The Fear of the Lord with Dr Baruch Korman

greetings brothers and sisters my name is christian barinovo i am the chairman for love israel here in australia and i'd like to welcome you today's program today we're talking about the fear of the lord and joining us all the way from israel is dr baruch corman welcome baruck hey christian good to see you i appreciate the opportunity to be with you on this discussion uh thank you thank you for joining us today uh baruch i've already mentioned in the introduction that this topic for today is to discuss the fear of the lord which is a very broad topic um and we're going to try and condense it as much as possible in the time allowed but um just by our way of introduction uh you know we see a daily changing world that's overwhelmed uh with this negativity and the covert crisis that's affecting the whole globe and sadly we've seen a large portion of the believers not all but a large portion of believers unfortunately uh embracing fear just like non-believers this is very disappointing because this pandemic in my view would have been an ideal opportunity for believers to share the gospel and to share what separates us between believers and unbelievers so there is enormous amount of deception as well that we've seen in these last days by ways of false teachers false teachings however the biggest issue that we feel that we're seeing here in australia and probably throughout the world is that fear that believers are also embracing but also on the flip side the lack of fear of the lord the fear of god so like i said welcome baruch but i want to start that proverbs 1 7 teaches that the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instructions can you just share your thoughts and this and many or maybe another scripture that you also have as well that highlights that the importance of the fear of the lord couple things first of all it's always important to look at the biblical language and many different words appear in the scripture for the word fear in hebrew we have two primary words is fear but it has a connotation of priority so biblically that which you fear you're going to give priority to it's going to become the focus of your life so in the scripture that you said from proverbs chapter 1 when it says the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge what the word of god telling us is that when i make god the priority his word becomes the purpose of my life when i begin to submit to that it's the beginning of knowledge god is going to equip me with a different perspective so the fear of the lord draws me close to god draws me closer to his purposes and he supplies he provides knowledge so that i can do the right thing and have that right perspective for seeing things correctly from his standpoint not from the worlds there's another word pachad in hebrew which pachad is the exact opposite it's fear kind of more in how the world thinks of it and this type of fear moves us away from the things of god because it's actually giving priority to that fear to that wrong perspective and it drives us away from the things of god we don't see things from his perspective and and in this pandemic the media and so many politicians are really fostering that second type of fear which moves us away from the right way of looking at things right right i mean and you've touched on a little bit just then but what what are the dangers associated that you see that with especially believers not fearing god not having that godly fear and reverence we're in a situation now that's that's problematic i really don't know sitting here in israel and hearing very conflicting things about this pandemic how much to to accept and how much not to accept for example last night on the israeli news the expert that has been put in by the israeli government to guide the country through he's saying that we should lessen the restrictions and simply apply them where there is evidence of a a strong breakout in different communities but open up the community but the prime minister is is talking about a again a national shutdown so you have very mixed information from leadership i strongly believe that we need to be people that first and foremost in the midst of this we think about our testimony are we behaving in a way that's pleasing to god that demonstrates we have faith my my hope's not based upon what happens to me in this world we need to be kingdom minded so my focus and i think every believer's focus should be am i living in a way that non-believers are going to see me and find comfort in in how i'm living uh confidence and notice that i see things differently than than the world and the media and i'm not panicking we should never be people panicking but i see so many churches panicking the largest one of the largest churches in america led by a man andy stanley in in atlanta georgia they have already made the decision back in early july to close everything down no group worship services until 2021 why would you have to make that decision you know let's put aside for a moment whether it's the right thing or the wrong thing to do i think it's the wrong thing but let's just put that aside why make such a decision so far in advance things may be very different in a month in two months and we can meet why come out no services i think it was highly politically motivated to be pleasing to the world rather than to think about well would god want us to do that so it's it's not having a godly perspective because there's a fear of the pademic pademic rather than a fear of the lord correct and like you've touched i mean we've seen some of that not only from andy stanley but other teachers as well that even from in a local perspective i've spoken to some believers not long ago that uh they say all the right things they they share all the right scriptures about god didn't give us a spirit of fear and so forth and and i understand that we have to exercise some wisdom during this pandemic i mean it's a wisdom that we should have always adopted washing hands and being vigilant if you've got flu-like symptoms avoid other people it's just common courtesy but i've spoken to a few believers that they say all the right things but then we even asked them to meet for a coffee and they were frightened i said oh no we can't go there we covet is there you know what what could happen something could happen to us there so are you seeing that as well that some people well blatantly just are against scriptural um doctrine like the understandings of the world but there are some that are trying to say the right things but they really don't have that real assurance that the lord is really watching after them i think many people are putting more of an emphasis on science that's constantly changing rather than yes we want to be prudent people we don't want to take foolish actions that can harm someone else but people go to the grocery store our grocery store i live as you know very close to to a grocery store my son works there and it's not a large grocery store but you go in there and there's always 60 70 people between the workers and the people there and no one says anything about it but in a synagogue that's the same size only 10 people can go in why the did the discrepancy between in a grocery store no problem 80 people 100 people no no restrictions but in a place of worship only 10 it's that type of of misinformation wrong appropriating policy that i think that believers need to be very very much aware of and not submissive to when they when they discriminate against us meeting now we can be very prudent in saying okay instead of having a hundred percent of our norm we'll only have 30 percent of the norm and we'll practice some social distancing but we can still meet but in too many countries that is reckless they say it's not caring it's not loving and you cannot do it some is just blatantly forbidden to do that we need to stand against that and we have seen that on the news here as well that especially in the us with the recent blm movement that you know the government really on certain parts of the government don't discourage others from protesting but they do discourage them from going to church we've noticed that as well even the dr fauci was confronted a couple of days ago by a republican uh representative i don't know if you saw that but he was saying well you're giving a lot of recommendations you don't stand against protesting for the black lives matter movement but you are definitely recommending people don't go to worship we're seeing a little bit of that in australia as well but we've also was disappointed the other day where um there were they actually allowed an exemption for people of the islamic faith to celebrate eid and to congregate uh and one of them was in a mosque not far away from here whether we're going to have at least 400 people now they're promising social distancing how they can do that in that actual area remains to be seen but are you noticing that it's more targeted towards believers in yeshua than other faiths or religions well being in israel i have not seen any discrimination between one religion to another in fact i believe across the board the israeli government has policies for all religious groups regardless so i haven't seen it here in israel but hearing the news reading things in in online and such from reputable sources i do believe in america there's been some from stark discrimination for example last week there was a funeral of a a very well respected civil rights leader senator congressman john lewis yes i thought what they did for the funeral was very appropriate they had the the church in atlanta where they held it about 40 50 of occupancy they spread people out people had masks on and i thought it was very prudent and acceptable but they were able to sing which i think is fine for people to sing the media had no pushback on that but if if on sunday they wanted to do that same thing that would be unacceptable and such so it's these double standards here again i thought the funeral was fine i thought it should be allowed like that i thought they were very responsible but why isn't that same responsibility allowed on sunday morning for for a a church yeah that's the problem i have and i think that we need to really stand against that and and meet and and defy those things yes agreed going back to the fear of the lord um i guess there's two flip sides to this coin one is that holy fear and reverence of god himself and the other is that um yes that we shouldn't walk in fear as believers can you just share the distinction between the two because sometimes i've seen some believers they go a little bit over the top and about you know not having fear of anything but they forget that you know there is a godly fear that we need to demonstrate as believers regardless of the word that's used the word fear has to do with behavior and we want to have a right behavior for the situation so the problem is if if we fear nothing meaning if we don't change our behavior based upon truth instruction from god's word and the situation we're not demonstrating fear biblically speaking so we need to give god priority but that does not mean that we just give absolutely no thought to any just common sense uh practices so i think very strongly that we need to be people that evaluate a situation being led by the holy spirit being led by the instruction of scripture and not allow whatever is going on to to cause us to behave inappropriately but we need to also realize again it's our testimony and we want people to we want to have a testimony that people can see see us and want to be like us because we're like our savior we're like yeshua jesus so we want to behave like he behaved or would behave in a situation that's our objective so to believe is that and we've seen quite a few of them that they're even thinking about tomorrow and next week and next month i mean the lord told us you know don't be anxious about anything but there's a lot of anxiety that we're seeing uh they're already thinking about do i take the vaccine when it comes out i mean it's not even out officially yet but it could be a month could be six months whatever a lot of them have fear do i take it do i not take it do i just trust the lord what would be your advice to believers that are basically going through it and there's some very anxious moments that some of them are going through at the moment one of the things that that stands out in the scripture is that we're supposed to seek his face face the word panim in hebrew can mean presence and for some people taking the vaccine may be the wrong thing to do others feel very comfortable doing it uh personally i've never taken a flu vaccine ever in my life i i just don't like the the standpoint of putting something that that's that's bad into your body but i would never say that it's wrong to do that it's an individual decision the problem i have is that i strongly believe that it's not going to be allowed to be an individual decision if you don't take the vaccine you may not be able to get on a plane you may not be able to put your kids in school and such so my my concern is that it's going to be decided for us by the government and it removes and this is what we're seeing a removing of of freedoms i think this is one of the big takeaways from the coronavirus pandemic is the government's seen how much power power they can exert what's going to be the pushback i mean so many changes politically and statements coming out because of this situation so i strongly believe the government is is utilizing this to to see what they can get away with definitely another agenda there um even in terms of the mortality rates which we understand that some people have lost their lives and that is tragic under any circumstance but there's definitely another agenda there i mean um now they're talking about mass being i know that's also very relevant in the us i don't know how relevant it is in israel but about the wearing a mask or not wearing a must we've even seen in the news some people are getting into fights and punch-ups because they see people not wearing masks i mean it's it's really getting out of control i think that um this is probably a prelude to what will be greater and sad to say worse things to come in your view i do think it's going to lay the foundation for worse things to come in israel it is required everywhere you cannot leave your your home without a mask doesn't matter where you go or what you're doing the exception is if you're going out to do sport running for example or something like that you don't need a max max mask on for that otherwise you do now in this regard i think that believers need to say is it a problem first of all mass my my daughter just bought i think it was 100 mass for 25 shekels so six dollars so that's very inexpensive you know less than uh 20 cents for for a mass i think that we shouldn't be looking for for conflict so wearing a mask if it puts other people at ease i don't know how helpful it is i have no scientific background whatsoever but if if businesses want you to wear a mask to go in i think we should respect that we also need to be be caring if if me not wearing a mask is going to cause someone else to be very concerned then in love and and as much as possible the scripture says as much as possible live peacefully with all people so this is something i think that that we shouldn't be arguing about it's it's a simple thing to do and and and put it on um it's not a financial problem and if it it can be a good testimony as well i agree i've also noticed i don't know whether that's that you've noticed that in the us or in israel that unfortunately sadly i touched on this earlier in the in the interview that there's a lot of wolves in sheep's clothing and they're taking a lot of advantage of believers and even non-believers um you know you look at jim baker i think he's now in trouble with the government for he was trying to sell some miracle cure took over 19 and of course he was all fake but not only him but others i see are really adding fuel to the fire with the fear and they're asking people to think ahead and buy food that will last you five six years seven years and store them up some believers unfortunately sadly they're buying into that what would you say to believe is that i i think that individuals that do that have the right object have the wrong objective excuse me the right objective is not to cling to life i don't see anywhere in the scripture that we're supposed to just at all cost survive survive survive and if i have food that can last me 10 years and people are hungry i need to share it so if people are are getting food in order that they can help other people out that that may be a prudent thing to do but that's not what i think that that i hear i hear that it's for us for our family we don't want to be hungry when when the the there's no food out there and i think it's just the wrong it's a fear that's not pleasing to god plus i think it's it's really uh assisting a a person who may be conning individuals and profit becomes their their their purpose not in really trying to do ministry so i don't think that we should be people that that go off the grid that we we have our our our place our storage of all this food to get through it i think when things get difficult which they they are but they're going to get much much worse i'm not a prophet but i can read prophecy and i know that as we approach the last days things are going to get much much worse and what we should be striving to do is to be utilizing this these problems for speaking truth giving good news telling people how they can be in eternity in the kingdom of god that should be our focus not do i have enough food to get me through whatever time period theologically that people think that they need to go through that's not demonstrating the knowledge of the lord it's not loving your neighbor as yourself it's putting you as the focus and whenever the individual is at the focus they are not going to be hearing from god correct on that same subject with so much deception going on you've probably noticed that there have been so many so-called prophets prophesying about the end of the virus and you know the likes of the kenneth copeland and the benigns of the world that in my humble opinion they're nothing but false prophets um and false teachings once again sadly some people are getting roped into that um and they keep changing of course their prophetic stances when it doesn't come to pass of course then they change and they change and they check what would you like to say to some believers that have been affected by some of these so-called prophets false prophets and false prophecies that has led them to have more anxiety it's it's really tragic that that people are desperate believers should never be desperate we're supposed to have a peace that passes all understanding we're called to have a contentment to learn the truth bible says a secret about being content in all circumstances situations so it's it's very disheartening for for believers to hear about other individuals that are supposed to be followers disciples of of of christ who are panicking never in the bible do we see no panic that's not what we're supposed to be doing so people need to and i hope that maybe one of the outcomes is that people turn back to studying the word of god and realizing i uh was speaking to someone who who sent me an article about how all these things prophecies are being fulfilled and when we look at the scripture you know could this be and we've talked about this could this be a real catalyst to move us into the last days and some very significant prophetic times it may very well be i mean certainly i can't in my lifetime i do not remember an event that has dominated the world like the coronavirus has i think there has to be some significance in that when we see how governments are responding uh making some very odd decisions i i think that this has significance and could lead that way but i also know biblically that when messiah speaks about the beginning of sorrows these birth pains that laid the foundation for the end times for the rise of the antichrist he says that there's going to be certain things that we should be holding pestilence in the plural so this may be the beginning of it but we need to see wars we need to see greater instability earthquake earthquakes in number and massiveness and and factions between tribes i know in africa the factions between tribes are are rising significantly we may be on the horizon but i do not believe that we are in a position now that that authoritatively we can say we're in the birth paints we may be very close but there's other things that have to happen and in regard to that last seven years a treaty needs to be signed a covenant and that has to do with the temple in jerusalem so always tell people until there's a temple in jerusalem we haven't entered into those last seven years and there's no evidence that we can be dogmatic that we're close to it because despite what you hear on the internet there is no sanhedrin in israel there there is no actions being done to to reestablish i know people speak about the temple institute they they speak about this group that's calling themselves the sanhedrin but living in israel i can tell you that none of those things are legitimate okay so in a nutshell in summary um with so many anxious people out there and i thank you for your comments and uh making so much reference to uh scriptures which is basically the foundation for all us believers anything i've said in an interview not long ago anything that deviates from the word of god from scripture that doesn't have that good fruit we should treat it with red flags and run the other way so with these final thoughts baruch on people that are living with anxiety and still fear we know that we have to trust god god's on the front he always has been always will be um but what are your final thoughts what are your final message well you had sent me a verse of scripture that i think so fitting i believe it's the one from from second timothy chapter one verse seven which speaks that god has not given us a spirit of and although most bible translates it fear it's not the normal greek word for fear it's a word of cowardness being timid it's the exact opposite of i'm sure we we've heard this the the expression in english the unction of the holy spirit the boldness you know we're supposed to be bold we're supposed to be people that are frank that's transparent and and and speak out without any uh being timid that's what that scripture is saying is that god does not give someone a spirit of cowardness of being timid of being being shine away from the situation he gives us boldness and when we we when we embrace a spirit of timothy being timid being a coward it it it removes the holy spirit from supplying us what he says here power and here's the key love i really believe that when we are allowing fear to to take hold of us we're not going to be doing the basic thing of loving our neighbor as ourself being mindful of the ministry i think one of the things that congregations need to focus in on is how are we doing ministry in the midst of this this is a great opportunity to to plan how can we minister to others to the community but outside the believing community to non-believers and and i don't see that i see a spirit of being timid being cowards being being taken back by this this disease this virus rather than being bold for the purpose of conveying to people we have a faith that overcomes thank you thank you very much for your thoughts so for all the viewers watching here today for any further information you can obtain that at loveisrael.org you can also watch dr baruch's teachings please check with your local stations here in australia it's available on daystar and also of course he has his youtube channel so i encourage you all just to go there and look at some good sound biblical teachings thank you very much for work for your time it's very much appreciated god bless you thank you christian i appreciate the opportunity to to talk with you today about these important things thank you

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Published: Tue Oct 20 2020