The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Hound of Heaven

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00:00:19.680 Jesus said,

00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

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00:00:30.000 That because of sin, our natural inclination is to run and hide from the presence of God.

00:00:37.180 No one seeks for God.

00:00:39.180 Adam and Eve, after they had fallen, after their rebellion against God,

00:00:43.520 they don't come looking for God, asking for his help.

00:00:47.020 Rather, they scurry away as quick as they can.

00:00:50.720 I think of what Jesus says in the Gospel of John, chapter 3.

00:00:54.920 He said that he's the light of the world and that he has come into the world,

00:00:58.440 but that men ultimately hate the light and that they love the darkness and then he gives a reason

00:01:05.780 why they love the darkness because their deeds are evil because they are evil they love the darkness

00:01:14.420 where their evil is not exposed they love to hide they love to surround themselves with with an

00:01:23.020 environment and a culture of other people that are just as dark, just as evil as they are, so that

00:01:29.160 their evil doesn't stand out. So they run from Christ, who is the light. The light is a wonderful

00:01:35.360 thing, but the light is a painful thing for those who are evil. The light, it exposes everything

00:01:42.460 that we so desperately don't want to be exposed. I mean, think if you were living in a cave for

00:01:47.900 years, never seen the light of the sun. And then all of a sudden you step outside and the sun

00:01:53.820 begins to rise in the morning. And for the very first time, you're seeing the brilliance of the

00:01:59.060 sun. It's been years. Your eyes could not behold the sight. It would be a painful, blinding

00:02:05.960 experience for you. And so it is with the light of the world, Jesus Christ. The natural reaction

00:02:12.020 of men in and of ourselves, in our fallen flesh, is not to say, what a beautiful light. Let's go

00:02:19.240 and see. Rather, it is to scurry away like a bunch of cockroaches into the darkest corners of the

00:02:25.900 earth. That's how we behave in the presence of a holy God. We don't come to him. We run from him.

00:02:33.400 So the first seeker that we see in scripture over and over and over again, and especially in our

00:02:39.500 text today is not Adam and Eve. The first seeker, the hound of heaven, is God himself. He relentlessly

00:02:47.280 seeks after the souls of men, and his seeking is gracious because, as we'll see later in our text,

00:02:54.040 the ultimate end, the ultimate goal of God's seeking of guilty sinners is ultimately to offer

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The NXR Podcast - June 27, 2022