First Pure 6

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before Him (Ecc 8:12).

The righteous have a holy, humble, affectionate, and obedient fear of God. The eye of God is upon those that fear Him, and His heart is towards them. It goes well with them that fear God at death and at the Judgment. Their fear of God is hearty and sincere, not in show only, but in reality, in the sight of God. They have a sense of God's omniscience and omnipresence before them. The fear of God is when you dread sinning against a loving God, and the fear of the Lord constrains us to be obedient to the Lord's commands, trying to please Him. The fear of the Lord is the fear and avoidance of committing sins, because those sins slew the Savior. Our hunger is for purity, not for vice. We fear offending our loving heavenly Father. The fear of the Lord makes us hate the thing of the flesh we once loved, and love the things of the Lord we once hated. Your darling Sin is now your worst enemy. Our master-motive should be to please God. Power in prayer and purity in life go together.

The fear of God is not before the rebel sinner's eyes, nor in his heart, he goes on in sin without any fear of his Maker. He boldly and openly commits sin, and instead of being shameful for it, or repenting of it, he glories in his shame. He bids defiance to God, and desires not the knowledge of God, and refuses to obey Him.

Always remember, regard, reverence, and respect the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh. Every sin you commit offends and grieves God; and if you fear God, you will want to depart from the evil you are committing that is offending your good and gracious Maker.  To respect and obey, admiration and awe, esteem His words and will, fear to grieve God's heart, deferential to God's will, sensing His presence, allegiance to Christ's cause, dreading anything that would vex or displease the Lord, avoiding things that will grieve the Spirit of God, obedience, self-denial, temperance, hating evil, departing from evil, and abstaining from the appearance of evil.

Don't disappoint, ignore, insult, neglect, or slight the Lord. Remember God is always watching and listening, Care about what God thinks. Lord direct my heart. Don't insult, offend, or demean the Lord. Faith is pleasing the Lord. Integrity, moral purity, telling the truth, upright ethical behavior at home, church, on the job, in private and public. Fear God - to cower before the King of Heaven, hold God in high esteem, to take God seriously, to honor who He is, to obey what God says, have respect and reverence for God not taking God lightly. Believe in God, worship God, love God, be kept back from evil by the thought of God, moved to good by the sincere desire to please God.

The world treats God's word flippantly, and heeds His commands casually.

When suffering, trouble, and pain comes then we dust off the Bible, we get reacquainted with God. Don't take God for granted. Reverence God now.

Lost men experiment with sin, they think they deserve a little sin, they think they will get away with sin, they have connections, things get swept under the rug.

We must be real, righteous, reverent, resistant to self and sin, integrity and honesty, reverence toward God and His things, parenting with godly purpose. We are not immune to trouble, or exempt from storms of life. Care for souls, love for Christ, private prayer, secret fellowship with Christ, comfort and communion of the Holy Ghost.

A religious moral man tries not do wrong in act, but a God-fearing man hates the thought of doing wrong; the religious man does not swear, but a Christian man adores the Lord; a moral man doesn't want to commit outward sin, but a man who love purity strives not to commit inward sin. The fear of the Lord is walking with God, not the thought of God merely, or reading about God, or talking about God, but actually walking practically with God and pleasing the Lord in your daily life in private and public.

A fear which a child has lest it should grieve its parent. Trust to God as your Father, Provider, and Friend. The spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit of God bears witness with your spirit that you are born of God.