Flee to Christ in Fear

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

God commands us both to fear him and to flee to him for refuge. How can we possibly do one without contradicting the other?

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0:00.0	Well, we are to fear God, and we are to flee to God.
0:09.0	And while those two things, fearing God and fleeing to Him, may sound oddly contradictory,
0:15.0	they're not.
0:16.0	In 2008, Pastor John preached on Psalm 103, a psalm with some pretty amazing statements
0:21.5	about God's love to those who fear Him.
0:24.8	Verse 11 says, for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast
0:30.4	love towards those who fear Him.
0:33.2	In verse 13, it says, as a Father shows compassion to His children, so the Lord shows
0:38.7	compassion to those who fear Him.
0:42.4	In verse 17, it says, the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting,
0:48.7	on those who fear Him.
0:51.6	That's covenant love is for those who fear Him.
0:54.0	In the following sermon clip comes from Michael, who lives in the beautiful city of San Diego.
1:00.2	Here's John Piper, expounding Psalm 103.
1:04.8	The only people that will eternally experience the love of God as the love of God are people
1:12.9	who fear the Lord.
1:15.0	Is that a separate and distinct requirement over against keeping covenant with Christ by
1:25.8	trusting His new covenant provisions?
1:29.1	I don't think so.
1:32.6	Here's what I think fearing God means today.
1:37.5	I think fearing God means that God is in your mind and heart so powerful and so holy and so
1:51.3	awesome that you would not dare to run away from Him but only run to Him.
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