A Delightful Fear of God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A true encounter with God's grace in the gospel cannot leave His people unaffected. His awesome goodness and love should cause our hearts to quake. Today, Michael Reeves shows why the fear of the Lord is a delight for Christians.
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| 0:00.0 | This right fear of God, it is not the gloomy flipside to joy in God. |
| 0:06.0 | It is a way of speaking about the sheer intensity of the saints' happiness in God. |
| 0:14.0 | Our joy in God at its purest is a trembling and wonderful, yes fearful joy. |
| 0:24.0 | For the object of our joy is so fearfully wonderful. |
| 0:30.0 | What do you think about when you read in the Bible that God is to be feared? |
| 0:39.0 | Does it immediately bring to mind a fearful joy? |
| 0:42.0 | Many Christians would say no, perhaps even thinking that fearing God was something exclusive to the Old Testament. |
| 0:49.0 | And now we don't need to fear Him, we simply love Him. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, I'm glad you're with us today on renewing your mind, as Michael Reeves delves deeper into the Bible's description of a godly fear of the Lord. |
| 1:02.0 | This message is from Dr. Reeves' new series, The Fear of the Lord, which is available this week in its entirety, |
| 1:08.0 | fear donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. |
| 1:12.0 | Our love for God and our fear of God are far more closely connected than you might think. |
| 1:18.0 | So here's Dr. Reeves to explain. |
| 1:23.0 | We're going to move on now to consider the right fear of God that Scripture commends. |
| 1:32.0 | C.I. Scofield, once called the fear of God, a phrase of Old Testament piety. |
| 1:41.0 | And so it was. However, the fear of God is not a phrase of Old Testament piety only. |
| 1:51.0 | For the fear of God is quite explicitly a blessing of the new covenant. |
| 1:58.0 | So speaking of the new covenant, the Lord promised through Jeremiah, Jeremiah chapter 32 from verse 38 to 40. |
| 2:11.0 | The Lord says, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. |
| 2:17.0 | I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever for their own good and the good of their children after them. |
| 2:28.0 | I will make with them an everlasting covenant that I will not turn away from doing good to them. |
| 2:35.0 | And I will put the fear of me in their hearts that they may not turn away from me. |
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