Key Thought: The call to fear God is the final message to choose Him as their almighty God. This fear for believers is not terror and trembling, but in loving submission and dedication.
April 22, 2023

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 14:7.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. Why doesn’t fearing God mean to be afraid of Him? Doesn’t warning people about judgment and hell help keep them from doing things they otherwise wouldn’t do?
3. Personal Application: How is the message of the three angels both a call to obedience and a call to Godly living in this time of earth’s history? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Why would anyone fear God today? People steal, kill, lie, commit all kinds of sexual immorality, and nobody sees any kind of retribution, and human laws seem to lean more to accepting and excusing crimes and immorality? How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Deuteronomy 6:2, Eccl 12:13,14, Psalm 119:73.74..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these texts show about fearing God?
3. Personal Application: I understand that fearing God is honoring His commandments, but how does that relate to the judgment Solomon speaks about? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why does Revelation 21:7,8 say that the fearful will have part in the lake of fire which is the second death? I thought we were supposed to fear God?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read I Corinthians 3:16,17; Romans 12:1,2; I Corinthians 6:19,20..

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these texts tell us about glorifying God?
   (Note: see also Philippians 3:18,19 – Whose God is his belly, whose glory is in his shame, who mind earthly things.)
3. Personal Application: How do we keep our minds and bodies under control? Pleasure, sports, music, entertainment all bombard us daily. How can we overcome our own selves? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “I thought in the New Testament it says we can eat anything we want if we pray over it. And what is eating too much? How does anyone determine that?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read Hebrews 4:14-16, Hebrews 7:2-5..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How does knowing Jesus is our High Priest and that we can come to Him boldly to find mercy and grace to help us in our walk in this world?
3. Personal Application: Are there things in your life you desire to overcome? How do we translate out desires into action? Share your thoughts?
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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What else does the Bible teach us about what it means to fear God?

Read Deuteronomy 6:2; Psalm 119:73-74; and Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. What do these texts reveal is the result of “fearing God”?

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These passages reveal a linkage between fearing God and keeping His commandments. Fearing God is an attitude of reverential respect that leads us to obedience. Heaven’s urgent appeal is for those saved by grace to be obedient to God’s commands (Ephesians 2:8-10). Grace does not free us from obeying the commands of God. The gospel sets us free from the law’s condemnation, not from our responsibility to obey it.

Grace not only delivers us from the guilt of our past, but it empowers us to live godly obedient lives in the present. The apostle Paul declares that “we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations” (Romans 1:5, NKJV).

There are some people who have the strange idea that salvation by grace somehow negates the law of God or minimizes the necessity for obedience. They believe that any talk about obedience is legalism. They have declared, All I want is Jesus. The question is, “Which Jesus?” A Jesus of our own making, or the Jesus of Scripture? The Christ of Scripture never leads us to downplay His law, which is the transcript of His character. The Christ of Scripture never leads us to minimize the doctrines of the Bible, which reveal more clearly who He is and His plan for this world. The Christ of Scripture never leads us to reduce His teaching to pious platitudes that are nonessential. Christ is the embodiment of all doctrinal truth. Jesus is truth incarnated. He is doctrine lived out.

Revelation’s final appeal calls us through faith in Jesus to accept the fullness of everything He offers. It calls us to “fear God,” which is expressed by faith in His redeeming power to empower us to live godly, obedient lives.

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