I'm sorry, 19. A great psalm to learn, to quote, especially we sing the last part of it. But it's got that statement in it that I've been using. And it's amazing how much, how many times it's in the Bible to fear God. And it'll be in this passage of scripture I'm gonna speak about tonight. And this time it means to please. You're out to please him. And that's really what it's all about in this particular incident. It's shocking the different ways that that word is used, fear the Lord. But I hope that maybe each time we can drink in the truth enough to where we understand just why it's so important. It's in the Old New Testament, all through the Old Testament, all through the Psalms, all through Proverbs, you read about fearing the Lord. And sometimes it really means exactly like we think of. It means, like it says in Corinthians, knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade man. I guarantee you, When that earth opened up and swallowed those people before Moses, when they were giving Moses a hard time, God told him what to do and told him pray. And certainly, I'll guarantee there was great fear in that congregation when that earth opened up and they dropped up into hell. Alive into hell, that's what it says. So there is a times, there is times that is important. that we realize that we must fear His judgment, and He will judge us for sure. Alright, Psalms 19. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech, nor language, where their voice is not heard. There's no place in the world that they can't look up with faith and realize there's a God in heaven that's speaking to them with his wonders, with his works, his handiwork. It's there, it's there for nobody can say, you know, I didn't know there was a God. The Bible is telling you here, also in Romans, you'll see the same thing, that it's made to where they can understand. They could know if they wanted to know, they could know. I mean, if they want to doubt, not receive the truth, just say, well, I don't believe that's, you know, that's just, if you want to believe man, You want to believe because man is so intellectual and all these things, and now he's going into space and all this stuff? You know, there can't be a God. Well, they're going to find out. That's what I read in Zephaniah, that he definitely will deal with that crowd. But there is a God in heaven, and he has control, and he has made. And here's the point I'm trying to say. He's tried to reach out to every man, every person, every woman, every child. He's not been slack in trying to do his best to save everybody. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And he means that. And sometimes I read of people and see people and I say, how can he do that? How can he love people that are so wicked and say such things about him and just deny him? And really something the Bible says, don't ever do, it says, don't tempt God. Don't do that. He just might answer you. But certainly God still has a John 3 16 is in the Bible and it's not going to change. He's not going to change. And he wants to save people. He said their line has gone out through all the earth and their words, their words to the end of the world. That message has gone out. Uh, you know, we say, well, you know, and I appreciate what missionaries are saying. Uh, you know, and I, and I agree with a lot of what they say. But you better realize what you say doesn't insult God or make God a liar. They've never heard the Word. I say, the Word and their words to the end of the world. That's what it says in verse four. To them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is the bridegroom cometh out of the chamber, which is as a bridegroom coming out of the chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit on the end, the ends of it. And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof, from the message and from the power of God. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wiseness simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Father, in Jesus' name, as we study these words, I pray you'd help us to drink in, help us to be people that are good ground, that want to be watered, that would want to receive, that hunger and thirst after righteousness, that desire to hear and understand the word of God. It's precious to us. And I pray and enlighten our minds, speak to our souls, correct our ways, teach us thy ways, oh Lord, in Jesus' name, amen and amen. The fear of the Lord, the Bible says here, the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. So this cleanliness is what comes from the proper understanding of who God is and what you want to do, how you appreciate what He's done, you're thankful for what He's done for you, and your aim is to please Him. You can see this over in 2 Corinthians as Paul dealt with it pretty successfully there on pleasing the Lord, seeking to please the Lord above everything else to please the Lord. And when a person gets born again, Converted and they begin to They begin to understand little by little Just what God has done for him Where he found him where he rescued them what he delivered him from and how he's changed their life and how he's helped them down through the days and so they live a life that is just filled with the blessings and the goodness of God, the help of God. And so when they begin to receive that, they want to draw closer to God. The Christian has a desire. We sing the song, draw me near, near, precious Lord, to thy precious. I think it's bleeding side. Isn't that what it says? Well, let me say something about this clean. When a person begins to develop a concept, a biblical, spiritual concept of God and what the Lord has done for us in the crucifixion and in saving us, they begin to understand little by little what it means for him to be holy, and for want us to be holy, you begin to be drawn closer to Him. And the closer you get to God, the more you search for Him, the more you read about Him, the more you study Him, the more you see His hand of mercy, His kindness, His compassion, his understanding, his help. The more you begin to see that and the more you study him, you're supposed to grow and gain in knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. You get to know him. You know what he's like. You know his personality. You know what he stands for. And the closer you get to him, the more defiled you're gonna feel. Here's perfection. Here's a person that was tempted at all points, just like we are, never sin. Here's a person that's holy. He's holy. He's blameless. He's perfect. He's pure as the driven snow. And as you approach him, In reading and studying and meditating on his word, you ought to start sensing just some defilement in your life, some things he wouldn't be pleased of in your life, things you know he's against, things he would never do, things you'd be embarrassed for him to see in your life. I mean, you're wanting to be close to him. You want to be able to sing that song of truth. What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege it is to carry everything to him, to God in prayer. Just to be close to him and have that assurance of his presence And you'll see the, let the beauty of Jesus, the glory of God, the purity, the holiness of God. You begin to, as you study your Bible, you begin to, those words begin to make sense to you. They begin to start to charge you or challenge you about your life. Am I? Well, we sing a song. Oh, to be like Him, blessed Redeemer. What's that next word? What is it? Oh, to be like Him, blessed Redeemer, pure as thou art. You see, that becomes a reality to you. Instead of a fantasy and you don't really know what God's like, you can't imagine in your imagination, you couldn't possibly You read some about heaven and some about the throne of God and the beings bowing down and worshiping Him. It takes a while of study and meditation and prayer and a whole lot of faith. In order to begin the concept of God to where you begin to see His holiness, His righteousness, And a Christian will desire that. A saved person will hunger and thirst after righteousness. They'll want to be clean. Look with me real quick. Look at what David said in Psalms 51. Psalms 51. David said, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy love and kindness. And verse one, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquities and cleanse me from my sin. What do you suppose David is wanting to be? He's wanting to be clean. He doesn't want to have that stain of sin. that consciousness of the sin in your life, he wants to be clean of it, he wants to be pure from it, he wants to be holy, and he wants out of it, he wants done with it, he wants to be finished, he hates his inside sinful torment that's hitting his life. Notice what he says, For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever, ever before me, wherever I look, wherever I look at myself, my sin is there. I see it and I want it cleansed. I want to be pure. I want to be delivered. A person that's sincere. I mean, they mean business with God. The old preachers used to say, they really mean that they wanted God to make them clean and pure and holy before them. They were tired of just saying they wanted to be a Christian. They really wanted to be Christ-like. They really wanted to be a good example. They really wanted to show their love for them. He said, if you'll love me, you'll keep my commandments. I mean, you'll prove that. You'll be an example of that love. You won't be a sinner. You'll hate sin. You'll hate sin in your life just as David is hating it here. It's ever before me. I can't stand it. I want relief. Wash me of it. Cleanse me. Purge me. Make me clean. Something wrong. Can you see what I'm trying to build this in your mind? Something wrong wanting to be near somebody that's perfect, that's clean, that's holy, that's righteous. And you want to be close to him. It ought to be easy to see that in order to do that, you're going to want him to see junk in your life, filth in your life, marks in your life, worldliness in your life. You're going to want to feel comfortable around Him. You're going to want to feel loved and beloved of Him. You're going to want to sense His presence of accepting your sacrifice unto Him. It's a life that you want to be what God wants you to be pleased to Him. Against thee, the only, well, if everybody realized this. Against thee, the only. Lord, do you know that they did press me, and there were some others that gave me a problem, and you know I was tempted by a woman. Lord, you know I didn't mean to, no. The only way you'll get rid of sin, and be honest with God, is when you take full, full, full, full responsibility for your sin. You can't blame anybody else. This is where that old spiritual song come out. It's not my brother, it's not my sister, but it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. You don't see, it's you. You can't blame it on anybody else, it's you. Against thee the only have I sinned. I've done this evil in thy, in thy, Sight, you've seen it. That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold. Oh, I wish people knew how this verse goes. It's so beautiful if you read it right. I was shaped in iniquity and sin, my mother did conceive me. She was under the curse of sin. You can read the curse. You can read the curse in Genesis 2, that she was cursed with child labor. And that's when she conceived and was cursed because of it. Well, I ain't going in there. Behold, thou desirest truth, not the lips, not when just making a profession, not just saying, you just have to say this to Jesus. No, no, no. More people are deceived and going to hell because they believe it's all what they say. No, it don't work that way. Thou desires truth in the inward parts and the hidden parts. Thou shalt make me to know wisdom. This is something that comes from a heart and a soul and a spirit that's under deep conviction of sin. And you don't say some little old prayer. Just pray this, that's deceiving people. All you gotta do is follow these things. Just say this to Jesus, no, no, no. You're sending people to hell, you tell them that. There's no pat little way of making a person a sinner. And you have no authority to do that which the Holy Ghost of God is the only one that's going to do it. God says, I'm going to send a convictor. When he comes into this world, he'll convict this world of sin. You can't do that. You can read your Bible. You can show them verses. That's as far as you can go. The only one that could go inside and get the truth on the inward parts. You can't see what sin they've got. You don't know. You say, well, did you ever lie? If you checked with people that get saved, truly saved, you'll find, now if you listen to me, you'll find that the majority of the people that come to get saved, you never knew the sin they was really in that God was dealing with about. God was dealing with a pet sin in their life, a major sin in their life that was keeping them from God. And when that barrier, that barrier from the word is broken, That person just floods out with all their sin because the dam is broken in their life. And now they're willing, no matter what, I wanna be saved. That make a little prayer, you lied to them, you deceived them. It's dangerous, it's dangerous ground to be on. God wants truth on the inward parts. What's really got you pinned down inside? Oh, my. You're gonna be clean. You'll have to have a cleansing from the inside. You remember what Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for? All their religion was where? On the outside. And he said, you'll never reach that state They were more righteous outside than you'll ever be. Accept your righteousness. Exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees. You'll never reach that. You'll never reach that. All outside. Their inside was just a filthy sepulcher filled with wickedness in the inward parts. in the hidden part thou shalt make me. Notice verse six and I'll get off this. Behold thou desires truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part that thou shalt make me to know, thou shalt make me to know, thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Lord, this is what I want you to do. Purge me with his and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Would you say David wanted to be cleansed inside? And that's the only place that really all that outside stuff will take, will come when that inside gets straightened out. People won't be defiled with their mouth, with their mind, with their apparel, with their ways, after that inside is purged and they're washed clean. Apostle James said, in James 1, 27, that we're to be pure and unspotted from the world. God wants us clean. The old statement, cleanliness is next to godliness. The devil, I gotta say, he's a mastermind. He is a mastermind at being so subtle. He can make things look good that'll eventually turn bad. When he developed the screen, I was reading a guy that was dealing with screen time of young people and how destructive it is. It actually hurts their growth and their mind. It actually affects their mind, screen time. And some kids, six, eight hours a day of screen time. Well, we didn't have a screen, but I wouldn't have been able to, the amount of work I had to do as a kid. I worked on a farm, and I don't think I ever went to school and didn't smell like a barn. You walk through a barn, you smell like a barn. I had to milk cows by hand before I went to school. I'm not getting to all of them, but there's so much of this stuff that's affecting the young people. How can you be clean with a dirty mind? How can you think clean? How can you make decisions when your mind is just filled with filth? It's corrupted by this world. you believe the Bible, say, yes, preacher, I believe the Bible. Then why don't we believe that little verse in Corinthians chapter five, in whom the G-O-D, in whom the God, in whom the God, in whom a supreme being, He's a spirit in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. Lest the light, lest the light of the glorious gospel should shine into them and they believe. Screen time. Darkens the mind fills the mind with thoughts and imaginations and opinions and views and and and desires and temptations and wickedness The mind is corrupted you wonder why Wonder why the high 80s almost 90% of the young people now when they can and they get ready they're gone and Well, they had to have something to do and, you know, I don't think it ever hurt them, you know, it wasn't, you couldn't see. Would you answer me? Did screen time ever hurt you? Come on. Do you still imagine immoral things in your mind that you've seen on the screen? nudity, filthy words. He says, I want you to be clean. And if you're going to be close to me, if you're going to please me, if that's your aim, you're going to please me. The fear of the Lord is clean. It's got nothing to do with this dirty world, nothing to do with being spotted in this world. It's you wanting to be... I got a lot of verses I'm not going to go. The Bible tells us to touch not the unclean thing, and in 2 Corinthians, it says, come out and be separate. The Bible tells us to... We're to have... I believe it says in Philippians 2, 5, let this mind be in you. which is also in Christ Jesus. How much chance in today's lifestyle of having to have screen time can people have the mind of Christ? Let this, allow it, Yield to it. Submit to it. Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus. That's the kind of mind He wants you to have. That's the only good mind there is. Your mind stayed on Him. It's not easy. Not in this wicked day. Not in this immoral day. Not in this screen day. And you know, you know as well as I'm standing here looking at you breathing God's air, that you can't control screen time. You can't control what you're going to see. You think you can turn it off fast enough, you think you won't see that, and you won't. I don't want to, I'm saying to you, if we're going to, If we're going to fear the Lord, please the Lord. Fear in Him is a reaction, an experience of God's grace. God worketh in you both the will and to do His good will. as I said earlier, as you see Him as He is, how glorious, how wondrous, how worthy of worship He is. How many can say tonight, preacher, I did have some time today and really worship the Lord. I just, Lord allowed me to get in His presence. I sensed His presence and I just, I had a moment, a little while, a time of worshiping Him, thanking Him, praising Him. You say, preacher, why do you preach like this? Because I'm trying to preach reality instead of going around fairy tales and fantasy and just what's going on in our day, and everybody thinks it's wonderful, it's intellectual, you know, and this is great, bye, this is feedback. I'm telling you what, if it don't point you to Christ, if it don't bring you in contact with the Holy Spirit of God, it's not of God. God wants to draw you near. God wants you to be seeking Him with all your heart. God wants you to give your body and mind and soul and spirit a sacrifice unto God, which is your reasonable service. If you, my point tonight, and I'm straight, I've not got my message. You know that song, and we sang part of it? Oh, come let us adore Him. Can you fathom that in your mind, adoring Him, adoring the splendor, the glory? Yeah. You know, Paul seen it in the book of Romans. I believe it was chapter 6, I think. He finally says, I am debtor. I owe Him. You get that spirit in your heart, where would you be if it hadn't been for Jesus? Where would you be tonight? If he hadn't helped you, corrected you, instructed you, worked in your life, where would you be? I'm saying there's ought to be in your heart a longing to just show that you believe Him, you believe His ways, you believe He's holy, you believe He is worthy of worship. He really, really does. He really seeks it from you. The Father seeketh such to worship. Not just going to church. It ought to be a relationship that, my, I listen to that guy sing and I don't like some of the other songs he sings, but that one he sings, that Amos, he's got what I like because he talks about things and things that comes in his life and he says, he said, I just steal away and pray. I just steal away. I see something. I see something wrong. He said, I just steal away and pray. I like that. I like that. It ought to be our lives the same way, to fears revered, to fears to desire to worship, to fears to return. You know, there was nine that never turned back, wasn't there? I like that song, Cookie sang it for me a couple of times. How Can I Say Thanks? Boy, that's a real song. Somebody wrote a good song there. That's why the Bible tells you to be thankful, be thankful, be thankful. What He's done for you. I'm gonna close. Fearing God with a desire to please Him, is knowing Him in a spiritual way that you know He deserves. He deserves your service. He deserves your love. He deserves your obedience. He deserves your listening ear to Him. He deserves that. He deserves, in these last days, churches are closing early, they're not having meetings, and they're doing exactly opposite of what this Bible says to do in the last days. You've heard me scream it a lot of times in the last 10 years, so much the more as you see the day approaching. Fear the Lord is clean, endureth forever. It doesn't stop. It doesn't end. It doesn't take breaks. It's something that continues on. It perseveres. It keeps going, abiding, seeking God, seeking to please Him in some way. You know that what happened? Can I say to you that have talked to somebody and witnessed somebody and God's moved in their lives and you could see him receive it and begin to understand some. You, later on you walked away. What happened in your heart? He used me. He gave me the words to say. He helped me talk to somebody. And it just, man, it does something for your soul. My, to think that God of heaven would speak through you to a person. I've stood and talked to people, and when I got done, I walked away, and I said, that ain't me. I don't use those words, I don't understand the Bible all that well, and but God would just be feeding my mind, and I'd be answering people, and I said, I like that. I didn't know that. God just feed you words, feed you help, feed you understanding. I'm saying to you that the fear of the Lord is clean. It makes you really want with all your heart to please the Lord. Shall we stand? You know, it's kind of hard to really be honest about it, really understand what you're rescued from, what you've been delivered from, where you could have been. You'll never do too much for him. You'll never overdo it. You'll never praise him too much. Your love will never be that strong that you have to let up. It's real, it's real. Oh, bless God, it's real. I know the doubts are settled. And I know, I know it's real. Father, in Jesus' name, would you open our eyes to see, to get a peek of understanding and wisdom of what you've done for us. I love that woman's song. I'll be all right when I get to Calvary. She's right when you understand it. that he took our burden, took our sin. Help us. Help us to be thankful. Help us to want to get alone and tell you, thank you for being so good to me. Thank you for rescuing me. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for delivering me from such wickedness that was in my life. I bless your holy name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. You are dismissed. Did Paul Victoria tell you where they're at?