10.30am Sunday Morning
5.30pm Sunday Evening
7.00pm Wednesday Evening
Isaiah 33.6
How can “fear” be a “treasure”?
Since the time of Christ, Christians have valued what the Bible says. We choose to follow the Lord, and to fear God.
It’s a choice that we value and protect! George Bancroft, a 19th century historian, wrote: “Freedom of conscience, unlimited freedom of mind, were from the first, the trophies of Baptists.”
Deuteronomy 3:25
Success, achievement and reaching our full potential… none of these things are new. They can create a powerful drive in us to accomplish great things! And when they are put with prayer… like in the verse above, what can keep us from reaching our goals?
God.
God can. God can keep us from “reaching our full potential”.
Why?
Exodus 23:2
Whenever the Bible says something, it will also give us an explanation and an example (or many examples).
The children of Israel had just been delivered from the bondage of Egypt. And in the verse above God is telling them not to follow a large group of people who are going to do the wrong thing. So, consider the words “multitude” and “evil”.
Nehemiah 6.3
These words of Nehemiah sound rather arrogant.
They are not.
Nehemiah had a job to do. There were troublesome, wicked, ungodly people trying to stop him. They were trying to intimidate him. Distract him. Bully him.
“I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work,
so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease,
whilst I leave it, and come down to you?”
