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Dec 4, 2020 · To honor God we must fear God—to have a deep and abiding sense of God’s power, God’s majesty, God’s holiness, God’s sheer otherness. We live best when we live with a healthy fear of God. So I do fear God. But these days I’m also finding myself afraid of God.
Jun 11, 2019 · You don’t need to be afraid of God, he isn’t out to get you. But it’s sensible to be afraid of the harm we can cause ourselves when we live for ourselves and not for God and others. Here are my steps to help you draw near to God when you’re afraid of him.
Aug 18, 2015 · Are You Afraid of God? No, But I'm Afraid of You Lyrics: And it was cold in Essex County / When the old sat there side by side / Building tombs in the forms of houses / Burying the rest...
Apr 25, 2022 · If you are afraid of God, afraid God will punish you unmercifully, afraid you are not worthy of God’s love and forgiveness, or for whatever reason, the solution is to acknowledge and accept God’s love.
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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...
Jun 7, 2023 · Answer. For the unbeliever, the fear of God is the fear of the judgment of God and eternal death, which is eternal separation from God ( Luke 12:5; Hebrews 10:31 ). For the believer, the fear of God is something much different. The believer’s fear is reverence of God.
Godly fear isn’t the same as fear of a tyrant, or a dictator. We don’t need to fear His anger, unless we fear punishment due to a bad conscience and impenitent heart because of sin. (Romans 2:5-9) To fear God is absolute reverence and awe for an Almighty God, the Creator of all things.
