The Faithfulness of God
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Among the reasons that A.
W. Tozer is one of my favorite authors is because his writings are balanced. He
is not hyper-Calvinistic, nor ultra-Arminian. He does not arrive at
conclusions, strictly by following logic, but is faithful to the flow of the
biblical text. In other words, he does not take a pet doctrine and follow it to
other deductions, saying, for example, “All right, if my first premise is
right, then it follows logically that the second, third, fourth and fifth, must
also be true.” Tozer understood well that the Bible is the product of divine
thoughts, well above those that a man can imagine or reach, and for that
reason, he accepted the Scripture, as it states. This chapter of his book, The Knowledge of the Holy, is a good
example of his theology. L. Brueckner
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| A. W. Tozer |
The Faithfulness of God
It is a good thing to give thanks unto Thee and to sing praises
unto Thy name, O Most High, to show forth Thy loving-kindness in the morning
and Thy faithfulness every night. As Thy Son while on earth was loyal to Thee,
His Heavenly Father, so now in heaven He is faithful to us, His earthly
brethren; and in this knowledge we press on with every confident hope for all
the years and centuries yet to come. Amen.
As emphasized earlier, God’s
attributes are not isolated traits of His character but facets of His unitary
being. They are not things-in-themselves; they are, rather, thoughts by which
we think of God aspects of a perfect whole, names given to whatever we know to
be true of the Godhead.
To have a correct
understanding of the attributes it is necessary that we see them all as one. We
can think of them separately but they cannot be separated. “All attributes
assigned to God cannot differ in reality, by reason of the perfect simplicity
of God, although we in divers ways use of God divers words,” says Nicholas of
Cusa. “Whence, although we attribute to God sight, hearing, taste, smell,
touch, sense, reason and intellect, and so forth, according to the divers
significations of each word, yet in Him sight is not other than hearing, or tasting,
or smelling, or touching, or feeling, or understanding. And so all theology is
said to be stablished in a circle, because any one of His attributes is
affirmed of another.”
Ten Shekels and a Shirt
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To be sure, this is a very
personal opinion, but the message that I am posting today is the most important one that I
have heard in the last 50 years. It moved me deeply and greatly affirmed my
position, concerning every Christian’s purpose in this life. It also influenced
my presentation of the gospel. Please read this message, praying that God will anoint
your ears to receive the immense truth that Paris Reidhead presents.
Ten Shekels and a Shirt was one of the first articles
that I posted, when we opened this blog in 2011, and since then, we have
offered hundreds more. Possibly, many of our readers of Call to Commitment have not read it. For this reason, I am
preparing it anew, to bring it to the attention of every one of you. I am
adding Reidhead’s account of how his message came to be preached many years
ago.
How this Message Came To Be
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| Paris Reidhead |
In over fifty years of Bible
teaching and preaching "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" is the only message
that I feel constrained to explain how it came to be preached. During a Bethany
Fellowship Summer Conference in the mid-sixties I was preparing to speak at the
Tuesday morning Bible hour. Upon returning to my room after breakfast to
meditate and pray about the message for that morning hour, I felt strangely
impressed that I could not deliver the message that had been prepared for the
session.
Instead, I felt that there
was some other message that was needed which I was to bring. After prayer, the
message that came to mind was one on which I had begun preparation for the
ministry at the church in New York City of which I was pastor at that time. My
notes were not with me, but were in a file folder in my study. An empty
envelope was on the desk in my room, on the back of which I wrote the scripture
texts to be used and one or two ideas that came to mind. With the envelope in
my Bible marking Judges, Chapter 17, and myself utterly cast upon the Lord, I
went to the auditorium where between four and five hundred people waited to
hear from the Lord through me.
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