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The Fear of the Lord - 10.12.2025 - 12PM (Elder Brett Rodway)

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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

  2. Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

  3. church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

  4. We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

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  7. some tea, and get ready to receive.

  8. It's go time. Let's get into it.

  9. Amen. There's no one like the Lord,

  10. you know. None decided.

  11. None compares to him. There's no one like the Lord.

  12. He's worthy. He's glorious.

  13. He's magnificent, He is wonderful, He is the counselor,

  14. He is the almighty God. The glory of the Lord shall be

  15. revealed upon the earth, and the glory of the Lord shall come in

  16. power to deliver, set free, redeem.

  17. I thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, You are worthy.

  18. You are glorious. You are the mighty God and the

  19. King of King. We bless you today.

  20. Hallelujah. Amen.

  21. Amen. Say to your neighbor, I'm in the

  22. right place as you take your seats.

  23. Amen, I'm in the right place. Welcome.

  24. It's so great to have you at our noon experience and we're

  25. excited because God is here. He is here in this place.

  26. He is here ready to speak a word in season, to touch your heart.

  27. The Holy Spirit is at work and the key is to go from statement

  28. to belief. Not only do I say God is here, I

  29. believe God is here and because God is here, He can do anything

  30. He wants to do. He can speak a word and sees it.

  31. He can convict me. He can shift me.

  32. God is at work. So I encourage you receive what

  33. he has for you today. I want to say thank you to

  34. Pastor Terrence and Pastor Julia for the blessing that it is to

  35. be able to speak here at our noon experience today.

  36. Thank you so much for the leadership and the, the

  37. pioneering spirit that you have to establish this work and to

  38. establish what God has for this area.

  39. We thank you. Today I'm going to be speaking

  40. on the topic. There's actually the topic for

  41. our year now, the beginning of the year on New Year's Eve.

  42. Pastor Taran spoke and he said this is the year of the the fear

  43. of God or the fog. You're right, either way, the

  44. fear of God or the fog, the Lord is working, He is moving.

  45. And recently, it was at the end of August, there was a word in

  46. the house that the wind of the Spirit is blowing.

  47. And the wind of the Spirit moves to reveal, to refresh, to to

  48. encourage, and sometimes to expose.

  49. Well, the wind of the spirit is moving to touch our life.

  50. A part of the wind of the spirit is to reveal those things that

  51. we've forgotten about. And as I was listening to Troy

  52. and to Lily Cher, I was reminded about the importance of

  53. remembrance. Now there's a little bit off

  54. topic. I'll get back to topic, but I

  55. really felt this is important. Some of you here today need to

  56. reflect on where God has brought you from.

  57. There's an old hymn and it says count your blessings.

  58. What it means is take a moment, stop getting caught in the the

  59. present or the urgency and stop and reflect.

  60. Where has God brought you from? Where have you come from?

  61. What has He done in your life? How has He moved in your life?

  62. Well, I can't do this. I can't do that.

  63. Yes, but, but did He help you? Then reflect.

  64. Did He bring you out of that trouble?

  65. Was He faithful there? He will be faithful here.

  66. And sometimes we have to remember what He has brought you

  67. through. We have to remember how far

  68. we've come for some of us, man, we have I have peace in this

  69. situation that would have thrown me right, man, I have patience

  70. now for these people that I I'm just was ready to you know,

  71. throttle. That's a word and but but

  72. recognize what God has done and I want to encourage you, take

  73. some time to see all that God has done and all that he has

  74. positioned you with and all that he is working and maturing in

  75. you because He is at work. The fear of the Lord.

  76. Proverbs 9 verse 10 says the reverent and Worshipful fear of

    Proverbs 9:10

  77. the Lord is the beginning, the chief and choice part of wisdom

  78. and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight and

  79. understanding. Now this is great because it's

  80. speaking to the fact that our fear of God is not a fear of

  81. afraid to take you away, but it's actually a fear that draws

  82. you near. The reverent and Worshipful awe

  83. reverence of God draws us near and it's the beginning, the

  84. chief and choicest part of wisdom.

  85. Have you ever there's different types of steaks, anyone steak.

  86. Yeah, I like steaks. Steaks are good.

  87. Amen. Some don't that's OK more for me

  88. the but there's choice cuts. There's certain parts that are

  89. actually more flavorful than other parts.

  90. Some you've got to marinate and soak in lots of stuff to make it

  91. taste good. Other parts are just good.

  92. The reverential fear of the Lord is the beginning, yes, but it's

  93. also the the best part, the choice part.

  94. It's the main part of wisdom. It's the part that's actually

  95. the foundation of wisdom. And the knowledge of the Holy

  96. One is insight and understanding.

  97. See, part of our part of our progress in understanding the

  98. fear of the Lord is first to say, who is he?

  99. If I have the fear of God, who is he?

  100. What, what has he done? Who is he?

  101. How does he connect with me? And that's the knowledge of the

  102. Holy One. The fear of God is based on a

  103. recognition of who God is. Now, in just a minute, we're

  104. going to read from Job 38 and we'll read from verse one, but I

  105. wanted to get some information for you.

  106. So when we're thinking about who God is, I mean, that's a pretty

  107. big subject, right? Eternal.

  108. It's pretty hard to pretty hard to judge, right?

  109. Eternal is big. He's a big God, so I want to get

  110. you some information that'll help you understand the bigness

  111. of God. The earth's circumference is

  112. about 40,000 kilometers, 40,000 kilometers.

  113. That's a long way. So that's how how the

  114. circumference of the the earth is 40,000 kilometers.

  115. Who knows how much, what percentage of the Earth's

  116. surface is water? A lot.

  117. Anybody, anybody who's got a percentage, anyone close, close

  118. 7171 that's close. It's massive, right?

  119. We think about how much land there is, how much of the world

  120. is earth that we, we, we live in and we enjoy.

  121. And yet 70% of the world is covered in water. 71% That's

  122. crazy, right? Huge Mariana Trench.

  123. The Mariana Trench is a trench that's the deepest part of the

  124. ocean. OK, the Mariana Trench is 36,000

  125. feet deep. It's deeper than the tallest

  126. mountain above sea level, which is Mount Everest at 29,000 feet.

  127. So these parts that are almost impossible to get to are deeper

  128. than we know. OK, this is a this is a freaky

  129. one. This is a crazy just because

  130. sometimes, OK, who here? Sometimes when you think about

  131. sea creatures, it gets a little bit like, eh, right.

  132. You see some of these pictures and it's like, yeah, sharks, you

  133. know, some of these things that and then you, you're in the in

  134. the ocean and you step on the seaweed and it's like, what was

  135. that seaweed? Was it jellyfish?

  136. What was that? Anyway, maybe that's just me.

  137. It is estimated that up to 2/3 of life in the deep oceans

  138. remain unknown to science, with many new species still being

  139. discovered each year. Overall, scientists believe

  140. there may be between 700,000 and 2 million species in the ocean,

  141. and a significant portion of that has yet to be identified.

  142. Crazy. OK, The Sun.

  143. So who likes who likes astronomy?

  144. Astronomy, anyone? Yeah, yeah.

  145. There you go. The sun is 150 million

  146. kilometres from Earth. Pluto is 4.28 billion kilometres

  147. from Earth, and then the Andromeda Galaxy is 23 million

  148. trillion kilometres away, and that is a 23 with 18 zeros

  149. behind it. OK, that's a lot.

  150. A million trillion, yeah, a lot of zeros.

  151. A lot of zeros. And so I want to preface this

  152. word with that information. So we think about how vast the

  153. Earth is, how full of different animals, how even some of the

  154. deepest parts of our oceans we haven't even discovered yet, let

  155. alone what's out there. OK, Job 38 in verse one.

  156. Now who's here of Job? Yeah, a few of you.

  157. For those who haven't, Joe, the experience of Job was he was

  158. tested because he lost everything, lost his family,

  159. lost everything. And then there's a series of

  160. conversations between him and his wife, him and these Job's

  161. friends. And at the end of the book, we

  162. have about three chapters where God's speaking, and this is

    Isaiah 38 chapter mention

  163. chapter 38, the first part of that.

  164. And now finally, God answered Job from the eye of a violent

  165. storm. He said, why do you confuse the

  166. issue? Why do you talk without knowing

  167. what you're talking about? Pull yourself together, job up

  168. on your feet, Stand still. I have some questions for you,

  169. and I want some straight answers.

  170. Where were you when I created the Earth?

  171. Tell me, since you know so much, who decided on its size?

  172. Certainly you'll know that. Who came up with the blueprints

  173. and measurements? How was the foundations poured

  174. and who set the cornerstone while the morning stars sang in

  175. chorus and all the angels shouted praise?

  176. And who took charge of the ocean when it gushed forth like a baby

  177. from the womb? That was me.

  178. I wrapped it in soft clouds and tucked it in safely at night.

  179. Then I made a playpen for it, a strong playpen so it couldn't

  180. run loose, and said stay here, this is your place.

  181. Your wild tantrums are confined to this place.

  182. And have you ever ordered morning get up and told Dawn get

  183. to work so you could seize earth like a blanket and shake out the

  184. wicked like cockroaches? As the sun brings everything to

  185. light, brings out all the colours and shapes, the cover of

  186. darkness is snatched from the wicked.

  187. They're caught in the very act. Have you ever gone to the true

  188. bottom of things? Explore the labyrinthine caves

  189. of deep ocean. Do you know the first thing

  190. about death? Do you have one clue regarding

  191. death's dark mysteries? And do you have any idea how

  192. large this earth is? Speak up if you have even the

  193. beginning of an answer. Do you know where light comes

  194. from and where darkness lives? So you can take them by their

  195. hand and leave them home when they get lost?

  196. Why, of course, you know that you've known them all your life,

  197. growing up in the same neighborhood with them.

  198. Sounds like sarcasm. Have you ever travelled to where

  199. snow is made? It's in the vault where the hail

  200. is stockpiled. The arsenals of hail and snow

  201. that I keep in readiness for times of trouble and battle and

  202. war. Can you find your way to where

  203. lightning is launched, or to the place from which the winds blow?

  204. Who do you suppose carves canyons for the downpours of

  205. rain and charts the route of thunderstorms that bring water

  206. to unvisited fields, deserts no one ever lays eyes on, drenching

  207. the useless wastelands so they are carpeted with wildflowers

  208. and grass? And who do you think is the

  209. father of rain and dew, the mother of ice and frost?

  210. You don't for a minute imagine these marbles of weather just

  211. happened to you. Can you catch the eye of the

  212. beautiful Pleiades sisters that's a a constellation or

  213. distract Orion from his hunt? Can you get Venus to look your

  214. way or get the great bear and her Cubs to come out and play?

  215. Do you know the first thing about the Sky's constellations

  216. and how they affect things on Earth?

  217. Can you get the attention of the clouds and the Commission a

  218. shower of rain? Can you take charge of the

  219. lightning bolts and have them report to you for orders?

  220. Who do you think gave weather wisdom to the Ibis and storm

  221. savvy to the rooster? Does anyone know enough to

  222. number all the clouds or tip over the rain barrels of heaven

  223. when the earth is cracked and dry, the ground baked hard as a

  224. brick? Can you teach the lioness to

  225. stalk her prey and satisfy the appetite of her Cubs as they

  226. Crouch in their den, waiting hungrily in their cave?

  227. And who sets out food for the Ravens when their young cry to

  228. God fluttering about because they have no food?

  229. He's saying, where were you when I created the Earth?

  230. When I set the depths of the Mariana Trench?

  231. Where were you when I set in place the Andromeda Galaxy and

  232. the stars and the constellations?

  233. Position them just right so that from Earth we can see a hunter,

  234. though they might be millions of miles apart.

  235. God created everything. He is the Lord of heaven and

  236. earth. He is the one who positioned you

  237. in this place to hear a word. He's the one who gives breath in

  238. your lungs. God is big, He is great and He

  239. is mighty and He is the Lord. In Luke 12 verses 2 to 5, Jesus

    Luke 12:2–5

  240. was speaking and this is to give perspective on whose voice we

  241. should listen to. And Jesus says everything hidden

  242. and covered up will soon be exposed, for the facade is

  243. falling down and nothing will be kept secret for long.

  244. Whatever you have spoken in private will be public

  245. knowledge, and what you have whispered secretly behind closed

  246. doors will be broadcast far and wide for all to hear.

  247. Listen, my beloved friends, don't fear those who may want to

  248. take your life but can do nothing more.

  249. That would still disturb me if someone could take my life.

  250. But he's giving a perspective. He says it's true, they may kill

  251. your body, but they have no power over your soul.

  252. The one you must fear is God, for he has both the power to

  253. take your life and the authority to cast your soul into hell.

  254. Yes, the only one you need to fear is God.

  255. Now this is not a fear where I run away, but a fear where I

  256. draw near because the King of Kings, he's actually called out

  257. to us. You see, God Almighty, who we

  258. just read about the one who positioned the earth there.

  259. There's a fantastic section in in in the chapter Job 39 where

  260. he talks about the the ostrich and he talks about how he makes

  261. him a little bit stupid because he lays his eggs on the on the

  262. ground rather than rather than finding a nest.

  263. But he's saying I created all these things and the God of

  264. heaven also said I love you, I love the world.

  265. I love the world so much. I'm sending Jesus.

  266. I love the world and my creation so much that I'm sending Jesus

  267. to die, to live, to die and be resurrected so that we can

  268. connect back to him. That's the power of it.

  269. That's the glory of it. Is it God Almighty, the one who

  270. is positioned that even the planets and the the galaxies

  271. loves us so much that he said Jesus, he cared so much for you?

  272. Because as much as His power is great, his his his capacity is

  273. great. He is beyond our understanding.

  274. So too is His love, deeper, wider, higher than we could ever

  275. understand. His love is poured out for us

  276. because He desires you. He desires me.

  277. He wants relationship. He wants connection.

  278. He wants to know you and to be known by you.

  279. This is the heart of Father God. The fear of God brings us into

  280. His presence in Psalm 25 and verse 14.

  281. It's the psalmist writes the secret of the sweet satisfying

  282. companionship of the Lord have they who fear him and he will

  283. show them his covenant and reveal to them it's deep inner

  284. meaning. This touches on the heart of the

  285. Father. The heart of the Father is I

  286. want relationship with you. So those who fear Him, the

  287. secret of the sweet satisfying companionship of the Lord, that

  288. time of connection, that time of of being loved by Him and

  289. knowing Him, that is what He desires, that we would know Him.

  290. And to those who fear God is also the second part.

  291. He desires to reveal Himself to you, to reveal the secrets of

  292. the covenant, to reveal the understanding of what He has

  293. completed through Christ, to reveal more of Himself to you.

  294. This this desire of Father is that He would have that intimacy

  295. to have that heart connection and it's for those who fear the

  296. Lord who draw near because of the greatness of God to come

  297. into that place of his presence. One of the things when we, even

  298. when we take time to pray and, and, and worship, sometimes we

  299. could do it glibly because, you know, we're here and we're

  300. engaged. We're just singing along, right?

  301. But the Lord challenged me about a month or two ago and he said

  302. to me, no more timid prayer and praise.

  303. To be timid is to be shy, to be kind of uncertain.

  304. But what he was sharing with me, what he's telling me was I don't

  305. have to be like that. I can have confidence in my

  306. prayer. I have confidence in my praise,

  307. have a confidence that he who delivered me, he who loves me,

  308. he who also set the stars in the sky and, and and set the the

  309. Mariana Trench with this lots of weird deep ocean animals.

  310. He's the same God, the same one who desires to know you, to be

  311. in relationship with you. And so when I pray and when I

  312. praise, I'm going to praise with confidence.

  313. I'm going to praise Him with joy.

  314. I'm going to praise Him with expectation.

  315. I'm going to praise Him because what He said about me when I

  316. pray, when I pray, I'm praying with confidence, knowing that He

  317. hears my voice. I pray confidently that the King

  318. of kings, the Lord of Lords, the one who set the boundaries of

  319. the water, he is the one who I'm praying to.

  320. It's a confidence rooted in the fear of God.

  321. It's founded upon the fear of God or founded on this awe and

  322. reverence for him, founded on a recognition of who he is.

  323. The fear of God brings us to life.

  324. Proverbs 14, verse 26 and 27. In the reverent and Worshipful

    Proverbs 14:26

  325. fear of the Lord, there is strong confidence.

  326. What kind of confidence? Strong confidence, right.

  327. In the reverent and Worshipful fear of the Lord, there is

  328. strong confidence. And His children shall always

  329. have a place of refuge. I'll say that one again.

  330. And his children shall always have a place of refuge, always,

  331. always have a home, always have that place, always reverend and

  332. Worshipful. Fear of the Lord is a fountain

  333. of life that one may avoid the stares of death.

  334. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life in you, a

  335. fountain of life, of joy, of hope, of grace.

  336. The fear of the Lord's a fountain.

  337. There's so much in this scripture.

  338. We get to have a strong confidence.

  339. We have a safe home in Him and we have the very fountain of

  340. life, the life giving spirit within.

  341. The fear of God brings us to life.

  342. The fear of God keeps you from sin.

  343. Proverbs 3 verse 7 and 8. Don't be impressed with your own

    Proverbs 3:7

  344. wisdom. There's a good starting point,

  345. right? It's interesting just two verses

  346. before is trust in the Lord with all your heart.

  347. Lean not on your own understanding in all your ways

  348. acknowledge him. And here he repeats it again.

  349. He says don't be impressed with your own wisdom.

  350. Don't be impressed with what you've got.

  351. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

  352. Then. So first point, right, fear the

  353. Lord. Then you will have healing for

  354. your body and strength for your bones.

  355. This is a promise from heaven. That's a promise.

  356. We don't need to be caught up in our own wisdom.

  357. We get caught up in knowing God. We get caught up in the awe and

  358. reverence of God, and then He takes what He's given you

  359. because He gave it to you in the first place, and then He reveals

  360. to you how to engage in that and then you will have healing for

  361. your body. What a promise.

  362. Father, I thank you for those who are in this house right now

  363. who need healing in their body. Father, I pray right now by the

  364. power of your spirit you would bring deliverance and healing in

  365. Jesus name. We thank you Lord for your

  366. mighty power to deliver and heal in the mighty name of Jesus.

  367. Hallelujah, Proverbs 16, verse 6.

    Proverbs 16:6

  368. By mercy and love, truth and fidelity to God and man, not by

  369. sacrificial offerings. Iniquity is purged out of the

  370. heart. So not because of the

  371. sacrifices, but because of the mercy and love and truth and

  372. fidelity to God, our faith in God.

  373. Fidelity is, in other words, is a faith, a faith in God.

  374. I have faith in God. Iniquity is pushed out of our

  375. hearts and by the reverent Worshipful fear of the Lord.

  376. Men depart from and avoid evil. A indication that you have the

  377. fear of God is that you'll flee evil.

  378. Run from it. I quoted someone this non am

  379. experience. Her name is Pastor Iverna

  380. Tompkins. And she said once God's got a

  381. hold of you, you're a terrible Sinner.

  382. It just can't sin the same. It doesn't work.

  383. It doesn't quite work the same way because now I've got the

  384. Holy Spirit checking me, right? The Holy Spirit's in there.

  385. And she was telling the story because she was running away

  386. from the call of God on her life.

  387. And she said, oh, this is a bad movie.

  388. You know, God won't be here. So she goes, this movie is bad

  389. apparently, and she's sitting in there and then God speaks to her

  390. all she's in the movie theater and she says, Lord, what are you

  391. doing in here? This isn't a good movie.

  392. It's like, well, he's everywhere, but that's the

  393. another side, right? But when the Holy Spirit is

  394. engaged in your life and you have the fear of the Lord, a

  395. conviction hits you. Now we can attempt to deaden

  396. that conviction over time, but that is a rebellion against what

  397. God is wanting to do in you, because the conviction of the

  398. Lord is to bring us back into alignment with His purposes.

  399. The conviction of the Lord is to actually heal.

  400. The conviction of the Lord is actually to bring you home.

  401. The conviction of the Holy Spirit is there so that you can

  402. come back into the place God wants you to be, so He can bless

  403. you and lead you and guide you. The conviction of the Lord is a

  404. realignment, and we agree with that realignment when we repent

  405. to turn around and have that new engagement of fixing our eyes on

  406. Jesus. But that's the love of God.

  407. So the fear of God keeps you from sin.

  408. The fear of God obeys his commands.

  409. Now, I find people don't like this one very much, not always

  410. because there's a demand upon you.

  411. There's a demand on the way we live.

  412. Let's read the verse from first John chapter 5.

    1 John 5 chapter mention

  413. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the desire is God's spiritual

  414. child and has been fathered by God himself.

  415. And everyone who loves Father God loves his children as well.

  416. See how that works? In fact, in first John, he's

  417. very heavy on if you can't love your fellow believer, how can

  418. you say you walk in the love of God?

  419. And here he's saying everyone who loves the Father also loves

  420. his children as well. And this is how we can be sure

  421. that we love the children of God, by having a passionate love

  422. for God and by obedience to his commands, a passionate love for

  423. God. But the passionate love for God

  424. cannot be separated from obedience to his commands,

  425. obedience to his teaching, obedience to what He's called us

  426. to. You can't say you love Him and

  427. not be obedient to what He's called you to, not be obedient

  428. to what He says for you to do in the Word, which is to love.

  429. So the fear of God actually brings us to a place where we

  430. desire to obey Him. We have a a heart connection

  431. where our desire is to please Him.

  432. He continues on to say true love for God means obeying His

  433. commands, and His commands don't weigh us down as heavy burdens.

  434. Jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

  435. He actually takes on our burden of sin and replaces it with a

  436. call to follow Him, surrender to Him, yield to Him.

  437. His commands aren't heavy. His call is not to weigh us

  438. down, but rather to bring us to a place of victory.

  439. You see, every child of God overcomes the world.

  440. For our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the

  441. world. So who are the world conquerors

  442. defeating its power? Those who believe that Jesus is

  443. the Son of God. So as we come into that place

  444. of, of submission and we come to that place of, of, of taking on

  445. what he calls us to do, of taking on the, the, the

  446. teachings, taking on the, the commands that he has for us,

  447. we're actually positioning ourselves to walk in the victory

  448. that he has. He says at the end, who are

  449. those who defeat the world's powers is those who believe that

  450. Jesus is the Son of God. When you believe that Jesus is

  451. the Son of God, when you believe it, you have the fear of God

  452. because you also have to believe that the Father sent him.

  453. You also have to believe that he was resurrected from the dead.

  454. And you also have to have to believe that that means my life

  455. is changed. And you also believe that now

  456. the Spirit of the living God dwells within me.

  457. It's all wrapped up. It's all part of the same gift.

  458. And so now as we are learning to walk out this faith, learning to

  459. walk humbly under the fear of God, we actually have promises

  460. attached to it. The promises of grace, the

  461. promises of hope, the promises of salvation, but and salvation

  462. not just when we get to heaven. It's not a golden ticket, but

  463. salvation of how we live now, body, soul and spirits.

  464. How our soul is how how our bodies are, how our spirit is

  465. alive. Out of the fear of God.

  466. He's working to mature, perfect and develop us and to mould us

  467. into his image. He desires that relationship and

  468. I'll end with this one. The fear of God walks humbly

  469. before God in Acts 9 verse 31. This is at a time where the

    Acts 9:31

  470. church has been growing and then been persecuted as Saul was out

  471. there causing trouble. And then Saul has this encounter

  472. with Jesus, the risen Jesus. He falls off his horse and Jesus

  473. speaks to him, says why do you hate me?

  474. What are you doing? And Saul's eyes are blinded.

  475. He comes to to Damascus, and then Ananias is sent there three

  476. days later to pray with him. And he gets radically

  477. transformed. And the first thing he wants to

  478. do is run out and tell everybody.

  479. And then people start going, hang on, isn't this the guy who

  480. is just putting the Christians in prison?

  481. And now he's the one telling us all about this Jesus, hang on,

  482. this is the guy who just a little while ago was was was

  483. telling us how bad they were and uttering threats so that they

  484. we'd imprison them and take them from their families.

  485. And now what is this? Well, he had he's talked so

  486. much, he had to leave the city in a hurry.

  487. He comes to Jerusalem and in Jerusalem, of course, they

  488. haven't heard yet. They didn't know what was going

  489. on. And then Barnabas brings them to

  490. the apostles and says this is his experience, this is what God

  491. has done in Paul's life. And so this is a wild time.

  492. And it we read in Acts 9, verse 31.

    Acts 9:31

  493. So the church throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and

  494. Samaria had peace and was edified, growing in wisdom,

  495. virtue and piety. And this they were walking in

  496. the respect and reverential fear of the Lord and in the

  497. consolation and exhortation of the Holy Spirit.

  498. So they were walking in the fear of God.

  499. That means they're living their life under the fear of God.

  500. They're living their life in a way that honoured Him.

  501. They're living their lives in a way that that recognise who he

  502. is. And then they were living and

  503. walking by the Holy Spirit, allowing the Holy Spirit to

  504. direct their path. And those two things together

  505. meant there was continued increase and they were

  506. multiplied. The church was multiplied, great

  507. growth, great harvest, because they set their hearts before the

  508. Lord. They set themselves before God

  509. in the fear of God to walk in His ways.

  510. I want to encourage you today. The fear of God is the starting

  511. point of a revolution in your life.

  512. The fear of God is that place of recognition of who He is, what

  513. He's done for you, and that His love was poured out for you.

  514. In the fear of God, we find the safest place in the reverential

  515. awe of God. Recognizing who He is, we come

  516. to that place where He can move. We saw it in the Scriptures.

  517. The fear of God can lead to healing.

  518. The fear of God, it creates a space of safety.

  519. The fear of God creates an incredible relationship.

  520. The fear of God brings opens the fountains of life.

  521. The fear of God is a position of recognizing who He is.

  522. In some of the great revivals, the fear of God brings people to

  523. repentance. See God's good and and in His

  524. goodness. His desire is your salvation.

  525. In His goodness and His love, His desire is for you had to

  526. have a life filled with Him. In His goodness He wants you to

  527. know why you were made you. In His goodness, He desires to

  528. walk with you. And if you take just a few

  529. minutes to consider that, the Lord who made heaven and earth,

  530. the Lord who set the paths of the planets, The Lord who weighs

  531. the stars in his hands. The Lord who set the boundaries

  532. of the oceans. The Lord who created the deepest

  533. ocean for our interest. The Lord who created the stars

  534. so we could study them. The Lord who created the

  535. creative God. The Lord who put all these

  536. things in place. The Lord who knew you before you

  537. were born. The Lord who actually put in

  538. place and knows even the hairs on your head.

  539. The Lord God Almighty desires to walk with you and he not only

  540. desired it, he put in place a new covenant so we could walk in

  541. it. It's very difficult.

  542. I, I remember, I remember preaching when I, I was 19, I, I

  543. preached a word on the glory of God.

  544. And it was, yeah, it was OK. God still honoured it, but I

  545. remember my dad saying we need to talk about the glory is

  546. better felt than tilt. See, I, I can, I can talk about

  547. how big God is. I can talk about what he

  548. desires, but you need a revelation.

  549. We all need a revelation. I need to be reminded, I need to

  550. be reminded that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead

  551. dwells in me. And I keep saying it and I keep

  552. saying it, but now I'm going to believe it.

  553. So it changes me. I got to come to that place

  554. where I recognize that He is in fact alive in me.

  555. So my prayer for you today is that you get a revelation of the

  556. bigness of God, that you get a revelation of how much he loves

  557. you, that you get a revelation that the God of the expanse of

  558. the universe loves you and desires to be in relationship

  559. with you if you will turn to him.

  560. Let's pray, Father God. Thank you Lord, I pray that each

  561. person here will get a revelation of what it means to

  562. know you, the Lord. They get a revelation in their

  563. hearts of how you want to move in them and with them.

  564. Lord, I pray we get a revelation that you desire to walk with us

  565. as you as you walked with Adam in the garden that we'd have

  566. ears to hear. Not so busy by the world that we

  567. do not take time. Not so busy by our schedules.

  568. Not so busy by our, our, our thought patterns.

  569. Not so busy by the social media that hits US.

  570. Not so busy by the information we get hit with, but actually

  571. take that time to recognize the most important thing.

  572. Father, thank you. We thank you today.

  573. Thank you for your word that teaches us.

  574. Thank you for your Holy Spirit, who is our God.

  575. Thank you, Lord, that you desire to teach us so we can know you

  576. and know your ways. Our Father God, I thank you that

  577. during this week you remind us. You remind us of how far we've

  578. come. You remind us of what you've

  579. done. You remind us, Lord, of your

  580. love. You remind us, Lord, that we can

  581. walk in the fear of God and we will come to a revelation that

  582. will change our lives. That revelation of you.

  583. Father, I thank you. I thank you for your goodness, I

  584. thank you for your love, and I thank you for all who came here

  585. today. I praise you, Lord, You are at

  586. work. That's a declaration, not a

  587. question. Lord, I thank you.

  588. You are at work both to will and to do of your good pleasure.

  589. You are at work in our lives. You are at work.

  590. We praise you, we celebrate you, we rejoice in you, Lord, and we

  591. thank you for your goodness. In Jesus name, Amen.

  592. Amen. Amen.

  593. Well, I want to encourage you to take a look at our social media

  594. for any updates of events and activities going on.

  595. We have a number of things coming up for we have our prayer

  596. on Saturdays. We have baptisms coming up.

  597. We have a fast coming up. So stay connected so you can

  598. hear what's happening here at Lovequest.

  599. But I want to encourage you today, don't let this word be

  600. lost. Steward it, consider it, and let

  601. the Lord minister to you. So we may be out of time.

  602. We're never out of the goodness of God.

  603. So until next time, get your love fixed man.

  604. Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

  605. We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

  606. Make sure to follow us on all platforms.

  607. That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real.

  608. We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram,

  609. YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you

  610. need to find us. But until next time, you know

  611. the drill. You know the motto, get your

  612. love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.