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Summary of Tozer Speaks to Students
Tozer Speaks to Students is a compelling collection of sermons and writings by A. W. Tozer, curated to speak directly to the hearts and minds of young believers and students. Edited by Lyle W. Dorsett, the book aims to inspire a new generation to pursue a deeper, more authentic relationship with God, emphasizing the importance of spiritual integrity, humility, and passionate devotion.
The book opens with an introduction by Dorsett, who contextualizes Tozer’s teachings for contemporary readers, highlighting Tozer’s lifelong obsession with knowing God and his desire to ignite that same passion in students. Dorsett underscores Tozer’s emphasis on the seriousness of Christian faith, urging students not to settle for superficial religion but to seek a profound encounter with the divine.
A central theme in Tozer’s messages is the necessity of a personal, vibrant relationship with God. He challenges students to examine their spiritual lives critically, warning against complacency and the dangers of nominal Christianity. Tozer believed that true faith requires deliberate effort—an intentional pursuit of God through prayer, study, and worship. He encourages students to cultivate humility, recognizing their dependence on God's grace, and to reject arrogance or complacency that can hinder spiritual growth.
Tozer also speaks passionately about the importance of holiness and sanctification. He reminds students that holiness is not optional but essential for those who desire to reflect Christ’s character. For Tozer, holiness is a pursuit rooted in love for God, requiring commitment, discipline, and an ongoing surrender of the self. He emphasizes that purity of heart and sincerity in worship are vital for effective service and genuine Christian witness.
The book addresses the challenges faced by students—cultural pressures, doubts, distractions, and the temptation to conform. Tozer urges students to stand firm, grounded in the truth of Scripture and the reality of God's presence. He advocates for a life marked by spiritual discipline, emphasizing that genuine transformation begins from within and manifests outwardly through love, humility, and service.
Throughout his messages, Tozer stresses the importance of worship—both personal and corporate—as the highest activity of the believer. He describes worship as the soul’s response to God's greatness and majesty, asserting that true worship transforms the worshiper. He encourages students to develop a lifestyle of worship that influences every aspect of their lives, shaping their attitudes, decisions, and relationships.
In conclusion, Tozer’s teachings in this collection serve as a call to authenticity and fervor in the Christian life. He challenges students to pursue God passionately, to seek holiness diligently, and to live with a sense of divine purpose. His words remain relevant, inspiring students to deepen their spiritual walk, embrace humility, and commit wholeheartedly to following Christ.
Overall, Tozer Speaks to Students is both a spiritual awakening and a practical guide for young believers seeking to navigate the complexities of faith in the modern world, rooted firmly in the timeless truths of Scripture and the passionate pursuit of God's presence.
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These are eleven sermons that Aiden Wilson Tozer delivered to students at Pierce Chapel, Wheaton College. Edited with an introduction by Lyle W. Dorsett. Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded by evangelical abolitionists in 1860. Wheaton College was a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduated one of Illinois' first black college graduates.
Here is a brief summary of the contents.
01 - Introduction by Lyle W. Dorsett.
Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorates. Prayer was of vital personal importance - he had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them.
02 - Spiritual Power
It is my belief that the forgotten, or at least neglected, doctrine of our day, the most important one of them all after atonement itself, is that we, as God’s redeemed people, have a right to expect and receive from Him by faith, a power that will do in us what all the poor religions of the world can never do. This power will bring to us the shining face of Jesus, and make Him real within us, so that not only the moral, theological, and ethical qualities are present, but also the mystical quality — the sight of the face of Jesus Christ within the human breast. There is not a lovelier sight. May God grant that we may understand this, believe it, and enter into it.
[This message was delivered at a Wheaton College chapel service on February 28, 1952.]
03 - Preparing the Way for the Lord
Luke 3:1-6. "Prepare ye the way of the Lord." These words were spoken by a man of God in a particular time; it has a particular and specific historic setting, and it can be understood that way. God was preparing a people for the greatest event that ever took place in this world—the manifestation of the Messiah. In order to do that He had to prepare the people morally to understand Him and to receive Him. That is the historic setting, but remember these words also have application for today because they constitute a spiritual principle which God has laid down and from which He has never varied during the centuries. It is always that way. If God is preparing to bless a man, that man has to get ready.
I know that will shock some people, because there is a badly conceived theory abroad that God does it all; all you and I have to do is be born. After that God just picks us up on eagle wings and sweeps us irresistibly through to the crown at last. I cannot imagine how such a notion could ever have lodged itself in heads as small as ours are, but it is there. Consequently, it is necessary to point out that this is an error and that the principle of God's operation is that when He is about to do something unusual for a nation, a church, an individual, He gets that individual, or nation, or church morally ready. John was sent to do that very thing.
You cannot get God over on our side at all on that; we have to come over to God's side. There is no such thing as coming to God, the Eternal One, and making terms. God makes the terms and you accept them, that is all. God never changes. God is not reconciled; rather, God is propitiated and man is reconciled because the change is not in God, the change is in me.
God always remains the same, like the sun that shines, asking no questions, shining His Holy Grace upon mankind. If you pull down the blinds, the sun cannot get in, and these blinds have been pulled down long enough in our hearts.
Why not now? Are you interested in this revival, or is it just another thing you attend because it is interesting? Are you concerned for your own soul? Do you want something new from God? Do you want to enter in from the twilight into the sunlight? Do you want to move from half-spirituality into the full-blazing light of God's love and be a spiritual man or woman? Then, let us be very frank and bold and honest. Let us look into our own hearts and our own lives and our own conduct fairly with the light of God's Word. If you find there that there are hindrances and blocks, let us courageously remove them. And without any urging on God's part, God will move in on your life and transform it wondrously.
[This sermon was an evangelistic message delivered at Wheaton College, Pierce Chapel, September 29, 1952.]
04 - Grieve not the holy Spirit
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:30)
The Spirit of the Lord is present in the world. This is taught in the Bible. One of the old wisdom books of the Apocrypha says, "The Spirit of the Lord fills the world." Just as our souls permeate our bodies and just as the air fills all space around the earth, so the blessed Holy Spirit is here.
"Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him. For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him. ... For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
"For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice. Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him. For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked deeds. For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid. Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.
"Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
"For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth: (For righteousness is immortal:) But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it. [Read Wisdom chapter 1, KJVA]
You may have been praying for a long time for your pal, and he is not saved yet. Maybe he could be, but he has not seen in you that which makes him want what you have. A grieved Holy Ghost keeps the light out of your countenance. Let us be serious. Let us cut everything else to the bone, and let us deal with our relation to this Person who is in our midst.
[This sermon was delivered at Wheaton College, Pierce Chapel, September 30, 1952.]
05 - The enemy within
Let us look at the word “self.” It went for a walk one night with a man named Adam, and it got in bad company, so the word “self” is a bad word now in theological circles, as well it ought to be. Somebody said, “Turn it around, tack an ‘h’ on it, and you have ‘flesh.’” S E L F >> F L E S + "H" = FLESH
That is true also, but God is the originating Self out of which all other selves originate, and there is nothing sinful there. God is that holy Being, unsupported, independent, and Self-existent.
There is a self that is deeper than all that, and it must die or it will keep you down. Do you want to be saved from yourself, that unreconstructed rebel within your spirit, that stubborn self-will that flings your head and says, “I will”? Do you want to be saved from it?
I only know one way. You cannot discipline it out of you; that will help but will not kill it. You cannot educate it out of you; that will refine you but it will not kill self. Only the cross of Jesus can slay the enemy within my breast.
Oh cross, that lifteth up my head, I dare not ask to hide from thee;
I lay in dust, life’s glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.
[This sermon was delivered at Wheaton College, Pierce Chapel, September 30, 1952.]
The words are quoted from the Author: George Matheson (1882)
1 O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in Thee;
I give Thee back the life I owe,
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
2 O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to Thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in Thy sunshine's blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.
3 O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain
That morn shall tearless be.
4 O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from Thee;
I lay in dust life's glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.
Amen.
Matheson, George, D.D., [1842-1906], was born at Glasgow, March 27, 1842, and although deprived of his eyesight in youth he passed a brilliant course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. In 1868 he became the parish minister at Innellan; and subsequently of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh. He was the Baird Lecturer in 1881, and St. Giles Lecturer in 1882. He has published several important prose works. His poetical pieces were collected and published in 1890 as Sacred Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. In addition to his hymn "O Love that wilt not let me go" (q. v.), four others from his Sacred Songs are in Dr. A. C. Murphey's Book of Common Song, Belfast, 1890. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907).
06 - Wounds from God
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. (Proverbs 27:6)
I want to talk to you about the faithful wounds of God. I have been thinking about a woman who lived 600 years ago and what she said about wounds. She lived before Luther’s time and of course never heard of the Protestants. Nevertheless, I am sure that if she had ever met Luther she would have come out wholeheartedly on the side of the Evangelicals, because she was Evangelical, born out of due time.
She was an Englishwoman and has only written, so far as I know, one book, and it is so small that you could tuck it into your pocket and hardly have a bulge. It is called Revelations of Divine Love. I speak, of course, of Lady Julian.
Lady Julian was a Spirit-enlightened woman who met God without very much light and put to shame the people of today who have lots of light and fail to meet Him often. She met Him, God revealed His truth to her, and in this little book she made a great deal of God. God was her all in all — the Blissful Trinity, as she called God. She made a great deal of man’s terrible sin, and particularly her terrible sin.
She also emphasized with great joy what she called the making of amends through Jesus’ dreadful suffering. She brought the atonement before our gaze and held it in full focus until we could weep for the joy of knowing that though we had sinned so against the Blissful Trinity, one of that Trinity had come and in His hard suffering on the cross had canceled out all our demerit.
Jesus Christ made us acceptable to God so that we could be what she called in her archaic English, “one with God,” that is, united with God.
First was the wound of very contrition. Her whole concept of sin was so pointed, so sharp, so painful to her that she was afraid to take the goodness of God without allowing the grief of sin to do its healing work in her heart. She prayed that she might never get so far up that she would forget that she had been a sinner and that sin had wounded the second Person of the Blessed Trinity. She begged God to let her feel the sharp sword of sin.
The second is the wound of kind compassion. Lady Julian wanted to suffer with Jesus and feel as He felt about the world and grieve with the world.
Last, there is the wound of an earnest longing after God, as Lady Julian called it. I do not want to go maudlin on you here. I am not one ever to introduce the romantic sex-relationship, that we call “falling in love,” because sometimes I just get embarrassed when I hear evangelists getting too intimate. It is proper to stay within the bounds of Scripture when I say that love is a kind of wound.
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend” (Proverbs 27:6). The world will kiss you and then betray you, the flesh will fondle you and then betray you, but the faithful God will wound you deep and then heal you as deep as He wounds you. He will cleanse, purge, purify and make you “one with God,” as the old lady said. Is that not what your heart longs for?
[This message was delivered at Wheaton College, Pierce Chapel, date unknown.]
07 - Five keys to the Faithful Christian Life
If you are going on with God and you are going to leave the dead level of dull Christianity and climb Jacob’s ladder and get into the rarefied air where the saints of the ages have lived, then you have got to take some vows. David vowed his vows, and he said he paid them.
You have got to vow to deal with sin thoroughly. We have misunderstood grace in our day. According to some historians, one British preacher so preached grace as to lower the moral standards of the nation.
Point number two is, and this is going to be harder to understand, we have to vow never to own anything. I will tell you what I mean by that. This came to me at one of the critical moments in my life, and I will never cease to thank God that He wrought this in me. It is not a theory which I have gotten from somewhere, not something I read in an old book, or got off a wall motto, but it is a living, burning, blazing reality to my spirit, that before God can do much for His children, He’s got to detach them from earthly things.
It is useless for you to drive yourself and say, “Now I have got to do this and this and this.” Forget it and relax. Get detached and say, “God, I have no ambitions. Show me what you want me to do.” And then out of your relaxed, consecrated, quiet heart will come rivers of living water and God will take over and guide you.
Moses, we say, led the children of Israel through the wilderness. He did no such thing; Moses followed a cloud that was leading him. Moses was detached from things, and you and I must be, so there is point number two. Vow never to own anything and then maybe God will let you own a great deal, but it will be where it should be and will not hurt you.
Then, vow never to pass on a rumor that is injurious to anybody. This may not seem quite important enough to fit in, but I have found it so. I have learned that gossip is a very deadly thing in the Church of Jesus and it certainly can be very injurious to your spiritual life. Let us let John Wesley define evil speaking. He says, “Evil speaking is any unnecessary or uncomplimentary remarks made about anybody.”
Sometimes it is necessary to make uncomplimentary remarks about people, if you are a member of a committee or a head of some organization. If people look to you for leadership, then it is necessary sometimes that you tell the truth about a man or woman. But God will bless you graciously if you will vow to let your heart be as silent as the grave when it comes to passing on scurrilous stories about anybody.
Then the fourth vow we must take is never to defend ourselves. I am not talking about the matter of war. I was in the Army during the First World War (not the Revolutionary War as you thought), and I had five sons in uniform in the Second World War, so I am not saying that it is not proper for us, when our country is threatened, to defend that country. We have all the benefits that this nation extends to us, why then should we not help take care of it when it gets in danger?
But this is something else again. What I am talking about is that we, as individuals, are not to defend ourselves, but live in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5, 6, 7) You know, they have taken the Sermon on the Mount and given it to the Millennium; I am willing that the Millennium should have the Sermon on the Mount, but I want a bit of it now. I believe it is for us now, not only, as one man says, a beautiful moral application. I believe that it is binding upon the children of God, and one thing it teaches is that we’re not to fight back.
The fifth point is you must be sure never to take any of God’s glory for yourself.
These five points are easy to remember. I promise you they are Biblical, and if you put them in practice, taking them one at a time and praying them through until they become part of your nerves and blood — oh, what God may do with you dear people in the next few weeks, months, and years!
But remember, you will violate them at your peril. You will shrink and shrivel and be small, and your fruit will be wormy, and your usefulness will be handicapped if you violate or ignore these things I have given you.
[This message was delivered at Wheaton College’s Pierce Chapel on October 1, 1952.]
08 - How to be filled with the holy spirit
Jesus Christ is all and everything. Have you found Him? Is He yours? He is not a church (and I believe in churches); not a religion (and I believe in the Christian religion); He is Jesus Himself, the Bread of Life, the Sun, the Star, your All-in-All. Will you now dedicate yourself to Him?
[This sermon was given at Wheaton College, Pierce Chapel, on October 2, 1952.]
09 - Be filled with the holy spirit
I think I have never said anything to you as important as what I am planning on saying tonight. I want to use this simple and very familiar text: “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18).
What I will say (outside of some notions I might import which can scarcely be avoided as long as we are on earth and human) is nothing new, nothing strange, nothing extreme, nothing fanatical, nothing that you cannot believe and experience and stay in any gospel church in the world. It is nothing that is not believed by every fundamentalist or conservative Bible Christian in the world. The difference is that I insist, if it is true, then we ought to do something about it. That is all. I just bring in from the perimeter, the outer edge of things, a truth that is believed by everybody and hold it on me like a white light and insist, “Let us make this work; let us do something about this!”
“Be filled with the Spirit.” You can call it “be getting filled,” or “be being filled,” and it adds up to the same thing. It is the will of God that His people should be Spirit-filled people — all of them, not only missionaries and preachers, but all of God’s people, everywhere.
If we do not believe this, let us stop singing, “Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove.” Let us stop singing “Fill Me Now” and all those revival hymns and choruses. Let us stop it and be honest with ourselves. If it is not biblical and the belief in it is unscriptural, let us take it out of our hymnbooks. Why sing in our hymnbooks what we deny in our lives? But if it is true, then let us begin to expect wondrously that He will “Fill Me Now” with Himself. Are you with me on this? Is not this more than anything else — that God should give you full increased measures of His blessed Holy Spirit to be your Comforter, your Mentor, your Inner Teacher, your Guide, to give you an unction from the Holy One? While your teacher is teaching your intellect, this Holy One is teaching your heart, to keep, rebuke, encourage and comfort you — that is what He is here for. Oh, we have neglected Him so shamefully. We have forgotten Him days without end. Let us not do it any more. Let us expect Him to fill us.
[This message was delivered at Pierce Chapel, Wheaton College, on the evening of October 2, 1952.]
10 - How to cultivate the Spirit's Companionship
Dr. A. B. Simpson[5] gave us an illustration that I think is one of the finest in Christian literature. He said, “How can I pray without ceasing? It is obvious that I cannot kneel on my knees twenty four hours a day for my lifetime. It is obvious that I cannot pray in the sense of addressing God formally all the time.
“But,” he said, “ ‘Pray without ceasing’ can be illustrated by the compass. The compass has a needle that has an affinity for the north magnetic pole, its home, and it wants to go that direction. It can be bumped, jostled, tossed and turned around artificially, but the main thing is, let it go and let it level off. It’ll find its way pointing straight toward the north magnetic pole.
“So,” he said, “in this life in which we live we will be busy doing this and that — the mother with her baby, the student with his book, the truck driver with his huge truck — we will have a thousand things to take our minds off God in the turbulence of life. The point is, just as soon as our mind is free, it flies back to its home again, back to God. If you think on God, that is praying without ceasing, keeping your heart free in God so that as soon as the pressure of daily living and studying and all the rest is off, the heart goes instantly to its home and to its God.”
So, my friends, let us cultivate God; let us cultivate the Holy Spirit. Let us not be just two-thirds Trinitarians — let us be Trinitarians. Let us believe that God is. He subsists in three Persons, co-existent and co-eternal. The Father sent the Son to be incarnated and to die, and the Son and the Father sent the Holy Ghost to make the Father and the Son real.
We will never be alone, no matter where we are — never, never alone. The Christian will never be wholly lonely for he has the presence of the Father and the Son within whispering distance of his heart all the time, if he will agree to walk with God. To do so, he must agree to God’s terms and follow at least this simple outline that I have given you tonight.
Footnote [5] A.B. Simpson (1843-1919), author, hymn writer, evangelist and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.
[Tozer delivered this sermon at Pierce Chapel, Wheaton College, on the night of October 3, 1952.]
11 - The danger of being "Almost altogether"
I thank God my conversion was a real, transforming, amazing conversion that turned me from being a careless sinner to being a Christian and I knew that I was born again. I did not have to be told it — I knew. It was not a conclusion I had drawn from a set of texts. It was partly that, certainly, for faith cometh by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17), but it became to me more than that. It became for me an inner witness — I am His and He is mine. “Amazing love, how can it be?”
You can know tonight. Think for a moment about your own heart. Are you a true Christian — an “altogether” Christian? Or are you almost converted? Will you not make this the time when you say, “I do not care what anybody says, I am going to push my way through past all my fears and doubts to Jesus Christ, and I am going to throw myself out on Him like I would throw myself off a diving board into a swimming pool. I will trust Him tonight to save me through and through. May it not be said of me in that terrible day, ‘You were almost in, but not altogether.’ ” No greater tragedy could visit you — polio, the loss of arms or legs, blindness — nothing could be so starkly frightful as your having been almost but never really born again by faith in Jesus Christ.
[This sermon was delivered at Wheaton College’s Pierce Chapel on the evening of October 5, 1952.]
12 - Is God enough?
Here is an idea advanced by an old man of God 2,500 years ago, as recorded in Jeremiah 6:16. “Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.” That is all but one line of the sixteenth verse. The other line I wish were not there, but it is: “But they said, we will not walk therein.”
This text must be seen in its historic context. Israel was in grave physical danger for moral reasons. They had left the old paths and the old ways and had blasted out a shortcut for themselves that was rapidly taking them into quicksand and death, and Jeremiah offered to come to their rescue. He said, “If you want to escape what is ahead for you, ask for the old paths and turn onto the old paved highway that God has made for you, and you will come out all right.” But Israel did not listen.
The reason Israel was in trouble was that she had gotten tired of God. This had not been the first time. Once, on the mount, Moses, their leader—whom they rallied to because he was trustworthy, visible and exercised leadership—went out of their sight for a while. Because they could not get their eyes on anything and could not touch anything, they had not the inward stability and stamina enough to wait for God’s time. God was not enough for them, so they made themselves a golden calf.
May God give us the courage to be obedient to His truths in this tragic, critical and dangerous hour in which we live.
[Tozer preached this sermon in Wheaton College, Pierce Chapel, on the morning of March 4, 1954.]
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