The Real Picture Of God (4)

We are revealing THE REAL PICTURE OF GOD

And today will be the 4th session on this series

To start with,let me make this statement and I will explain what I mean in a jiffy

There are 2 categories of believers, those that FEAR God and those that LOVE God

Growing up as a Christian,I use to think FEAR AND LOVE can co exist, but some months ago,I found out they actually can't

I believe the reason why God wants me to take this tonight is that He wants to change someone's orientation about Him today.

If love to make this illustration

I you are putting on a green goggle(glass),without doubts everything you will be seeing will be colour green

Even if the thing is white,you will be seeing it as green,why? Because that's what you are seeing with

The green goggle

So the problem most of the Time isn't what we are looking at,what needs to be checked is our goggle

What we see with

Fear and love cannot co exist

You can't love a person and fear the person at the same time

Unfortunately many sincere believers fall into this trap,an in the process of fearing and loving God at the sane time, they end up with the wrong belief that God is disappointed with them and mad at them.

Fearing God and Loving God cannot co exist

You can't do both at the same time

Permit me to prove that to you

1John 4: 18

KJV:There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Have you ever come across that verse before?

Let's quickly compare scriptures with scriptures

Romans 8:15

KJV:For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

...spirit of bondage AGAIN to Fear....

In the old testament,when the children of Israel relates with God,they relate to him from a fearful heart and that wasn't their fault, that was the extent of their knowledge about God.

They didn't understand what LOVE really means

They served God in fear and not in Love

Here is a practical example to tell the difference between fear and Love:

Parent's relationship with their children. In your dealings with your children as a parent, there will definitely be correction and guidance,but you never want your children to fear you, or be insecure about your love for and acceptance of them. 

You correct them in love and not otherwise

And it also happens in an organization

Some of us do things at the office because we love our boss, while some of us do eye service and get somethings done unwillingly because we fear our boss.

INSECURITY AND LOVE CANNOT CO EXIST IN A TRULY INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP

Fear and insecurity will only lead to hatred. If your children fear you,they will grow up hating you.

Have you felt like hypocrites,have you once felt like stop attending church, stop reading the bible,stop talking to God in prayer?

Most of the time,if you check it very well,this feeling crept in not because you are a bad person,but because you probably just believe that God is annoyed at you at that moment,maybe because of what you did wrong or what you didn't do right.

In your relationship with friends,family,lovers and God. It's either you do things for them out of love or out of something that isn't love

1John 4: 18

KJV:There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

In the new testament FEAR means honoring,worshipping, and reverencing God as God in our lives.

So like someone asked earlier,what about the FEAR of the Lord in the book of proverbs?

Intelligent question

The Fear Solomon was referring to doesn't mean to being terrified or afraid of and threatened by God

Like I said earlier it means honoring,worshipping, and reverencing God as God in our lives!

I'm going somewhere please

Do you want to hear Jesus definition of FEAR??

something happened in Mathew 4 which I want us to see together

Where Jesus was tempted

13

KJV:Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

That's Deuteronomy 6 :13

Jesus quote this verse when the devil tempted him

Mathew 4: 10

KJV:Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt WORSHIP the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

I hope its the same in your bible too

So if you will compare both scripture, Jesus defined Fear to be Worship

And not the FEAR as some of us take it to be today

Jesus came to make us understand that Love is greater than Fear

He gave 10 commandments in exodus

An in the new testament,he summarized them into 2

LOVE

Let me put some things together right now

I want to believe someone's mind is being renewed right now

If you have any dream or revelation or vision that promotes fear in you, ITS NOT FROM GOD

Someone asked me one day and said 'Samuel, I don't seem to understand you,you don't believe in prophecy'

And I replied, I said I do.

She said,you only believe the positive ones,I said Yes.

Because my bible told me prophecies has three purpose 

-To edify

-To exhort

-To comfort

So any thing that is otherwise will only promote fear which is not From God

If you read any portion of the bible and it doesn't portray God as a loving father,please consult people before you conclude that God is what He is not.

Love and Fear cannot co exist

That why believers that fear God will always be amazed when they see we that Love God relating to Him in some ways.

Just like Moses and the Israelites.

Moses saw the ways of God while the Israelites saw the Acts of God

One question I will be answering next week is that 'Does God punishes His children'?

You know people quote from Proverbs and say 'God chastises those he loves'..

I will explain what it means 

And other places of the bible that you are yet to be clarified on.

Cases like 'Ananias and Sapphire

We will see what God wants us to see from those places and what religion wants us to see.

So permit me to give you an assignment right now,

Write that portion of the scriptures that counters the image of God you know,and then let's see them together next week.

Jesus is the revelation of the Real picture of God!

Like I said last week, by the end of this year,on this series,we will all come to the unity of faith.

We are taking it Pocco a pocco,we will continue next week.