BENEFITS OF GOD-FEARERS
The Fear of God • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Blake Kelsal
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INTRO:
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits, and their habits decide their futures.
F. M. Alexander
Learn to enjoy where you are, on the way to where you are going.
MESSAGE: THE BENEFITS OF GOD-FEARERS
It is not often that fear benefits anyone, but God-Fearing leads to a whole list of benefits:
29 Oh, that they would always have hearts like this, that they might fear me and obey all my commands! If they did, they and their descendants would prosper forever.
2 and you and your children and grandchildren must fear the Lord your God as long as you live. If you obey all his decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life.
39 But the Lord your God you shall fear; and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”
12 Who are those who fear the Lord? He will show them the path they should choose.
18 But the Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love.
19 He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine.
9 Fear the Lord, you his godly people, for those who fear him will have all they need.
2 “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.
3 On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
31 The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord. And with the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it also grew in numbers.
34 Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism.
35 In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.
1. GOD-FEARERS EXPERIENCE ANSWERED PRAYERS
a. He will be faithful to His promises
b. God promised Abraham he would be the father of many nations.
i. Sarah was barren / God was faithful…ISAAC the line that Jesus would be born of
Abraham wants to find a wife for him
Servant can’t take his son with him, he said an angel of the LORD will go before you. (v. 7)
12 “O Lord, God of my master, Abraham,” he prayed. “Please give me success today, and show unfailing love to my master, Abraham.
13 See, I am standing here beside this spring, and the young women of the town are coming out to draw water.
14 This is my request. I will ask one of them, ‘Please give me a drink from your jug.’ If she says, ‘Yes, have a drink, and I will water your camels, too!’—let her be the one you have selected as Isaac’s wife. This is how I will know that you have shown unfailing love to my master.”
STORY: Rebekah offers. he had 10 camels, and after a long journey one camel could drink 30-50 Gallons of water taking 15 minutes. That is large commitment.
ii. Isaac marries a women that was barren. HE CRIES OUT
21 Isaac pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The Lord answered Isaac’s prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.
Isaac pleaded; cried out to the LORD
Did it shock GOD that Rebekah was barren?
She had twins: Jacob and Esau
2. GOD-FEARERS ARE FEARLESS
23 Fear of the Lord leads to life, bringing security and protection from harm.
STORY: Societal Fear: PG 230 Awe of God
John Bevere told the story in his book of a lady that was delivered from fear at a service he did in his hometown. The next evening she returned home from shopping and with her daughter and was met with 3 guys with knives and guns. Ordering them in the house (steal, rape, and murder them) She responded in a way she never dreamed she would. She refused to go inside and started praying outside. She said her confidence, strength, and peace grew the more she cried out to God in prayer. The men started shaking and yelling at her to stop praying; meanwhile the daughter had ran inside to call for help and the men fled; scared.
b. TULLY - GUN in East Moline
c. The Fear of the LORD leads us to surrender everything and everyone to Jesus.
d. Any fear in your life only identifies the areas you haven’t fully placed under the cross
Kids safety? don’t let the enemy place you in bondage in fear.
David vs Goliath
Elijah vs Prophets of Baal
Shaddrack, MeShack, and Abendigo
Daniel
3. GOD-FEARERS LEAVE GODLY LEGACIES
a. Webster defines legacy - Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor.
b. Back to Abraham
17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
i. Double reference indicates multiplication. One verb tense is present tense to Abraham; and the other verb tense is future tense.
ii. God was saying He would bless Abraham and his children.
c. STORY:
i. Max Jukes:
In 1874 Richard Dugdale visited 13 county jails in New York and discovered 6 people under 4 different family names that were blood relatives. It led back to a dutch settler names Max Jukes (1720-1740). It led to years of research and he found: 540 descendants of Jukes.
- 76 convicted criminals
- 18 brothel keepers
- 120 prostitutes
- more 200 government relief recipients
Summary…generational sin led dysfunction from generation to generation and cost the government millions of dollars
ii. Jonathon Edwards
- Married Sarah Pierpont in 1727
- Feared God and read Bible together
- Had 11 children
- 1394 known descendants
- 13 college or university presidents
- 65 Professors
- 3 United States Senators
- 30 Judges
- 100 lawyers
- 60 doctors
- 75 army and navy officers
- 100 minister and missionaries
- 60 authors of prominence
- 1 vice president (Aaron Burr)
This offspring didn’t cost the government one penny
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table.
4 That is the Lord’s blessing for those who fear him.
4. GOD-FEARERS EXPERIENCE GOD’S MERCY
50 He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear him.
ALTAR:
Cry out to God (answered prayers)
Trade in your fears for the FEAR OF THE LORD (fearless)
Leave a Legacy
Receive His mercy