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Flourish in Fear - Mother's Day 2025 with Pastor Marci Glisson

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  1. Well, you know, we don't do traditional things around here,

  2. right? But we are those that endeavor

  3. to be led by the Spirit of God. And obviously, you know, Pastor

  4. Angie, read the scripture that we are going to come out of

  5. today. In Proverbs 31 and 30, it says

  6. charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the

  7. Lord shall be praised. A woman that fears the Lord.

  8. What is he saying here? He's saying that none of these

  9. things that we as ladies and in the generation and I, I'll get

  10. to you men in a minute, but in the generation that we're

  11. living, you know, we see to where women have to.

  12. It's as if they're having to put a standard upon their life that

  13. can never be attained to in the world.

  14. And what a woman looks like in our looks, you know, according

  15. to our beauty, you know, we have all kinds of things to make us

  16. look beautiful today. That they've come up with

  17. plaque. Well, you know, plastic surgery,

  18. it's been around for a while, you know, and now we have the

  19. Botox and now we have all the tux and the puffs and the

  20. everything else, you know, the puffy lips and all of these

  21. things. And, and, and all of these

  22. things that is trying to put on us a image that God never

  23. designed for us to have the burden for us to have to carry

  24. that the burden for us to have to carry that perfection.

  25. Right. And, and, and, and I'm saying

  26. this even towards women, because now we're seeing women are not

  27. the only ones having all these things done.

  28. I mean, there's plenty of men that are getting the Botox and,

  29. and even doing all kinds of other things, putting stuff in

  30. their chest to give them a chest.

  31. Come on, y'all looking at me like I'm strange.

  32. This is true this. Is reality and this is the world

  33. that we're living right and so you know, they're even doing

  34. liposuction around their you know, to give them ABS to make

  35. them look like their ABS are there and all these things.

  36. Listen beauty, rest clearly in those that fear the Lord, in

  37. those that fear the Lord. And this is not just a woman

  38. thing, this is also a man thing. Because women are not the only

  39. ones that are supposed to fear the Lord or wear the fear of the

  40. Lord as clothing, right? Women are not the only ones that

  41. are supposed to wear the fear of the Lord.

  42. All mankind was to wear and clothe themselves in the fear of

  43. the Lord. And when we look at what this

  44. means, we're going to dive in a little bit to this, but the

  45. title of the message is Flourish in Fear.

  46. Flourish in fear. Because the thing about it is,

  47. is that once we have a real understanding of what the flare

  48. of the Lord is, we'll be able to flourish in that and grow up out

  49. of that. All right?

  50. We'll be able to grow up out of the fear of the Lord and

  51. recognizing that the way that we are going to have a healthy,

  52. beautiful life is that we have to be clothed in the fear of the

  53. Lord. Because that's the only thing

  54. that's going to make you glow. I did wear a thing this morning.

  55. I was up at 5:00 AM. And, you know, they have those

  56. masks that you stick on your face now, the collagen mask.

  57. And so my husband walked in and he's like, wow, that makes you

  58. look really different your face, you know?

  59. Anyway, I put it on so that I could have a glow this morning,

  60. but then I realized I just want the glow of the Holy Ghost on

  61. the my life. Amen.

  62. But anyway, you know, you do what you can do in the natural.

  63. I heard one minister that I was listening to She said, you know,

  64. you can do all that nip and tuck and and Botox and all that

  65. stuff. If that's your prerogative, she

  66. says, but I'm just going to age gracefully and that's what we

  67. should be aging gracefully. What is gracefully in the grace

  68. of the Lord Jesus Christ and in his anointing.

  69. Come on. And and getting covered up

  70. underneath his glow, Hallelujah, glory to God.

  71. But anyway. So what does the fear of the

  72. Lord mean? Does that mean that we're to be

  73. afraid of God? No, it does not mean that we're

  74. to be afraid of God in the sense of fear that the enemy is the

  75. author of the enemy is the author of fear, and that fear is

  76. there, there to drive you and to punish you and to, you know, put

  77. things on you that you were never meant to carry.

  78. But the fear of the Lord as we begin to actually look at it

  79. properly through Scripture will show us that this is a beautiful

  80. thing and it is a requirement. As a child of God, as a child of

  81. the King, as one that's saying he is my Lord, then we all are

  82. to understand and walk in the fear of the Lord.

  83. And outside of you walking in the fear of the Lord, you will

  84. not walk in your relationship with the Lord properly.

  85. You won't walk in it properly. And so we see here, I like to

  86. read this, this quote by John Bevere, he said, and this is the

  87. foundation of us laying the fear of the Lord and what it really

  88. is, the fear of the Lord is the foundation of our salvation.

  89. Meaning he said this you cannot truly love God until we fear

  90. Him, nor can you properly feel fear Him until we love Him.

  91. And the key here is that love and fear cannot be separated.

  92. And we've actually tried to separate it in American

  93. Christianity. The true fear of the Lord and

  94. the true love of God cannot be separated.

  95. It goes hand in hand and it works together.

  96. And when one of them is missing, abuse is inevitable.

  97. Abuse is inevitable when one of them is missing and your life is

  98. not built upon the foundation of not just God's love, but the

  99. fear of God. If it is not built upon that

  100. foundation, abuse is inevitable. There will be dysfunction, there

  101. will be misguidance, and everything will become skewed

  102. and lopsided if they are not properly working together.

  103. And we don't properly understand that this is what we must build

  104. our life upon. Not just the love of God, but

  105. also the fear of God. And we've been taught here in

  106. Anchor Faith Church for those that are a part of this body

  107. that everything in the Kingdom of.

  108. God grows up out of the heart of love.

  109. Everything in the Kingdom of God, or as we know, the forest

  110. bed of the Kingdom. Come on.

  111. Everything is growing up out of love.

  112. Everything, everything is growing up out of love.

  113. Love. His mercy is growing up out of

  114. love. Come on, His grace is growing up

  115. out of love. Everything is growing.

  116. Hit faith is growing up out of love, out of the forest bed of

  117. love. That is what it's growing up out

  118. of. But I would like to say this as

  119. well, it's grow. It should be growing up out of

  120. fear, the fear of the Lord, the fear of the Lord and the love of

  121. God. Because when they are both in

  122. proper position, then I'm going to tell you what, nothing,

  123. nothing will be withheld from you.

  124. Nothing will. I read over just concerning the

  125. fear of the Lord out of Scripture.

  126. He indicated over 30 promises just for those who live in the

  127. fear of the Lord. But when you live in the fear of

  128. the Lord, everything in the Kingdom will flow.

  129. All the promises of God will flow up out of that in your life

  130. when you really understand what it is.

  131. So everything is growing up out of the love of God and the fear

  132. of God. Let me read the scripture here.

  133. Why are we saying this? Because we know first John

    1 John 4 chapter mention

  134. chapter 4 and verse eight said God is love.

  135. God is love. OK, but here in Psalms one O 3,

  136. this is where we're going to get started.

  137. And then I'm actually going to define the fear of the Lord.

  138. Psalms one O 3, Excuse me. Verses 11 through 13 says this.

  139. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His

  140. loving kindness towards those who what fear Him, as far as the

  141. east is from the West, so far as He has removed our

  142. transgressions from us. Just as a father has compassion

  143. on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him

  144. because of His loving kindness. Because of his loving kindness,

  145. we see that now the fear of the Lord is in operation, and the

  146. compassion comes because of that.

  147. Compassion comes because of those who fear Him because he

  148. loves them, right? And here we're going to see what

  149. the fear of the Lord. Let me give you the definition

  150. of the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord literally

  151. means just to Revere, to reverence, to honor.

  152. And This is why I believe there's a struggle in the church

  153. today, because people truly don't understand honor, because

  154. honor is a byproduct of the fear of the Lord.

  155. Honor is a byproduct of the fear of the Lord, of the fear of the

  156. Lord. And so it means to honor.

  157. It means to stand in awe. Like if God's not blowing you

  158. away, you might not have the fear of the Lord in your life

  159. anymore. If you're not in awe of the fact

  160. of what He's done in your life, come on and where you're at

  161. today and your walk as a believer, then you may be

  162. struggling with the fear of the Lord.

  163. And he says this, to stand in awe, to esteem, to esteem, to be

  164. devoted to wow, to be devoted to how many believers are truly

  165. today even still devoted to Him? Devoted, like your life is

  166. devoted to him, and it means to be afraid, but again, afraid or

  167. dread. One translation said afraid or

  168. dread, but in this context that you don't want to displease him,

  169. you would never want to do anything that would displease

  170. him, that would dishonor him. You know, we're so concerned

  171. about pleasing others and pleasing.

  172. Come on, whatever. How about pleasing him because

  173. it is impossible to please him without faith?

  174. And do we really have faith if we are living our life to please

  175. ourself and our desires and what we want and how we want it and

  176. when we want it? Come on now.

  177. Somebody better get in faith and start helping me preach because

  178. you need it. Say I need this word.

  179. I received this word because this word will save my soul.

  180. So to be afraid or to dread in the context that you never would

  181. want to dishonor his name, you never would want to displease

  182. him. That's the kind of fear and

  183. context. Do you know that we we have

  184. turned this word pleasing upside down in our society because

  185. actually God created us to have a desire to please him.

  186. But see, man has twisted it and perverted it so much in our

  187. world today that we think to do anything for anybody or to try

  188. to please them is wrong. Don't you want to please your

  189. spouse? Is that wrong?

  190. There's a desire within each and every one of us that is wanting

  191. to be pleasing. I want to be in a relationship

  192. with people and I want them to be pleased with with me.

  193. That's not see we've perverted it and think we're doing it just

  194. for something we need. No, it's not about something I

  195. need. It's about something he put

  196. within me to please people. You don't want to displease

  197. people, do you? I mean, and it has no strings

  198. attached. See, when it's perverted, it's

  199. about pleasing because you're trying to draw off of something

  200. affirmation. But see, I'm just pleasing

  201. because I'm his child and I want to please him.

  202. And if I want to please him, then I'm going to be pleasing to

  203. others in a proper way, not in an unhealthy way.

  204. You see, we've we've twisted this word anyway.

  205. I don't have time to get on that so.

  206. It is. It's there within us because of

  207. this dread that we do not. This is why every child wants to

  208. please their father and their mother.

  209. It's in them. It's their nature.

  210. It's OK. It's proper.

  211. And we've made it a bad thing. It's in association, actually,

  212. with obedience. It's all about obedience.

  213. It's all about obedience to His will.

  214. It's not about being afraid of God, but rather acknowledging

  215. His authority and holiness and what He actually did for us as

  216. children. Amen.

  217. And it leads us because of His authority within my life and

  218. because of His Holiness it it. It.

  219. Leads me to want to please him and walk in holiness and desire

  220. the things that he thinks is pleasing.

  221. You see that? And when it's not proper, that's

  222. where perversion and dysfunction come in.

  223. OK. Because it's not about pleasing

  224. in our own self worth. But it's about pleasing within

  225. what He put within me. You see that and our respect

  226. towards who He is in our life, who He is in our life.

  227. If we truly understand this fear, I believe some things will

  228. shift within our walk with the Lord.

  229. Look at Psalms 118 and 4. Psalms 118 and four.

  230. Let all who fear the Lord repeat His faithful love endures

  231. forever. See how love and fear are going

  232. hand in hand. Oh, let those who reverently

  233. fear the Lord say His loving kindness endures forever.

  234. That's out of the amplified. Look at Psalms one O 3, Psalms

  235. one O 317. But the love of the Lord remains

  236. forever with those who fear him. The love of the Lord remains

  237. forever for those who fear Him, who reverence Him, who honor

  238. Him, Come on, who want to do His will and please Him.

  239. His love remains forever. Come on His salvation.

  240. What else extends to your children when there is a lack of

  241. honor for the Lord and the fear of the Lord in your house?

  242. Come on, it will affect your children because of His love.

  243. If it will affect your children, how about this one?

  244. Will not the fear of the Lord? And this, you know, this is

  245. number one reason why I've heard young adults say that they no

  246. longer want to go to church. It's because they didn't see it

  247. happening in their own households as they were being

  248. raised up. There was too much hypocrisy.

  249. See, the fear of the Lord will keep you from hypocrisy.

  250. The fear of the Lord will keep you from hypocrisy.

  251. It will save you from hypocrisy. And so I'm telling you, there's

  252. some things we must rework in our lives if we're seeing the

  253. fear of the Lord is lacking no honor, no reverence for the

  254. things of God, not putting him not Oh, Matthew 633, this isn't

  255. in my notes, but see it's written in my heart.

  256. Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

  257. And 1st ought to be in your family that we serve the Lord,

  258. me and my household. We're going to serve the Lord.

  259. We're going to honor him. We're going to fear him.

  260. We're going to reverence him. We're going to please him.

  261. We are actually going to be obedient to His will for our

  262. lives. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, the fear

  263. of the Lord. Now look at Philippians.

  264. Philippians chapter 2 and verse 12 says this.

    Philippians 2 chapter mention

  265. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, look at

  266. this, see this obedience here You've always obeyed not not as

  267. in my presence only, but now much more in my absence.

  268. Here he says, work out your salvation with what?

  269. See, a lot of people's salvation today lacks the.

  270. Fear and trembling. So we all, God's children, we're

  271. all born again, but there's No Fear of the Lord in your life

  272. because if there was, certain things wouldn't be an option.

  273. Certain things wouldn't be an option.

  274. Hallelujah. See, you have to work out your

  275. salvation with fear and trembling, with honor, with

  276. reverence, with pleasing God, with being obedient to His will,

  277. with wanting to do what it is that pleases Him, not displease

  278. Him. You see that?

  279. And that is what real faith is, because again, it's impossible

  280. to please Him without faith. It's impossible to please him

  281. without faith. So he lets us know that, listen,

  282. we have something that we're to work out within our lives of

  283. being born again. And it comes with fear and it

  284. comes with trembling. Look at Isaiah 33.

  285. Six. In that day he will be a sure

  286. foundation, providing a rich store of salvation.

  287. I want you to focus on this in that day you will be a sure

  288. foundation. What's that day, the day of your

  289. salvation, The foundation, come on, we're talking about the

  290. foundation. If the foundation of your walk

  291. in Christ is not laid and based upon the love of God and the

  292. fear of the Lord, your foundation is going to be

  293. shaken. But those that has a foundation

  294. should come on that's built a sure foundation that's built

  295. Look at here providing a rich store of salvation.

  296. Highlight that word in your Bible or in your notes.

  297. You should be taking notes and and highlight it where it says

  298. store of your salvation, a rich store.

  299. Do you know that your salvation is a?

  300. Amazon warehouse, an Amazon warehouse.

  301. Just think about that. A rich store you're going to see

  302. in a minute. Go on.

  303. And he says this of salvation, wisdom and knowledge.

  304. Salvation, wisdom and knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge.

  305. And then he goes on to say this. The fear of the Lord will be

  306. your what? Your treasure, the fear of the

  307. Lord, will be your treasure. Where your treasure is, there

  308. your heart will be. Where your treasure is, get

  309. this. Where your treasure, the fear of

  310. the Lord, will be your treasure. Where your treasure is, your

  311. heart will be, and within this, the fear of the Lord is a depth,

  312. a warehouse, a storehouse of treasure.

  313. It is like an Amazon warehouse, full of everything that you need

  314. to be able to pull forth for this life, to be able to do what

  315. it is that God needs you to do as a believer.

  316. But guess where it is? It's all.

  317. Hidden in the fear of the Lord. It's all stored up and hidden in

  318. the fear of the Lord. And there's a warehouse full

  319. full of wisdom, full of knowledge.

  320. But we're going to see what else.

  321. Listen, this literally means a storehouse, which you can also

  322. go to Malachi about giving. This is the literal storehouse.

  323. So when he says where the fear of the Lord is is where your

  324. treasure is, there is a storehouse waiting for you of

  325. we're going to see not just spiritual things, wisdom and

  326. knowledge, salvation, not just spiritual things.

  327. This word storehouse, oh man, this word treasure is like a

  328. treasury, a treasury and a treasury is something that also

  329. has weaponry. It even indicates weaponry.

  330. So in this treasury of the fear of the Lord, there's some

  331. weapons that are stored up, come on and waiting for you to tap

  332. into. It is.

  333. It is storing up every, everything that you need,

  334. wisdom, knowledge, deliverance. It also means deliverance.

  335. It means a weapon tree, everything you need to fight the

  336. devil, to walk in this life and have success and be all that God

  337. has said you are in Christ Jesus.

  338. Everything. There's a Amazon warehouse

  339. waiting for you to put your ticket in and have it delivered

  340. at your doorstep in less than 24 hours.

  341. I went shopping yesterday. I don't like shopping.

  342. Really. I really don't.

  343. I want to go in one store that has it all so I don't have to go

  344. all around. And so and I didn't really want

  345. to go shopping yesterday because I knew I had to minister this

  346. thing and I just really wanted to pray and to fast and, you

  347. know, be all spiritual and have this.

  348. And and so we ended up spending all day long shopping and trying

  349. to find me an outfit. Found me not one thing.

  350. This this beautifully came up out of my closet already.

  351. Didn't have to buy a thing. Bought Pastor 3 new suits.

  352. Stand up and a new shirt couldn't find me.

  353. Go to the whole Daytona outlets and not find me.

  354. Not one thing. What in the world?

  355. What in the world shot we did Literally didn't get home till

  356. 6:00. I mean and then he's like, well,

  357. let's run into TJ Maxx on the way home.

  358. Maybe you'll find something there.

  359. When in TJ Maxx, nothing. Went into JC Penney's.

  360. Oh my God, no, we didn't. He didn't go.

  361. He made me go into Dillard's. Anyway, why was I going to say

  362. that? A warehouse, Yeah, that's why,

  363. because we went to the Daytona Mall, after we went to the

  364. outlets, we went to the old Daytona Volusia mall.

  365. They have 3 Dillard's attached to their mall.

  366. This Dillard's had three huge warehouses that were the mall

  367. full of clothes. He says surely you're going to

  368. find something in here. I mean, this place is, I mean,

  369. it just goes on and on and on and clothes and clothes and

  370. clothes. I mean clothes after clothes

  371. after clothes. And not find one stitch that I

  372. even liked. Am IA picky clothes shopper?

  373. I don't even know. And he's like, well, what are

  374. you going to wear tomorrow? I wanted you to get a new

  375. outfit. I said something will appear in

  376. my closet. You know, I'll put something

  377. together. Anyway, it was full.

  378. This. If y'all have never encountered

  379. this Dillard's at the old Volusia Mall.

  380. I mean I'm serious. You need to just go see it just

  381. to believe it. It was like 3 huge of our JC

  382. Penney's area 3 and the Belk area three of those and it was 2

  383. stories. Three of them, two stories, so

  384. much. It was overwhelming.

  385. That's probably what it is, because I like to go into one

  386. store, find one little thing and leave it.

  387. It was so overwhelming. There were so many clothes.

  388. I'm like, I don't even know how people shop in here anyway.

  389. A storehouse. It was full.

  390. And that's what we have in the fear of the Lord.

  391. A storehouse that is full of whatever come on, whatever you

  392. need as a believer in the earth today.

  393. And so he says, listen, the fear of the Lord will be your

  394. treasure will be your will be your storehouse.

  395. Look at Proverbs 14. Proverbs 1426 through 27 says

  396. those who fear the Lord are secure.

  397. They have strong confidence He will be a refuge for their

  398. children. I'm telling you the way you fear

  399. the Lord affects your children and This is why people don't

  400. know. You know what's going on with my

  401. well check up in your house. He says verse 27 the.

  402. Fear of the Lord. Is a life giving Here it is

  403. fountain. So it's a treasury.

  404. It's a storehouse full of anything that you need from God.

  405. It is a life giving fountain that offers escape from the

  406. snares of death. A life giving fountain where the

  407. fear of the Lord is, it's going to be life.

  408. When there is No Fear of the Lord, there's death and the

  409. enemy can bring a snare and a trap to your life because

  410. really, you're lacking the fear of the Lord.

  411. You're lacking the fear of the Lord.

  412. We have to recognize these things.

  413. But it is a spring of life, you see, that So not only is the

  414. fear of the Lord. You know, again, everybody when

  415. you hear you say the fear of the Lord, they think, oh, this is

  416. so, you know, whatever, it's so hard and he wants to be so hard

  417. on me and oh, I'm, I'm, you know, have to have the fear of

  418. the Lord. No, he says.

  419. The fear of the Lord is life giving.

  420. It actually means it is the starting point of life when you

  421. look that up. It is the.

  422. Starting point of life. The.

  423. Starting point, the source that everything is going to spring up

  424. out of the fear of the Lord and and when where there is No Fear,

  425. things seem dried up in your relationship with the Lord when

  426. there's No Fear. Look what else he says it's a

  427. life giving fountain a fountain is something that is continually

  428. so that means there's a refreshing there's springs of

  429. living water. Come on, that source that's

  430. flowing within you? But not only that is a source of

  431. joy. Joy, joy wellspring is what they

  432. call it, the joy wellspring. That means there, where there's

  433. the fear of the Lord, there's going to be joy, there's going

  434. to be refreshing, there's going to be water flowing and a

  435. refreshing at all times. And joy can spring up and spring

  436. forth in your life where there's the fear of the Lord, where

  437. there's the fear of the Lord. Psalms 147 and 11, no.

  438. The Lord's delight is in those who fear.

  439. Him. See he.

  440. Delights in those who fear him and those who put their hope in

  441. his. What unfailing love?

  442. See, there's the fear of the Lord and the unfailing love.

  443. We're not trying to, you know, separate that.

  444. But when you do separate it, you'll either have legalism or

  445. you'll have full blown grace that never requires you to.

  446. To do anything, he's done it all, but when they're

  447. functioning properly, when they're functioning properly,

  448. they'll be some life that will spring forth.

  449. They'll be a delight. He says listen, wisdom and

  450. knowledge, the fear of the Lord again, here it is.

  451. Second Scripture will be your treasure will be your treasure.

  452. Hallelujah. Look at Proverbs 910 and 11.

  453. Proverbs 9/10/11 The. Fear of the Lord.

  454. Is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.

  455. So it is at the foundation. We already said that.

  456. Or the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.

  457. You see that? So if we're going to walk in the

  458. wisdom and the knowledge of our salvation, the fear of the Lord

  459. has to be within our life. It's the beginning, it's the

  460. beginning of wisdom and knowledge and understanding.

  461. For by me your days will be multiplied and your years will

  462. be added to you. Come on with long life He will

  463. satisfy. Listen, your life, your life can

  464. be multiplied and added to the days of your life when you fear

  465. Him. We see it all the time.

  466. People that are against God, they are rebellious towards God.

  467. Why do you think they're dropping dead early?

  468. Why do you think death is rampant in their life?

  469. Why do you think there's so much drama and chaos and destruction

  470. in everything they're doing? Because there's No Fear of the

  471. Lord, but those who fear him, you can be guaranteed that he's

  472. going to add to the days of your life, that he's going to

  473. multiply. Come on.

  474. Oh, he says also with long life he will satisfy Hallelujah.

  475. So it can be a multiplication to your life.

  476. Proverbs 22 and 4 says this, the reward of humility and the fear

  477. of the Lord. Here it is, our riches, honor

  478. and life. Riches, honor, and life.

  479. So that treasury that we were talking about, that storehouse

  480. that we were talking about has to do with riches, not just

  481. spiritual things like I said, like wisdom and knowledge and

  482. salvation and all the things that the Lord brings through His

  483. word to our life, grace, mercy, joy, love, peace, kindness, all

  484. those spiritual things. He lets us know that riches,

  485. this will be added to your life riches, and it is literally a

  486. treasury. It is literally money.

  487. Riches will be added to your life, riches, finances.

  488. You should see an addition to your life as your fear.

  489. You know why you're not? Because you don't fear the Lord

  490. to give. All right, so I, you know,

  491. pastor talked about that. I'll, I'll move on.

  492. So then he goes on to say riches, honor, honor, honor will

  493. be a part of your life when you actually fear him and honor him.

  494. See, he reciprocates everything, everything.

  495. He reciprocates everything. You honor him, He says, I'll

  496. honor you. I'll lift you up.

  497. You honor one another. Come on, honor one another.

  498. You talking about people gossiping about people hurting

  499. people. That is not honor and it's not

  500. the fear of the Lord. But when you decide you're going

  501. to honor people and love them and go on about your business

  502. and and all these other things, listen, then he's going to honor

  503. you. He's going to honor you because

  504. whatsoever a man, he will reap. He will reap.

  505. And people can reap dishonor. And so he says in life, life,

  506. life, riches, honor and life. And then this literally that

  507. riches, honor and life needs the abundance of glory.

  508. Rich's honor and life means the abundance of glory.

  509. And when I look that word up there with the abundance of

  510. glory where he says Rich is honored and it has to do with

  511. the weight of who he is upon your life.

  512. That is what Adam walked in, when he walked in the garden.

  513. He walked in all of God's what glory.

  514. He walked in all of God's glory. The full weight of who God was

  515. was in Adam. Life itself was in Adam.

  516. The glory of God was upon Adam. The glory was within Adam.

  517. That's why we know when he disobeyed, He what He disobeyed.

  518. The glory departed. So this was the full weight of

  519. who God is. And when you begin to operate

  520. within the fear of the Lord, the full weight of who God is will

  521. rest upon your life. And that's the thing that God

  522. that people will see. They'll see the glory of the

  523. Lord upon your life. Come on.

  524. He wants the glory of the Lord to be upon you in such richness

  525. and fullness and life that when you walk, come on out of these

  526. doors and wherever you go, people see the glory upon your

  527. life. They see the glory, they see the

  528. full way and measure of God upon your life because you're

  529. carriers of the glory of God. But it don't come if there's no

  530. honor, if there's No Fear of the Lord.

  531. Hallelujah. Glory to God much you could say

  532. about that. That's what this reigning church

  533. is going to look like. The reigning church is going to

  534. have the fullness. Of God, the fullness of the

  535. glory of God resting upon it once again.

  536. Come on, those who will believe, those who will walk and do what

  537. it's what we're supposed to do. Those that will fear the Lord,

  538. those that will put Him first in everything they're doing.

  539. Come on, I'm telling you, the glory of the Lord will rest upon

  540. and we're going to see it. It rested upon them in the book

  541. of Acts. In the book of Acts and where

  542. little side note and where the glory rest, miracles will happen

  543. easy, easy, easy. Miracles will happen easy.

  544. Signs and wonders will happen easy.

  545. Because there's the fear of the Lord upon everyone, upon

  546. everyone. You know, we had Doctor Jack

  547. Myers do the Kingdom Institute graduation and he ended up

  548. laying hands on someone after the graduation and immediately

  549. their bodies were healed and they saw it.

  550. And, and he said, Pastor Earl, the reason why that can happen

  551. is because you've set an atmosphere with the glory of God

  552. for miracles to happen. That's why it was easy.

  553. That's why it was easy. See, it's here.

  554. But if you take for granted what's here and don't realize

  555. you're sitting in it, come on. If you don't honor it,

  556. Hallelujah. So he says, where was I at

  557. Proverbs 817? I love those who love me, and

  558. those who diligently seek me will find me.

  559. Riches and honor are where with me, enduring wealth and

  560. righteousness in the midst of the paths of justice.

  561. To endow those who love me with wealth that I may what fill

  562. their treasuries. That I may feel their treasuries

  563. for those who love him and seek Him and are walking in

  564. righteousness. He's ready to add to your

  565. treasury. Psalms 112133 Praise ye the

  566. Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth

  567. the Lord, that delighteth greatly in His commandments.

  568. His seed shall be mighty upon the earth.

  569. The generation of the uprights shall be blessed.

  570. Wealth and riches shall be in His house.

  571. His righteousness endureth forever.

  572. See, the fear of the Lord affects your house affects the

  573. next. Your seed affects your seed

  574. affects your seed. So this isn't just about us,

  575. it's about the next generation and it's about the seed that's

  576. still coming forth. Hallelujah.

  577. And, and, and all has to do with us that will honor him and the

  578. things that are being stored up and things that are stored up

  579. for us to walk into. Look at this, it says in Psalms

  580. 3318. It says, but the Lord watches

  581. over those who fear him and those who rely on this, his

  582. unfailing love. I fear him and guess what?

  583. I rely on his unfailing love. I fear him, and I rely on his

  584. unfailing love. That ought to be a confession

  585. out of your mouth. I fear him, and I rely on his

  586. unfailing love. I fear him and I rely on his

  587. unfailing love. I fear him, and I rely on his

  588. unfailing love. Hallelujah.

  589. And when you fear him, you'll do what pleases him.

  590. You'll do his commandments, you'll do his word above all

  591. else. You'll do his word above all

  592. else. You'll do his word.

  593. You'll keep his word, you'll keep his word.

  594. And with that you can be assured that there is things right there

  595. waiting for you. This ought to be our confession.

  596. Psalms 8611. Teach me Thy way, O Lord, and I

  597. will walk in Thy truth. Unite my heart to fear Thy name.

  598. Teach me Thy way, Lord. Unite my heart to truth, to Your

  599. truth, not the world's truth, not my own opinion of truth, but

  600. your truth, right, your truth, your truth, so that I would fear

  601. your name, because those that will fear him will honor him.

  602. John Bevere says this. The fear of God is to believe

  603. God. To believe God is to obey him.

  604. So when you truly say, Oh yeah, I believe God, Oh yeah, I have

  605. faith. Are you obeying him and and how

  606. are you obeying him? Are you obeying him according to

  607. your standard or are you obeying him according to the standard of

  608. his word? Those, those are the ones that

  609. fearing that I'm going to obey him according to the standard of

  610. his word, not according to what makes me feel good, not

  611. according to all these other things, but according to what

  612. does his word say about this situation?

  613. And I'm going to do that in the midst of it, right?

  614. I'm going to do that. AW, Tozer says this.

  615. When men no longer fear God, they trust transgress his laws

  616. without hesitation. When men no longer fear God,

  617. they transgress his laws without hesitation.

  618. Without hesitation. Wow, when people just flippantly

  619. are doing things without doing it according to what the

  620. standard of the word is, without hesitation, is there really fear

  621. of the Lord in their life? Without hesitation, they will

  622. transgress His laws. We're not talking about, you

  623. know, the 10 commandments, guys. We know that His word is His

  624. law. And when people flippantly do

  625. things that you know are outside of scripture and don't even

  626. hesitate to do it, there is No Fear of the Lord.

  627. There's No Fear of the Lord. There's No Fear of the Lord.

  628. See, when we have the fear of the Lord, Proverbs 813 says

  629. this. The fear of the Lord is to hate

  630. evil. It's to hate evil.

  631. And anything against His word is evil.

  632. It's evil. Anything against his word is

  633. evil. Pride and arrogancy and the evil

  634. way and the forward mouth do I hate.

  635. So we have to ask ourselves, do we?

  636. Do we, you know, just flippantly do the things we want to do,

  637. even though we know that scripturally this isn't how

  638. you're supposed to do things? OK.

  639. Proverbs 16, six and seven. By loving kindness and truth,

  640. sin or iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord. 1

  641. keeps away from evil. You see that?

  642. So the fear of the Lord is going to keep you away from evil.

  643. The fear of the Lord honoring Him, reverencing Him, doing His

  644. word, being obedient, it's going to keep you from wanting to do

  645. evil. And when you just flippantly do

  646. evil, or it you don't even hesitate to do evil, there is No

  647. Fear of the Lord in your life. No Fear of the Lord.

  648. This is what Scripture is saying.

  649. This is not what I'm saying. This is what Scripture says.

  650. And he says it in a loving, fearful way.

  651. It's all connected. Oswald Chambers says this.

  652. Or excuse me, Spurgeon. Spurgeon says this.

  653. He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

  654. Hallelujah, Woo. He who fears help has nothing

  655. else to fear. Glory to God.

  656. Oh Hallelujah. See, it'll keep you.

  657. It'll keep you in the midst of your enemy.

  658. You don't have to fear. Not one thing.

  659. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

  660. You don't have to fear man. You don't have to fear a

  661. situation. Come on.

  662. You don't have to fear cancer because you fear him.

  663. You fear him? Oh.

  664. Hallelujah. Then Oswald Chambers said this.

  665. The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you

  666. fear nothing else. Whereas if you do not fear God,

  667. you will fear everything else. You'll fear everything else.

  668. But when you have the fear of the Lord in your life, you don't

  669. have to fear. Not one thing, not one thing,

  670. not one thing, Hallelujah. Not one thing, Glory to God, not

  671. one thing. Hallelujah.

  672. Oh Hallelujah, glory to God, say I fear the Lord.

  673. I fear the Lord. Hallelujah, let me read this

  674. last scripture. Yep, we're at the last

  675. scripture. Can you hang on and hold out

  676. Psalms 34? Because it's not just one

  677. scripture, it's several. 7 through 11, the last passage of

  678. scripture. Hallelujah, the Angel.

  679. Of the Lord Hallelujah in camps around those who fear.

  680. Him. Oh, Hallelujah, I fear the Lord.

  681. Glory to God, say I fear the Lord.

  682. I fear the Lord. Oh, I don't want to do anything

  683. that dishonors him. Glory to God because.

  684. My. Angels, Hallelujah, my angels,

  685. glory to God, are encamped around me.

  686. See, that's why you don't have to fear a thing, because when

  687. you fear Him, you don't have to fear a thing, because His angels

  688. surround you. Hallelujah, oh, His angels

  689. surround you, and guess what they do?

  690. And he rescues them. Glory to God, oh taste and see

  691. that the Lord is good. How blessed is the man that

  692. takes refuge in him. Oh, fear the Lord.

  693. You his Saints. Fear the Lord.

  694. You're his Saints. Fear the Lord.

  695. Not just mothers. You Saints.

  696. You Saints. You need to do a check up from

  697. the neck up. Who said that?

  698. All right, Raphael, quit trying to preach me down.

  699. You had your time, now just get it.

  700. A. Check up on the fear of the Lord

  701. in your life. Are you running towards evil or

  702. are you running away from it? Oh Hallelujah, those that fear

  703. Him. Oh Hallelujah, all you Saints,

  704. for to those who fear Him there is no want.

  705. There is no want for those who fear Him.

  706. What is it that you want? What is it that you want?

  707. Why don't you move on over into the fear of the Lord?

  708. What is it that you want? Move on over into the fear of

  709. the Lord. What is it that you want?

  710. Move on over into the fear of the Lord.

  711. Come on, what is it that you want?

  712. Move over into the fear of the Lord?

  713. Because in Him there is no want. There's no want, there's no

  714. want. The Young Lions do lack, and

  715. they suffer hunger, but they who seek the Lord shall be in any

  716. want of any good thing. Come you children, listen to me,

  717. say, listen to me, listen to me. He who has ears to hear, say,

  718. listen to me. Let's check up on the fear of

  719. the Lord in our lives. Let's check up.

  720. Listen to me. Isn't that what he's saying?

  721. I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

  722. I'll teach you the fear of the Lord.

  723. Teach you the fear of the Lord. The Angel of the Lord encamps

  724. around those who fear him, who reverence him, who Revere him,

  725. who worship Him in what? In awe like does he still

  726. overwhelm you? Does he still give you

  727. butterflies? Come on out of His goodness, His

  728. goodness. When you think about look what

  729. the Lord has done. We, we sing that song and we run

  730. and we shout, but do we really look what the Lord has done?

  731. Because we would stand in awe and there would be no one that

  732. would be able to stay in their seat because they would be in a

  733. place of worship and honor towards Him.

  734. See, we can never forget what He has done, the great salvation

  735. that we have. Let us not forget the scripture

  736. says this great salvation. And those who forget their they

  737. lack fear. They lack the fear of the Lord,

  738. they lack the fear of the Lord. Hallelujah, worship him in awe

  739. and each of them he delivers. Oh, taste and see that the Lord

  740. is good, He is good, blessed, happy, fortunate to be envied is

  741. the man who trusts and takes refuge in him.

  742. You should be envied. Because you have taken refuge in

  743. Him. Oh, fear the Lord, you Saints

  744. Revere and worship Him, for there is no want to those who

  745. truly Revere and worship Him in godly fear.

  746. The Young Lions lack food, they suffer, but they who seek and

  747. inquire and require the Lord, by right of their need and on the

  748. authority of His Word, none of them shall lack any beneficial

  749. thing. Come, you children, listen to

  750. me, say, listen to me. I will teach you to Revere and

  751. worshiply fear the Lord.