Well, you know, we don't do traditional things around here,
right? But we are those that endeavor
to be led by the Spirit of God. And obviously, you know, Pastor
Angie, read the scripture that we are going to come out of
today. In Proverbs 31 and 30, it says
charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the
Lord shall be praised. A woman that fears the Lord.
What is he saying here? He's saying that none of these
things that we as ladies and in the generation and I, I'll get
to you men in a minute, but in the generation that we're
living, you know, we see to where women have to.
It's as if they're having to put a standard upon their life that
can never be attained to in the world.
And what a woman looks like in our looks, you know, according
to our beauty, you know, we have all kinds of things to make us
look beautiful today. That they've come up with
plaque. Well, you know, plastic surgery,
it's been around for a while, you know, and now we have the
Botox and now we have all the tux and the puffs and the
everything else, you know, the puffy lips and all of these
things. And, and, and all of these
things that is trying to put on us a image that God never
designed for us to have the burden for us to have to carry
that the burden for us to have to carry that perfection.
Right. And, and, and, and I'm saying
this even towards women, because now we're seeing women are not
the only ones having all these things done.
I mean, there's plenty of men that are getting the Botox and,
and even doing all kinds of other things, putting stuff in
their chest to give them a chest.
Come on, y'all looking at me like I'm strange.
This is true this. Is reality and this is the world
that we're living right and so you know, they're even doing
liposuction around their you know, to give them ABS to make
them look like their ABS are there and all these things.
Listen beauty, rest clearly in those that fear the Lord, in
those that fear the Lord. And this is not just a woman
thing, this is also a man thing. Because women are not the only
ones that are supposed to fear the Lord or wear the fear of the
Lord as clothing, right? Women are not the only ones that
are supposed to wear the fear of the Lord.
All mankind was to wear and clothe themselves in the fear of
the Lord. And when we look at what this
means, we're going to dive in a little bit to this, but the
title of the message is Flourish in Fear.
Flourish in fear. Because the thing about it is,
is that once we have a real understanding of what the flare
of the Lord is, we'll be able to flourish in that and grow up out
of that. All right?
We'll be able to grow up out of the fear of the Lord and
recognizing that the way that we are going to have a healthy,
beautiful life is that we have to be clothed in the fear of the
Lord. Because that's the only thing
that's going to make you glow. I did wear a thing this morning.
I was up at 5:00 AM. And, you know, they have those
masks that you stick on your face now, the collagen mask.
And so my husband walked in and he's like, wow, that makes you
look really different your face, you know?
Anyway, I put it on so that I could have a glow this morning,
but then I realized I just want the glow of the Holy Ghost on
the my life. Amen.
But anyway, you know, you do what you can do in the natural.
I heard one minister that I was listening to She said, you know,
you can do all that nip and tuck and and Botox and all that
stuff. If that's your prerogative, she
says, but I'm just going to age gracefully and that's what we
should be aging gracefully. What is gracefully in the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ and in his anointing.
Come on. And and getting covered up
underneath his glow, Hallelujah, glory to God.
But anyway. So what does the fear of the
Lord mean? Does that mean that we're to be
afraid of God? No, it does not mean that we're
to be afraid of God in the sense of fear that the enemy is the
author of the enemy is the author of fear, and that fear is
there, there to drive you and to punish you and to, you know, put
things on you that you were never meant to carry.
But the fear of the Lord as we begin to actually look at it
properly through Scripture will show us that this is a beautiful
thing and it is a requirement. As a child of God, as a child of
the King, as one that's saying he is my Lord, then we all are
to understand and walk in the fear of the Lord.
And outside of you walking in the fear of the Lord, you will
not walk in your relationship with the Lord properly.
You won't walk in it properly. And so we see here, I like to
read this, this quote by John Bevere, he said, and this is the
foundation of us laying the fear of the Lord and what it really
is, the fear of the Lord is the foundation of our salvation.
Meaning he said this you cannot truly love God until we fear
Him, nor can you properly feel fear Him until we love Him.
And the key here is that love and fear cannot be separated.
And we've actually tried to separate it in American
Christianity. The true fear of the Lord and
the true love of God cannot be separated.
It goes hand in hand and it works together.
And when one of them is missing, abuse is inevitable.
Abuse is inevitable when one of them is missing and your life is
not built upon the foundation of not just God's love, but the
fear of God. If it is not built upon that
foundation, abuse is inevitable. There will be dysfunction, there
will be misguidance, and everything will become skewed
and lopsided if they are not properly working together.
And we don't properly understand that this is what we must build
our life upon. Not just the love of God, but
also the fear of God. And we've been taught here in
Anchor Faith Church for those that are a part of this body
that everything in the Kingdom of.
God grows up out of the heart of love.
Everything in the Kingdom of God, or as we know, the forest
bed of the Kingdom. Come on.
Everything is growing up out of love.
Everything, everything is growing up out of love.
Love. His mercy is growing up out of
love. Come on, His grace is growing up
out of love. Everything is growing.
Hit faith is growing up out of love, out of the forest bed of
love. That is what it's growing up out
of. But I would like to say this as
well, it's grow. It should be growing up out of
fear, the fear of the Lord, the fear of the Lord and the love of
God. Because when they are both in
proper position, then I'm going to tell you what, nothing,
nothing will be withheld from you.
Nothing will. I read over just concerning the
fear of the Lord out of Scripture.
He indicated over 30 promises just for those who live in the
fear of the Lord. But when you live in the fear of
the Lord, everything in the Kingdom will flow.
All the promises of God will flow up out of that in your life
when you really understand what it is.
So everything is growing up out of the love of God and the fear
of God. Let me read the scripture here.
Why are we saying this? Because we know first John
chapter 4 and verse eight said God is love.
OK, but here in Psalms one O 3,
this is where we're going to get started.
And then I'm actually going to define the fear of the Lord.
Psalms one O 3, Excuse me. Verses 11 through 13 says this.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His
loving kindness towards those who what fear Him, as far as the
east is from the West, so far as He has removed our
transgressions from us. Just as a father has compassion
on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him
because of His loving kindness. Because of his loving kindness,
we see that now the fear of the Lord is in operation, and the
compassion comes because of that.
Compassion comes because of those who fear Him because he
loves them, right? And here we're going to see what
the fear of the Lord. Let me give you the definition
of the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord literally
means just to Revere, to reverence, to honor.
And This is why I believe there's a struggle in the church
today, because people truly don't understand honor, because
honor is a byproduct of the fear of the Lord.
Honor is a byproduct of the fear of the Lord, of the fear of the
Lord. And so it means to honor.
It means to stand in awe. Like if God's not blowing you
away, you might not have the fear of the Lord in your life
anymore. If you're not in awe of the fact
of what He's done in your life, come on and where you're at
today and your walk as a believer, then you may be
struggling with the fear of the Lord.
And he says this, to stand in awe, to esteem, to esteem, to be
devoted to wow, to be devoted to how many believers are truly
today even still devoted to Him? Devoted, like your life is
devoted to him, and it means to be afraid, but again, afraid or
dread. One translation said afraid or
dread, but in this context that you don't want to displease him,
you would never want to do anything that would displease
him, that would dishonor him. You know, we're so concerned
about pleasing others and pleasing.
Come on, whatever. How about pleasing him because
it is impossible to please him without faith?
And do we really have faith if we are living our life to please
ourself and our desires and what we want and how we want it and
when we want it? Come on now.
Somebody better get in faith and start helping me preach because
you need it. Say I need this word.
I received this word because this word will save my soul.
So to be afraid or to dread in the context that you never would
want to dishonor his name, you never would want to displease
him. That's the kind of fear and
context. Do you know that we we have
turned this word pleasing upside down in our society because
actually God created us to have a desire to please him.
But see, man has twisted it and perverted it so much in our
world today that we think to do anything for anybody or to try
to please them is wrong. Don't you want to please your
spouse? Is that wrong?
There's a desire within each and every one of us that is wanting
to be pleasing. I want to be in a relationship
with people and I want them to be pleased with with me.
That's not see we've perverted it and think we're doing it just
for something we need. No, it's not about something I
need. It's about something he put
within me to please people. You don't want to displease
people, do you? I mean, and it has no strings
attached. See, when it's perverted, it's
about pleasing because you're trying to draw off of something
affirmation. But see, I'm just pleasing
because I'm his child and I want to please him.
And if I want to please him, then I'm going to be pleasing to
others in a proper way, not in an unhealthy way.
You see, we've we've twisted this word anyway.
I don't have time to get on that so.
It is. It's there within us because of
this dread that we do not. This is why every child wants to
please their father and their mother.
It's in them. It's their nature.
It's OK. It's proper.
And we've made it a bad thing. It's in association, actually,
with obedience. It's all about obedience.
It's all about obedience to His will.
It's not about being afraid of God, but rather acknowledging
His authority and holiness and what He actually did for us as
children. Amen.
And it leads us because of His authority within my life and
because of His Holiness it it. It.
Leads me to want to please him and walk in holiness and desire
the things that he thinks is pleasing.
You see that? And when it's not proper, that's
where perversion and dysfunction come in.
OK. Because it's not about pleasing
in our own self worth. But it's about pleasing within
what He put within me. You see that and our respect
towards who He is in our life, who He is in our life.
If we truly understand this fear, I believe some things will
shift within our walk with the Lord.
Look at Psalms 118 and 4. Psalms 118 and four.
Let all who fear the Lord repeat His faithful love endures
forever. See how love and fear are going
hand in hand. Oh, let those who reverently
fear the Lord say His loving kindness endures forever.
That's out of the amplified. Look at Psalms one O 3, Psalms
one O 317. But the love of the Lord remains
forever with those who fear him. The love of the Lord remains
forever for those who fear Him, who reverence Him, who honor
Him, Come on, who want to do His will and please Him.
His love remains forever. Come on His salvation.
What else extends to your children when there is a lack of
honor for the Lord and the fear of the Lord in your house?
Come on, it will affect your children because of His love.
If it will affect your children, how about this one?
Will not the fear of the Lord? And this, you know, this is
number one reason why I've heard young adults say that they no
longer want to go to church. It's because they didn't see it
happening in their own households as they were being
raised up. There was too much hypocrisy.
See, the fear of the Lord will keep you from hypocrisy.
The fear of the Lord will keep you from hypocrisy.
It will save you from hypocrisy. And so I'm telling you, there's
some things we must rework in our lives if we're seeing the
fear of the Lord is lacking no honor, no reverence for the
things of God, not putting him not Oh, Matthew 633, this isn't
in my notes, but see it's written in my heart.
Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.
And 1st ought to be in your family that we serve the Lord,
me and my household. We're going to serve the Lord.
We're going to honor him. We're going to fear him.
We're going to reverence him. We're going to please him.
We are actually going to be obedient to His will for our
lives. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, the fear
of the Lord. Now look at Philippians.
Philippians chapter 2 and verse 12 says this.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, look at
this, see this obedience here You've always obeyed not not as
in my presence only, but now much more in my absence.
Here he says, work out your salvation with what?
See, a lot of people's salvation today lacks the.
Fear and trembling. So we all, God's children, we're
all born again, but there's No Fear of the Lord in your life
because if there was, certain things wouldn't be an option.
Certain things wouldn't be an option.
Hallelujah. See, you have to work out your
salvation with fear and trembling, with honor, with
reverence, with pleasing God, with being obedient to His will,
with wanting to do what it is that pleases Him, not displease
Him. You see that?
And that is what real faith is, because again, it's impossible
to please Him without faith. It's impossible to please him
without faith. So he lets us know that, listen,
we have something that we're to work out within our lives of
being born again. And it comes with fear and it
comes with trembling. Look at Isaiah 33.
Six. In that day he will be a sure
foundation, providing a rich store of salvation.
I want you to focus on this in that day you will be a sure
foundation. What's that day, the day of your
salvation, The foundation, come on, we're talking about the
foundation. If the foundation of your walk
in Christ is not laid and based upon the love of God and the
fear of the Lord, your foundation is going to be
shaken. But those that has a foundation
should come on that's built a sure foundation that's built
Look at here providing a rich store of salvation.
Highlight that word in your Bible or in your notes.
You should be taking notes and and highlight it where it says
store of your salvation, a rich store.
Do you know that your salvation is a?
Amazon warehouse, an Amazon warehouse.
Just think about that. A rich store you're going to see
in a minute. Go on.
And he says this of salvation, wisdom and knowledge.
Salvation, wisdom and knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge.
And then he goes on to say this. The fear of the Lord will be
your what? Your treasure, the fear of the
Lord, will be your treasure. Where your treasure is, there
your heart will be. Where your treasure is, get
this. Where your treasure, the fear of
the Lord, will be your treasure. Where your treasure is, your
heart will be, and within this, the fear of the Lord is a depth,
a warehouse, a storehouse of treasure.
It is like an Amazon warehouse, full of everything that you need
to be able to pull forth for this life, to be able to do what
it is that God needs you to do as a believer.
But guess where it is? It's all.
Hidden in the fear of the Lord. It's all stored up and hidden in
the fear of the Lord. And there's a warehouse full
full of wisdom, full of knowledge.
But we're going to see what else.
Listen, this literally means a storehouse, which you can also
go to Malachi about giving. This is the literal storehouse.
So when he says where the fear of the Lord is is where your
treasure is, there is a storehouse waiting for you of
we're going to see not just spiritual things, wisdom and
knowledge, salvation, not just spiritual things.
This word storehouse, oh man, this word treasure is like a
treasury, a treasury and a treasury is something that also
has weaponry. It even indicates weaponry.
So in this treasury of the fear of the Lord, there's some
weapons that are stored up, come on and waiting for you to tap
into. It is.
It is storing up every, everything that you need,
wisdom, knowledge, deliverance. It also means deliverance.
It means a weapon tree, everything you need to fight the
devil, to walk in this life and have success and be all that God
has said you are in Christ Jesus.
Everything. There's a Amazon warehouse
waiting for you to put your ticket in and have it delivered
at your doorstep in less than 24 hours.
I went shopping yesterday. I don't like shopping.
Really. I really don't.
I want to go in one store that has it all so I don't have to go
all around. And so and I didn't really want
to go shopping yesterday because I knew I had to minister this
thing and I just really wanted to pray and to fast and, you
know, be all spiritual and have this.
And and so we ended up spending all day long shopping and trying
to find me an outfit. Found me not one thing.
This this beautifully came up out of my closet already.
Didn't have to buy a thing. Bought Pastor 3 new suits.
Stand up and a new shirt couldn't find me.
Go to the whole Daytona outlets and not find me.
Not one thing. What in the world?
What in the world shot we did Literally didn't get home till
6:00. I mean and then he's like, well,
let's run into TJ Maxx on the way home.
Maybe you'll find something there.
When in TJ Maxx, nothing. Went into JC Penney's.
Oh my God, no, we didn't. He didn't go.
He made me go into Dillard's. Anyway, why was I going to say
that? A warehouse, Yeah, that's why,
because we went to the Daytona Mall, after we went to the
outlets, we went to the old Daytona Volusia mall.
They have 3 Dillard's attached to their mall.
This Dillard's had three huge warehouses that were the mall
full of clothes. He says surely you're going to
find something in here. I mean, this place is, I mean,
it just goes on and on and on and clothes and clothes and
clothes. I mean clothes after clothes
after clothes. And not find one stitch that I
even liked. Am IA picky clothes shopper?
I don't even know. And he's like, well, what are
you going to wear tomorrow? I wanted you to get a new
outfit. I said something will appear in
my closet. You know, I'll put something
together. Anyway, it was full.
This. If y'all have never encountered
this Dillard's at the old Volusia Mall.
I mean I'm serious. You need to just go see it just
to believe it. It was like 3 huge of our JC
Penney's area 3 and the Belk area three of those and it was 2
stories. Three of them, two stories, so
much. It was overwhelming.
That's probably what it is, because I like to go into one
store, find one little thing and leave it.
It was so overwhelming. There were so many clothes.
I'm like, I don't even know how people shop in here anyway.
A storehouse. It was full.
And that's what we have in the fear of the Lord.
A storehouse that is full of whatever come on, whatever you
need as a believer in the earth today.
And so he says, listen, the fear of the Lord will be your
treasure will be your will be your storehouse.
Look at Proverbs 14. Proverbs 1426 through 27 says
those who fear the Lord are secure.
They have strong confidence He will be a refuge for their
children. I'm telling you the way you fear
the Lord affects your children and This is why people don't
know. You know what's going on with my
well check up in your house. He says verse 27 the.
Fear of the Lord. Is a life giving Here it is
fountain. So it's a treasury.
It's a storehouse full of anything that you need from God.
It is a life giving fountain that offers escape from the
snares of death. A life giving fountain where the
fear of the Lord is, it's going to be life.
When there is No Fear of the Lord, there's death and the
enemy can bring a snare and a trap to your life because
really, you're lacking the fear of the Lord.
You're lacking the fear of the Lord.
We have to recognize these things.
But it is a spring of life, you see, that So not only is the
fear of the Lord. You know, again, everybody when
you hear you say the fear of the Lord, they think, oh, this is
so, you know, whatever, it's so hard and he wants to be so hard
on me and oh, I'm, I'm, you know, have to have the fear of
the Lord. No, he says.
The fear of the Lord is life giving.
It actually means it is the starting point of life when you
look that up. It is the.
Starting point of life. The.
Starting point, the source that everything is going to spring up
out of the fear of the Lord and and when where there is No Fear,
things seem dried up in your relationship with the Lord when
there's No Fear. Look what else he says it's a
life giving fountain a fountain is something that is continually
so that means there's a refreshing there's springs of
living water. Come on, that source that's
flowing within you? But not only that is a source of
joy. Joy, joy wellspring is what they
call it, the joy wellspring. That means there, where there's
the fear of the Lord, there's going to be joy, there's going
to be refreshing, there's going to be water flowing and a
refreshing at all times. And joy can spring up and spring
forth in your life where there's the fear of the Lord, where
there's the fear of the Lord. Psalms 147 and 11, no.
The Lord's delight is in those who fear.
Him. See he.
Delights in those who fear him and those who put their hope in
his. What unfailing love?
See, there's the fear of the Lord and the unfailing love.
We're not trying to, you know, separate that.
But when you do separate it, you'll either have legalism or
you'll have full blown grace that never requires you to.
To do anything, he's done it all, but when they're
functioning properly, when they're functioning properly,
they'll be some life that will spring forth.
They'll be a delight. He says listen, wisdom and
knowledge, the fear of the Lord again, here it is.
Second Scripture will be your treasure will be your treasure.
Hallelujah. Look at Proverbs 910 and 11.
Proverbs 9/10/11 The. Fear of the Lord.
Is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
So it is at the foundation. We already said that.
Or the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
You see that? So if we're going to walk in the
wisdom and the knowledge of our salvation, the fear of the Lord
has to be within our life. It's the beginning, it's the
beginning of wisdom and knowledge and understanding.
For by me your days will be multiplied and your years will
be added to you. Come on with long life He will
satisfy. Listen, your life, your life can
be multiplied and added to the days of your life when you fear
Him. We see it all the time.
People that are against God, they are rebellious towards God.
Why do you think they're dropping dead early?
Why do you think death is rampant in their life?
Why do you think there's so much drama and chaos and destruction
in everything they're doing? Because there's No Fear of the
Lord, but those who fear him, you can be guaranteed that he's
going to add to the days of your life, that he's going to
multiply. Come on.
Oh, he says also with long life he will satisfy Hallelujah.
So it can be a multiplication to your life.
Proverbs 22 and 4 says this, the reward of humility and the fear
of the Lord. Here it is, our riches, honor
and life. Riches, honor, and life.
So that treasury that we were talking about, that storehouse
that we were talking about has to do with riches, not just
spiritual things like I said, like wisdom and knowledge and
salvation and all the things that the Lord brings through His
word to our life, grace, mercy, joy, love, peace, kindness, all
those spiritual things. He lets us know that riches,
this will be added to your life riches, and it is literally a
treasury. It is literally money.
Riches will be added to your life, riches, finances.
You should see an addition to your life as your fear.
You know why you're not? Because you don't fear the Lord
to give. All right, so I, you know,
pastor talked about that. I'll, I'll move on.
So then he goes on to say riches, honor, honor, honor will
be a part of your life when you actually fear him and honor him.
See, he reciprocates everything, everything.
He reciprocates everything. You honor him, He says, I'll
honor you. I'll lift you up.
You honor one another. Come on, honor one another.
You talking about people gossiping about people hurting
people. That is not honor and it's not
the fear of the Lord. But when you decide you're going
to honor people and love them and go on about your business
and and all these other things, listen, then he's going to honor
you. He's going to honor you because
whatsoever a man, he will reap. He will reap.
And people can reap dishonor. And so he says in life, life,
life, riches, honor and life. And then this literally that
riches, honor and life needs the abundance of glory.
Rich's honor and life means the abundance of glory.
And when I look that word up there with the abundance of
glory where he says Rich is honored and it has to do with
the weight of who he is upon your life.
That is what Adam walked in, when he walked in the garden.
He walked in all of God's what glory.
He walked in all of God's glory. The full weight of who God was
was in Adam. Life itself was in Adam.
The glory of God was upon Adam. The glory was within Adam.
That's why we know when he disobeyed, He what He disobeyed.
The glory departed. So this was the full weight of
who God is. And when you begin to operate
within the fear of the Lord, the full weight of who God is will
rest upon your life. And that's the thing that God
that people will see. They'll see the glory of the
Lord upon your life. Come on.
He wants the glory of the Lord to be upon you in such richness
and fullness and life that when you walk, come on out of these
doors and wherever you go, people see the glory upon your
life. They see the glory, they see the
full way and measure of God upon your life because you're
carriers of the glory of God. But it don't come if there's no
honor, if there's No Fear of the Lord.
Hallelujah. Glory to God much you could say
about that. That's what this reigning church
is going to look like. The reigning church is going to
have the fullness. Of God, the fullness of the
glory of God resting upon it once again.
Come on, those who will believe, those who will walk and do what
it's what we're supposed to do. Those that will fear the Lord,
those that will put Him first in everything they're doing.
Come on, I'm telling you, the glory of the Lord will rest upon
and we're going to see it. It rested upon them in the book
of Acts. In the book of Acts and where
little side note and where the glory rest, miracles will happen
easy, easy, easy. Miracles will happen easy.
Signs and wonders will happen easy.
Because there's the fear of the Lord upon everyone, upon
everyone. You know, we had Doctor Jack
Myers do the Kingdom Institute graduation and he ended up
laying hands on someone after the graduation and immediately
their bodies were healed and they saw it.
And, and he said, Pastor Earl, the reason why that can happen
is because you've set an atmosphere with the glory of God
for miracles to happen. That's why it was easy.
See, it's here.
But if you take for granted what's here and don't realize
you're sitting in it, come on. If you don't honor it,
Hallelujah. So he says, where was I at
Proverbs 817? I love those who love me, and
those who diligently seek me will find me.
Riches and honor are where with me, enduring wealth and
righteousness in the midst of the paths of justice.
To endow those who love me with wealth that I may what fill
their treasuries. That I may feel their treasuries
for those who love him and seek Him and are walking in
righteousness. He's ready to add to your
treasury. Psalms 112133 Praise ye the
Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth
the Lord, that delighteth greatly in His commandments.
His seed shall be mighty upon the earth.
The generation of the uprights shall be blessed.
Wealth and riches shall be in His house.
His righteousness endureth forever.
See, the fear of the Lord affects your house affects the
next. Your seed affects your seed
affects your seed. So this isn't just about us,
it's about the next generation and it's about the seed that's
still coming forth. Hallelujah.
And, and, and all has to do with us that will honor him and the
things that are being stored up and things that are stored up
for us to walk into. Look at this, it says in Psalms
3318. It says, but the Lord watches
over those who fear him and those who rely on this, his
unfailing love. I fear him and guess what?
I rely on his unfailing love. I fear him, and I rely on his
unfailing love. That ought to be a confession
out of your mouth. I fear him, and I rely on his
unfailing love. I fear him and I rely on his
unfailing love. I fear him, and I rely on his
unfailing love. Hallelujah.
And when you fear him, you'll do what pleases him.
You'll do his commandments, you'll do his word above all
else. You'll do his word above all
else. You'll do his word.
You'll keep his word, you'll keep his word.
And with that you can be assured that there is things right there
waiting for you. This ought to be our confession.
Psalms 8611. Teach me Thy way, O Lord, and I
will walk in Thy truth. Unite my heart to fear Thy name.
Teach me Thy way, Lord. Unite my heart to truth, to Your
truth, not the world's truth, not my own opinion of truth, but
your truth, right, your truth, your truth, so that I would fear
your name, because those that will fear him will honor him.
John Bevere says this. The fear of God is to believe
God. To believe God is to obey him.
So when you truly say, Oh yeah, I believe God, Oh yeah, I have
faith. Are you obeying him and and how
are you obeying him? Are you obeying him according to
your standard or are you obeying him according to the standard of
his word? Those, those are the ones that
fearing that I'm going to obey him according to the standard of
his word, not according to what makes me feel good, not
according to all these other things, but according to what
does his word say about this situation?
And I'm going to do that in the midst of it, right?
I'm going to do that. AW, Tozer says this.
When men no longer fear God, they trust transgress his laws
without hesitation. When men no longer fear God,
they transgress his laws without hesitation.
Without hesitation. Wow, when people just flippantly
are doing things without doing it according to what the
standard of the word is, without hesitation, is there really fear
of the Lord in their life? Without hesitation, they will
transgress His laws. We're not talking about, you
know, the 10 commandments, guys. We know that His word is His
law. And when people flippantly do
things that you know are outside of scripture and don't even
hesitate to do it, there is No Fear of the Lord.
There's No Fear of the Lord. There's No Fear of the Lord.
See, when we have the fear of the Lord, Proverbs 813 says
this. The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil. It's to hate evil.
And anything against His word is evil.
It's evil. Anything against his word is
evil. Pride and arrogancy and the evil
way and the forward mouth do I hate.
So we have to ask ourselves, do we?
Do we, you know, just flippantly do the things we want to do,
even though we know that scripturally this isn't how
you're supposed to do things? OK.
Proverbs 16, six and seven. By loving kindness and truth,
sin or iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord. 1
keeps away from evil. You see that?
So the fear of the Lord is going to keep you away from evil.
The fear of the Lord honoring Him, reverencing Him, doing His
word, being obedient, it's going to keep you from wanting to do
evil. And when you just flippantly do
evil, or it you don't even hesitate to do evil, there is No
Fear of the Lord in your life. No Fear of the Lord.
This is what Scripture is saying.
This is not what I'm saying. This is what Scripture says.
And he says it in a loving, fearful way.
It's all connected. Oswald Chambers says this.
Or excuse me, Spurgeon. Spurgeon says this.
He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
Hallelujah, Woo. He who fears help has nothing
else to fear. Glory to God.
Oh Hallelujah. See, it'll keep you.
It'll keep you in the midst of your enemy.
You don't have to fear. Not one thing.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
You don't have to fear man. You don't have to fear a
situation. Come on.
You don't have to fear cancer because you fear him.
You fear him? Oh.
Hallelujah. Then Oswald Chambers said this.
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you
fear nothing else. Whereas if you do not fear God,
you will fear everything else. You'll fear everything else.
But when you have the fear of the Lord in your life, you don't
have to fear. Not one thing, not one thing,
not one thing, Hallelujah. Not one thing, Glory to God, not
one thing. Hallelujah.
Oh Hallelujah, glory to God, say I fear the Lord.
Hallelujah, let me read this
last scripture. Yep, we're at the last
scripture. Can you hang on and hold out
Psalms 34? Because it's not just one
scripture, it's several. 7 through 11, the last passage of
scripture. Hallelujah, the Angel.
Of the Lord Hallelujah in camps around those who fear.
Him. Oh, Hallelujah, I fear the Lord.
Glory to God, say I fear the Lord.
I fear the Lord. Oh, I don't want to do anything
that dishonors him. Glory to God because.
My. Angels, Hallelujah, my angels,
glory to God, are encamped around me.
See, that's why you don't have to fear a thing, because when
you fear Him, you don't have to fear a thing, because His angels
surround you. Hallelujah, oh, His angels
surround you, and guess what they do?
And he rescues them. Glory to God, oh taste and see
that the Lord is good. How blessed is the man that
takes refuge in him. Oh, fear the Lord.
You his Saints. Fear the Lord.
You're his Saints. Fear the Lord.
Not just mothers. You Saints.
You need to do a check up from
the neck up. Who said that?
All right, Raphael, quit trying to preach me down.
You had your time, now just get it.
A. Check up on the fear of the Lord
in your life. Are you running towards evil or
are you running away from it? Oh Hallelujah, those that fear
Him. Oh Hallelujah, all you Saints,
for to those who fear Him there is no want.
There is no want for those who fear Him.
What is it that you want? What is it that you want?
Why don't you move on over into the fear of the Lord?
What is it that you want? Move on over into the fear of
the Lord. What is it that you want?
Move on over into the fear of the Lord.
Come on, what is it that you want?
Move over into the fear of the Lord?
Because in Him there is no want. There's no want, there's no
want. The Young Lions do lack, and
they suffer hunger, but they who seek the Lord shall be in any
want of any good thing. Come you children, listen to me,
say, listen to me, listen to me. He who has ears to hear, say,
listen to me. Let's check up on the fear of
the Lord in our lives. Let's check up.
Listen to me. Isn't that what he's saying?
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
I'll teach you the fear of the Lord.
Teach you the fear of the Lord. The Angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him, who reverence him, who Revere him,
who worship Him in what? In awe like does he still
overwhelm you? Does he still give you
butterflies? Come on out of His goodness, His
goodness. When you think about look what
the Lord has done. We, we sing that song and we run
and we shout, but do we really look what the Lord has done?
Because we would stand in awe and there would be no one that
would be able to stay in their seat because they would be in a
place of worship and honor towards Him.
See, we can never forget what He has done, the great salvation
that we have. Let us not forget the scripture
says this great salvation. And those who forget their they
lack fear. They lack the fear of the Lord,
they lack the fear of the Lord. Hallelujah, worship him in awe
and each of them he delivers. Oh, taste and see that the Lord
is good, He is good, blessed, happy, fortunate to be envied is
the man who trusts and takes refuge in him.
You should be envied. Because you have taken refuge in
Him. Oh, fear the Lord, you Saints
Revere and worship Him, for there is no want to those who
truly Revere and worship Him in godly fear.
The Young Lions lack food, they suffer, but they who seek and
inquire and require the Lord, by right of their need and on the
authority of His Word, none of them shall lack any beneficial
thing. Come, you children, listen to
me, say, listen to me. I will teach you to Revere and
worshiply fear the Lord.