We closed the week with an email today from a long-time listener named Pete

Bradley Pete writes in to ask this

Quote, I have now listened to every John Piper sermon on desiring God.org

That's that's quite an achievement beat and I don't think I have heard my question answered

Pastor John will we continue to fear God and tremble before him in our perfect glorified state in heaven?

What would you say, Pastor John?

Well, I don't I don't know if he's heard the answer to that either because I can't remember

Whether I ever talked about it. Maybe not. It's a good question. I think to answer

The question carefully we have to ask what trembling

Actually is

The first thing it is is the movement of the body

So the muscles are quivering

and

Today in our scientific age we would say the nerves are active in an increased way owing to some kind of chemical stimulus

So in and of itself

trembling is morally neutral

It's neither a virtue nor a vice

The motion of irrational inanimate matter like muscle

Cannot be described as virtuous or morally evil

But

trembling

Takes on moral dimensions when it is the the overflow of certain

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