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Sermon: The Fear of God

The Fear of God


We are entering the second decade of the C21.
And it is hard to do so with optimism. Society,
nationally or internationally, is struggling to hold its
core. Global warming is the new spectre. Wars
proliferate in the world. The big nations posture and
flex their muscles. At home families and family
values are disintegrating. We have a mountain of
debt, individual and national for which a day of
reckoning is coming. Christian values are collapsing
and values are gaining grounds that are
increasingly hostile to Christian belief and Christian
people.


The Church, in the West at least, doesn’t inspire
optimism either. It is rapidly shrinking in size and
significance. It too seems to be losing its core, the
gospel. And meanwhile like the world frivolity and
all kinds of cultural tack are rushing in to fill the void.


Both in the world and in the church people act as
their inclinations lead. If they are professing
Christians they find some text to turn on its head to
justify their actions. The signs are all present of a
society and church that has lost its fear of God;
where there is no fear of God before our eyes. And
when a society or church loses its fear of God it is in
a desperate condition indeed.


Consequently, as we enter a New Year and new
decade, I want to impress on our minds and hearts
the profound importance of a proper fear of God.
For fundamental to all wise godly living is a deep
and profound sense of the fear of the Lord. The fear
of the Lord, Scripture regularly informs us, is the
beginning/fountain/source of wisdom.


I want to choose today just a few verses out of a
mountain of verses in Scripture that make this point.
And in fact we may not get much further today than
citing these few texts but if we allow them to speak
to us, if we allow them to make due impact on our
souls, then our time will have been well spent.

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Hi there - I am a member of Greenview and have been for over 20 years. For a number of these years I functioned as an elder, however, indifferent health forced me to take more of a back seat. I see this as an opportunity to do a little writing, often focussing on issues that are a matter of evangelical debate today. Naturally the views expressed are my own and may not reflect the views of the elders or church at large, though differences are likely to be in the detail and not the substance.

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