Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/3_26_2017_Walking_In_Fear_of_The_Lord.mp3%20</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/3_26_2017_Walking_In_Fear_of_The_Lord.mp3%20</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> “Walking in the Fear of the Lord”<br> If churches are trying to win a popularity contest, they will avoid this!<br> <br> <br> A wrong view can do harm too.<br> <br> <br> ACTS 9:31 Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.<br> <br> There was a season of peace – until Herod in chapter 12.<br> <br> <br> Peace / comfort – WHEN THEY FEARED<br> <br> <br> “Let us learn not to abuse external peace by being involved in pleasures and idleness…When the churches had peace, they were not drunk with pleasures and earthly joy…” John Calvin.<br> <br> <br> Edified – “To improve morally or intellectually.” WHEN THEY FEARED<br> <br> <br> Multiplied [spiritual growth] – WHEN THEY FEARED<br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://ebible.com/query?utf=8%E2%9C%93&query=Proverbs%201%3A7&translation=ESV&redirect_iframe=http://www.AllAboutGOD.com/bible.htm" target="_blank">Proverbs 1:7</a> “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.”<br> <br> FEAR IS A RESTRAINING FORCE: Only fools would want to remove this restraining force: “Men…must be…controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Charles_Winthrop" target="_blank"> (Robert Winthrop</a>;<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1809" target="_blank"> 180</a>9 –<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1894" target="_blank"> 1894</a>).<br> <br> NATION: God fearing people should lead – PSALM 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him.”<br> The Delaware Constitution initially required that everyone appointed to public office must say, “I do profess faith in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ His only Son . . . .”<br> <br> <br> “Remember ever, and always, that your country was founded by the stern old Puritans whose first act on touching the soil of the new world was to offer on bended knees thanksgiving to Almighty God.” HENRY WILSON (1812-1875); 18TH U.S. VICE PRESIDENT<br> <br> <br> “The law . . .
