Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Proverbs 29:25
Spread this simple message, this simple observation far and wide.
Man ought to fear God. Every man, woman and child must fear God. This fear of God is the very beginning of wisdom. To be sure, most do not and will not truly fear God, though they must and they will in due time. For every knee will bow before the One Who is above all.
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Proverbs 29:25
But do not miss this. Many will even listen. Many will perhaps read or listen to a simple message like this about the fear of God and the fear of man. But there is a deeply subtle and dangerous, an eternally fatal fear which creeps in among the vast majority. The fear of man is a snare, a trap.
Others, also a tiny minority perhaps, will hear such a message and think they must react with there own gusto, their own bravado, in their own strength. But this is not the fear of God.
What there must be, indeed what there will be is this very simple thing which must be made clear, which must be declared simply and plainly. Fear God, and do not fear man. And again we repeat what the scriptures declare. Fear God.
Fear God.
Fear God. And do not fear man.
What is this fear of man?
It now pervades this society, and not only this but it has crept in throughout the world. This fear of man is a snare. It is a trap. Even those reading this amount to a cross section of society. The vast majority will hold to this fear of man. They may listen, indeed they may even approve of clear truth and godly messages. Yet a simple observation will make it plain that they retain this same fear of man. For they will not fear God and speak a word of truth.
They will not speak the words of God. They will not follow the clear and simple instructions of God to fear Him and Him only. To love God and our neighbor as ourselves. To hold to the truth that sin kills, that Satan has come to steal, to kill and to destroy. But that JESUS came to give life and that more abundantly.
The vast majority will not fear God, and for most this will be because of their love for their own sinful ways in their own sinful hearts and because of the fear of man.
Do not fear man. Do not shy away from speaking the truth. Speak the truth. Absolutely speak the truth plainly, clearly, boldly with great gentleness and great respect, with great boldness. This is respect. This is true love, to declare the righteousness and grace of God. Anything less is no respect or love at all.
Do they tell you not to speak plain facts? When you obey such foolishness you show that you fear man. They tell you not to speak about God. They say do not speak about JESUS. In fact, they do not even need to say a word. The fear of man runs deep. So deep that even many who know about JESUS, about heaven and hell, about sin, righteousness and judgment, will not then even dare to live open lives of righteousness and certainly will not speak this clear word.
This word is clear that not only those who practice immorality, sodomy and all sorts of despicable acts, but also those who are unfaithful to the wife of their youth, all those who are slaves to sin, all those who have chosen to remain captive to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the arrogant pride of life will perish. And note well, read what the scriptures declare, not only these, but the COWARDLY…all these will find their place in the lake of fire.
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
Revelation 21:8
Even those who hear this message, those who claim to approve, those who claim to follow Christ, indeed many who, though they believed in Christ in their hearts will not so much as confess with their mouths that JESUS MESSIAH IS LORD.
This is the fear of man.
The fear of man is a snare.
JESUS declared
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 10:28
Wisdom in the WORD 
This is an urgent message for all who claim to love JESUS, for all who claim to follow Christ and certainly for all who claim and certainly aim to be REAL Men Following JESUS.
REAL Men must confess with their mouths that JESUS is LORD. REAL Men confess this with great love and respect, consistently and boldly in a wicked and perverse generation without fear of man
There is no fear of man for those who fear God, who love Him and are called according to His purpose. There is no fear of speaking truth. There is no fear of calling men men and women women, of calling sin sin and immorality immorality. There is no fear of judgment beginning with the house of God for those who daily walk in the fear of the LORD. There is no fear for those whose homes are clean, whose hearts and minds, whose consciences have been pledged to the Savior of their souls.
There is only fear of God, no other fear, no fear of man, no fear of pressure, no fear of society, no fear of cancelation. What is that? No fear of ungodly people, foolish movements, fickle crowds of foolish people, both of many letters and of many unlettered ideas. What are these? All these will bow before the King of kings.
Fear God. Honor the king. Have no fear of man. REAL Men Follow JESUS.
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