{"id":57971,"date":"2019-01-16T05:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=57971"},"modified":"2019-01-15T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T04:01:40","slug":"62-i-will-teach-you-the-fear-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/16\/62-i-will-teach-you-the-fear-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"62. I will teach you the fear of the LORD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deuteronomy 31:12 \u00a0 <\/span>Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 29:29<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.<\/p>\n

Psalms 34:11-14<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.\u00a0\u00a0What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?\u00a0\u00a0Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.\u00a0\u00a0Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.<\/p>\n

Psalms 19:7-11<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;\u00a0\u00a0the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;\u00a0\u00a0the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.\u00a0\u00a0More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.\u00a0\u00a0Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 6:6-7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.\u00a0\u00a0You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have thought often about \u201cThe fear of the LORD\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>Many times I come up with both reverence and afraid and see both in scripture.\u00a0 <\/span>I found this explanation from Ligonier Ministries.<\/p>\n

We need to make some important distinctions about the biblical meaning of \u201cfearing\u201d God. These distinctions can be helpful, but they can also be a little dangerous. When Luther struggled with that, he made this distinction, which has since become somewhat famous: He distinguished between what he called a\u00a0servile<\/i>\u00a0fear and a\u00a0filial\u00a0<\/i>fear.<\/p>\n

The servile fear is a kind of fear that a prisoner in a torture chamber has for his tormentor, the jailer, or the executioner. It\u2019s that kind of dreadful anxiety in which someone is frightened by the clear and present danger that is represented by another person. Or it\u2019s the kind of fear that a slave would have at the hands of a malicious master who would come with the whip and torment the slave. Servile refers to a posture of servitude toward a malevolent\u00a0owner.<\/p>\n

Luther distinguished between that and what he called filial fear, drawing from the Latin concept from which we get the idea of family. It refers to the fear that a child has for his father. In this regard, Luther is thinking of a child who has tremendous respect and love for his father or mother and who dearly wants to please them. He has a fear or an anxiety of offending the one he loves, not because he\u2019s afraid of torture or even of punishment, but rather because he\u2019s afraid of displeasing the one who is, in that child\u2019s world, the source of security and\u00a0love.<\/p>\n

I think this distinction is helpful because the basic meaning of fearing the Lord that we read about in Deuteronomy is also in the Wisdom Literature, where we\u2019re told that \u201cthe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d The focus here is on a sense of awe and respect for the majesty of God. That\u2019s often lacking in contemporary evangelical Christianity. We get very flippant and cavalier with God as if we had a casual relationship with the Father. We are invited to call Him Abba, Father, and to have the personal intimacy promised to us, but still, we\u2019re not to be flippant with God. We\u2019re always to maintain a healthy respect and adoration for\u00a0Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deuteronomy 31:12 \u00a0 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear … Continue reading “62. I will teach you the fear of the LORD”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7410,8280,3592,5647,2267,2989,5666,7237,164,502,915,2223,1306,7412,1154,2508,4996,8971,8973,2016,2212,2991,2264,8969,2262,203,2209,8968,2990,8974,4170,8970,8972,6633,8775,2881,310,775,1709,8975,8976,1475,3265],"class_list":["post-57971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-assemble","tag-careful-to-do","tag-clean","tag-commandment","tag-desired","tag-desires-life","tag-enduring","tag-enlightening","tag-evil","tag-eyes","tag-fear-the-lord","tag-forever","tag-gold","tag-hear-and-learn","tag-law","tag-listen-to-me","tag-loves","tag-making-wise-th-esimple","tag-on-your-heart","tag-perfect","tag-pure","tag-pursue","tag-rejoicing-the-heart","tag-revealed-belong-to-us","tag-reviving-the-soul","tag-righteous","tag-rules","tag-secret-things-belong-to-the-lord","tag-seek-peace","tag-sit-in-yoru-home","tag-sojourner","tag-speaking-deceit","tag-sweeter-than-honey","tag-talk-of-them","tag-teach-them-diligently","tag-teach-you","tag-tongue","tag-true","tag-turn-away","tag-walk-by-the-way","tag-when-you-lie-down","tag-when-you-rise","tag-words"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57972,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57971\/revisions\/57972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}