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Amen. I've been teaching on the fear of God and I hadn't even got time to go back and verify

the things that I was saying.

But the first night I talked from Psalms chapter 36, verse 1 that the transgression of the wicked

says within my heart there is no fear of God before his eyes.

And so I've been teaching on the fear of God and talking about how we need this in our society

and in our own personal lives. The people that don't know the Lord personally should not only have a

fear, a reverence for God, but they ought to have a dread of God if they don't accept Jesus.

There is coming judgment and hell is a real place. And so if they had that,

I use this other scripture, Proverbs 166, it says by mercy and truth,

iniquity is purged and by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil. Fear of God,

knowing that we are going to be accountable to God would restrain evil in people

who aren't even born again if they knew that someday they were going to be accountable.

They wouldn't have mass shootings and then shoot themselves thinking that they escaped judgment.

They would know that they just ushered themselves into judgment.

So anyway, I've talked about those things, and there's so much.

There's literally hundreds of verses in the Bible about the fear of the Lord.

It talks about the fear of the Lord is a key to long life.

Did you know you'll live longer if you fear the Lord, and this is talking to believers,

if you'll reverence God? Man's just so many scriptures let me use some here today to make this point in psalms 111 verse 10 it says the

fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all they that do his commandments, his praise endureth forever.

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