Skyfall 2024 - The Dumbing Down of the Fear of the Lord by Pastor Walley Olajide
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In “Skyfall 2024 - The Dumbing Down of the Fear of the Lord by Pastor Walley Olajide,” Pastor Walley Olajide develops a Scripture-centered message moving through fear as the beginning of wisdom, the enemy’s attack on holy fear, jesus christ come in the flesh, obedience in family and calling. The sermon follows the speaker’s argument chronologically, grounding its principal appeals in biblical passages and practical ministry examples.
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Olajide opens with personal testimony. The speaker introduces the danger of weakening the fear of the Lord.
Biblical texts connect reverence for God with wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and departure from evil. This portion explicitly uses Psalms 19, Proverbs 8 and Proverbs 9 in developing that point.
The sermon reads Eden as an attempt to persuade humanity to step outside God’s boundaries and discount consequences. This portion explicitly uses Genesis 3, John 2 and Ecclesiastes 10 in developing that point.
Olajide links discernment, Christ’s deity, and salvation, warning against doctrines that diminish Jesus or remove accountability. This portion explicitly uses 1 John 4, John 3 and Hebrews 2 in developing that point.
Personal accounts of marriage, ministry, and family conflict illustrate trusting God when obedience is costly. This portion explicitly uses John 3 and Acts 19 in developing that point.
He recounts being strongly convicted over wrongdoing. The speaker emphasizes immediate confession instead of rationalization.
The message argues that consequences must remain visible so grace is not turned into permission to sin. This portion explicitly uses Proverbs 1, Matthew 7 and Proverbs 24 in developing that point.
Olajide claims that altered religious vocabulary and weakened Bible language can erode worship, doctrine, and the believer’s view of God. This portion explicitly uses 2 Timothy 2 in developing that point.
Second Timothy 2:15 supports careful study, honest dealing, and fidelity to Scripture rather than shortcuts. This portion explicitly uses Proverbs 25 in developing that point.
The conclusion presents godly fear as protection from sin and isolation, calling believers into accountable life within Christ’s body. This portion explicitly uses 1 Corinthians 9, Romans 1 and Psalms 34 in developing that point.
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Well, I want to introduce you guys to Pastor Wally, and I'm going to try to say it right Olegide Olegide okay. I got it takes me a minute sometimes. I got it takes me a while to remember Names faces I get man. I get those But we've known a pastor Wally here for a while they They would bring it started bringing a whole crew from Arizona to Sky Falls and into church sometime and He went through our school of ministry and as soon as when he graduated I knew that I was supposed to ordain him as a pastor and We just went ahead and did that and I want to tell you something I I know he's a little nervous about this tonight, and I know But I know this about pastor Wally pastor Wally hears from God Pastor Wally's a man and fasting and prayer He is God speaks to him and gives him visions and dreams and prophetic words and and he is He's a very humble, and he's a very Genuine Christian so that's why I asked him to speak at Skyfall so brother. It's all yours Give God the glory This is God's message not mine Even the title came from him I knew about what I'll be speaking When pastor Dean first told me I should speak at Skyfall I Knew I'll be speaking about the fear of the Lord However, we're in past Nancy Called me to ask me what a title of my message will be the Lord confirmed and gave me this title and it's been hectic trying to get everything together because The Lord gave me so much I didn't know how to Put it together. You know But I'm gonna try my best and Just lean on his strength Amen Yes, the title of this message is dumbing down of the fear of the Lord dumbing down We talk about things being dumbed down all the time but the actual definition is to lower the level of difficulty and the intellectual content of something Such as a textbook
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And based on what we've been studying here and what my brothers have been presenting we know that textbook of life is what the Bible and the devil is always trying to Attack God's Word and dumb it down so that we do not have a solid foundation Also to lower the general level of intelligence in something in this case is to lower intelligence in the fear of the Lord and to lower the level of difficulty and intellectual content of the fear of the Lord I'll start off by sharing a dream That the Lord used to get my attention to snap me back from Luke warmness This is a painting from a co-worker when I saw this painting she made it just Reminded me of the dream that the Lord gave me to snap me back from my Luke warmness from One save always saved doctrine and I'll just go ahead and share the dream real quick So it was in around 2007 my first daughter or really I was just born and I woke up on a train and not train I realized I was going to hell and I was wondering how did I get on this train? because I was I've been a Christian all my life since I was a child, but Raised Catholic my dad was Anglican my mom Catholic But I believed in the Lord I had a relationship with him originally until the the enemy started Dumbing down what the Lord was doing in my life started Changing it and so I was surprised that I'm on this train going to hell So I got out of my seat on this train. I found myself on this train Like why was I on this train? I thought to myself then I turned my attention to the other people around me as I got up They all look they all look dazed while on this train just moving to the motion rocking the motion of the train and I realized These people don't know that this train is going to hell. So I start
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Shaking them, you know Wake up This train is going to hell. Don't you know this train is going to hell. I kept at it for a while and nobody budged So I'm thinking to myself, you know, if they don't want to get off the train, I'm gonna get off the train I don't want to go to hell. So I walked out of my seat walked into the aisle and I started yelling stop the train stop the train and this guy Conductor the train conductor shows up comes in through the next car and Asked me where my ticket was He looked like the guy in the movie 300 hunchback guy demonic looking asked me for my for my ticket and so I I pulled out my ticket from my breast pocket and handed it to him with my left hand and Then he grabbed my hand. He had a machine in his hand and tried to inject something into my hand his machine malfunctioned When I realized what he was trying to do I pulled my hand back and I just screamed as loud as I could in his face stop the train And look me straight in the eye and He stopped the train and then he mumbled something on that is his breath. I'm gonna get you later And I'm like, oh no, I am NOT getting back on this train so I got off the train and My daughter appeared in my arms. She was still an infant at the time And so when I woke up from this dream, I began to realize something is really wrong because I thought I was a Christian And yet I'm going to hell So that began my journey in 2007 to find out what happened and How I got off the path that the Lord has set me on since I was a child I want us to Quickly look at the definition of the fear of the Lord and we're going to go into the scriptures for that The fear of the Lord is clean and during forever The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether Psalm 19 verse 9 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom a good understanding have all day that do his commandments He sprays endure forever the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction the fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogance II
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the evil way and the forward mouth do I hate the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and The knowledge of the holy is understanding in the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his children Shall have a place of refuge these are all Scriptures that specifically tells you what the fear of the Lord is Proverbs 8 13 the fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogance II and the evil way and the forward mouth do I hate Proverbs 9 10 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding Proverbs 14 26 in in the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and His children shall have a place of refuge The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death the fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honor is humility and wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation The fear of the Lord is his treasure now the enemy Wants to deceive us He wants to dumb down The foundation of our faith which I believe Strongly now is the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord is Spirit in Isaiah chapter 11 verses 2 and 3 Tells us that and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him This is the prophecy about the Messiah about Jesus says and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord in Revelations 4 5 it talks about the seven spirits of God It's listed here again the spirit of the Lord 1 the spirit of wisdom 2 spirit of understanding 3 spirit of counsel for my 5 Spirit of knowledge 6 and the spirit and of the fear of the Lord, right? and then Isaiah does something he emphasizes one of them and Shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord
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