Relationship to Conduct, Part 1

Leviticus 19:14 is exposed in its full force: the deaf can't hear you curse him, the blind can't see who tripped him — yet God forbids it and gives the reason 'thou shalt fear thy God.' Conduct is governed by God's eye and ear, not man's.

Now, let me ask you, Kitty, something. If a man's deaf, can he hear you if you cuss at him? No. Well, if he can't hear you, then can he get mad at you for what you say?

15:00 - 15:13 Read in full sermon

The point: Students, do not cheat at school — a confirmed cheater proves by the cheating that the fear of God is not in him.

A student's teacher could go on a three-hour vacation and it would make no difference to the boy who fears God. A confirmed cheater proves by his cheating that he knows nothing of the fear of God.

it won't make a bit of difference as to your honesty and only putting down on that paper what you have learned and never once sneaking a look to the other desk never once pulling out a crib sheet and I say to any one of you kids in school who is a confirmed cheater, that's all the proof I would need and all God will need to condemn you in the day of judgment unless you repent that you know nothing of the fear of God. So what if the teacher can't see? Does God see?

17:59 - 18:33 Read in full sermon

The point: Fill out your tax return as though the omniscient eye were over your shoulder; no carefully invented deductions, no inflated giving.

Pastor Martin: when you sit down in April with your tax form, you cut no corners — as though every tax agent from Maine to California were breathing over your shoulder. Why? You fill it out in the fear of God, not the fear of the IRS.

Yes, he has. He knows them. if you're content that mom and dad don't hear and mom and dad don't know and the preacher doesn't know then it's an indication you're not walking in the fear of God that's why when you adults sit down every April fill out that form that Uncle Sam sends listen you're just as careful to cut no corners as though every single tax agent from Maine to California was breathing over your shoulder.

19:09 - 19:43 Read in full sermon

The point: Fill out your tax return as though the omniscient eye were over your shoulder; no carefully invented deductions, no inflated giving.

A man with a jealous wife becomes 'a horse with blinders' when she is near. Pastor Martin: if you walk in the fear of God, you are a man with blinders at all times — check on tongue and eyes because God is here.

Ever see a guy who's got a jealous wife? Well, when she's with him, he's just like a horse with blinders.

20:45 - 20:51 Read in full sermon

The point: Men, examine your looks and your words in every room where your wife is not — flirtatious conduct in her absence is proof you know nothing of the fear of God.

You drive the speed limit even with no car in the rearview and no radar box ahead — because the fear of God is at work. If your conscience wakes only when the flashing light appears, you know nothing of the fear of God.

That's why when you're out on that highway and there isn't a car to be seen in the rearview mirror and none through the front windshield, you have conscience about the speed laws.

21:36 - 21:49 Read in full sermon

The point: Evaluate a church not by how busy it keeps teenagers, but by whether it is planting the fear of God in them through right views of His character.

A member told Pastor Martin of a fundamental evangelistic church where the leader asked everyone to lean over to strangers and say 'I think you're sweet.' One man leaned over and said, 'I think this is an abomination in the house of God.' A different view of God.

That's the measure, the standard by which to evaluate, not only with influence in the young people, but ourselves. The hymns sung, the climate of worship created. One of our own members told me, he was in a church recently, that when the man stood up to lead the meeting, he said, Now, I want all you to lean over and say to the person next to you, this is an evangelical, Bible-believing, fundamental, evangelistic, all the other, I want to lean over and say to the strangers, I think you're sweet.

50:25 - 50:56 Read in full sermon