Crystallization-Study of Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
Message Eleven
The Intrinsic Significance of Fearing the Lord
in the Economy of God
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Prov. 1:7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge.
Prov. 3:9-10 Honor Jehovah with your substance / And with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, / And your vats will burst open with new wine.
Jer. 32:39-40 And I will give them one heart and one way, to fear Me all the days, for their own good and for the good of their children after them. And I will make an eternal covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put My fear into their hearts, so that they will not turn away from Me.
Word of Appetizer
The first principle for man to live a proper human life is for him to fear the Lord, to revere the Lord; what is the intrinsic significance of fearing the Lord?
To fear the Lord is to be in fear of offending Him, of losing His presence, and of not receiving Him as our reward in the next age; we should be in fear of missing the Lord’s smile in this age and His reward in the next.
To fear the Lord is not only fleeing from sins but also, and even more, rejecting the self; fearing the Lord is not merely to fear that we have sinned or that we are worldly but to fear that what we are doing is out of ourselves, not out of the Lord.
Spiritual Burden
God promised to give us, His people, one heart and one way, to fear Him all the days, for our own good and for the good of our children after us, and He puts His fear into our hearts, so that we will not turn away from Him.
We should be like a king, a royal man like the Lord, having the authority to rule; on the other hand, we should be a worthy woman, knowing how to arrange, manage, take care of, and provide for the needs of the saints in the house of God.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The first principle for man to live a proper human life is for him to fear the Lord, to revere the Lord; to fear the Lord is to be in fear of offending Him, of losing His presence, and of not receiving Him as our reward in the next age; we should be in fear of missing the Lord’s smile in this age and His reward in the next.
Isaiah prophesied that the Spirit of Jehovah—the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of understanding, the Spirit of counsel, the Spirit of might, the Spirit of knowledge, and the Spirit of the fear of Jehovah—would rest upon Christ.
To fear God is to trust in Him; to fear the Lord means that we also honor Him; the fear of the Lord and the love of the Lord are two wonderful results of the forgiveness of our sins.
The Experience of Life
To fear God is to trust in Him; blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah / and whose trust Jehovah is; / and he will be like a tree transplanted beside water; the riches of the supplying God dispensed into us as the trees constitute us with God’s divinity and cause us to grow into God’s measure.
The holy fear of the Lord is actually a source of joy as a fountain of life and as a tree of life.
Practice and Application
We should not be those who make more money to lay up treasure for our future; at least one-tenth, the firstfruits, of our produce must be given to God; we should always be generous in giving of the things that God has given us; this honors God.
We, the chosen people of God, should all have one heart—to love God, to seek God, to live God, and to be constituted with God that we may be His expression—and one way—the Triune God Himself as the inner law of life with its divine capacity.
We should be like a king, a royal man like the Lord, having the authority to rule; on the other hand, we should be a worthy woman, knowing how to arrange, manage, take care of, and provide for the needs of the saints in the house of God.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—
TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1: The first principle for man to live a proper human life is for him to fear the Lord, to revere the Lord (Prov. 1:7; 15:16).
(Please explain that fearing the Lord is not merely to fear that we have sinned but to fear that what we are doing is out of ourselves.)
T2: No human being ever feared God as much as Jesus did (Isa. 11:2).
(Please explain that in the human living of Jesus, people saw that He was full of the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of Jehovah.)
Day 2
T1: To fear God is to trust in Him (Prov. 3:5, 7; Jere. 17:7-8).
(Please explain that according to God’s economy, the one who trusts in God is like a tree planted by water, signifying God as the fountain of living waters.)
T2: We must make a distinction between reverence and godliness (1 Tim. 4:7).
(Please explain that on the one hand, we should not touch flesh, on the other hand, we should express God in our living.)
Day 3
T1: Honor Jehovah with your substance and with the firstfruits of all your produce (Prov. 3:9-10; Mal. 3:7-12; 2 Cor. 9:6-8).
(Please explain that we should always be very generous in giving of the things that God has given us. This honors God.)
T2: To revere God means to fear offending Him (Exo. 1:17; Acts 9:31).
(Please explain that reverence is an indispensable attitude that fallen man should possess.)
Day 4
T1: Having a proper fear of God (2 Cor. 5:10).
(Please explain that we all should have a proper fear of God because we believers in Christ will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.)
T2: To fear the Lord, to trust in the Lord, and to take refuge in the name of the Lord are to walk on the paths of life (Psa. 2:11; Prov. 14:27).
(Please explain that the holy fear of the Lord is actually a source of joy as a fountain of life.)
Day 5
T1: God promised to give us, His people, one heart and one way, to fear Him all the days (Jre. 32:39; Acts 1:14).
(Please explain that this one heart and one way are the one accord.)
T2: The fear of the Lord and the love of the Lord are two wonderful results of the forgiveness of our sins (Psa. 130:4; Luke 7:47).
(Please explain that the grace of God’s forgiveness causes us not only to fear God but also to love God.)
Day 6
T1: One of the two models of those who fear the Lord: king (Prov. 31:4, 9).
(Please explain that we should be like a king, a royal man like the Lord, having the authority to rule.)
T2: One of the two models of those who fear the Lord: a worthy woman (Prov. 31:10-12).
(Please explain that we should be a worthy woman, knowing how to provide for the needs of the saints in the house of God.)
