JOHN: So Jesus says ‘no longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing”— the master’s ways, his secrets, his wisdom. “But I now have called you friends.” Now here’s His universal decree to the whole church. This is John 15:14, you ready? Jesus said, “You are my friends…” Now we always stop it right there. We sing songs about it, we preach sermons about it, we write books about Jesus being our friend, right? But we never finish the statement. Because He said, “You are my friends if—” Now “if” where I come from in Colorado is a “condition.” Okay? In other words, if I look at you and I say, “I will pay you 2000 dollars if you work for me next month.” Did you hear the word “if?” IF you work for me next month. So you don’t do anything for me next month and then you come to me saying “where’s my 2000 dollars?” I say forget it.
I told you I would pay you the 2000 IF you work for me next month. You didn’t work for me the next month therefore you don’t get the 2000. We all understand that. Why don’t we understand it when it comes to the Bible? Because Jesus said, “You are my friends IF—” Well, what’s the condition? You want to know it? He said “You are my friends IF you do WHATEVER I command you.” There it is, the fear of the Lord, trembling at His word. You know what Jesus is saying? Not everybody in the church is My intimate close friend. But He passionately desires everyone to be His close friend. Because James 4:5 says “the Spirit who dwells in us yearns—” To yearn means to long for intensely and consistently.
He yearns for our intimate fellowship. He yearns for our friendship intensely. So He yearns, but you see He loves us so much He wants to protect us so we’re not a statistic like Ananias and Sapphira or an example like Ananias and Sapphira. So can you imagine, here’s God wanting to come down, wrap His big arms around Israel and reveal Himself to ‘em because He said “I brought you out to reveal you to Myself.” But He comes down and they all run away. And if you keep reading you’ll find out in Deuteronomy chapter 5, God reviewed that account with Moses. And God said: You know what, Moses? I really, really wanted to reveal Myself to all of them but they didn’t fear Me so I couldn’t. So I told them to go to their tents and I told you to come stand by Me and I talked to you face to face and My voice to them was like thunder.
You know people ask me all the time they say where do you get these revelations from your book? Can I be really honest with you? I believe what God has revealed has come out of the fear of the Lord. And can I tell you something? The fear of the Lord and humility run hand in hand. Okay? The person who truly fears God, let me tell you something, you become much more humble. A lack of humility in a person’s life is a lack of the fear of the Lord. If you look at, if you look at Isaiah. Isaiah’s a, he’s a, he’s a godly man, he’s a preacher of holiness, of righteousness. I mean if you look at his book, Isaiah 4, 5, chapters 4 and 5, “Woe to the ungodly, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, Woe to the drunkard, right?
When it comes to Isaiah 6 and he gets one glimpse of the Lord, it’s no longer “Woe is the drunkard—” it’s “Woe is me.” And you know what he says? He says “I’m coming apart at the seams,” that’s literally what he’s saying. Because for the first time in Isaiah’s life, even though he’s a preacher of righteousness, he realized who it really was he was serving and for the first time in his life he realized who he was before this holy God. Because you’ve have to remember these seraphim are massive angels. And when he saw the Lord, these seraphim were covering their faces and one was crying to the other, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Now we wrote a song and people sleep when we sing the song, it’s a hymn, “holy, holy, holy,” and people, half the people are sleeping, right?
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth