We need the reverential fear of God in our lives. The old-timers had it. If we had it like they had in the past, we'd be less apt to sin. Those old-timers reverenced God. They wouldn't have dreamed of sinning in God's presence—ever. They feared the awesomeness of God and His mighty power. There's nothing wrong with that! It causes us to live right when we reverence and fear God.
Back in the old days, God's name was highly reverenced. Today, we let people use God's name in vain, and we don't say a word about it. We don't revolt when they use it on television. Some sit in theaters and smile and laugh along with everyone else when they use God's name in vain.
That's the God who lives on the inside of you! That's the God who created you! That's the God who has blessed you and helps you every day. And yet we sit back and laugh! That's not right.
Godly fear will cause you to stand up for God and say, "Stop it! That's my God. Don't use that language around me."
Some say the Gospel needs no defendants. I still like to stand up for my Friend. If you have a fear of God, you'll stand up for what is right.
We need to reverence God like some of the old-timers did. We need to shake and quake when we do something wrong! Sin has got to go.
Jonathan Edwards preached on holiness and sin. He preached a powerful sermon called, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Every time he preached that sermon, the power of God would fall.
Edwards couldn't see too well. He wore thick-rimmed glasses, and he'd stick his sermon notes right up in front of his face so he could read them. He couldn't see his audience very well—he could barely see his notes—but when he began to preach from those notes, people would begin to quake, shake, and cry out to God in repentance.
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