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Lack Of Fear Of God By Zae Poonen The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Prov. 9:10). This is the first lesson in the school of wisdom. “To fear the Lord is to hate evil” (Prov. 8:13), because God Himself hates evil. When we have heard the call of God to be holy because He is holy, and are grip... Read More

The Peace That Accompanies the Fear of the Lord By Rich Carmicheal Throughout the Bible we are admonished to fear the Lord. For example, Moses declares, "And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord…" (Deuteronomy 10:12). The Psalmist writes, "Fear the Lord, you His... Read More

By the mercy of God I have been a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ since my early youth. Over the years of my earthly pilgrimage I have known what it is like to climb great spiritual mountains and how it feels to fall into chasms of blackness. I have had long seasons of great Christian joy and inte... Read More

By the mercy of God I have been a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ since my early youth. Over the years of my earthly pilgrimage I have known what it is like to climb great spiritual mountains and how it feels to fall into chasms of blackness. I have had long seasons of great Christian joy and inte... Read More

Love, fear, obedience — when it comes to walking with God, they are inseparable because you cannot practice one without the other two. FEAR – “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil” (Proverbs 8:13). LOVE – “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me” (John 14:21). OBEDIENCE – “T... Read More

Abhor (655) (apostugeo from apo = from + stugeo = to hate) (used only in Ro 12:9 in NT and none in Lxx) expresses a strong feeling of horror or bitter hatred regarding evil and implies loathing, abhorrence and disgust. The preposition (apo) serves a twofold purpose emphasizing the idea of separation... Read More

Instruments (3696) (hoplon) originally described any tool or implement for preparing a thing and then became specialized to refer to items such as a ship's tackling, a cable, a rope or a tool of any kind (blacksmith tools, sickle, staff) and then in the plural was used for "weapons of warfare. And s... Read More

Cling (2853) (kollao from kolla = glue) means literally to glue, cement, join or fasten together and thus to unite (someone with or to someone or some thing). To fasten firmly together. Kollao is used to describe joining oneself to a harlot in a sexual union in (1Co 6:16). Kollao is used by John idi... Read More

Evil (4190) (poneros from poneo = work or toil, Robertson says the idea is that labor is an annoyance, bad, evil; Noun poneria derived from poneros) means evil including evil, malignant character, pernicious (see Webster 1828 definition below), that which is morally or socially worthless, wicked, ba... Read More

Fear (5401) (phobos) (see another discussion of phobos) is used in an active sense to describe that which causes fear or terror, sometimes the source being God (of His divine works - eg, death of Ananias and Sapphira - Ac 5:5, 11, cp 1Ti 5:20, Re 18:10, 15, Re 11:11 = two slain witnesses come to lif... Read More