Fearing the Lord means loving the Lord.
I began to love the Lord Jesus.
Now, since I began to love the Lord,
I will tell my friend, have you no
fear of God?
How dare you talk to this holy man
in such inappropriate way?
How dare you?
Wow, what a great man is.
Before he was the same as his friend.
My dear people, Jesus Christ changes people.
Jesus Christ changes your way of thinking, your
way of talking, your way of walking, your
way of everything.
He changes it.
All you need to do is turn to
the crucified Messiah and he will change you.
All the foul language he will turn it
into praises.
All the dark alleys will turn him into
the light.
Jesus is known to change.
A Christian that has the fear of the
Lord seeks forgiveness.
A Christian that has the fear of the
Lord seeks forgiveness.
You will never, you will never ask the
Lord to forgive you until you have the
fear of the Lord in your heart.
Because if you do not love him, you
will never ask him to forgive you.
And you wouldn't even care about asking him
to forgive you.
It is that love, that fear of the
Lord.
What is fear of the Lord?
You see, it's not afraid of the Lord.
I'm not afraid of him.
I fear him.
You see, afraid is, if I do something
wrong, I'm afraid because he will chop my
head and he'll throw me in hell.
But fear of the Lord, I do not
want to do anything wrong.
I am afraid of breaking his heart.
He is too much love, not worthy to
be broken.
I fear hurting him.
I don't want to make him sad.
I don't want to upset him.
I don't want to make him cry.
I don't want to break his heart because
he is love and I love him because
he loved me from the very beginning.
I will try to do everything possible through
his grace not to break him or hurt
him in any way.
This is the fear of the Lord, i
.e. I love the Lord Jesus.
See, when you love the Lord Jesus, you
will always seek his forgiveness.
Lord, I'm sorry.
I am so sorry.
I did this and I said this.
I didn't want to.
It is my human weakness.
Please forgive me, Lord.
You know that I love you.
Like Simon, like Simon Peter, he said, Simon
son of Jonah, do you love me?
You see, do you love me?
Do you fear me?
Do you have the fear of the Lord
in your heart?
He said, Lord, you know that I love
you.
You know everything, Lord.
I will always put you number one and
then me.
You know that I love you, Lord.
But I'm weak.
When we fall into the wrong place, when
we do the wrong thing, all we need
to do, turn to the crucified Messiah.
Don't run away.
Run to him.
Don't run away from him.
Run to him, my beloved, and say, Lord,
I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
You know that I love you, but I'm
weak living in this weak flesh.
I get tempted.
I fall.
I slip.
I slide.
I walk away.
Please forgive me, Daddy.
And he will.
When you have the fear of the Lord,
the love of Christ in your heart, you
will seek his forgiveness.
And when you seek his forgiveness, then what
do you do?
You confess that you're guilty.
The confession of guilt.
When we come and confess to the Lord
Jesus that we've done this wrong, and we've
said this wrong, and we shouldn't have, and
we are sorry for what we've done, the
Lord is faithful that he will forgive us
our sins.
He is faithful.
When you confess that Christ is perfect and
you're not.
When we confess the perfection of Christ and
we are absolutely imperfect humans, you are the
perfect one, Lord.
How did this, when did this thief say
or acknowledge or confess Christ's perfection?
When he said, when he said to his
friend, don't you have the fear of the
Lord, of God?
Don't you fear God?
He said, but this, referring to Jesus, he
said, but this, but this, he has done
nothing out of place.
But this, everything he said, everything he's done,
is absolutely perfect.
He said things in the perfect timing, and
he did things in the perfect timing.
This is the perfect one.
We are worthy of this, being crucified and
sentenced to death.
We deserve it because everything that we've done
on earth was evil.
But this, he's done nothing that is worthy
of the cross.
He's done nothing that is worthy of the
cross.
But this, again, in the Arabic language, it's
called the demonstrative noun.
But this, the only way you can say
it, is when you look at the person
you mean.
But this.
Now, this guy is nailed on the cross.
His hands, his feet are nailed.
He can't move, neither his legs nor his
hands.
The only thing he can move is his
head.
So when he said, but this, he turned
his face to the Lord Jesus, and he
faced him.
The moment he turned his face to the
Lord and said, but this, the prophecy of
Isaiah, in Isaiah 45, 22 was fulfilled.
What does Isaiah 45, 22 say?
Look to me and be saved all you
ends of the earth, for I am God
and there is no other.
Oh my goodness.
What?
Look to me and be saved all you
ends of the earth, for I am God
and there is no other.
When this thief looked at Jesus Christ, by
turning to the Lord, he was saved.
For God promised, in Isaiah 45, 22, whoever
looks to me will be saved, for I
am God and there is no other.
So for anyone to come and say, this
Jesus that was nailed on the cross is
not God, then explain to me Isaiah 45,
22.
He didn't say, look to me, for my
dad is God.
No, he said, for I am God and
there is no other.
And there's no other.
By looking at the Lord.
Is that all it takes?
Yes.
Can you be saved easily?
100% yes.
For as long as you live in the
flesh, don't wait afterwards and start elaborating.
Please don't.
You haven't been to the other side.
Why waste your time, precious time, talking about
something you've never seen on the other side?
You want to be saved the best way,
the easiest way?
While in the flesh, my dear friend.
Don't wait.
While in the flesh.
It's very easy.
All you need to do is turn to
the crucified Jesus and say, Lord, remember me
in your second coming.
What did the Lord Jesus say to this
poor man?
Truly, I say to you today, you are
with me in paradise.
Not in my second coming, my dear friend.
If you were going to wait for my
second coming, it's been 2022 years and counting.
Today you will be with me in paradise.
When the Lord Jesus said to this man,
today you will be with me in paradise.
Every single second, minute, hour, day, week, month,
year, this man lost in sin, in evilness.
Every single moment was redeemed by the Lord
Jesus through the faith of this man in
Christ was redeemed.
Nothing is lost.
How many years have you lost in this
world?
Let Jesus redeem it for you.
Give your life to the Lord Jesus and
he will make sure nothing is gone in
vain.
Nothing.
So don't cry about the time that has
gone by in absolute vanity.
Focus on Christ and turn to him and
look at the crucified.
For the crucified Messiah is my glory.
I boost in no one, but Jesus Christ
being crucified.
This is the glory of me.
Christ crucified.