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The Lord's Compassion · Life For Toledo

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  This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson. I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.
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  And you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.
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  Today's first, Psalms 103.13.
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  103.13
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  As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
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  Question. Can dust fear?
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  I submit it must first be given the ability to fear.
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  Thus God has done with us.
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  He had submitted us to him.
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  He was with mankind before the fall.
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  Post fall man has learned shame, regret and fear.
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  God now expects us to fear him.
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  Not in a run and hide kind of way, but in a oh I shouldn't have done that kind of way.
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  This being not regret because now will pay, but fear that educates, informs and reminds us to be respectful and to behave.
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  He knows we are a butt dust.
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  So his expectations are tempered, but he knows that we have gained the ability to revere him.
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  And so we should in all that you're going through respect and love the Lord God.
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  Give him glory for all the blessings that you are receiving as difficult as some things may be.
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  And just on the other side of your difficulty lies the supreme glory of your relationship with God without this particular difficulty in it.
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  On the other side of this life and eternity in heaven with God because we loved him and trusted him and revered him while we were alive.
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  As a father has compassion on his children.
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  So the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.