Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15, and the title of today's post is Watered Down Wine.

For the past two days, I've been sharing on Proverbs 29, 25, which refers to the fear of man as a snare.

The Passion Translation says,

Intimidation is a trap that holds you back.

And the message Bible reads,

The fear of human opinion disables.

Indeed, the fear of human opinion leads to people-pleasing, compromised values, peer pressure, and political correctness, or I should say yielding to peer pressure.

A desire in the church to be viewed by the world as progressive and tolerant is a snare

Satan has used to conform people into his way of thinking.

The need to be liked and accepted outweighs the Word of God to many believers, causing compromise,

lukewarmness, and a lack of fruit. The damage has been catastrophic to our nation,

causing the spiritual decay of three generations.

I was ready to move on from this subject, but felt the Lord prompting me to do one more

post on it.

Today, I'm going to share three references that give us pictures and further insights into this

trap called the Fear of Man.

The first is Aaron.

The first one is in Exodus 32.

Moses had been on Mount Sinai for several weeks,

receiving the laws and ordinances of God for Israel.

After being gone so long, the people began to think he might never return.

Perhaps we need another God to help us, since Moses, who represented Yahweh, is evidently not coming back, they thought.

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