Offering Our Best: The True Fear of God
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"The man who fears God does not try to get some honor for himself. He tries to cover it up. The man who fears God will cover up his sacrifices, the sacrifices he makes in secret to God, so that nobody knows about it. We're just going to worship. Why you stopped here, Abraham? Well, we're just gonna... the mountain is a good place to worship." [00:25:50]
"Mount Moriah, where Abraham offered up Isaac, when Abraham did that, that was the reason why God said, 'Go there. That's where I'm going to build the temple one day.' He couldn't have chosen any place he liked, and that became so sacred to God. I mean, in God's eyes, that he said, 'The place where a man offered the very best that he had to me, that's the place where I'll build my church.'" [00:27:44]
"David's insistence on paying for his sacrifice teaches us that true offerings to God must come at a personal cost. This challenges us to evaluate our own offerings, ensuring they are given out of genuine sacrifice, not convenience. I will not offer to God that which costs me nothing. I'll give you a little testimony." [00:31:01]
"When God sees you're very diligent in studying the scripture, he'll reveal truths to you that nobody else ever knows. I've discovered some amazing things like that. And I see that here is the place where David came to the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite in Second Chronicles 24 and verse 18 onwards, where the Lord told him, 'Go to the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.'" [00:30:03]
"Dear brothers and sisters, I recommend that to you. Say to God, 'I will never offer to you that which costs me nothing.' You'll find a tremendous difference in your life if you take it seriously. That's the place where the temple was built. That's the place where Abraham proved that he feared God, and that's the place where David proved that he feared God." [00:33:27]
"Abraham tells this 22-year-old man, 'Lie down there. I'm going to kill you now.' 'Dad, you're going to kill me?' 'Yes, God's told me to kill you. You ought to be the sacrifice.' This 22-year-old young man lies down there. 'Okay, Dad, I trust you.' You're a very blessed parent if your 22-year-old son or daughter will do something really hard and say, 'Mom, Dad, I trust you.'" [00:34:09]
"With a father like that, you can believe that such fathers will raise such sons who are obedient even to be willing to be killed by the father. And then as Abraham lifts up his hand, it says in verse 10, his hand is up there when God stops him. So God waits to the last minute to see, 'Will this guy really obey me, or he's just trying to act?'" [00:36:18]
"A man who fears God is willing to be flexible when God says, 'No, I don't want you to do it.' I'll give you an example of how that happened with me. When I was around 23, 24 years old, I really feared God. I was studying the scriptures, and I always say, 'Lord, speak to me from the scriptures. I want to obey everything you say.'" [00:37:09]
"To learn to fear God, to obey, to be flexible if God says, 'Now don't do that,' the secret of it all is to be able to hear God. And how much God, if you want to know how much God wants people who fear him, let me tell you another thing. The book of Genesis was written by Moses about 1500 years before Christ." [00:42:49]
"If you want to know how eager God is to have men and women who fear God, who turn away from evil, and who are upright in everything, you've got to just ask yourself, 'What is the first verse that God in his great love and wisdom wrote for man?' There was a man, there was a woman who feared God." [00:45:09]
"Dear brothers and sisters, be that man, be that woman today. Amen." [00:45:31]
"Job lived 2,000 years before Christ. He's not... he's the only one in the Bible who's not a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. All the others who wrote scripture, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or some connection with them. I mean, Luke was not, but he's connected to the apostles." [00:43:59]
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"Mount Moriah, where Abraham offered up Isaac, when Abraham did that, that was the reason why God said, 'Go there. That's where I'm going to build the temple one day.' He couldn't have chosen any place he liked, and that became so sacred to God. I mean, in God's eyes, that he said, 'The place where a man offered the very best that he had to me, that's the place where I'll build my church.'" [00:27:44]
"David's insistence on paying for his sacrifice teaches us that true offerings to God must come at a personal cost. This challenges us to evaluate our own offerings, ensuring they are given out of genuine sacrifice, not convenience. I will not offer to God that which costs me nothing. I'll give you a little testimony." [00:31:01]
"When God sees you're very diligent in studying the scripture, he'll reveal truths to you that nobody else ever knows. I've discovered some amazing things like that. And I see that here is the place where David came to the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite in Second Chronicles 24 and verse 18 onwards, where the Lord told him, 'Go to the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.'" [00:30:03]
"Dear brothers and sisters, I recommend that to you. Say to God, 'I will never offer to you that which costs me nothing.' You'll find a tremendous difference in your life if you take it seriously. That's the place where the temple was built. That's the place where Abraham proved that he feared God, and that's the place where David proved that he feared God." [00:33:27]
"Abraham tells this 22-year-old man, 'Lie down there. I'm going to kill you now.' 'Dad, you're going to kill me?' 'Yes, God's told me to kill you. You ought to be the sacrifice.' This 22-year-old young man lies down there. 'Okay, Dad, I trust you.' You're a very blessed parent if your 22-year-old son or daughter will do something really hard and say, 'Mom, Dad, I trust you.'" [00:34:09]
"With a father like that, you can believe that such fathers will raise such sons who are obedient even to be willing to be killed by the father. And then as Abraham lifts up his hand, it says in verse 10, his hand is up there when God stops him. So God waits to the last minute to see, 'Will this guy really obey me, or he's just trying to act?'" [00:36:18]
"A man who fears God is willing to be flexible when God says, 'No, I don't want you to do it.' I'll give you an example of how that happened with me. When I was around 23, 24 years old, I really feared God. I was studying the scriptures, and I always say, 'Lord, speak to me from the scriptures. I want to obey everything you say.'" [00:37:09]
"To learn to fear God, to obey, to be flexible if God says, 'Now don't do that,' the secret of it all is to be able to hear God. And how much God, if you want to know how much God wants people who fear him, let me tell you another thing. The book of Genesis was written by Moses about 1500 years before Christ." [00:42:49]
"If you want to know how eager God is to have men and women who fear God, who turn away from evil, and who are upright in everything, you've got to just ask yourself, 'What is the first verse that God in his great love and wisdom wrote for man?' There was a man, there was a woman who feared God." [00:45:09]
"Dear brothers and sisters, be that man, be that woman today. Amen." [00:45:31]
"Job lived 2,000 years before Christ. He's not... he's the only one in the Bible who's not a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. All the others who wrote scripture, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or some connection with them. I mean, Luke was not, but he's connected to the apostles." [00:43:59]
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