Presence – Fear of God

Guys we are talking about the characteristics of

Presence and we finished reconciliation. We finished

Prosperity finished as and we've touched on reconciliation and prosperity and now we come to the fear of God and we had

Talked about the fear of God in Feb in the middle of Feb

We had talked about the fear of God, but there's more added to it now

Should be the case and so we look at it again

So what are we saying? We are saying that Moses said in Exodus 33 verses 11 14 to 17

Exodus 33:11

Moses said that oh God

Your presence is what distinguishes us from all the people of every other nation on the face of the earth. And so

that's what makes us distinct and

That's where we started some six weeks ago

And we are saying that when the presence of God is in a people there are some characteristics that are manifested

One of the characteristics we said is reconciliation. We dealt with that

the other characteristic is prosperity which we talked about last week and

Now we're talking about the fear of God a people in whom the presence of God is

Manifest not as in resident, but both resident and manifest will

Cultivate or will express this amazing thing called the fear of God

and

So, how do I know or how do you know that Jacob in your life?

There is a manifest presence of God you will see in Jacob's life the cultivation of the fear of God

And so we're going to talk about what this fear of God is today

And so what did we say these characteristics or outworkings of his manifest presence are we said reconciliation? We said prosperity

We said fear of God

Then we'll deal with fearlessness as in boldness

signs and wonders zeal and

passion

Introduction as in both after his kind and numerically

Liberty as in freedom and Dominion these are the topics that we will cover and then perhaps stop or add more to it

So let's talk about the fear of the Lord guys. Here's the thing

The fear of the Lord is a fear born in love

It really complicates things the fear of the Lord

Is a fear

That is born out of love

That is born out of love in that it dreads

Offending

The father I

Love

Very different from the Old Testament concept

In the Old Testament the fear of the Lord

Had reverence in it and had a lot of trembling and shaking in it. I'm not saying we have

We put that behind but in the New Testament

There's this new new take on the fear of the Lord where the fear of the Lord is a fear

That is born out of love and what do I mean by that?

It's that I dread offending the father I love

How cool is that that I dread offending the father I love

It's a fear born out of love

So the fear of God is impossible

without

recognizing the love of the father so that you can now love him back and live in the fear or the dread of

offending

the father who you love I

Love what Jesus has done to to the Old Testament

He's put such a cool spin on it

Where everything changes

So the fear the Lord is a fear born out of love it dreads offending the father that you love

And so it's impossible to understand the fear of God unless you understand the love of the father

It's impossible to have the fear of God without understanding the love of the father

So

We cannot therefore understand the fear of God without understanding the love of the father

Comes back to all that we are talking about yesterday

So let me throw these things at you just so you have an estimation of where you are at and where I'm at

And how we need to upgrade

Guys as 2014 rolls around comes along you're okay. Come on feeling hot cold

You're feeling warm, but otherwise you're good

This is true, yes, it'll change perhaps after tonight so the

The fear of God is not just about the fear of God

The

The fear of the okay, so guys here are some questions I want questions and statements

I want to throw out at you and me and it'll give us an understanding of where we are at and I would so suggest

That as 2014 rolls along

Why don't you upgrade why don't you upgrade your perception of God because it's vital to this

So what is your vision of the father? What is your vision or your perception of the father?

Because guys how you see him is how you will see yourself and

How you will live your life I

Think it's such an important statement that I've made

What is your vision or perception of the father?

Because how you see him is

How you will see yourself and how you will live your life

For example if I see the father as judgmental

Then I will see my life as one that has to be severely judged analyzed

And I will live my life that way too afraid of being judged

if I see my father as

joyful and

kind I

Will begin to live a life that now basks in

His kindness and his joy over me

And I'll begin to live that way if I see the father as uninterested I

will see

My life as one that has to constantly do things to persuade or draw his interest

And I'll begin to live my life striving always for his interest

Go home and ask yourself

Go home and ask yourself

What is my perception of the father and it will show you why your life is where it is and why my life is where it is?

Because how I see him is how I see myself and how I live my life if I seem as hard to please

Then how do I see my life a life that is constantly trying to please that is constantly trying to be deserving and

So everything in my life gets colored my marriage gets colored how I get money gets colored

How I relate to you gets colored because now

There is this need in my life because I see the father differently to always please

How do you see the father

Are you a sinner who struggles with the love of the father

Are you a sinner who struggles with the love of the father or are you a lover of the father?

Who occasionally sees the father?

Or are you a lover of the father who occasionally struggles with sin?

Are you a sinner who struggles with the love of the father?

Or are you a lover of the father?

Who occasionally struggles with sin?

Changes everything depending on where I'm at if I am suffering

If I am someone who as a Christian bound for heaven

Is struggling with the concept of the love of the father on a daily weekly basis then yes

This thing called sin can be overpowering

Or am I a lover of the father which makes it then

So different because now I'm the lover of the father I'm a lover of the father who struggles with sin every now and then

Guys the right image of the father

Will open heaven for you here on earth

I'm telling you man. It is so true

The right image of the father will open heaven for you here on earth

So upgrade your image as 2014 comes along upgrade that image

As the image of my father changes to who he is

Heaven will open here on the earth for me. I mean we sang

Your presence is heaven to me

A couple of days ago one of the things a lot was saying to me was heaven has plenty of all that you need I

Was struggling with the love of the father

I was struggling with an aspect of provision and

The song came to man and I started singing it and in the middle of the song I felt the Lord saying hey Jacob

Heaven has plenty of all that you need not heaven has enough for you or heaven is sufficient heaven has plenty of

all that you need and

Suddenly I began to hone in on the father as

One who provides just like my earthly dad did my earthly dad went out of his way

He worked longer

Beyond retirement because his son was not still on his feet and was in Canada

And he's worked a couple of years more so that he could send me money

Because I squandered a lot of his money so he had to work an extra two years, but he still did it

The image of the father

If upgraded will open heaven to you on earth so

Ask myself. What is my perception of God when I pray is he?

Someone who needs to be persuaded

Amazing how many times we think that that as we pray God is someone who has to be persuaded

Yeah, but he has to be persuaded

Is the father someone who needs to be persuaded or

When I go to pray do I think that the father is someone who's

deeply interested in me and delighted with me and is

Intently having his ear inclined to me every time I open my mouth

What a difference prayer will take on if I think God does not need to be persuaded and

That is actually interested and delighted in me

There are days when your children know that you're in a good mood and

Those days they come to you and they ask for ridiculous things. I

Remember one day when my dad I know I've told you this when my dad took me

With him in a Jeep into a market area. I knew he was in a good mood

I knew he was in a good mood

He loved having my company there and we saw a guy with a horse and it's colt walking by the roadside

And I asked my dad to stop Jeep and asked him to buy me the horse

Because I wanted to go to school on a horse. I wanted to ride to school

And he was in such a good mood that he

He stopped we looked at the horse and then he told me

Asked me whether I'd be willing to get up in the morning feed the horse

Asked me whether I'd like to clean up its poo when it poos

asked me where I would tie up the horse when I'd be in class and

He didn't need to ask too many questions. I said no dad

I'll bike to school and so I decided to bike and not ride a horse the point being I

Always wanted to be the first cowboy in India, but no what?

First Indian cowboy

A 10 gallon hat yeah, oh

No, it's right there

It's right there and no I'd prefer coming by my Tucson and not by a horse to church. So don't buy me one

Yeah, that's the Mexican as usual we are going down a rabbit trail let me get his back I

Started it. I admit. Yeah, so guys

It's so different when you know, your dad is interested that his ear is inclined to you that he delight

He's delighted with you being with him

How it changes prayer but I would suggest to you that many of us me included so many times

Feel like we have to persuade him in prayer

Do you know that he loves you by choice and not because he created you

He loves you by choice

He chooses this is his choice. He wants to love me. He loves me by choice and

Yet how often do I try to deserve the father's love so much of my life is sometimes spent trying to deserve the father's love

But he loves me by choice. I

Have phrased differently once before I said he loved us into existence

He loved us. He didn't even create us. He loved us into existence

it's a choice he's it's his choice and

Yet so much time I spend in deserve deserving his love

I said this yesterday when you do well God approves of you when you do poorly God accepts you

When you do well God approves of you when you do poorly

God accepts you

There's never any deserving of his love. I was fascinated by this statement a

Question do you think guys?

That the father loves you more today than when you were an unbeliever

Just think of that

He does not love you more today than when you were an

Unbeliever and lived in hostility or did not know him. He does not love you more today if that is the case

It's ridiculous

To think that people out there who do not know the Lord are loved as much

By him today as they will if they met the Lord tomorrow

What

Is the father's love for you ever less than 100% no it has never been less than 100% since the day you were born

the difference is we now begin to experience it because we know him and

They are not able to experience it

They occasionally catch glimpses of it and they perhaps give credit to some other person or some other God

But it's things that God loved me the same as he loves me today even when I did not know him

Bless is my heart

What kind of God is this but you see when we begin to see the father like this?

You're like a child that is weaned

Quiet restful peace

You

Here's another question is the father the happiest person you know

We never think of stuff like that because from what we've heard he's grumpy most of the time

Is the father the happiest person you know?

Is he the kindest person you know

Is he the most trustworthy person you know

I

When was the last time you were overwhelmed by his love tangibly

You know I believe he's trustworthy, but I've never thought of him as the happiest person I know

The joyfullest happy happiest

Irrepressibly laughter-filled God I don't often think of him like that

Because if I did it would change the way I approach him to change the way I live and it will change the way

I live with you

Does it occur to you that he looks forward to loving and enjoying you every day

Not to me doesn't happen to me every day

Does it occur to you that he looks forward to enjoying and loving you every day?

There are days I wake up, and I don't think he's particularly looking forward to enjoying me today

Guys the reason I'm asking this question is to expose where our minds and our hearts are at what a different God we are looking at

But if I don't recognize

This father that we are talking about then the fear of God cannot be born

Out of love and I will not dread offending the father I love

Because I cannot love him till I recognize how much he loves me you know we let circumstances harass us

Torment us and frustrate our relationship with the father have you noticed how in circumstances get

Tight when things begin to press in what does it do it harasses torments and frustrates our relationship with him

It's like where is he he's not here abandoned and no good. I've said my prayers nothing has happened

Line after line after line comes out I would suggest to you that circumstances reveal two things one it reveals our

understanding of God and to our understanding of the nature of the father

Both are the same circumstances revealed our understanding of the nature of the father. This is why I said some weeks ago I

Think I quoted Abraham Lincoln. He said if you give me four hours to cut down a tree. I'll spend three hours sharpening the axe

It's during times of peace when there are no

Problems when there is no crisis that I'm supposed to sharpen my axe so that when crisis comes it

Reveals my understanding of the nature of the father

Meditate on scriptures guys that reflects the nature of God. I'll help you with that today before you go

Meditate on scriptures that reflect the nature of God

How take one scripture and spend an entire week going over it again and again and again and again and again a

Couple of weeks ago. I think it was Psalm 28 verse 7 or something

Psalms 28:7

I got every morning I'd get up and I'd go over it again and again and again

What is meditating self God directed self-talk God directed self-talk where I take the scripture

It's God directed and I examine it from every side just like you examine

Your iPhone 5s

Look at this way than this way

It's the same phone but every angle and if it's got a gold back or then you show it around to oh

No, I'm not looking at you know why you are feeling guilty suddenly

I just heard it today in the living news and whatever

You read that verse she read it right now we all nodded sagely which is great we should not sagely

But now if you really want to understand that you'll have to take it for a week at least go over it

Again and again and again pondering on it and then it becomes real

Changes your perception of God and your mind. Yeah

Any questions before we go on?

Any questions before we go on that was not a question by the way, yeah, it's very rarely that answers come from that side of the room

Okay

So so what is the fear of the Lord

Let's examine other things about the fear of the Lord keeping this in the background

We always keep this in the background as we talk about the fear of the Lord

The fear of the Lord guys part of it is Deuteronomy 424 where it says our God is a jealous God

He's a consuming fire our God is a jealous God. He's a consuming fire

Why are why am I bringing that up guys one of the things you need to understand about the father is that he is

Consuming fire and he'll actively clean your house

Torching all that needs to be burnt and he won't quit until it's cleansed

That is the nature of a loving father

God is consuming fire because he's jealous over his reputation and over you because his reputation is now connected to you

God is consuming fire because he's jealous over his reputation and over you because his reputation is now connected to you

Hey

Why is it that when?

Gabriel starts crying

After a while when the crying gets louder and louder and louder

Why does Mary Anna walk with the child into the room two reasons one

It's her child needs to be calmed. That's one two

she does not want you to think that her child is a reason for a disturbance because

Her reputation as a mom is connected to her child. And so she takes a child and moves away

We don't realize this but our father thinks of us much

Highly year than we think of him

Highly areas Greek and so

And so so I knew there was something wrong with the word

Thank You Elma for helping out and so

because he thinks of us much higher than we think of him his reputation is connected to me and

So one of the things God does as a father is he's consuming fire in that he will actively

Cleanse or clean my house. He will torch all that needs to burn and he won't quit

Until I'm clean

this is the nature of the father and if I

continually resist this

program of

Cleaning that he initiates because he's consuming fire. He has another option

which

You won't like he'll just tell you come home and he'll take you home

As in

You ain't changing here Jacob, so why don't I just change you and bring you to live with me

Don't be scared of death just be scared of all the things that will be left undone if that happens

Death is a micro fraction of a second. So

It's over

Not even over

You didn't even hear that because it was that fast

So don't be afraid of death, but be afraid of the stuff that is left undone

So I would rather I would rather

So don't be afraid of death, but be afraid of the stuff that is left undone

So I would rather actively participate in his clean cleaning up here where his cleaning house where is torching all that needs to be burned

He did this with the temple by the way brought a whip and chased out everything we prayed that last week

So be aware that it's been initiated in prayer and it'll happen to your lives in mine and it'll start with me

So don't think

That it won't happen. We asked God for that and I heard you guys saying amen. Amen as I was praying

Then is laughing

Jesus cleans the temple in Revelation 3 19. He says those that I love I to rebuke

Those that I love I rebuke

My dad

Helped me that way tremendously

Look at listen to these two lines a guy called Mike Yaconelli

Said these lines. I love these two lines. The church must become a place

Where God continually has to tell us fear not

Why because his presence shatters our egos into dust

burns our sin into ashes and

strips us naked to reveal the real person within and

Every time your lips say whoa, I'm undone. You will hear God whispering those three

terrifying words I

love you

I'd love us to become a people like this

Where we understand that God is consuming fire his father?

He will torch all that is in my life that is unnecessary and doesn't look like Jesus

he'll torch that he'll clean house and

As I see his

Magnificence and his jealousy over me

I'll say like Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter 6

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Whoa, I'm undone

because I'm a man of unclean lips and

As I say that I'll hear three terrifying words from his slips. I

Love you and then the torching becomes easy

I'll open up store rooms in my house that nobody knows of and I'll say father this one too. This one too. This one, too

Because now I'm caught up in this statement. I dread offending the father

I love and I'm open to him taking away things so that he chisels me into another Jesus

Cool thing this fear of God is what a different take on it man

Let's look at another reason what is the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord is

the

Consciousness of a future appointment the fear of God is the consciousness of a future appointment

The fear of God is the consciousness of a future appointment

What do I mean by that not death second Corinthians 5 10?

second Corinthians 5 10

Where it says that sooner or later

Matt and I you can pick whichever Matthew one

sooner or later Matt and I

Will have to face God appear before Christ and be judged for the works that Matthew 5 10

For the works that Matt and I did here on earth

It's called the Bema judgment

It's not your eternal security is not in question. You have Christ in you. You're eternally saved

but second Corinthians 5 10 talks about standing before Christ at

what is called the Bema judgment where he will judge your works and

Accordingly give you rewards

It's no light thing guys to know that one day I will stand in that place of judgment Paul said

That's why I work urgently with everyone. I meet to get them ready to face God

That day God will sit there as father

Yes, but he will sit there as a father who wants to see how his son did with what was given to them

and

It is no light thing says God

It is no light thing says God

When you stand before me that day Jacob and have to give an account for

How you did and so Paul says and look at that's why I work urgently with everyone

I meet to get them ready to face God. So there's there's happy tension where in Jude 24

It says and now God is able to present you faultless and blameless before him

So your eternal security is fine

But yet at the same time there's revelations 22 12 which talks about shape up guys

Because you will have to give account for how you lived with what you were given here on earth

first Peter 1 17

Since you call on a father

Who judges each person's work?

Impartially live out your time here in Vancouver as foreigners in reverent fear

Let me read that again since you call on a father

Who judges each person's work?

impartially

Live out your time as foreigners here in Vancouver in reverent fear

First Peter 1 17

So there is a facing God

not as in

There you are father come i'm going to come running to you and the father said just once like jake up

You are my son, but this is a slightly different scenario and there were days like that with my dad

Where he would say okay?

I gave you work to do show me your work and those days if I went and tried

Kutiku in my dad it was like pointless

Because he wanted to see

What I had done

It's part of his fatherhood. It's not a nasty streak. It is just measuring evaluating how you did

And each of us has different things to do I think I told you the story of a pastor who

Went out with his wife and told his daughter that he wanted

The

Her bedroom

To be tidy when they came back and so he goes and he comes back and as they drive back to their home

They amazed the lawn is mowed

The step in and the living room has been vacuumed

They go to the kitchen. She's washed all the dishes

They go up to their room and all the papers that were lying have been stacked

carefully, and they are overjoyed and they

Want to avoid the daughter and they go knock her in her room and want to say such a job well done

And there she is in her room, and it's a mess nothing has been tidy

And the dad withdraws this is an actual story that happened he relates it and he says I withdrew and I said

I'm so sorry. I so want to commend you

For all the other things you did and yet the one thing that I asked that was what I asked of you

You left undone

This is when we will still enter heaven

By the same time that we are going to be able to see the truth

And then we will still enter heaven

By the seat of our pants

But what we have built will be tested with fire and some of us will build with gold silver diamonds

some with hay and straw

This is why as you approach 2014

Even though god does not work necessarily in chronological years

Find out about what what what is the bedroom you want me to tidy and i'll put my heart to it

Because there is a facing god that happens there is

1st john 2 28 and now little children

Abide in him so that when he appears we may have confidence

Not to shrink from him in shame at his coming and now little children

So these are the children of god these are ones that are saved now little children abide in him so that

When he appears we may have confidence not to shrink from him

In shame at his coming. I know I told you this story

So i'll shorten it and quickly say I was at a bible camp the team that I was leading won

Because we had 90 points and the team after us had 82 points or thereabouts

But if you didn't have your badge on you would lose 10 points

And i'm the leader of this group of young kids and they've worked very hard

We win the cup and they're going up to get the cup and I realized that I don't have a

Badge I lost my badge and I know that if they see the entire group will lose 10 points and we'll come second

So they call up the kids for the cup and they have a whole lot of

And hurrah and medals for each one the only one who

Did not go up to receive nothing was me with my jacket

Zipped up right till here stifling

But not willing to pull my zipper down because I know that if they see that I don't have a bag

The team will suffer so the only guy who did not participate

The team will suffer so the only guy who did not participate in the medals in the trophy in the thing and he was scared

To even stand in a picture

Was me

Oh, and yet we won

Won john 228 and now little children abide in him so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink back in shame

At his coming

We will be there and yet may it not be said that rob you didn't do all that you were supposed to do jacob

Preached every sunday, but still didn't do what I was supposed to do

May that not happen

What is the fear of the lord thirdly

Or fourthly or whatever

It's the scandalous weight

Of someone of supreme worth dying for me. It's the scandalous weight

It's the scandalous weight of someone of supreme words dying for me. You know, there was a will smith movie

I'm not recommending this movie. I'm just telling you there was a will smith movie

Called seven pounds

And in this movie

Will smith for reasons that the movie explains in the beginning is

Slowly donating his organs to different people so that they may live

So he takes out

A kidney and gives it to somebody he takes out a lung

He gives it to somebody else and in the end there are these two people one needs an eye and one needs a heart

And so he literally

commits suicide

And as he's dying

He calls 911

And he says i'll be dead in four or five minutes

Come quickly so that you can harvest my heart and my eyes

And he helped seven people that way

And

In the end you see these people meeting at an event and this lady who's got a new heart looks at this guy

Who's got a new set of eyes

and this lady knew him and as she's looking into his eyes, she says I know those eyes because

Those were eyes of

Her friend but it's this union of six or seven people who have received different organs from him over a period of time

And they owe him everything

Because they are alive today. They see today they breathe today. They're able to operate today because someone else

Scandalously gave up organs even while they're living and then killed himself so that some two others could live

The premise is not necessarily christian, but the point is there is a scandalous weight

Of responsibilities from the other person

Of responsibility sometimes

when I think of the one who is of the greatest most supreme worth in the universe laying down his life so that I may live

and there is now

this dread of offending the father I love because of how

I now lift up my hands with and heart recklessly abandoned to

I stand with arms high and heart abandoned in awe of the one who

laid it all

gave it all

I stand my soul lord to you surrendered all I am is yours

same principle

the scandalous weight of what he did

Amazing thing this fear of the lord is guys in proverbs 16

6 and proverbs 8 13 it says the fear of the lord is required to turn away from evil

Ha ha

It's almost impossible to turn away from evil unless you love the father and you can only love the father by

Recognizing how much he loves me so therefore upgrade your perception of the father quickly so that you understand

Enter 2014 as a brand new person and you live a life that dreads offending the father you love

Another scripture says that proverbs 9 10 and psalm 110 111 10 says the fear of god

Opens my life to wisdom and what is wisdom wisdom is the sum total of all of god's instructions the sum total of all of god's instructions

The wisdom of god is open to me when I have

Fear that is born out of love for god

His instructions now are not rules. It's this thing. I desire

I'm like a minor panning for gold more wisdom about wanna see wanna see why because I desire it does it is

to eat about

That's a Greek word too

Try it

The other great thing is guys when you cultivate the fear of god

A strange thing happens

The enemies of god are afraid of you because the fear of the lord falls upon them and that fear is a different fear

So

In second chronicle 17 10 it says when people walk in the fear of the lord the fear of the lord falls upon the kingdoms around

And they made no war against jahoshaphat

Acts chapter 2 talks about it and great fear

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on one hand the disciples gathered and they broke bread had fellowship indulged in prayers and

Followed the apostle's doctrine as they did that

They began to enjoy god and as they began to grow in the fear of the lord strange thing happened

On the rest of the city the fear of the lord fell and that was not the fear that was as in

Let's not mess with these guys

Yeah

So there there is a dread that of

That's not like offending the father that you love and then there is a dread of jacob which is leave that nation alone

They have the lord of

god of israel walking amongst them

There is this falsehood which we have decimated many times and we decimate again today that the closer you get to god

The less room the devil has

There is no truth to the statement that when you get close to god the devil attacks you more not true

Falsehood that is

Let's look at two more verses

I love this some 25 12 to 14 some 25 12 to 14

Some 25 12 to 14

Look at this man

If any man fears the lord

He shall be

Shown

The path

That

He should

Choose

He shall enjoy

Lasting prosperity

And

So on the lord will confide his purpose

And his covenant

Is theirs to know

Why am I writing this whole thing just to illustrate how important this is if anyone fears the lord

He shall be shown the path

He shall

Enjoy lasting prosperity

The lord shall confide his purpose

And he shall make his covenant theirs to know

Amazing

Amazing

Um must be an ivy

Confide as in hey

Mariam jeff, I need to talk to you guys. I want to do something at acts 29

I just need your opinion on it and I need your help with it because I really think

There's something that god wants us to do

So can I talk to you about this and tell you about it and I want to hear what you have to say about it

And I tell nobody else in this church except you and jeff

And so i'm confiding as in i'm telling you a purpose that I want done but i'm telling only you

It's it's because I

There's this

Friendship there's this potential that god sees that he begins to confide in you abraham becomes his friend

confiding purpose

Think of all these things that happen

Fascinating and what's response? How does all this happen through the fear of the lord?

Through the fear of the lord

Shows me his path you want god to show you his path get into the fear of the lord

Which is born out of love and which is the fear of offending the father you love want to enjoy lasting prosperity

Want to have him

Wake you up in the middle of the night saying son. I want to talk to you about something

I want to do on the earth gosh just think of that

The god of the universe just woke you up

Because he wants to talk to you about a purpose. He wants to bring to pass here on earth

Ridiculous man, but it's true

And then his covenant his agreement is theirs to know greater understanding of this agreement

Like you'd say oh jacob there are 20 pages of

Disclaimers and footnotes let me explain them to you and he begins to explain it

Guys how does this all happen to the fear of god?

I invite you to

Unfortunately every teaching I keep saying this is so important because it is I wish I could say this one is the most important

Yeah, but this is so

Fundamental man, you can step into things with this

Proverbs 34 9

Fear the lord all you his holy people for those who fear him lack nothing

Do you have lack in your life? We all do at different points in our lives

Fear the lord all you his holy people for those who fear him lack nothing

Proverbs 34 9

Psalm 34 9 sorry

Psalm 34 9 fear the lord all you his holy people for those who fear him lack nothing

So at the end of the day guys how do you sustain

The fear of the lord remember it's a fear born out of love that dreads offending the father

So fall in love

How by correcting your perception of god

May I suggest to you that one way you can fall in love with one way you can correct your perception of god

And then you can correct your perception of god

The way you can correct your perception of god is by hanging out with people who have a better perception of god than you presently have

I challenged people on monday night. I said to them you want to know the father better come and hang out with us

Find time and instead of sitting at home

Find time come and say want to spend time with you

Because you have a perception of god that I do not have and it begins to rub off guys

Because how I see god is how I see myself and how I live my life

So if you have a perception of god that is greater than I as I live with you

It is impossible to escape your perception of god

Impossible it will upgrade my estimation of him

I will tell you how wonderful emirates is as an airline

And I'll convince you to fly emirates at some point and i've done that to a few of you

Why

Because you begin to speak of the things that you hold in high esteem

And you begin to dis that when which you hold in low esteem like the maple leaves and stuff like that

Low esteem like the maple leaves and stuff like that

As in the syrup i'm talking about the syrup

What did you think

Oh, you're wearing that sweatshirt too. Oh, that is not good chris. She didn't mean it jason

Okay, well then it's the other maple leaves

I'm

Yeah, no, no, I hear you i'm just trying to formulate an answer here here's my answer to

Isn't fear dark like the heathen they're not afraid of here's my here's my answer to your question

One when I talk about upgrading our perception of god, it's not a touchy feely thing

It is knowing the nature of god. Let me give you an example

There's nothing touchy feely about me and jason

I think i've told him I

love him twice

That's about it in the last three years and that too I said it in such a way that it was not touchy feely at all

but

In the time that I spend with him. He's getting to know my nature and i'm getting to know his nature

And it's got nothing to do with emotions, but it's an understanding of

The nature of this person and therefore my perception of jason is changing and his perception of me is changing

So first of all when I talk about upgrading our perception of god as a loving father

It has nothing to do with touchy feely

When touchy feely comes I love it, but it has got nothing to do with it

secondly

The story of ananis and safira falls into the

Part I said when I said that our god is a jealous consuming fire

and therefore

He will torch the things that need to be burnt

And will clean the house and in that instance

He was not being nasty to ananis and safira because we see death as nasty for him. It's a removal from one plane to the other

But it was a cleaning of a fledgling church

Which would have been corrupted by what was happening had it spread because it had the nature of contaminating sin

And therefore they were removed

Which is why I said that when god is consuming fire and I continuously

resist

The torching of areas in my life that need to change god says come home son

You are not going to change you i've spent years you've resisted me

I can't do anything with your free will but you did exert your free will to receive me into

Your life so come home

And in an instant as I die i'm transformed in soul

To perfection and my spirit is perfect anyways, and I live with him now

So that's how I would answer you

Like make it grow you better build it just so

God's not gonna hit you when you make a mistake

That is a large aspect

That is a large aspect

Everything in my life changes according to the perception of god that I have and my perception changes through the word

Through the work of the spirit and through the ones that I associate with

This is vital guys

Three things that change my perception of god what the holy spirit does because he changes people

The word of god which gives me a correct understanding and three the people that I associate with

Please for me I I had the wrong

Yeah

Yeah, and that's the work of the spirit of god

Marianna loves me but there is he may not believe that but if Marianna says it to him

It's different. Yeah

And that's the work of the spirit

Yeah, and the spirit of god is so willing to do that. Remember James says that the spirit of god yearns over you

jealously

What a beautiful word the spirit of god yearns over you jacob

Jealously the same jealousy that the father has the spirit of god has over me

He wants me to know the father's love he'll do that

and

This is not

Easy life this is

God life

It's god life it's not easy life it's god life

I would suggest to you living out there and getting these things is much easier

How do you sustain this

one by correcting your perception of the father so that you can you can you can

You can live in the dread of offending the father you love and two

Proverbs 2 1 to 6 talks about it

Proverbs 2 1 to 6 it says that if you receive my word

If you treasure my commandment

If you call out for insight

You will understand that you will understand

You will understand the fear of the lord gosh if you receive my word

If you treasure my commandments

David got the hang of it

How can a man keep himself pure? How can he keep his way straight by cherishing your law?

If you receive my word receive with meekness receive with the quality of hearing that is outstanding

When you receive the word where you treasure

His commandments and where you ask or call out or cry out for insight

Then you will understand the fear of the lord when you combine that with

this

Dread of offending the father you love

That's greek too

David said in psalm 86 teach me your way o lord so I may walk in your truth

Unite my heart

To fear your name

Bless you guys. Let's break bread as you break bread as we break bread

I want us to do man. We are so doing well for time

As we break bread, uh, and you take bread and go

I want you to take one of these scriptures from this

i've got

verses written in this I want you to take one of these verses

and throughout this week

I want you to break this verse down

and meditate on it

Chew on it

Let it change your thinking because much of it has to do with either the nature of god or what god wants for you

Come so many people were inside there

Wow

When i'm done you can you can stop it now, thanks