Fear of the Lord

[IreneM]

Do you fear the Lord??

Psl. 111:10

10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

We can fear the Lord and yet love Him

When I think of how close I want to be to Him and how far away from Him I am it breaks my heart.

We are all made pure and sinless in His sight but I feel so unworthy of His love His forgiveness, His mercy and Grace......

we no longer take responsbility for our sin we no longer humbly repent before the Lord we no longer get on our knees before the Lord and I think it is because we no longer fear the Lord.........

we= the body of christians

Any thoughts

In Christ

IreneM

[Trinity]

Do i fear the LORD?

Let me be the first to say "Not like i should." I always think God is love, he wouldn't do that to me...

well God never changes he has struck down people in the Church for lying, how many times do we lie and because of his grace he doesn't strike us dead? God never changes and he has stuck people down, yet i fool myself by thinking God can't do that... That is a lie from Hell, yet it always gets me

The scripture i was reffering to is Acts 5

[johnnyc]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Proverbs 9:10

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matt 10:28

God has high expectations; high standards.

Salvation is free, but the upkeep is expensive.

We must surrender our life to Him, become obedient to His word. Daily.

Romans 12:1,2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Our Bible lets us know we must be born again. (John 3:3). That born again life must be manifested in our life daily.

Gal. 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal 5:22-24

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

We owe Him more than lip service, and He will not accept less than a holiness life from us. (Eph 5:27)

He sent the Holy Spirit to help us. The Holy Spirit is not weak. (John 14:26 and John 15:26)

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:11-14)

Truly, our new life in Him must be manifested daily. We are His hands and feet and mouth (voice) here on earth, 'till He comes again. (Matt 5:13-16)

Edited March 13, 2005 by johnnyc

[IreneM]

I think the closer we come to the Lord the more we know how very much we need Him

When we spend time with Him the more we relize how unworthy we are

We we can boldly enter into His presense just the thougth of that humbles me

We need His word in us and we need to stand on it and the more we do that the more we realize just how much in need of a Saviour we are,

I praise Him for my Salvation but know I am so unworthy

I Worship Him for His death on the Cross and realize that I did not diserve it

The Bible is full of promises to those who love Him and all I can do is stand on those promeses..

Remember that old song STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY KING

today we as christians have no modesty no shame in how we dress especially women and we have no shame in what we read watch on TV or who we associate with, becuase we have no fear of the Lord..............

Sad is it not, that the body of Christ is so fearless !!!!!

In Christ

IreneM

[tsth]

So true.

In His Love,

Suzanne

[Guest angelicvoice]

yes i do ..the bible says a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.....i work on it daily though...

[bukeye2745]

Praise ye The Lord.

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord.

That delighteth greatly in His commandments.

His seed shall be mighty upon earth:

The generation of the upright shall be blessed.

I'm ashamed to say that it was mainly fear that finally got my dumb head straight.

[IreneM]

that could be said about alot of us, but then we Love the Lord and the fear is a differnt kind of fear I think.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God (sermon by Johnethen Edwards-sp)

We are so unworthy and we know it what of all the people who do not know it and have no fear? That is tragic !!!

In Christ

IreneM

[Keith]

May I recommend a book by John Bevere called "The Fear of the Lord"? It's a great read. Has anyone read it? I think this topic needs to be preached more often, and correctly, in church. Far too many Christians, and more unfortunately, non-Christians, have a gross misunderstanding as what it really means to "fear" the Lord.

In my opinion, three of the most under-preached topics are....

Sin/Repentence

Humility

Fear of the Lord

[gypc]

Thanks for posting some great wisdom again IreneM!