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How Do You Walk in the Fear of the LORD?
In this sermon I address the starting place of walking in the fear of the Lord. The Bible declares the the fear of the Lord is the beginning; the beginning of knowledge and wisdom. But how does one walk in the fear of the LORD?
Listen in as I address the this in part one of “Walking in the Fear of the LORD”. This is also the frame work for my next column in the Twin Falls, Times News.
Is He Your God?
I preached from Isaiah 25 this past Lord’s Day. The evangelist, Isaiah, made the declaration of God Almighty very personal. He did not refer to God as his father’s God or Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob’s God. He referred to Him as his God.
I would take serious inventory of this matter. If Yahweh is only your father’s God and not your God too then you are only part of a traditional religion. I would prefer a personal religion that is marked with a personal relationship.
Traditional religion says, “He is God.” or “He is my father’s God.”
Personal religion says, “You are my God.” “You are my salvation.”
- We are in a day where we need a heaven born revival in the church. Not a spiritual movement hijacked by a national patriotic movement. No!
- We need a fresh pouring out of the Holy Spirit of God Almighty. The kind of movement where the conscience of nations are awakened, where there are regional movements marked with repentance, with wide spread reform, a restoration of the church ordered to propagate the gospel to the ends of the earth.
- We are in a day where once again God’s people are satisfied with God.
- We are in a where sin must no longer just simply be modified or redefined, but completely mortified.
“Behold, I bring you good tidings of comfort and joy.”
“Let not your heats be troubled…”
The markers of traditional religion and personal religion are clear.
- Man may say, ” You are God.”
- The Godly man says, “You are my God.”
In Isaiah 25, Isaiah clarifies that the godly man wants what God offers; joy in the Lord. God wants joy to characterize His people. “The joy of the Lord is my strength.” Depressions may come and mark us from time to time, but they must not abide in us. We wrestle in this temporal day but we are not of this world. We are all together, as A.W. Tozer identified, “other worldly.”
Listen, Church! You come from a long history of a people who wait on God. When life presses in upon you, wait, look, long for, hunger, thirst. Be satisfied with Christ! Alone!
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Full sermon from July 29, 2018:
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Isaiah, the Evangelist
I’ve just finished preaching the first third of the book of Isaiah.
Here are a few thoughts at this point.
- Matthew Henry identifies Isaiah as the Evangelist. It is clear that Isaiah is an example for the preacher on how to preach the gospel, biblically.
- Isaiah shows himself willing to obey God regardless of the response of men. His devotion is to obey His God. I want to live like that.
- Isaiah shows himself to be compassionate for not only his homeland but for every nation. He is a living example of one who not only loves doing what is easy but also genuinely loves his enemy.
- Isaiah is steadfast and consistent.
- I have great hope for what is still to come in this mountain of a book.
All past forty-two sermons are archived here:
Pastors’ Round Table
Every Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. (mountain time) I’m on air along with Bear Morton, pastor at the Magic Valley Bible Church in Twin Falls, with the host of Magic Valley This Morning with Bill Colley. On July 12 we will pick up the topic from the 1689 Second London Confession questions 8 and 9.
#8 What is God
#9 Are there more Gods than one?
As time allows we will walk through these questions and discuss how it has impact on things like former president Jimmy Carter saying God would approve of same sex marriage and perhaps the case in Oregon related to an exercise of religious liberty.
Listen in on your AM radio at 1310
or listen online from anywhere HERE: http://newsradio1310.com/listen-live/?source=desktopnav
A New Sermon Audio Feature
Eastside Baptist Church has been broadcasting sermons for over eight years. Over the past two years we have been live streaming our sermons. All of this by the kindness of God and the generosity of His people.
I’ve recently been contacted by a local radio station to broadcast our Lord’s Day sermons, with a one week delay. I’m still praying about this and waiting for the Lord to give direction on this possibility. This past six months have shown that a consideration to broadcast on a medium other than the internet has proven a need. This need has shown itself expensive. To broadcast online is relatively inexpensive, but to broadcast on the radio, that is more widely available, is very expensive.
The guys at SermonAudio have just made another way for people to listen in this week. To someone with a mobile phone or access to a phone with free long distance you can now listen in with a simple phone call.
Help me spread the word to those unable to attend in person, don’t have a computer, but have a phone.
Here are the details:
- Dial the free SermonAudio Listen Line .. 712-432-4200
- Listen and follow the instructions ..
- Dial 1 for the 24/7 radio stream.
- Dial 2 to listen to our live webcast on Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. (mountain time)
- You will be asked to enter the 5-digit Church Code ID
- enter this number. 25378 This is the code for Eastside Baptist Church
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Simple Instructions:
- Dial 712-432-4200
- When prompted, enter 2
- when prompted, enter 25378
News Feed Algorithms
I’m no mathematician.
The smart thinking of Tim Challies explains the matter of social media algorithms.
Every time I learn how to get a blog post to get more traffic I learn that new algorithms are being unleashed and everything I thought I knew is now outdated. That’s the way a user of a product works and the smart guys producing the products are more than just a step or two ahead of me.
Challies, who writes with a much wider scope than I do, makes a strong argument about the old fashioned way we used to get things off of the internet from the guys and sites we want and not what the algorithm building guys want their customers to see.
As one who produces content to read (I’ve been blogging for nearly 15 years, that’s ancient in internet years) and one who archives sermons to listen to (over 370, and counting) and occasional podcasting series, it is valuable to learn as much as one can about how to share what I’m producing to as many people as possible in how to get content dispersed.
I don’t have any aspirations to cash in on any content I produce related to my ministry of the word and so I also realize I have to rely on word of mouth and people who intentionally come looking for things I post here and on Sermon Audio (and YouTube).
I don’t fault anyone producing platforms that many people use such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. They do what they do for the reasons they do it. I try to take advantage of all platforms to disperse content and I understand that’s the way it is.
Tim Challies, in his post this morning, makes a strong case for the consumer of information to stay in control of the content we read by actually subscribing to those sources we want to read. If you use social media to be the primary source of your news you should expect them to give you what they want you to read. If you want to decide what you read, then you need to act the part of curator, as Challies puts it.
So, today, I’m inviting you to consider a few things to help me.
- Subscribe to this news feed to get a new email when I produce a new post (click on that “Follow” button on the lower right of the screen.)
- Subscribe to SermonAudio feed https://www.sermonaudio.com/thebridge
- Follow my Public Figure Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PastorPaulThompson/
- Follow my Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/TwinFallsPaul
- Follow my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhExzbgiDz3A99ci0S6WyA?view_as=subscriber
- Share any posts or sermons on your social media outlets.
- I write a regular column in the Twin Falls Times News (magicvalley.com). My ability to continue is largely on feedback the Times News gets on the column I write. The best way to communicate this to them is to share links directly to the Times News. Sharing and liking those columns goes a long way in telling them that people read them. (I don’t write for pay for the Times News, it is at their request and I’ve been pleased to do so for the past 7 years.)
Thank you for reading and helping spread the “news”.
To the Law and To the Testimony
“To the law and to the testimony!” Isaiah 8:20
There are many influences competing for our attention. All the more for why we must look eagerly for Christ.
The many influences are swaying us to consult them. They sometimes whisper, they may sing, they may shout, they may laugh their way in, but one thing is consistent, regardless of how they attempt to get our attention, they mumble and mutter so we don’t fully understand what they are attempting to do. The child of God will not knowingly turn a deaf ear to God for good.
The influence we give permission to is the one who will eventually begin to drive our life. If there is no light in the influence, then it is sure that it will drive us with an unsatisfied hunger for more darkness. This is what the Apostle Paul means in Romans chapter 1.
No! follower of Christ, to the law (instructions) and to the testimony.
If you notice a growing dislike of godliness and an interest in not loving God, then there is reason to examine who you are letting influence you today.
Rather, consult the oracles of God and resist consulting the wizards of foolishness. Lear to make good use of your bible.
Here are a few things I shared in my sermon on January 21, 2018 from Isaiah 8:16-22.
What use do we make of our Bibles?
- Speak according to the Bible
- Do according to the Bible
- Make this Bible our standard
- Conform to the precepts of the Bible
- Take counsel from the Bible
- Let the Bible illuminate our paths
- Let the Bible examine our hearts
- Be nourished by the Bible
- Be healed by the Bible
- Define holiness by the Bible
- Define joy by the Bible
Listen to the entire sermon HERE:
Sermon Excerpt
In Times Like This
It was nearly eight years ago.
I would have to preach Psalm 46 to myself again and again and again. Today? I preach it to myself still.
Scripture is more than just words on a page. They’re not magical words on a page that come true when you say them in the correct order or read them by moon light. They are more than mere words on a page because they tell of who God is.
In Psalm 46, God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found.
Because He is this, “we will not be afraid”. This does not read, “we don’t have to be afraid”, it is “we will not be afraid”.
I would, and still do, have to preach that to myself often. Because you are God, I will not be afraid. Even if the earth shakes and the mountain tops melt into the depths of the sea, even if the water rages and foams, even if turmoil is in my inner man, I will not be afraid.
~rest~ (Selah)
While all around me was and can still be in confusion, there is a river that “delights in the city of God.” Where God is, all things are subject to Him. Though the earth shakes, mountains melt, nations rage, kingdoms foam, the earth becomes mush… The LORD of Host is with us, “the God of Jacob is our stronghold.”
~rest~ (Selah)
Come.
Come, see the works of the LORD. He holds all things by the power of His word. He is the LORD of angel armies. He provides for the needs of His people and even for the needs of those who curse His name. He causes wars to cease. He shatters the works of man.
I will not be afraid.
I will preach this again! For the sake of my soul, I will preach this today!