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Yes, sir.
Lately, I've been hearing the call to "Fear God!"
For several months, the call has been clear and unmistakable, not from the lips of man or woman. It calls from the pages of Scripture, the very Word of GOD. He says to 'be ye holy, as I am Holy."
"It is a fearsome thing to fall into the hands of an angry God."
No one can lat a whupping, like God can lay a whupping. Some people know what I'm talking about. Yet, we are not being taught to fear this Holy God like He really is a Holy God and is jealous for us. This God, the Almighty, is just as capable of making us see how much we need Him, as He is of setting the sun in the sky. The same God that can rupture the earth with an earthquake, is powerful enough to make one know that we are but dust.
I remember one particular event when a young man told me that he would rather have a Mercedes, than God. I asked that young man if he knew that God could make his money (his daddy was rich) vanish over night. I was stunned to find out a few weeks later that the money did vanish. His mother had frozen all of the assets in a divorce. I don't know if that young man ever recovered.
In my own life, I went from a full professional salary, to sick and living on under $1000 a month in short order. In retrospect, I realize and confess that I was just saved. Living according to my own idea of what being saved looked like. My good works were heavily tainted by 'my convenience'. My private life did not reflect the moral purity required of those that would follow the Lord Jesus. All of the teaching, preaching, and singing were clearly polluted praise. God had enough. He brought me to my face, and rendered me impotent before Him. There was no amount of pleading or bargaining out of my being seriously corrected. I am grateful. Until my affliction, I obviously did not have a proper fear of God. that has changed.
Scripture clearly teaches us to fear the Lord. God actually commands us to have a holy reverential fear of him.
Leviticus 25:17
Yes, sir.
Lately, I've been hearing the call to "Fear God!"
For several months, the call has been clear and unmistakable, not from the lips of man or woman. It calls from the pages of Scripture, the very Word of GOD. He says to 'be ye holy, as I am Holy."
"It is a fearsome thing to fall into the hands of an angry God."
No one can lat a whupping, like God can lay a whupping. Some people know what I'm talking about. Yet, we are not being taught to fear this Holy God like He really is a Holy God and is jealous for us. This God, the Almighty, is just as capable of making us see how much we need Him, as He is of setting the sun in the sky. The same God that can rupture the earth with an earthquake, is powerful enough to make one know that we are but dust.
I remember one particular event when a young man told me that he would rather have a Mercedes, than God. I asked that young man if he knew that God could make his money (his daddy was rich) vanish over night. I was stunned to find out a few weeks later that the money did vanish. His mother had frozen all of the assets in a divorce. I don't know if that young man ever recovered.
In my own life, I went from a full professional salary, to sick and living on under $1000 a month in short order. In retrospect, I realize and confess that I was just saved. Living according to my own idea of what being saved looked like. My good works were heavily tainted by 'my convenience'. My private life did not reflect the moral purity required of those that would follow the Lord Jesus. All of the teaching, preaching, and singing were clearly polluted praise. God had enough. He brought me to my face, and rendered me impotent before Him. There was no amount of pleading or bargaining out of my being seriously corrected. I am grateful. Until my affliction, I obviously did not have a proper fear of God. that has changed.
Scripture clearly teaches us to fear the Lord. God actually commands us to have a holy reverential fear of him.
Leviticus 25:17
Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 10:12
[ Fear the Lord ] And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lordyour God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
Joshua 24:14
“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness.
Job 28:28
And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.
Acts 9:31
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
I am coming to understand more and more that to fear God is more than bowing my head now and then. It is to lay my life down at His Feet and let Him make me increasingly like Jesus. It means that I don't live, dress, or speak in any way that contradicts Him. I find significance and acceptance in Jesus alone. Therein is the blessing. To fear the Lord, live holy, and make His name known.
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