I’ve had the opportunity of sharing the word of God in the presence of some national leaders over the years that I’ve been in the ministry that’s a very scary thing when you’re asked to speak in front of a national leader but I want you to suppose with me and take all of the Nuance out of what’s going on in our world today this is this is kind of not normal what’s happening right now but just let’s kind of get back to the normal and think with me through this illustration suppose I were preaching and a colleague came to the platform and

handed me a note and it’s said the president of the United States has just arrived unexpectedly and he wants to attend your service today if he said that you know what I would do I would take a little break from my sermon and I would say to the crowd let’s all welcome the president of the United States and regardless of who the president happened to be at that moment and regardless of whether we agreed or disagreed with his or her policies if we are the right kind of people we would stand in applaud why because we respect the Office of the

President president of our nation and the Bible tells us to honor the [Music] king so if we can summon the courtesy to respect the human position no matter who the leader might be what should be our attitude about confessing Jesus Christ as Lord of lords and King of Kings the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the concept of fearing the Lord troubles some people but we’re not talking about a debilitating kind of fear we’re talking about a worshipable reverence for God Christians were once described as

God-fearing people do you remember those days nobody even knows what that means anymore we sell them he that phrase and perhaps it’s because we’ve lost the concept of the fear of the Lord God wants us to reverence him to Bow before him to fear Him with healthy Godly awe for God is is Sovereign and he is worthy of our reverence and our respect there’s no such thing as luck anything that happens to you good or bad must pass through his fingers first there are no accidents with God I like the story of the cowboy who applied for health

insurance and the agent routinely asked him have you ever had any accidents and the cowboy replied well no I’ve not had any accidents I was bitten by a rattlesnake and a horse did kick me in the ribs and that laid me up for a while but but no I haven’t had any accidents the agent said wait a minute I’m confused a rattlesnake bit you a horse kicked you weren’t those accidents he said no they did that on purpose well I need to tell you Sovereign is a word that means god does everything on purpose the English word s Sovereign