Have I Been Converted - 1

Introduction

• Mark 4:9-11

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

• Hebrews 11:6

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

• (Exodus 20:20)

Fear of the Lord and serve Him 

• I Samuel 12:24
• II Chronicles 19:9

Fear of the Lord is wisdom

• Job 28:28

What do you know about the “fear of the Lord?”

• Matthew 10:28
• Fear of the Lord comes from the Word

• Psalm 119:38
• Psalm 19:9

Fear of the Lord is whole duty of man

• Ecclesiastes 12:13

Fear of the Lord requires one heart and one way

• Jeremiah 32:39

Fear of the Lord is beginning of knowledge

• Proverbs 1:7

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

• Matthew 9:13
• Luke 18:11-13