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A. W. Tozers Men Who Met God is a compelling survey of seven biblical figures who had the tremendous experience of walking and communing with God in some fashionin the coolness of the afternoon, through a burning bush, in personal discussion, or by another divinely inspired method.
Originally preached as a series of sermons by A. W. Tozer at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago, this compilation enlightens the mind and cuts to the heart in the way weve come to expect from Tozer.
May you be moved toward God as you see how men of old encountered his Awesome Presence.
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THE MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version.
Cover design by Erik M. Peterson
Back cover author illustration by Kelsey Fehlberg
Cover photo of board room by Garrett Sears on Unsplash.
Previously published by Christian Publications, Inc.
First Christian Publications Edition 1986
First WingSpread Publishers Edition 2009
First Moody Publishers Edition 2017
LOC Control Number: 2009939377
ISBN: 978-0-8024-1842-5
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For a quarter of a century, it was my great privilege to know Aiden Wilson Tozer well. Our paths crossed at Bible conferences and at denominational meetings. I preached in his church. I was in his home.
Almost without fail, whenever we met, we prayed together. In those sacred moments the presence of God was very real as Tozer talked to the One about whom he preached and wrote.
When in 1953 Tozer suffered a heart attack, he accepted an invitation from my wife and me to convalesce in our Florida parsonage. During those weeks, my wife and I looked after him. With him I read galleys of his book, The Knowledge of the Holy.
Tozer was a great preacher, widely sought after. He addressed some of North Americas largest religious gatherings. But acclaim never turned him from the simplicity and genuineness he learned as a boy on the farm in his beloved Pennsylvania.
Largely self-taught, he knew language like few others. He was a precise craftsman in its use. But those who pressed to hear him preach, including great numbers of college and university students, found in A. W. Tozer more than a master word-smith. They saw in him a man to whom the knowledge of God and Christian experience were supreme realities.
The spirituality Tozer enjoined was always wholesome, positive, biblical. There were flashes of wit in his preaching, and there was refreshing humor. Invariably, people were challenged to know God better. They went away with hearts warmed and minds renewed.
The chapters of this book were originally some of the sermons Tozers congregations listened to so eagerly. Under the skillful hand of Gerald B. Smith, compiler and editor, what once made good hearing now makes good reading.
Men Who Met God is A. W. Tozer at his best. Simple. Genuine. Compelling. Look for mature insight, moral earnestness, unfaltering logic. Be surprised by the sudden jolt of a pointed remark.
This is a book worthy of sharing with spouse, family and friends. It bears reading aloud. One way to grow in God is to nourish your soul with high thoughts about Him. In this book, Aiden Wilson Tozer will show you the way.
Robert W. Battles
Orlando, Florida
1986
CHAPTER
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and we never apologize for true Christian experience
W E ARE IN tune with the plain teachings of the Bible when we attach great importance to genuine Christian experience. But I will take immediate objection to the charge, Tozer preaches experience ! I do not preach experience. I preach Christ. That is my calling, and I will always be faithful to that calling.
Nevertheless, I want to shed some light on this matter of experience. I insist that the effective preaching of Jesus Christ, rightly understood, will produce spiritual experience in Christian believers . Moreover, if Christian preaching does not produce spiritual experience and maturing in the believer, the preaching is not being faithful to the Christ revealed in the Scriptures!
Let me say it again another way. The Christ of the Bible is not rightly known until there is an experience of Him within the believer, for our Savior and Lord offers Himself to human experience.
When Jesus says, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, it is an invitation to a spiritual experience. He is saying, Will you consent to come? Will you make this a journey for your heart, not your feet? Have you added determination to your consent? Then come. Come now!
Jesus Christ, truly known and loved and followed , becomes a spiritual experience for seeking men and women. That, in essence, is the thesis of this book.
As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known, loved and honored.
God spoke to me through a street preacher as he read Jesus words I already quoted from Matthew 11:28: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
That invitation let me know that Jesus is still saying, Come. Come now! I went home and up into the attic, where I would be undisturbed. There in earnest prayer I gave my heart and life to Jesus Christ. I have been a Christian ever since.
My feet took me home and into the attic. But it was not my feet that went to Jesus. It was my heart. Within my heart I consented to go to Jesus. I made the determination, and I went!
I am positive about the validity, the reality and the value of Christian experience. Jesus is a person and He has all the attributes of personality. We can talk to Him just as we talk to our other friends. He says, Come to me and tell me all your troubles. You can tell Him anything. You can say anything to the Lord Jesus you want to say.
If you find His way hard, tell Him so. He does not get angry, and He does not turn away from you. Why should we not tell Him everything? He already knows everything about us!
Yes, our Lord gives Himself to us in experience. David says, O taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8). Either that is a wild figure of speech that must be discarded as visionary, or it means something. I think it means something.
I believe the Holy Spirit was saying through David, You have taste buds in your soul for tasting, for experiencing spiritual things. Taste and experience that God is good!
Our shortcoming in spiritual experience is our tendency to believe without confirmation. God Himself does not need to confirm anything within His being. But we are not God. We are humans, and in matters of our faith we need confirmation within ourselves .
Why are so many Christian believers ineffective, anemic, disappointed, discouraged? I think the answer is that we need confirmation within ourselves and we are not getting it.
I have no doubt that God, in love and grace and mercy, awaits to confirm His presence among those who will truly hunger and thirst after righteousness . For a long while I have been on record insisting that true spiritual experience is conscious awareness, illustrated early in the Old Testament by Abrams personal realization and knowledge of the presence of God.
In the Christian church, genuine spiritual experience goes back to the apostlesactually back to our Lord Himself. I do not refer to a dream while a person sleeps. I do not refer to something a person has buried in his or her subconsciousness. I refer to a conscious intelligence, an awareness.
The human personality has a right to be consciously aware of a meeting with God. There will be a spiritual confirmation, an inward knowledge or witness.
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