If you were to sit down before God this morning personally, just in a private conversation

between the two of you and God were to say to you, come now, let's reason together. What

is it in your life that God would need to reason with about you? Well, I want us to look

at this passage in the light of two things because there are only two things spoken in this

passage. The first one is this. Here he says to us that God has called man and the second

thing he says is that man must respond to God's call. There is no such thing as avoiding

the call of God. God has issued a call to man, come now, let's reason together about your

life. And he says that man will respond to that call. And so let's examine two, three things.

Here, first of all, the fact that God has called man who has taken the initiative. Now,

listen carefully. Man on his own does not reach out to search out and to find God. In the

very beginning, we see that man doesn't seek God. God seeks after man. It is not in the heart

of man to pursue God. It is in the heart of God to pursue man. God has always taken the initiative.

All the way through the Old Testament, it is God sending His prophets to warn His people

out their sins. They're not out searching for God. They're not rushing to worship Him in their

wickedness, in their sinfulness. It is God who sends His prophets to warn His people of their

way when His. When you come to the New Testament, is it not true that God condescended to come to

earth in the personal of Jesus Christ? What did He come? He came to reveal the true nature of God.

He came to make it possible for man who live on earth to find God who dwells in heaven by God

coming to earth in Christ to live among man and to make it possible for man who lives on earth

to go to heaven where God lives. God takes the initiative in the third chapter of Romans,

the 11th verse, what does Paul say? He says, no man seeks it after God. It is God who seeks man.

There is none righteous, no not one. Man isn't seeking God. God is seeking men. What is it that man

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