Mattie Montgomery - Scary God: Introducing The Fear of the Lord to the Postmodern Church

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PRAISE FOR SCARY GOD

My friend Mattie Montgomery is a man who lives by his convictions and has a zeal to see the church live out its fullest potential. His new book Scary God, brings you face-to-face with our Warrior King God. Our God is not small, and He can do far more than we could ever imagine but too often we stay stuck with small mind-sets of who God is. This book will challenge you to live in a way that says my God is mighty and powerful!

JOHN BEVERE, BESTSELLING AUTHOR, SPEAKER, AND COFOUNDER OF MESSENGER INTERNATIONAL

This book is like nothing Ive ever read before about God or the subject of the fear of the Lord. Mattie does an amazing job of unraveling what the fear of God actually is and how the right way of fearing Him frees you from this worlds bondage and from living your life on distant terms with God. I love that in this book he addresses many tough subjects and brings light to those shady gray areas many dont want to talk about. If you want to kill complacency, if you want to live free of the fear of man and discover the depths of God burning in your heart again, then you should definitely read this book.

BEN FITZGERALD, SENIOR LEADER, AWAKENING EUROPE/AWAKENING AUSTRALIA

You do not want to mess with Mattie. Yes, Mattie is built. But the reason you dont want to mess with Mattie is because his words come from Gods Word. And the God Mattie serves? It is a fearful thing to fall into His hands (Heb. 10:31). In Scary God Mattie wants the church to rightly quake in the Almightys presence. Matties storytelling will slap you across the face and his stories will make you step back. Scary God will put you on your knees, not before Mattie but before the God Mattie and I serve with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12).

DR. MARK ECKEL, PRESIDENT, THE COMENIUS INSTITUTE

Scary God. I absolutely love this title for several reasons because no one is talking about the scariness of God anymore. We have domesticated an American Jesus whose primary aim is making us happy, and yet its His unpredictability, His awesomeness, His holiness, His intensity that release trembling and holy fear back into the church and the earth. I wholeheartedly endorse this man, this book, and this message. I pray that God uses it to light a fire in the church, in the earth, and that the fear of the Lord and the love of God would be properly restored in this day.

COREY RUSSELL, DIRECTOR OF THE FORERUNNER PROGRAM AT THE INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER UNIVERSITY

Im so thankful for Matties heart and his desire to guide believers and nonbelievers alike toward understanding who God really is. This book will take you on a journey of dissecting scriptural truth to relinquish your preconceived notions of evil and discover genuine freedom from fear!

MATTY MULLINS, VOCALIST, MEMPHIS MAY FIRE

2018 Mattie Montgomery

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Epub Edition August 2018 9781400208197

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This book is dedicated to all the seekers; young and old, rich and

poor, near and far. Your hunger moves heaven, and your passion

can change the world. May you find what youre looking for...

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God

and keep His commandments, for this is mans all.

ECCLESIASTES 12:13

P eople tend not to mess with me much. Probably because I stand well over six feet tall and weigh more than two hundred pounds. The tattoos on my arms and neck may have something to do with it too. But it hasnt always been this way.

Before a high school junior year growth spurt, I was a bit of a shrimp. And shrimp tend to get eaten by bigger fish. At six years old, I was a scrawny brown kid with my hair parted down the middle, kicking around in some untied Reebok pump tennis shoes with holes in the knees of my jeans.

I may have been small for my age, but I felt big on the inside, convinced that Id watched enough of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that Id actually learned karate. Obviously, I spent a lot of my time in an imaginary world, riding my bike around the property of my Pacific Northwest apartment complex, looking for bad guys to bring to justice.

For better or worse, I found one.

Lets call him Brock. He was a slightly older, slightly less scrawny kid living somewhere on the other side of our small cluster of buildings. His bike was bigger and faster than mine. His clothes were trendier: colorful cotton pants with a vertical zigzag pattern and elastic cuffs at the bottom. Oh, and slip-on skateboard shoes.

With his long, straight, dark-brown hair tucked back behind his ears, Brock was cooler, bigger, and tougher than I was. And for some reason, he didnt like me.

He singled me out for persecution. First I got pelted by pine cones when I rode by. Then he upped the attack, chasing after me and pushing me off my bike. He did all this in front of several of his friends, as if he were putting on a show and I was literally his fall guy.

Each time hed pump up his pride by stealing some of mine, Id burn with embarrassment and shame, swearing that Id never let it happen again.

Desperate to avoid being humiliated, Id try to keep out of Brocks way, riding around with eyes peeled and a knot in my stomach. When the ultimately unavoidable confrontation did occur, Id flail my arms and attempt to fight backthough I am not sure he noticed.