OUR "ACCEPTING" AND "WILLING" ARE REACTIONS RATHER THEN ACTIONS. Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. The master choice is His, the secondary choice is ours. But back of all this and preceding it is the sovereign right of God to call saints and determine destinies. We hear God say, "Whosoever will, let him come." We know by bitter experience the woe of an un-surrendered will and the blessedness or terror which may hang upon our human choice. ⇒ If you appreciated this book review, consider sharing it! Click below.God has made us in His likeness, and one mark of that likeness is our free will. When I finished reading it, I actually turned right back to page one and started to read it again! So much in this book personally challenged me. Those were just a few of the challenging thoughts in this book. With the Spirit we can understand the deep things of God.
The most brilliant mind may be imbecilic when confronted with the mysteries of God. When the Spirit illuminates our heart, a part of us “sees” that never saw before. We need an invasion of power from above! Tozier describes the Holy Spirit as buried dynamite, and its awesome power awaits discovery and use by the church. Only the Holy Spirit can show us what is wrong in our lives and prescribe a cure. But in our re-treat from the extremes of the charismatic movement, we have gone too far and out-rightly neglected the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.īible believing Christians need to put a moratorium on religious activity, and set their house in order. Too often we “fear” the Spirit because we are nervous of being labeled charismatic. Our life motives are changed and our inward drives made new. A genuine encounter with the Savior should begin the “divine conquest” of our lives. Real faith must always mean more than passive acceptance.
We must experience God!Ĭan a person become a believer in Christ and be no better than he was before? No. There is a big difference between knowing about God and knowing God. Doctrine, theological ideas, religious teaching…are all worthless if we have not had a genuine encounter with God.
I’ve read several books by Tozer, and this is by far the best and most personally challenging. I have an antique copy of The Divine Conquest, and it looks like the book was given a new title at some point: The Pursuit of Man: The Divine Conquest of the Human Heart. This book is the sequel to The Pursuit of God, which is perhaps Tozer’s most well known book. Recently I was browsing my “history” on amazon and saw a review I wrote in 2006 of: The Divine Conquest by A.W. Before I had a blog, I wrote some book reviews on amazon.
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