1 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,440 Look at our scripture tonight out of Philippians chapter 2. 2 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:28,160 We only got to the scripture last week, so we were talking 3 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:33,600 about the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord and the 4 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,120 scripture out of Philippians chapter 2 that we focused on was 5 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:44,960 talking about how we have to work out what our salvation with 6 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,320 fear and trembling. We have to work out our 7 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,120 salvation with fear and trembling, right? 8 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,400 And we said the to, to define fear properly. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:05,519 We see it as this to Revere, to stand in awe, to honor, to 10 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:13,240 esteem, to be devoted to. This is important because I hear 11 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,720 a lot of people say they fear the Lord, but they're not 12 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:21,640 devoted to Him in their everyday life. 13 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,880 They're not devoted to Him. And this is 1 definition of what 14 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,840 we see the fear of the Lord means. 15 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:36,000 It means to be devoted to Him, to respect, and then also to be 16 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,960 afraid, right? And we talked about this. 17 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,760 Or to dread. And this is not the fear that 18 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:48,400 the enemy, you know, brings towards our life with a spirit 19 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,680 of fear. No, this is a different type of 20 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,480 fear. This fear involves us 21 00:01:53,960 --> 00:02:03,120 disappointing God or not being obedient to His will and not 22 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:08,919 doing the things that we should dread the day that we stand 23 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,480 before Him. Because every me what? 24 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,520 And every tongue will confess. We will every, each and every 25 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,520 one of us stand before the Lord and have to give an account of 26 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,200 our walk with Him. Right? 27 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:31,320 And we should be in fear that we would not do the things that He 28 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:37,000 is asking or requiring of us to do as believers, right? 29 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,320 And that should be something that you would fear that you 30 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,720 would dread. You do not want to what? 31 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:51,640 Displease the Father? You do not want to disappoint 32 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:56,000 him, right? And and so this is very 33 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 important that we recognize what the fear of the Lord literally 34 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,720 means. So we saw that we are to work 35 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:11,160 this salvation out with honor towards Him, with reverence 36 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:19,800 towards Him, being devoted to Him, right, respecting him and 37 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:26,000 having a fear in our hearts that we would not do the things that 38 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,920 he's asking of us to do, right? And then we looked at this word 39 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:37,880 work, and because in the church today and the age of grace that 40 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:43,040 we're living and the doctrine of grace that has gotten way out of 41 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:50,600 balance, right? Work is a dirty word, right? 42 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,520 Because people think I don't have to do anything. 43 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,920 We're not talking about earning your salvation. 44 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:06,120 We're talking about working out what you are to become and what 45 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,880 you are already on the inside after Christ has already 46 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,080 deposited his Spirit and his life within you. 47 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:21,760 And so we are to become, it's a becoming. 48 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,440 So that means there's things that we are to grow in, we are 49 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,960 to become. And as we're doing that, that 50 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,320 means there's going to be work within our life through the 51 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,320 grace of God, through the Spirit of God, that he's going to begin 52 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,560 to give us the grace and the anointing, the strength to be 53 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,600 able to work out our salvation. All right. 54 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,720 And we see that this work means to perform. 55 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,000 What does that mean? That is not meaning that we are 56 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,400 performing to be approved by him. 57 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:07,840 No, we are performing the work that He's already put within us 58 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:12,680 to be able to do because again, it's not about earning our 59 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,760 salvation. It was already paid for by 60 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:23,040 Christ and it was already. I'm trying to think of that word 61 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:29,160 imputed to you the minute you called on the name of the Lord, 62 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,280 Amen. The minute you called on the 63 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:37,400 name of the Lord by faith through your salvation. 64 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,200 Listen, everything that Christ did is already put on the inside 65 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,840 of you. So now you are to perform the 66 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:49,440 things that He's put it. Remember, you were saved so that 67 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:56,320 you could do good work. So work is not a bad word in the 68 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:02,360 Kingdom of God because we're not working this thing in ourselves. 69 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,800 We're working out what He put within us to accomplish. 70 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:11,920 OK, it also means to accomplish. That means there's things that 71 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:17,320 He's going to assign for us to do as a believer in the earth, 72 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,520 and He expects us to accomplish some things. 73 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,120 OK? It means this to achieve, to 74 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,960 work out and that's what I'm going to title this Part 2 of 75 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:31,960 the fear of the Lord is work it out. 76 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,880 Say work it out. OK, we are to work it out. 77 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,240 And then he goes on to say to do that with something results. 78 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,680 So there should be results within your life as a believer 79 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,080 that people ought to be able to see your life and you becoming 80 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,400 all that God has called you to be doing, all that God has asked 81 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:01,440 of you to do, and you performing it, working it out with His 82 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,920 help. And there ought to be results 83 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,360 within your life. People ought to be able to see a 84 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,640 result. They ought to be able to see a 85 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:13,960 transformation within your life. Amen. 86 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:19,400 You ought to not be the same today as when the first day you 87 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,120 got born again and brought into the Kingdom of God. 88 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,720 They ought to see a work by the Spirit of God through the grace 89 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,440 of God on the inside of you and you obeying and yielding and 90 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:37,880 performing. That is you working it out and 91 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:42,720 becoming what He wants to see within your life and there 92 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,920 should be results. So it means also when He says 93 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,160 work it out, it means to bring it about. 94 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:54,000 To bring it about. There ought to be, as I said, 95 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,600 results, results within your life in Christ as you are 96 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,240 walking this walk out every day. It means to fashion. 97 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,440 So there are things that what is he doing? 98 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,360 He's molding you. He's fashioning you to become 99 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:18,080 what it is He created you to be. Right where he tells us and 100 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,360 James that we are to look in the mirror. 101 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,320 And when we look in the mirror, we are seeing what a reflection 102 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,360 or a picture of what he sees us as. 103 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:34,799 And then we are what to behold That mirror allow him to fashion 104 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:39,799 us, to mold us, to make us and not tell the Potter, he can't 105 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:46,280 touch this area in my life, right? 106 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,320 And so it means to render one fit. 107 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:55,880 To render one fit. Come on. 108 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:05,520 And then he goes on to say to work a deed or to fully 109 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,560 accomplish and to finish. Isn't that what Paul says? 110 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,800 We need to what? Finish our race? 111 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:21,960 We need to accomplish walking in everything that God has for us 112 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,520 to walk in in this life. Amen. 113 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,600 Hallelujah. And that is up to us and how 114 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:37,040 much we allow the Spirit of God to work us out because he's the 115 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,680 trainer. He's the trainer and he's the 116 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:46,240 one saying, come on, you can do one more push up, right? 117 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,160 He's the trainer and he's the one that says, come on, you can 118 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,720 forgive them one more time. Come on. 119 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,360 He's the one that can say to you, come on, you can keep your 120 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:06,920 tongue to yourself. See, you can tame it because if 121 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,120 you don't, your religion is worthless. 122 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:15,000 It's what James says. But I'm not talking about the 123 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,600 tongue tonight because there's been a lot of loose lips sinking 124 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:27,440 lots of ships. Hallelujah, glory to God, but we 125 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,920 had just move on. So we saw this where he says 126 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,360 work out your salvation with fearing trembling. 127 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:37,960 I read it out of the amplified too. 128 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,640 It says Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed my 129 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,920 suggestions, so now not only with the enthusiasm you would 130 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,720 show in my presence, but much more because I am absent. 131 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,040 Workout, Here's the amplified what it says. 132 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,760 Workout Cultivate. We've heard that word before, 133 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,920 right? Cultivate, carry out the goal 134 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:07,600 and fully complete. Say fully complete, because see, 135 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,840 that is the goal for every believer. 136 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,880 And we teach that here is that we must mature. 137 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:20,040 He expects us to grow up spiritually. 138 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,960 He expects us to walk in maturity as a believer, meaning 139 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,160 we're not going to be doing the same things today as we did the 140 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,960 day we got brought into the Kingdom of God. 141 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,640 We're more mature than that, right? 142 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,400 We've grown. We've allowed that salvation to 143 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:48,160 be worked out within our lives. And so his goal is that we would 144 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:53,480 be fully complete or mature. Your own salvation with 145 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,520 reverence. Here's the word honor. 146 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,400 Reverence with honor, with awe, with honor, awe with trembling 147 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:07,680 self distrust. That means we're not here to 148 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:11,760 work out this salvation and trusting in our own self. 149 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,520 We're here to work this salvation out with trusting in 150 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,680 the Lord, with trusting in his strength, with trusting in his 151 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:25,520 grace, with trusting in the working of the Holy Spirit 152 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,120 within our lives. You see that? 153 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:32,240 And he goes on to say with serious caution. 154 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:39,040 So again, that we wouldn't want to dread or have fear that we 155 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,600 would disappoint God. So he's letting us know and 156 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,520 amplify we're to work this salvation out with serious 157 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:50,720 conscious, caution, Caution. That's what the word is, 158 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,000 caution, not conscious. But yes, we should be spirit 159 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,560 conscious and serious about it, right? 160 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:01,200 But with caution. And then it goes on to say with 161 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:08,200 tenderness of conscious watchfulness against temptation, 162 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:15,440 timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God. 163 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:22,800 So when you say you honor God and you fear God, you know what 164 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,800 that means? That I am going to shrink back 165 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:31,080 from whatever might offend God. So whatever His word says that I 166 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,920 should be walking in or I shouldn't be doing as a 167 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,640 believer, then guess what I'm going to do? 168 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:43,520 I am going to do it because I fear him and I don't want to 169 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:52,320 offend Him because when we choose not to do it, we 170 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:58,120 offending, we disappointing, we can displeasing. 171 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:04,400 These are all words that are important words. 172 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:14,280 We can also, you know, not then become all that He wants us to 173 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,760 become, because what happens when we shrink back from 174 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:24,000 whatever that would offend him it says and discredit the name 175 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,240 of Christ. See, this is what we're talking 176 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:33,040 about, the fear of the Lord. I don't ever want to do anything 177 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:39,520 that would offend him or discredit his name. 178 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,400 And this is when you can tell there's a person that really 179 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,760 honors God because they're not going to do anything that would 180 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:55,280 come against a church, say anything bad to discredit the 181 00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:02,600 name of Christ or to offend him in any way by not obeying what 182 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,960 the Scripture says, that we as believers should walk in, right? 183 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,280 And this is what really the fear of the Lord is. 184 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,120 We can come in here and say we fear him, but do we? 185 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,760 And these are the Scriptures that let us know, right? 186 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,040 And define some of these things so that we can get a good 187 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,320 picture of what it really means to honor him. 188 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,600 And then he goes on to completely let us know out of 189 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,320 the amplified that it's not in your own strength. 190 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:41,400 For it is God who is all the while effectually at work within 191 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:48,200 you, energizing and creating in you the power to do it. 192 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,040 And not only to do it, to desire it. 193 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,600 Because someone who doesn't really desire to do what God 194 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:08,840 says is not really fearing Him. If you don't desire to want to, 195 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,040 you know, read the word. If you don't desire to want to 196 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,200 come to church, if you don't desire to want to grow, if you 197 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,600 don't desire to want to actually walk in love with one another, 198 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,320 if you don't want, if you don't desire these things, then do we 199 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,040 really fear Him? See. 200 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,600 And so he and you say you're a believer. 201 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:40,840 So he goes on to say both to will and to work for his good 202 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,360 pleasure and satisfaction and delight. 203 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,920 You see that? So there's some things that we 204 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:52,720 are to work out and to do in this life for him, for his 205 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,520 pleasure. Amen. 206 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,280 The things that he desires for us to do. 207 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,320 It's not all about what we desire to do right, but what is 208 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,920 it that He desires for us to do and walk out according to being 209 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:12,160 led by Him and working out our salvation with fear and 210 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,480 trembling. Now let's go to several other 211 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,000 scriptures in the New Testament, which I didn't get to last week, 212 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:24,480 so we want to get there first. Peter 1 and 19 through 17 213 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:29,760 because again I said a lot of Psalms and Proverbs talks about 214 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,440 the fear of the Lord. The majority of the Scriptures 215 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,840 are in Psalms and Proverbs about the fear of the Lord, and a lot 216 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:40,480 in the Old Testament as well. And so we need to see that this 217 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,360 concept of the fear of the Lord is from Genesis to Revelation, 218 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,560 from the old to the new. Nothing's done away with. 219 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,240 We are to fear him, we're to honor him, we're to reverence 220 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,720 him. We're to walk out our salvation 221 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,160 in this fear and honor before him. 222 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:03,160 So first Peter, chapter one, 913 through 17 out of the amplified 223 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,120 says this. So prepare your minds for 224 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,680 action. Be completely sober in spirit, 225 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:16,800 Say sober in spirit, sober in spirit. 226 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:24,600 Don't be drunk with all the other spirits that are seducing. 227 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:33,400 All right, move along. Steadfast, self disciplined, 228 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:39,600 spiritually and morally alert. Here's what he's saying. 229 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:45,040 Listen, fix your hope completely on the grace of God that is 230 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,280 coming to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 231 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,280 Live as obedient children of God. 232 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,160 Do not be conformed to the evil desires which governed you in 233 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,040 your ignorance before you knew the requirements and the 234 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,040 transforming power of the good news regarding salvation. 235 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:12,800 But like the Holy One who was called has called you, be holy 236 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,720 yourselves in your conduct. Be set apart from the world. 237 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:27,040 Say be set apart from the world by your godly character. 238 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:34,840 Wow, how many believers are having the same character as 239 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:42,280 those of the world and you can't tell the difference and you want 240 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:43,400 to? Are they born again? 241 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,720 Because they sure are not displaying anything morally. 242 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,760 OK, look what I says. It says with godly character and 243 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:58,960 moral courage, because it is written you should be holy set 244 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,680 apart, and we're going to define what holy is. 245 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,880 Be set apart for I am holy. If you address as the Father, 246 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,880 the one who is impartially judges according to each one's 247 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:16,480 work, conduct yourselves in reverent fear of Him, which is 248 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,200 what we said. The fear of the Lord is honor. 249 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:21,240 Write all of those things of him. 250 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:29,200 And with profound respect for him throughout your time of stay 251 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:34,480 on the earth. So He's letting us know that He 252 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:39,320 expects that while we as believers are living in this 253 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:46,840 ungodly world, that we could walk holy, set apart. 254 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:52,680 And the reason why we can walk in holiness is because we fear 255 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,480 Him. Because when you really fear the 256 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:00,360 Lord, and you honor Him, and you honor His word, and you obey Him 257 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:05,120 and do what He tells you you need to be doing as a believer, 258 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:12,000 fear will equal holiness. Outside of you fearing the Lord, 259 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,920 I can guarantee you there are things unholy in your life. 260 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,200 And This is why men can still be wrapped up in pornography, 261 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,240 because they really don't fear the Lord. 262 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:36,120 And This is why believers can still act a fool and and gossip 263 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:43,480 and slander and do, because there is No Fear of the Lord, No 264 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:50,160 Fear of the Lord, right? And so he goes on to say here in 265 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,440 Second Corinthians, he's letting us know, listen, you ought to be 266 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:58,000 able to fear the Lord. Walk in holiness while you're 267 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:03,920 here on this earth. He expects us to live holy. 268 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,320 He expects us to walk in the fear of the Lord. 269 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,720 And 2nd Corinthians 7 one says this. 270 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:16,920 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse 271 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:23,760 ourselves. Why would He tell us to cleanse 272 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:33,760 ourselves if He says He's already poured out his blood on 273 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,880 the mercy seat? Put Jesus Christ on the inside 274 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:45,160 of us because we can still have to walk out in this earth by 275 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,320 being holy. Meaning there's things that 276 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,520 we're going to have to cleanse ourselves of. 277 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,240 Things we maybe have seen with our eyes come on, things we 278 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:58,240 maybe have listened to. Things we maybe have allowed 279 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:04,000 ourselves to slip back into and he's letting us know that we're 280 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,360 the ones that are going to have to cleanse ourselves from all 281 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:14,680 filthiness of the what flesh, because the spirit and the what 282 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:21,840 the flesh battle daily. The spirit and the flesh battle 283 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,600 daily and and who can save us from this wretched man of 284 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,560 ourselves? It's only God and so at all 285 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:35,760 times we must choose God, our spirit over this flesh. 286 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,560 Every time we have to crucify. That's why he says daily we have 287 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:46,400 to kill this flesh. We have to say no to it. 288 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,360 When you want to do the things that you want to lash out, you 289 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:54,400 have to say in Jesus name. His Word says this, and I'll 290 00:23:54,400 --> 00:24:00,600 refuse to walk in the flesh with this because my Spirit is going 291 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,760 to dominate me. You see what I'm saying? 292 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,480 So we have to choose that. We're going to put down our 293 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,000 flesh, we're going to keep this flesh under, we're going to 294 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,680 crucify this thing, and we are going to walk in. 295 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,240 Look what He says from all filthiness of the flesh, 296 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:26,600 perfecting holiness. Look at this in the fear of God, 297 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:35,240 See, so fearing the Lord brings forth holiness, perfecting that 298 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,560 holiness within our life. And if we don't fear any 299 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:47,360 consequences, because listen, if you sow to thee, what will you 300 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:53,600 reap? Corruption, destruction. 301 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:01,400 When you sow to the flesh that it, you don't escape that. 302 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:08,560 While we're here in this day, in this earth, we have to choose to 303 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,440 put it down. We have to choose to dominate 304 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,240 it. We have to choose to say no to 305 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,000 this flesh. And we'll always have to do that 306 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:23,480 until we take on the new body, right? 307 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,720 The glorified body, OK. And so we have to choose to do 308 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,720 that. And when every time we choose to 309 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,040 put down this flesh and all filthiness, right, the 310 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:46,920 perfecting of holiness begins to operate within our life and the 311 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,160 fear of the Lord. And without the fear of the 312 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:57,000 Lord, we won't walk in holiness. We won't walk in holiness. 313 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,080 Even though he says be holy, he says be holy as I am holy. 314 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,080 What does holy means? Set apart, separated, right? 315 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,000 It means sacred. Do you know you are sacred to 316 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:18,320 God? You're sacred. 317 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,680 That's what holy means. Sacred, he says. 318 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:33,440 Be holy, be sacred, be separated, be set apart. 319 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:42,800 It means physically holy, morally holy, pure, blameless. 320 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,520 This is what holiness means, Consecrated. 321 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:53,560 Consecrated. I'm consecrated, I am separated. 322 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,880 Come on. I am sacred. 323 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,680 I am spiritually and morally pure. 324 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:09,320 This is what holiness means, and it comes through US fearing the 325 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,240 Lord, honoring Him, putting Him first. 326 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:17,840 Like he says in Matthew 633, seek first the Kingdom of God 327 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:23,280 and His righteousness. And when we put first the 328 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:30,880 Kingdom principles of being able to live this Kingdom life in our 329 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:36,760 life every day, it's producing the fruits of the righteousness 330 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:42,480 that's already been get imputed within our life because there's 331 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,840 fruits of righteousness. And listen, this will, this is 332 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:52,320 this is God's process, this is his process. 333 00:27:52,680 --> 00:28:00,920 This is how you become what he created you to be all along for 334 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:08,000 you to become the person that he desired for you to be created 335 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,760 you to be. And that's his process. 336 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:17,240 He puts everything within you and gives the ability for that 337 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:24,000 to function within your life so that then you can begin to walk 338 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,640 it out per the Holy Spirit. And as we yield to the Holy 339 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:35,080 Spirit and the Word of God every single time, sanctification is 340 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:41,960 happening, washing is happening, holiness is being produced, fear 341 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:47,160 of the Lord is being produced. It that is just how He processes 342 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:52,640 you to become the believer that He would need you to be in the 343 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:53,680 earth. Amen. 344 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:59,760 See, everybody most the time think that the minute they get 345 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:06,760 born again, that's it. You have just magically become a 346 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,240 child of God. I'm a child of God. 347 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:22,120 No, the seed of everything you need to be able to become as you 348 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,040 work out your salvation is in you. 349 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,800 And that seed now has to be watered, it has to grow, it has 350 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,760 to be able to produce just like a natural seed when you put it 351 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,840 in the water. And do you know what it needs to 352 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,400 be able to grow? It needs, it needs the word, it 353 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,200 needs the Spirit of God, come on, it needs the blood. 354 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,680 Oh, it needs all these things that He has already provided for 355 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,000 us so that we can work out this salvation and become everything 356 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,080 that he wants. And again, we're not making 357 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,760 ourselves holy because there is denominations that what if you 358 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:11,280 wear your hair up in a bun? If you don't cut your hair, if 359 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:19,480 you don't wear makeup, if you, you know, wear a long skirt and 360 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,800 not wear pants, then you become holy. 361 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,200 It's called the Holy Pentecost Holiness Church. 362 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:34,640 So they're doing all this external things instead of 363 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:45,800 allowing the seed on the inside to become and produce that 364 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,760 holiness in our lives because there's nothing we have to do. 365 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:57,080 From the outside, everything is working from the inside. 366 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:06,280 Everything is working for seed. Adam chose to try to pull from 367 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:16,600 this outside realm to become holy and covered and see Jesus 368 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,200 came and said you have you don't have to do any of that. 369 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:26,200 I'm fulfilling it all and I'm placing my spirit come on who I 370 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,760 am and recreating your spirit in my image and giving you 371 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:36,920 everything you need the seed to be able to grow, blossom and 372 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:43,160 become as you cooperate with me. He always has needed man's 373 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,920 cooperation, always from day one. 374 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:58,400 God is not a genie where he just waves a wand and you are this 375 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,680 perfect being. No, that's not how it works. 376 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,960 That's not his processing center, Right? 377 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:12,160 So fear will equal holiness within your life and all you 378 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:17,320 have to do is yield to the things that He wants to do 379 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,240 within your life. Now look at Ephesians. 380 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,880 Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 26 through 27 says this in order 381 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:32,240 that we might sanctify it and purifying it by the washing of 382 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:38,600 the water, by the Word, that He might present the assembling to 383 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:44,600 Himself glorious, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing 384 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:50,440 that might be holy and blameless. 385 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:56,600 Now this is where this sanctification process comes in 386 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,920 within our life. Again, if we will just yield to 387 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,400 the Word of God through the leading of the Spirit of God, 388 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,840 then that washing will happen. What are we washing? 389 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,960 We're washing away the filthiness, we're washing away 390 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:21,560 those things that caused us shame, guilt, all the mindsets, 391 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,840 all the things, the dysfunctions that we had when we were lost, 392 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,760 and just simply allowing the watering of the word to take a 393 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,080 part of your life. That's why it's so important as 394 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,080 a new believer that you're daily meditating in the word and 395 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,920 reading it. Listen, when I got born again or 396 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,440 when I made him Lord of my life. It was about when I was, you 397 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:53,480 know, 21 when when we met, but a little earlier than that around 398 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:58,720 18. I knew nothing other than Jesus 399 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,800 saved me and got born again and filled with and and then learned 400 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,600 that I got filled with the Holy Ghost, spoke in tongues at a 401 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:12,000 Church of God. But I knew nothing about 402 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,239 anything. And I was reading the word, just 403 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:21,639 simply reading the word and yielding to what I heard on the 404 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:26,120 inside. And as I heard him say, you have 405 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,639 unforgiveness and hatred in your heart toward your Father. 406 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,480 You need to go to him and ask him to forgive you. 407 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:44,280 I knew nothing, nothing, but I clearly heard His voice and was 408 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,159 because I was reading the Word and guess what the Word and the 409 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:55,840 Spirit was trying to do? Bring a washing and a cleansing 410 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:07,120 in my life and set me actually free from a bondage the minute I 411 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,600 started out because He went straight to the root of my 412 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,720 problem. Straight to the root. 413 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,520 You see that? So I didn't have to do anything 414 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,840 out here. I was simply reading the Word 415 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,560 and that washing started happening. 416 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,120 But guess what? I had to yield to it. 417 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:35,200 If I would not have obeyed and yielded and done it, worked it 418 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,880 out, performed it, you know, if I wouldn't have yielded to it 419 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,640 and done it, then I would have still been bound right with 420 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,760 unforgiveness and hatred in my heart. 421 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:52,520 You see that. And so this is how He processes 422 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:58,160 us to becoming, and this is how we work out our salvation, to 423 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:03,960 walk in the fear of the Lord and walk in holiness first. 424 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:10,880 Peter 2 first, Peter 2 again, verses 9 through 12. 425 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,920 I want to read this. But you are a chosen generation, 426 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:18,680 a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that 427 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,640 you should show forth the praises of Him who has called 428 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:28,000 you out of darkness into His marvelous light, which in times 429 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,400 past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God, 430 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,680 which had not obtained mercy, but now you have attained mercy. 431 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:40,080 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain 432 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:47,000 from fleshly lust which war against your soul, having your 433 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:52,000 conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they 434 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,880 speak against you as evil doers, they may be your good works. 435 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:03,360 Look at this, they may be by your good works which they shall 436 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,200 behold. You see that he's wanting to win 437 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:14,840 people by our good works, that they may behold and glorify God 438 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:21,120 in the day of visitation. He wants to because holiness 439 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:31,120 will produce glory, and this is His goal because when Adam 440 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:36,880 sinned in Genesis, the glory departed. 441 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,560 So God's always been trying to get us back into His original 442 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:51,480 plan, which is He was there in all of his glory, him and God in 443 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,960 communication and in fellowship with no sin, right? 444 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:03,360 But the minute he disobeyed, the Spirit departed. 445 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:09,720 So God desired that he would be able to come, bring forth the 446 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:15,440 sacrifice, to put back within man, as we would be the temples 447 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,680 of the Holy Spirit again, to put back in man the Spirit of God, 448 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,240 so that the glory could rest upon their lives again. 449 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:32,200 So when people see you, they should see the fullness of His 450 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:37,240 glory upon your life, and it will happen as you allow the 451 00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:41,200 fear of the Lord to rule and reign in your life. 452 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,680 That will produce an equal holiness within your life, and 453 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,400 then that holiness will produce the glory of God. 454 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,680 What is the glory? The full measure, the full 455 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:59,920 weight of who God is. You can walk around, come on and 456 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:05,800 walk in the full weight of who He is in every situation and 457 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,200 every circumstance in all of your life, in this life, so that 458 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,880 when people see you, they see the glory. 459 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,400 They see the glory, man. They look at you and think, wow, 460 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,960 look at your life. Look what you have be. 461 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,080 Look at the results. Look at the results. 462 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,320 Look what you're producing for the Kingdom of God. 463 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,520 When they see you, they see the glory. 464 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,320 When they see you, they see the glory. 465 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,600 Come on. Oh, oh, when they see you, 466 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,040 they'll see the glory. Look at Titus chapter 2. 467 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,840 Titus chapter 2, verse 11 through 14. 468 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,600 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to 469 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:59,600 all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires, 470 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:05,200 and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in this 471 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,600 present age. Looking for the blessed hope and 472 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:15,120 the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Christ 473 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,680 Jesus, who gave Himself up for us to redeem us from every 474 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:23,920 lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own 475 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:31,840 possession. Zealous for good deeds, for good 476 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:37,160 deeds. So there ought to be production 477 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,680 happening in your life. You ought to be producing what 478 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:46,640 it is that God has put within you to become in this life. 479 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,560 Amen. With your families producing 480 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:55,320 godly hair inheritance, you know, with with at your business 481 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,360 producing godly business to where people would want to work 482 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,200 for you producing. Come on. 483 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,120 The Kingdom of God in every area of your life. 484 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,000 Hallelujah. This is what He wants, and this 485 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:15,840 is what can take place for those who will fear Him, really fear 486 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,480 Him. Look at Psalms 96 and 9. 487 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,200 Worship the Lord in the beauty of His Holiness. 488 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:28,480 Fear Him. Fear before Him all the earth 489 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:40,960 fear Him you see that fear him Proverbs 16/6 by loving kindness 490 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:46,360 and truth, sin or or iniquity is atoned for and by the fear of 491 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:48,880 the Lord. 1 keeps away from evil. 492 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,840 So this goes with those scriptures that we were just 493 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,520 reading ahead of time that listen, when you fear the Lord, 494 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,480 it's going to keep you from doing evil. 495 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,640 When you fear, when you truly fear Him, you're not going to 496 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:13,600 want to participate in those fleshly deeds, in those evil 497 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:22,320 works because you fear Him. So fearing the Lord will keep 498 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:31,600 you from sin, fearing the Lord will keep you from these things. 499 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,200 And so it's so important. It's not just loving him, We 500 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:42,400 talked about that, but it's fearing Him dreading that you 501 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,840 would not produce what it is that He needs for you to produce 502 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:52,320 as a believer and disqualify yourself or not become what He 503 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,600 has in store for you to become. Amen. 504 00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:02,080 Now look at Proverbs 8813. It says the fear of the Lord is 505 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:07,920 to hate evil. The fear of the Lord is to hate 506 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:14,880 evil. I don't want anything to do with 507 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,720 it. I don't want to be around it, 508 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:23,880 any evil workings, any of it. And it's not just evil like 509 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,800 witchcraft or be or do and say on no evil. 510 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,880 Evil is anything that goes against God's word. 511 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:42,960 That's just period. Because God is good and the 512 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:49,960 devil is bad and he's a liar, and he is the one that is the 513 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:55,320 worker of evil, all sorts of evil. 514 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,280 And so you don't, if you fear him, you don't want to 515 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,920 participate in it. You don't want to be around it, 516 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,560 you don't want to be near it. You actually want to flee from 517 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,160 it. You want to flee. 518 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,920 But we have to ask ourselves, are we running towards it? 519 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,280 Because if we run towards it, then there's No Fear. 520 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,160 This is an indication that you do not fear the Lord. 521 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,760 I mean, there is no simple no other simple way to explain it. 522 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:34,440 This is just scripture clearly speaking, clearly speaking. 523 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:39,600 OK, and So what does it says? The fear of the Lord is to hate 524 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:46,640 evil, pride, arrogancy and the evil way and the forward mouth 525 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:57,400 do I hate. Then he goes on and Proverbs 526 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:04,560 1416 it says a wise man feareth and departs from evil. 527 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,920 See, when you know, when you don't fear him, you are not 528 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,840 going to walk in the wisdom of God. 529 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,240 You're not going to walk in the wisdom of God, and you're not 530 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:20,120 going to be able to discern that you know what? 531 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:24,480 This is evil and I shouldn't participate in it and I'm not 532 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,640 going to participate in it. You see that I'm not going to 533 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,840 participate in it because I fear Him and I'm going to depart from 534 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,120 evil. It says, but a fool rages and is 535 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,640 confident. See, a fool will run towards 536 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:47,120 evil, but we have to recognize that He's letting us know as 537 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,120 believers that if we fear him, we'll depart from it. 538 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:57,640 We'll flee from it, we'll hate it, we'll hate it. 1st 539 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:03,240 Thessalonians 5, First Thessalonians 521 through 23 540 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,800 says this. But test all things carefully so 541 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,400 that you can recognize what is good. 542 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,640 Here it is, we'll be able to recognize what is good, hold 543 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:18,880 firmly to that which is good, abstain from every form of evil, 544 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:24,720 withdraw and keep away from it. Now may the God of Peace Himself 545 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:29,440 sanctify you through and through, that is, separate you 546 00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,160 from profane and vulgar things, make you pure and whole and 547 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:40,000 undamaged, consecrated to Him, set apart for His purpose. 548 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:46,520 And may your whole what spirit, soul and body be kept complete, 549 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,800 and be found blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 550 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,120 See, it's not just good to get born again. 551 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,920 No, He expects us as those that get born again, it brought into 552 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:06,400 the Kingdom of God, that we would begin to renew our mind to 553 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,840 the Word of God. That we would begin to allow 554 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,440 ourselves to be molded and shaped and fashioned into the 555 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,360 person that He wants us to become. 556 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:23,400 So that our spirit, our soul, and our body, He wants our body 557 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:28,720 blameless. Which again goes to that 558 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:35,840 crucifying of the flesh every single day and dominating it, 559 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:43,680 dominating it, right? Dominating this body and putting 560 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,240 it under and putting it into subjection. 561 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:49,560 The Bible says bring it into subjection. 562 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:59,000 This body has to submit to what you say, to what you say. 563 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,200 We have that authority. And he wants it all blameless. 564 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,360 All blameless. He wants it all sanctified. 565 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:12,960 Come on. He wants it all sanctified. 566 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:19,440 Proverbs 2814 all sanctified. That's why he tells you, don't 567 00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:24,760 you know if you lay with a a married person, come on, I'm 568 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,880 right there in the bed with you in Corinthians. 569 00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,600 It's not on my notes. That's a little side note. 570 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:40,600 I mean my Lord, I mean I fear God and what his word says and 571 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:45,120 knowing that he sees everything. I am open and exposed. 572 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,240 There's nowhere I can hide from him, and I sure can't hide in 573 00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:53,240 the dark, in another, in another man's bed. 574 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,640 You see what I'm saying? Because he's there. 575 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,160 Hallelujah. Glory to God. 576 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,560 No, I'm a run from it, far from it. 577 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,400 And that's how we ought to be with everything His word says 578 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:16,640 that we ought to be fleeing from right, fleeing from it, keeping 579 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:21,800 away from it. Proverbs 2814 how blessed is the 580 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:26,640 man who fears always. You know what this tells me that 581 00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:32,800 there could be times that you don't fear that you got to stir 582 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,160 UPS of fear the Lord within your. 583 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,080 That's why he says, teach me to fear the Lord. 584 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,160 You got to stir that fear up, OK? 585 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,120 You got to stir it up just like everything else. 586 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,520 How blessed is the man who fears. 587 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,680 Always listen. But what happens if you don't 588 00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,880 fear him? But he who hardens his heart 589 00:49:54,880 --> 00:50:00,760 will fall into calamity the minute you choose not to honor 590 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,560 His word. What happens? 591 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,840 We know a hardening can start happening the minute you choose 592 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:15,200 to disobey his word, to disobey his voice when he's constantly 593 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,880 trying to speak to you about some things, the heart, and you 594 00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:24,080 don't fear him by obeying it. See the hardening do you know, 595 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,640 just like in the natural as Pastor was talking about, I 596 00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:34,000 think it was Sunday, you know, about how when he was whatever 597 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:41,120 we went and had blood work done. And So what was happening in his 598 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,560 20s because all the burgers from Crystal's that he ate at 599 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,280 McDonald's because he loves a Crystal burger. 600 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,880 I call him worm burgers and I never go through there ever. 601 00:50:54,280 --> 00:51:00,280 We have not eaten fast food in probably over 15 years anyway. 602 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,960 So, I mean, unless there's desperate times like we're in 603 00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,680 another country and you're tired of chicken Curry and you see a 604 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,400 McDonald's, you go and you don't get a real burger, you get 605 00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,840 chicken. They call their burgers, they 606 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,880 call their burgers and it's chicken because you know, they 607 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:21,640 don't eat cow meat because they worship it, right. 608 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,480 So when Pastor Ajay is say you want to get a burger, I, I know 609 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,720 it's not a burger. It's it's a piece of chicken 610 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:41,000 chicken burger, OK, It's not a hamburger OK, y'all get it you 611 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:46,760 know you get it anyway, what was I saying? 612 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:53,040 Oh, yes, from eating all of this stuff, all this junk food, you 613 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:59,400 know, and he got his blood work and what has happened, See in 614 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:08,040 your body that you don't see the hardening of the arteries, does 615 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,240 it? Does he fall dead overnight? 616 00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:16,680 Most people don't know. It's years of abuse of allowing 617 00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:21,840 the hardening of the arteries. And it's the same thing with the 618 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,640 Word. When we don't fear him, when we 619 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,840 don't honor him, when we don't put Him first, when we see 620 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,600 something in the Word, when we know what to do, when we don't 621 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,800 do it, the Scripture calls it sin to us. 622 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:37,640 And as we do that over time, what's happening, the hardening 623 00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:41,400 of our heart, the hardening of our heart, those arteries are 624 00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:47,640 getting clogged and at some point it's going to resist you 625 00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,400 and you're going to come face to face with it. 626 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,800 And it isn't anything that's happened because of all of a 627 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,520 sudden. No, it was years of not fearing 628 00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:05,120 the Lord and obeying Him and yielding to His Word and 629 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,280 yielding to His Spirit through your life and through your walk 630 00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,560 with certain things that He may be speaking and tweaking and 631 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,840 trying to adjust in your life doesn't just happen all of a 632 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,680 sudden. See people that he says that is 633 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,320 in the last of the last days. They'll be that great apostasy 634 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,680 and falling away. It's not because of the the 635 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,280 devil is so strong in these last days. 636 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:41,440 It's because they refused for years to submit and yield to his 637 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:46,440 word. All along they've disobeyed His 638 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:52,760 word and not yielded to it. They're born again, right? 639 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:58,400 Sitting in churches, but never yielding, never obeying. 640 00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:02,960 And what's happening? The hardening of the heart, the 641 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,960 grieving of the Spirit. Even the Bible talks about it. 642 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,800 We can grieve the Holy Spirit to where He stops talking. 643 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:15,080 And then you're not. You going to have a 400 years of 644 00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:24,360 silence. So these are all things that we 645 00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,600 have to realize that This is why this fear of the Lord is 646 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,480 necessary. Because if you'll keep this at 647 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,560 the forefront of your heart and in your life, then you'll be 648 00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,960 quick to obey. You'll be quick to respond. 649 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,560 You'll be quick to yield to what it is in his word he's telling 650 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,680 you to do because you know it's only good for your, it's only 651 00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,800 for your best, It's only for your benefit. 652 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,080 Just like Pastor said, the word is not there to be negative to 653 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,920 you. It's only a positive to you. 654 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,240 When you yield to it, it will become negative. 655 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:08,200 If you choose not to obey it, it will become a negative OK. 656 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,200 There will be consequences when you don't yield, OK, to your 657 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,320 lot, to the word. So the hardening, we don't want 658 00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,040 that to happen. Proverbs 17, just a few more 659 00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,680 scriptures and we'll close. The fear of the Lord is the 660 00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:26,240 beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and 661 00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:28,720 knowledge. So what's he saying? 662 00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:32,560 The fear of the Lord. Listen, we'll keep you in a 663 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:39,400 place to what the knowledge of His Word, but when you choose 664 00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:46,200 not to want it, come on. When you choose, you become a 665 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:50,120 fool. When you despise the instruction 666 00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:55,760 of the word, or you choose to not want to walk in it, you 667 00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:59,160 choose not want to be obedient to what the Word is saying or 668 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,200 yield to what the word says in your life, you'll become a fool. 669 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:07,080 Amen. Don't despise it, just as Pastor 670 00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,120 said, don't let it be a negative. 671 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:13,200 Always let it be something that you run towards and you want. 672 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,120 And you know that when he speaks. 673 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:20,520 It's life, it's life, it's life, it's love. 674 00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:26,600 Everything in His word towards you is only for your good and 675 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:31,920 for your benefit and for your growth and to walk in all that 676 00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:36,200 he desires for you to walk in. Deuteronomy 529 says this. 677 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:41,880 Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear and 678 00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:46,720 worship me with all filled reverence and profound respect 679 00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:52,040 and keep all my commandments always so that everything what 680 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:58,360 will go well with them and and your children when you choose as 681 00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,760 a believer to bring your children to church And you sit 682 00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,880 up underneath the word and your children hear you sitting up 683 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,440 underneath this word and they're receiving the same words you're 684 00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:14,720 hearing and they see you disobey his commands and not do it. 685 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:20,640 Come on now. It's going to affect their life. 686 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:28,040 It's going to affect their life. And the same is true on the flip 687 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,560 side. If you obey His word and you 688 00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,480 walk in what it is God's asking you to walk in as a believer and 689 00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,520 you're loving the Lord with all your heart and you're doing the 690 00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:42,480 things as you're yielding to it through the process of your 691 00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,760 journey and walk with Him and your children see it, then guess 692 00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,240 what? It is going to go well with you 693 00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:53,320 and your children, but when you choose not to obey His 694 00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,840 commandments, it'll affect them as well. 695 00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:00,600 There will be consequences. It affects your whole family. 696 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,520 It affects your whole life, right? 697 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,400 And and again, this is so important for us to recognize. 698 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,280 Hebrews 12/24 says this. Wherefore we are receiving a 699 00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:17,480 Kingdom that cannot be moved. Let us have grace whereby we may 700 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,720 serve God acceptably with reverence. 701 00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:30,120 Here it is and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire. 702 00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:35,040 He tells us how we ought to serve Him and we ought to serve 703 00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:36,520 Him. How? 704 00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:43,320 With reverence and godly fear. With reverence and godly fear. 705 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:50,600 Hebrews 12/14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without 706 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:59,280 which no man will see the Lord. With holiness, because fear will 707 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:07,000 equal holiness in your life. When you really truly fear Him 708 00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:12,480 and walk it out, holiness will be produced within your life 709 00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,400 because without it, no man is going to see the Lord. 710 00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:20,680 That's what he says. You see that without which no 711 00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:23,880 man will see the Lord, which is you're not going to see him if 712 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,240 you're not going to be in a position of holiness with the 713 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:33,640 Lord. Psalms 89.7 God is greatly to be 714 00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:39,720 feared in the assembly of the Saints and to be held in 715 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,320 reverence by all of those around him. 716 00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:47,600 So I've said this too, is that when we come in this place, this 717 00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:54,520 place ought to have such honor and reverence for the things of 718 00:59:54,520 --> 01:00:00,480 God. See, we can't treat what's holy 719 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:09,360 as uncommon or common as common. What's holy is common because 720 01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:15,160 it's not common. No holiness in the fear of the 721 01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:19,440 Lord is something very precious and. 722 01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:24,360 When we come in here, we ought to recognize that his when when 723 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:30,080 he shows up and his presence is here, we ought to be in such 724 01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:36,080 honor and respect and thankful that his presence is with us. 725 01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,280 When we all come together. We know His presence is with us 726 01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,720 when we're by ourselves because He lives on the inside of us. 727 01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:45,840 But when we come in collectively, we are going to 728 01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:50,840 bring forth the presence of God in a corporate way. 729 01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:55,600 And that is something that is so precious and so beautiful, and 730 01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:00,720 it is not common. It is holy. 731 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:04,920 And we have to remember that. And it comes through US. 732 01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:10,920 Positioning our hearts with the fear of the Lord. 733 01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,360 Amen. Positioning our hearts. 734 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,520 I want to read this last Scripture as they come. 735 01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:21,760 Acts 931 Now this is that book of Acts, right? 736 01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:28,280 The first church church dispensation after it was poured 737 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:31,640 out. Acts 931 it says so the church 738 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:38,360 throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace being 739 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:43,800 built up and they were going on in the fear of the Lord. 740 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,840 They were going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort 741 01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:56,600 of the Holy Spirit and it continued to increase, to 742 01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:02,600 increase. So the fear of the Lord was seen 743 01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:09,680 among the church and we know in the book of Acts, Acts chapter 744 01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:17,000 4, where he talks about too, that when people looked upon the 745 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,320 church, they could see the grace of God upon it. 746 01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:25,760 And here we're recognizing that they recognize the fear of the 747 01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:30,840 Lord within the church, within the church. 748 01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:35,040 Amen. So I just encourage you, let's, 749 01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:45,360 let's do an evaluation, do an evaluation of are we really in a 750 01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:52,560 position in our heart that we fear him, that we, we fear him, 751 01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:55,720 we, we honor him, that means we honor his word. 752 01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:00,280 We do what His word says in the midst of everything we're going 753 01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:01,800 through. Whatever it is that we're 754 01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:07,320 dealing with, we're going to do His Word because we fear Him. 755 01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:12,880 I'm I, I don't want to be in a situation without His word in my 756 01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:18,640 life. I always want to honor His word 757 01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,320 because I fear Him.