Sermon
Fear of God: Living in Spirit and Truth - 10.19.2025 - 12PM (Pastor Dylan Hunsberger)
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the
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church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
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We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
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you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get
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your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe
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some tea, and get ready to receive.
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It's go time. Let's get into it.
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Is he worthy, church? Is Jesus worthy of the highest
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grade? Yes He is.
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God paid the highest price for your salvation.
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The least we can do is give Him the highest praise.
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He is worthy of it all. Earlier in that song we were
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singing that he does all things well.
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And the Lord impressed on my heart to share with you that
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each and everyone of you are a thing that God has done and he
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has done well with you. And whether you've heard it or
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not, God is well pleased with you, son.
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God is well pleased with you, daughter.
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And maybe you've you've heard otherwise in your life up until
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now, but the Lord brought you here this morning for you to
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hear that God is well pleased with you.
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You are not a mistake, you are not a failure, God is not done
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with you. The Lord has done well with you,
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and Jesus is here to redeem every area of your life because
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you are more than a conqueror in Christ.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. He is worthy of the highest
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praise. Amen.
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Amen. Turn to your neighbor and say he
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is so worthy as you take your seat in Jesus name.
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Hallelujah. Wow you guys really went off.
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That was great. Aren't we blessed with an
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amazing worship team here? Love Quest, Give it up for the
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worship team. We are spoiled.
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We are spoiled with anointed musicians and singers.
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What a privilege it is to be in the House of the Lord this day.
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Welcome each and everyone of you to the presence of the Lord.
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I'm so glad each and everyone of you are here today.
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It really encourages me honestly to see each and everyone of my
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brothers and sisters of Christ gather here for the same reason,
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to encounter the Lord and experience His love and His
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grace in a new, fresh way this day.
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David said. I was glad when they said unto
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me, let us go into the House of the Lord.
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And that's me today. I'm super glad to be here.
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My name is Dylan, and I'm one of the ordained pastors here at
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Love Quest International Church, and I want to begin by just
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giving honor where honor is due, and that is to my dear pastors,
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the lead pastors of this church, Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia.
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I thank you guys so much for just entrusting me with this
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opportunity to bring the Word here today.
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I also thank you for leading me and truly covering me as you
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carry the Father's heart and the Father's love and all that you
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do. This church would not be here if
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it wasn't for your faithfulness to the call that the Lord has
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for each of you. And I'm just so grateful and I
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know many lives have been impacted and will continue to be
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impacted as God does a good work through you guys.
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So thank you pastors, for this opportunity.
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Does anyone remember New Year's of 2024 going into 2025?
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The Lord gave Pastor Terence a theme for 2025.
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Do you guys remember what that theme is?
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Shout it out if you do. The spirit of the fear of God
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and there is more to it. It was about a life of awe and
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wonder, and the Lord truly desires for the church to grow
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in the spirit of the fear of God.
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Why? Because as we grow in the spirit
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of the fear of God, that's where we really crossover and into
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this place of awe and we start to experience the wonders of
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God. And so this morning I'm going to
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continue to preach on the fear of God.
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And the fear of God is kind of sounds intimidating at first,
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doesn't it? This, this word fear doesn't
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always just sit right. And So what business does fear
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and God have doing in the same sentence?
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But this fear of God is not speaking to being afraid of God.
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This fear speaks of a Worshipful reverence towards the Lord, a
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respect and awareness of God and all that He is and all that He
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has done. And we are to carry this
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reverence into every area of our life.
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It's not just something we pick up on Sundays, it's not
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something we bring to midweek service on Wednesdays or just a
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prayer on Saturdays. The spirit of the fear of God we
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are to carry in every area of our life.
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Amen. Amen.
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And so as I was just meditating on what is the essence of the
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fear of God, Lord, what revelation would you have me
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share with the church when it comes to the fear of God?
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And the Lord gave me the picture of what it might have been like
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when man first discovered fire. You can go ahead and put the
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first slide up. I'm going to be preaching to you
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on the fear of God living and in spirit and in truth.
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And so as I was meditating on Lord, bring fresh revelation to
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me on what the fear of God may look like in a believer's life.
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And he showed me the picture of man first discovering fire.
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Up until this point, this man had to live and exist in a cold
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and Dark World. Imagine on a morning like this
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morning where it's raining sideways and the wind is blowing
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and it's cold and it's dark out. All the man knew up until that
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point in the winter season was coldness, until one day they
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encounter the comfort of a burning fire.
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What would have that meant to that man in that moment to 1st
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encounter fire? Well, fire represents warmth.
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Fire came to help that man survive through the cold winter
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nights where up until before then they might have just had
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the comfort of a cave or might have had animals hide to wrap
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around to stay warm. But the fire came as a companion
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to bring warmth. Fire came as a means to now cook
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food and sanitize water, so fire brings a level of nutrition to
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man's life. Fire also brought protection
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from predators as fire would be used to ward off predators and
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and enemies. Fire was used to create
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technology for pottery and for forging metal into weapons.
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So fire brought a level of weaponry.
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And so the same way that fire so drastically impacted mankind,
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fire is what marked mankind from simply just existing in the
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world to start, to begin to shape the world that man lives
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in, in every area of man's life. And so it is with the believer
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the moment that we first discover the light of salvation,
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Jesus Christ, the light of the world who came in darkness, that
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we may find life and life in abundance.
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And now, church, every area of our life is to be impacted
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because we now, by the blood of Jesus Christ have been purified
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to receive the Holy Spirit, our Comforter.
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Jesus came to disarm the power of the enemy protection, the
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word of God, which is spirit is, and life comes as nourishment to
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our soul. And so the fear of God is simply
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the awareness of the salvation that we have in the Lord in
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every area of our life. And to live and exist in this
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reverential respect and awareness of God.
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That's what it means to live in the fearness fear of God.
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And so we're going to unpack this word fear of God living in
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spirit and in truth. Does that sound good to you?
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All right, now you guys can help me out.
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I know that we're just coming into winter time and it's a
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little gloomy outside. But who knows that we have the
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bright morning sun within each and every one of us?
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Who knows that Jesus Christ, the hope of the world, lives in each
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and every one of us. We got good news and we got
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reasons to shout. We got reasons to praise.
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We got reasons to say Amen. So you can help me in delivering
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this word this morning. And so the fear of God is not
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being afraid of God. It speaks to reverence.
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Proverbs 1923 says the reverence.
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Can you say reverence, Worshipful fear of the Lord
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leads to life and he who has it rests satisfied?
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Isn't that the pursuit of each and every one of us is to rest
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satisfied to come to this place of contentment, to find peace,
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to arrive? It's it's all of our souls
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desire to find rest and be satisfied.
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The man who carries the fear of the Lord, the Word says, cannot
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be visited with actual evil. So if I walk in the reverential
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fear of God, the Word of God promises that I will find life
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and life in abundance. The Word of God says that I will
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be satisfied and I'll find rest for my soul.
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The the Bible also says that I will not be visited with actual
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evil because Jesus Christ came to disarm the power of the evil.
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1 John 1010 says that the thief, the enemy comes to steal, kill
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and destroy. But Jesus says, I have come to
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bring life and life in abundance.
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And so walking in the fear of God leads us to life, leads us
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to a refreshing place of satisfaction as well as a place
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of divine protection when we walk in the awareness of the
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Lord. This word reverence means a deep
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respect for someone or something other words that be that can be
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interchanged with the word reverence would be respectful,
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Worshipful, adoring, loving, admiring, devoted, dutiful,
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obedient, odd, submissive, humble and meek.
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And now think about the initial imagery that I put before you
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guys as a believer walking in the fear of God might be of that
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of when mankind first discovered fire, how they walked and
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conducted themselves with this fire.
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They respected that fire. Remember that fire brought a
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greater ability to live and flourish.
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They they respected that. They loved that fire.
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They admired that fire. They devoted themselves to
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collecting firewood to keep that fire ripping and keeping them
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warm. They were dutiful to steward
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that fire, make sure that fire didn't go out during the cold
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winter season. They awed over that fire.
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Have you ever felt found yourself lost just staring into
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a fire or the flame of a candle? Something about that fire just
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sucks you in and mesmerizes you. Submissive, humble, meek.
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When we truly understand the greatness of our God, the love
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of our God, the beauty and majesty of our God, it consumes
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you. It sucks you in like the like
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the your gaze into that fire. The fear of God is to know God.
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Elder Brett did a phenomenal job preaching on the fear of God
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last Sunday, and he spoke to the vastness of God, the omnipotent
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omniscience of God, the all powerful, all knowing.
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He created the heavens and the earth.
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And so to truly walk in reverence or respect towards
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someone, we need to properly know that person in order to
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know how to correctly position ourselves before that person.
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The Bible says that God is spirit and we are Tri part
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beings. We are spirit, we were created
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in the image of likeness. Genesis 126 says we possess a
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soul, which is our mind, our will and our emotions, and we
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live in these temporary bodies, these earth suits, these
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vessels, and so there is 3 parts to us.
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Now the body part of us has a sinful nature.
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We inherited from our ancestors Adam and Eve, and they in sin
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entered into mankind the moment that Adam and Eve disobeyed the
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Lord's word and command, and they stepped out from under the
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Lord's covering. And so there is a part of us,
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Romans 8, the mind of the flesh, that is at war against the mind
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of the spirit, the other part of us.
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And our soul is caught somewhere in between this war.
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And if God is a spirit, we have an obligation to cater to our
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spirit man more than our flesh man in order to engage or
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posture ourselves right before God.
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The Bible goes on to say in John 4 verse 24, God is a spirit, a
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spiritual being, and those who worship him or those who engage
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him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Worshiping the Lord is more than just physically showing up.
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Me just walking through the tent and into this sanctuary when
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praise and worship is going on and singing along with the words
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on the screen is not worship in and of itself.
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Worship is a heart posture. Worship comes from a place of a
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pure heart, and that pure heart is only made available through
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the revelation of the truth of God.
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Pure heart being right before God, being righteous is only by
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the good news of salvation. It's only found in Jesus Christ.
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And so to worship God, he's looking for those that worship
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Him in spirit and in truth, those that walk in the true
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salvation of Jesus Christ, and those who stand on the Word of
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God, knowing that they are right before him and are able to
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release a fragrance of worship that is pleasing unto Him.
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And so going through the notions as Christians will not cause us
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to draw close to the Lord. The Lord is looking for those
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who are willing to be led by the Spirit of God in every area of
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their life. To truly walk in the fear and
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reverence of God is to live a spirit LED life.
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I'm not being conformed by this world, but I am being led by the
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Holy Spirit and constantly renewing my mind with the Word
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of God. And that is the hour that we are
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in. We are a church that is truly
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after being led by the Spirit to truly engage in the Lord with a
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pure worship. And there is a strong anointing
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on this house for worship. The fear of God is to engage
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with God in spirit. There once was a time where my
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spirit man was dead and I was led by the flesh.
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But now I have my new creation in Christ.
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My spirit man is alive, the fire of God is alive and well within
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me, and now it is time to live a life, walking with God, talking
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with God, abiding in God. Hebrews 4.
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Before that, God's word is truth.
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He's looking for those that worship Him in spirit and truth.
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And as we are learning what it means to walk in a greater
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measure of the fear of God, we must decide within us.
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God's Word is the ultimate truth.
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In John One it says that Jesus was the word that became flesh.
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So Jesus fully God humbled himself and became man in order
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that he could live a life free of sin and pay the penalty for
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our sin that we may find salvation.
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So salvation originated in the Spirit.
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The Bible also says in John 1 that all things God spoke
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creation into existence, that Jesus is the Word and nothing
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came into existence apart from the Word.
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So we see in John one that Jesus is the word of God and that the
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word of God is truth. Hebrews 4 verse 12 says for the
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word of God is living and powerful, turn to your neighbor
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and say it's alive and it's powerful all right and sharper
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than any 2 edged sword. I'll take it from here.
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Piercing even to the division of soul and spirit.
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So we see here the Word of God is sharper than a double edged
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sword. And there and there.
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And we are a tripart being, remember?
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And the Word of God comes to separate between soul and
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spirit, and the Lord desires for us to walk in the spirit.
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And the Word of God comes to tell us when it's our soul that
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is responding to the circumstance right now.
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Verse This is how the Holy Spirit would have you respond to
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this circumstance right now. It's a double edged sword,
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piercing even to the division of soul and spirits and of joints
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and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
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heart. And so we need to make up within
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our hearts that we are going to be believers that stand on the
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on the truth. We don't ignore the facts of
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this world, but we stand on the truth as our bottom line because
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we are in this world and not of this world.
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There is an enemy who the Bible refers to as the God of this
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world, Satan. He is the author of sickness and
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he has an agenda to steal, kill and destroy.
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And so when we see things happening in this world around
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us, we cannot allow that to steal our peace or determine the
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way we respond if what is happening around us does not
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align with the Word of God. I have a right to stand on the
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Word of God as my truth and command things to come into
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alignment with the Word of God. I'm not going to allow the
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situation in the natural to steal my peace, which is
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supernatural. Jesus says to me, says to us, My
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peace I leave with you, not as the world gives peace, but my
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peace which surpasses all understanding.
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The word of God has the ability to bypass your understanding.
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But in order to cross into this place of peace that surpasses
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understanding, we must forfeit our right to have to understand
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everything. But if the word of God says
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peace belongs to me in the midst of chaos, in the midst of
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storms, I have a right to stand on that, believe that, and
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declare that. And so God is Spirit.
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So we must learn to engage him in spirit and stand on His word,
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which is Spirit as our ultimate truth.
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And this is in every area of our life when it comes to sickness.
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These natural bodies may be attacked with sickness.
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But the Bible says in Isaiah 53 that by the stripes of Jesus, I
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am healed by the finished work of the cross.
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I have a right through my sniffles, through my cough to
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say thank you Jesus, that by your stripes I am the healed and
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not the sick because the truth has the last say in my life.
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God's word is truth. John 17 verse 17 says this is
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Jesus praying for his followers. He asked the Father, sanctify
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them, purify, consecrate, separate them for yourself.
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Make them holy by the truth. Your Word is truth.
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We see that the Word has the ability to purify us, to cleanse
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us, to consecrate us. The Word has the ability to make
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us holy. And so as followers of Christ,
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those who walk in the spirit of the fear of God, we prioritize
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the Word of God. For Jesus is the Word who came
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to bring us salvation, who came to sanctify us.
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And so when we engage with the Word of God, when we speak the
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Word of God, when we meditate on the Word of God, we are
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purifying our hearts to walk in the power and the love of God.
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Hallelujah, that's good stuff. John 8 So Jesus said to those
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Jews who had believed him, If you abide in my word, hold fast
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to my teachings and live in accordance with them, and live
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in accordance with them, you are truly my disciples, and you will
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know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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It's the one that abides in the word of God, the one who truly
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applies the word of God. Jesus says the wise man is the
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one who hears his word and applies them to his life and is
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likened to the man that builds his life on the rock.
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Firm foundation. The word of God is a firm
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foundation for us to live. And he goes on to say that you
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will know the truth as you live and apply it to every area of
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your life. You will come to this place of
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knowing the truth through application, through exercise,
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through putting this thing to the test, and you will know the
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truth, and the truth will set you free.
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But it's only the truth that you know through experience that
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will set you free. So when the enemy comes to try
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you at the time of temptation, or when anxiety or fear comes
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knocking at your door, you can tell that devil who the sun sets
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free is free indeed. And that's me.
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I am the redeemed of the Lord, and I say so.
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I am the head and not the tail. I am a son of the living God.
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And so it takes abiding and living and practically applying
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the Word of God in your life and speaking the Word of God out
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against thoughts in your own mind to truly start to know the
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truth and to truly experience the freedom that knowing the
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truth brings. Amen.
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And so we don't just read the Bible simply to memorize
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scriptures. We don't just read the Bible to
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know facts about history, though those things are great.
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But we read the Word to build a relationship with the Word.
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We read the Word which is alive, which is active, which is
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spirit, and which is life, to encounter our Father in heaven
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to build a relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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He will meet you in your Bible when you open up that Bible to
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for the purpose alone of encountering Jesus Christ.
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He desires to meet you in the Word of God.
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I challenge you see your word in a fresh way as a meeting place
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for you and the Lord. The Word of God is a place for
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us to camp out and find refuge in the presence of the Lord.
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Psalm 23 is one of my favorite campsites to go and just hang
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out in the presence of God, especially if I'm going through
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a rough season, the winds are kicking up around me and it's
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stormy out. I just need to know that the
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Lord is my shepherd and I shall want for nothing, and that He's
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the one that leads me along still waters.
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He's the one that causes me to lay down in green pastures.
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He is the one that refreshes my soul.
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But sometimes I'm looking to the world to refresh my soul.
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Sometimes I'm looking for guidance in career or finances,
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or sometimes I just get off track and I need to go back to
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the Word of God to encounter my Good Shepherd.
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The Lord desires to abide with you in His Word.
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The fear of God means to let God's Word reign supreme in your
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life. That the Word of God has the
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final say in every area of my life when it is easy and
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beneficial and when it is not so easy and is challenging my flesh
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or is challenging my soul. Or there's times where I just
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feel like being sorry for myself.
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But I'm choosing to let the Word have final say in my life and
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out of my mouth I begin to speak and declare the word over my
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soul as David taught us to encourage himself in the Lord.
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David was always found speaking to his soul as if it was another
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person, which I truly, I think that that is awesome and I've
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learned start doing that myself. Stay steadfast.
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Oh my soul, remember the goodness of the Lord.
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And so I'm going to choose to allow God's word to reign in my
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life. I'm making a, I'm making a
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specific choice to not allow my emotions and not allow my facts
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to determine the way that I act or respond or move.
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That is a decision, Saints, that you have to make before trial
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comes knocking at your door. Pastor said something very
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profound. He says the grace of God comes
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on the other side of a made-up mind.
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There's no grace for double mindedness.
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And if I am finding myself stuck in between my emotions and the
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word of God and there's a wrestle that place, that means
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the mind of the flesh still has power in your life.
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But I'm desiring for the Spirit of God to move in the in the
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mind of the Spirit in my life. There is 2 minds that are at war
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within you and that is called a double minded person.
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And the Bible says a double minded person should not expect
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to get receive anything they ask of the Lord for they are
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unstable in all of their ways. And so we have to make a
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cognitive decision that the word of God, which is spirit and
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truth, that's going to have the final say in my life.
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At the time when I'm frustrated, when I'm angry, when I'm
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emotional, I've already made-up my mind.
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The word of God is going to win in this battle.
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And love, God is love and love always wins.
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God is love, right? To walk in the reverential fear
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of God, we must know God. God is love, the real love,
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agape love. It's that spirit love.
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It's a love that's different than the love that we were once
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used to before we found new life in Christ.
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The world offers conditional love.
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You have to earn my affection. But God's love is a love
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unconditional, unlike we've ever experienced before.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his best.
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While we were yet sinners, while we were enemies of God, He gave
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his best that we may not perish but have eternal life.
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We must become acquainted with the agape love of God to walk in
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the reverential fear of God who knows that when you are born
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again you are born into a new Kingdom, which is a new way of
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life. Jesus refers to his Kingdom as
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an upside down Kingdom. The world will tell you eye for
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an eye, tooth for a tooth. You do bad to me, I'm going to
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do even worse to you. I'm a return evil with evil.
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But Jesus says Nah, Nah Nah Nah, not in my Kingdom.
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In my Kingdom you are to love your enemies and pray for those
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who persecute you. God is love and love always
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wins. We must become acquainted with
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love so that in these times when it's hard to love, our response
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is not evil, but we choose love, and God is the only one that can
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change your enemy's heart in that moment.
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So why not bring God into the equation by responding evil,
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returning evil with love? Love always wins, doesn't it?
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It's true. 1 John 4 verse 16. The Bible says God is love, and
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he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in
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God, and God dwells and continues in him.
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And it's this idea that when we are faithful to choose love, we
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are dwelling and continuing to dwell in love.
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I love how it says and continues and continues.
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It reminds me of when Paul encourages us, encourages us.
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Do not grow weary in well doing for a due season.
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You shall reap if you faint not. God is faithful that when we
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continue to pursue and live in love that He will continue to
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pursue us and dwell in us as we dwell in Him.
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The Lord gave me this revelation about continuing on in love that
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who knows that it's not always easy to walk in love.
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Have you experienced it's challenging, right?
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Well, love tests brings out Love's best.
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It's an opportunity. To demonstrate the greatest
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love, the unearned love, the undeserved love, the uncalled
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for love so love test. You can see it as aw man this is
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awful. Why are you testing my love
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right now? Or you could be excited.
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This is an opportunity to share the love of God right now and
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for me to become more like my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Remember Jesus's love was so great that as the ones who
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crucified nailed them to the cross, he said, Father forgive
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them for they know not what they are doing right now.
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That kind of love. That's the love that we are
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called to walk in. God is love.
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And so love tests bring out Love's best, but sometimes we
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might fall short and and the love test might bring out the
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worst in US. Can anyone else to testify to
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that? I know I've had moments where I
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dropped in an oof, That's not how I wanted to respond.
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That's not what my loved ones deserve in that moment.
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But it's an opportunity to allow the love test to bring the worst
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out of you and allow it to stay out of you once and for all.
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You can make a decision right then and there.
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That's the last time that that's going to happen.
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God's love and mercy is new for you every day.
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The fear of God is to dwell and continue in God's love.
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John 3 verse 35. Jesus answered him.
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I assure you most solemnly I tell you, this is what Jesus is
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talking to Nicodemus. Unless a person is born again,
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shout out, born again anew from above, he cannot ever see, know,
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be acquainted with and experience the Kingdom of God.
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So Jesus is telling this man, in order to experience this new
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Kingdom I come to establish, you have to be born again of the
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water and of the Spirit. You have to be cleansed by the
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blood of Jesus and filled with the infilling of the Holy Spirit
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in order to walk and live and exist in this new Kingdom.
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And what we have to be OK with church is, is if I am being born
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again in the Spirit, that means that I am being made a baby in
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the spirit realm and I have to be OK with being re fathered and
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brought up in the way that I should go.
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Because up until this point in my life, I was raised by the
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world, the world system, or I was raised by an earthly father
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that was doing their best. But there comes a time where we
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need to be raised by our heavenly Father, our spiritual
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Father, and we must carry the spirit of the fear of God, this
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reverence towards our spiritual Father, to allow him to raise us
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up as spiritual children and for him to raise us in the way that
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we should go. Acts 17 says, For in Him Jesus
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Christ, that is, we live and we move, and we have our being, as
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also some of your own poets have said, for we also are his
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offspring. God did not leave us here on
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earth as orphans. He did not leave us here to
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figure things out on our own. But the Bible says that we are
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no longer outsiders, but we are members of the family of God.
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We have received the same spirit of sonship that Jesus Christ
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himself walked in. And so the fear of God is to
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live, is to move, and it is to be in Christ.
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It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
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The fear of God is for that to be your daily declaration.
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It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me at the
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moment of temptation and trial. It is no longer I who live, but
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Christ who lives in me. The moment we follow Jesus,
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decide to be a a a follower of Christ, it's no longer about me.
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It's about Jesus and everybody else.
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And the sooner we come to that revelation, the sooner we come
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into the peace of God that transcends all understanding.
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Hallelujah, Hebrews 12. I'm a close on this.
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Let us therefore, receiving a Kingdom that is firm and stable
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and cannot be shaken, us who have chosen to build our lives
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upon the rock which is our firm foundation, Let us offer to God
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pleasing service and acceptable worship, spirit truth with
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modesty and peace, care and godly fear and awe.
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For God is indeed a consuming fire.
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Church, the Lord desires to consume every area of your life,
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not to take anything from you, but to give you everything.
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The Bible says that He has already lavished every spiritual
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blessing upon us needed for life and godliness, and it's through
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our yielding our life wholeheartedly to Him and
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walking in a greater revelation of who He is, this fear of God
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that we crossover to live in all that He's already lavished upon
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us. Amen.
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Amen. This moment I'm just going to
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invite the worship team to come back as I just pray for each and
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everyone of you guys that you would just grow in the spirit of
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the fear of God. This is not a word to intimidate
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or scare you, but a word to bless you that the Lord desires
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to get more to you. He desires for you to find that
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place of rest, that place where you find true life, that that
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place where you are satisfied, and that place where you are
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above all evil. Amen.
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And so I'm invite you to just stand with me right now as I
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pray that this word penetrates the very depths of our soul.
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Father, we thank you that you are good.
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We thank You that you are love. We thank You that you are spirit
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and you sent your Spirit to dwell within each and everyone
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of us. We thank you that Your word is
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true, and it is a firm foundation for us to build our
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lives upon. Father, right now in this
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moment, we receive the word that your wind is blowing.
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Blow and blow in our lives. Lord, we know that you are a
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consuming fire and that the Holy Spirit blows so that that fire
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can grow greater and greater and greater within each and every
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one of us. Father, we thank you that you
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are good and You are worthy to be praised.
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Reveal to us, us, show us our own hearts and where we have a
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hard time surrendering to You, and then reveal us your
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goodness. Reveal to us Your goodness,
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which causes us to repent and turn and give every part of us
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over to You. We thank the Holy Spirit that
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you who are doing a good work, you shall see it come to
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completion. In the mighty name of Jesus, I
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pray. Amen.
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Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.
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We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.
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need to find us. But until next time, you know
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the drill. You know the motto, get your
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love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.