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**<span style="text-decoration:underline;">“BECAUSE”</span>**

Why I Serve the Lord – My reason for Worship and Service to God

One of the most important details of any endeavor is its MOTIVE. What is the driving force behind my love and service for God? Our REASON must be Christ!


    1Jo 4:19 We love him, **because** he first loved us.


    Ge 42:18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; **for** I fear God:


    Ge 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, **because** he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.


    Ge 39:23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.


    Ps 119:164 ¶ Seven times a day do I praise thee **because** of thy righteous judgments.


    1Jo 4:17 ¶ Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.


    Joh 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.



1. Why Did I Get Saved?
2. Why Do I Serve the Lord Today?
1. **_FEARED GOD BECAUSE_**…

    Genesis 3:10—_And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself._


    _Lu 23:40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?_


    _Re 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters._

1. **_FEAR GOD BECAUSE_**…

    Genesis 3:10—_And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself._