Where Can God Be Found Today?

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
Psalm 105:4
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Matthew 7:7
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Psalm 70:4
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalm 69:32
...they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Proverbs 28:5

It sounds great, doesn't it?  To 'have God on our side' as they say!  According to these scriptures, there appears to be 'alot to be got' when one 'seeks the LORD'!  In fact, many people believe that there are more people in America today talking about 'God' and 'faith' than ever before - even within our own government!  People and their 'great love' are so wanting to help their fellow man lead a prosperous and happy life that one would think that God would be more pleased now than ever before with our country.  People seem to think that because they are seeking God more than ever, He HAS to bless them, because they have their right to life, liberty and happiness!

Wrong!  It seems today that folks have not only redefined the right to life, they have allowed their liberty to be taken away while they concentrated on their own 'happiness' instead of the 'pursuit of happiness', as the Declaration of Independence correctly says.

In this wickedly sinful Godless country, we have actually giving up the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  They will soon be taking away the "life" of a person who believes he has the "liberty" to "pursue happiness" according to the words of God!  Now THAT is the freedom America used to stand for!


So then, I ask you: "Where Does One Find God, Today"?

For those of you who have read and studied The Search for Absolute Truth, you should remember that God has revealed Himself to mankind in many various ways, only to have the Devil counterfeit them and trick the many folks who don't know their scriptures!
 

God has already revealed Himself through:

Nature... but today, folks worship the creature more than the Creator - Romans 1:25

Our Conscience...but the devil has seared conscience over time - I Timothy 4:1,2 (I still can't get over how many KJV folks still bring their children up with the tv as the home babysitter! - Our own ranks are filled with lazy lazy lazy parents who would rather allow the TV to bring their kids up in the worlds' perverted, sick & ungodly ways instead of training up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6!

Visions, Dreams, Signs, Miracles & Wonders ... but that is the devils' off-road vehicle of visual proof of his existence today, not God's.  Revelation 16:14

Written on Stone ... but those are called 'good works' today and don't save anybody!  Titus 3:5; Ephesians 2:8,9

God Manifest Himself in the Flesh ... That was a one time visit - By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  Hebrews 10:10.  So the devil will soon make a visit himself to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty! Revelation 6 & 16:14

Holy Spirit ... John 14:16-22; 16:7+the Comforter. Be sure to test the spirits to be sure you have the right Spirit who will teach you the truth through the correct Scriptures - the word of God!  I John 4:1-3

Holy Bible ... John 14:22-27;I Peter 1:19-21 & II Timothy 3:16 God's inspired spoken words are now God's written words!  I John 5:11-13  Today, there are approx. 450 different translations & paraphrases of the scriptures (450 prophets of Baal! I Kings 18:22) along with many other 'extra books' & writings written by he and she self-proclaimed prophets - they can't all be about the same God because they are all different in what they say! II Corinthians 2:17 -they are corrupt!

Satan sure has done a good job of preventing people from hearing the truth, amen?
Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil,
and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luke 8:12

Have YOU Found God? - Are you Sure?  Where did you find God?
How do you know the devil hasn't tricked you?
II Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached,
or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel,
which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Galatians 1:6: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

People seek God 'their own way' instead of 'GOD'S ONLY WAY!'

Unfortunately, people today seek to find God in THEIR OWN WAY and adamantly refuse to allow God to show Himself to them in HIS OWN WAY!  As a result, they find 'a god', not 'THEE God'!

Romans 3:10-18  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

So, people make up their own way of peace - and figure that makes them a child of God.  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9  WRONG!
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.  RIGHTLY DIVIDED!


Philippians 2:21  For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. They want to find Him THEIR OWN way and they want God to be THEIR OWN kind of God - they don't want what He has, they want to tell Him the way they want Him to be for them - like rubbing a lamp and getting a genie!

I Corinthians 1:21,22  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
Some folks are looking for signs, so the devil accommodates them!
Some folks are looking for their scholarship, education and brains to find God, so, the devil accommodates them, too!

Acts 17:24-27  For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Their Unknown God is a dud - a strange fire!  They have a dead god - a dead spirit - a dead savior - a dead book all within a dead religion, and their works are dead no matter how 'good' they are!  They are all actually dead regarding God but yet they are alive from the devil!

John 7:18a  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory...
Just watch people and listen to them glorify themselves as THEY have gained their temporal victories in life - they glorify themselves and their great "inner spirits" within.

John 6:26,27  Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
They want an STP Jesus - just pour a little Jesus into your life and he will help you 'run' smoother with less friction as you run in your own race!  They want their rewards today - now!  Nobody is setting their affection on things above - they want it all now! (i.e.. look at the newly weds today - they want it all now! THey want the great job, the great house, the great rig and great cash to buy what they want NOW!)  Not only can Christians not wait for the Millennium, they don't even know anything about it!
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Psalm 10:4   The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.  Isaiah 55:8: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Actually, God's ways are very simple to understand!

Proverbs 7:24  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

I Corinthians 2:7-10  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Proverbs 8:8,9  They are all plain (God's words) to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

I Corinthians 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.


God Will Show Himself to Them That Seek Him
It is too bad that folks allow themselves to be so blinded -(II Corinthians 4:4)- it isn't necessary - it doesn't even have to happen! God said He would show Himself to them if they would just seek Him!  Unfortunately, people just want to SEE first - and only then will they seek Him because they must see to believe!  They have no faith - even though they call themselves 'faith based'!

 ...blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
John 20:29
...If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded,
though one rose from the dead.
Luke 16:31

This was the work which God gave Jesus to do!

John 17:3-8  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

He is actually looking for these folks who are looking for Him.
Luke 19:10  For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

The Jesus Christ of the King James 1611 Bible is the way to God!
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:6
The jesus christ's in any other bible are all of the devil!
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God:
and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come;
and even now already is it in the world.
I John 4:3

The true Holy Spirit will actually call on them to seek Him
and will guide that person to the real Jesus Christ!
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:
for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John 16:13,14

He will make people thirsty for Jesus Christ!

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me;
and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
John 6:37
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:44
  And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me,
except it were given unto him of my Father.
John 6:65
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:38

And just so nobody thinks those verses support Calvinism, remember:

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:13
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:32
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 3:22
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men
to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift
came upon all men unto justification of life.
Romans 5:18


Here is my point in this sermon and in the other sermons in this series:

God works through the Son...
then through the Holy Spirit...
then through that King James 1611 Bible!

If people are not seeking God (and He says they are not), then the only way that God will
CLEARLY 'reach out and touch someone' is:
through His Son...
through the Holy Spirit...
through that Holy King James 1611 Bible!

Now then, we must also realize that we are part of Gods process of conviction to this world - to this community - to this neighborhood, to our relatives, to our children and to ourselves (note: we are the most important element in this process - Love thy neighbour AS THYSELF).

Any breakdown in that process is a breakdown that will destroy someone's opportunity to CLEARLY hear from God!  Obviously, God's part is complete regarding His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, but the many hundreds of bible perversions have most certainly clouded the air of certainty and in a person's own final authority.

All that God has left in His process of showing Himself to the lost world and/or to His own confused children, is through the Holy Spirit working through that Holy Bible.
John 16:7-11
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Of sin, because they believe not on me;
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

The World Needs to Hear God's Living Words!

Romans 10:9-15
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

But How Can They Hear God's Words?
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
and how shall they hear without a preacher?
And how shall they preach, except they be sent?

Do you have an Authorized King James 1611 Holy Bible?

You do?
Consider yourself 'SENT'!  Now, go tell someone today where they can find God!
You don't?
Please consider this thought:  I was just sent to you!
please contact me - Pastor Mike


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