Sermon Tone Analysis

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PRAYER
The concept of the fear of the lord is threaded with great significance throughout the Bible.
OK so if we have a warped or limited version of the fear of God, this text makes very little sense.
we have bold preaching, we have death threats, escapes, and then at the end of the text we have a description go the church at the time.
It had peace......was being built up (probably in number and in spiritual maturity it was being made stronger) it was living in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
And nestled int he middle is the statement that they were “walking in the fear of the Lord”.
Taken at face value “walking in the fear of the lord” seems like it would be a kind of cowering with your hands over your eyes.
Grovelling and dodging lightening bolts!
And if you were to talk about the gods of Greece, or Rome, or Sumerian, or the Babylonian, that is what you would understand walking in the fear of god to mean.
But the revelation of YHWH paints a different picture.
NOT a picture of a weak God; quite the opposite.
All-powerful, holy, expectant of us to worship him,
but not lobbing lightning bolts from Olympus throwing tantrums,
YHWH came close, engaged with his creation in an intimacy unheard of elsewhere,
to the point where the psalmist say in psalm 139
There is an awe attached to this fear that has a warmth and reassurance to it.
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