How to Cultivate the Holy Spirit's Companionship - A. W. Tozer Sermon
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How to Cultivate the Holy Spirit's Companionship - A. W. Tozer Sermon
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If you have read or heard classic "deeper life" Christian authors and/or preachers, i.e. Watchman Nee, Andrew Murray, A.B. Simpson, Leonard Ravenhill, then you will quite likely find this sermon by A.W. Tozer very edifying. May you be blessed.
Hailing from a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic and heeded the preachers advice.
In 1919, five years after his conversion, and without formal theological training, Tozer accepted an offer to pastor his first church. This began 44 years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant evangelical denomination; 33 of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches. His first pastorate was in a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia. Tozer also served as pastor for 30 years at Southside Alliance Church, in Chicago (1928 to 1959), and the final years of his life were spent as pastor of Avenue Road Church, in Toronto, Canada. In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt that the church was on a dangerous course toward compromising with "worldly" concerns.
In 1950, Tozer received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Wheaton College. It was May 1950, when Tozer was elected editor of the Alliance Weekly magazine, now called, Alliance Life, the official publication of the C&MA. From his first editorial, dated June 3, 1950, he wrote, "It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages, while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. But it will pay in the long run and the true Christian is not much interested in anything short of that." In 1952, he received an LL.D. degree from Houghton College.
Among the more than 40 books that he authored, at least two are regarded as Christian classics: The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. His books impress on the reader the possibility and necessity for a deeper relationship with God.
Living a simple and non-materialistic lifestyle, he and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, never owned a car, preferring bus and train travel. Even after becoming a well-known Christian author, Tozer signed away much of his royalties to those who were in need.
Tozer had seven children, six boys and one girl. He was buried in Ellet Cemetery, Akron, Ohio, with a simple epitaph marking his grave: "A. W. Tozer - A Man of God."
Prayer was of vital personal importance for Tozer. "His preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life," comments his biographer, James L. Snyder, in the book, In Pursuit of God: The Life Of A.W. Tozer. "He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them," writes Snyder.
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I had been introduced to his books before utube n internet. Now in my fifties, the Holy Ghost urged me to listen and refresh myself with his sermons. If you like him you will also like Charles spurgeon, john g lake n smith wigglesworth. However the Holy Ghost will lead you in your daily walk. God bless n see you in heaven Beloved reader n listeners.
Charles Sturgeon taught the heresy of Calvinism. Mark and avoid.
I am overwhelmed by these sermons , this man speaks straight to my heart , I listen to a new sermon every morning and I am chastened ....thank you for putting these on CZcams, in November 2020 we need this more than ever 🇬🇧
This is very valuable truth, Our LORD said in John 15: "I shall axk the Father and He will send you another comforter and He ( HOLY SPIRIT) will teach you all things in regards who I am" that is HIS work to teach us all things.
Any who wonder why God is no longer in schools and Christians are made fun of in the media should listen to this. WE have allowed it by choosing values and lifestyles apart from the Holy Spirit.
Praise God. The Spirit of truth is alive and active. Thank God for his boldness. I am learning a lot. My looking at the scriptures is changing.
God bless the people who saved these messages for future generations.
Tozer's message and description of the Church of his day rings even truer today.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing these sermons. Please Father God move your people in the earth to seek to be totally your children. That we would be willing to give our all to be Truly your children.
This man Preached
He speaks the truth in love. Dear Lord give us ears to hear and strengthen us through Your Holy Spirit to obey you.
It is 2020 and the days are short. Time to be serious about things of the Lord which is all that matters. NC churches are still closed, but we have a small prayer group to sing worship songs, pray, share a scripture. This may be what is to come.
Thanks be to God for the work and wisdom flowing through this his servant. He being dead yet speaketh.
My goodness how different is the preaching today. I understand we learn new things today. But the men like A.W. are needed today it saddens me how we have changed. God will never changed but we do. The Holy Spirit is so real 🙏 today we disregard the Spirit of God. Jesus is so awesome! Now I understand why some young men and women listen to dead old men. May I never forget!
"eat your way to heaven" haha! what excellent rebuking, reproving and exhorting! great preaching! preachers dont preach like this anymore!
I'm in love with this preacher. He makes everything make so much sense. I was wondering why I had a conflict with accepting the Holy Spirit. He just broke it down. I mean I found it in the Word a long time ago. I just lost my way. He brought me back to the "truth". Thank you for taking the time to upload.
In love with Jesus, not the preacher. He is only a vessel just like you!
I’m so happy I found this... I could listen to him talk for hours. What a man of God!
Praise the Lord for this sermon I thank Him for setting me apart at this time n cementing in me the née to cultivate the presence of Himself Pray that i will get better time time meet and impart same to my sons and grandchildren
Amazing man of God who has transformed my walk with his teaching. Tozer and Derek Prince 2 of my favourites!
I have read and studied A. W. Tozer since I was 33 years old. At this time in my life it touches me more then ever. As a woman of the Lord I feel so privileged to come across this Jewel of the Holy Spirit message. To relax in Him, the Lord guides. What a peace that surpassess all understanding. Doing much, is being less, being loved by our Lord is the best place to be. Thank you Holy Father.
I remember feeling hurt because working much I was wondering why no one took pictures. It was because I was busy about His work. I will stop wondering. Praise Him.
Thankful for this message Jesus. Be with me to continue working for You.
Tozer, a man of God
i needed this message. Thank God for men like this. I pray more people would hear these solid messages not the candy coated messages that are in most every church. /Jesus is coming soon I am ready and I am afraid of how many people "playing christian" will be left behind. Thank You Jesus for the gift of the Holy spirit in my life. Be holy because He is Holy. God bless.
The word of GOD coming out of Pastor Tozer is like a flawless flowing water as put by E. M. Bounds in his book POWER THROUGH PRAYER! I am collecting his sermons. God will bless me through them!
I love to learn everything about the Holy Spirit ❤
Wow...A.W. Tozer was SO right about the future which is TODAY! Lord God the Father Help the Church!
I'm just meeting AW Tozer. I never listened to any of his messages, but I'll be listening to his messages for days to come
I felt the same way when I discovered Tozer. Practical, Godly preaching is rare in every generation. It is amazing how relevant his examples of 'types' of believers still are today. It really is true that nothing really changes, thankfully the Word of God is constant because the old lies and deceits simply change clothes and constantly reappear to snare the unwary in every generation. Hope you've learned lots since discovering this marvelous preaching.
As a child I thought these sermons were soooo boring. I'm 48 yrs old and all I want to do now is listen and hear. Why is that? I adore these old sermons now. Wish I had back then.
I truly love this mans precious gospel message.
Thank you so so so much for publishing. I have been listening David Wilkerson so much
Brother AW Tozer is alive with the holy spirit. even now in this age Tozers Sermons will change our lives. I give thanks to our Father God .. listen hear learn and live with the Holy Spirit Amen...
Amen - Preach it !
we have so many luke warm churches with luke warm preachers !!!
The Holy Spirit is for all who accept with faith
I feel so grateful that Holy Spirit spoke the ones who have brought back the true followers of Christ to give the Word in Truth and in Spirit, ie; Spurgeon, Tozer,Torrey, Murray, Wilkerson and the likes. I've learned of them in Millersburg, Ohio and Holmes county, Ohio five years ago. Thank you for this channel.
You have a great channel friend. Thank you and God bless you.
the holy spirit speaks through him and he changed my life
What a tremendous blessing this was. The conviction was strong and much needed. Thank You Lord for placing this message in the life You've given me.
Enjoyed this sermon very much. Sure is true for this age. I read "The Pursuit of God." A.W. Tozer knew my lord! Our hearts could walk together on earth and in heaven. I left all for ALL about ten years ago.... I have never regretted that decision. Thank you for the person who listed this sermon. I was able to hear it and it is a great reminder of many wonderful Truths that not many preach today. God bless you.
just finished reading the pursuit of God and I already want to read it again! so much in that book has both tore me up and touched my spirit deeply. the Holy Spirit was present in every word
Thank you so much. Wasnt aware that You Tube had this. Wonderful message. And timely warning.
Thank you for uploading this wonderful mighty man of God! I recent heard of him while watching Jimmy Swaggart, "The Message of the Cross" broadcast. I had no idea who this preacher of the Gospel was until this evening, I have also been brought back to the truth. This is the truth taught to me when I had received Christ, through the years of my walk I became caught up in pomp and circumstance; a show......
BUT THANK GOD HE IS BRINGING ME BACK TO THE CROSS!!!!!!
God Bless you.
Thank you for this wonderful comment. I was blessed in its reading. May God bless you as well, Mistie :-)
I thank GOD for His truly HOLYSPIRIT filled servant- A W Tozer and his passion for The HOLY TRINITY and all that is of You and helping me treasure my companionship with HOLYSPIRIT in JESUS' Precious Name. I pray that every listener will be convicted to make a commitment of humility and tenderness with love for GOD!
Thanks so much for sharing these treasures
Thank you for uploading these sermons. God bless you.
Thank you for sharing these teachings !! God bless
God is good. I thank God for the preservation of His Word. Thank God for you.
Pure gold
Tozer speaks are awesome they contain some parts of these audio on these two books, Tozer was very anointed and deep messages so blessed by all his messages. Ty and God bless.
Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah!
Thanks for uploading these messages. I read Tozers books in the 70’s and greatly impacted my life. Make sure CZcams pays you 😁👍
Stay blessed 🙏
Thanks for this message it is a timely word for me and for the church in this generation!
Awesome!! Amen!!
Amen :-)
Tozer nails the heart of it every time, laying bare what needs to be burnt away like dross if we are to follow God and to live a Holy life and not just desire a comfortable, social religion that enriches our life.
I like to recap so when I want to review the message again, I have some of the nuggets here."We are like a man who owns a property, a little poor scrubby field, and he works it year in and year out, and get barely enough to keep alive out of this little field." "He disregards or maybe he never knew it, that, underneath his little farm is oil." "If he would only knew it he could have riches that put him on the finest avenue, and let him drive a cadillac, and live infinest section of any city, and own property in florida, but he is satisfied to live on a grubby little farm that doesn't produce. "Christians are like that today."
" If only we knew it and dug down a little we would have fountains of holy oil flowing that would enrich our lives and would change everything." "Instead of being christians in poverty, we would be christians with the very riches of God." One mistake we make is to think that one experience with the Holy Spirit is enough. I can know him better every day of to the end of my life. "The Holy Spirit cannot be known in one encounter, he must be cultivated."
"Many are not ready to cultivate the Holy Spirit." "You must give up the all for the ALL, The Father, Son and Holy Spirit." "You aren't willing to give up all things for all of God." "The world is full of plurality." We fall in love with these things. The Holy Spirit is bringing us to a singularity, this one We think we can have a little bit of earth and a little bit of heaven. "
That is why they never strike oil, because they are willing to have a little bit of heaven and a little bit of earth but they are unwilling to give up all to have the All." They accept Christ as an insurance policy." They are willing to change our lives, but just a little bit." We look to the church for it's social value, a social center. "
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"Many are not christians in the fine sense of the word. They are more influenced by hollywood then jerusalem, in their language." "They never let God do anything with them. They have never let God change them. They have never let any transformation take place." "We are left with a little bit of God, but not much of God and not much of scripture."
" We want a thrill, American people want a thrill. They want the Holy Spirit and religion for the thrill of it. Heavenly Olveteen, a pick up drink. It works to ways, religion is about the same thing. Heavenly Olveteen, Sent down to pick us up when we are down and put us down when we are up." "You want the thrill of it but not the Holiness of it." "You want the joy of it but not the duty of it."
"Can two walk together unless they agree? No. They have to have major points of agreement. If they are going to walk together they have to agree on destination, route, direction, and if it is to our advantage to walk together and if they want to go together. . We have to agree on one route. " We cannot walk with the Holy Spirit unless we are going to walk the way he walks and go the way he wants to go." the spirit filled way must be a holy way. There are those with no intention of cleaning up their lives. They are interested in the spirit. But they are not interested in a HOLY SPIRIT. They want the thrill of the Holy spirit, a thrill, but they don't want holiness. "
" The spirit filled life, must be a Holy life, for the spirit of the Lord is sensitive and he is not going to dwell in an unholy life, a life that loves sin". "He does not' require a holy place to come in, but her requires that that place should be holy after he comes in. He makes the place he is glorious where he dwells. Wherever he lights down, he makes the heart glorious. "The Spirit of God came to man to make him holy and make him able to witness." "You can only be filled with the spirit if you are willing to be no body, unheard of unknown, walking in the quiet backways of the world, in the shadow of great men." "They get the praise and you get overlooked. For the very desire to be great cancels out all the work of God and flesh if he is going to make a man holy."
"The greatest gift of the whole wide world is a meek and docile heart. A meek and quiet heart, which is in the sight of God a great price." The Holy one begins to break the colt, after awhile the whole nature of the animal changes. "IF two are to walk together, there must be a oneness that comes from the spirit of God."
"To Cultivate the acquaintance of the Holy Spirit means I must be willing to be one with him." Cultivate the Holy Spirit's acquaintance by walking with him, surrendering to him. " "When we decide to walk together, what a difference it makes." "Evangelical christianity is on the way out." there is often there no more spirituality there then there is at a meeting at the high school." "We hold to our doctrine and are going to pieces in our living and our message, and our objectives, and unless God can get a few people filled with the Holy Ghost and create a revival again." "What are we going to leave to our children?"
" If we live any amount of time and the Lord tarries. This is a most serious question." "Unless you younger people are willing to pay the price they paid and live the way they lived, and be as reckless and daring as they were, and as attached to the person of Jesus in exclusive radical attachment, we are going to leave a full shooty church to our children."
How I love listening to A.W. Tozer
this is true Christianity. lots of what he said was so prophetic.
Great
Oh, you're talking about the background noise. I do apologize for that, but I am not resonsible for it. A lot of these sermons are quite old, and not all of them will be in perfect condition.
Spot on...the part abt 2 part scripture 1 part newspaper and something I read out of a book some out of my head I cant quote the exact sentence but wow I was that way for yrs and I know alot still are.. I love the older preachings vs todays ....today everyone's so worried abt ppls feelings they pretty the gospel up somerhings have to be said in order that we might recognize it in us and be convicted and led to repent
John, chapter 14, is the cornerstone that Peter Stands on. The Spirit of God in John, chapter 14, verse 26, is the rebirth of Spirit spoken of by Immanuel, God with us. The book of John, chapters 14, through 17, Teach us how to have the Spirit of Truth, live within us... Please forgive everyone from the Heart.
Churches today are feasting instead of fasting.
You're welcome, Dave. Glad you found it a timely word :-)
Thanx
You're welcome, Billy.
I wonder what Pastor Tozer thought of C.S. Lewis.
Any references?
♡♡♡Love The Pastor
Is there a transcript of this sermon available?
amen
At what point during the video did you experience disruptions?
Please, can someone translate the preach into spanish?? thanks
Try turning on the cc or closed captioning. It should be in your language
does this man not have any audio books? i know he has books but i wanted his sermons i guess i can download these sermons. right?
at 30:14 what was the name of the book he was talking about?
Thanks
We spend so much time working a poor field for a few tomatoes, when the whole time, oil that would make you rich is underground. Most believers never dig for the oil. Why? You must give up all for the ALL (God the Holy Spirit). We like the world and are satisfied by it, so we settle for an insurance policy from Jesus. Some want the Holy Spirit for its peace or thrill. Amos 3:3-Can two walk together unless they agree?-they must agree. They must agree on direction, pace, destination, path, we have to agree that it’s an advantage to be together.-The way of the Spirit, is a Holy Way-Most don’t want to clean up there life, the Holy Spirit will not dwell in a unholy life. He makes the place of His feet glorious. The Holy Spirit never came to a man to make him famous, celebrity popular, or the next Billy Graham, but a Holy Witness. You can only be filled with the Holy Spirit if you want to be a nobody. The Holy Spirit wants to make you Meek (power under control-a strong horse that has been tamed, under control of the Holy Spirit.). You must become One with the Holy Spirit-One mind, One outlook, One Voice-Harmony-we must begin to cultivate a desire what the Holy Spirit desires. Surrender and desire friendship with Holy Spirit. Jesus we ask for a pure desire to surrender to the Holy Spirit-to give up the all, for the ALL. To walk with you, talk with you, be one mind with Holy Spirit.
At 30:13 he referenced a book, anybody hear the title?
Did anyone get the name of the book he referred to in this sermon ?
A little late, but I believe it's 'The Cloud of Unknowing'.
Facing myself in utter disgust at what I see. Now on my face before a Holy God. Thy will be done.
the holy spirit speaks through him and he changed my life