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Acts chapter 9 verse 31.

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up and walking in the fear of

the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it multiplied.

Oh, what a great picture of the church.

It's being built up, the church is growing. It's multiplying but listen to this to scripture

Walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit

That is the kind of church I want to be a part of.

I want to play a part of leading a church toward that end.

So walking in the fear of the Lord. This is the way God has designed

his people, his church to walk in the fear of him. So what does that mean like

to fear him?

Like we know it doesn't mean to be afraid of him,

his punishment toward our sin, when our sin has been paid for by Christ on the cross that we don't

have to fear his wrath in that sense.

At the same time, we do fear

going back to our sin in a way that dishonors

God in a way that makes light of what Jesus has done on the cross.

And there is a real fear.

When I look in the Bible and I see Isaiah trembling before God, I see Ezra falling on his face before God and fear.

See all kinds of different pictures, even the disciples, when they realize who Jesus is and they're afraid that with increasing

knowledge of God and awareness of who he is, there's an increasing fear that just stands in awe of him that is

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