Seeking God: The Wicked: Sometimes Pretend To

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Ezra 4:2
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as you do; and we do sacrifice to him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up here.
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Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
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Letter vi. Temptation.
... called destroyer; and is said to walk about, seeking whom he ... in prosperity, that
we forget not God; and in ... my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me ...
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Solitude, Silence, Submission
... know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me ... I recollect that, when
I first was seeking the Lord, I ... to a man, and not a penny in the pound to God? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 42 1896/solitude silence submission.htm

Elijah's Appeal to the Undecided
... But I am now speaking to you who are seeking to serve ... but say at once, "Now God is
my God, and that ... or that mischief that brings joy to the wicked man's heart ...
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The Two Guards, Praying and Watching
... Sometimes, when we have seen men plotting against God, seeking to ruin the souls
of ... we were as hearty and united in the service of God as wicked men are in ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/the two guards praying and.htm

On Trusting in the Mercy of God.
... I have is that I have a desperately wicked heart ... of being an infinite tyrant, and
of seeking to crush ... that excuse self, and cavils that arraign God, stand alike ...
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"The Carnal Mind is Enmity against God for it is not Subject to ...
... and jealous, and ye are not only weak, but wicked. ... wander abroad from hill to mountain,
seeking some inherent ... how will you submit to the righteousness of God? ...
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Election Confirmed by the Calling of God. The Reprobate Bring Upon ...
... They will in vain torment themselves in seeking for a ... shortly after shows that they
were elected by God. When the wicked hear these things, they complain that ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 24 election confirmed by.htm

Submit Yourselves Therefore to God. James 4:7.
... glorify him, is a very different thing from seeking supremely our ... and he must submit
to it; for God has taken ... he desires not the death of the wicked, but that ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/submit yourselves therefore to god.htm

Accidents, not Punishments
... true that a pleasure-boat, in which men were seeking their own ... righteous man is poor
as well as the wicked, and that ... If there be a God, he must be just; and if ...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Or, a Brief Relation of ...
... some, who though when they were under wounds of conscience, would cry and pray;
yet seeking rather present ... There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. ...
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Subtopics

Seeking

Seeking God

Seeking God by Prayer

Seeking God in his House

Seeking God is Never in Vain

Seeking God: Afflictions Designed to Lead To

Seeking God: Asa

Seeking God: Blessedness of

Seeking God: Commanded

Seeking God: Daniel

Seeking God: David