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🗓️ 11 October 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Today we recounted the story of the Paralytic man whose friends carried him to Jesus for healing. |
0:17.3 | We first read this story in Luke 5 and Mark 2. |
0:20.3 | Luke's and Mark's accounts of the people's response are consistent with each other, but they seem to vary from what we read from Matthew today. |
0:26.5 | Luke said, Amazement sees them all and they glorified God and were filled with awe. |
0:31.5 | And Mark said, they were all amazed and |
0:34.1 | glorified God. But today Matthew says something that seems to contradict that. He |
0:38.8 | says when the crowd saw it they were, and they glorified God. |
0:43.2 | So which is it? |
0:44.2 | Were they amazed or were they afraid? |
0:45.7 | Yes, there's no contradiction in these accounts, and here's why. |
0:49.4 | If you are with us for the Old Testament, this will be a bit of a refresher from way back on day 36. |
0:54.7 | When scripture tells God's kids to fear him, it isn't about terror. |
0:59.0 | Terror makes you run from something. |
1:01.4 | That's contradictory to God's entire objective of drawing near to his people. |
1:05.1 | The kind of fear scripture describes when it talks about fearing God actually conveys reverence and awe. |
1:11.5 | It's joy adjacent. It has the effect of drawing us to God, not away from |
1:16.3 | him. It's the way we feel about the Grand Canyon. We take long trips to get to it, |
1:21.1 | stand on the edge of it with our eyes and mouths open wide, taking it all in, |
1:25.2 | while simultaneously being fully aware that it has the power to kill us. |
1:28.9 | This is awe and delight and respect. This is the kind of fear we're supposed to have toward God. |
1:34.8 | Many of us will have to reframe how we think of the phrase the fear of the Lord. |
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