Beginning Of Wisdom

A Christian that has the fear of the Lord seeks forgiveness. You will never, you will never, you will never ask the Lord to forgive you until you have the fear of the Lord in your heart. Because if you do not love Him, you will never ask Him to forgive you.

And you wouldn't even care about asking Him to forgive you. It is that love, that fear of the Lord. What is fear of the Lord? You see, it's not afraid of the Lord.

I'm not afraid of Him. I fear Him. You see, afraid is, if I do something wrong, I'm afraid because He will chop my head and He'll throw me in hell.

But fear of the Lord, I do not want to do anything wrong. I am afraid of breaking His heart. He is too much love, not worthy to be broken.

I fear hurting Him. I don't want to make Him sad. I don't want to upset Him.

I don't want to make Him cry. I don't want to break His heart because He is love and I love Him because He loved me from the very beginning. I will try to do everything possible through His grace not to break Him or hurt Him in any way.

This is the fear of the Lord, i.e. I love the Lord Jesus. See, when you love the Lord Jesus, you will always seek His forgiveness. Lord, I'm sorry.

I am so sorry. I did this and I said this. I didn't want to.

It is my human weakness. Please forgive me, Lord. You know that I love you.

Like Simon, like Simon Peter, he said, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me? You see, do you love me? Do you fear me? Do you have the fear of the Lord in your heart? He said, Lord, you know that I love you. You know everything, Lord. I will always put you number one and then me.

You know that I love you, Lord. But I'm weak. When we fall into the wrong place, when we do the wrong thing, all we need to do, turn to the crucified Messiah.

Don't run away. Run to Him. Don't run away from Him.

Run to Him, my beloved, and say, Lord, I'm sorry. Forgive me. You know that I love you, but I'm weak, living in this weak flesh.

I get tempted. I fall. I slip.

I slide. I walk away. Please forgive me, Daddy.

And He will. And He will. When you have the fear of the Lord, the love of Christ in your heart, you will seek His forgiveness.

And when you seek His forgiveness, then what do you do? You confess that you're guilty. The confession of guilt. Number three, when we come and confess to the Lord Jesus that we've done this wrong, and we've said this wrong, and we shouldn't have, and we are sorry for what we've done, the Lord is faithful that He will forgive us our sins.

He is faithful. And that's another topic. It's faithful.

And number four, when you confess that Christ is perfect and you're not. When we confess the perfection of Christ and we are absolutely imperfect humans, you are the perfect one, Lord. How did this, when did this thief say or acknowledge or confess Christ's perfection? When he said, when he said, don't you have the fear of the Lord, of God? Don't you fear God? He said, but this, referring to Jesus, he said, but this, but this, he has done nothing out of place.

But this, everything he said, everything he's done, is absolutely perfect. He said things in the perfect timing. And he did things in the perfect timing.

This is the perfect one. We are worthy of this, being crucified and sentenced to death. We deserve it, because everything that we've done on earth was evil.

But this, he's done nothing that is worthy of the cross. He's done nothing that is worthy of the cross. But this, again, in the Arabic language it's called the demonstrative noun.

Demonstrative noun. But this, the only way you can say it, is when you look at the person you mean. But this.

Now, this guy is nailed on the cross. His hands, his feet, are nailed. He can't move, neither his legs, nor his hands.

The only thing he can move, is his head. So when he said, but this, he turned his face to the Lord Jesus, and he faced him. The moment he turned his face to the Lord and said, but this, the prophecy of Isaiah, in Isaiah 45, 22 was fulfilled.

What does Isaiah 45, 22 say? Look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth, for I am God and there is no other. Oh my goodness. What? Look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth, for I am God and there is no other.

When this thief looked at Jesus Christ, by turning to the Lord, he was saved. For God promised, in Isaiah 45, 22, whoever looks to me will be saved, for I am God and there is no other. So for anyone to come and say, this Jesus that was nailed on the cross is not God, then explain to me Isaiah 45, 22.

He didn't say, look to me, for my dad is God. No, he said, for I am God and there is no other. And there is no other.

By looking at the Lord. Is that all it takes? Yes. Can you be saved easily? 100% yes.

For as long as you live in the flesh, don't wait afterwards and start elaborating. Please don't. You haven't been to the other side.

Why waste your time, precious time, talking about something you've never seen on the other side. You want to be saved? The best way, the easiest way, while in the flesh my dear friend. Don't wait.

While in the flesh. It's very easy. All you need to do is turn to the crucified Jesus and say, Lord remember me in your second coming.

What did the Lord Jesus say to this poor man? Truly I say to you, today you are with me in paradise. Not in my second coming my dear friend. If you were gonna wait for my second coming, it's been 2022 years and counting.

Today you will be with me in paradise. When the Lord Jesus said to this man, today you will be with me in paradise. Every single second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year.

This man lost in sin, in evilness. Every single moment was redeemed by the Lord Jesus through the faith of this man in Christ. Was redeemed.

Nothing is lost. How many years have you lost in this world? Let Jesus redeem it for you. Give your life to the Lord Jesus and he will make sure nothing is gone in vain.

Nothing. So don't cry about the time that has gone by in absolute vanity. Focus on Christ and turn to him and look at the crucified.

For the crucified Messiah is my glory. I boost in no one but Jesus Christ being crucified. This is the glory of me.

Christ crucified. Because Saint Paul says also, in his epistle to the Romans 14, 8. For if we live, we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.

For if we live, we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. We belong to him.

So it's beside the point whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. Make sure you make sure that happens in your life. And how do you make sure that you belong to the Lord? Give him everything.

Give him your life. Surrender everything to Jesus Christ. And say, Lord, you take over.

You look after me, my family, my loved ones, the entire people that are in my life whom you have given me and showed me. I surrender everything in your capable hands. I surrender everything.

And then stop worrying. Stop pulling your hair out and say, my sister is not talking to me. My brother is not calling me.

My wife has given me hell. My husband is not listening to me. No, the moment you give everything to the Lord, give it and walk in confidence that Christ has taken it on board and now he is the responsible one for you and for everyone whom you have entrusted him with.

Leave it to him. Leave it to him. Leave it to him, my beloved.

Verse 17. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Wow.

Therefore, do not be unwise. Unwise, fools. In other words, ignorance.

Do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Unwise or fools. The word fools is mentioned in the New Testament three times.

Foolish, fools is mentioned three times in the New Testament. Very quickly. Number one, in Luke 12 20, the rich man.

This rich man said one night and he said, my fields have given me, you know, produce plentifully. There's plenty of it. So what do I do? Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring down some of these barns.

I'm gonna extend them and I'll build more new barns and then I'll fill them with all the produce the land has given me and then I'll say to myself, self, enjoy. You've got plenty of wealth that will last you for many, many, many, many years to come. Enjoy it.

God came to him that night and he said, you fool. Your life will be taken away from you this very night. All this.

What for? Yes, the land gave you plenty of produce. Correct. Yes, this produce will last you for many, many, many years to come.

Correct. But my dear friend, are you gonna live these many, many years? No guarantee, you fool. No guarantee.

What are you planning? What are you doing? Wake up. Wake up. Please wake up.

Second time, Luke 24 13. Those two friends were walking to Amaus. Amaus.

Amaus. That's the proper pronunciation. Amaus.

Those two friends that were walking. One of them happened to be, traditions say that it was St. Luke. The one that's, whose name was not mentioned.

It's St. Luke. They were walking and then the Lord Jesus was walking behind them and got to them and he saw them talking and troubled and you know, they were in a lot of turmoil. He said, what's going on? He said, they said to him, oh, it looks like you're a stranger.

You have no idea what happened in the last few days in Jerusalem. He said, what? He said, oh, this Jesus Christ of Nazareth, this holy man of God, you know, he came and he said, I am it. I am the Messiah.

I am the Savior. I'm the Redeemer. I'm God revealed in the flesh.

We followed him for three years and a bit and now they just crucified him and they put him in the tomb. It looks like it's a hoax. We were lied to.

He was a great manipulator and a deceiver. And now we're confused. We lost.

We destroyed. So we said, let's go back to our town. This is enough embarrassment already.

We've had enough of this nonsense. Even some of the women who accompanied us, they went to the tomb and they came back and they said, they saw angels and the angel said to them, why are you seeking the living among the dead? He is alive. He's risen.

But we didn't believe. So the Lord said, you foolish ones, foolish and wise. I just told you, you fools, a few days ago.

I'll be handed over to authorities. I'll be crucified. I will be put in the tomb.

I'll rise on the third day and I will see you again. How could you forget so quickly and so easily?