Kevil First Baptist Church
Recapturing Our Awe For God. Psalm 33:4-11
Sermon notes for Sunday, 6/14/2020
Locations & Times
Kevil First Baptist Church
986 N 1st St, Kevil, KY 42053, USA
Sunday 11:00 AM
1.) CREATION-HIS CREATION AND DESIGN.
The awe of God can be found in his creation and design.
Psalm 33:6-9
Psalm 19:1
When we observe all that God has made we should be in awe!
2.)COMMUNICATION-HIS WORD and PRAYER.
The awe of God is found in His Holy word and through talking directly to Him.
Psalm 33:4
We should be in awe every time we read or hear God’s words.
The very thought that God desires to speak to us should stop us in our tracks.
We should be driven by that very awe to want to be in his word constantly just to hear from him!
2 Timothy 3:16-17
The very fact that the God of the universe wants to communicate with us should cause us to be in awe!
We can talk to God. We can hear from God…that is awe inspiring.
3.) COMMUNITY-HIS CHURCH
We should find the awe of God in his church and in the fact that we are a part of the body.
The church is a community of the works and words of Jesus.
Acts 2:42-47
Church is not a organization, country club or a weekly moral obligation.
The church is the vessel that God has chosen and ordained to continue his work!
When we get together there should be something special and awe inspiring about that.
We have been redeemed, we have been rescued from hell! We are people of grace and mercy.
4.) CHRIST-HIS SON
We should find the awe of God in his son, Jesus.
Psalm 33:20-22
I’m afraid for many, we have taken snippets of what we like about Jesus and formed him into our own little personal Jesus and that’s the one we follow.
We read the response of the people when Jesus worked miracles…
Heres a few examples:
Mark 5:20
Mark 7:37
Luke 5:26
When we witness the work, any work of the Lord, we should be exclaiming that we have seen amazing things!
No matter what it is..
If God has worked in your life or you’ve witnessed him work in the life of others…we should be amazed!
5.) CROSS-HIS SALVATION
We find the awe of God at the cross of calvary. It is there where he sacrificed his son for the sins of the world.
Psalm 33:8
There’s another word besides “awe” that is in this verse and that word is “fear”.
We have lost our fear of the Lord. But what does that mean?
Should the child of God fear him?
The short answer is "no". The child of God does not have to be afraid of their Heavenly Father....
The word “fear” used here means to be afraid, to terrify, to make afraid.
But there are two main types of fear described in this word.
The first is: the emotional and intellectual anticipation of harm. What one feels may go wrong for him.
and the second is: a very positive feeling of awe or reverence for God which may be expressed in piety or formal worship.
For the child of God, we don’t need to fear Him because we stand not guilty because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
We as his children should understand and revere the name and person of God.
For the lost, those without a relationship with Jesus, fear, takes on the other meaning.
Many people live their lives with no fear of God.
Jesus tells us in Luke 12:4-5, “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.Yes, I tell you, fear him!”
Those without Christ should be terrified. Hebrews 10:31
Jesus said those that do not fear God will be cast into hell.
a) Hell is a real place.
it is not a metaphor, it is not a mythological location, it is not an allegory.
It was not originally created for man but God created hell for satan and his demons.
Matthew 24:41-“away with you, you cursed ones, into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his demons.”
b) Satan is not in charge of Hell.
There is this notion that God is in charge of heaven & the devil is in charge of hell.
this idea that satan is some demonic tour guide.
Satan is not in charge of anything. Satan is not in charge of people’s eternal destination. He will be cast into hell and suffer torment and pain just like those that go there.
Revelation 20:10- “and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the fiery lake of burning sulphur…they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
c) Jesus taught about hell as a real place and warned others about it.
If Jesus taught about hell, it’s of eternal value and worth our time to find out why.
Jesus spoke of the reality of hell more than any other person in the Bible.
He used these words to describe hell as they relate to the senses:
sulphur, darkness, constant weeping, gnashing of teeth, no relief from the suffering, fire is never quenched, and it is a place of torment.
Jesus’ teachings on hell want not just a scare tactic…but he wanted us to know the reality of what happens to those who reject him.
d) Hell is eternal.
Just like heaven is the eternal destination for the redeemed, hell is eternal destination for those that have rejected Jesus.
When Jesus was teaching on the final judgment in Matthew 25, he separates the two groups, the redeemed(sheep) on the right and the condemned(goats) on the left…he says to the redeemed on the right…
‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”(v. 34)
Then he addresses the group on the left in verses 41-46, and concludes in 46 by pronouncing eternal judgment on them, “And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Those that reject Jesus in this life will be rejected at death.
Even tho Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone else, he spoke of heaven more because he wants you to know that God has provided a way of escaping hell.
2 Peter 3:9
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Prov 1:7
That’s where the cross comes in…
A cross, an instrument of death yet a symbol of new life in Christ.
We should all be in awe of the cross for without it we would be eternally lost.
The awe of God can be found in his creation and design.
Psalm 33:6-9
Psalm 19:1
When we observe all that God has made we should be in awe!
2.)COMMUNICATION-HIS WORD and PRAYER.
The awe of God is found in His Holy word and through talking directly to Him.
Psalm 33:4
We should be in awe every time we read or hear God’s words.
The very thought that God desires to speak to us should stop us in our tracks.
We should be driven by that very awe to want to be in his word constantly just to hear from him!
2 Timothy 3:16-17
The very fact that the God of the universe wants to communicate with us should cause us to be in awe!
We can talk to God. We can hear from God…that is awe inspiring.
3.) COMMUNITY-HIS CHURCH
We should find the awe of God in his church and in the fact that we are a part of the body.
The church is a community of the works and words of Jesus.
Acts 2:42-47
Church is not a organization, country club or a weekly moral obligation.
The church is the vessel that God has chosen and ordained to continue his work!
When we get together there should be something special and awe inspiring about that.
We have been redeemed, we have been rescued from hell! We are people of grace and mercy.
4.) CHRIST-HIS SON
We should find the awe of God in his son, Jesus.
Psalm 33:20-22
I’m afraid for many, we have taken snippets of what we like about Jesus and formed him into our own little personal Jesus and that’s the one we follow.
We read the response of the people when Jesus worked miracles…
Heres a few examples:
Mark 5:20
Mark 7:37
Luke 5:26
When we witness the work, any work of the Lord, we should be exclaiming that we have seen amazing things!
No matter what it is..
If God has worked in your life or you’ve witnessed him work in the life of others…we should be amazed!
5.) CROSS-HIS SALVATION
We find the awe of God at the cross of calvary. It is there where he sacrificed his son for the sins of the world.
Psalm 33:8
There’s another word besides “awe” that is in this verse and that word is “fear”.
We have lost our fear of the Lord. But what does that mean?
Should the child of God fear him?
The short answer is "no". The child of God does not have to be afraid of their Heavenly Father....
The word “fear” used here means to be afraid, to terrify, to make afraid.
But there are two main types of fear described in this word.
The first is: the emotional and intellectual anticipation of harm. What one feels may go wrong for him.
and the second is: a very positive feeling of awe or reverence for God which may be expressed in piety or formal worship.
For the child of God, we don’t need to fear Him because we stand not guilty because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
We as his children should understand and revere the name and person of God.
For the lost, those without a relationship with Jesus, fear, takes on the other meaning.
Many people live their lives with no fear of God.
Jesus tells us in Luke 12:4-5, “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell.Yes, I tell you, fear him!”
Those without Christ should be terrified. Hebrews 10:31
Jesus said those that do not fear God will be cast into hell.
a) Hell is a real place.
it is not a metaphor, it is not a mythological location, it is not an allegory.
It was not originally created for man but God created hell for satan and his demons.
Matthew 24:41-“away with you, you cursed ones, into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his demons.”
b) Satan is not in charge of Hell.
There is this notion that God is in charge of heaven & the devil is in charge of hell.
this idea that satan is some demonic tour guide.
Satan is not in charge of anything. Satan is not in charge of people’s eternal destination. He will be cast into hell and suffer torment and pain just like those that go there.
Revelation 20:10- “and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the fiery lake of burning sulphur…they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
c) Jesus taught about hell as a real place and warned others about it.
If Jesus taught about hell, it’s of eternal value and worth our time to find out why.
Jesus spoke of the reality of hell more than any other person in the Bible.
He used these words to describe hell as they relate to the senses:
sulphur, darkness, constant weeping, gnashing of teeth, no relief from the suffering, fire is never quenched, and it is a place of torment.
Jesus’ teachings on hell want not just a scare tactic…but he wanted us to know the reality of what happens to those who reject him.
d) Hell is eternal.
Just like heaven is the eternal destination for the redeemed, hell is eternal destination for those that have rejected Jesus.
When Jesus was teaching on the final judgment in Matthew 25, he separates the two groups, the redeemed(sheep) on the right and the condemned(goats) on the left…he says to the redeemed on the right…
‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”(v. 34)
Then he addresses the group on the left in verses 41-46, and concludes in 46 by pronouncing eternal judgment on them, “And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Those that reject Jesus in this life will be rejected at death.
Even tho Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone else, he spoke of heaven more because he wants you to know that God has provided a way of escaping hell.
2 Peter 3:9
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Prov 1:7
That’s where the cross comes in…
A cross, an instrument of death yet a symbol of new life in Christ.
We should all be in awe of the cross for without it we would be eternally lost.