Reverence and blessing

God’s blessing is conditional upon reverence for him

Psalm 128:1 NASB95

How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, Who walks in His ways.

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The characteristics of reverence

Wisdom is based on reverence for God

Psalm 111:10 NASB95

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever.

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Reverence is pure and eternal

Psalm 19:9 NASB95

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.

Reverence will characterise the Messiah

Isaiah 11:2–3 NASB95

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And He will delight in the fear of the Lord, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

God responds to those who revere him

Psalm 147:11 NASB95

The Lord favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

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Reverence brings God’s special attention and compassion

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God is good to those who revere him

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Reverence brings God’s protection and deliverance

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God meets the needs of those who revere him

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Reverence for God is rewarded

God rewards the reverent with prosperity

Deuteronomy 6:24 NASB95

“So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today.

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Those who revere God avoid his judgment

Deuteronomy 28:58–67 NASB95

“If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the Lord your God, then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses. “He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. “Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed. “Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God. “It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. “Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. “Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. “So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. “In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.

God rewards reverence with long life and future hope

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God’s blessings on those who revere him are a witness to the nations

Jeremiah 33:9 NASB95

‘It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.’

Reverence ensures success in leadership

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