Applying the Word of God to Our Own Lives

We are going to take the word of God in the practical application in our lives today right here on the line of fire stage for the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry getting to the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown friends welcome to our Monday edition of the line of fire. Hope you had a good weekend and a wonderful time preaching in Canada in Saskatoon Friday night than a leaders meeting Saturday morning than Saturday night than Sunday morning and it's it's always great to be among folks who are hungry and thirsty for the things of God and who wants you to get up from the pulpit and speak the truth I've gotta be honest with you I don't get invited places that don't want me to speak the truth.

I don't get invited places that aren't hungry for the word of God.

But it's always a delight. I've had week after week out of preaching in this new year and so many places where it were people want you to tell it like it is an open up the Scriptures and they don't want their ears tickled and then they don't want their their flesh coddled. They want truth. They want truth, regardless of cost or consequence. That's the environment that I love to be in hate just want to mention this, and then it will really due to them not taking calls. But what I want to do today is I want to get into Scripture and look at a number of scriptural principles that are super relevant for life today and talk them through with you and hope this will be a great way to start your week and together we can started here on the line of fire, but just want to mention to you that if you feel called to gospel ministry may be called to the mission field may be called to plant churches not just to go to a seminary to growing knowledge of the word or Bible college to growing knowledge of the word you spills feel specifically call you will be trained to do ministry work be a missionary be a church planter begin evangelist at that sure that your burden you want a place where you can be intensively immersed and challenged in strengthening the word and strengthen entrained and practical ministry. Consider fire school of ministry. This is a focused, intense three year program. The third year is half internship half practical classes and mentoring and you'll be in an environment a focused environment where others of like target. I can be a campus of multiplied thousands many hundreds of students but a focused environment.

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Let's read the words of Jesus. Matthew chapter 7 very very familiar words to most followers of Jesus. He says this. Do not judge you too will be judged from the same way you judge others, you will be judged with the measure you use will be measured to you while you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye, I can you say to your brother. We take the speck out of your eye. When all the time. There is a plank in your own eye you hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

I so I preached in Saskatoon, Canada Friday night got back to my hotel room and was burden to write and I wrote an article that you can read on our website on the line of fire.org entitled left-wing intolerance and right wing hypocrisy. In other words, I was looking for hypocrisy on my side of the fence in my life among those of us that consider ourselves conservative or right leaning you may be Republican, you may not. You may have voted for Donald Trump. You may not. But overall you put yourself in the conservative right-leaning class which be the great majority of my listeners and my readers and my viewers and I just I see this all too often. Certainly I see it constantly on the side of the left and I address it constantly and what makes it galling is that the left is claiming to be so tolerant all where the tolerant ones where the progressive ones with the open-minded ones with the liberal ones and they don't see the degree of intolerance and smallmindedness. I was reading an article in the New York Post by a guy who says that that he's gay, and now coming out as conservative and that he did an interview with a controversial gay conservative leader and got vilified for all he did was seek to present the guy fairly got vilified for the mocked and attacked and people cutting them off at unfriendly Emma wouldn't talk to him and avoiding him and he saw how these are all the liberals. These are all the liberals. These are all the people on the left in their vicious and their ugly in their small minded UIs that's that's not who he wanted to be associated with. So, I mean left-wing intolerance is been on full display in recent months rights that you have the rights against free speech in Berkeley, Berkeley University let the home of the free speech movement right you got that the boycotts of of Trump -related fashion soul designers who said that I can work with Bilotti and stores are dropping a bonkers line and in these these are the very people that vilify us when you have, say, a Christian baker who says say in good conscience I can't, I'll serve you out by cookies by cakes, do whatever but I can.

I can't violate my conscience and and make a wedding cake for for so that I don't agree with and and if it's to make a man agree with that. Advised religious believes I can't do it so we got vilified for that attack. For that people take us to court. People lose businesses over that Christie's was businesses in common over that, but the left is no problems everywhere.

I ran a drop this line and I reject this project that amazing amazing intolerance and you have entertainers who receive credible death threats as they performed at the inauguration of Donald Trump to to other entertainers getting blacklisted for for performing so so the intolerance of the left are the so-called tolerant ones.

The enlightened ones. The progressive open-minded ones their intolerances is absolutely galling, and that means there hypocrisy is on full display. But come on the left wing does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy. Those of us on the right have enough hypocrisy of our own know please. I'm not saying that were not standing on the right side of issues. I'm not saying that our views are not right.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't take many of the stands that we take.

I'm saying that when we apply the words of Jesus to ourselves that the way we judge others condemns us that the way we judge others when that same judgment comes against us, that it exposes hypocrisy in our lives that was interesting. As I wrote this article and I said, is to ruffle feathers and it has ruffled feathers and I wrote it to be obedient to the bird in my heart not start trouble but what I find interesting is I've had other leaders say this is the article that conservatives need to re-conservative leaders. Once that he read it with tears was passing it on to friends so other pastors, other conservative social leaders have have commended the article and different different Christian leaders have commended the article recognize that we need to examine ourselves and others is that how dare you attack Trump and in the tech Trump. The article is about.

I'll drop the are close out Donald Trump. The moment that I raise an issue that I express a concern that I'm showing my true liberal side.

It was I was never Trump now. I'm sure my true liberal side. Actually it was not a never Trump and and I'm not a liberal okay in terms of the major social issues and things like that.

I'm conservative but it's so interesting that that people have such a hard time seeing their own blind spots and I'm far from perfect in doing. Obviously, God forbid that I boast about.

I know all my blind spots that were there would be folly to say that but but I want to say this. I live in an environment where were those closest to me are happy to tell me where they differ with me or where they see I could do something better. My wife Nancy is my number one, faithful, loyal critic that will will get me very strongly and that I mean in in love is me and my wife of of almost 41 years now, but showed severe wrong. You just sound like those you criticize your wrong and I go back and look at something that we posted something on Facebook and can be easily misunderstood or it wasn't totally fancy. Copyright your right so I'm in an environment where I don't have a lot of yes people around me in that respect. And I'm constantly debating in my mind, meaning if I say this or explain. I don't mean this I don't want you to take me wrong, I want you to hear what I'm saying. So you read an article and it always have caveats in it because I want to make plan. I'm not saying this I am saying this so all that to say I am constantly trying to examine things from different points of view and others will help me to see my blind spots that some of us don't want to be confronted at all. Some of us are so right, we are we are absolutely right.

I don't care if you're raging liberal of your flaming, conservative or somewhere in between are on the outside. You've got to be willing to examine yourself. By the same standards to which you hold others.

You've got to be willing to be self-critical. You've you've got to be willing to say okay here I give an example. Simple little example, your your driving down the street right you're in the middle lane. You need to get over to the left lane you you looking your side view mirror. You don't see anybody sliding to the left lane and submit there somebody slams the horn. They had to three times just cut them off badly. You realize it, but you just cut them off badly. They were in your blind spot. You didn't see it, you swerved into Lane Avenue signaled your mood and to limit but you cut them off badly because you didn't see them at what you think it was an accident, don't slam on your horn man was an accident late getting me to do. It was an accident I just calm down, calm down. That's is what you think right will then someone does it to you. They they cut in front of you because they didn't see you. You were in there blind spot in your parent you're laying on your heart because somebody made a customer let you kill someone. What you don't. That's which will be a hypocrite. That's what you call having different standards. That's what you call condemning someone for something you justify in your own life. I member one time I was walking through the airport and as I'm walking some gal comes walking across Ryan right looks like an attractive lady. I didn't check her out since she was the sincere quickly and I and as I'm looking ahead I see another guy sees walking towards me. She walks between us and I see him look her up and down and I thought what an animal man your filthy animal that is despicable when you're unclean animal man.

It's the thought I had thought it meet you never look to hope that I don't check them out looking head to toe like that, but I'm the you've never cast the lustful glass. I was dismayed like what you condemned that guy as an animal as if you've never ever for a split second Castellon glance off your easy on ourselves and so I'm getting give you some examples of white conservative error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution of your again is Dr. Michael Brown and I are you ready to fly the sword. I using the words of Jesus. The standards of Jesus that the way we judge others. We will be judge this is Michael Brown you're listening to the Lana far your voice moral sanity and spiritual clarity. So here are some examples that I give in my article left-wing intolerance and right wing hypocrisy.

You can read it on the line of fire.org so here are some some science here so we can test for right wing hypocrisy or conservative hypocrisy. You're excited the present composition, executive orders, but were upset when Pres. Obama issued executive orders calling it abuse of power works that you might debate whose executive orders are right or wrong or good or bad, but if you remember there were conservatives or Obama. All these executive orders are so does he think he is and then Pres. Trump comes in a yes yes take your authority, I will, which is a little hypocrisy there, it seems, how about this you believed every conspiratorial theory about Barack Obama. He's Alex. He's okay. He's being groomed to be the antichrist release that the leader of the New World order.

He's after eight years she's not going to step down his gun and force martial law and can keep running the country and you believed every conspiratorial theory, but then anyone raises an issue about our truck out excess escrow that's false media is being unfair. How how about Pres. Obama, he give a speech and you count how many times he said I you cities, self-centered narcissists.

That's what is streak about himself.

Both events of all time. Donald Trump speaks of himself all the time you synonymy selfless. This is all for the good of the country out little double standard there. Maybe you love to say when when conservative host like Rush and Hannity blasted Pres. Obama 24 seven. But you feel the press is being totally unfair trunk show all those differences it's the mainstream media as a whole. It's going after trumpet is just a conservative host go after Obama on the flipside is conservative host dominate talk radio or Excel from the talk radio side heavily conservative means Obama get blasted day and night, you thought that was good with Trump getting blessed and I think it's unfair. Listen, I'm not even discussing who's right or wrong or whose perspective. I agree with or disagree with certainly went. When I spoke about the present present Obama on one of fire was was primarily with the difference with concern but I was on the Obama basher.

I was a conservative talk radio host on biblically based in that's that's gonna be my grid all right and and I went out of my way not to criticize and attack all the time. Good there other issues to discuss and and and that was on my purpose being on radio and I think that the media is being unfair to Trump in many ways. Okay I'm seminar attitude. Our attitude about this. Of the few times when when the Republican-led Congress stonewalled present Obama you thought was great. Good stand up against him. Act on your convictions and when when we were the minority. It's like a little backbone show little backbone there. But when minority Democrats seek seek to stonewalled Trump there being hard headed, and close minded and stubborn look at those guys accept defeat and get on with things and interest. Interest, this went when the court stood against the affordable care act Obama care. You held a good job way to go.

Glad that your thinking independently and and not letting the president push this down our throats.

But when courts of stood against Pres. Trump South.

How dare they who do they think they are interesting as this judicial activism about this. You saw present Obama as is a race baiting agitator and you saw him as guilty of inflaming ethnic and racial tensions. You're out outraged outraged when people call Trump a divisive racist. You see it there but but there's a big difference is present. Obama said this is all okay I understand. I think there were things he did that were race baiting that grieved me with all respect to him be our president that grieved me. I felt race baiting, but I fully understand how how people can feel it.

Donald Trump is a racially insensitive or said things that could raise issues in concert. All I'm saying again is our double standards. Our double standards.

How about your political cartoons, paint a picture Barack Obama was vacant look like a monkey with these giant years and you laugh, and here, of course, Donald Trump getting caricatured and that the mop of hair, the good that bacon like orange colored you said it's is wrong. That's just wrong.

Have respect for the president.

All God it then have respect for the president was present Obama now you will have respect for the present was Pres. Trump about this it that that you made ugly jokes about First Lady Michelle Obama is that you hire me.

I mean, it hurts like she's transgender sexy Amanda at 60 answers is transgender. I am ramming us to publicly balance less whatever you even wondered about that, but any any negative comments about wanting to Trump that's that's off limits. The presence families off-limits all so First Lady Michelle. She wasn't off-limits by First Lady Malia she is off limits. Or how about the celebrities and athletes who supported Obama or supported Hillary was rented to mind your own business. Who cares what you have to say you don't know anything some athlete or accuracy of the celebrities. My nonbusiness data politics, but those of stood up Trump at last led us to courageous actor at last, the greatest athlete Jennifer Donald Trump.

I'm not saying you should have or should stood up for. I'm saying it's our double standard, this one when the candidate Trump said that he would not guarantee that he would accept the results of the election if he lost his, maybe there's voter fraud or something like that ain't good for you man. I'm glad you said it, but now the Democrats have several they they don't accept the results of the challenge and the results were that the sore losers. Their sore losers and imagine this. Imagine if Hillary Clinton on the electoral vote, but Donald Trump won the popular vote.

How many of you would be saying enough with the electoral votes throw it out. I probably would say throw it out enough with that. Come on. The man won the popular vote. He should be our president but but what is the other way around sore losers, sore losers.

How about maybe you participated in boycotts against companies like Target because their aggressive LGBT activism used to get.

We got it. We gotta make people pay if we did forget it really show with our pocketbook. But then when liberals boycott conservatives or liberals boycott Trump or things related to Trump's should do that that's that's not right so so look I I voted for Donald Trump.

I did not vote for Barack Obama.

Okay, that's clear. III have concerns about where the Trump presidency is going, but I have hope that if you go in in the right direction and there are quite a few decisions he's made that I feel really good about all I'm saying is let's be evenhanded. Let's search our hearts for hypocrisy. Let us honor God by doing what's right with our attitude and with equal weights in equal measures.

God hates unequal weights unequal measures and then with with a fair balance.

Then, let's address the issues and then we can do them with much more clarity and even with more authority. I have you downloaded our app for android phones and android devotions devices for asked Dr. Brett if not, you gotta do it. Take a minute to do it. Ask ADR Brown downloaded on your android phone or your android tablet device take advantage of it at your fingertips as articles latest videos latest line of fire episodes listen to the line of fire right there on the sofa. Hopefully Apple soon her plan. Light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Much on the line of fire today Michael Brown delighted to be with you after great weekend of ministry in Saskatoon, Canada, the province of Saskatchewan you it's really interesting.

I was in Detroit, Michigan.

Let's see the previous weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, after being in Cary, North Carolina the previous Sunday through Thursday so it's been kind of a nonstop time of ministry for a couple weeks plus now, but I was in Detroit and the weather was probably in the teens when there and then flew back home just for a few hours and from there to Orlando, Florida and Orlando.

The temperature was in the 70s and then went from Orlando straight to Saskatoon with three flight straight but you know what I mean straight and it was 80� difference in temperature from Orlando to Saskatoon.

I had some beautiful snow up in in Canada and what's interesting is you got snow covering the road snow coming down the roads driving normally that the car is four-wheel-drive and everybody's everyone is driving normally and and you know things seem fine and I thought mad when I lived in Pensacola, Florida.

We had 1/2 inch of snow. Once that was a blizzard that shut everything down and you may live, veto certain parts of the country now just a little bit of snow in never. The handler don't have the snowplows don't have the salting don't have the proper vehicles, but cataloging of just watching thinking cars would be skin all over the road and other parts of the country of lived in this going along fine and thank God for health and strength to go from climate the climate time zone to time zone around the country around the world and back and thank you for helping me with your prayers. We are taking Scripture and applying it to our lives today and we we live in a high pressured society.

I know life is always have its problems. I know life is always been challenged. Let's think back to a time when every week you were you were dependent on just getting enough sustenance to get through, or every day and and the men were out hunting for days are out fishing for weeks and if they didn't come back with adequate hauler adequate catch those in the E and your dependent on the rain at a certain time for the crops and without that give a die and and people get sick.

Their emotional problems and and we have ups and downs relationally in their weather issues of always as long as we been on the planet since Vincennes yeah there has been pressure but it's it's a different kind of pressure now and in that there is the constant constant constant push is our digital society. There is that the lives of the soccer moms there's a balance in the extra jobs even though we have so much in there so much abundance. Perhaps you live in an environment because of the constant goal pace and the constant being wired. We don't we don't have a cycle where it gets dark at night and you read by candlelight for little while. Then you go to sleep and you rise with the sun we can be going all the time all the time all the time and often we struggle with stress. Again, I'm sure. Stress is been here as long as human races in here after the fall, but I want to give a practical word of advice from Scripture when we come back and then I want to look at a question about how to live in the fear of the Lord. What that actually means. In fact, I preach the whole message on that whole message on Sunday morning my my last message and Saskatchewan. We posted it on my Facebook page and asked Dr. Brown a SK Dearborn effect.

It was broadcast live. And then we posted as soon as it was done so you can go to my Facebook page and watch that enforcing could be edified. We come back. How how we live, in which the stress and pressure constant demands on and on and on and on one bad news after the live in a way that is peaceful that lives only recently cracked by the viable to our lives as the light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH paradigm is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us on today's line of fire broadcasted start the week together in the word with practical wisdom.

How we deal with stress, pressure with busy lives and busy schedules. Normally I thrive in the midst of a very busy lifestyle and daily radio and daily writing, and often doing videotaping and then the other ministry responsibilities that come away life responsibilities. Most of us are or are very busy these days I tend to thrive in it, but somehow I I made some scheduling errors this year so it came back from Singapore of a full week in Singapore Monday to Monday from traveling and getting back ministry there. That five days home and then that Saturday following. I drove about 2 1/4 hours and I drove to Cary, North Carolina and spoke Sunday morning, Sunday night, then the radio every day and then spoke Monday night Tuesday night Wednesday night Thursday night after the meeting Thursday night so that the night meeting ended. Then I drove back home getting home at 1130 at night. Basically time to pack and unpack do radio and in it and then fly to Detroit and then speak Friday night Saturday night Sunday morning in Detroit fly back home.

Then Monday do radio and then fly to Orlando Florida then prepare radio record radio for the next day and then do 1630 minute broadcast, record them for God TV for a new word on fire broadcast so speak eight times Tuesday eight times full-blown messages eight times Tuesday eight times Wednesday then fly straight all the way.

Three flights 13, 14 hours to Saskatoon do radio Friday day speak Friday night Saturday night Sunday night and then three flights 13 hours to get home before being home for radio next day.

Next day than Thursday after radio leave for California conference of California and then flying home within a few days leave for Israel. Later in the month and I I was looking at this and I thought all gosh I made a mistake. How in the world that I do this back to back to back to Nancy and I talked and laughed about it and were we are fine we we have a wonderful relationship. I didn't intend to be away that much and then getting back Matt and IRT and we have to do tons of videos and things like that in the few days home between trips.

I'm looking at it thinking, oh, I mentioned that you could say right Mike, here's my list years is okay so understand were we were busy we get under pressure, and I started to feel the weight of it. I normally don't I normally don't but I started to feel the weight of it and I started to think what you're your home 12 hours and then you go again, and this trip is literally one after the other you go straight from one place to that you don't even go home and and then in this place really radio from here the radio from there and then preach eight times a day for two straight days and I started to feel overwhelmed by actions overwhelmed burdened and way down, which is highly unusual for me and and what I knew I had to do was operating the biblical principles and cures one of the principles and will will break it down into common words one day at a time one minute at a time. Think of what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 68.

He exhorts us seek first became of God and his righteousness and all these things meeting the material needs.

The things we we worry about in the natural. What about this and what about that seek first became of God and his righteousness ran its righteousness, and all these things will be added to you and this is don't worry about tomorrow changing system. No thought this mean, take no thought means don't worry. Don't be anxious, don't be anxious about tomorrow right and and tomorrow will take care of it submitted tomorrow is gonna happen over it's can happen. I can sit here and worry for six hours about the weather.

Tomorrow as I can affect the weather you could be totally into a big sports event and you sit here and worry about it for six hours as I can affect what happens in that event tomorrow. You could have a job and in you did your interview on Friday and now it's the weekend and and they're going to tell you on Monday when he gets a job interview or not they made the decision ready Friday, but they won't notify you until Sunday until Monday. You can worry all weekend, but the decision was ready-made. Okay so the point is worry does not change the.

The nature of what's gonna happen the next day it doesn't lift the burden it doesn't make it any better. Nothing. It's one thing to do strategic planning but that's totally different than worry Jesus is sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.

So what we need to do is live in the moment and just as sufficient to the days evil, or of meaning there is enough trouble to deal with today. There are enough issues to deal with today. On the flipside, if we do, it's written first Peter five cast all your anxiety on the Lord for he cares for you all.

All that is something I can do now take all of your concerns.

All of your weights bring them to the Lord and cast them on the Lord. Psalm 55.

Cast your burdens on the Lord, he will sustain you. Philippians 4, six and seven. Don't worry about anything, but every in everything with prayer and supplication make your requests known to God and the peace of God, with thanksgiving, and the peace of God that surpasses all your understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Messiah Jesus all a whole different perspective a whole different attitude so what you do is this right now where you are.

That's what you need to cast on the Lord you got anxiety concerns for tomorrow just give those to the Lord, and take what you're doing right now and you have grace to do that you see here but you don't know it's coming when you get to the next thing there will be grace for the next thing when you get to tomorrow there will be grace for tomorrow. Picture it like this, let's let's picture you like to do workouts right you like to go to the gym and do workouts and lets you go to CrossFit and every day they have a water workout of the deck never worked out in a CrossFit but I have friends that do it almost religiously. You could say in the bring the workouts back and will do them in other settings, so it's a pretty intense workout and you hear it you'll walk that's a rough workout today. That's really going to push us and challenges okay but you get through it you get through well because you're in good shape.

What what if I showed you the next hundred watts for the next hundred days. You look at that the stocks and pods completely and is completely impossible yeah because each day you have the strength of the new day and maybe have a day off in between working out. But when you see them all at the same time. It's impossible and that's how it is when we look ahead at the future. It's too much is too heavy, but what I just said to myself is okay okay I just one day at a time. Can you handle get ready to go preach now okay great can handle the 2 1/2 hour car ride going home. Can you handle when you wake up in the morning packing for your next trip. Yeah, I knew that can handle preaching when you get yet do that and then each day. What when I have a do now, 16 messages in two days, eight messages per day, 30 minute broadcast again for our new word on fire, show that a storage area God TV beginning of March.

Can you preach one message that you preach on this ready preach another must ready preach another facet sets was no big deal it was, it was not oh my God this is an and then all right lunch break slowdown rest little bit ready to got ready to keep going and then comes the night.

I think on the right okay on the right is a post I have to write another article have to do this have to do that and it's just amazing when you live in the moment and then you take that moment.

And if there is pressure there is difficulty disparate Lord I'm in this moment, I need your help. Now he helps you right then so take the worry and anxiety about tomorrow cast out on the Lord and say Lord concerned about this. I don't know what to do about this. I don't know how you pay this bill in two weeks. I don't know what would you do with this with this with that with that cast it all on the Lord, give him thanks for his faithfulness in the past. Even thanks for his kindness is love, his grace, the wastes come through in the past, glorify, and thank him because he's always good is always righteous and is always our heavenly father. And then wherever you are today you handle it, God will give you the grace to handle if you're doing his will, living in obedience to him. He will not let anything come your way. That will ultimately crush pain and pressure even when it seems we get to the end of ourselves.

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You can do that or Wi-Fi via your computer or tablet that with the app out right at your fingertips. That's asked her to Brent ask a D or Brown. Let me let me make one last practical application of Scripture today, and we know from Proverbs and elsewhere that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but often we we don't know what that means. And we don't really know with the fear of the Lord is on the splendid broadcast were looking at Scripture and making practical application in our live salt. What exactly is the fruit of the Lord. What we mean by the fear of the Lord. There is a tendency these days.

It's been for some years a reaction against a legalistic religious traditional hyper fear that is non-relational as if God is just some older to be dreaded and old know you make one wrong move and he crushes you one wrong move and your dad and we swung to this hyper familiarity side. We swung to this side of hey big daddy the man upstairs kind of thing in and there is no holy reverence and such an emphasis on intimacy that there is no more reference and that the biblical truth is wonderful and powerful. It is not a servile fear that we have first John four says that perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torment there is that the fear of of punishment and the fear of that say a kid has of an alcoholic dad when he reaches out for music and he hit me as you hug me. This is the fear that we have of God or the fear that a servant has cowering in the corners his master with him again as of the fear that we have perfect love casts that out. But you better believe that we have a reverential awe, you better believe that we recognize who God is and we don't play games with him and this is not just the truth of the Old Testament but of the New Testament as well, and even says and asked the nice chapter that the church enjoyed a time of great peace. This is after Saul of Tarsus becomes a believer in Jesus the Messiah and it says that they they were living in the fear of the Lord.

This is a good thing. This is a healthy thing.

So I want to give you quickly. Three aspects of the fear the Lord to watch my whole message on it was recorded as I preached in Saskatoon yesterday Sunday morning to listen to the entire message go to my Facebook page asked Dr. Brown a SKDR Brown on Facebook which you like the page up and I connected with us are ready their jar half-million plus our family on Facebook it's it's a great place to learn, to grow to interact to be challenged to be equipped but go there the whole message is posted.

I think you'll be edified and helped and blessed by it, but number one the fear of God starts with the recognition of who he is and all holy all-powerful, all just all righteous God. And when God came down on Mount Sinai and revealed himself as a consuming fire, and his voice so terrified the people they said to Moses that you speak to us if if he speaks with regard die rogue and a died hearing his voice was too intense was too much to think of it, Moses says to the people access the 20th chapter. Don't fear God has come to put his fear before you so that you will not said don't fear God is come to test you and to put his fear before you see won't send that it's the same Hebrew root.

Some translations say don't be afraid because for fear before but it's the same Hebrew root fear for your dog. Fear meaning is is not here to kill you, he's not here to destroy you.

Don't fear that way. Yes, don't be afraid by have a right fear. Understand who is his fear is here so you won't send against. I don't want to sin against that God is that God back his word. I want to sin against that God because that God is perfectly just, I want to sin against that God because that God can destroy both soul and body in hell. Therefore, I recognize who he is and in light of that, in light of that, I live a life that is circumspect. This is a theme Old Testament and new now. Think of it through the blood of Jesus. We have been washed clean and we have been made holy so that we can come into the holy presence of God. Now, as a result of that much has been given to us, much is required of us and we are called to live out a holy life, since everyone the recognition of who he is this the beginning of the fear the Lord. Number two. Living a life that pleases him to walk in the fear of the Lord means knowing who he is. I live before him circumspectly. Oh, not with the fear of if I make one mistake.

I think one of them had no no no, our father's heart set on us with deep everlasting love our father's heart is set on us with an intense love even more than we could imagine even more than Outlook that the greatest love we have for our kids. God's love is greater. The greatest love we have for our spouses. God's love is greater that that is his attitude towards us. That is his mindset towards us and because of his love and because of his holiness.

We now live a life that pleases Psalm 34 says I will teach you the fear of the Lord, meaning how to live in the sight of God and then thirdly Proverbs 14 tells us that the fear of the Lord is a strong tower that that the fear of the Lord is a place of security wasn't mean means when I live that life in his presence when I lived that life in godly fear went when I live a life honoring him and say I'm secure.

I liken it to a spot like that spotlight shines down on the darkness. You can't see anything around you. But that's spotlight that's like God's light. God's law, God's ways God's goodness. God's grace when I walk in the hat so I live that life pleasing to the site I'm safe I'm secure I'm at rest because I'm living in the light of God's presence.

Walk in the fear of the Lord. My friend and you to will be blessed. Remember to check out my latest articles and videos go to the line of fire.org and explore the digital library sure to download the*draft for android hopefully available for half my bottom line today will live by the word of the living God bless this world and the world of we are going to take the word of God and the practical application in our lives today right here on the line of fire stage for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of Ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown, their friends, welcome to our Monday edition of the line of fire.

Hope you had a good weekend and a wonderful time preaching in Canada in Saskatoon Friday night than a leaders meeting Saturday morning than Saturday night than Sunday morning and it's it's always great to be among folks who are hungry and thirsty for the things of God and who want you to get up from the pulpit and speak the truth I've gotta be honest with you I don't get invited places that don't want me to speak the truth. I don't get invited places that aren't hungry for the word of God. But it's always a delight. I've had week after week out of preaching in this new year and so many places where were people want you to tell it like it is an open up the Scriptures and they don't want their ears tickled and then they don't want their their flesh coddled. They want truth.

They want truth, regardless of cost or consequence. That's the environment that I love to be in hate just want to mention this, and then it will really due to them not taking calls.

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Do not judge you too will be judged from the same way you judge others, you will be judged with the measure you use will be measured to you. What you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye, I can you say to your brother. We take the speck out of your eye. When all the time. There is a plank in your own eye you hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. I so I preached in Saskatoon, Canada Friday night got back to my hotel room and was burden to write and I wrote an article that you can read on our website on the line of fire.org entitled left-wing intolerance and right wing hypocrisy. In other words, I was looking for hypocrisy on my side of the fence in my life among those of us that consider ourselves conservative or right leaning you may be Republican, you may not. You may have voted for Donald Trump. You may not. But overall you put yourself in the conservative right-leaning class which be the great majority of my listeners and my readers and my viewers and I just I see this all too often. Certainly I see it constantly on the side of the left and I address it constantly and what makes it galling is that the left is claiming to be so tolerant all where the tolerant ones where the progressive ones with the open-minded ones with the liberal ones and they don't see the degree of intolerance and smallmindedness. I was reading an article in the New York Post by a guy who says that that he's gay, and now coming out as conservative and that he did an interview with a controversial gay conservative leader and got vilified for all he did was seek to present the guy fairly got vilified for the mocked and attacked and people cutting them off in unfriendly Emma wouldn't talk to him and avoiding him and he saw how these are all the liberals. These are all the liberals. These are all the people on the left in their vicious and their ugly in their small minded UIs that that's not who he wanted to be associated with. So, I mean left-wing intolerance is been on full display in recent months rights that you have the rights against free speech in Berkeley, Berkeley University let the home of the free speech movement right you got that the boycotts of of Trump -related fashion soul designers who said that I can work with Bilotti and stores are dropping a bonkers line and in these these are the very people that vilify us when you have, say, a Christian baker who says say in good conscience I can't, I'll serve you out by cookies by cakes, do whatever but I can. I can't violate my conscience and and make a wedding cake for for so that I don't agree with and and if it's to make a man agree with that. Advised religious believes I can't do it so we got vilified for that attack. For that people take us to court. People lose businesses over that Christie's was businesses in common over that, but the left is no problems everywhere. I ran a drop this line and I reject this project that amazing amazing intolerance and you have entertainers who receive credible death threats as they performed at the inauguration of Donald Trump to to other entertainers getting blacklisted for for performing so so the intolerance of the left are the so-called tolerant ones.

The enlightened ones. The progressive open-minded ones their intolerances is absolutely galling, and that means there hypocrisy is on full display. But come on the left wing does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy. Those of us on the right have enough hypocrisy of our own know please. I'm not saying that were not standing on the right side of issues.

I'm not saying that our views are not right. I'm not saying that we shouldn't take many of the stands that we take. I'm saying that when we apply the words of Jesus to ourselves that the way we judge others condemns us that the way we judge others when that same judgment comes against us, that it exposes hypocrisy in our lives that was interesting. As I wrote this article and I said, is to ruffle feathers and it has ruffled feathers and I wrote it to be obedient to the bird in my heart not start trouble but what I find interesting is I've had other leaders say this is the article that conservatives need to re-conservative leaders. Once that he read it with tears was passing it on to friends so other pastors, other conservative social leaders have have commended the article and different different Christian leaders have commended the article recognize that we need to examine ourselves and others is that how dare you attack Trump in the tech Trump. The article is about.

I'll drop the our closeness without Donald Trump.

The moment that I raise an issue that I express a concern that I'm showing my true liberal side. It was I was never Trump now. I'm sure my true liberal side.

Actually it was not a never Trump and and I'm not a liberal okay in terms of the major social issues and things like that. I'm conservative but it's so interesting that that people have such a hard time seeing their own blind spots and I'm far from perfect in doing. Obviously, God forbid that I boast about. I know all my blind spots that would be folly to say that but but I want to say this. I live in an environment where were those closest to me are happy to tell me where they differ with me or where they see I could do something better. My wife Nancy is my number one, faithful, loyal critic that will will get me very strongly and that I mean and in love is me and my wife of of almost 41 years now, but showed severe wrong.

You just sound like those you criticize your wrong and I go back and look at something that we posted something on Facebook and can be easily misunderstood or wasn't totally fancy, you're right you're right so I'm in an environment where I don't have a lot of yes people around me in that respect. And I'm constantly debating in my mind, meaning if I say this or explain.

I don't mean this I don't want you to take me wrong, I want you to hear what I'm saying.

So you read an article and it always have caveats in it because I want to make plan. I'm not saying this I am saying this so all that to say I am constantly trying to examine things from different points of view and in others will help me to see my blind spots, but some of us don't want to be confronted at all. Some of us are so right, we are we are absolutely right. I don't care if you're raging liberal of your flaming, conservative or somewhere in between are on the outside. You've got to be willing to examine yourself.

By the same standards to which you hold others.

You've got to be willing to be self-critical. You've you've got to be willing to say okay here I give an example. Simple little example, your your driving down the street right you're in the middle lane. You need to get over to the left lane you you looking your side view mirror. You don't see anybody sliding to the left lane, and suddenly somebody slams the horn.

They had to three times just cut them off badly. You realize it, but you just cut them off badly. They were in your blind spot. You didn't see it, you swerved into Lane Avenue signaled your mood and to limit but you cut them off badly because you didn't see them at what you think it was an accident, don't slam on your horn man was an accident, lady, I didn't mean to do it was an accident I just calm down, calm down. That's is what you're thinking right will then someone does it to you.

They they cut in front of you because they didn't see you. You were in there blind spot in your parent you're laying on your heart to kill somebody make a customer let you kill someone what you doing that's which will be a hypocrite. That's what you call having different standards. That's what you call condemning someone for something you justify your own life. I remember one time I was walking through the airport and as I'm walking some gal comes walking across Ryan right looks like an attractive lady. I check her out since she was the sincere quickly and I and as I'm looking ahead I see another guy sees walking towards me. She walks between us and I see him look her up and down and I thought what an animal man your filthy animal that is despicable when you're unclean animal man. It's the thought I had thought it meet you never look to hope that I don't check them out.

Looking ahead to talk like that but I'm the you've never cast the lustful glass always assessment like what you condemned that guy as an animal as if you've never ever for a split second Castellon glance off your easy on ourselves and so I'm getting give you some examples of white conservative error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution of your exam is Dr. Michael Brown and I are you ready to apply the sword of life using the words of Jesus. The standards of Jesus that the way we judge others.

We will be judge this is Michael Brown you're listening to the Lana far your voice moral sanity and spiritual clarity. So here are some examples that I give in my article left-wing intolerance and right wing hypocrisy. You can read it on the line of fire org so here are some some science here so we can test for right wing hypocrisy or conservative hypocrisy. You're excited the present composition, executive orders, but were upset when Pres. Obama issued executive orders calling it abuse of power works that you might debate whose executive orders are right or wrong or good or bad, but if you remember there were conservatives or Obama. All these executive orders is how does he think he is and then Pres. Trump comes not yes yes take your authority, I will, which is a little hypocrisy there, it seems, how about this you believed every conspiratorial theory about Barack Obama.

He's Alex. He's okay. He's being groomed to be the antichrist release that the leader of the New World order. He's after eight years she's not going to step down his gun and force martial law and can keep running the country and you believed every conspiratorial theory, but then anyone raises an issue about our truck out excess escrow that's false media is being unfair. How how about Pres. Obama, he give a speech and you count how many times he said I you cities, self-centered narcissists. That's what is streak about himself. Both events of all time. Donald Trump speaks of himself all the time you synonymy selfless. This is all for the good of the country out little double standard there. Maybe you love to say when when conservative host like Rush and Hannity blasted Pres. Obama 24 seven.

But you feel the press is mentally inferior Trump so all those differences it's the mainstream media as a whole. It's going after trumpet is just a conservative host go after Obama on the flipside is conservative host Domine talk radio or Excel from the talk radio side heavily conservative means Obama get blasted day and night, you thought that was good with Trump getting blessed and I think it's unfair.

Listen, I'm not even discussing who's right or wrong or whose perspective. I agree with or disagree with certainly went.

When I spoke about the present Pres. Obama, I want to fire was was primarily with the difference with concern but I was on the Obama basher. I was a conservative talk radio host on biblically based in that's that's gonna be my grid all right and and I went out of my way not to criticize and attack all the time.

Good there other issues to discuss and and and that was on my purpose being on radio and I think that the media is being unfair to Trump in many ways.

Okay on seminar attitude. Our attitude about this. Of the few times when when the Republican-led Congress stonewalled Pres. Obama you thought was great. Good stand up against him. Act on your convictions and when when we were the minority. It's like a little backbone show little backbone there. But when minority Democrats you seek to stonewalled Trump there being hard headed, and close minded and stubborn look at those guys accept defeat and get on with things and interest. Interest, this went when the court stood against the affordable care act Obama care you held up good job way to go. Glad that your thinking independently and and not letting the president push this down our throats.

But when courts of stood against Pres. Trump sound how dandy who do they think they are interesting as this judicial activism about this.

You saw Pres. Obama, as is a race baiting agitator and you saw him as guilty of inflaming ethnic and racial tensions. You're out outraged outrage when people call Trump a divisive racist.

You see it there but but there's a big difference is present. Obama said this is all okay I understand. I think there were things he did that were race baiting that grieves me. With all respect to him be our president that grieves me. I felt race baiting, but I fully understand how how people can feel it. Donald Trump is a racially insensitive or said things that could raise issues in concert.

All I'm saying again is our double standards.

Our double standards.

How about your political cartoons, paint a picture Barack Obama was vacant look like a monkey with these giant years and you laugh, and here, of course, Donald Trump getting caricatured and that the mop of hair, the good of the bacon like orange colored nuisance is wrong. That's just wrong. Have respect for the president. All God it didn't have respect for the president was present Obama now you will have respect for the present was Pres. Trump about this it that that you made ugly jokes about First Lady Michelle Obama is that you hire me. I mean it hurt. She's like she's transgender sexy Amanda it's extensors is transgender. I am ramming us to publicly balance less whatever you even wondered about that, but any any negative comments about wanting to Trump that's that's off limits. The presence families off-limits all so First Lady Michelle. She wasn't off-limits by First Lady Malia she is off-limits. Or how about the celebrities and athletes who supported Obama or supported Hillary Mosher rented to mind your own business.

Who cares what you have to say you don't know anything some athlete or actors of celebrities mind on business data. Politics. But those of stood up a trumpet last last a courageous actor at last, the greatest athlete Jennifer Donald Trump. I'm not saying you should have or shouldn't stood up for. I'm saying it's our double standard, this one when the candidate Trump said that he would not guarantee that he would accept the results of the election if he lost his, maybe there's voter fraud or something like that hate good for you man. I'm glad you said it, but now the Democrats have civil they they don't accept the results of the challenge and the results were that the sore losers. Their sore losers and imagine this. Imagine if Hillary Clinton on the electoral vote, but Donald Trump won the popular vote. How many of you be saying enough with the electoral votes throw it out. I probably would say throw it out enough with that. Come on.

The man won the popular vote. He should be our president but but what is the other way around sore losers, sore losers. How about maybe you participated in boycotts against companies like Target because their aggressive LGBT activism used to get.

We got it. We gotta make people pay if we did forget it really show with our pocketbook.

But then when liberals boycott conservatives or liberals boycott Trump work things related to Trump's shouldn't do that that's that's not right so so look I I voted for Donald Trump. I did not vote for Barack Obama. Okay, that's clear.

III have concerns about where the Trump presidency is going, but I have hope that if you go in in the right direction and there are quite a few decisions he's made that I feel really good about all I'm saying is let's be evenhanded. Let's search our hearts for hypocrisy. Let us honor God by doing what's right with our attitude and with equal weights in equal measures. God hates unequal weights unequal measures and then with with a fair balance. Then, let's address the issues and then we can do them with much more clarity and even with more authority. I have you downloaded our app for android phones and android devices devices for asked Dr. Brett if not, you gotta do it. Take a minute to do it. Ask ADR Brown downloaded on your android phone or your android tablet device take advantage of it at your fingertips as articles latest videos latest line of fire episode.

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I was in Detroit, Michigan. Let's see the previous weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, after being in Cary, North Carolina the previous Sunday through Thursday so it's been kind of nonstop time of ministry for a couple weeks plus now, but I was in Detroit and the weather was probably in the teens when there and then flew back home just for a few hours and from there to Orlando, Florida and Orlando.

The temperature was in the 70s and then went from Orlando straight to Saskatoon with three flight straight but you know what I mean straight and it was 80� difference in temperature from Orlando to Saskatoon. I had some beautiful snow up in in Canada and what's interesting is you got snow covering the road snow coming down the roads driving normally that the car is four-wheel-drive and everybody's everyone is driving normally and and you know things seem fine and I thought mad when I lived in Pensacola, Florida. We had 1/2 inch of snow. Once that was a blizzard that shut everything down and you may live below certain parts of the country now just a little bit of snow in every the handler don't have the snowplows don't have the salting don't have the proper vehicles, but cataloging of just watching the cars would be skin all over the road and other parts of the country of lived in just going along fine and thank God for health and strength to go from climate the climate time zone to time zone around the country around the world and back and thank you for helping me with your prayers. We are taking Scripture and applying it to our lives today and we we live in a high pressured society. I know life is always have its problems. I know life is always been challenged.

Let's think back to a time when every week you were you were dependent on just getting enough sustenance to get through, or every day and and the men were out hunting for days are out fishing for weeks and if they didn't come back with adequate hauler adequate catch those in the E and your dependent on the rain at a certain time for the crops and without that going to die and and people get sick. Their emotional problems and and we have ups and downs relationally in the weather issues of always as long as we been on the planet since Vincennes yeah there has been pressure but it's it's a different kind of pressure now and in that there is the constant constant constant push this or digital society. There is that the lives of the soccer moms there's a balance in the extra jobs even though we have so much and there's so much abundance.

Perhaps we live in an environment because of the constant goal pace and the constant being wired. We don't we don't have a cycle where it gets dark at night and read by candlelight for little while. Then you go to sleep and you rise with the sun can be gone all the time all the time all the time and often we struggle with stress. Again, I'm sure.

Stress is been here as long as human races in here after the fall, but I want to give a practical word of advice from Scripture when we come back and then I want to look at a question about how to live in the fear of the Lord. What that actually means.

In fact, I preach the whole message on that whole message on Sunday morning my my last message and Saskatchewan. We posted it on my Facebook page and asked Dr. Brown a SK Dearborn affected was broadcast live. And then we posted as soon as it was done so you can go to my Facebook page and watch that enforcing could be edified.

We come back.

How how we live, in which the stress and pressure constant demands on and on and on and on one bad news after the live in a way that is peaceful that lives only recently cracked by the pliable to our lives as the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH paradigm is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us on today's line of fire broadcasted start the week together in the word with practical wisdom. How we deal with stress, pressure with busy lives and busy schedules. Normally I thrive in the midst of a very busy lifestyle and daily radio and daily writing, and often doing videotaping and then the other ministry responsibilities that come away life responsibilities. Most of us are or are very busy these days I tend to thrive in it, but somehow I I made some scheduling errors this year so I came back from Singapore of a full week in Singapore Monday to Monday traveling and getting back ministry there. That five days home and then that Saturday following. I drove about 2 1/4 hours and I drove to Cary, North Carolina and spoke Sunday morning, Sunday night, then the radio every day and then spoke Monday night Tuesday night Wednesday night Thursday night after the meeting Thursday night, so this is the night meeting ended that I drove back home getting home at 1130 at night. Basically time to pack and unpack do radio and in it and then fly to Detroit and then speak Friday night Saturday night Sunday morning in Detroit fly back home. Then Monday do radio and then fly to Orlando Florida then prepare radio record radio for the next day and then do 1630 minute broadcasts record them for God TV for a new word on fire broadcast so speak eight times Tuesday eight times football messages eight times Tuesday eight times Wednesday then fly straight all the way. Three flights 13, 14 hours to Saskatoon do radio Friday day speak Friday night Saturday night Sunday night and then three flights 13 hours to get home before being home for radio next day. Next day than Thursday after radio leave for California conference, California, and then flying home within a few days leave for Israel. Later in the month and I I was looking at this and I thought all gosh I made a mistake. How in the world that I do this back to back to back to Nancy and I talked and laughed about it and were we are fine we we have a wonderful relationship but I didn't intend to be away that much and then getting back Matt IRT and we have to do tons of videos and things like that in the few days home between trips. I'm looking at it thinking, oh, I mentioned that you could say or write Mike here's my list years is okay so understand were we were busy we get under pressure, and I started to feel the weight of it. I normally don't I normally don't but I started to feel the weight of it and I started to think what you're your home 12 hours and then you go again, and this trip is literally one after the other you go straight from one place to that you don't even go home and and then in this place really radio from here the radio from there and then preach eight times a day for two straight days and I started to feel overwhelmed by actions overwhelmed burdens and way down, which is highly unusual for me and and what I knew I had to do was operate in biblical principles and here is one of the principles and will will break it down into common words one day at a time one minute at a time.

Think of what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 6 EE exhorts us seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things meeting the material needs. The things we we worry about in the natural. What about this and what about that seek first the came of God and his righteousness ran its righteousness, and all these things will be added to you and this is don't worry about tomorrow changing system.

No thought this mean, take no thought means don't worry. Don't be anxious, don't be anxious about tomorrow right and and tomorrow will take care of it submitted was going to happen over. It's can happen.

I can sit here and worry for six hours about the weather. Tomorrow as I can affect the weather you can be totally into a big sports event and you sit here and worry about it for six hours as I can affect what happens in that event tomorrow. You could have a job and in you did your interview on Friday and now it's the weekend and and they're going to tell you on Monday when he gets a job interview or not they made the decision ready Friday, but they won't notify you until Sunday until Monday.

You can worry all weekend, but the decision was ready-made. Okay so the point is worry does not change the. The nature of what's gonna happen the next day it doesn't lift the burden it doesn't make it any better. Nothing. It's one thing to do strategic planning but that's totally different than worry Jesus is sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.

So what we need to do is live in the moment and just as sufficient to the days evil, or of meaning there is enough trouble to deal with today.

There are enough issues to deal with today.

On the flipside, if we do, it's written first Peter five cast all your anxiety on the Lord for he cares for you all. All that is something I can do now take all of your concerns. All of your weights bring them to the Lord and cast them on the Lord. Psalm 55.

Cast your burdens on the Lord, he will sustain you. Philippians 4, six and seven.

Don't worry about anything, but every in everything with prayer and supplication make your requests known to God and the peace of God, with thanksgiving, and the peace of God that surpasses all your understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Messiah Jesus all the hall different perspective a whole different attitude so what you do is this right now where you are. That's what you need to cast on the Lord you got anxiety concerns for tomorrow just give those to the Lord, and take what you're doing right now and you have grace to do that DCA, but you don't know it's coming when you get to the next thing there will be grace for the next thing when you get to tomorrow there will be grace for tomorrow. Picture it like this, let's let's picture you like to do workouts right you like to go to the gym and do workouts and lets you go to CrossFit and every day they have a water workout of the deck never worked out in a CrossFit but I have friends that do it almost religiously.

You could say in the bring the workouts back and will do them in other settings, so it's a pretty intense workout and you hear it you'll walk that's a rough workout today. That's really going to push us and challenges okay but you get through it you get through well because you're in good shape will what if I showed you the next hundred wallets for the next hundred days.

You look at the got the stocks and pods completely and is completely impossible yeah because each day you have the strength of the new day and maybe have a day off in between working out. But when you see them all at the same time. It's impossible and that's how it is when we look ahead at the future. It's too much is too heavy, but what I just said to myself is okay okay I just one day at a time. Can you handle get ready to go preach now okay great can handle a 2 1/2 hour car ride going home. Can you handle when you wake up in the morning packing for your next trip. Yeah, I knew that can handle preaching when you get yet do that and then each day. What when I have a do now, 16 messages in two days, eight messages per day, 30 minute broadcast again for our new word on fire, show that a storage area God TV and beginning of March. Can you preach one message that you preach on this part ready preach another must ready preach a lot of press, except it was no big deal it was, it was not all my God this is an and then all right lunch break slowdown rest little bit ready keep got ready to get going and then comes the night. I think on the right okay on the right is a post I have to write another article have to do this have to do that and it's just amazing when you live in the moment and then you take that moment. And if there is pressure there is difficult disparate Lord I'm in this moment, I need your help. Now he helps you right then so take the worry and anxiety about tomorrow cast out on the Lord and say Lord concerned about this. I don't know what to do about this.

I don't know how you pay this bill in two weeks.

I don't know what would you do with this with this with that with that cast it all on the Lord, give him thanks for his faithfulness in the past. Even thanks for his kindness is love, his grace, the wastes come through in the past, glorify, and thank him because he's always good is always righteous and is always our heavenly father. And then wherever you are today you handle it, God will give you the grace to handle if you're doing his will, living in obedience to him will not let anything come your way. That will ultimately crush pain and pressure even when it seems we get to the end of ourselves. Grace prevail in out of our weakness, strength, a friend do this it will stand your way to light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown, a fire difference. If you missed any part of today's broadcast go to the website.

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What we mean by the fear of the Lord. There is a tendency these days and it's been for some years a reaction against a legalistic religious traditional hyper fear that his nonrelational as if God is just some older to be dreaded and old know you make one wrong move and he crushes you one wrong move and your dad and we swung to this hyper familiarity side.

We swung to this side of hey big daddy the man upstairs kind of thing in and there is no holy reverence and such an emphasis on intimacy that there is no more reference and that the biblical truth is wonderful and powerful is not a servile fear that we have first John four says that perfect love casts out fear.

Fear has torment there is that the fear of of punishment and the fear of that say a kid has of an alcoholic dad when he reaches out for me is going to hit me as you get a hug me this of the fear that we have of God or the fear that a servant has cowering in the corners his master with him again as of the fear that we have perfect love casts that out. But you better believe that we have a reverential awe, you better believe that we recognize who God is and we don't play games with him and this is not just the truth of the Old Testament but of the New Testament as well, and even says and asked the nice chapter that the church enjoyed a time of great peace.

This is after Saul of Tarsus becomes a believer in Jesus the Messiah and it says that they they were living in the fear of the Lord.

This is a good thing. This is a healthy thing.

So I want to give you quickly. Three aspects of the fear the Lord to watch my whole message on. It was recorded as I preached in Saskatoon yesterday Sunday morning to listen to the entire message go to my Facebook page asked Dr. Brown a SKDR Brown on Facebook which you like the page up and I connected with us are ready.

There are half million plus a family on Facebook it's it's a great place to learn, to grow to interact to be challenged to be equipped but go there the whole message is posted. I think you be edified and helped and blessed by it, but number one the fear of God starts with the recognition of who he is and all holy, all powerful, all just all righteous God. And when God came down on Mount Sinai and revealed himself as a consuming fire, and his voice so terrified the people they said to Moses that you speak to us if if he speaks of us were gonna die rogue and a dog is hearing his voice was too intense. It was too much to think of it, Moses says to the people access the 20th chapter. Don't fear God has come to put his fear before you so that you will not said don't fear God is come to test you and to put his fear before you see won't send that it's the same Hebrew root.

Some translations it will be afraid gospel is fear before but it's the same Hebrew root fear. Fear don't fear meaning is is not here to kill you, he's not here to destroy you.

Don't fear that way.

Yes, don't be afraid by have a right fear. Understand who is his fear is here so you won't send against. I don't want to sin against that God is that God to back his word. I want to sin against that God is that God is perfectly just, I want to sin against that God is that God can destroy both soul and body in hell. Therefore, I recognize who he is and in light of that, in light of that, I live a life that is circumspect. This is a theme Old Testament and new now. Think of it through the blood of Jesus. We have been washed clean and we have been made holy so that we can come into the holy presence of God.

Now, as a result of that much has been given to us, much is required of us and we are called to live out a holy life, since everyone the recognition of who he is this the beginning of the fear the Lord. Number two. Living a life that pleases him to walk in the fear of the Lord means knowing who he is. I live before him circumspectly.

Oh, not with the fear of if I make one mistake. I think one of them had no no no, our father's heart set on us with deep everlasting love our father's heart is set on us with an intense love even more than we could imagine even more than outlook that the greatest love we have for our kids. God's love is greater. The greatest love we have for our spouses.

God's love is greater that that is his attitude towards us. That is his mindset towards us and because of his love and because of his holiness. We now live a life that pleases Psalm 34 says I will teach you the fear of the Lord, meaning how to live in the sight of God and then thirdly Proverbs 14 tells us that the fear of the Lord is a strong tower that that the fear of the Lord is a place of security listening means when I live that life in his presence when I lived that life in godly fear went when I live a life honoring him and say I'm secure. I liken it to a spot like that spotlight shines down on the darkness. You can't see anything around you. But that's spotlight that's like God's light. God's law, God's ways God's goodness. God's grace when I walk in the hat so I live that life pleasing to the site I'm safe I'm secure I'm at rest because I'm living in the light of God's presence.

Walk in the fear of the Lord. My friend and you too will be blessed. Remember to check out my latest articles and videos go to the line of fire.org and explore the digital library sure to download the*draft for android. Hopefully a day available for half my bottom line today will live by the word of the living God bless this world and the world of