The Year of the Fear of God - 5.4.2025 (Elder John Swain Jr.)

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Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. But you know, that's not just a

song, but that's a reality. The Jesus we serve and the God

the Father that sent him has promised us that he's coming

back again, and it's important that we live in that reality.

Just because it may seem as if he's been delayed in coming

doesn't mean he's not sure that he will.

From the time Adam, and for some accounts, if you want to say

2000 years from Adam to Jesus, the Bible declared that he's

coming. For 2000 years they said he's

coming and he came. So just because we haven't seen

his return, his return is promised, which means he's

coming again. And we ought to live in that

reality like it's reality, not as a song.

We ought to live in that reality like not only is a present for

us, but we have to get generations after us ready for

that shitty tarry in our lifetime.

Amen. You can have a seat.

And when Jesus comes again, the Bible, as I read it, talks about

two things. There's an appearing that

there's a coming. When he appears.

When he comes, understand he's not doing his own work.

When he comes, he is finishing his Father's work that he

started. His father promised not only a

deliverance and a freedom for people, but he also promised the

judgment that would come. Now, judgment has two sides.

Judgment is for and against. It's not always bad.

In a court case, someone is suing someone to collect money

from a contract. The judge renders a judgment.

This side, you win. The other side, there's

consequences. Judgment isn't always bad, but

he's coming to to do judgment. And that's important to know

that he's not going to stop until his father's work is done.

He's not going to stop until his father is fully revealed in the

fullness of his work. And if he's, and if he's won't

stop, can't stop, then neither should we.

Amen. Amen.

Again, I always thanking our pastors and the opportunity to

share the word of God. It's it's, it's it's a humbling

thing. Sometimes it's a heavy thing,

but it's a privilege thing and I thank God for it for sure.

I want to start out with a few comments this morning.

You already received this morning.

And now listen, we have fun over here, OK?

So y'all got to learn how to smile heavy.

You know what I mean by smile heavy?

Even though like God is in the room.

Smile though, because God's in the room, OK?

Amen. Amen.

So there's a couple things I want to share with you off the

top. Revival.

Everyone said revival, I think as I was preparing today and we

just back in the back searching things out.

Revival is a return to the fear of God.

That's really one of the hallmarks of revival is a return

to the fear of God. Now I know it's said often times

that one of the hallmarks of revival is repentance, and I

believe that that's true. But the reason repentance comes

with revival because repentance is a fruit of the fear of God.

When people grow in the fear of God, repentance is automatic off

you to that. They begin to see who he is, His

weight. They begin to see who they are

in their distance from Him. And the first response to that

reverence is to turn from your stuff and turn towards God.

Got it. So repentance is a fruit, I

think, of one of the key aspects of revival, which is the fear of

God. And with the fear of God comes a

lot of other things besides repentance.

And why is this important? Because if in revival you are

thinking it's mostly defined by repentance, when repentance

starts, then you'll stop, OK. When repentance starts, then

you'll stop that pressing into where God is taking you.

Because after repentance comes reverence, reverence comes

obedience. There's so much more to be done

out of a move of God, a revival, because the fear of God comes to

accomplish things. The Bible doesn't say that the

fear of God is the same thing as the zeal of God, but I think

it's this, this. They're close cousins.

The Bible talks about how the zeal of God shall accomplish

some things. It's hard to be have a zeal of

God without a fear of God. So when the fear of God shows

up, there's an urgency that comes out of your reverence for

Him. And so revival is not just meant

to get people to turn, it's meant to accomplish the Father's

purpose in the earth. So it's a lot more to revival

than just repentance. And that's why revival or

outpourings are for everyone. For even if you don't feel

there's any deep hearted, deep seated repentance that you need

to offer, there is an urgency that needs to be imparted to

finish the work of the Father that comes out of those moments.

I want to talk about today is the fear of God.

Pastors picked up on this. He felt and previously said he

felt a return to the fear of God to bring that message back and

to remind us some of some things.

Now I'm going to give you a quick tip.

Everyone say P tip, not a prayer tip, but prophetic tip.

P tip is this be watchful of the rhythms of what's happening.

OK, you, you want to God will show you a curve if you pay

attention to the data. OK, so if I have some data

points on the line and I'm this close to them, it may be

difficult for me to see, OK, it's not a scientific crowd.

OK, Google Maps. OK, I'll put something in Google

Maps. If I look at it real close, all

I see is a spot. I don't see the like the path of

where I'm headed. OK, But if I pull out, zoom out,

see I'm see I'm even changing it even I'm talking all right.

As I as I zoom out, all of a sudden now I kind of see where I

started, where I'm going. I get a context of what's there.

I get a sense of what's around 1.

I get a bigger picture as to what's happening right.

And this is important for you non map readers.

When you get a sense of the bigger picture, then you also

know how to respond to detour when it comes right, because I

have a sense of where I'm going and what's around where I'm

going. Got it.

So prophetic tip is don't just come to to to service.

Come to our experiences and just get data.

That's why I take your notes is important because notes puts

data down and then you step back and look at the course of your

notes and you go like, whoa, I'm seeing something here.

And that bitter bigger visual will prepare you for what God's

doing now and what God's doing next makes sense.

So when pastor said fear of God, God's trying to remind us of

that and how all the stuff that he's been talking about since

the beginning of the year to now is connected to the fear of God

and reminding us how that's the soil that it comes out of.

Good Somers care more about the soil than the seeds.

OK, Y'all don't farm in here. If I was out in Chilliwack right

now, they'd be like you Yahoo. Yeah, they'd be a something on

that one. OK.

I'd have got a good, good farmer.

Hallelujah on that one, I'm telling you.

OK, Good. Farmers care more about the soil

than the seeds because the quality of the soil would

determine the, the, the the impact on the seed and therefore

the harvest. I told somebody that's not, you

know, I don't really drink alcohol, but I I think the, the,

the, the, the, the analogy holds up.

I was talking to somebody about this very recently.

I think. I know I was Champagne.

Everyone says champagne. It's an all the ones who said it

really loud. Yeah.

OK. All right.

All right. OK.

OK, you know, the move, that move at that point was shampoo.

What I don't never heard that. So that was that was your cover.

That was your cover right there. Champagne.

Everyone say Champagne. Champagne now Champagne.

My my family was in the wine and beverage business for a lot of

years. And so I know something a lot

about that kind of stuff. So Champagne is a sparkling

wine. OK, but in order for a sparkling

wine to be called Champagne, it has to be made of 100% of 1 kind

of grape that's grown in the Champagne region of France.

You got it. If it is not, it's called

sparkly wine. Or they'll put on their Methode

de Champois Champagne method, because you can't legally call

it Champagne, right method. Champagne method means it could

have some different kind of grapes from different areas and

the thing. And why did he do that?

Because there's something about the soil of that region that

makes those grapes taste a certain way.

It's the soil that makes the flavor, not the seed that goes

in it. It's the soil that determines

the quality and the value, not the grapes that get planted in

the soil. You plant those same grapes in

California or in the valley and it won't taste the same because

it's different soil, even though the seeds are the same.

Now this is important to note too.

You can take that same soil from that region and transplant it to

California or the Valley and it will no longer produce champagne

grapes. Why?

Because the soil transplanted to a different region begins to

change. The sun is different, the water

is different, the air is different, the moisture is

different. So over time, the soil will

change. That's why it's important to

know where your soil is placed and to make sure your soil stays

where it's placed. Because when you start moving

your soil around, you start moving your harvest around, stop

moving your life around. So the farmer's concerned about

where the soil is. Always have to do with anything.

What you ready? You ready.

The fear of God is the soil of your heart.

That's the soil, OK? When you're trying to live out

of something other than the fear of God, it's like taking that

soil from France and putting it in the valley, but expecting the

same results. The soil makes a bigger, bigger

difference, even more so than the seed.

And, and I, and I just in, in talking about the fear of God,

part of what I think God's calling us to is, is to live out

of the fear of God, not live alongside of the fear of God.

And what do I mean? And, and this is the challenge

for me, for everyone here, OK, there are times where I'm like,

OK, I'm looking to do some things, but because I fear God,

I will say God, how does what I'm looking to do line up with

you? OK, now that sounds really good,

but that's not living out of the fear of God.

That's adding, that's adding the fear of God to my living.

It's different between when you cook it with the hot sauce in

the recipe versus you add it after the recipe is complete and

it's served. OK, living out of the fear of

God says this. Jesus said it best.

I only do what my Father has shown me.

I don't have to ask my father whether this is in line with the

fear of God, because I don't do anything except it comes out of

the fear of God. That's a different walk.

That's a different requirement. It requires you to be thinking

of the fear of God first. It requires you to be thinking

of God always first. It requires a complete

abandonment of your to your own plans, your own purposes, and

your own ideas. It doesn't mean that you're not

important and God doesn't have a call on your life.

But it means I am so abandoned to God that the only thing I do

always, anytime, anywhere is out of reverence for who He is.

You don't have to ask me whether what I'm doing is out of the

fear of God because I wouldn't even consider it except it was

out of the fear of God. So with that understanding, it's

important to understand what the fear of God is and remind us of

that. Now we I did a message about

this early on when we first started near the beginning of

the year, fall in and fall out, fear of God.

I kept some of the same visuals references, but just like passes

going back to remind US about the fear of God.

I I have the opportunity to remind us of what the fear of

God is versus what being afraid of God is.

OK, and it's good to have these reminders.

Why? Because the more you grow in

understanding now you see things differently.

OK, and your and your understanding can grow.

So I want to go to fear of versus afraid of.

The fear of God is different than being afraid of God.

Often times in the Bible, the fear of God is always with the

fear of God, but afraid can have no God with it.

OK. The fear of the, the, the, the

fear of God in the Scripture is never like fear.

And you just know it's the fear of God.

It's always fear of God, fear of the Lord.

Now, the Scripture also has the word afraid in it, but it don't

have God around it. I was afraid.

You see what I'm saying? There's no God in that sentence,

in that circle, in that context. The fear of God is always

contextualized around God. Often times in Scripture, the

word fear of God and the word fear comes from the same word,

from the same root. So as I'm suggesting to you, is

this that context determines the meaning.

OK. You cannot understand the fear

of God from the scriptural standpoint without context.

All right, here's an example. I'm going to give you 2

examples. First one Bible example.

Mary said Mary, Jesus, Mama. Mary said Angel said you're

going to have a baby born in the spirit.

Cool. Mary said how can this be?

Somebody else got the same message from the same Angel,

John the Baptist Daddy, He said, how can this be?

Well, Mary, OK, same word, same exact words.

Mary got a whole song for her. My soul does magnify the Lord of

my spirit just rejoices in God my Savior.

Behold, he's looked upon the she got a whole like a whole verse.

She got a whole single. Spotify ran it up.

You know, she got she got all of that.

OK, blessed are you and all that kind of thing.

John the Baptist daddy said. I'm going to shut your mouth,

bro. You ain't going to be able to

say nothing until your son gets born.

Same exact words, but the context of their heart made them

different. The context of why what they

were saying, what they're saying made it different.

Context matters. Now I'm going to give you a more

common example. Annabelle, we good?

We good. We good, we good.

You see it in different ways. Now.

The first time I said we good, she looked we good.

Yeah. So what's all the other we goods

about? I told you it was good the first

time. But you see I'm saying this

something different. We good, Now that's like, you

going to mess around and find out, OK, you go faith around and

find out now we good, we good, right?

Same words, but context makes a difference.

Body context, physical context, who's saying it, who's

listening, right? And that's important to

understand why? Because fearing God is not a

matter of lip service, it's a matter of your own heart

context. OK, you can say you fear God,

but don't. The Bible says that this way.

Your lips are near to me, but your hearts are far from me.

That's why the biggest fact checker in the fear of God in

your life is God and you. It's personal, but that's why it

requires so much of us and for us to you, for you to really

examine where you really are in honesty and in truth.

That's why pride is so dangerous, because pride, for

example, is something that keeps you see wheezing.

Pride is so, so terrible to have because the very nature of that

problem keeps you from knowing that you got a problem with me.

I got a problem. Pride will keep you from even

admitting that you have a problem, right?

And if even if someone tells you you got a problem, pride will

cause you not to listen to them even though they telling you the

problem that you have. OK, but the context of your

heart is so important and the ability to truly render your

heart and be honest with God, let your walls down to to really

examine whether you have a reverence for God that he

deserves is really important. Let's talk about the difference

between afraid of and fear of. Afraid of, afraid of the sin

focused and me focused. Whenever you're talking about

afraid, it's about sin and by self.

Fear is always focused on self. What's going to happen to me?

How am I going to be impacted? What's the results of this?

Something bad's going to happen to me or my family or my

contacts. Afraid of us always sin focused

and me focused. Genesis 3 says this.

This is Adam. I heard you in the garden.

I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.

Now this is really important, OK, at least from an English

translation standpoint. I didn't study every Hebrew and

Greek word before the first two chapters of Genesis, but it's

interesting. This is the first time the word

fear is represented in Scripture, and it comes after

sin. Afraid only came after sin.

And why? Because frayed creates distance

between you and your Father. Before sin, there was no

distance. There was nothing to be afraid

of. That's what he's talking about,

the knowledge of good and evil. You can't.

You got to sin cause you to have a knowledge of some things that

you didn't need to have knowledge of beforehand.

Afraid of and sin focus and me focused and notice how all of

that is in there. I had sinned, I was separated.

I was focused on me and I hid me from you.

Genesis 15 one says this, after this word of the Lord came to

Abraham and Abraham in a vision, God said do not be afraid,

Abraham, I am your shield, your very great reward.

So clearly, if we're supposed to have a fear of the Lord, and

then the word of the Lord says do not be afraid.

He's talking about different things.

He's not going to say that there's a fear of the fear of

me. You ought to have, but don't

have it. He's saying there's something

different here. Don't be afraid.

It's not about I'm not here about sin and you not, and I'm

not here about your own self. I'm here about me.

Notice how much of that sentence has God in it.

I am not. It's not a sentence about Abram.

Do not be afraid, Abram. You are found holy.

Do not be afraid, Abram. You are found worthy.

You didn't talk about Abram here.

He says do not be afraid, Abraham.

I'm your shield. I'm your exceeding great reward.

The fear of God has shown up and he's telling Abraham you don't

need to respond in terror, you just need to respond in

reverence because I'm here and it's all about me.

And that's important to understand that the fear of God

is about God. Reverence all and him.

Focus. The fear of God is about who God

is. The fear of God is about what

God is doing. That's really important.

Why? Because when Jesus came and

delivered us from sin, he didn't deliver us from the fear of God.

If it was fear of God was about being afraid, when we got

delivered from sin, there was nothing to be afraid of.

So therefore there would be No Fear of God.

Actually, the fact He delivered us from sin allows us to walk

more purely in the fear of God. But because there's no sin in

self involved, there's only God and who he is and his power and

his glory. The fear of God is about God.

The fear of God is about reverence and all and, and, and

him and being focused on all of those things.

That's what the fear of God's about.

When God shows up, you start talking about you.

That's you being afraid, not the fear of God.

When God shows up and you start talking about him, that's the

fear of God. You got that.

So you guys that causing you asking you to be afraid of him

in the fear what he's saying is deal what you're saying deal

with yourself. I've done that through Jesus and

recognize who I am recognize my ability to recognize my power

recognize why I've come recognize you better put some

wrong anyway. Now the fear of God.

How many y'all tracking so far? OK, good.

The fear of God can be both in you and on you, in you and on

you. In you, On you, OK, I'm gonna

let you inside my head, right? So I, well, as I said that

right, you practice these things sometimes, I said the fear of

God can be both in you and on you.

And what my mind really went to is that I whipped my hair back

and forth and that's about my mind.

My my mind went about why I went there and you and on you.

Anyway, the fear of God can be both in you and on you.

You know you're not really in the fear of God.

There's no joy there. The bar Jesus says this in the

in the gospels that the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace

and joy. If you have no joy, you got a 2

legged stool or two legged table.

OK, Joy has stability, not distraction.

When you understand it, the fear of God can be both in you and on

you. It is, yes, important for you to

have a fear of God, but there's a fear of God that comes on you

that's vitally important for your witness in the earth and

for what God's doing in the earth.

OK, So what is the, we're going to talk about that in a little

bit. So you got it.

Frayed fear of God, reverence, all worship, fear of God can be

in you versus on you. OK, so I want to go to some

essentials. I thought you'd get that one.

I thought you'd get that one. Fear God essentials.

OK, now if y'all are in the faster, y'all know what that

means? You know, y'all saw what I was

doing right there, right? Now, that brand was developed by

a Christian guys. That's my understanding.

OK, Christian guy, right? But this is the problem with the

fear of God. And in some senses, yes, it's a

exaltation of God and a Christian statement.

But it's more judgment than a Christian statement, I believe.

Why? How many folks walk around with

the Fear of a God sweatshirt with essentials on it and don't

fear God? How many are clothed in the fear

of God but have none in their heart?

How many are more thinking about it as a statement of how my my

my brand is a statement of my, of my belief, of my posture, of

my place in the world, but have No Fear of God?

How many folks don't want the Fear of God clothes but the name

on a on a $50 sweatshirt is enough?

I want as little as I can but be identified with as much of it as

I can. I don't want to spend $500 on

the shirt and the 7:50 for the pants.

All I want is a $50 sweatshirt and just to fall into the brand

Fear God should be more than that.

It shouldn't be something you have to put on your chest to let

people know you do. It'll be something in your life

that people reflect back to you clearly.

You fear God, man. That's one of the differences

between the end and the on. So fear of God Essentials 1

reverent, trusting, resting and relying on God's word.

Not the God's word, but relying on God's word.

I had first there relying on the word and I changed it to God's

word, but we forgot to take out the the Why did I change it?

Thank you for asking. Because thank you.

You think I felt. I felt the ask.

I felt the ask. I felt the ask.

Yeah. I felt the critique too.

I felt, I felt. I felt a little of the shade.

You're a lawyer man. How you?

Yeah, I felt the shade. But the fear of gods that gonna

have me just walk right past that and go to the interest

rather than the shade. Why did I change it?

Because when I say the word, often times we think of the

Scripture. When I say God's word, that

means everyone in the book and everyone that He speaks.

That was my marker. It's a reverence for all of

God's word, not just the written word, but the spoken word as

well. It is essential that the walk in

the fear of God. You have to reverend reverence

for God's word. You can't say I fear God and

have no reverence for His Word. I'm not talking about you take a

Bible and you put on a shelf and put a light on it and you bow

down before it. That's idolatry.

I'm talking about a reverence for when God speaks it means

something to you. A reverence that says I'm not

going to bend the Word to fit my circumstance, even if it goes

against what my desire is. I'm going to say God have mercy

on me. Help me to fit what the Word

says rather than make the Word fit without how I want to live.

A reverence for the Word says this, that the Old Testament is

as important as the New Testament because it's all God's

word. And the Old Testament gives me a

context for understanding the New Testament.

It's a reverence and a trusting and relying on the Word of God.

You cannot have a fear of God that goes beyond your the Word

of God. When the fear of God shows up,

often times it's because a word has been preached and been

released and it's your receiving of that word that brings the

fear of God. Pastor comes up and we're and

we're ministering and and doing things and he says this, the

Lord is here. How much reverence do you have

for that declaration? The Lord is here.

God is here. How much do you go like, yeah,

yo, thanks pastor, and take a drink.

How much do you take that moment?

And with reverence in your heart said the Lord is here.

And with the reverence of your heart, you take a beat and you

say glory to God out of just recognition of the announcement

that God is here, the reverence for the word of God, you know.

Vancouver Whitecaps holla They doing something for a change.

Miami FC came up, Messi came up, right?

Not not not the first time Messi came up.

He created a messy OK, we got to get a better one man, work on it

OK, that's the homework. OK, He created a messy.

Why the word of messy coming caused people to change their

lives. The word of messy coming the

first time 'cause people to sell stuff and buy $1000 tickets,

arrange their Dimes, arrange their dates, get off work,

transfer things. The word of messy coming was

enough for people to say I'm going to change my life and

respond as if it's true. They had a reverence for The

word of messy coming, and when he didn't show up, they got

upset. Why?

Because I changed my life for that word.

OK, he came up this time and he put pictures up ready.

Folks made changes, but it wasn't the same.

All of a sudden, they don't believe him at the word as much

anymore. But yet a lot of people still

made those same changes even though he didn't come up the

first time. If people are going to have that

kind of reverence for the word of Messi, how much want should

we have reverence for the word of God?

And this is what Pastor's talking about.

On Sunday, Pastor will say on Wednesday, we'll be here

declaring the word. How many of you all say, my God,

I've got to be there for the word of God to be declared and

hear it or how many of y'all go like a good pastor?

You know I'm busy though, right? How much reverence do you have

for the word of God? It's not a we're not trying to

train you and bind you to a chair.

We're checking your heart posture with it.

We're giving you objective measures by which you can check

your heart, right. It's not about you necessarily

being here for everything. I don't like your excuse me, You

don't have to be here that that much, right?

No, really, it's not about behind in a in a seat.

It's about your heart posture. When someone says I've God has

let me know that the guy's going to release his word afresh and a

new on Wednesday. How many y'all go?

I went last Wednesday. Why don't y'all try living off

last Wednesday's breath today and see how that's going to work

for you? Let's, let's try living off last

Wednesday's meal where they haven't eaten nothing but since

that time and this and see that's going to work for you.

Reverence for the Word of God, because the Word of God also

includes Jesus because He is the living Word.

Deuteronomy 8 says this. And he humbled you and allows

you to hunger, and he fed you with manna, which you did not

know, nor did your Father's know.

Sometimes God, you know, the pastor talked about appointed

sufferings. He says he allowed you to hunger

because he's trying to show you something bigger than your belly

that he might make you recognize and personally know that man

does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that

proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

That's a Deuteronomy. See Matthew 4 down there.

That's what Jesus quotes when he quotes to the to the devil and

the temptation. That's the verse.

It's not a New Testament thing to live by every word that

proceeds out of the mouth of God.

It's an Old Testament reference. And why is that critically

important? Because the Old Testament only

had the oral word of God. The Old Testament posture was we

come into a Tabernacle, the half priest goes in and he brings a

word from God out to us. What is God saying today for us?

What is God speaking today to us?

The prophets of the Old Testament were charged with

going and hearing the word of the Lord and bringing the word

of the Lord. What am I speaking to is having

reverence for what God is saying.

So when you come into this experience and God releases a

word unto you from the anointed servants and messengers He gives

you, that is, it's important to Revere that as much as you would

this written word. You Revere them the same, but

you hold them differently. If the written word doesn't

change, it anchors you differently.

The spoken word you Revere, but you write it.

You go back to it. They continually refine your

hearing to make sure that what God has said is what you

actually heard. We're back in the back and I

asked the music team about a song.

I said, listen, I'm talking about the fear of God.

And I say, where's the fear of God in this song?

And someone, you know, eventually asked a question.

He says, well, if there's No Fear of God in the song, then,

you know, tell me what song would have the fear of God in

it? And I told him I didn't say it

wasn't any fear of God in the song, but someone heard me ask,

where is it? And heard that as being there is

none. I didn't say there was none.

The challenge was you tell me where it is so I can anchor and

be ready to celebrate and and get myself dialed in and see it

the way you see it. That's the importance of the

when you get a verbal word of the Lord of writing it down, you

have to do that work. Why?

Because your lens will cause you to hear something different than

what was said. So you Revere them the same, but

you hold them differently. OK, if you got keys, everyone

say keys. The written word is the master

key. I don't make copy.

I don't cut keys off the master. I take the master key and I make

one copy. Then I make my copies off the

copy. I don't make my copies off the

master because every time I take the master and make a copy, I

degrade the master key and eventually over time the master

key won't be able to master anything.

The written word is the master key.

I hold that differently than I do the copies of the keys that I

made. Both can open locks.

Both. If they're lost, someone can get

in and take my stuff. I hold them differently, but I

reference them the same. Makes sense.

Hebrews 9 verse 4 says this. It had the golden altar of

Hebrews 9:4

incense with the Ark of the Covenant.

It had the golden altar of incense in the Ark of the

Covenant, covered with over with rock gold.

The ark contained a golden jar which helped the manner we just

we just we just reference that that being the word of the Lord

and the rod of Aaron resurrection life or life and

slabs of the covenant to take commandments, which is more of

the word. So in the ark of the covenant

was the written word the the the given word of God and the life

of God represented. Jesus says my words are spirit

and they are life. At the heart of the ark was the

Word. At the heart of the glory was

the Word. At the heart of the power and

the presence that went before Israel and destroyed enemies as

represented by the ark was the Word of God.

There is No Fear of God truly without a reference for the Word

of God. And if you can sit every day and

not read it, If you can come and he give it and not take a note.

If you can listen to it and not apply it.

If you think it's because you got up yesterday and today that

you don't get up tomorrow and it's not God's life and breath,

the word sustaining you, that you are not referencing the word

of God the way that you should. When you think Sunday coming to

church is an optional thing or fit within my calendar, you're

not referencing the word of God the way that you should.

When you come to church late and on your own time with a heart

posture, whatever you want to come in here with rather than a

heart to glorify God and and to receive that, you're not

reverencing the word of God the way that you should.

That's not a get on. That's a coach up because y'all

here so y'all here. So don't get condemnation by

that. Let that challenge you.

Just challenge your heart posture and say, man, am I late

because I want to be or as I'm late because I have no choice

but to be? Challenge your own heart posture

because you cannot have the fear of God without a reverence for

the Word of God. Amen, Amen.

That's Part 1. I know, it's so good, right?

Right. It's so good.

Part 2 is even better. So I encourage you to come on

back for Part 2. I'm going to close out in

prayer. Let's take a moment and let the

Spirit of God just shift your heart a little bit.

I'm going to close out in a prayer.

You can sit, you can stand. It's up to you.

Father, forgive us what? We haven't reverenced your word.

We say we fear you, God, but we haven't reverenced your word in

a way that reflects it. We haven't honored your word and

taking you at your word in the way that says we trust you and

know that you're a God. Know that you're immutable.

Know that you don't change your mind.

Know that you're all powerful. God.

Forgive us what we have and honored and reverenced your

Word. Father, we're asking that by

your Spirit and by your grace that the anointing of God will

flow upon us and our community and this church and everyone

under the sound of my voice to bring us a place of reverencing

the Word of God. Reverencing the Word of God out

of the fear of God. Not out of idolatry, not out of

the manipulation, not out of control, not out of self help,

not out of wanting a better life or a better lifestyle.

Let us reverence the Word of God because it comes from a gloving

father and an omnipotent, gracious Almighty God.

Let a let a reverence for the word of God, all of it, the hard

parts, the soft parts, the thorny parts, the sweet parts,

the bitter parts, the challenging parts.

Let us have a reverence for it all, God, the written word, the

spoken word, every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God

when it's in a wisdom session or prophetic word from a platform.

God, we're asking for a change of heart by your grace.

We're asking God to let us be really rooted in a reverence and

a fear of the word of God unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A reverence for the Word of God that so strikes us to the core

that when we read it, we read it with the fear of trembling.

Not a fall back, but a fall. Lynch, you say God, I'm Speaking

of community with my Father and the make of the universe.

Let's reverence the Word of God so completely that we speak it

with power and authority, knowing that the word we're

speaking is the word of the God of the universe.

Father, we thank you for a reverence for the Word of God

transform our lives. God, we yield our hearts.

We render hearts. What does random mean?

We open our hearts ourselves. We tear away the pride

ourselves. We tear away the issues

ourselves. We tear away the idolatry

ourselves. We tear away all the things that

have gotten in the way, the things that we've built.

We tear them away God and open ourselves up God with the works

of our own hands. We cast down our own idols that

we might Revere the Word of God in the way that allows us to

walk more fully in the fear of God, because we understand God.

That sometimes the fear of God follows the reverence for the

Word, not the other way around. You've already said your son

Jesus. There can be no greater display

of your love and your power and your authority than that.

And if the Word of Jesus is not enough to get us to fear you and

reverence you God, then your appearing in a flame of fire in

our midst will be insufficient. So Father, we reverence your

word for it leads us to you. We reverence your word for we

can stand on it. We reverence your word for us, a

light into our path, a lamp into our feet.

It guides us at times of darkness and trial and

challenge. It sustains us and anchors us

and it cures us and it establishes us.

God, God, we are people who fear the fear the Lord because we're

people who reverence the word of the Lord in Jesus name.

Hey man, hey man, hey man, now don't clap yet.

Don't clap yet. Put them on purposely clap.

But you heard that prayer and even more than heard that

prayer. Hopefully you felt that prayer.

And if you agree with what was prayed, if you feeling, what was

the, the, the feeling that was released, if you're really

saying God, yes, that's me. Count me in on that with a

sincerity, not a Patty cake thing at the end because someone

stopped speaking. If you really believe that, then

let your clap reflect that heart consecration to God.

Now you can clap at the end of the prayer.

Now the time to clap. But let your clap reflect God.

Yes, that's what I want. Transfer transform me.

It's Jesus name. Amen, Amen.

This week we got round ball this Friday at 9:00 PM.

Big game. We're playing our rivals, the

Blue Devils. Be there.

Mother's Day is coming up. May 11th be there.

Immerse Worship Vancouver recurring for returns May 25.

Be there and immerse. The worship of Victoria at the

moment looks like it's going to be June 7.

Be there, but more important, let that word hit you.

Retain it, tend it, care for it. The fear of God, there's a power

in it. Father, thank you for your word

alive. Thank you Lord for the fear of

God that draws us to you. Thank you that your word will

produce greatly. We praise you for what you have

for us in Jesus name, Amen. Maybe out of time, never out of

the Spirit of God. Till next time get your love

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