Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world.
so that all may know Christ. Join us now. For a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church. Located in Kernersville, North Carolina. Deuteronomy chapter 10.
Deuteronomy chapter 10. And um we're gonna Take a little break from Well, we did last week. We took a break from the whole thing. We're obviously jumping back in our series: The King is Coming. And we're following that thread through the Word of God.
And something that should be on our minds here at this church in this ministry this year. is the reminder. that the king is coming. I'm going to stop our thread through history. And we're going to look in the book of Deuteronomy all the way back, where here's God's people, the children of Israel.
And now we have all the way back to Moses. And um God said something through Moses. to the people. And it's very, very important. Our question and our subject matter today for Anniversary Sunday is this: What does the king?
require of thee. What does it mean? That Jesus is the king of your life. By the way, I don't, we don't make him king of our life. He already is the king.
What we're talking about is whether you make him that or not, he is. What we're talking about is when you acknowledge it, when you live like it, when you act like it, when you embrace it. When you make it clear that Jesus is my King, what does that mean in your life? How does that show up? in your everyday life.
And let me put it this way: for me to preach on the fact that the king is coming, the bigger question would be: he is coming, and we're talking about that. Um Is he king of your life? Are you living like this every day? And so we want to go right back, you know, kind of the law of first mentions. And as God is speaking to his people, and we are his people, and we have been, you know, back in Old Testament days, they were called, we were converted, and Jesus came, he died on the cross for our sins, purchased our redemption, and ascended back into glory.
And now you and I put our faith and trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ, and we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation. It's a down payment that Jesus said. This is proof that I'm coming back again. The King is coming. But let's go all the way back.
To the book of Deuteronomy. Let me just say this again. I'm probably gonna take some days off this week. What doctors can figure out is my throat is just tired. There's nothing else I can do.
I'm not sick or anything. I'm sorry. It's just been this way a couple weeks. There's just not much left. and you need a little bit of rest.
So I apologize for the roughness of it. And I just had to do a lot of screaming and hollering at home this week, so it's a little bit rough. And um You think her voice should be rough, but it's not, I don't know. Love you. Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary to you. Deuteronomy chapter 10, and Brother Frank read, let me just go through it again and then we'll jump into it. And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people. that they may go in and possess the land which I swear unto their fathers. to give unto them.
And now Israel What doth the Lord thy God do? require of thee. You know, God. obviously makes a commitment. I'm going to be your God.
You're going to be my people. which led to the fact that he was their king until they decided they wanted a man king. And it goes all the way back here to the book of Deuteronomy as he's leading them out of bondage. And the question is asked as Moses answers from the Lord. Does God require of thee?
What does the king require? What does it mean that the king is king of you. is that he is your king. What does that mean in your life? Look if you would at the verse.
But to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways. and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God. With all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes, which I command thee. this day. for that good.
Lord, I love you. Thank you for. the privilege of being here these 13 years as pastor and Lord, I think it's my 31st year. Since I came. Uh here it's a Kerwin and Thank you for the people, the kindness.
Um We just appreciate it. More importantly, I thank you for a good spirit. I thank you for a full building. Lord, I believe we are to be stewards. And thank you for just the wonderful people you've given us here at Kerwin Baptist Church.
Lord, to everyone that's visiting today, I pray that they'll feel loved. And accepted, Lord, it's easy to come to church and hurry out to get something to eat and all those things, but. I pray that our people will reach out and be friendly. Because I know that they are. Bless us, Lord, as we talk about the fact.
that you are the king and you are coming back. But what should it change about my life every day? Right now. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
I'm going to give you this simply, and I'm going to explain to you why this has been on my heart these last couple days. Notice, if you would, number one, what does the king require? What does it mean that he is the king of your life? Number one, it means to fear him. Notice, if you would, in verse 12, very simply, what does the Lord require of thee but to fear?
the Lord thy God.
Now listen, I'm going to lay some groundwork here this morning. For the unbeliever. That means the person who has never put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. The fear of God is the fear of the judgment of God. The fear of God is the fear of eternal death.
The fear is eternal separation from God. The fear is hell for an eternity. That is the fear of God. for an unbeliever. But if you're a believer here this morning, Our fear of God is something.
much different. You see, the believer's fear is a reverence of God. It's in awe of God. It's being well aware of knowing what he can do. And it's also being well aware of what he has done.
for you. It is respect. I wanted to show you this verse. This is a good description. Of what it means to fear God.
And notice the first thing that the king requires. is to fear me.
Well, preacher, why is that? Look at this verse in Hebrews chapter 12, beginning in verse 28. Look at this. Wherefore we Receiving a kingdom. There we go.
What's our kingdom? Heaven. Who's the king? Jesus. Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom.
Which cannot be moved. And let me remind you: we didn't deserve that, we haven't earned that. That's just the grace. of our Lord Jesus Christ. But that is our standing now.
When you're a believer, we're receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved. And because of that, notice what it says: let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence. and godly faith Right. Notice this. For our God.
is a consuming Fire. This reverence, this awe. To us. That is the fear of God for Christians. This is the motivating factor.
For us to surrender to the creator of the universe, this is the motivator for us to serve the king of kings. Proverbs in chapter 1 says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. It means this, until we understand who God is and develop a fear of him, we cannot have true wisdom. If you try to operate your life. Fearing man more than you fear our God.
You are in trouble. You will not operate with wisdom. Because wisdom starts with the fear Amen. Everybody get that? If God's not the number one on my list, If I do not fear him more than anyone else, then that is gonna cause me to make unwise decisions in my life.
True wisdom comes from understanding who God is and that he is holy and just and righteous. Listen to me this morning. The fear of God is the basis, it's the first thing that leads to everything else. I don't think you get it yet. The fear of God gives birth to everything else that follows.
Look at me. You never really got saved unless you had a fear. of God. Because to understand what the Bible teaches. Is that I cannot save myself.
To understand what the Bible teaches is that Jesus died for me. To understand what the Bible teaches is that my soul will live forever, either in heaven or in hell. And I have a healthy fear of that. Fear of my sin, fear of my condition, but a respect and an awe of what God can do and the judgment and holiness of God. But the fact that Jesus came and he died on the cross for my sins, everything starts with the fear of God.
You know, the first thing that our king requires. is to fear him. Because nothing else will show up in your life. Without this. Number two, that's where he starts.
What does it mean? What does the king require? What does it mean that he, I act, I acknowledge that he is king of my life? Notice number two. is not just to fear him.
Number two is to follow him. Notice verse 12, to walk. In all Here's ways. Let me say this, you don't walk in his ways until you know his ways. Can I say that again?
You don't walk in his ways if you don't know what those ways are. And you don't know his ways if you don't know him. And you don't know him if you're not in the word.
Okay, listen. To walk in his ways means to literally live the word of God.
So, what God is requiring is not just, look at me. Not just for you to say it. God is not just requiring for you to believe it. Not just to say he's your king and believe he's your king, but to actually live it out. To what?
In his way. It's not about words, it's about walk. If he's your king, it's not just acknowledging that he's the king, it's acting like he's your king. Right? It means to fear him.
It means to follow him. Notice thirdly. It means to love him. Interesting. The fear of God gave birth to following and gives birth to loving.
Let me tell you something. I get saved. Look at me. When I got saved, I didn't know God enough to really love him. I didn't know enough about him to really let.
Look at me, folks. I didn't get saved because I loved him, I got saved because he loved me. For God so loved the world. Are you listening to me? God doesn't wait around for you just to finally fall in love with Him, and now I'm going to be saved.
Uh-uh. The fear of God comes first. And then the more I get to know him and walk in his ways, and I can't walk in his ways without knowing him, and I can't know him without being in his word, and the more I'm in his word, and the more I walk with him, the more I love him. Here's the Listen to this. This is one of the things that makes serving the Lord different from other religions.
God does not want just empty obedience. He doesn't just want us to live for him out of obligation. God wants us to do what we do for him. Out of love. Kirwan Baptist Church, we have a lot of ministries here.
A lot of you are involved in those ministries. But if you're involved in any of those ministries because you want to feel like you're busy or you want to feel like you're actually doing something, if you're doing it for any other reason but the fact that you just love God so much, you want to do it. Then, before long, you're gonna get madless and you're gonna get angry. You're gonna get mad at every little thing that happens you don't like. Every little thing that happens in your ministry, whatever here, in a choir, one little thing you don't like, instruments, one little thing happens that you don't like, you're going to get mad and you're going to show your little attitude.
Can I tell you something, dear friend? That's not doing it out of love. That's doing it out of what you can get for it. That's doing it out of you being noticed. When you're doing it because you love God, little things like that aren't going to bother you.
Little things like that aren't going to discourage you every time you turn around. That's pride. God says, I don't want that. I don't want you to just do something. Of obligation, I don't want you just to do something so you can say you've done it.
God says, I want you to do it. Because you love me. It is good at the men's. Do you love 'em? What you notice, number four.
What does it mean that he's king of my life?
Well It means first that you fear him, that you follow him. That you love him, you know where we're going next. Number four, that you serve him. Look at verse 12 says next. and to serve.
The Lord thy God with all thy heart. And with all thy soul. What does it mean to serve? By the way, you don't really serve till you really love. Hey, don't think that God just put these in random order.
They all are sequential. It starts, everything starts. The fear, what does the Bible say? Remember, the fear of God is the beginning. of wisdom.
Everything starts with the proper fear of God. And that leads me now to following God. And the more I follow and walk in His ways, the more I love Him. Look at me. And the more I love Him now, it is no longer out of obligation, it's because I want to serve.
Serve. him. What does it mean to serve him? It means to want to do what pleases him. It means to love what he loves and to hate what he hates.
This is to take on the form of a servant. This is to make him the priority. This is to do what he wants more than what you want. And what I want to serve means to submit, it means to surrender. Listen to me, real quick, this morning.
This is acknowledging that I am not the king. But that he is the king. And because of that, I want to serve him. And because I love him, I want to serve him with. All my heart.
and with all my soul. What does the verse say? To serve him. With all your heart. And with all your soul.
I know a lot of people serving. But my question is, are you serving with all your heart? And with all your soul. Can I give you number five? You say, how many are there, preacher?
Just five. Number five is to obey him. To obey. You say, well, preacher, isn't that kind of mixed in? No, no, look at verse 13.
Next step. to keep the commandments of the Lord. and his statutes. Commandments? Statutes, what's the difference?
Well, one's a command. Statutes are literally principles to live by. Commands are commands to live by. Notice this. Command his statutes which I command thee this day.
Like this. Why? For what? Thy Good. Please get this.
Look at the verse closely. To keep the commandments. of the Lord. To obey. means this that I'm going further.
I'm obeying. I'm in his word. And I just want to use my life. to keep his commandments. I can't keep his commandments if the commandments aren't in me.
I can't obey him. If I don't fear him. I can't obey him and not follow him. I want to obey him because I love him. I want to obey him because I want to serve him.
He's my king. Do you understand how all these things work together? And they all started with the fear of God. And God says, I don't want you to go any further unless you love me. John chapter 14, verse 15.
Look at this verse on the screen. If you love me, he says. Keep my commandments. This is what it means. That he's king.
of your life.
Now I want to give you these last verses and then I'll explain to you why. Deuteronomy chapter 10. where we're at. Look at verse 14. Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens.
Don't you love that phrase? The heaven? and the heaven of heavens. First heaven, second heaven, third heaven. We won't go into all that.
Is the Lord thy God? Oh, by the way. the earth also? Oh, by the way. And all that therein is.
That covers everything. Notice this. Only the Lord The same guy that owns all that. The same one that owns all that. Notice this.
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers. To love them. Who are we talking to here? We're talking through Moses to the children of Israel. And what's the whole command?
Listen. What does the king ask of you? To fear me, to follow me, to love me, to serve me, to obey me. And let me tell you why. I'm the one that showed love first.
I'm the one that, even though I own everything, I'm the one that reached out and showed love to your fathers. Look at this. And he chose their seed after them, even you, above all people, as it is this day. For the Lord your God. Is a God of gods?
and Lord of Lords A great god. A mighty and a terrible It doesn't say a mighty something or a terrible something. It just says God is a mighty and God is a terrible. Notice verse 18, he doth execute the judgment. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve.
And to him shalt thou cleave.
So being a king means I serve him, but I cleave to him. I serve him by obeying. I serve him by serving, but I cling to him because I love him. I serve him because I fear him, but I cling to him because I Love him. You say, Preacher, why is this so I wanted to give it to you simply.
I wanted to show you this. I heard from A um young lady in Chickateak, Virginia this past We And my mom and her mom were best friends, close friends for years. And um Her mom has passed away now. Um my mom passed away first. But they were best of friends, wrote each other, and this lady, Linda Booth, she.
Scrapbooked a whole bunch of stuff from my mom. And so This young lady reached out to me this week. She goes, hey, listen, we're going through mom's stuff and we found some of your mom's stuff. And she said, I didn't know if you had any interest in this or if they're just duplicates, we'll just throw them away. And I said, no, I would love to have them.
It had my mom's class ring from high school. It had one of my mom's Bibles that she filled up and had to go to another one that she filled up. It had a lot of my mom's and my grandma's jewelry, and it had scrapbooks and different things, and it had an old bag with a picture of me, mom, and dad on it that she used to carry all of her music when she sang and did solos and her Bible song. And so she shipped it all to me. And I got it this week.
I wanted to show you a couple things because I'm going to tell you something. While, you know, we're doing this series, The King. is coming. But my question is, is he came to you right now? Do you fear him?
Do you follow him? Do you love him? Do you serve him? Do you obey him? Don't tell me all the things that, oh, I do this and I do that.
No, no, no, no, no. That's not what the king requires. These are what the king requires. This is what's important to him. In this scrapbook.
There's a big old fly right there on my Bible. What in the world?
Sorry, I think I just flicked that on you, Nick. He flew towards the smell. Anyway, notice if you would. I want to show you this first picture.
So this is my mom's high school yearbook that was in this. And my mom's over there in the middle right. Many of you don't know my mom. Many of you obviously did. And my mom and dad were a great blessing of this church.
My mom and dad spent almost 50 years in full-time evangelism. serving God. But this is her high school yearbook. Eastern high school there in Baltimore, Maryland. Class of 57.
Somebody ought to write a song about that. Notice if you would. Patricia June. Let me just say this real quick. Academic, my mom took Latin.
She wanted to go to the medical field. And so she took Latin, and Latin for a number of years, was very fluent in Latin. And then she went to Bible college and married my dad, and they ended up traveling on the road. My mom always thought, all those years I wasted learning Latin. And some of you have heard me tell this before, but we ended up doing about two months' ministry.
the country of Japan. And we got over there in Japan and the language barrier, especially back then, was very deep. We had interpreters everywhere we went. And my mom would sing, and then my dad would preach. And one of the missionaries there, Brother Ronald White, sat down with my mom one day and my mom realized that the Japanese language is structured the exact same way as Latin.
And my mom sat there and in one afternoon Could speak Japanese. And my mom would get up in these I have pictures, I mean, area-wide rallies, thousands of people, and people were just a little bit, you know, Japanese people were very respectful. But my mom would get up and she would start singing in Japanese. There's an American woman singing her songs in Japanese, and the Japanese people just stopped. And they just listened.
And hundreds of people were saved in those two months. And my mom always said, all those years, all the way back in high school, that's why God had her do Latin just for those two months. In Japan, but once you notice this. Bowling.
Softball. Volleyball, that's kind of hard for me to believe all that. But I want you to notice what she put in a public high school. A public downtown Baltimore, Maryland high school. And by the way, you can look at all the other high schoolers on there.
This wasn't their ambition. But as a senior in high school, She decided at that point. That Jesus was going to be king. of her life. She decided, oh, not many seniors in high school, this is their ambition.
Most of them, I want to make a million dollars, or I want to do this, I want to do that. Her ambition was to do God's will. And see souls one. For Christ. That means all the way back.
As a teenager, a senior in high school, She decided I'm going to fear him. I'm going to follow him. I'm going to love him. I'm going to serve him. I'm going to obey him.
and her ambition. was to do God's will. and Seasouls one. I want you to notice this picture of her in high school. She sang for a revival outreach.
a big conference thing that they had. There's my mom in high school. Pat Robinson, soloist. All the way back in high school. It seems like, you know.
Well, this is an odd young lady in a Public school, and she stuck out like a sore thumb. You can talk to my mom about it. And at this time, her family wasn't saved. My mom's dad was a drunk. My mom's dad was...
The town drunk of Baltimore, Maryland. They would pick him up in the gutter somewhere on the main street there in Baltimore. It was called Gay Street. It wasn't a description, that's the name of the street. And that's where all the bars were.
And every weekend they pick up my grandpa and drag him back home, ended up in the hospital many times. That's what my mom grew up in. My mom didn't grow up in church where mom and dad were here and wanted them to come to church, but kids always arguing: I want to go to church, I don't want to go to that. I don't feel like going to church today. I don't want to have to go do all that.
No, she's the one that wanted to do it on her own. Her dad's a drunk. Mom doesn't go to church, but she decided in the middle of all of it that I'm going to make. Jesus my king. And that changes every decision.
And listen, you young people that are here this morning, I want you to know, you don't wait till you're 30. You don't wait till you're 50. You don't wait till you're 25. You need to make Jesus king right now. It's going to dictate who you date.
It's going to dictate where you work. It's going to dictate what you do. It's going to dictate how you spend your time. I want you to notice then she goes to Bible college and she meets Rico Suave here. This is a picture of the second day of their honeymoon.
I'm surprised she's smiling. And they feel. Call to full-time evangelism. They taught school for a number of years. My mom even taught school in Lexington.
My dad was going to Bible college. I started in the road and evangelized, and that fly is right back there. There he goes again. I want you to notice this next picture. I come along.
Now, mind you. All the way back as a senior high school. I'm going to make him king of my life. Not just Lord. Not just Savior.
Oh, a lot of people don't mind him being the savior. They want salvation, which we all should. But after they get saved, when it really comes to following Him and fearing Him and serving Him, not a lot of people do that. But she decided that what's different is he's king, and I'm going to serve him. And I grow up in a home.
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