What Does It Mean To FEAR God?

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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News, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I never understood this before I was a Christian. Many Christians try to make this way more complicated than it needs to be. Why do we make it so complicated? Because we don't want the truth to be true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation brought to you by Patriot Goal Group
0:06.6	Public Square app. Really excited for this week. The theme of the week is Proverbs 910. The fear
0:12.5	of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What does it mean to fear the Lord? That's the question.
0:20.0	This week, what does it mean to fear the Lord? Before's the question this week. What does it mean to fear the Lord?
0:22.4	Before I was a Christian, I had no idea what that meant.
0:27.0	It sounds like a bad thing.
0:28.6	Why would I want to fear them?
0:32.6	It doesn't make sense.
0:33.2	And if God existed, why would he want me to be scared of him?
0:38.6	Fear him.
0:39.6	I'm not going to do that.
0:41.5	And I just didn't get it.
0:43.7	And I don't think a lot of Christians don't get it either.
0:46.2	And I think we make it a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
0:49.3	So there's lots of passages about fearing the Lord.
0:52.5	It's all throughout the Bible.
0:54.5	So we better get a right.
0:56.8	And again, I think we, well, I know why.
1:00.7	We'll explain this week.
1:02.4	But we Christians go through these great gymnastics to try and make it seem different
1:09.5	or more complicated.
1:11.0	It means you should fear him.
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