CHAPTER 6

WHAT HAPPENS

WHEN YOU SEEK GOD’S FACE?

 




   




MEMORY VERSE SELECTIONS

  

Ps. 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Heb. 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”


SCRIPTURE READING

Isaiah 6 - Remember that Isaiah was a very righteous man.  Take note of his spontaneous revelation of his own spiritual condition and how the Lord meets him. 












CHAPTER 6 QUESTIONS


  1. 1. “So God created man in his own image...” (Gen. 1:27) “...I found, that God hath made man ___________, but they have sought out many inventions”  (Ec. 7:29).


  1. 2. Can God’s glory be seen on a person’s face?  Who in the Bible demonstrated this?


  1. 3. Which Psalm records its writers desire to have God search his heart?


  1. 4.Does the severity of correction depend more on

  2. a)the tenderness of the human heart?  

b) the grossness of sin?  


  1. 5. Who embraced God’s loving correction, accepted his consequences, and grew closer to the Lord through his trial?

   a) King Saul    b) Mary   c)  Daniel    d) King David


  1. 6. Both David and Saul sinned.  How did their different heart conditions determine their life-after-sin experiences?


  1. 7.Who followed Mosses into the presence of God and lingered there?


  1. 8. Who keep pace with God and forsook man made religious conventions to move on with the Lord’s plan?  (Mark 3 answers) 

    a) Alexander the Great    b) Jesus  

    c) Paul                           d) Martin Luther


  1. 9. Grace is God’s influence upon our hearts that empowers us to do His will with a perfect attitude. 

      T     F


  1. 10. Which Old Testament character understood that the blood of bulls and goats could not take away our fallen nature? 

    a) Caleb    b) Jezebel  

    c) Hogla   d) David


  1. 11. Who, from the Bible, was not changed even though he had access to the presence of God?


  1. 12.  Although education is important, where do we acquire divine anointing?

    a) We are born with it.  

    b) We inherit our anointing.

    c) We get our anointing in God’s presence. 

    d) No anointing is needed. 


  1. 13.  Woven into the fiber of God’s rules and regulations is His  love and  life.   T     F


  1. 14.  Jesus did not merely come to save us and forgive us of our sins, but He came and provided power to remove the sin nature out of our hearts.    T     F


  1. 15. Who said, “Woe is me” when he found himself in the presence of God?


  1. 16.  Job did not need to be delivered from an evil sprit; he needed to

    a) stop sinning.  

    b) abhor himself.  

    c) find new friends.  

    d) shut up until the trial passed.


  1. 17.  In Joel 3:21, God promises to cleanse our _______________.







RESOURCES

http://www.inthebeginning.com/articles/prayingholy.htm

    Charles Finney on the Holy Spirit






CHALLENGES

Privately journal on the topic of personal perfection.  Write, as it were, your prayer to the Lord on this topic.


Center your thoughts around Matthew 5:48, which says, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”  Meditate on this truth which permeates this chapter. 


Remember, life is a journey of perpetual change to an ultimate conclusion.  The sum of our lives is the formation of our character.  God is in the business of perfecting us.  He does this in two ways and He always involves us in the work: He removes the old nature, and He replaces it with His new nature. 

Springboard Questions:

What good things await you in His presence?

What propensities for particular sins does the Lord want to eradicate in your life? 

What new freedoms do you hope to experience in this adventure? 

 

 

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