What Does It Mean to Fear the Lord? (2 Kings 17:33)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on 2 Kings 17:33, David Platt encourages Christians to consider what it means to fear the Lord and worship him alone. View the 2021 McLean Bible Church Reading Plan. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.7	Second Kings chapter 17, verse 33. So they feared the Lord, but also served their own gods
0:13.5	after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. Isn't that an
0:19.9	interesting phrase? They feared the Lord, but they also
0:25.1	served their own gods after the manner of the nations for among whom they had been carried away.
0:31.9	In other words, they tacked on the worship of false gods to the worship of the one true God and basically set up a system
0:44.7	where they worshipped many gods, including the Lord, which we know from the First Commandment
0:52.8	that God gives to His people in Exodus chapter 20,
0:56.5	you shall worship the Lord your God and serve, fear him only.
1:02.3	And yet as I read this first, I can't help but to think about how all of us are tempted
1:08.8	to tack on worship of other gods in addition to the worship of the one true
1:15.5	God. Like we would say, yes, we worship God, but in our lives, are we worshiping God alone?
1:24.9	Is the Lord, the sole object of our worship. And in what ways are we prone to give our worship,
1:34.9	our affection, our attention, our devotion to other gods in this world? You think about going to a
1:43.4	place like India where you see literally hundreds of
1:47.6	millions of gods that are being worshipped. And it's almost easy to say, yes, that's the worship of many
1:53.4	gods. But how are you and I tempted to turn many different things in this world into God's, whether it's money or success
2:06.0	or sex or sports or self-image or numerous things that if you look at our lives, you would see us
2:16.6	giving our time, our attention, our affection,
2:20.5	and our devotion to above God. And so we pray, God help us to worship and serve you only.
2:29.1	We confess in prayer right now that you alone are worthy of our worship. There is no other God but you. You are the one true God. We want to love you with all of our heart, soul, mind, and string with all that we have, not part of what we have and part given to other gods. God, we pray that you would free our hearts and lives from
2:55.7	idolatry. You would help us to flee the worship of anything or anyone apart from you, that even as we
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