Do You Desire God?
by Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary on July 29, 2009


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngSq7mABZGE&index=22&list=PL3cZ_Y3u9y-Y6SAZXrVl9kWOhKk7_6FaO&t=0s

Transcript

I don’t believe love is just doing the right thing; I don’t believe love is just keeping commandments; and I don’t believe love is just being patient and kind and …

That’s what love looks like when it walks and talks but that’s not love. Love is passion. Let me ask you a question: "Do You Have A Passion For God? Do You Desire Him? Do You Long For Him?"

Yes, we all go through times in which our hearts are dull. Yes, we go through times when we need to be encouraged. Yes, we all go through times when our eyes are mesmerized by things they should not be. Yes, we all struggle in that. But if someone were to look at your life, would they say, "This person has a passion, not for ministry, not for missions, not for evangelism, but for God."

The sign of a genuine work of God in the heart is that you began to hate the sin you once loved and to love the righteousness you once ignored. The question is not, "Do you agree with that?", or "Are you challenged?" The question is, "Is that a reality in your life? Is it?"

Young lady, young man; elderly woman, elderly man; middle-aged man in the prime of life: Is it a reality in your life? Are you continuing to grow in your hatred of sin and your love for righteousness? That’s the question.

So it’s not a question, "Do you want to do the right thing?" or "Do you want to be moral?" or "Do you want to have a good life?" It is this: "Do you desire Him?"

I HATE preaching that goes something like this: “You know you've got a wonderful life there, yuppie. You've got a really nice house, a really nice job; and you got a really beautiful wife, and you've got 1,2,5 children. And you've got three cars, and Subarus and Suburbans, and you just have a great job. You got a great life. Everything fits perfectly in place. You just lack one thing: you lack Jesus."

That is the most disgusting thing that you could ever say.

What would be more appropriate to say is, "Sir, your life is nothing. It has no value at all apart from Jesus Christ." He is not some little accessory that a yuppie puts on top of his life as though it were cherry on top of ice cream. You have Jesus, and Jesus has you, or you are barren and wasted and lost. So it’s not a question of “Do you want a better life?”, “Do you want to go to heaven?”, “Do you want to fix your marriage?”, “Do you want all these things?” No. Do you want God? Do you desire Him?

Everyone knows they are a sinner. They just don’t realize how heinous and terrible that is. Nor do they want to let go of the very thing that they choose to drink down as though it were water. You see the question is not, “Do you recognize you are a sinner?” The question is, “Sir, as I was speaking to you," or maybe it’s long term discipleship over a period of time, “Sir, as I have been sharing with you and discipling you, what has God done to your heart?”

People come to me all the time and say, “I have a new relationship with God.” And I'll say, “Do you have a new relationship with sin? because if you do not have a new relationship with sin, you don’t have a new relationship with God.”

Has God done such a supernatural work in your heart, through the Holy Spirit, that although prior to that you lived a life of ignoring God, of hating God, you now see Him as esteemed above all things, and you desire Him above all things.

God is infinite. Heaven will be an infinite chase, an infinite tracking down of the glories of God. But most don’t want that. Even most who attend evangelical churches don’t really want that, and I can prove it: they don’t want it now. If you don’t want it now, you won’t want it then. Because eternal life doesn’t begin with dying and going to heaven. He says in John 17:3 that "this is eternal life, that they may know You". Know You. And that begins the moment He regenerates your heart and reveals to you His Son.

Do you desire Him?

Humans don't deserve such pathetic human construct(God).

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THE WORST IDĮOTS ARE THE PEOPLE THAT SAY DUMB THINGS LIKE "I AM NOTHING WITHOUT GOD. WITHOUT HIM I AM HOPELESS".

THOSE KINDS OF STATEMENTS MAKE ME LOSE MANNERS, AND REGARDS FOR THE PERSON WHO ATTRIBUTES HIS/HER SURVIVAL AND PERSONAL EFFORTS IN THIS CRUEL HARSH WORLD TO A SILLY JEWISH INITIATED IDEA, AND ISN'T ASHAMED TO PUBLICLY PROCLAIM IT. FAM FOR REAL PEOPLE DISAPPOINT ME. .

It's more silly when they replace God with JESUS

God is within us.. Not outside of us.. We are Gods on a human journey or walking a human path..

Martinez19:
Humans don't deserve such pathetic human construct(God).

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THE WORST IDĮOTS ARE THE PEOPLE THAT SAY DUMB THINGS LIKE "I AM NOTHING WITHOUT GOD. WITHOUT HIM I AM HOPELESS".

THOSE KINDS OF STATEMENTS MAKE ME LOSE MANNERS, AND REGARDS FOR THE PERSON WHO ATTRIBUTES HIS/HER SURVIVAL AND PERSONAL EFFORTS IN THIS CRUEL HARSH WORLD TO A SILLY JEWISH INITIATED IDEA, AND ISN'T ASHAMED TO PUBLICLY PROCLAIM IT. FAM FOR REAL PEOPLE DISAPPOINT ME. .

You both speak this way because you do not know the Living God. If you knew Him and realized that every breath you breathe comes from Him, you wouldn't be fighting against Him like a dying patient trying to rip off the oxygen machine that sustains them every second.

May I suggest the following link for you to read at your free time: A Sermon on Christ for Atheists.

DeSepiero:


It's more silly when they replace God with JESUS

The Lord Jesus Christ is also known as God the Son – the second person of the trinitarian Godhead consisting of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

sonmvayina:
God is within us.. Not outside of us.. We are Gods on a human journey or walking a human path..

We are not Gods. We are but men and women... frail, weak, fading humanity.

God is infinitely distinct and separate from man and indeed all of His creation.

ovaltine22:




You both speak this way because you do not know the Living God. If you knew Him and realized that every breath you breathe comes from Him, you wouldn't be fighting against Him like a dying patient trying to rip off the oxygen machine that sustains them every second.

So you know the living God?

ovaltine22:


We are not Gods. We are but men and women... frail, weak, fading humanity.

God is infinitely distinct and separate from man and indeed all of His creation.

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Read and understand genesis chapters 1&2...without it, the Bible will not make sense to you..
Read also psalm 82..we are spiritual beings having a human experience... God is in us we are in God...

I know it is over you.. Don't worry, keep studying when you old enough you will learn.. Continue to drink your milk, when you grow teeth, you can then eat meat.. Till then..

sonmvayina:
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Read and understand genesis chapters 1&2...without it, the Bible will not make sense to you..
Read also psalm 82..we are spiritual beings having a human experience... God is in us we are in God...

I know it is over you.. Don't worry, keep studying when you old enough you will learn.. Continue to drink your milk, when you grow teeth, you can then eat meat.. Till then..

I understand you. By virtue of the fact that we are God's creation, He is in us, and we are in Him.

What you should say is that His image is in all mankind since all men and women are made in the image of God.

ovaltine22:


I understand you. By virtue of the fact that we are God's creation, He is in us, and we are in Him.

What you should say is that His image is in all mankind since all men and women are made in the image of God.

Ok.. Why did you abandon your traditional heritage for a Jewish /roman one.. Do you have any knowledge of your heritage?