![]() Do you give your heavenly Father even greater respect?Īre you lovingly and fearfully putting God first in your life? What is your thought life like? What is your attitude like? What is your worship life like? Anything that God leads you to do whether it is preach, evangelize, blog, encourage, etc. If my father told me to do something I did it. As a child I never wanted to disappoint my father. Young men when you see a sensual woman in real life or on your social media accounts do you turn away quickly?ĭoes your heart pound at the mere temptation of sin? Is the fear of God in you? We all fear our earthly fathers. God has come to test you, so that t he fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”Īre you living in fear of God? One of the biggest areas where we have to fear God is when it comes to sexual immorality and lust. Exodus 20:20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. This man was blameless and upright he feared God and shunned evil.ĩ. Job 1:1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. Psalm 97:10 Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.Ĩ. Proverbs 8:13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.ħ. Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.Ħ. Does your life show that you hate God and love evil? Turn from your sins! He will shut the door! Put your trust in Jesus Christ alone.ĥ. The fear of God tells us you better not watch that R rated movie. The fear of God convicts Christians when we are going in an ungodly direction. You better not put yourself in a position to sin. You know what you once were you better not do that. ![]() It is the fear of God that doesn’t allow Christians to do these things. Some of you think that just because He is letting you get away with sin that He doesn’t see you. You go to your worldly church on Sunday that never preaches against sin and you live like the devil the rest of the week. Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’ and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from depart from Me, all you evildoers.’ Luke 13:25-27 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Romans 1:28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.Ĥ. Why do you think that there are so many militant atheists and people who live like the devil and think that they are Christian? God shuts the door! It’s a terrible thing to know that for some people who read this God is going to shut the door for you on Earth and He is going to give you over to your sin and damn you to Hell.ģ. You want your pornography, fornication, drunkenness, weed smoking, stealing, willful lying, willful cursing, homosexuality, clubbing, covetousness, keep it! He shuts the door and gives them over to a reprobate mind. Sometimes God stops warning people and He says, “you want your sin keep it.” He shuts the door on people! He gives them over to their sin. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Saints are described as fearing the name of God they are reverent worshippers they stand in awe of the Lord’s authority they are afraid of offending Him they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.” Charles Spurgeon “Fearing God is reverence for Him that leads to delightful obedience resulting in peace, joy and security.” Randy Smith The fear of the Lord is similar to the mindset of a subject before a powerful king it is to be under divine authority as one who will surely give an account… Fearing the Lord relates to trust, humility, teachability, servanthood, responsiveness, gratitude and reliance on God it is the exact opposite of autonomy and arrogance.” Kenneth Boa “To fear God is to nurture an attitude of awe and humility before Him and to walk in radical dependence upon God in each area of life. “But what is this fear of the Lord? It is that affectionate reverence, by which the child of God bends himself humbly and carefully to his Father’s law.” Charles Bridges “It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.” John Witherspoon “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.” “The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.” – Oswald Chambers “If you fear God, you really need fear nothing else.” Zac Poonen “When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.” William Gurnall ![]()
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