Fear Not: Moving From Terror to Trust

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

All our fears can be encapsulated in three words: security, life, and justification. But the Bible repeatedly tells us, “Fear not!” So how do we live without fear? In this episode, the WHI hosts consider how fear can shift from terror to trust, from law and gospel. They examine the biblical promises that undergird the commands to fear not, celebrating the comfort found in facing our fears united to Christ.

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0:00.0	We should have a healthy fear of God apart from sin and judgment.
0:08.0	The angels have a healthy terror of God.
0:12.0	The cherubim cover their eyes because of the blinding glory of God.
0:17.0	There's a healthy distance even of the highest angelic beings from God.
0:22.0	Yet one of those angelic beings from God. Yeah, one of those angelic beings shows up.
0:25.0	What does he have to say? Don't be afraid.
0:27.0	They're terrified by the angel. Well, the angel's terrified of God.
0:40.0	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:45.8	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge in called the White Horse, the Reformation
0:51.0	came to the English-speaking world.
0:53.3	Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.
0:57.0	The Bible commands us to fear God. How do we reconcile the fear commands, fear the Lord, with another command, do not fear? How do these two commands that seem to go in opposite directions relate to each other?
1:15.4	As you're reading the Bible, you might wonder, I thought that I was not supposed to fear him
1:20.8	and that there is no fear in love because perfect love casts out all fear, 1
1:25.2	John 418. It seems strange that the God were supposed to love, serve, obey, adore, seek, obey, and
1:32.0	no, but it seems hard to get close to him because we're so
1:36.3	afraid of him, because we're supposed to be afraid of him. People try to deal with
1:40.8	the tension of fear the Lord and do not fear by going into two different
1:47.3	extremes. On one hand there are those who seem to care little about God and treat God lightly.
1:54.5	On the other hand, there are those who have a morbid terror of God such that they don't
1:59.0	dare to sin and acknowledge their sin and out of just sheer duty they kind of white-knuckle their supposed relationship with God out of just sheer fear.
2:10.9	Fearing God is nothing like these two extremes. The biblical fear of God is something more than
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