The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Hound of Heaven

Adam and Eve, after they had fallen, after their rebellion against God, they don t come looking for God, asking for his help. Rather, they scurry away as quick as they can. I think of what Jesus says in the Gospel of John 3:3: He says that he's the light of the world and that he has come into the world, but that men ultimately hate the light and that they love the darkness. And then he gives a reason why they do so.

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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 0.93

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. 0.77

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

DAILY TRUTH - The Hound of Heaven

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