{"id":1793,"date":"2013-12-15T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"they-feared-the-lord-served-their-own-gods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They Feared the Lord &#038; Served Their Own Gods.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kings 2 17:32-33<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God had allowed the King of Assyria to take Israel captive &amp; put other nations in the land of Samaria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: They Knew not the Manner of the God of the Land.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The Lord sent Lions among them &amp; slew some of them.<br \/>\n2. They were afraid because death stalked their pathway.<br \/>\n3. They were aware that there was a God that was angry with them.<br \/>\n4. In their fear they sought to know the God of the land and how to worship him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The Fear of God Should Keep Us from Sin.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. If we think that God is a mealy-mouth, easy going grand-daddy that wouldn&#8217;t harm a fly, we have no fear of breaking His laws.<br \/>\n2. If we think that God is just kidding about Hell, then we are not afraid of judgment day.<br \/>\n3. When we are sure that God will chastise for sin then we fear sin.<br \/>\n4. David&#8217;s heart was stricken with fear when the prophet of God said: &#8220;Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own eyes.&#8221; &#8220;The child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. Achan did not fear God until he was under the wrath of God.<br \/>\n6. The Old &amp; New Testament is full of men &amp; women that forgot that God was a jealous God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;They Feared the Lord &amp; Served Their Own God&#8217;s.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. A priest taught them how to fear &amp; serve God.<br \/>\n2. The lions made them fear God.<br \/>\n3. But their wicked hearts deceived them into serving idols.<br \/>\n4. We fear God when danger is near and make a vow to serve him.<br \/>\n5. When sickness comes &amp; death is near, we face God.<br \/>\n6. When adversity comes &amp; we are looking for another, then we fear God.<br \/>\n7. When death comes and breaks our hearts, then we fear God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But when everything goes well, there is food aplenty, new clothes, money in the bank, &amp; health to spend in pleasure, then we turn from the service of God.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a curse upon any people, church, or nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings 2 17:32-33 God had allowed the King of Assyria to take Israel captive &amp; put other nations in the land of Samaria. I: They Knew not the Manner of the God of the Land. 1. The Lord sent Lions among them &amp; slew some of them. 2. They were afraid because death stalked their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}