Sunday Service 5-9-10
Fear of the Lord – Part 3
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We need to look at the awe of God. We need to see God.
Those who know their God shall prove themselves strong, stand firm, and do exploits.
When we know God is so awesome, there isn’t anything that you can’t face because God is greater. When Joshua was at Jericho, the Hebrews didn’t know how to fight, but knew the God Who parted the Red Sea.
Sometimes we are in the position of seeing the enemies as giants and ourselves as grasshoppers because we forget how awesome God is.
God keeps His promises.
When Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, he told Abraham He will "see to it" when Isaac asked where the offering is.
We are fearfully made, must never consider ourselves low.
God is awesome- everything and everywhere. When we are aware of that we can face anything.
God provided food, water, and led the Israelites in the desert. If He did that then, He will do it now. He doesn’t care about what the economy is doing. HE is the Provider.
Faith is in God and what He promises.
You cannot look at your circumstances- when you make them greater than God Himself you are giving them extreme extravagant devotion – worship.
God knows it is important to keep our eyes on Him. When we look away, even for a second, we worship other things.
Daniel, the 3 Hebrew children, would not take their eyes away from God.
Jesus asked Philip how to feed the multitude- He knew the Father knew they needed to eat- Jesus awes His Father by blessing the loaves and fish (Thank You, Father, for providing the loaves and fish. They are sufficient). He knew God was the supplier.
We need to honor God. We need to keep our lives ordered according to the Word of God. We are not doing it because we have lost the awe of God.
Come to Church to be in His Presence, to worship Him, to awe Him, not just for good songs and fellowship.
Our lives should be ordered as well as a soldier’s belongings. We are in warfare. We must not run as cowards. We are about to face an anti-Christ. We will not be able to stand, see our destiny and purpose, unless we fear the Lord. When the Israelites saw the awesomeness of God, they were able to conquer the enemies.
The first teaching to give a new Christian is how to awe God first.
- Awe and Fear of God
- God is to be awed
to be reverenced
We must be submissive to Him- like a child to a Father, delight in the Word because of Who He is- He must have our loyalty and faithfulness
- Must be worshipped
- Totally devoted
In the Red River revival, the fear of God fell on that group because they decided to put everything aside and sought God.
We seek God. Fear of God is a choice, not something that just happens. God must be worshipped, not just for the length of the service.
We must desire what God wants us to hear. God will confound the wise with us foolish. God can show Himself strong through the weak.
Consider – do you still believe in God AFTER you lose everything?
He commands total devotion.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO STUDY THE VERSES THOROUGHLY:
Deut6:5-7
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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Deut 6:7
7 You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
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You must make God’s Word sharp enough to impress them into the child’s minds and hearts. Your children should remember the conversations of the ways of the Word.
Prov 3:5-8
5 Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
6 In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.
7 Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn [entirely] away from evil. [Prov 8:13.]
8 It shall be health to your nerves and sinews, and marrow and moistening to your bones.
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The Hebrews went through the desert to learn how to rely on God.
As a sheep before its shearers is dumb, so opened He not His mouth.
We need to submit in that way so the Lord can turn us into what we need to be, to be led, to be used by God.
Heb 11:6-12
6 But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].
7 [Prompted] by faith Noah, being forewarned by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign, took heed and diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverance of his own family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he passed judgment and sentence on the world's unbelief and became an heir and possessor of righteousness (q that relation of being right into which God puts the person who has faith). [Gen 6:13-22.]
8 [Urged on] by faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went forth to a place which he was destined to receive as an inheritance; and he went, although he did not know or trouble his mind about where he was to go.
9 [Prompted] by faith he dwelt as a temporary resident in the land which was designated in the promise [of God, though he was like a stranger] in a strange country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs with him of the same promise. [Gen 12:1-8.]
10 For he was [waiting expectantly and confidently] looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God.
11 Because of faith also Sarah herself received physical power to conceive a child, even when she was long past the age for it, because she considered [God] Who had given her the promise to be reliable and trustworthy and true to His word. [Gen 17:19; 18:11-14; 21:2.]
12 So from one man, though he was physically as good as dead, there have sprung descendants whose number is as the stars of heaven and as countless as the innumerable sands on the seashore. [Gen 15:5,6; 22:17; 32:12.]
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Heb 11:6-12
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
The Creator of all, the One Who made me to serve Him- it is impossible to please Him without faith.
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
God gave directions for Him to be saved.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Not knowing, but obedience
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
God has a place for all of us.
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Out of dead bodies came enough births as the stars.
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Num 14:11
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
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Num 20:12
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
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Ps 78:21-22
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
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Ps 78:32
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
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Ps 106:24-25
24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
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John 3:18-19
18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation — he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.]
19 The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. [Isa 5:20.]
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In having an awe for God, we need to diligently seek Him. We need to go back to the fear of the Lord or we become nothing.
Jesus did not come to condemn but to save you. God the Father sent His Son so that your sins could be forgiven. Know that God the Father loves you like a real Dad. Jesus has to be your Lord, Master, as well as Savior in order to lead you.
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