9 O WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS: FEAR BEFORE HIM, ALL THE EARTH.
The message you must proclaim, Sherry, is the message of HOLINESS. The purity of God cannot pass over sin and sweep it under the rug. Without holiness, "no man shall see the Lord." (Heb. 12:14) "We all have failed to glorify Him, and we are all most UNholy", you must
proclaim. "FEAR before Him, ALL the earth!" you shall say.
"So is there no hope?" the people will cry. And THEN you may share the GOOD NEWS!...
You shall say, "O worship the LORD in the BEAUTY OF HOLINESS..Prostrate thyself before Him in true repentance, and He shall throw upon thee the beautiful, pure mantle of Christ's
righteousness. HIS PERFECTION shall be thine own by FAITH, and He shall be thy TREASURE, thy PEARL of GREAT PRICE! Then thou shalt be able to worship the LORD in the beauty of HIS HOLINESS!
You shall say, "The GOOD NEWS is that although the Father is a great God of wrath, He is also a great God of love who designed a way of deliverance for sinners by sending His own Son, Jesus Christ, to experience His wrath upon the cross and the horrible "spanking" for
their sin and indifference to Him. By FAITH, they shall be forgiven, and by FAITH, they shall be made HOLY.
You may proclaim again as soon as they have taken JESUS as their TREASURE, "O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.." "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men,...to the end he may STABLISH your HEARTS
unblameable IN HOLINESS before God.."(I Thess. 3: 12-13) "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON..." (Rom 8:29) He saved you to MAKE YOU HOLY!" And the very God of peace SANCTIFY you wholly...Faithful is he that calleth you, who also WILL DO IT." (I Thess. 5:23-24) If we are His dear children, He IS in the process of making us HOLY. Oh, praise His name!"
"O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth..."
Stop, Sherry, and consider this verse for thyself as well..Spurgeon says, "'Tremble' is the word in the original, and it expresses the profoundest awe, just as the word 'worship' does, which would be more accurately translated by 'bow down.' Even the bodily frame would be moved to trembling and prostration if men were thoroughly conscious of the power and glory of Jehovah...
There is a sacred trembling which is quite consistent with joy, the heart may even quiver with an awful excess of delight. The sight of the King in his beauty caused no alarm to John in Patmos, and yet it made him fall at his feet as dead. Oh, to behold him an worship him
with prostrate awe and sacred fear!"
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