The Fear of the Lord
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Stories
Stories
In 2017, Zander Venezia, a teenage budding pro-surfer died while surfing. It wasn’t a shark attack. It wasn’t rocks on the shore or under the waves. It wasn’t any of those things. Zander Venezia was surfing during a hurricane.
An entirely different scene, but one of incredibly similar heights of brilliance, is the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. In a festivity honoring Saint Fermin (apparently he’s not actually the patron saint of stupid decisions in the proximity of large animals), upwards of a dozen bulls are released down sectioned off roads leading to the stadium. Each year approximately 50 to 100 people are injured when they run ahead of the bulls.
Poor Chastity Eugina Hopson was so worried about her possibly-tainted meth that she actually contacted the police about it. Officers at the Granite Shoals Police Department in Texas were trying to catch the county's dumbest drug users when they posted a fake Facebook story about Ebola-tainted meth. The post said, "If you have recently purchased meth or heroin in Central Texas, please take it to the local police or sheriff department so it can be screened with a special device. DO NOT use it until it has been properly checked for possible Ebola contamination!""
Hopson, 29, saw the post and was understandably afraid that her meth could be... wait for it... dangerous. She responded to the department's post on Facebook, and they gladly took her sample in for "testing." Hobson was charged with possession of less than one gram of a controlled substance.
Introduction
Introduction
As different as these three stories are, I believe they share a fundamental aspect.
In the first story, Zander Venezia lacked an appreciation for the danger and power of the hurricane.
In the second story, the runners failed to appreciate the danger the bulls presented.
In the third story, Eugina Hopson failed to appreciate the danger of being in a criminal state and contacting the police.
In each story, the lacking thing was the proper place of fear.
Concept Introduction
Concept Introduction
There is a part of the Bible I think we often overlook. We say it, we read the verses, we even memorize and repeat them. But we don’t really look at what is being said. Sometimes, the things we don’t really want to look at in the Bible, are the things we most need to look at.
Today, we are going to look at the Fear of the Lord.
Passage Introduction
Passage Introduction
Proverbs 1:7 (NET)
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Relevant Passages
Relevant Passages
English Standard Version (Chapter 6)
Isaiah 6:1-5 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;the whole earth is full of his glory!”4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”
English Standard Version (Chapter 33)
Exodus 33:18-23 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 21 And the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”