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  THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD!
  by Richard Owen Roberts
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of the fear of God as a
foundational aspect of true Christianity, highlighting how the lack of
this fear has led to moral decline and social injustice even within the
church. It calls for a genuine repentance from shallow, make-believe
Christianity that is prevalent in many churches today, leading to a
negative impact on society.

Topics: "Fear of God", "Genuine Repentance"
Scripture References: Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 22:4, Proverbs 14:27, Psalm 34:11, Psalm 111:10, Isaiah 33:6, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Job 28:28

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of the fear of God as a
foundational aspect of true Christianity, highlighting how the lack of
this fear has led to moral decline and social injustice even within the
church. It calls for a genuine repentance from shallow, make-believe
Christianity that is prevalent in many churches today, leading to a
negative impact on society.

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I'm deeply convinced that the vast majority who call themselves
Christians are not, because they have never truly exposed themselves to
the God of the Bible. I remember giving a series of sermons on the fear
of God, and they were three in number, and a very simple approach,
really. Number one, the fear of God is a beginning of wisdom.

Number two, the fear of God is the only true preservative against
personal evil. And number three, the fear of God is the only guarantee
of social justice. The response to those sermons absolutely astonished
me.

People very adamantly said, we can't believe in a God, you have to fear.
And we've got a lot of evidence around us right now that for multitudes
in the church there's never been a beginning of wisdom. They don't seem
to have any true wisdom from God at all.

Certainly the fact that the morality rate in the church is essentially
no better than it is in the world is another clear indication there
can't be a fear of God, or else people could not possibly be living the
way they're living. And certainly no one in their right mind would
suppose that our country has become famous for social justice. We're so
far removed from that that it's hard to imagine that we ever were even a
caring society, let alone a Christian society.

And when you think about that whole matter, a man can be witnessed
committing a murder, maybe 11 eyewitnesses who saw him actually put
somebody to death, and 14 years later they're still toying around in the
courts pretending to administer justice. So the absence of the fear of
God has resulted in the degradation of the nation in every conceivable
realm. Now what I see happening in these churches that are flourishing,
that are drawing great crowds, that are adding rapidly to their
membership, every new false convert that is added to the church of
Christ cheapens the message of the gospel and brings the nation down
another rung in true godliness and holiness.

There was a time I believe I could have honestly said that the positive
witness of those who call themselves Christians and really were, was
remarkable in its impact upon the nation. But we can't speak words like
that today. What we have to say today is that the negative influence of
those who call themselves Christians and are not is vastly greater than
the positive impact of those who truly are.

So as we go on adding more, more, and more of these shallow make-believe
Christians, we are bringing the nation down deeper and deeper into the
depth of immorality and ungodliness. So I believe Tozer was 100 percent
right and that there are multitudes of churches and pastors that have no
hope whatsoever till they get on their faces before God and repent of
the sham Christianity that they are presenting.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/dUeJZRMEpRg.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/richard-owen-roberts/there-is-no-fear-of-god/
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