Fear of the Lord

in Jesus name Hey, man. Scripture about the fear of the Lord and how it is the beginning of wisdom. So I'm going to leave to my team up there today. Hey guys.

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We know the scripture the fear of God in and and most people think it means you can approach God like when you think about being afraid of something that's something you don't want to be around you ever notice when you're scared. If someone was like a mass murder you didn't want to be around because you would probably feel scared or if there was an oncoming bus or something kid in your way. You would feel Terror you be scared. A lot of times we take that same view and we put it towards God so we don't approach him. But New Testament tells us to come boldly before his throne and a lot of times we stayed looking at ourselves like the worm and we don't see ourselves as children of God that can approach their father. and so whatever you guys about fear and what it looks like because I understand my Bible tells me that he didn't give us a spirit of

Come on, how did I know you know, it's so crowded but that's what scripture says. So what's this thing about the fear of the Lord then? I was reading it and ask and it told me that's what I was reading that the early church walked in the fear of the Lord.

They walked in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy spirit. This happened right after a couple by the name of ananias and Sapphira lying about how much they gave because they wanted to get praise from people as Barnabas got So what happened was dying? And that's what people said. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa, hold on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is Jesus. Holy Spirit father God thing ain't no joke.

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sometimes we think God is like the Cowardly Lion off The Wizard of Oz I want to tell you he's not tamed. Do we really realize that our father is Holy. He's all Mighty. He's Majestic awesome. Uncle just words that we say because it's common. I think only one of the deadliest things for us as Believers to do is real dude. Say God is a common thing and treat him like a common thing. And we lose our reverence for the Lord. Do you know that could you change the slide please? Do you know that in scripture? I broke down the fear of the Lord and this isn't Proverbs. This is the first thing that most people remember the problems and we're coming out of the Amplified version and it says the Reverend and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning that she was part of wisdom and knowledge of the inside and understanding. next slide in order for us to have fear of the Lord. It doesn't mean I'm super scared do people are Adam was only afraid of God when he ate from the tree. That was the only time when Adam head. Abraham heard a voice and the voice that get you out of your father's house out of his land and I'll make you a father and many nations. But Moses saw a bush. I put this before you guys today the fear of the Lord we try to be afraid of God and that makes them in approachable to us. So it's not really about understanding understanding holiness. And the Hebrew holy needs to do its sacred consecrated. You know what the sacred saying is Holy in.

Amazing. Oh, my goodness is sacred. Next slide in the Greek the word, holy. Yeah.

Give me one second. 37 Q Adele's is sacred and it means physically pure morally blameless. Show the old this is where we get the term Holy Spirit Breath of God, holy.

Do you know when we assemble ourselves together? There is a sense of Holiness in here. We're called The Holy assembly Saints. I don't refer to myself as a sinner and I don't want you guys to I've anymore because as long as you refer to yourself as a center, you're focusing on that being your Center.

But when you focus on Jesus, I think that scripture fix your eyes upon him who is the author and finisher of our faith. So we keep her eyes focused on him as he is. So are we in this?

That means right now.

It doesn't mean in the sweet by-and-by. That means in this present moment. We are like him is one spirit with him. Have you ever meditated of that? What does it mean I joined with them is this just a verbal agreement is coming together or is this more like a husband and wife or is this the really look like we're done. I am also. I wonder if that version scripture here. It says when he appears we will appear with him. and His glory

understand the fear the war at the first understand the Holiness of God. I don't understand how holy is I can't walk in the fear. I can't walking really the word fear. It is his reference. Unadulterated reverence for God in my heart and the deepest places in my heart Rises that God you're amazing and it's not because I'm saying that the word amazing because in my heart the reality is crazy. And it moves me inside it moves me to appointments and I don't ever want to break your heart. You're amazing. You're awesome your sacred head that I begin to carve out things in my life because God. I want to give God some time. I want to spend time with Papa because he's amazing and holy.

You don't reference if you don't spend time with I'm just being real spend time with Papa because you really not remember seeing him in your heart because he's like the thing I go to when I'm in trouble and not the person I'm with all the time. Yeah, I know when trouble comes on with him, but in Good Times I'm with him, too. it's having a high esteem and respect for who he is not about what he done for simply who is See the problem is if we keep living only in what he does when he doesn't do it, we won't respect him. What were super many more because he didn't perform like the way I wanted him to.

Come on, man. I'm being honest here. Worship God and understand his character fed allow the goodness of God, which brings my heart to repentance and see him clear. I begin to worship him out of a place of deep honor and respect for him.

Even though I can laugh with him and call him Papa. You can still reach out like with them. I realize that he's not tained. I realize that he is omnipotent missing not realize he's the almighty God. He's all knowing and he's happy where. And that is amazing. It's amazing what we read a scripture that he holds the world in the palm of his and it's amazing that we read that he actually uses the world for his footstool. Since Heaven is my throne. Make it all about the throw man. That's God Lazy Boy.

According to his word think about this this is Heaven is my throne and Earth is my footstool and we got a lot of people screaming to get to the throne instead of wanting the person on the throne. We make it about God's Terry not him.

If I can only get to heaven to all my worries on Earth, don't bother me any more.

Legend the magnitude of being face to face with almighty God and the only thing I'm family do is fall flat and cried. Holy.

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We're going to do a little bit of a character study. We're going to look at Moses. And this is what we're going to do is going to be a little series on the fear of the Lord because it is the beginning of wisdom wisdom is the thing that teaches you how to wisdom shows you how to worship God how to reference God how to respect God how to love God how to function as Sons and Daughters of God in a royal priesthood.

So I think that's one of the things that we really need. It says wisdom goes out and cries in the street who wants me?

Let me tell you I'm chill you lose until you say that a pound got it all figured out. I don't have it all figured out. I just don't you can't receive wisdom. Because wisdom is the opposite of wisdom is foolishness.

So it's clearly to say if someone doesn't know the knowledge of God that there a

because they are there devoid without knowledge of god. So let's look at Moses.

You get my tablet up here working, but it keeps kicking me off. This is found in Mass. I'm going to talk to Rachel Rachel. What what verse in scripture is found in to be on your screen? Is it up there? Cool that I'm going to read that again. Thank you. Throw his father-in-law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the back of the west of the Wilderness and came to Horeb of scent of Sinai the Mountain of God next side. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire of the midst of the Bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire jet was not consumed.

I want to share with you. How do you understand the Holiness of God so you can actually walk in the reverence of God? Moses was he's getting you know, you left Egypt because he killed the man he gets married. He runs to the end. It's crazy cuz his father was a priest. So this guy was like a leader in Egypt runs to this guy in the wilderness the backside of the mountain. He marries a woman support if I think her name is and his father was a priest and Moses out there with the flock and all of a sudden he sees his burning bush. Understand the Holiness of God. The first thing to do is get your attention. Do you want to use the supernatural the miraculous to grab your attention?

We can listen if he doesn't grab your attention, he will never have your heart.

I did get that woman's attention.

So I can straighten it.

Cuz you know, I want her to notice.

I was going to get her attention to the first think God's going to want to do in relationship is grabs. Your attention is going to try to get your attention. And so Moses Seasons Bush and then he's like, well McFly. Mo said I will now turn aside and see the great site why the bush is not burnt because this pushes on fire and it's not burning up in Moses is out there by himself on the back side of a mountain like Dude, I never seen it like this before. And it grabs his attention first thing. It was a goddess attention cuz you know how to get a man to focus get my husband to focus.

Forget my glasses when they keep switching this one or that one's attention to focus the most focusing on the site.

And when the Lord saw that he turned to sight to see. Hold on.

Don't just read the story stop and take it in and just to chew on it. Like it's a good steak. When God saw that he got Moses attention. So God did that to get his attention and when he knew he got it the man's full attention. That's what he told him. I'm the Mets. Are the bushes in Moses Moses and Moses responded and says here I am.

When God does something Supernatural in amazing in your life, it's the grab your attention so that he can now have another form of conversation with you. And the first thing God reveals to Moses happy calls his name. It's personal Moses. I know you by name man. I know you I'm calling your name because you're known by me. next five I got said do not come near put your shoes off your feet for the place in which you stand is Holy Ground. God didn't say Moses paraphrase. He didn't get into the Batman thing.

Hindu that this is Moses

take your shoes off. and Moses, Texas sandals this is because where I am is Holy We're God's encountering you at is holding its sacred. God God actually says I am I'm going to go it so. Means, that means got picked out a specific place to meet with Matt at to meet with Moses and got called. Holy because he was there because it was what consecrated. to be a meeting place between man and the Lord neck stretcher and he said I am God of your father got the god of Abraham the god of Isaac the guy he was afraid to look at God. Do you see that Holy the office back to the office actor precedes the reverence? If you don't have the all factor of God you can't read with him. I'm not being mean you can try but that all factor is what makes it real because we can be really religious come on and we can say this thing's holy cuz we said so shrine.

We can go to other countries and I'm not being mean to where they make things. Holy and sacred like

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so I don't want to be religious about this because you fear for God and honor for God's that's you trying to generate it. How about you let God put it within you. Do you know one of the seven spirits of the Lord's called the the spirit of fear the fear of God, that's about Jesus. He said the spirit of and he had the seven spirits of God also and Isaiah also found in Revelations to him who has the Seven Stars and the seven spirits of God. Tavares with Emma Holy Spirit you ready for this within the Holy Spirit. There is an expression a referencing God. That is sacred and holy. The scripture said he was given the spirit without any measure Jesus. So within the Holy Spirit there are several Expressions Council in wisdom is from the Holy Spirit the spirit of fear of the Lord since his name is Holy and I told you wholly this precedes reverence next slide

fear in Hebrew is Yara Emmys Dreadful reference to emergence of the bush in your God talk all of a sudden. He's like my sandals are off and this I can imagine his thoughts. Like Mom, I killed a man in Rio cuz he really did kill someone in Egypt. So he was like, but I imagine has since came first before him. I wonder if this happened to someone else in scripture by the name of Isaiah.

Oh, come on, man. Did you guys read your Bible? You know it and I live in a place that's on clean. I am not fit to be in God's presence. And he takes the coal from The Altar and cleanses him.

Next line, please. and the Greek Phobos is where we get phobia. Miss alarm or fried

Moses was alarmed. He was like we need to be alarmed by. That's why we pray for encounter. Do you know why we pray for encounter? Because when we can see the of God it produces reverence and reverence it's tied into the love of God. Put the love of God what draws you into him? next life

Sprint talk about the effect the right now more this is where we get keys. Awesome. You're amazing. You're holy. Do you understand that? This is what produces love like if it only show us how holy he is and how powerful he is. We're only wondering because we're scared to get smashed by him.

That's the truth. We'd be scared to be like, oh, okay. If I don't have him I'm going to go to hell. Really scared of going to hell and not really scared of him who can put me in hell.

Is some live the Christian Life in the place of I don't want to go to hell so they follow God and it's not really the fear of the Lord is the fear of going to hell.

So the only reverence in God because what they can get from him.

Try that in a marriage.

Play there's something deeper here. Want to express maybe something deeper that got wants to share. That's why it says yet why you were sinners Christ died for you and the Lord he commanded his love towards us. Love is what draws you in? But the fear the Lord's is what keeps you clean. The love of God keeps you close to him. But the fear of the Lord keeps you clean. Why was it a burning bush? Why was it fiery? But yet not burning up. It was symbolic. We just sang about being the tree. God wants to set your tree on fire. And people to see that you guys are on fire, but you're not burning up. The people around you with look that you would even look at yourself in the mirror and be an utter amazement had God's handiwork. The scripture isn't it? Cuz you are the workmanship of the Lord. You sure everything's tied in together. It's like a beautiful weed in basket. He did it that way so it can hold a lot.

We begin to beef and all. We have to first come into an encounter with him through his love.

True love produces the reverence and love produces the Holiness and holy in this leads to reference and reverence leads to guess why being even more amazed by him? Because that's who he is. He takes you deeper and deeper into him and his deeper intimacy with him and worship. Could you just knew he was just amazing? Stop because your prayer list. Because he answered something simply because he is amazing.

To send the worshippers that I desire will worship me in spirit and in truth.

Have you came into an encounter with God and what you felt his amazing love for you and it's amazing present and you just wear an all of him and it left you stuck there for days and you couldn't help but feel like you were in a day.

Some of you may say though. That was me when I got born again, then I got bored again. I felt like that it was just Colors of brighter things look realer I felt lovey.

God doesn't just want a momentary encounter. He wants a lifetime. up connection

Let me say that again. God doesn't just want a momentary encounter. He wants to lifetime of connection. He wants you to be connected. Joins with them to where he begins to share with you Secret. Deep things sounds like scripture for one knows the mind of a man. But the spirit of a man same is true. What knows the mind of God, but the spirit of God searches the Deep things of God and bring it up for a revelation. And you have the mind of Christ and you are connected with him, which means you are one spirit with the Lord. And he's waiting on people to say God. Show Me Your Glory Reveal Your Glory reveal it to me because when he does it brings us to a place of honour and reverence next life for God. And this is how we walked nice squeaky and clean. I said it's an issue. Can people be like well, why why does why do how come it doesn't affect you? You gotta understand something. I'm in love with him and I just showed me way too much about him. He sent me a new Dynamic of himself and it's just impossible for me to go that way you did with that sounds a little cocky know. I'm just confident in his ability to keep me.

walking in Pride but walking is in a certain tea means your double-minded and you don't know which way to go. truth cuz you're uncertain about this and I'm certain about that. So guess what? That means. You're like a ship tossed to and fro in the sea. Where you're putting your anchor down at? I wonder if he's the anchor. I wonder is confidence in him. Because I know him and I experiencing him and I encountered him and I realize his holy he's amazing that it brings me into a place.

Peter says in which we never stumble. Did you guys nuts in your Bible? Pokemon what about hello brother, but we're all going to struggle in which we never stay humble humble. I can't buy you the way a man things and not with the word set.

What did Jesus do to people he laments saying send no more?

That doesn't compute.

because you're what you want to respond. I am going to please actually I'm going to give you an encounter with me that brings you into a place of pure reference for me. And which you have no desire to no longer stand. So when you do make an oopsie, you're not defined by your oopsie. You're defined by what I've done for you.

encounter encounter Lisa deep Holiness and reverence for God and that's where you begin to cry out how awesome he is how Mighty Is How Majestic is and that's walking and actually the reverence of the Lord and being in awe. Play I get so in all of them when I was reading my Bible and no one's around. I'm sitting there crying on my pages.

Oh my God. savers and it's all true and real and it's for me now.

Bruce Thompson My Worship worship and I start seeing visions and face our daughters just showing me any start speaking to me by the spirit and tell me things to come.

You're so amazing.

And I'm Not tooting my horn and tooting his. Because he's awesome. He's awesome. He's worthy of it. If you don't know God if you never had a relationship with God you think I'm just a mad man crying out up here then call me John so.

You never had a relationship with him and you shall never experience the love of God. I don't understand none of that. You may have said why are you at group? I didn't grow up in a Christian home. I didn't get all these religious people plus besides they said one thing and did something different if you didn't see it represented very well in your life.

I'm not telling you to give us another chance. I'm telling you to give God one. I'm asking you to give God another chance. God knows your heart. He has a plan for you. He has a purpose for you. He didn't just create you and say that you're worthless and nothing. I'm sorry that your people man said to you and what you meant said to yourself because since you're worth it you with my only begotten son.

But that's you that says listen. I've never known the love of God before I heard about it. I never I don't even know what being born again even means.

If that's the only wants you to put your hand in the air.

I want you to be afraid that people might look at you. Because if they look at you because we're here to support you were here the comfort you were here. They encourage you.

You're not the outcasts you're invited in. If that's you I'm going to ask one more time before we close up that she'll want to put your hand in the air.

Have you say hey? That's not me today. But I sure need encouragement.

I want you to everyone in this room put your hand on your neighbor.

And sing the Mister Rogers song. I'm So joking. Don't do that Rodger that wasn't it fell. Cummings got the movie coming out about Mr. Rodger looks awesome. Anyways. Just say Jesus. strengthen them build in them give them Grace. for the weakest skipping vision when there's uncertainty and get them face.

encounter God this week their lives provisions Through dreams if your Divine appointments. with other people in Jesus name I released the kingdom. amen

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