Not All Fear Is the Same
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 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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| 0:00.0 | Today, we live more safely than we've ever done before. |
| 0:05.0 | From seatbelts and airbags in our cars |
| 0:10.0 | to the removal of lead paint in us bestos from our homes, |
| 0:14.0 | our safety is guaranteed more than our shorter-lived ancestors |
| 0:19.0 | could have imagined. |
| 0:21.0 | Quite simply, our culture has lost God as the proper object of fear. |
| 0:30.0 | As Michael Reeves just shared, today society lives in a paradox. |
| 0:40.0 | Despite living in the safest and most advanced time in recorded history, |
| 0:45.0 | we have never been more fearful and anxious. |
| 0:48.0 | This week on Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:50.0 | Dr. Reeves is helping us see that the answer to conquering our lesser fears |
| 0:55.0 | is to rightly and biblically fear God. |
| 0:58.0 | Today, we begin a brand new series that Ligonier Ministries |
| 1:02.0 | just released titled The Fear of the Lord. |
| 1:05.0 | Listen today as Dr. Reeves encourages us as he reminds us |
| 1:08.0 | that the fear of God is the one positive, wonderful fear |
| 1:12.0 | that deals with all our anxieties. |
| 1:15.0 | Here's Dr. Reeves. |
| 1:19.0 | Welcome, everyone, to this series on a topic of the fear of God. |
| 1:27.0 | Now, fear is a complicated emotion. |
| 1:32.0 | As children, we loved to leap out on our friends and shout boo. |
| 1:38.0 | And yet, at the same time, we were scared of the dark, |
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