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How to Live Fearlessly

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How can Christians live fearlessly? Replace the fear of man with the fear of God. Fear man — live fearfully. Fear God — live fearlessly.

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0:00.0

How do we live fearlessly?

0:06.3

That's how our week begins.

0:08.2

Happy Monday, and thanks for joining us for another week on the podcast.

0:11.7

The question today comes from a listener named David.

0:14.2

Here's his e-mail, Pastor John Hello.

0:16.5

My question is about 1 Peter 315.

0:19.3

Various translations say things like this.

0:22.6

In your heart's honor, Christ the Lord as holy.

0:27.0

That's the ESV.

0:28.5

And pretty much the same as the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which calls us to honor Christ

0:33.0

with our hearts.

0:34.8

But the King James version translates it, sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.

0:41.3

The new living translation says, worship Christ as Lord of your life.

0:46.1

The NIV says, in your hearts, revere Christ as Lord.

0:51.3

So honor, sanctify, worship, revere.

0:56.2

What does this Greek lemma, Hayazo mean?

1:00.3

And how would you apply it to our lives?

1:04.0

This passage, 1 Peter 314-16, has a special place in my heart because I can remember preaching

1:15.1

on it my very first months in the Pestoral Ministry of Bethlehem in 1980.

1:23.3

And the insight that I got then when I was preparing for that message, I had never seen

1:29.7

before.

1:31.0

And it was so significant to me.

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