
Jenny & I were listening to Rolland Baker while driving and he was speaking at a Mountain Of Worship conference last March. Much of his message was devote to a topic of which I've heard very little in the 7 years I've been a Christian. The topic was the Fear of God and his thoughts were based out of Psalm 90 which was written by Moses.
At least 98% of what I've been exposed to by other Christian teachers etc has been the Grace of God, which is not to be understated. But, like Rolland said, you never hear preaching on subjects like the fear of God, or hell, or judgement, in the renewal. Those teaching just aren't there. We want God to just show up at our meetings and give us a good time, without any accountability about what we do with those lengthy impartation sessions. If we actually gave out to the extent that God has given in, then what a weighty sphere of influence the Church would hold in America (or wherever); in fact we likely wouldn't need to rent stadiums and fill them with tens of thousands of believers and cry out to God for Him to do something, cause we would have the power and authority to take these issues and address them ourselves, with government actually heeding to the things we'd say! If, if, if.
But, we have not. We have used the grace and love of God against Him. There is now no fear (or even real reverence) of God in the Church, and the results of that are shockingly evident. No fear = no accountability. True love does indeed make us accountable, yet look around us; is what we're experiencing the true love of God? Have we been good stewards of the things which God has entrusted to us? Of course not. The lackluster effort of Christianity in the world today has sickened the public and stained the Church.
Roland was also saying that there is nothing like the fear of God to purge our motives, and every thing else, to see if what we are doing is centered on Him and Him alone. Why do we evangelize? Why do we do missions? Why do we plant churches, and feed the sick, and pray for the brokenhearted? What exactly are our motives and what is the inward character of our hearts? When we lay our heads down at night, why have we done what we've done (if anything at all) that day? These are vital questions that we need to examine within ourselves.
Lets not understate the grace of God, but lets revere God for who He is, and the Holiness He possesses. Lets stop abusing God's grace, and make a difference.





