Non-religious explanations and history. Stories. Dimension of Life explained. Good read. An explanation of what it was about, how it came together, what ancient mystery is about.
Search results
Jun 7, 2023 · A biblical fear of God, for the believer, includes understanding how much God hates sin and fearing His judgment on sin—even in the life of a believer. Hebrews 12:5-11 describes God’s discipline of the believer. While it is done in love (Hebrews 12:6), it is still a fearful thing.
- Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 71 helpful votes. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
- Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 71 helpful votes. The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
- 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes. For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
- 1 John 4:18 ESV / 35 helpful votes. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
- Fear in The Old Testamentlink
- Fear in The New Testamentlink
- Not Every Fearlink
- Don’T Run from Fearlink
Proverbs 28:14says, “Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.” So fearing God is contrasted with a hard, unperceptive heart. Or Isaiah 66:2says, “This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” So again, fearing is corresponding with h...
Now, is that just for the Old Testament? What does the New Testament say? Philippians 2:12–13: “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you.” This is really interesting. You should fear and tremble because God is working to keep you. And I think it means the sheer awesome presence of God in our lives working ...
We want to be rid of some aspects of fearing God, and we don’t want to be rid of some aspects of fearing God. So 1 John describes the kind we want to be done with. 1 John 4:18: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” So, God doesn’t want us to...
Now here are two pictures, and I will close. I went to visit a man named Dick Teegan, with Karsten when he was six. He had a dog at the door when we opened the door, and he looked Karsten eyeball to eyeball. This is a giant dog. And I sent Karsten back to the car to grab something that we had forgotten, and the dog went loping up behind the six-yea...
Deuteronomy 31:12-13. Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law.
Jul 29, 2020 · Yet those who are his children know Him as their loving heavenly Father, for the very reason that they have a holy fear of God which leads them to obedience and love, and adoption into God's family. Those who belong to God by faith know the fear of the Lord - an awesome thing, because God is holy.
Apr 20, 2017 · The “fear” that brings God pleasure is not our being afraid of him, but our having a high and exalted, reverential view of him. To “fear him” means to stand in awe of him: “Let all the earth FEAR the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world STAND IN AWE OF HIM!” (Ps 33.8).
People also ask
What do you say if you are afraid of God?
What does the Bible say about fearing God?
What is fear in the Bible?
What does it mean to fear the Lord?
Dec 5, 2023 · The godly fear we have of God stems from both His unfailing love and perfect holiness—God is not safe, but He is good. In His earthly life, Jesus exemplified the Perfect Man, giving a blueprint of true humanity.
