The Big Ideas to Approaching God and How?
Part of Sermons
August 3, 2023

Big ideas to approaching God:
- God wants your

even more than he wants your obedience.
- God will only take as as we take .
- There is no for closeness with God.
- Make of God.

It all

with God.
“You’re not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me – that’s the only way you’ll ever come.”
- John 6:44 (The Message)

God calls us to a

.
“but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.”
- John 10:26-27 (NIV)

God sets the

, and the are in his .

Approach God in

.

“The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.”
- Psalm 51:17 (NLT)

“The proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored.”
- Luke 18:14 (Paraphrased)

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Calls for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount – I’m fixed upon it –
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for Thy courts above.