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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.