Sermon
The Fear of the Lord - 10.12.2025 - 12PM (Elder Brett Rodway)
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
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Amen. There's no one like the Lord,
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you know. None decided.
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None compares to him. There's no one like the Lord.
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He's worthy. He's glorious.
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He's magnificent, He is wonderful, He is the counselor,
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He is the almighty God. The glory of the Lord shall be
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revealed upon the earth, and the glory of the Lord shall come in
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power to deliver, set free, redeem.
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I thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, You are worthy.
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You are glorious. You are the mighty God and the
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King of King. We bless you today.
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Hallelujah. Amen.
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Amen. Say to your neighbor, I'm in the
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right place as you take your seats.
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Amen, I'm in the right place. Welcome.
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It's so great to have you at our noon experience and we're
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excited because God is here. He is here in this place.
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He is here ready to speak a word in season, to touch your heart.
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The Holy Spirit is at work and the key is to go from statement
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to belief. Not only do I say God is here, I
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believe God is here and because God is here, He can do anything
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He wants to do. He can speak a word and sees it.
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He can convict me. He can shift me.
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God is at work. So I encourage you receive what
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he has for you today. I want to say thank you to
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Pastor Terrence and Pastor Julia for the blessing that it is to
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be able to speak here at our noon experience today.
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Thank you so much for the leadership and the, the
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pioneering spirit that you have to establish this work and to
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establish what God has for this area.
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We thank you. Today I'm going to be speaking
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on the topic. There's actually the topic for
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our year now, the beginning of the year on New Year's Eve.
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Pastor Taran spoke and he said this is the year of the the fear
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of God or the fog. You're right, either way, the
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fear of God or the fog, the Lord is working, He is moving.
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And recently, it was at the end of August, there was a word in
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the house that the wind of the Spirit is blowing.
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And the wind of the Spirit moves to reveal, to refresh, to to
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encourage, and sometimes to expose.
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Well, the wind of the spirit is moving to touch our life.
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A part of the wind of the spirit is to reveal those things that
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we've forgotten about. And as I was listening to Troy
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and to Lily Cher, I was reminded about the importance of
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remembrance. Now there's a little bit off
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topic. I'll get back to topic, but I
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really felt this is important. Some of you here today need to
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reflect on where God has brought you from.
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There's an old hymn and it says count your blessings.
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What it means is take a moment, stop getting caught in the the
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present or the urgency and stop and reflect.
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Where has God brought you from? Where have you come from?
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What has He done in your life? How has He moved in your life?
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Well, I can't do this. I can't do that.
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Yes, but, but did He help you? Then reflect.
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Did He bring you out of that trouble?
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Was He faithful there? He will be faithful here.
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And sometimes we have to remember what He has brought you
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through. We have to remember how far
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we've come for some of us, man, we have I have peace in this
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situation that would have thrown me right, man, I have patience
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now for these people that I I'm just was ready to you know,
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throttle. That's a word and but but
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recognize what God has done and I want to encourage you, take
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some time to see all that God has done and all that he has
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positioned you with and all that he is working and maturing in
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you because He is at work. The fear of the Lord.
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Proverbs 9 verse 10 says the reverent and Worshipful fear of
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the Lord is the beginning, the chief and choice part of wisdom
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and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight and
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understanding. Now this is great because it's
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speaking to the fact that our fear of God is not a fear of
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afraid to take you away, but it's actually a fear that draws
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you near. The reverent and Worshipful awe
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reverence of God draws us near and it's the beginning, the
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chief and choicest part of wisdom.
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Have you ever there's different types of steaks, anyone steak.
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Yeah, I like steaks. Steaks are good.
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Amen. Some don't that's OK more for me
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the but there's choice cuts. There's certain parts that are
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actually more flavorful than other parts.
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Some you've got to marinate and soak in lots of stuff to make it
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taste good. Other parts are just good.
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The reverential fear of the Lord is the beginning, yes, but it's
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also the the best part, the choice part.
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It's the main part of wisdom. It's the part that's actually
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the foundation of wisdom. And the knowledge of the Holy
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One is insight and understanding.
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See, part of our part of our progress in understanding the
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fear of the Lord is first to say, who is he?
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If I have the fear of God, who is he?
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What, what has he done? Who is he?
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How does he connect with me? And that's the knowledge of the
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Holy One. The fear of God is based on a
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recognition of who God is. Now, in just a minute, we're
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going to read from Job 38 and we'll read from verse one, but I
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wanted to get some information for you.
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So when we're thinking about who God is, I mean, that's a pretty
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big subject, right? Eternal.
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It's pretty hard to pretty hard to judge, right?
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Eternal is big. He's a big God, so I want to get
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you some information that'll help you understand the bigness
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of God. The earth's circumference is
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about 40,000 kilometers, 40,000 kilometers.
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That's a long way. So that's how how the
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circumference of the the earth is 40,000 kilometers.
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Who knows how much, what percentage of the Earth's
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surface is water? A lot.
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Anybody, anybody who's got a percentage, anyone close, close
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7171 that's close. It's massive, right?
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We think about how much land there is, how much of the world
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is earth that we, we, we live in and we enjoy.
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And yet 70% of the world is covered in water. 71% That's
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crazy, right? Huge Mariana Trench.
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The Mariana Trench is a trench that's the deepest part of the
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ocean. OK, the Mariana Trench is 36,000
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feet deep. It's deeper than the tallest
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mountain above sea level, which is Mount Everest at 29,000 feet.
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So these parts that are almost impossible to get to are deeper
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than we know. OK, this is a this is a freaky
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one. This is a crazy just because
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sometimes, OK, who here? Sometimes when you think about
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sea creatures, it gets a little bit like, eh, right.
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You see some of these pictures and it's like, yeah, sharks, you
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know, some of these things that and then you, you're in the in
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the ocean and you step on the seaweed and it's like, what was
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that seaweed? Was it jellyfish?
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What was that? Anyway, maybe that's just me.
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It is estimated that up to 2/3 of life in the deep oceans
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remain unknown to science, with many new species still being
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discovered each year. Overall, scientists believe
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there may be between 700,000 and 2 million species in the ocean,
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and a significant portion of that has yet to be identified.
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Crazy. OK, The Sun.
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So who likes who likes astronomy?
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Astronomy, anyone? Yeah, yeah.
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There you go. The sun is 150 million
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kilometres from Earth. Pluto is 4.28 billion kilometres
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from Earth, and then the Andromeda Galaxy is 23 million
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trillion kilometres away, and that is a 23 with 18 zeros
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behind it. OK, that's a lot.
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A million trillion, yeah, a lot of zeros.
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A lot of zeros. And so I want to preface this
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word with that information. So we think about how vast the
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Earth is, how full of different animals, how even some of the
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deepest parts of our oceans we haven't even discovered yet, let
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alone what's out there. OK, Job 38 in verse one.
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Now who's here of Job? Yeah, a few of you.
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For those who haven't, Joe, the experience of Job was he was
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tested because he lost everything, lost his family,
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lost everything. And then there's a series of
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conversations between him and his wife, him and these Job's
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friends. And at the end of the book, we
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have about three chapters where God's speaking, and this is
Isaiah 38 chapter mention
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chapter 38, the first part of that.
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And now finally, God answered Job from the eye of a violent
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storm. He said, why do you confuse the
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issue? Why do you talk without knowing
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what you're talking about? Pull yourself together, job up
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on your feet, Stand still. I have some questions for you,
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and I want some straight answers.
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Where were you when I created the Earth?
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Tell me, since you know so much, who decided on its size?
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Certainly you'll know that. Who came up with the blueprints
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and measurements? How was the foundations poured
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and who set the cornerstone while the morning stars sang in
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chorus and all the angels shouted praise?
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And who took charge of the ocean when it gushed forth like a baby
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from the womb? That was me.
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I wrapped it in soft clouds and tucked it in safely at night.
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Then I made a playpen for it, a strong playpen so it couldn't
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run loose, and said stay here, this is your place.
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Your wild tantrums are confined to this place.
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And have you ever ordered morning get up and told Dawn get
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to work so you could seize earth like a blanket and shake out the
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wicked like cockroaches? As the sun brings everything to
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light, brings out all the colours and shapes, the cover of
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darkness is snatched from the wicked.
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They're caught in the very act. Have you ever gone to the true
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bottom of things? Explore the labyrinthine caves
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of deep ocean. Do you know the first thing
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about death? Do you have one clue regarding
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death's dark mysteries? And do you have any idea how
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large this earth is? Speak up if you have even the
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beginning of an answer. Do you know where light comes
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from and where darkness lives? So you can take them by their
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hand and leave them home when they get lost?
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Why, of course, you know that you've known them all your life,
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growing up in the same neighborhood with them.
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Sounds like sarcasm. Have you ever travelled to where
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snow is made? It's in the vault where the hail
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is stockpiled. The arsenals of hail and snow
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that I keep in readiness for times of trouble and battle and
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war. Can you find your way to where
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lightning is launched, or to the place from which the winds blow?
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Who do you suppose carves canyons for the downpours of
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rain and charts the route of thunderstorms that bring water
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to unvisited fields, deserts no one ever lays eyes on, drenching
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the useless wastelands so they are carpeted with wildflowers
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and grass? And who do you think is the
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father of rain and dew, the mother of ice and frost?
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You don't for a minute imagine these marbles of weather just
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happened to you. Can you catch the eye of the
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beautiful Pleiades sisters that's a a constellation or
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distract Orion from his hunt? Can you get Venus to look your
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way or get the great bear and her Cubs to come out and play?
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Do you know the first thing about the Sky's constellations
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and how they affect things on Earth?
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Can you get the attention of the clouds and the Commission a
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shower of rain? Can you take charge of the
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lightning bolts and have them report to you for orders?
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Who do you think gave weather wisdom to the Ibis and storm
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savvy to the rooster? Does anyone know enough to
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number all the clouds or tip over the rain barrels of heaven
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when the earth is cracked and dry, the ground baked hard as a
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brick? Can you teach the lioness to
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stalk her prey and satisfy the appetite of her Cubs as they
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Crouch in their den, waiting hungrily in their cave?
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And who sets out food for the Ravens when their young cry to
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God fluttering about because they have no food?
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He's saying, where were you when I created the Earth?
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When I set the depths of the Mariana Trench?
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Where were you when I set in place the Andromeda Galaxy and
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the stars and the constellations?
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Position them just right so that from Earth we can see a hunter,
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though they might be millions of miles apart.
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God created everything. He is the Lord of heaven and
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earth. He is the one who positioned you
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in this place to hear a word. He's the one who gives breath in
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your lungs. God is big, He is great and He
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is mighty and He is the Lord. In Luke 12 verses 2 to 5, Jesus
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was speaking and this is to give perspective on whose voice we
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should listen to. And Jesus says everything hidden
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and covered up will soon be exposed, for the facade is
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falling down and nothing will be kept secret for long.
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Whatever you have spoken in private will be public
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knowledge, and what you have whispered secretly behind closed
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doors will be broadcast far and wide for all to hear.
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Listen, my beloved friends, don't fear those who may want to
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take your life but can do nothing more.
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That would still disturb me if someone could take my life.
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But he's giving a perspective. He says it's true, they may kill
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your body, but they have no power over your soul.
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The one you must fear is God, for he has both the power to
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take your life and the authority to cast your soul into hell.
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Yes, the only one you need to fear is God.
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Now this is not a fear where I run away, but a fear where I
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draw near because the King of Kings, he's actually called out
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to us. You see, God Almighty, who we
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just read about the one who positioned the earth there.
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There's a fantastic section in in in the chapter Job 39 where
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he talks about the the ostrich and he talks about how he makes
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him a little bit stupid because he lays his eggs on the on the
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ground rather than rather than finding a nest.
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But he's saying I created all these things and the God of
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heaven also said I love you, I love the world.
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I love the world so much. I'm sending Jesus.
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I love the world and my creation so much that I'm sending Jesus
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to die, to live, to die and be resurrected so that we can
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connect back to him. That's the power of it.
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That's the glory of it. Is it God Almighty, the one who
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is positioned that even the planets and the the galaxies
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loves us so much that he said Jesus, he cared so much for you?
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Because as much as His power is great, his his his capacity is
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great. He is beyond our understanding.
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So too is His love, deeper, wider, higher than we could ever
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understand. His love is poured out for us
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because He desires you. He desires me.
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He wants relationship. He wants connection.
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He wants to know you and to be known by you.
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This is the heart of Father God. The fear of God brings us into
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His presence in Psalm 25 and verse 14.
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It's the psalmist writes the secret of the sweet satisfying
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companionship of the Lord have they who fear him and he will
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show them his covenant and reveal to them it's deep inner
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meaning. This touches on the heart of the
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Father. The heart of the Father is I
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want relationship with you. So those who fear Him, the
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secret of the sweet satisfying companionship of the Lord, that
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time of connection, that time of of being loved by Him and
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knowing Him, that is what He desires, that we would know Him.
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And to those who fear God is also the second part.
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He desires to reveal Himself to you, to reveal the secrets of
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the covenant, to reveal the understanding of what He has
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completed through Christ, to reveal more of Himself to you.
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This this desire of Father is that He would have that intimacy
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to have that heart connection and it's for those who fear the
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Lord who draw near because of the greatness of God to come
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into that place of his presence. One of the things when we, even
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when we take time to pray and, and, and worship, sometimes we
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could do it glibly because, you know, we're here and we're
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engaged. We're just singing along, right?
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But the Lord challenged me about a month or two ago and he said
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to me, no more timid prayer and praise.
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To be timid is to be shy, to be kind of uncertain.
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But what he was sharing with me, what he's telling me was I don't
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have to be like that. I can have confidence in my
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prayer. I have confidence in my praise,
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have a confidence that he who delivered me, he who loves me,
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he who also set the stars in the sky and, and and set the the
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Mariana Trench with this lots of weird deep ocean animals.
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He's the same God, the same one who desires to know you, to be
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in relationship with you. And so when I pray and when I
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praise, I'm going to praise with confidence.
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I'm going to praise Him with joy.
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I'm going to praise Him with expectation.
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I'm going to praise Him because what He said about me when I
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pray, when I pray, I'm praying with confidence, knowing that He
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hears my voice. I pray confidently that the King
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of kings, the Lord of Lords, the one who set the boundaries of
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the water, he is the one who I'm praying to.
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It's a confidence rooted in the fear of God.
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It's founded upon the fear of God or founded on this awe and
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reverence for him, founded on a recognition of who he is.
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The fear of God brings us to life.
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Proverbs 14, verse 26 and 27. In the reverent and Worshipful
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fear of the Lord, there is strong confidence.
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What kind of confidence? Strong confidence, right.
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In the reverent and Worshipful fear of the Lord, there is
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strong confidence. And His children shall always
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have a place of refuge. I'll say that one again.
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And his children shall always have a place of refuge, always,
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always have a home, always have that place, always reverend and
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Worshipful. Fear of the Lord is a fountain
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of life that one may avoid the stares of death.
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The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life in you, a
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fountain of life, of joy, of hope, of grace.
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The fear of the Lord's a fountain.
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There's so much in this scripture.
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We get to have a strong confidence.
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We have a safe home in Him and we have the very fountain of
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life, the life giving spirit within.
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The fear of God brings us to life.
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The fear of God keeps you from sin.
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Proverbs 3 verse 7 and 8. Don't be impressed with your own
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wisdom. There's a good starting point,
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right? It's interesting just two verses
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before is trust in the Lord with all your heart.
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Lean not on your own understanding in all your ways
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acknowledge him. And here he repeats it again.
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He says don't be impressed with your own wisdom.
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Don't be impressed with what you've got.
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Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
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Then. So first point, right, fear the
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Lord. Then you will have healing for
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your body and strength for your bones.
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This is a promise from heaven. That's a promise.
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We don't need to be caught up in our own wisdom.
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We get caught up in knowing God. We get caught up in the awe and
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reverence of God, and then He takes what He's given you
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because He gave it to you in the first place, and then He reveals
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to you how to engage in that and then you will have healing for
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your body. What a promise.
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Father, I thank you for those who are in this house right now
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who need healing in their body. Father, I pray right now by the
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power of your spirit you would bring deliverance and healing in
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Jesus name. We thank you Lord for your
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mighty power to deliver and heal in the mighty name of Jesus.
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Hallelujah, Proverbs 16, verse 6.
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By mercy and love, truth and fidelity to God and man, not by
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sacrificial offerings. Iniquity is purged out of the
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heart. So not because of the
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sacrifices, but because of the mercy and love and truth and
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fidelity to God, our faith in God.
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Fidelity is, in other words, is a faith, a faith in God.
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I have faith in God. Iniquity is pushed out of our
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hearts and by the reverent Worshipful fear of the Lord.
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Men depart from and avoid evil. A indication that you have the
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fear of God is that you'll flee evil.
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Run from it. I quoted someone this non am
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experience. Her name is Pastor Iverna
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Tompkins. And she said once God's got a
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hold of you, you're a terrible Sinner.
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It just can't sin the same. It doesn't work.
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It doesn't quite work the same way because now I've got the
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Holy Spirit checking me, right? The Holy Spirit's in there.
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And she was telling the story because she was running away
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from the call of God on her life.
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And she said, oh, this is a bad movie.
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You know, God won't be here. So she goes, this movie is bad
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apparently, and she's sitting in there and then God speaks to her
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all she's in the movie theater and she says, Lord, what are you
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doing in here? This isn't a good movie.
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It's like, well, he's everywhere, but that's the
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another side, right? But when the Holy Spirit is
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engaged in your life and you have the fear of the Lord, a
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conviction hits you. Now we can attempt to deaden
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that conviction over time, but that is a rebellion against what
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God is wanting to do in you, because the conviction of the
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Lord is to bring us back into alignment with His purposes.
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The conviction of the Lord is to actually heal.
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The conviction of the Lord is actually to bring you home.
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The conviction of the Holy Spirit is there so that you can
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come back into the place God wants you to be, so He can bless
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you and lead you and guide you. The conviction of the Lord is a
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realignment, and we agree with that realignment when we repent
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to turn around and have that new engagement of fixing our eyes on
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Jesus. But that's the love of God.
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So the fear of God keeps you from sin.
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The fear of God obeys his commands.
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Now, I find people don't like this one very much, not always
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because there's a demand upon you.
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There's a demand on the way we live.
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Let's read the verse from first John chapter 5.
1 John 5 chapter mention
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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the desire is God's spiritual
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child and has been fathered by God himself.
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And everyone who loves Father God loves his children as well.
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See how that works? In fact, in first John, he's
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very heavy on if you can't love your fellow believer, how can
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you say you walk in the love of God?
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And here he's saying everyone who loves the Father also loves
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his children as well. And this is how we can be sure
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that we love the children of God, by having a passionate love
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for God and by obedience to his commands, a passionate love for
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God. But the passionate love for God
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cannot be separated from obedience to his commands,
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obedience to his teaching, obedience to what He's called us
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to. You can't say you love Him and
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not be obedient to what He's called you to, not be obedient
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to what He says for you to do in the Word, which is to love.
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So the fear of God actually brings us to a place where we
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desire to obey Him. We have a a heart connection
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where our desire is to please Him.
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He continues on to say true love for God means obeying His
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commands, and His commands don't weigh us down as heavy burdens.
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Jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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He actually takes on our burden of sin and replaces it with a
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call to follow Him, surrender to Him, yield to Him.
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His commands aren't heavy. His call is not to weigh us
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down, but rather to bring us to a place of victory.
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You see, every child of God overcomes the world.
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For our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the
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world. So who are the world conquerors
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defeating its power? Those who believe that Jesus is
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the Son of God. So as we come into that place
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of, of submission and we come to that place of, of, of taking on
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what he calls us to do, of taking on the, the, the
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teachings, taking on the, the commands that he has for us,
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we're actually positioning ourselves to walk in the victory
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that he has. He says at the end, who are
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those who defeat the world's powers is those who believe that
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Jesus is the Son of God. When you believe that Jesus is
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the Son of God, when you believe it, you have the fear of God
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because you also have to believe that the Father sent him.
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You also have to believe that he was resurrected from the dead.
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And you also have to have to believe that that means my life
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is changed. And you also believe that now
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the Spirit of the living God dwells within me.
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It's all wrapped up. It's all part of the same gift.
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And so now as we are learning to walk out this faith, learning to
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walk humbly under the fear of God, we actually have promises
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attached to it. The promises of grace, the
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promises of hope, the promises of salvation, but and salvation
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not just when we get to heaven. It's not a golden ticket, but
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salvation of how we live now, body, soul and spirits.
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How our soul is how how our bodies are, how our spirit is
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alive. Out of the fear of God.
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He's working to mature, perfect and develop us and to mould us
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into his image. He desires that relationship and
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I'll end with this one. The fear of God walks humbly
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before God in Acts 9 verse 31. This is at a time where the
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church has been growing and then been persecuted as Saul was out
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there causing trouble. And then Saul has this encounter
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with Jesus, the risen Jesus. He falls off his horse and Jesus
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speaks to him, says why do you hate me?
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What are you doing? And Saul's eyes are blinded.
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He comes to to Damascus, and then Ananias is sent there three
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days later to pray with him. And he gets radically
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transformed. And the first thing he wants to
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do is run out and tell everybody.
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And then people start going, hang on, isn't this the guy who
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is just putting the Christians in prison?
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And now he's the one telling us all about this Jesus, hang on,
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this is the guy who just a little while ago was was was
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telling us how bad they were and uttering threats so that they
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we'd imprison them and take them from their families.
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And now what is this? Well, he had he's talked so
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much, he had to leave the city in a hurry.
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He comes to Jerusalem and in Jerusalem, of course, they
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haven't heard yet. They didn't know what was going
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on. And then Barnabas brings them to
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the apostles and says this is his experience, this is what God
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has done in Paul's life. And so this is a wild time.
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And it we read in Acts 9, verse 31.
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So the church throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and
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Samaria had peace and was edified, growing in wisdom,
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virtue and piety. And this they were walking in
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the respect and reverential fear of the Lord and in the
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consolation and exhortation of the Holy Spirit.
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So they were walking in the fear of God.
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That means they're living their life under the fear of God.
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They're living their life in a way that honoured Him.
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They're living their lives in a way that that recognise who he
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is. And then they were living and
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walking by the Holy Spirit, allowing the Holy Spirit to
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direct their path. And those two things together
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meant there was continued increase and they were
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multiplied. The church was multiplied, great
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growth, great harvest, because they set their hearts before the
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Lord. They set themselves before God
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in the fear of God to walk in His ways.
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I want to encourage you today. The fear of God is the starting
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point of a revolution in your life.
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The fear of God is that place of recognition of who He is, what
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He's done for you, and that His love was poured out for you.
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In the fear of God, we find the safest place in the reverential
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awe of God. Recognizing who He is, we come
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to that place where He can move. We saw it in the Scriptures.
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The fear of God can lead to healing.
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The fear of God, it creates a space of safety.
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The fear of God creates an incredible relationship.
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The fear of God brings opens the fountains of life.
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The fear of God is a position of recognizing who He is.
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In some of the great revivals, the fear of God brings people to
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repentance. See God's good and and in His
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goodness. His desire is your salvation.
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In His goodness and His love, His desire is for you had to
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have a life filled with Him. In His goodness He wants you to
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know why you were made you. In His goodness, He desires to
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walk with you. And if you take just a few
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minutes to consider that, the Lord who made heaven and earth,
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the Lord who set the paths of the planets, The Lord who weighs
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the stars in his hands. The Lord who set the boundaries
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of the oceans. The Lord who created the deepest
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ocean for our interest. The Lord who created the stars
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so we could study them. The Lord who created the
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creative God. The Lord who put all these
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things in place. The Lord who knew you before you
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were born. The Lord who actually put in
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place and knows even the hairs on your head.
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The Lord God Almighty desires to walk with you and he not only
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desired it, he put in place a new covenant so we could walk in
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it. It's very difficult.
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I, I remember, I remember preaching when I, I was 19, I, I
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preached a word on the glory of God.
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And it was, yeah, it was OK. God still honoured it, but I
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remember my dad saying we need to talk about the glory is
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better felt than tilt. See, I, I can, I can talk about
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how big God is. I can talk about what he
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desires, but you need a revelation.
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We all need a revelation. I need to be reminded, I need to
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be reminded that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead
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dwells in me. And I keep saying it and I keep
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saying it, but now I'm going to believe it.
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So it changes me. I got to come to that place
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where I recognize that He is in fact alive in me.
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So my prayer for you today is that you get a revelation of the
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bigness of God, that you get a revelation of how much he loves
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you, that you get a revelation that the God of the expanse of
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the universe loves you and desires to be in relationship
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with you if you will turn to him.
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Let's pray, Father God. Thank you Lord, I pray that each
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person here will get a revelation of what it means to
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know you, the Lord. They get a revelation in their
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hearts of how you want to move in them and with them.
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Lord, I pray we get a revelation that you desire to walk with us
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as you as you walked with Adam in the garden that we'd have
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ears to hear. Not so busy by the world that we
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do not take time. Not so busy by our schedules.
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Not so busy by our, our, our thought patterns.
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Not so busy by the social media that hits US.
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Not so busy by the information we get hit with, but actually
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take that time to recognize the most important thing.
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Father, thank you. We thank you today.
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Thank you for your word that teaches us.
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Thank you for your Holy Spirit, who is our God.
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Thank you, Lord, that you desire to teach us so we can know you
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and know your ways. Our Father God, I thank you that
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during this week you remind us. You remind us of how far we've
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come. You remind us of what you've
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done. You remind us, Lord, of your
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love. You remind us, Lord, that we can
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walk in the fear of God and we will come to a revelation that
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will change our lives. That revelation of you.
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Father, I thank you. I thank you for your goodness, I
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thank you for your love, and I thank you for all who came here
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today. I praise you, Lord, You are at
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work. That's a declaration, not a
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question. Lord, I thank you.
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You are at work both to will and to do of your good pleasure.
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You are at work in our lives. You are at work.
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We praise you, we celebrate you, we rejoice in you, Lord, and we
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thank you for your goodness. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, I want to encourage you to take a look at our social media
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for any updates of events and activities going on.
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We have a number of things coming up for we have our prayer
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on Saturdays. We have baptisms coming up.
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We have a fast coming up. So stay connected so you can
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hear what's happening here at Lovequest.
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But I want to encourage you today, don't let this word be
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lost. Steward it, consider it, and let
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the Lord minister to you. So we may be out of time.
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We're never out of the goodness of God.
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So until next time, get your love fixed man.
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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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Make sure to follow us on all platforms.
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That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real.
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We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram,
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YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you
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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.