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Apr 22, 2018

Fearful Wisdom

Passage: Proverbs 1:7

Speaker: Ben Seneker

Series: Proverbs

Category: Grace Brevard

The Fear of the Lord: the cornerstone of all gospel wisdom.

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Prelude:

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Psalm 130:4 - But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Vacation

Call To Worship: Hebrews 10:19-23 NIV

Songs: This Is Amazing Grace, Good Good Father, Sovereign Grace O'er Sin Abounding, This I Believe (Creed)

Prayer: Refuge (adapted from The Valley of Vision)

ALL: O Lord, Let me dwell in thy most secret place under Your shadow; where is safe impenetrable protection.

LEADER: I am entirely dependent upon You for support, counsel, and consolation. Uphold me by Your Spirit.

ALL: Strengthen me inward for every purpose in life. Anew each day in the finished work of Christ.

LEADER: Take my body, soul, talents, character, success, family, friends, work, and future. My very end.

ALL: Take them. They are Yours. I am Yours.  Now and forever.

Sermon Title: Fearful Wisdom

Central Text: Proverbs 1:7; 9:10 ESV

Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 9:10 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Illustration: Lion Whisperer

Illustration: Far Side

Response: 1 John 4:10,16-19 ESV

Benediction: Numbers 6:24-26 ESV

Media:

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Related Scriptures:

Isaiah 6:1-7

1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” 4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Psalm 2:11 - Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalm 19:9 - the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

Psalm 33:18 - Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Psalm 34:9 - Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!

Psalm 66:16 - Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

Psalm 103:11 - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him;

Psalm 130:4 - But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Psalm 145:19 - He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Discussion Questions & Applications:

1) How do you lean either more toward seeing God as powerful and scary or soft and cuddly?

How do we get “too familiar” with God and stop see his “terrifying” powerfulness?

How do we do the opposite and stop seeing His gentle tenderness?

2) Read Isaiah 6:1-7. This is Isaiah encountering God “face to face”

   Describe his reaction.

   Why was he so “undone”

   What is the solution to being “afraid” of God?

3) The gospel gives us both: God’s full terrifying power is found in Jesus, and his terribly wrath leveled onto Jesus. How does the Gospel reveal both a God that terrifies us as well as One that melts our hearts with love?

Sermons:

Praying Our Guilt by Timothy J. Keller

Psalm 130:1-8

Perfect Love Casts Out All Fear by John Piper

1 John 4:17-19