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The fear of God |
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By: Colin Feener Date: October 26, 2015, 7:52 am |
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How great are the things God has stored up for those that fear |
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him. How great is his righteousness and goodness and how much |
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kindness does he show to the ones that fear him. |
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The understanding of fear is not that we be afraid of the |
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Lord. So many times you see where people did believe in Jesus |
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but would not declair it for fear of the Jews. This is because |
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the command belief was according to the understanding the Jews |
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gave the people. So this is to say that if you fear the Lord you |
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believe in the understanding given by the Spirit. So it is not |
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that you are afraid of the Lord, but you do things because you |
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have that understanding of the Lord. Now the Jews may have taken |
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offence to anyone going against their teaching and may have |
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caused that person grief so the fear of the Jews must be literal |
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as they are of the fleshy way but the fear of God is spiritual |
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and the punishment for that against the Lord would also be |
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Spiritual.So it is like , the Lord gives no man licence to |
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exacute judgement with violence and it is because he himself |
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does not either.So the fear is that you lose you closeness with |
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the Lord. Myself , I would take any punishment rather then have |
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this happen. But basicly you fear of the Lord means you believe |
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in his way and teaching instead of the way of the Jews. |
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