Not All Fear Is the Same
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The most frequent command in Scripture is “Do not be afraid.” Yet the Bible also calls us to fear. So, is fear a good thing or a bad thing? Today, Michael Reeves shows how the fear of the Lord puts all other fears in their proper place.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Michael Reeves is president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He is the featured teacher for the Ligonier teaching series The English Reformation and the Puritans. He is author of many books, including The Unquenchable Flame, Delighting in the Trinity, and Rejoice and Tremble.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we live more safely than we've ever done before. |
| 0:05.0 | From seat belts and airbags in our cars to the removal of lead paint and asbestos from our homes, |
| 0:14.0 | our safety is guaranteed more than our shorter-lived ancestors could have imagined. Quite simply, our culture has lost God as the proper object of fear. |
| 0:32.6 | As Michael Reeves just shared, today's society lives in a paradox. |
| 0:39.3 | Despite living in the safest and most advanced time in recorded history, we have never |
| 0:44.8 | been more fearful and anxious. |
| 0:47.9 | This week on renewing your mind, Dr. Reeves will help us see that the answer to helping |
| 0:52.6 | us conquer our lesser fears is to |
| 0:55.2 | rightly and biblically fear God. |
| 0:58.5 | These messages are from Dr. Reeves' series, The Fear of the Lord, and you can add it |
| 1:02.8 | to your library this week when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, Michael Reeves is president and professor of theology at Union |
| 1:12.8 | School of Theology in the United Kingdom. Listen today as he encourages us and reminds us that |
| 1:19.3 | the fear of God is the one positive, wonderful fear that deals with all our anxieties. |
| 1:26.5 | Here's Dr. Reeves. |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome everyone to this series on the topic of the fear of God. |
| 1:37.3 | Now, fear is a complicated emotion. |
| 1:42.3 | As children, we love to leap out on our friends and shout boo, and yet, |
| 1:50.8 | at the same time, we were scared of the dark, scared of the monsters under the bed. We were both |
| 1:58.2 | fascinated and repelled by our fears. |
| 2:03.6 | And not much changes when we grow up. |
| 2:07.6 | Even as adults, adults love scary movies, |
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