Reverence for God...

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Hi everyone, so here's the situation....some other members and myself have noticed something going on in the chat room, in real life, and all over...a lack of reverence for God.

What do I mean you may ask, well things such as refering to God as ''mack daddy'', or ''my homeboy'' and so on...come on brothers and sisters in Christ, that's total disrespect for the Lord. It's just rude!

I'm going to copy and paste what the terms above mean...as they're slang words....mack daddy (noun phrase)
1. A pimp (male manager of prostitutes) 2. A man with many girlfriends
Though strongly associated with rap music, the word mack has been used for over 100 years to mean a pimp.

homeboy noun, slang a person from one's home town or neighbourhood

That's not God at all! First of all, He is by no means a pimp or ''mack daddy'' as most want to say it. Nor is He from here, Hehas always been around, but not of the world, or in the world. He had to create the world after all. The only time that He was even considered on the earth, was when His Son Jesus came to earth to represent God the Father in the flesh. Therefore, we shouldn't be calling Him ''homeboy''.

what is reverence for God anyways? anyone know? it's a feeling of profound awe and respect. Because of His majesty and holiness, God arouses a feeling of reverence in those of us whom worship and serve Him.

Hebrews 12:28-29 Wherefore we recieve a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:For our God is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

Leviticus 19:30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Psalm 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

Hebrews 12:9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Funny how many want to witness, testify, and all for the Lord, yet they can't even seem to show reverence for Him eh? I"m just saying, please think before speaking. I decided I'd post this, cause others don't want to, they fear offending others...well what about how they offend us, and most of all God, with a lack of respect! Anyways, yeah...reverence, true recerence that is, that's required in a walk and relationship with Christ. God bless y'all!
 
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Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

I couldn't agree, more, we must humble ourselves before the Lord in all reverance, fear, and respect for He is the almighty King of kings, and Lord and lords. We should be is awe of His majesty
 
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Amen. "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself,lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Heb. 12:2-3

"That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Phil 2:10-11
 
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Thanks for the support, whew, I was a lil afraid to read the responses at first...I was like ''hope no one was offended and said something negetive'' I would of been respectful, and defended God's word and all, but thank goodness for people such as you two. Glad some agree and understand, what a nice relief! God bless!
 
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Oh a quick note here, I forgot to mention....
What about how ''offended'' or afflicted rather that Jesus was when He was on earth, being rejected, hated, called many things, beaten, and crucified for all humankind? Even one of the theifs that was on a cross at the same time that Jesus was, finally came to the relazation of Chirst, then had and showed reverence for Him....Jesus forgave Him, and told him that he would be in heaven with him that day!

If that old theif could have reverence for God, and I'll give it to you yes he was going to die, but that doesn't matter, the fact is he had reverence for God...then why can't Christians today show it? They need to know and experience true humility in order to have true reverence for God.
 
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I think it's possible to revere God without having to feel as uncomfortably formal when speaking to or of him. I mean the Apostles taught that the whole point of Christ's sacrifice was that we could be justified and therefore have fellowship with God. It's not really fellowship if we're terrified of saying the wrong thing or offending him without meaning to.
 
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I think it's possible to revere God without having to feel as uncomfortably formal when speaking to or of him. I mean the Apostles taught that the whole point of Christ's sacrifice was that we could be justified and therefore have fellowship with God. It's not really fellowship if we're terrified of saying the wrong thing or offending him without meaning to.
Having fellowship or a friendship with God, and disrespecting Him with terms such as mackdaddy and homeboy do not have to go hand and hand. You can have a true relationship with God and still remain respectful and reverant at the same time.

We should not want to offend Him out of love and respect, not because we are afraid.
 
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Having fellowship or a friendship with God, and disrespecting Him with terms such as mackdaddy and homeboy do not have to go hand and hand. You can have a true relationship with God and still remain respectful and reverant at the same time.

We should not want to offend Him out of love and respect, not because we are afraid.

Thank you sir, that's the point I was making. I don't mind the rather negetive response the other person gave, for I KNOW there will be some that'll be like that, as I said, so many need to learn and experience true humility before they'll understand.

I guess they think we should say it's okay and see it their way and say that God's those things, well I refuse to do that. I remember,live, and stand true to Romans 12:1-2 I BESEECH you therefore, brethern, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.And be not conformed to the world:but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is taht good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

I don't believe it's God's will for someone to refer to Him as a ''mackdaddy'' aka ''pimp'' or a homeboy. Cause that's disrespectful, and why would He want to be disrespected? Expecially when His word says to respect Him!

Lastly, to have a true relationship with God, you MUST respect Him, it's not a matter of choice here.Honestly when I think about it, the fourth commandment says ''Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.'' I believe honestly that calling Him anything outside the lives of Father, Abba, ect. the names we're given is doing just that. Cause it's wrong, it's rude, and it's disrespectful. Anyways, thanks again for the support sir, God bless you!
 
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I wasn't saying that we should call God 'mackdaddy' or whatever. If for no other reason than it sounds completely stupid.

I just want to caution against thinking of God as a pressurized canister ready to explode with wrath at the slightest provocation, because that sort of thinking leads to all sorts of emotional trauma.
 
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well, Matthew 4:7 Jesus said unto him, it is written again, THOUS SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD THY GOD. there's things people do knowing they shouldn't, which tempts God, and such things as calling Him those names is one of them. Doing a wilful sin, or wrong, etc. is just asking to be punished, and we know if we do wrong, we WILL indeed be punished somehow, and it's our fault.

Also, don't you think that some day God's wrath WILL pour out on the earth? I hope so, cause it says in the Bible that it's comming some day.
 
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Well I would sincerely hope that when God's wrath pours out on the Earth he has mercy on those whose great sin is calling him 'mackdaddy' ^_^

I do believe that God is just, but there's a difference between being just and being a jerk, and I feel that a lot of people interpret God's justice in a way that makes him out to be a jerk. And worse, they preach that view to others. This creates an air of paranoia about people who in other circumstances would be fine Christian men and women, and they suffer because people have made them feel as though God will smite them if they screw up in the slightest.
 
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Those people need to hear the truth about God's word for themself. They live by fear, and have many issues. They follow what they have always been taught.
 
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I agree to a point. Obviously Christ isn't a pimp. A homeboy on the otherhand, indicates familiarity. Christs words claim that he is our friend. Red words. John 15:14.

Reverence is good, but we have to be careful that we don't shut people's zeal down with legalism and heaping rules upon them uneccessarily. Really, we have bigger fish to fry than headhunting brothers for beeing overly silly or just plain stupid. You know - spreading the gospel, feeding the hungry, ministering to those in prison, praying for the sick etc.?

Chances are the brother or sister will grow out of the sillyness. I mean, do you even know how long such a person has been a believer. It could be a babe. I did all kinds of silly stuff when I was a babe.

Of course people will tell me Broken, we should correct them!! Yeh, maybe. Maybe the babe's got much bigger problems than calling god his hommie from time to time. *shrug* Who am I to say? I know for sure I didn't wake up fully arrived. Perspective. Some people come to Christ from the true cesspools of the earth.

Have to approach this kind of thing with care or next thing you know we'll all be fighting over if a new believer should be circumcised or not...

Love one another.
 
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