Throughout Scripture it is enjoined upon man to fear God.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! Psalm 33:8
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. Proverbs 14:27
“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, Deuteronomy 10:12
Of course only the Christian can fear God. Only the Christian has feared God.
The only expression of fearing God, that God counts, is by closing with the Lord Jesus Christ. Fleeing to Christ is proof positive that a man has taken God seriously and feared God. In looking to Christ man confesses that God’s wrath was pointed towards Him and that a solution had to be found to rid himself of the dread fear that was properly characteristic to the one who had understood the their own sin, guilt and misery in light of the Holiness of God. Fear of God drives the unbeliever to Christ for rescue and relief.
And then relieved of the fear of God we embrace and grow in the fear of God in the sense of being awestruck with His magnificence and glory.
So, fallen man is saved by his dread fear of God so as to spend His life fearing God with a holy fear that is preoccupied with His majesty and splendor.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. — I Corinthians 7:1
Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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