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Jan 30, 2018 · The Bible speaks often of the need to fear God. But what does this mean? What should it look like in our lives? Rodrigo Mtorres/Unsplash. May we all develop that vital and proper fear of God that leads to loving Him and others and avoid cowardly fear by putting God first in our lives.
Fear originated in the Garden of Eden when Satan caused Adam and Eve to lose their reverence for God—and all of society has followed the same path. Today, people are led by ego and vanity—as opposed to being wary and vigilant, being disciplined, wise servants concerned of consequences (I Peter 5:8).
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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...
Fear of God (godly fear, reverence for God; inclusive of love for God) Fear of God: “that mingled fear and love which, combined, constitute the piety of man toward God; the Old Testament places its emphasis on the fear, the New Testament … on the love, though there was love in the fear of God’s saints then,
Definition. Usually things that we fear we also hate, but in relationship to God, we both love and fear. The fear of the Lord is a profound sense of awe toward God. It is a mark of genuine faith in God’s revelation of himself. Newton ‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved.
1) What is the fear of God? 2) Why should we, in fact, fear God? 3) How do you fear God—if you do fear Him—how do you do it? There is a lot in the Psalms and Proverbs that speaks about the fear of God. In Proverbs 1, we read: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction,
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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.
