DAILY TRUTH - The Hound of Heaven
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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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Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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That because of sin, our natural inclination is to run and hide from the presence of God.
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Adam and Eve, after they had fallen, after their rebellion against God,
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they don't come looking for God, asking for his help.
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I think of what Jesus says in the Gospel of John, chapter 3.
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He said that he's the light of the world and that he has come into the world,
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but that men ultimately hate the light and that they love the darkness and then he gives a reason
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why they love the darkness because their deeds are evil because they are evil they love the darkness
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where their evil is not exposed they love to hide they love to surround themselves with with an
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environment and a culture of other people that are just as dark, just as evil as they are, so that
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their evil doesn't stand out. So they run from Christ, who is the light. The light is a wonderful
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thing, but the light is a painful thing for those who are evil. The light, it exposes everything
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that we so desperately don't want to be exposed. I mean, think if you were living in a cave for
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years, never seen the light of the sun. And then all of a sudden you step outside and the sun
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begins to rise in the morning. And for the very first time, you're seeing the brilliance of the
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sun. It's been years. Your eyes could not behold the sight. It would be a painful, blinding
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experience for you. And so it is with the light of the world, Jesus Christ. The natural reaction
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of men in and of ourselves, in our fallen flesh, is not to say, what a beautiful light. Let's go
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and see. Rather, it is to scurry away like a bunch of cockroaches into the darkest corners of the
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earth. That's how we behave in the presence of a holy God. We don't come to him. We run from him.
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So the first seeker that we see in scripture over and over and over again, and especially in our
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text today is not Adam and Eve. The first seeker, the hound of heaven, is God himself. He relentlessly
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seeks after the souls of men, and his seeking is gracious because, as we'll see later in our text,
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the ultimate end, the ultimate goal of God's seeking of guilty sinners is ultimately to offer
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them reconciliation with himself. Thanks so much for listening, but real quick, before you go,
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