The Fear of the Lord

By: Sylvia Huffnagle (Ordained minister)

The Fear of the Lord

Prov. 1:7: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Prov. 1:29: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Prov. 2:5: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Prov. 8:13: The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Jer. 32:30-34: For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, (idols) saith the LORD. For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

Jer. 32:36-42: And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

2Cor:1:22: Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Eph:1:13: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Eph:4:30: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Heb. 8:10-11: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

It’s the seal, the Holy Spirit, that produces this reverential fear in the heart of the receiver. See what a gift this is--it’s the reverential fear and awe of God that enables the believer to rule over their carnal nature and apply themselves to learning to walk in God’s ways. Therefore in order to become a doer of the Word and not a hearer only all the believer must do is deliberately receive the seal by faith. From then on they must consider themselves sealed by God--having his stamp on their hearts--they belong to him. If they grasp this concept, they will be able to habitually reject the world and choose God.

© Sylvia Huffnagle