Hebrews 11:6

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Hebrews 116

• Without faith it is impossible to please Him,
  for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
  and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
  seek Him.

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Diligently Seekekzeteo (kzhtv)

• 1. To seek in order to find a. to seek a thing
  b. to seek in order to find out by thinking,
  meditating, reasoning, to enquire into c. to
  seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after

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Diligently Seekekzeteo (kzhtv)

• 2. to seek i.e. require, demand, a. to crave,
  demand something from someone
• (Thayers Greek-English Lexicon
  of the New Testament, 195).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• I. General Usage.
• A. Papyri Non-literary Sources.
• Death seeking to change man
• Seeking the guilty
• Seeking money

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• I. General Usage.
• B. Literary sources (zeteo).
• Xenophon, seeking divine things (Memorobilia,
  1.1.15).
• Plato, seeking and inquiring to expose false
  wisdom (Apology 23b).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• II. Greek Old Testament.
• A. Divine reckoning (Gen. 95).
• B. Seeking Divine judgment (Exodus 1815).
• C. Seeking reconciliation to God
  (Deuteronomy 429).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• II. Greek Old Testament.
• D. Keeping statutes (Psalm 119145, 155
  LXX 118).
• E. Seeking salvation (Amos
  55-7).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• III. New Testament.
• A. Divine reckoning
  (Luke 1147-51).
• B. Gentiles seeking the Lord (Acts
  1515-20).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• III. New Testament.
• C. What the wicked to not do
  (Rom 310-12 Psalm 141-2).
• D. Seeking to change choices (Hebrews
  1214-17).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• III. New Testament.
• E. Seeking to understand the plans of
  God (1 Pet 110-12).

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• IV. Application.
• This demands our attention.
• It involves obedience.
• The sinner must seek God quickly.

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Those Who Diligently Seek Him (Hebrews 116)

• IV. Application.
• We should seek to know more and more of the
  things of God.
• One day it will be too late to diligently
  seek Him.