You have been called out of the world to seek the Lord.

You have been called out of the world to seek the Lord.

“ate together with all who had separated themselves from the filth of the nations of the land in order to seek the LORD God of Israel.” (Ezra 6:21)

“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,” (Col 1:13)

“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.” (Eph 5:8)

“how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God” (1Thes 1:9)

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (Jn 15:19)

“to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18)

“just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Eph 1:4)

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” (1Jn 3:1)

“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” (1Jn 4:9)

“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” (1Jn 2:15)

“for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world” (2Tim 4:10)

“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” (Ps 42:2)

“My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” (Ps 84:2)

“But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King.” (Jer 10:10)

“For He is the living God, and steadfast forever; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed,” (Dan 6:26)

“There it shall be said to them, You are sons of the living God.” (Hos 1:10)

“Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Jn 6:69)

“Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.” (1Tim 6:17)

“For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.” (1Tim 4:10)

“which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (1Tim 3:15)

“And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they shall be called sons of the living God.” (Rom 9:26)

“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matt 16:16)

“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (Jn 8:12)

“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.” (Jn 17:9)

Reading: Ezra 4-6; Acts 2