Have I Been Converted - 1
Speaker: Ramil Yaldaei- Details
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Date: 2020-06-19
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Introduction
Assyrians & Northern Kingdom of Israel
- King Shalmaneser
- II Kings 17:24
Opportunity Lost
- Not interested in knowing Jehovah
- They viewed Him just as another “land god”
- II Kings 17:25-26
- They viewed the killing by lions a displeasure by a finite god
Majority of “so called Christians” just want to please God by their deeds
False conversion
- II Kings 17:27-28
- People wanted to learn the “manner of the God of the land”
- The priest taught them how they should fear the Lord
- But they still looked upon him as just another God
- II Kings 17:33
What do you know about the “fear of the Lord?”
- Sometimes conversions are provoked by the wrong fear!
- Matthew 10:28
Fear of the Lord and sin not
Fear of the Lord and serve Him
Fear of the Lord is wisdom
What do you know about the “fear of the Lord?”
- Matthew 10:28
- Fear of the Lord comes from the Word
Fear of the Lord is whole duty of man
Fear of the Lord requires one heart and one way
Fear of the Lord is beginning of knowledge
Professed Christians
- Their way is a way of ceremony
- Your way is the way of Christ
- Their way is a way of duties
- Your way is the way of Grace
- Their way is a way of their own righteousness
- Your way is the way of Christ’s Righteousness & Holiness
True conversion is the way of Mercy