1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,480 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,720 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,720 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:48,560 Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. But you know, that's not just a 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,320 song, but that's a reality. The Jesus we serve and the God 11 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,320 the Father that sent him has promised us that he's coming 12 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,760 back again, and it's important that we live in that reality. 13 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,760 Just because it may seem as if he's been delayed in coming 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,560 doesn't mean he's not sure that he will. 15 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:16,720 From the time Adam, and for some accounts, if you want to say 16 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,400 2000 years from Adam to Jesus, the Bible declared that he's 17 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,840 coming. For 2000 years they said he's 18 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:30,720 coming and he came. So just because we haven't seen 19 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:37,600 his return, his return is promised, which means he's 20 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,680 coming again. And we ought to live in that 21 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,240 reality like it's reality, not as a song. 22 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,160 We ought to live in that reality like not only is a present for 23 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,480 us, but we have to get generations after us ready for 24 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,680 that shitty tarry in our lifetime. 25 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,080 Amen. You can have a seat. 26 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:09,160 And when Jesus comes again, the Bible, as I read it, talks about 27 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,600 two things. There's an appearing that 28 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,400 there's a coming. When he appears. 29 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:20,360 When he comes, understand he's not doing his own work. 30 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,960 When he comes, he is finishing his Father's work that he 31 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,800 started. His father promised not only a 32 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,640 deliverance and a freedom for people, but he also promised the 33 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,200 judgment that would come. Now, judgment has two sides. 34 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,120 Judgment is for and against. It's not always bad. 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,200 In a court case, someone is suing someone to collect money 36 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,200 from a contract. The judge renders a judgment. 37 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,200 This side, you win. The other side, there's 38 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,320 consequences. Judgment isn't always bad, but 39 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,520 he's coming to to do judgment. And that's important to know 40 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,240 that he's not going to stop until his father's work is done. 41 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,440 He's not going to stop until his father is fully revealed in the 42 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,600 fullness of his work. And if he's, and if he's won't 43 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,600 stop, can't stop, then neither should we. 44 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,320 Amen. Amen. 45 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,480 Again, I always thanking our pastors and the opportunity to 46 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:34,280 share the word of God. It's it's, it's it's a humbling 47 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,160 thing. Sometimes it's a heavy thing, 48 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,680 but it's a privilege thing and I thank God for it for sure. 49 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,560 I want to start out with a few comments this morning. 50 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:50,840 You already received this morning. 51 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,800 And now listen, we have fun over here, OK? 52 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,040 So y'all got to learn how to smile heavy. 53 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,840 You know what I mean by smile heavy? 54 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,640 Even though like God is in the room. 55 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,440 Smile though, because God's in the room, OK? 56 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,880 Amen. Amen. 57 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,680 So there's a couple things I want to share with you off the 58 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,200 top. Revival. 59 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:23,200 Everyone said revival, I think as I was preparing today and we 60 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,480 just back in the back searching things out. 61 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,400 Revival is a return to the fear of God. 62 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,920 That's really one of the hallmarks of revival is a return 63 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,520 to the fear of God. Now I know it's said often times 64 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,240 that one of the hallmarks of revival is repentance, and I 65 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:48,040 believe that that's true. But the reason repentance comes 66 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,560 with revival because repentance is a fruit of the fear of God. 67 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,720 When people grow in the fear of God, repentance is automatic off 68 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,840 you to that. They begin to see who he is, His 69 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:01,920 weight. They begin to see who they are 70 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,600 in their distance from Him. And the first response to that 71 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,200 reverence is to turn from your stuff and turn towards God. 72 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,120 Got it. So repentance is a fruit, I 73 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:19,000 think, of one of the key aspects of revival, which is the fear of 74 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,600 God. And with the fear of God comes a 75 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,680 lot of other things besides repentance. 76 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,520 And why is this important? Because if in revival you are 77 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,360 thinking it's mostly defined by repentance, when repentance 78 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:38,200 starts, then you'll stop, OK. When repentance starts, then 79 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,120 you'll stop that pressing into where God is taking you. 80 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:43,880 Because after repentance comes reverence, reverence comes 81 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,360 obedience. There's so much more to be done 82 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,280 out of a move of God, a revival, because the fear of God comes to 83 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,160 accomplish things. The Bible doesn't say that the 84 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,280 fear of God is the same thing as the zeal of God, but I think 85 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,240 it's this, this. They're close cousins. 86 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,960 The Bible talks about how the zeal of God shall accomplish 87 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:08,560 some things. It's hard to be have a zeal of 88 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,200 God without a fear of God. So when the fear of God shows 89 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,720 up, there's an urgency that comes out of your reverence for 90 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,920 Him. And so revival is not just meant 91 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,800 to get people to turn, it's meant to accomplish the Father's 92 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:26,040 purpose in the earth. So it's a lot more to revival 93 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,200 than just repentance. And that's why revival or 94 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,080 outpourings are for everyone. For even if you don't feel 95 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,280 there's any deep hearted, deep seated repentance that you need 96 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:41,440 to offer, there is an urgency that needs to be imparted to 97 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,640 finish the work of the Father that comes out of those moments. 98 00:06:50,060 --> 00:06:52,900 I want to talk about today is the fear of God. 99 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,160 Pastors picked up on this. He felt and previously said he 100 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,480 felt a return to the fear of God to bring that message back and 101 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,080 to remind us some of some things. 102 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,440 Now I'm going to give you a quick tip. 103 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,400 Everyone say P tip, not a prayer tip, but prophetic tip. 104 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,960 P tip is this be watchful of the rhythms of what's happening. 105 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:22,000 OK, you, you want to God will show you a curve if you pay 106 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,600 attention to the data. OK, so if I have some data 107 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,160 points on the line and I'm this close to them, it may be 108 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:37,200 difficult for me to see, OK, it's not a scientific crowd. 109 00:07:42,870 --> 00:07:50,870 OK, Google Maps. OK, I'll put something in Google 110 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:55,670 Maps. If I look at it real close, all 111 00:07:55,670 --> 00:07:59,960 I see is a spot. I don't see the like the path of 112 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:05,680 where I'm headed. OK, But if I pull out, zoom out, 113 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,920 see I'm see I'm even changing it even I'm talking all right. 114 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,840 As I as I zoom out, all of a sudden now I kind of see where I 115 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,400 started, where I'm going. I get a context of what's there. 116 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,160 I get a sense of what's around 1. 117 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,200 I get a bigger picture as to what's happening right. 118 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,000 And this is important for you non map readers. 119 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,600 When you get a sense of the bigger picture, then you also 120 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:36,559 know how to respond to detour when it comes right, because I 121 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,039 have a sense of where I'm going and what's around where I'm 122 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,039 going. Got it. 123 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:47,120 So prophetic tip is don't just come to to to service. 124 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,880 Come to our experiences and just get data. 125 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,800 That's why I take your notes is important because notes puts 126 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,000 data down and then you step back and look at the course of your 127 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,360 notes and you go like, whoa, I'm seeing something here. 128 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,440 And that bitter bigger visual will prepare you for what God's 129 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:11,320 doing now and what God's doing next makes sense. 130 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,960 So when pastor said fear of God, God's trying to remind us of 131 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,440 that and how all the stuff that he's been talking about since 132 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,480 the beginning of the year to now is connected to the fear of God 133 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,640 and reminding us how that's the soil that it comes out of. 134 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,400 Good Somers care more about the soil than the seeds. 135 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,280 OK, Y'all don't farm in here. If I was out in Chilliwack right 136 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,040 now, they'd be like you Yahoo. Yeah, they'd be a something on 137 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:40,840 that one. OK. 138 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,000 I'd have got a good, good farmer. 139 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,720 Hallelujah on that one, I'm telling you. 140 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,120 OK, Good. Farmers care more about the soil 141 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,360 than the seeds because the quality of the soil would 142 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,680 determine the, the, the the impact on the seed and therefore 143 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,320 the harvest. I told somebody that's not, you 144 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,840 know, I don't really drink alcohol, but I I think the, the, 145 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:04,680 the, the, the, the analogy holds up. 146 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,440 I was talking to somebody about this very recently. 147 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,120 I think. I know I was Champagne. 148 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,920 Everyone says champagne. It's an all the ones who said it 149 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 really loud. Yeah. 150 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,720 OK. All right. 151 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:17,800 All right. OK. 152 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,880 OK, you know, the move, that move at that point was shampoo. 153 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,360 What I don't never heard that. So that was that was your cover. 154 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:27,800 That was your cover right there. Champagne. 155 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,760 Everyone say Champagne. Champagne now Champagne. 156 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,240 My my family was in the wine and beverage business for a lot of 157 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,800 years. And so I know something a lot 158 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,600 about that kind of stuff. So Champagne is a sparkling 159 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:44,760 wine. OK, but in order for a sparkling 160 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:52,040 wine to be called Champagne, it has to be made of 100% of 1 kind 161 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:57,040 of grape that's grown in the Champagne region of France. 162 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,240 You got it. If it is not, it's called 163 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:08,320 sparkly wine. Or they'll put on their Methode 164 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:14,200 de Champois Champagne method, because you can't legally call 165 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,120 it Champagne, right method. Champagne method means it could 166 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,760 have some different kind of grapes from different areas and 167 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,280 the thing. And why did he do that? 168 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,560 Because there's something about the soil of that region that 169 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,880 makes those grapes taste a certain way. 170 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,360 It's the soil that makes the flavor, not the seed that goes 171 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,960 in it. It's the soil that determines 172 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,000 the quality and the value, not the grapes that get planted in 173 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,440 the soil. You plant those same grapes in 174 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:49,400 California or in the valley and it won't taste the same because 175 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,360 it's different soil, even though the seeds are the same. 176 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,640 Now this is important to note too. 177 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:03,800 You can take that same soil from that region and transplant it to 178 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:09,920 California or the Valley and it will no longer produce champagne 179 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,040 grapes. Why? 180 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,760 Because the soil transplanted to a different region begins to 181 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,200 change. The sun is different, the water 182 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,120 is different, the air is different, the moisture is 183 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,680 different. So over time, the soil will 184 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,800 change. That's why it's important to 185 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:33,040 know where your soil is placed and to make sure your soil stays 186 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,000 where it's placed. Because when you start moving 187 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,680 your soil around, you start moving your harvest around, stop 188 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,760 moving your life around. So the farmer's concerned about 189 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:43,880 where the soil is. Always have to do with anything. 190 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:45,600 What you ready? You ready. 191 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:48,840 The fear of God is the soil of your heart. 192 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,520 That's the soil, OK? When you're trying to live out 193 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,760 of something other than the fear of God, it's like taking that 194 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,840 soil from France and putting it in the valley, but expecting the 195 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:11,360 same results. The soil makes a bigger, bigger 196 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,960 difference, even more so than the seed. 197 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:18,440 And, and I, and I just in, in talking about the fear of God, 198 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:22,400 part of what I think God's calling us to is, is to live out 199 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,680 of the fear of God, not live alongside of the fear of God. 200 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:30,240 And what do I mean? And, and this is the challenge 201 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:36,320 for me, for everyone here, OK, there are times where I'm like, 202 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:42,080 OK, I'm looking to do some things, but because I fear God, 203 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:48,560 I will say God, how does what I'm looking to do line up with 204 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:53,880 you? OK, now that sounds really good, 205 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,840 but that's not living out of the fear of God. 206 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,520 That's adding, that's adding the fear of God to my living. 207 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,200 It's different between when you cook it with the hot sauce in 208 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,800 the recipe versus you add it after the recipe is complete and 209 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:17,360 it's served. OK, living out of the fear of 210 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:23,480 God says this. Jesus said it best. 211 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,200 I only do what my Father has shown me. 212 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,680 I don't have to ask my father whether this is in line with the 213 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,520 fear of God, because I don't do anything except it comes out of 214 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:39,560 the fear of God. That's a different walk. 215 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:45,920 That's a different requirement. It requires you to be thinking 216 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,000 of the fear of God first. It requires you to be thinking 217 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,360 of God always first. It requires a complete 218 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,840 abandonment of your to your own plans, your own purposes, and 219 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,560 your own ideas. It doesn't mean that you're not 220 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,680 important and God doesn't have a call on your life. 221 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:06,360 But it means I am so abandoned to God that the only thing I do 222 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,200 always, anytime, anywhere is out of reverence for who He is. 223 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,640 You don't have to ask me whether what I'm doing is out of the 224 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,000 fear of God because I wouldn't even consider it except it was 225 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,400 out of the fear of God. So with that understanding, it's 226 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:30,120 important to understand what the fear of God is and remind us of 227 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:31,920 that. Now we I did a message about 228 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,280 this early on when we first started near the beginning of 229 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,640 the year, fall in and fall out, fear of God. 230 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:45,120 I kept some of the same visuals references, but just like passes 231 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,240 going back to remind US about the fear of God. 232 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,600 I I have the opportunity to remind us of what the fear of 233 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,680 God is versus what being afraid of God is. 234 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,360 OK, and it's good to have these reminders. 235 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,720 Why? Because the more you grow in 236 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,160 understanding now you see things differently. 237 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,200 OK, and your and your understanding can grow. 238 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:17,040 So I want to go to fear of versus afraid of. 239 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,400 The fear of God is different than being afraid of God. 240 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,560 Often times in the Bible, the fear of God is always with the 241 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:36,280 fear of God, but afraid can have no God with it. 242 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,120 OK. The fear of the, the, the, the 243 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,520 fear of God in the Scripture is never like fear. 244 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,000 And you just know it's the fear of God. 245 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,320 It's always fear of God, fear of the Lord. 246 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,360 Now, the Scripture also has the word afraid in it, but it don't 247 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,360 have God around it. I was afraid. 248 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,560 You see what I'm saying? There's no God in that sentence, 249 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,839 in that circle, in that context. The fear of God is always 250 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:13,480 contextualized around God. Often times in Scripture, the 251 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,280 word fear of God and the word fear comes from the same word, 252 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:21,280 from the same root. So as I'm suggesting to you, is 253 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,400 this that context determines the meaning. 254 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,400 OK. You cannot understand the fear 255 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,600 of God from the scriptural standpoint without context. 256 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:41,280 All right, here's an example. I'm going to give you 2 257 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,560 examples. First one Bible example. 258 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:52,520 Mary said Mary, Jesus, Mama. Mary said Angel said you're 259 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,840 going to have a baby born in the spirit. 260 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,440 Cool. Mary said how can this be? 261 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,120 Somebody else got the same message from the same Angel, 262 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,440 John the Baptist Daddy, He said, how can this be? 263 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:15,880 Well, Mary, OK, same word, same exact words. 264 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:22,680 Mary got a whole song for her. My soul does magnify the Lord of 265 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,080 my spirit just rejoices in God my Savior. 266 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,360 Behold, he's looked upon the she got a whole like a whole verse. 267 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:31,160 She got a whole single. Spotify ran it up. 268 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,200 You know, she got she got all of that. 269 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,240 OK, blessed are you and all that kind of thing. 270 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,960 John the Baptist daddy said. I'm going to shut your mouth, 271 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:42,080 bro. You ain't going to be able to 272 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,600 say nothing until your son gets born. 273 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:49,960 Same exact words, but the context of their heart made them 274 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,000 different. The context of why what they 275 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,160 were saying, what they're saying made it different. 276 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:01,160 Context matters. Now I'm going to give you a more 277 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,560 common example. Annabelle, we good? 278 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,840 We good. We good, we good. 279 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,800 You see it in different ways. Now. 280 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,760 The first time I said we good, she looked we good. 281 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,440 Yeah. So what's all the other we goods 282 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,640 about? I told you it was good the first 283 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,040 time. But you see I'm saying this 284 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:30,440 something different. We good, Now that's like, you 285 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:36,920 going to mess around and find out, OK, you go faith around and 286 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:47,900 find out now we good, we good, right? 287 00:19:48,380 --> 00:19:51,060 Same words, but context makes a difference. 288 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:54,180 Body context, physical context, who's saying it, who's 289 00:19:54,180 --> 00:19:58,940 listening, right? And that's important to 290 00:19:58,940 --> 00:20:03,580 understand why? Because fearing God is not a 291 00:20:03,580 --> 00:20:06,900 matter of lip service, it's a matter of your own heart 292 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:11,400 context. OK, you can say you fear God, 293 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,320 but don't. The Bible says that this way. 294 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:17,680 Your lips are near to me, but your hearts are far from me. 295 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,840 That's why the biggest fact checker in the fear of God in 296 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:30,800 your life is God and you. It's personal, but that's why it 297 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,920 requires so much of us and for us to you, for you to really 298 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,680 examine where you really are in honesty and in truth. 299 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,680 That's why pride is so dangerous, because pride, for 300 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,480 example, is something that keeps you see wheezing. 301 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,960 Pride is so, so terrible to have because the very nature of that 302 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,600 problem keeps you from knowing that you got a problem with me. 303 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,720 I got a problem. Pride will keep you from even 304 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,960 admitting that you have a problem, right? 305 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,120 And if even if someone tells you you got a problem, pride will 306 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,680 cause you not to listen to them even though they telling you the 307 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:12,440 problem that you have. OK, but the context of your 308 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,360 heart is so important and the ability to truly render your 309 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:21,120 heart and be honest with God, let your walls down to to really 310 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,720 examine whether you have a reverence for God that he 311 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:28,920 deserves is really important. Let's talk about the difference 312 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:34,560 between afraid of and fear of. Afraid of, afraid of the sin 313 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:39,760 focused and me focused. Whenever you're talking about 314 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,000 afraid, it's about sin and by self. 315 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:47,400 Fear is always focused on self. What's going to happen to me? 316 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,520 How am I going to be impacted? What's the results of this? 317 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,760 Something bad's going to happen to me or my family or my 318 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,560 contacts. Afraid of us always sin focused 319 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,400 and me focused. Genesis 3 says this. 320 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,520 This is Adam. I heard you in the garden. 321 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:09,160 I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid. 322 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,600 Now this is really important, OK, at least from an English 323 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,040 translation standpoint. I didn't study every Hebrew and 324 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:23,920 Greek word before the first two chapters of Genesis, but it's 325 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,640 interesting. This is the first time the word 326 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:31,440 fear is represented in Scripture, and it comes after 327 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:36,000 sin. Afraid only came after sin. 328 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,040 And why? Because frayed creates distance 329 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,240 between you and your Father. Before sin, there was no 330 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,520 distance. There was nothing to be afraid 331 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,880 of. That's what he's talking about, 332 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,600 the knowledge of good and evil. You can't. 333 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,240 You got to sin cause you to have a knowledge of some things that 334 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,240 you didn't need to have knowledge of beforehand. 335 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,600 Afraid of and sin focus and me focused and notice how all of 336 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,080 that is in there. I had sinned, I was separated. 337 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,760 I was focused on me and I hid me from you. 338 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,560 Genesis 15 one says this, after this word of the Lord came to 339 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,080 Abraham and Abraham in a vision, God said do not be afraid, 340 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,240 Abraham, I am your shield, your very great reward. 341 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,640 So clearly, if we're supposed to have a fear of the Lord, and 342 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,960 then the word of the Lord says do not be afraid. 343 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,840 He's talking about different things. 344 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,480 He's not going to say that there's a fear of the fear of 345 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,960 me. You ought to have, but don't 346 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,400 have it. He's saying there's something 347 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,640 different here. Don't be afraid. 348 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,600 It's not about I'm not here about sin and you not, and I'm 349 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,320 not here about your own self. I'm here about me. 350 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,520 Notice how much of that sentence has God in it. 351 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,840 I am not. It's not a sentence about Abram. 352 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,920 Do not be afraid, Abram. You are found holy. 353 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,320 Do not be afraid, Abram. You are found worthy. 354 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,960 You didn't talk about Abram here. 355 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,840 He says do not be afraid, Abraham. 356 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,760 I'm your shield. I'm your exceeding great reward. 357 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,440 The fear of God has shown up and he's telling Abraham you don't 358 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,200 need to respond in terror, you just need to respond in 359 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,960 reverence because I'm here and it's all about me. 360 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,680 And that's important to understand that the fear of God 361 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,880 is about God. Reverence all and him. 362 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:40,400 Focus. The fear of God is about who God 363 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,720 is. The fear of God is about what 364 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,440 God is doing. That's really important. 365 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,320 Why? Because when Jesus came and 366 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,840 delivered us from sin, he didn't deliver us from the fear of God. 367 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,840 If it was fear of God was about being afraid, when we got 368 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,760 delivered from sin, there was nothing to be afraid of. 369 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,480 So therefore there would be No Fear of God. 370 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:08,880 Actually, the fact He delivered us from sin allows us to walk 371 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,680 more purely in the fear of God. But because there's no sin in 372 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,120 self involved, there's only God and who he is and his power and 373 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:21,400 his glory. The fear of God is about God. 374 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,160 The fear of God is about reverence and all and, and, and 375 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,320 him and being focused on all of those things. 376 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,240 That's what the fear of God's about. 377 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,320 When God shows up, you start talking about you. 378 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,120 That's you being afraid, not the fear of God. 379 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,880 When God shows up and you start talking about him, that's the 380 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,600 fear of God. You got that. 381 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:50,120 So you guys that causing you asking you to be afraid of him 382 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:53,800 in the fear what he's saying is deal what you're saying deal 383 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,840 with yourself. I've done that through Jesus and 384 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,000 recognize who I am recognize my ability to recognize my power 385 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,320 recognize why I've come recognize you better put some 386 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,400 wrong anyway. Now the fear of God. 387 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,880 How many y'all tracking so far? OK, good. 388 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:22,400 The fear of God can be both in you and on you, in you and on 389 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,760 you. In you, On you, OK, I'm gonna 390 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,160 let you inside my head, right? So I, well, as I said that 391 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,760 right, you practice these things sometimes, I said the fear of 392 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,560 God can be both in you and on you. 393 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,960 And what my mind really went to is that I whipped my hair back 394 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,240 and forth and that's about my mind. 395 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,120 My my mind went about why I went there and you and on you. 396 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:48,400 Anyway, the fear of God can be both in you and on you. 397 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,600 You know you're not really in the fear of God. 398 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,560 There's no joy there. The bar Jesus says this in the 399 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,840 in the gospels that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace 400 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,280 and joy. If you have no joy, you got a 2 401 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,240 legged stool or two legged table. 402 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,600 OK, Joy has stability, not distraction. 403 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,040 When you understand it, the fear of God can be both in you and on 404 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,800 you. It is, yes, important for you to 405 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,360 have a fear of God, but there's a fear of God that comes on you 406 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:22,400 that's vitally important for your witness in the earth and 407 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,640 for what God's doing in the earth. 408 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:29,640 OK, So what is the, we're going to talk about that in a little 409 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,720 bit. So you got it. 410 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:37,360 Frayed fear of God, reverence, all worship, fear of God can be 411 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:43,160 in you versus on you. OK, so I want to go to some 412 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:49,080 essentials. I thought you'd get that one. 413 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,480 I thought you'd get that one. Fear God essentials. 414 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,720 OK, now if y'all are in the faster, y'all know what that 415 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:58,920 means? You know, y'all saw what I was 416 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,880 doing right there, right? Now, that brand was developed by 417 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,840 a Christian guys. That's my understanding. 418 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,560 OK, Christian guy, right? But this is the problem with the 419 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,040 fear of God. And in some senses, yes, it's a 420 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,680 exaltation of God and a Christian statement. 421 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,720 But it's more judgment than a Christian statement, I believe. 422 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,360 Why? How many folks walk around with 423 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:31,320 the Fear of a God sweatshirt with essentials on it and don't 424 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:36,280 fear God? How many are clothed in the fear 425 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,800 of God but have none in their heart? 426 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,440 How many are more thinking about it as a statement of how my my 427 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,280 my brand is a statement of my, of my belief, of my posture, of 428 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,920 my place in the world, but have No Fear of God? 429 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,960 How many folks don't want the Fear of God clothes but the name 430 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,480 on a on a $50 sweatshirt is enough? 431 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,200 I want as little as I can but be identified with as much of it as 432 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,240 I can. I don't want to spend $500 on 433 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,960 the shirt and the 7:50 for the pants. 434 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,040 All I want is a $50 sweatshirt and just to fall into the brand 435 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,080 Fear God should be more than that. 436 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,760 It shouldn't be something you have to put on your chest to let 437 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,120 people know you do. It'll be something in your life 438 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,120 that people reflect back to you clearly. 439 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,000 You fear God, man. That's one of the differences 440 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,480 between the end and the on. So fear of God Essentials 1 441 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,800 reverent, trusting, resting and relying on God's word. 442 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,240 Not the God's word, but relying on God's word. 443 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,680 I had first there relying on the word and I changed it to God's 444 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,120 word, but we forgot to take out the the Why did I change it? 445 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,400 Thank you for asking. Because thank you. 446 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,800 You think I felt. I felt the ask. 447 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,080 I felt the ask. I felt the ask. 448 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,600 Yeah. I felt the critique too. 449 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,360 I felt, I felt. I felt a little of the shade. 450 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,000 You're a lawyer man. How you? 451 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,480 Yeah, I felt the shade. But the fear of gods that gonna 452 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,760 have me just walk right past that and go to the interest 453 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,840 rather than the shade. Why did I change it? 454 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,360 Because when I say the word, often times we think of the 455 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,160 Scripture. When I say God's word, that 456 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,440 means everyone in the book and everyone that He speaks. 457 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,720 That was my marker. It's a reverence for all of 458 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:44,840 God's word, not just the written word, but the spoken word as 459 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,560 well. It is essential that the walk in 460 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,200 the fear of God. You have to reverend reverence 461 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,560 for God's word. You can't say I fear God and 462 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,880 have no reverence for His Word. I'm not talking about you take a 463 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,160 Bible and you put on a shelf and put a light on it and you bow 464 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:00,960 down before it. That's idolatry. 465 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,920 I'm talking about a reverence for when God speaks it means 466 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,600 something to you. A reverence that says I'm not 467 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,240 going to bend the Word to fit my circumstance, even if it goes 468 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,960 against what my desire is. I'm going to say God have mercy 469 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,880 on me. Help me to fit what the Word 470 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,640 says rather than make the Word fit without how I want to live. 471 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,560 A reverence for the Word says this, that the Old Testament is 472 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,960 as important as the New Testament because it's all God's 473 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,480 word. And the Old Testament gives me a 474 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,680 context for understanding the New Testament. 475 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,880 It's a reverence and a trusting and relying on the Word of God. 476 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,960 You cannot have a fear of God that goes beyond your the Word 477 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,480 of God. When the fear of God shows up, 478 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,600 often times it's because a word has been preached and been 479 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,560 released and it's your receiving of that word that brings the 480 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:58,880 fear of God. Pastor comes up and we're and 481 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,600 we're ministering and and doing things and he says this, the 482 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,760 Lord is here. How much reverence do you have 483 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,720 for that declaration? The Lord is here. 484 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:18,120 God is here. How much do you go like, yeah, 485 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,000 yo, thanks pastor, and take a drink. 486 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,840 How much do you take that moment? 487 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,880 And with reverence in your heart said the Lord is here. 488 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,760 And with the reverence of your heart, you take a beat and you 489 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:35,560 say glory to God out of just recognition of the announcement 490 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:43,040 that God is here, the reverence for the word of God, you know. 491 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:49,480 Vancouver Whitecaps holla They doing something for a change. 492 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,800 Miami FC came up, Messi came up, right? 493 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,480 Not not not the first time Messi came up. 494 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:05,080 He created a messy OK, we got to get a better one man, work on it 495 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,000 OK, that's the homework. OK, He created a messy. 496 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,760 Why the word of messy coming caused people to change their 497 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,640 lives. The word of messy coming the 498 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,240 first time 'cause people to sell stuff and buy $1000 tickets, 499 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,200 arrange their Dimes, arrange their dates, get off work, 500 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,960 transfer things. The word of messy coming was 501 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,200 enough for people to say I'm going to change my life and 502 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,640 respond as if it's true. They had a reverence for The 503 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,640 word of messy coming, and when he didn't show up, they got 504 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,720 upset. Why? 505 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,440 Because I changed my life for that word. 506 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:54,040 OK, he came up this time and he put pictures up ready. 507 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,680 Folks made changes, but it wasn't the same. 508 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,640 All of a sudden, they don't believe him at the word as much 509 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,520 anymore. But yet a lot of people still 510 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,680 made those same changes even though he didn't come up the 511 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,239 first time. If people are going to have that 512 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,040 kind of reverence for the word of Messi, how much want should 513 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,600 we have reverence for the word of God? 514 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:19,920 And this is what Pastor's talking about. 515 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,719 On Sunday, Pastor will say on Wednesday, we'll be here 516 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:31,480 declaring the word. How many of you all say, my God, 517 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,440 I've got to be there for the word of God to be declared and 518 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,199 hear it or how many of y'all go like a good pastor? 519 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,320 You know I'm busy though, right? How much reverence do you have 520 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,199 for the word of God? It's not a we're not trying to 521 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,639 train you and bind you to a chair. 522 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,679 We're checking your heart posture with it. 523 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,760 We're giving you objective measures by which you can check 524 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,760 your heart, right. It's not about you necessarily 525 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,320 being here for everything. I don't like your excuse me, You 526 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,720 don't have to be here that that much, right? 527 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,440 No, really, it's not about behind in a in a seat. 528 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,560 It's about your heart posture. When someone says I've God has 529 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,120 let me know that the guy's going to release his word afresh and a 530 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,480 new on Wednesday. How many y'all go? 531 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,760 I went last Wednesday. Why don't y'all try living off 532 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,160 last Wednesday's breath today and see how that's going to work 533 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,320 for you? Let's, let's try living off last 534 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,160 Wednesday's meal where they haven't eaten nothing but since 535 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,960 that time and this and see that's going to work for you. 536 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,960 Reverence for the Word of God, because the Word of God also 537 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,440 includes Jesus because He is the living Word. 538 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,640 Deuteronomy 8 says this. And he humbled you and allows 539 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:55,600 you to hunger, and he fed you with manna, which you did not 540 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,680 know, nor did your Father's know. 541 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,160 Sometimes God, you know, the pastor talked about appointed 542 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,560 sufferings. He says he allowed you to hunger 543 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,400 because he's trying to show you something bigger than your belly 544 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:14,760 that he might make you recognize and personally know that man 545 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:21,000 does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that 546 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,040 proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. 547 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,040 That's a Deuteronomy. See Matthew 4 down there. 548 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,320 That's what Jesus quotes when he quotes to the to the devil and 549 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,720 the temptation. That's the verse. 550 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,760 It's not a New Testament thing to live by every word that 551 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,240 proceeds out of the mouth of God. 552 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,880 It's an Old Testament reference. And why is that critically 553 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,000 important? Because the Old Testament only 554 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,200 had the oral word of God. The Old Testament posture was we 555 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,000 come into a Tabernacle, the half priest goes in and he brings a 556 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:03,680 word from God out to us. What is God saying today for us? 557 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,720 What is God speaking today to us? 558 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,760 The prophets of the Old Testament were charged with 559 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,760 going and hearing the word of the Lord and bringing the word 560 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,200 of the Lord. What am I speaking to is having 561 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,000 reverence for what God is saying. 562 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,400 So when you come into this experience and God releases a 563 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,520 word unto you from the anointed servants and messengers He gives 564 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:31,240 you, that is, it's important to Revere that as much as you would 565 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,840 this written word. You Revere them the same, but 566 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:41,000 you hold them differently. If the written word doesn't 567 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,240 change, it anchors you differently. 568 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:49,000 The spoken word you Revere, but you write it. 569 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,080 You go back to it. They continually refine your 570 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,200 hearing to make sure that what God has said is what you 571 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,480 actually heard. We're back in the back and I 572 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,720 asked the music team about a song. 573 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,640 I said, listen, I'm talking about the fear of God. 574 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,840 And I say, where's the fear of God in this song? 575 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,160 And someone, you know, eventually asked a question. 576 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,600 He says, well, if there's No Fear of God in the song, then, 577 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,000 you know, tell me what song would have the fear of God in 578 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,520 it? And I told him I didn't say it 579 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:21,800 wasn't any fear of God in the song, but someone heard me ask, 580 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,840 where is it? And heard that as being there is 581 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,000 none. I didn't say there was none. 582 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:35,240 The challenge was you tell me where it is so I can anchor and 583 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,640 be ready to celebrate and and get myself dialed in and see it 584 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,920 the way you see it. That's the importance of the 585 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,400 when you get a verbal word of the Lord of writing it down, you 586 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,400 have to do that work. Why? 587 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,640 Because your lens will cause you to hear something different than 588 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,720 what was said. So you Revere them the same, but 589 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:56,800 you hold them differently. OK, if you got keys, everyone 590 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,200 say keys. The written word is the master 591 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,880 key. I don't make copy. 592 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,440 I don't cut keys off the master. I take the master key and I make 593 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,480 one copy. Then I make my copies off the 594 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,080 copy. I don't make my copies off the 595 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:17,160 master because every time I take the master and make a copy, I 596 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:21,800 degrade the master key and eventually over time the master 597 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,960 key won't be able to master anything. 598 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,120 The written word is the master key. 599 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,440 I hold that differently than I do the copies of the keys that I 600 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,360 made. Both can open locks. 601 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,120 Both. If they're lost, someone can get 602 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,360 in and take my stuff. I hold them differently, but I 603 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,080 reference them the same. Makes sense. 604 00:39:51,790 --> 00:40:01,480 Hebrews 9 verse 4 says this. It had the golden altar of 605 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:02,800 incense with the Ark of the Covenant. 606 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,560 It had the golden altar of incense in the Ark of the 607 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,160 Covenant, covered with over with rock gold. 608 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,480 The ark contained a golden jar which helped the manner we just 609 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,280 we just we just reference that that being the word of the Lord 610 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,440 and the rod of Aaron resurrection life or life and 611 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,920 slabs of the covenant to take commandments, which is more of 612 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,560 the word. So in the ark of the covenant 613 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:31,320 was the written word the the the given word of God and the life 614 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,440 of God represented. Jesus says my words are spirit 615 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,120 and they are life. At the heart of the ark was the 616 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,760 Word. At the heart of the glory was 617 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,960 the Word. At the heart of the power and 618 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,880 the presence that went before Israel and destroyed enemies as 619 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,320 represented by the ark was the Word of God. 620 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,120 There is No Fear of God truly without a reference for the Word 621 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,480 of God. And if you can sit every day and 622 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,360 not read it, If you can come and he give it and not take a note. 623 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,560 If you can listen to it and not apply it. 624 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,680 If you think it's because you got up yesterday and today that 625 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:06,360 you don't get up tomorrow and it's not God's life and breath, 626 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,600 the word sustaining you, that you are not referencing the word 627 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:14,240 of God the way that you should. When you think Sunday coming to 628 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:17,680 church is an optional thing or fit within my calendar, you're 629 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,880 not referencing the word of God the way that you should. 630 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,960 When you come to church late and on your own time with a heart 631 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,520 posture, whatever you want to come in here with rather than a 632 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,800 heart to glorify God and and to receive that, you're not 633 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,240 reverencing the word of God the way that you should. 634 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,480 That's not a get on. That's a coach up because y'all 635 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:51,840 here so y'all here. So don't get condemnation by 636 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,120 that. Let that challenge you. 637 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,120 Just challenge your heart posture and say, man, am I late 638 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,600 because I want to be or as I'm late because I have no choice 639 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,440 but to be? Challenge your own heart posture 640 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,920 because you cannot have the fear of God without a reverence for 641 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,200 the Word of God. Amen, Amen. 642 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:22,480 That's Part 1. I know, it's so good, right? 643 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,120 Right. It's so good. 644 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,400 Part 2 is even better. So I encourage you to come on 645 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,960 back for Part 2. I'm going to close out in 646 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:52,450 prayer. Let's take a moment and let the 647 00:42:52,450 --> 00:42:54,090 Spirit of God just shift your heart a little bit. 648 00:42:54,850 --> 00:42:56,010 I'm going to close out in a prayer. 649 00:42:56,210 --> 00:42:57,650 You can sit, you can stand. It's up to you. 650 00:43:00,730 --> 00:43:06,770 Father, forgive us what? We haven't reverenced your word. 651 00:43:07,770 --> 00:43:12,490 We say we fear you, God, but we haven't reverenced your word in 652 00:43:12,490 --> 00:43:15,840 a way that reflects it. We haven't honored your word and 653 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,480 taking you at your word in the way that says we trust you and 654 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,920 know that you're a God. Know that you're immutable. 655 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,560 Know that you don't change your mind. 656 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:25,720 Know that you're all powerful. God. 657 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,560 Forgive us what we have and honored and reverenced your 658 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,880 Word. Father, we're asking that by 659 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:38,680 your Spirit and by your grace that the anointing of God will 660 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,280 flow upon us and our community and this church and everyone 661 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,320 under the sound of my voice to bring us a place of reverencing 662 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,880 the Word of God. Reverencing the Word of God out 663 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,360 of the fear of God. Not out of idolatry, not out of 664 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,640 the manipulation, not out of control, not out of self help, 665 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,520 not out of wanting a better life or a better lifestyle. 666 00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:03,280 Let us reverence the Word of God because it comes from a gloving 667 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,480 father and an omnipotent, gracious Almighty God. 668 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,400 Let a let a reverence for the word of God, all of it, the hard 669 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,640 parts, the soft parts, the thorny parts, the sweet parts, 670 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,800 the bitter parts, the challenging parts. 671 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,720 Let us have a reverence for it all, God, the written word, the 672 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:23,000 spoken word, every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God 673 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,880 when it's in a wisdom session or prophetic word from a platform. 674 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,680 God, we're asking for a change of heart by your grace. 675 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,920 We're asking God to let us be really rooted in a reverence and 676 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:39,400 a fear of the word of God unlike anything we've ever seen before. 677 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,880 A reverence for the Word of God that so strikes us to the core 678 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,120 that when we read it, we read it with the fear of trembling. 679 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,160 Not a fall back, but a fall. Lynch, you say God, I'm Speaking 680 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,520 of community with my Father and the make of the universe. 681 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,760 Let's reverence the Word of God so completely that we speak it 682 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,520 with power and authority, knowing that the word we're 683 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,080 speaking is the word of the God of the universe. 684 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:15,040 Father, we thank you for a reverence for the Word of God 685 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,840 transform our lives. God, we yield our hearts. 686 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,520 We render hearts. What does random mean? 687 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,280 We open our hearts ourselves. We tear away the pride 688 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,320 ourselves. We tear away the issues 689 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,880 ourselves. We tear away the idolatry 690 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,400 ourselves. We tear away all the things that 691 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,080 have gotten in the way, the things that we've built. 692 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,480 We tear them away God and open ourselves up God with the works 693 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,440 of our own hands. We cast down our own idols that 694 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,920 we might Revere the Word of God in the way that allows us to 695 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:54,760 walk more fully in the fear of God, because we understand God. 696 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,120 That sometimes the fear of God follows the reverence for the 697 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,680 Word, not the other way around. You've already said your son 698 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,120 Jesus. There can be no greater display 699 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,360 of your love and your power and your authority than that. 700 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,800 And if the Word of Jesus is not enough to get us to fear you and 701 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,840 reverence you God, then your appearing in a flame of fire in 702 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:22,160 our midst will be insufficient. So Father, we reverence your 703 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,440 word for it leads us to you. We reverence your word for we 704 00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,920 can stand on it. We reverence your word for us, a 705 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,520 light into our path, a lamp into our feet. 706 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,720 It guides us at times of darkness and trial and 707 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,320 challenge. It sustains us and anchors us 708 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,000 and it cures us and it establishes us. 709 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,560 God, God, we are people who fear the fear the Lord because we're 710 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:49,160 people who reverence the word of the Lord in Jesus name. 711 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:57,560 Hey man, hey man, hey man, now don't clap yet. 712 00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,960 Don't clap yet. Put them on purposely clap. 713 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,280 But you heard that prayer and even more than heard that 714 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:05,720 prayer. Hopefully you felt that prayer. 715 00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,920 And if you agree with what was prayed, if you feeling, what was 716 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,000 the, the, the feeling that was released, if you're really 717 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,240 saying God, yes, that's me. Count me in on that with a 718 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:25,560 sincerity, not a Patty cake thing at the end because someone 719 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:32,400 stopped speaking. If you really believe that, then 720 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,040 let your clap reflect that heart consecration to God. 721 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,600 Now you can clap at the end of the prayer. 722 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,800 Now the time to clap. But let your clap reflect God. 723 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,360 Yes, that's what I want. Transfer transform me. 724 00:47:49,800 --> 00:48:01,440 It's Jesus name. Amen, Amen. 725 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,240 This week we got round ball this Friday at 9:00 PM. 726 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,680 Big game. We're playing our rivals, the 727 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:10,760 Blue Devils. Be there. 728 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:13,920 Mother's Day is coming up. May 11th be there. 729 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:19,240 Immerse Worship Vancouver recurring for returns May 25. 730 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:24,400 Be there and immerse. The worship of Victoria at the 731 00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,520 moment looks like it's going to be June 7. 732 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:32,840 Be there, but more important, let that word hit you. 733 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:41,200 Retain it, tend it, care for it. The fear of God, there's a power 734 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,280 in it. Father, thank you for your word 735 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,240 alive. Thank you Lord for the fear of 736 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:53,120 God that draws us to you. Thank you that your word will 737 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:58,800 produce greatly. We praise you for what you have 738 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:05,040 for us in Jesus name, Amen. Maybe out of time, never out of 739 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,360 the Spirit of God. Till next time get your love 740 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:28,160 fixed man. Thank you so much for tuning 741 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,680 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 742 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:34,280 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 743 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,480 platforms. That's love Quest Intl church. 744 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,920 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 745 00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,880 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.