students get down to last-minute, anxious revision they are not interested in how long they will remember the facts they are trying to learn. All that matters is that they remember them for the period of the examination. But God's message cannot be received that way. It is no use saying,'Just at the moment I am going through a troubled phase and I am quite interested in what you have to say. It may help to get me through. If God could just get me out of my present crisis, it would be wonderful. After that, then we'll see how things go.' This is not believing God's message. It is an abuse of it.D' ; God's purpose is to save people for time and eternity, not to help them for a few weeks or months. Believing God's message means I accept that my life must be totally changed by His power, and I must become His servant and child throughout life and for ever. You must say, "The Bible has lifelong and eternal implications for me. I long to be the Lord's, now and always. This message is not like anything else I learn. This is the salvation of my everlasting soul." Come to the Lord in that spirit, and God will surely bless you. &T# ^-1*uq3. To believe is to give undivided attentionY1u( b3. To believe is to give undivided attention@= H   Solomon's next verb also conveys an essential aspect of real belief. He says, "Incline thine ear unto wisdom." To incline indicates concentration and priority. The dog pricks up its ears to hear, and people often tilt their heads to listen. We become casual and poor listeners whenever we try to focus on several things at once. To incline the ear is to give careful and undivided attention to one thing only.In this age many influences pressurise us. "Come with us!" says a godless world, "Come and join us." A whole flurry of voices clamour for attention, and in the midst of them is the voice of God in the Bible. But how shall we ever hear this clearly, or believe it, while our attention is drawn to other things? We will not grasp its message or its urgency while our minds are infatuated with the things of this life, such as the pursuit of ambitions and possessions, and so on.uE)  We will never find the Lord if we listen to Him just once a week, and throughout the rest of it we give our attention to the attractions and temptations of a godless life. If we say, "I have so many interests and must first pursue this one and that one," we will never be converted."Single out the voice of God," says Solomon, "turn your head, hang on every word, shut out everything else, and listen @Efor all you're worth."You must come to the point when you say, "I am a lost person, spiritually cut off from God, and this is God's Truth. This message is about life and eternity. This tells me about conversion and the meaning of life. I will listen only to God's message, and give this the highest priority.",@q'  T#E1ۆ{4. To believe is to yield and obeyO'q( N4. To believe is to yield and obey8 >'   Is our attitude right as we seek the Lord? Solomon adds another vital piece of counsel when he says: "Apply thine heart to understanding." The Hebrew word translated apply means stretch or bend. It is as though the heart is stubborn and inflexible, and it must bend in order to believe. And this is true. By nature we have rebellious and resistant minds, and very fixed opinions to which we cling with great tenacity. We do not easily say, "All I have ever thought is wrong, and now I will listen to God. This message calls for my response, and I order to believe. And this is true. By nature we have rebellious and resistant minds, and very fixed opinions to which we cling with great tenacity. We do not easily say, "All I have ever thought is wrong, and now I will listen to God. This message calls for my response, and I must be ready to give Him my heart and my mind, and to yield myself to Him."( y Believing God's Word is not only a matter of believing that Christ died for sinners to purchase forgiveness and eternal life, essential as all this is. God also calls us to a new life of obedience to His directions, and we must receive these as we give ourselves entirely to Him. Solomon therefore calls us to bend and stretch the heart. "Bend down," he seems to say, "surrender yourself, give yourself, and obey the call of God's Word."X'1 n@5. To believe is to surrender up prideS+n( V5. To believe is to surrender up priden @ N    Solomon's next appeal shows that real belief is a humble attitude, which shows great respect for God.How can we really believe and receive His Word if we have no realisation of His majesty and glory, and no sense of our own smallness and sinfulness before Him? And how can we believe a message of judgement and hell without feeling the urgency of our lost condition! Solomon puts it this way: "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge . In the Book of Proverbs King Solomon wrote in miniature parables. The picture here is of a child who cries out for something from a parent. This illustrates an inferior person appealing for something from a superior; a junior asking something of a senior. The needy inferior cries out for the thing which he urgently needs. A child wants something which he cannot get for himself; he must plead with the one who can provide it. This is the way in which Almighty God must be approached by sinful men and women.P+n% W What are the things which we lack, and cannot provide for ourselves? We cannot secure the forgiveness of our sins. We cannot produce spiritual life for ourselves. Indeed, we cannot even understand the message of salvation without God's help. We are poor, lost sinners needing the Saviour. To believe is to feel these needs, and to see that only Christ can meet~hem, and to cry out to God acknowledging our sinfulness and helplessness, and trusting His power and readiness to forgive. Proud, self-sufficient, self-confident people cannot cry to God.n @) / Some of them try, but their prayers have a hollow ring. They say, almost reluctantly and with no sense of their guilt and danger, "O God, if You are there, show Yourself to me." This is not believing prayer, and God will not answer it. The person who believes the message of G@od's Word cries out in the manner of one who is in great need, and who really depends upon the Saviour to meet that need. a0@1{a @GAF6. To believe is to grasp our distance from God\4@GA( h6. To believe is to grasp our distance from God@aC, & Solomon then extends his illustration to show yet another aspect of how we must approach the Lord. He speaks of needing to "lift up" the voice for understanding. This is not a child calling across the room to its mother, but someone far away who must shout at the top of his voice to be heard. Perhaps a small child has dashed across the fields and become suddenly alarmed at the distance between him and his parent. Or perhaps a trader is passing at a distance and needs to be hailed.GA4F' Y Lifting up the voice suggests distance, and this is another factor in our hopeless spiritual condition which we must be alarmed at as we seek the Lord. If unconverted, we are far from God, and we have no interaction with Him, no help, no guidance, nothing. We live merely as animals, under the condemnation of the God Who made us and Whose authority and kindness we have spurned.We must recognise that we are separated from God by a vast chasm of guilt, and that we are in eternal danger. This is the attitude of authentic prayer which will bring us to God. We do not come saying, "I am quite a decent person, Lord, but I need a little bit of grace, so help me in my life." aCF) ' We come as sinners who are a long way from Him, and we plead for Him to draw us near, and give us new life and a close relationship with Him.W&4FGG1c GGG 7. To believe is to desire conversionR*FG( T7. To believe is to desire conversionGGoJA P+     Still further help from Solomon comes in his words - 'If thou seekest her as silver.' The Hebrew word translated seek means simply to look for something which you do not possess, or have mislaid. But here, the search is particularly vigorous because something of great value is sought. Silver most probably refers to crafted ornaments of great beauty and value. The picture is of a merchant seeking out the best articles from craftsmen in many cities. It is his livelihood, and the prosperity and survival of his family depends on his success. He has an eye for what is good, and is drawn to the places where the best objets d'art are found.[6GL% m The application of the picture is this: God's salvation (forgiveness, new life and a walk with the Lord) is like valuable silver to the ancient merchant. It is of incalculable value, and is unsurpassed in beauty. How much therefore I must desire these things! I must visit the sources of them (the pages of God's Word, and the four Gospels in particular), and go to a church where these things are explained. I must find and believe the way of salvation - the details of what Christ the Saviour did to free me from my sin - and I must make this message mine.oJO+ $U  As the seeker after silver spared no effort to secure his prize, so I will not rest until the treasure of salvation is mine. I will go to God in prayer, longing for the definite experience of His touch upon my life. How greatly I must desire this! I will tell the merciful God that my life is nothing without Christ and the new beginning which He alone can give, and I will value this as the highest gift in the universe. What could be more precious than to be certain that my sins are forgiven and that Christ, the Redeemer and the only Mediator between God and man, is my Saviour. This, says Solomon, is the heartfelt attitude of the person who sincerely seeks the Lord.,L '  O F\+Oh1a h8. To believe is to be a persistent seekerW/ ( ^8. To believe is to be a persistent seeker hʃ> J    The final word of help from Solomon on the right way of seeking salvation warns about the impediments and dangers, and tells how they must be handled. Solomon says: "If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand."The Hebrew word translated seekest refers to looking for some thing which is moderately hard to find, but the word translated searchest speaks of something very much hidden or concealed. This word refers to mining. It is about excavating the rock to find precious metals and gemstones. Mining was hard and dirty work in Bible times, and this picture is very apt for the hardships, and also the great rewards, of seeking the Lord.- (3  Mining illustrates well our search for blessings which at the time of our seeking are unseen. We begin to pray to God, saying, "O, Lord,I repent of my sin; reveal Thyself to me. Lord, make me one of Thy children. Lord, convert me and change me." But, at first, the blessing we seek is still un known to us. We have no personal experience of His love and power. We have not yet felt His nearness.We say, I am not there yet Lord. I have not yet felt Thy hand on my life. I am shut out. O, Lord, I recognise I am a lost sinner, shut out of Heaven, unconverted, and far from Thee. Lord, may I find Thee, discover Thee, know Thee and hold on to Thee."G ʃ׉' A How like mining for precious stones this is! The miner longs to discover the precious things. Says Solomon, if we approach God in this seeking spirit, we shall certainly come to find Him. He will answer our prayer, and bless us. But further, mining depicts the hard side of seeking the Lord. Of course, we can do nothing to earn our salvation; only Christ can pay the price of our sin. Nothing we do can contribute in the smallest degree to the securing of our forgiveness. And yet there is a hard part to seeking. Imagine the painful toil in mining before the days of explosives. Imagine the jarred limbs and grazed knuckles. Imagine the hours and days of patient tunnelling. And imagine the strong te mptation to leave the mine, and escape to the air to follow some other pursuit.'  It is the same with seeking the Lord. As the seeker sets off for church or opens a Bible, the tempter begins the process of drawing the heart and mind to other things. "Watch TV. Do this; do that!" Do anything but seek the Lord. But the seeker must push these distractions aside and press on to hear God's Word and pray for salvation. As a seeker you must never forget the antagonism of our spiritual enemy the devil, and you must be determined not to be put off.Mining also involves danger and fear. Shafts collapse, and rocks fall. Flooding occurs, and suffocation. Similarly, the one who seeks the Lord often recoils from 'dangers' such as the scorn of friends, or the forfeiture of sinful habits to which the whole personality has become very deeply attached. Many have left off seeking the Lord because of fear of the 'dangers'. But just as the old-time miner was more afraid of destitution and starvation than the dangers of the mine, so the person who believes God's Word must be more concerned about the pointlessness of a godless life, the death of the soul, and a lost eternity, than about the scorn of friends, and other hazards.׉8'  Mining (in Bible times) pictures a further hazard for those who seek the Lord, because it was full of doubts and demoralising influences. In an age when it took so many weeks to drive a tunnel a mere ten or twenty feet into the rock, the sponsor of the mine suffered many anxious hours wondering whether anything of value would be found. 8  Would the blood, sweat, toil and cost be worth it? Would they at last strike gold or silver? When we seek the Lord, the devil aims to distract and demoralise us with constant doubts. We are tempted to doubt the existence of God, the character of God, and the message of God. Then, if we persist in our seeking, we are tempted to doubt our own sincerity, and so on. But the person who see ks the Lord must fix his trust upon the promises of God, and believe that he will find God through repentance and faith. He must sweep aside all these doubts. %  Mining illustrates how we should seek the Lord in yet another important respect. Mining, after all, is the process of removing unwanted soil, dirt and rock, in order to get something precious. And the procedure for seeking and finding the Lord is just the same. It involves repenting of my sin and trusting in what Christ has done on Calvary to take away my filthy guilt. It is crying out to God to take away my wilful, unfeeling, selfish, unconverted heart, and to give me a new one. There can be no discovery of God until Christ removes the guilt of sin. The priceless treasure of salvation cannot be found without repentance. 81 0   Finally, the mining picture, though showing the harder side of seeking, shows also the grace of God. Hard as mining was in Bible times, it could bring to the toilers a fortune to last a lifetime. A farmer might labour all his life and only meet the basic needs of his family, but a miner who struck gold would never need to work again. In three months he might take himself into a world of lasting wealth and luxury. Yet the miner did not make the gold or silver or precious stones which he found. He neither invented nor designed his discoveries, nor did he fashion them into articles o f beauty. Nevertheless, he received more than anyone else involved in any known trade of those days. To him there fell 'discovered' treasure.mHc%  What a picture this is of what happens when we believe God's Word and seek Him! All we do is believe, repent and ask for salvation. What is there to that? Nothing! My 'toil' is really nothing at all in the securing of salvation. The Saviour pays for my salvation entirely. I deserve nothing; I receive everything - pardon, new life, adoption into the family of God, and eternal treasure. A condemned and guilty sinner, I gain by the gift of God the everlasting salvation of my soul. The 'grace' of God (His unmerited and unearned favour to me) is my only hope and trust.S', &O  If this is the manner in which we seek the Lord, "then," says Solomon, "shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God." He will hear our cry, and He will wash away our sin, and bring us to a conscious knowledge that we belong to Him, and that He has saved us.1 c&  THE ENDF-1u -nGrace Gospel SoftwareAn( 2ȀGrace Gospel SoftwareT-7 >< "For Your Information]nM. *Grace Gospel Software is produced by a non-profit making, non-commercial group of Christians who freely give their time to the production of Christian Software. 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