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The AWE of God
A deep sense of holy awe swept over everyone, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. (Acts 2:43, TPT)
Acts chapter two is the God-given model of all churches since then. It is the church as it should be. The closer we get to this, the more we will be like God wants us to be. We have covered many things; this is the 20th lesson in this glorious chapter. We come now to something I fear many modern churches and Christians have lost or never known anything about – a sense of astounding awe when it comes to God. In this model church they had this, and so should we. Their experience should be our experience. This awe has four elements.
I. The Awe of His PASSION, Acts 2:23-24, 36
The word passion has long been associated with the sufferings and death of Jesus. Peter and the apostles on this historic, precedent-setting Day of Pentecost, preached “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” The fact that the Son of God came from heaven and suffered on our behalf should put us into a deep sense of holy awe. Every preacher should be preaching the cross and that Good News should put our souls in absolute awe. It should affect our emotions and make us enter His gates with wonder and amazement. Behold the Lamb! All of heaven worships as they behold the Lamb of God who has taken away our sins. When the gospel is being preached we should be in awe of what we are listening to.
II. The Awe of His PRESENCE, Acts 2:1-4
The Holy Spirit’s presence in a church should strike awe in our hearts every time we meet together. Don’t enter the church like a dog entering a library, unaware of what is there and what is going on there. Remember what Jesus said, “When two or more are gathered in My name I am there in your midst.” (Mt.18:20)
To help with this read Hebrews 12:18-24 and see that when we come to church we are coming into such a place with such a people. We have entered the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable host of angels, to the assembly and church of the first born who are registered in heaven, where God the judge of all is, to the spirits of just men made perfect (this is present tense). We have entered into the very presence of Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the sprinkling of His blood.
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