The Fear of the Lord
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Thou shalt have no other gods.
What does this mean?
We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.
In our modern context, we often gloss over the first word in that list: fear. We know that we should love and trust God, but we have come to neglect that we must also fear Him. The word “fear” appears hundreds of times in Scripture, and a great many of those instances are part of commands to fear the Lord.
The fear of the Lord is not an animalistic fear or the sort of fear that one has for an encounter with a bear or a particularly nasty storm, but it is also not entirely other from that sort of fear. The proper fear of the Lord for the Christian is a filial fear — the right and good fear that a son has for his father. In fact, we cannot properly love or trust God without first fearing Him.
The fear of the Lord is good; it is the beginning of wisdom; it revives the soul.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm Woe. |
| 0:42.3 | There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. |
| 0:48.3 | And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, |
| 0:56.4 | the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. |
| 1:04.0 | Today's episode is discussing the fear of the Lord, the fear of God. What does it mean to fear God properly? What you'll find |
| 1:13.4 | as you look at all the examples in Scripture, particularly throughout the Old Testament, |
| 1:19.4 | fear of the Lord is used as synonymous with one who has faith. Someone who was a believer |
| 1:27.2 | was described as fearing God. |
| 1:29.3 | This is how Jonah described himself. It's how Joseph described himself to his brothers when they didn't recognize him. |
| 1:37.3 | They both, those men describe themselves as having fear of the Lord. It's synonymous with having faith. It means to be a believer. |
| 1:45.5 | Something that's lost on us in the modern world is the connection between proper fear, |
| 1:52.4 | as it's understood so scripturally, and what it means to have faith. We think of it in sort of |
| 1:58.7 | euphemistic terms, like, oh, he fears God. Like, no, |
| 2:01.7 | these men actually feared God. They were afraid of God in the traditional sense, which is not the |
| 2:08.4 | sense of a spooky movie or of being afraid of the dark or being afraid of running out of |
| 2:17.1 | fuel on the highway. It's not that exact type of fear. |
| 2:20.5 | It's a much more properly oriented relationship to God. So harkening back to the episode that we did a while back on perfect hatred, |
| 2:31.8 | it's important to note that when we're talking about these things that |
| 2:36.0 | today we called emotions, fear and hatred, those are prime emotions or primal emotions. |
| 2:43.0 | That's not all that they are. |
| 2:45.0 | When we talked in the episode on perfect hatred, we talked about the fact that hatred is, |
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