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Fear of the Lord (Part 1)

February 14, 2021
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A statement frequently heard, but even less frequently understood. Jesus commanded us to fear the Lord! Find out how the scriptures verify Jesus' statement in Luke 12:5!

My guest joining me this week on the Sunday series is my brother Bryce. Bryce is getting his undergraduate degree in philosophy and hopes to get his MDiv. from a seminary after he completes his undergrad. He hopes to be a pastor shepherding Gods people one day.

Key Texts : Proverbs 8:13; Psalm 19:7-10; Isaiah 8:13; Psalm 34:11; 1 John 4:18; Psalm 25:12; Isaiah 11: 1-3; Hebrews 12: 5-11; Exodus 20:20; Luke 12:5; Luke 1:50; Psalm 147:11; Psalm 85:9.... etc. 

The Psalms are FULL of the Fear of the Lord

Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 15:3, Psalm 19, and Proverbs 8:13

Further Reading : The Fear of God by: John Bunyan; What Does it Mean to Fear the Lord by: Michael Reeves

https://www.gotquestions.org/fear-God.html

Sunday Series Episode # 2

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Hey For The King listeners, this is just a real quick update on a few things I wanted to talk to you guys about. First of all, thanks so much to Carmichael's Vintage Goods and Blay for giving a review on Apple Podcasts. I really appreciate it so much.
I love the reviews because it just lets me know that you guys... it just gives
me some feedback on what you guys like about the podcast and what you're enjoying. I'm so overjoyed to hear that whoever the person that... I put that review for Carmichael's Vintage Goods that this was an encouragement, especially the one about propitiation and atonement. I'm overjoyed to hear that that God's working through this podcast and doing stuff in people's hearts and teaching them about God's words.
You know, it's not Bryce and I. It's always God's
word that bears the burden of authority because God's the one that's spoken. It's not Bryce and I. So, so happy to hear that guys. I also wanted to say thank you so much for the recent support from family, friends, and others.
I really am overjoyed
and so appreciative that you guys are supporting the podcast and listening to it. Thank you so much. Please spread the word.
I would love for just this to blow
up and many people to come to know some of the truths that we find in Scripture about certain things. And I hope that it's all God glorifying, right? And nothing is off base to you guys. So please give me some feedback if you find something off base or not really scriptural or whatever.
I want it to
glorify God. And lastly, I got a new microphone. The audio should be much better.
So that should be good for you guys. And also, I know I sent out a flurry
of content at the beginning, but don't expect that for too long because I wanted just to get a lot of content as it's a new podcast and you're supposed to put a lot of content out. But I hope to do the Sunday series every Sunday, but the wonky Wednesday and the meaningful monologues will probably not be as frequent.
So just expect that. Thanks so much for listening, guys.
Okay, hello guys.
Welcome to the For the King podcast. This is gonna be the second
episode that we're gonna release. It is February 7th, 2021.
Up with, again,
Lo-Go, Bicy. Okay, there he is. He's alive.
Okay, so today we're gonna be talking
about the fear of the Lord. It's frequently heard, less frequently understood. That's kind of like my little pithy statement I came up with.
Thank you.
I appreciate it. So the whole point, just like a thesis, I want you guys, for you guys to know what to expect and what to take away.
We just want to describe how
Scripture engages with the fear of the Lord and then we want to kind of gear it towards a follow-up episode about wisdom and how the fear of the Lord is connected to wisdom. So where we want to go first is one of the key texts for today, Isaiah 8.13. So I'm just gonna read it real quick. It's a little heavy, so just bear with me.
So Isaiah 8 verses 11 through 15. "For the Lord spoke thus to
me with his strong hand upon me and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, 'Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy and do not fear what they fear nor be in dread.' So don't fear what they fear. This is what you ought to fear, Isaiah.
'But the Lord of hosts, him you
shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear and let him be your dread.' And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many shall stumble on it and they shall fall and be broken.
They
shall be snared and taken." Okay, so we have this text in Isaiah 8, specifically verse 13 is a big one for me. I think this is a really good key text in Scripture about maybe getting us away from... I've heard many people say the fear of the Lord is just, you know, you respect God, you respect him, you know. It's kind of like you're like an awe and reverence and there's an element of that, like a respect.
But I think what I love about Isaiah 8.13 is it kind of
takes you a little bit further, especially the word dread. That's not just like, "I respect this guy. I'm in awe of this guy or reverence." Like dread is you're anguishing the moment that you come into contact with this person, which just so happens to be the Lord of the universe.
And we're reading through Amos
right now, and remember that, at the end of chapter 4 it says, "Behold, prepare to meet your God, O Israel," because they're about to get judged. So I want this first part is how the fear of the Lord is an actual mental state where humans are in their mind actively fearing the Lord. Does that sound accurate, Bryce? Yeah.
Okay. Right. Do you have anything out of that? Yeah, I mean, I just think you brought up a good
point.
It's not less than the reverence before God respecting him, but it's
definitely a lot more than that. It is. It's more.
Yeah, 100%. It's a little
bit more intense than sometimes evangelicals in the Western Church can make it out to be. So, you know, there's a fear here for the people of God because in this text, they've sinned.
He's telling Isaiah, "Don't
walk in the way of these people because of they've done what? They've sinned and they've transgressed the Lord." He's like, "But you should be in fear and dread because of me. Don't fear what they fear." So what that shows to me about the fear of the Lord when you are actively, in a way, afraid and dreading God's displeasure towards you and divine wrath and justice is what you fear is kind of how you cater your life towards. What you fear is what you in your mind put.
It's
kind of like you're making an idol. When you fear something and you're fixated on it and dreading its encounter, that means you've made it an idol in a way, right? Which is why we're told to fear God the most because when you fear something, it is like it's literally controlling your life. It's controlling your thought life.
You can't stop thinking about it. "Oh, what if
I do encounter this thing that I'm afraid of or it actually happens to me? That's why we're afraid of death. We don't want to encounter it." It's kind of people that are afraid of death, what does it do? It rules over you, which is why... is it in Ephesians where death now is your sting or is that Romans? Yeah, it's Ephesians.
Ephesians, yeah. Like death where is your sting? There's no
sting in death now because we don't fear it anymore because we know we have eternal life in Christ. It doesn't rule over us anymore.
Yeah. So there's an element in which
that which you fear rules over you. Okay, so remember Jesus is the Lord so we need to fear Him.
And actually even earlier on in Isaiah, this just reminded me of that,
it says that they fear me out of a commandment made by man. So there's a very real element that you can even idolize such a fear. And there's a right fear and there's a wrong fear.
And the other people in that Isaiah 8 text, they had a
wrong fear and then he's showing the Israelites how they are to fear their God and their maker. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, exactly. Amen. Perfect.
So if this is how we
have to fear God, then let's see what Jesus has to say. Let's go to a text where Jesus talks about fearing the Lord. So in Luke 12.5, Jesus says, "But I will show you whom you should fear.
Fear the one who after you have been killed has
authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him." So Jesus is commanding us to fear God. And before that he talks about like don't fear the one who can just kill the body, which is just humans.
Fear the one who can also
kill the soul by sending it to hell for eternity. Right. Rendering it, incapable of any life anymore.
So Jesus is telling us to do this kind of fear. So now we know
that Christ has saved us. The good news of the gospel is Jesus has saved us from the righteous wrath of God, which goes into the last episode.
He's
propitiated that for us. He is the propitiatory sacrifice. So Bryce, how do we know not to fear God? What constraints are on it? Yeah, yeah.
So there's
definitely, like you said, a right and a wrong way to do it. And obviously we know Romans 8.1. There's no condemnation for us. And we also have a text in 1st John verses chapter 4 verses 17 and 18, which says, "By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is also are we in this world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for
fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love." We know that in love God has predestined us for adoption. So this is clearly talking about something that we're not fearing the condemnation of the Lord, but we do fear the Lord Himself recognizing that it is in His love that has saved us. And we are still in a state of humility before Him that He is still able to cut us off if need be.
Obviously we know we will not lose our salvation.
We're sealed with the Spirit. Yeah, not to take a separate us from the love of God.
Exactly. That's absolutely right. We're
sealed with the Spirit.
But that does not negate the fact that we should have a
reverential fear towards God recognizing that He is the sole proprietor of judgment. He will judge the living and the dead. Yeah.
So the right way to fear
Him is recognizing His authority over it, His preeminence over it, and the wrong way to fear Him is just saying, "Oh, I can just be God is just going to condemn me." Yeah. Which is not correct. And then we know Romans 8.1, there's no more condemnation for those that are in Christ.
We don't need to fear the
Lord that we will be cast into hell for eternity. Jesus has saved us. But we must remember, this text says there's no fear in judgment.
There is no more final
judgment for us, but there is consequences for sin. So I want to read, I want to go to Hebrews now to talk a little bit more about the fear of the Lord. So in Hebrews chapter 12, 28 and 29, it says, "Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe." Why? "For our God is a consuming fire." That's a scary thing.
Fire, if it's encroaching around you, it's about to
consume you. That's a scary, fearful thing. So we do worship God with reverence and awe before Him, just like you were saying, Bryce, but not in fear of condemnation no longer because Christ has borne that burden for us.
So we know, okay, so again,
no fear in judgment, final judgment, but there is judgment and consequences for our sin, even in this life. So let's read this next text from Hebrews chapter 12 again, verses 5 through 11. "And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by Him, for the Lord disciplines the one He loves and chastises every son whom He receives." Chastisement is a judgment.
Chastisement
and discipline is a judgment in a sense to straighten you out, but discipline's never a final verdict on your soul, right? Jesus has borne that. So I just want to remind all of us that it's still, the way we fear God, just circling back to the Isaiah 8, 13 text, the Israelites ought to be in fear of God because they were His chosen people, just like us. We're a royal peace in 1 Peter, we're His chosen people now.
We are all Israelites in Christ. We're now made Jews. We're His
chosen people, but that doesn't mean that we are like exempt from any kind of judgment whatsoever.
There are still consequences for sin in this life.
Yeah, judgment is not synonymous with condemnation. Yes.
And a lot of times we
think of it as judgment, "Oh, that just means, you know, the final judgment when Christ is judging everybody, He's sending the sheep on the right side and the goats on the left, and that's what that's that." That's the Bible uses judgment in a much more broader context for sure. And God's heavy hand of discipline is His grace to His people because it's a corrective tool to lead them into righteousness, and that's what the fear of the Lord is. Yeah.
Right? We're drawn to that correction.
Exactly. Yeah.
Amen. Yeah, just because you're judged doesn't mean you will be
condemned, and God will judge us for our sin in this life, you know, which is convicting for me just to say right now, because there's just there's always, you're never perfect, you're always mortifying the flesh. And the reason we do that is because we fear God.
That's why we fear God. Why do we mortify the
flesh? Because we can't make grace a license to sin. We should fear God that He... there may come a moment where He takes His hand off of us and lets us backside for some time, but we know that in Christ we'll always come back to Him.
Jesus does not lose track of a sheep. He's gonna come out and get us, but we should fear wandering. Right.
It's a fearful thing to be under that discipline.
And particularly in our culture too, we see kind of an exaltation of specific sins of like homosexuality and transgenderism when it's because people are lacking a proper fear of the Lord. Sin is increased when a fear of the Lord is not heightened.
So it's very important to recognize the holiness of the Lord,
and that leads to fruitful repentance. Yep. Yeah.
Amen. Okay, cool. So I think we've
labored that point enough.
Remember guys, the fear of the Lord is... it's a
mental state. It's a way in which you live your life as a Christian. That is, you're literally afraid of God's displeasure.
You do not want to
displease your father. That's why every son just wants their father's approval, and it's a deterrent against them doing things that they might... they know might displease their father, right? It's a scary thing to displease your father, and especially the father of all of the saints. Yeah.
Okay, so the second point,
now, aspect of the fear of the Lord. This is probably something you guys haven't heard before, and it was really enlightening for me to understand, and the Bible's actually pretty clear about it. So there's a way in which it's a mental state in the human mind.
Now here's the second component. There's a way in which
the fear of the Lord is... here comes the Word of God. There's an element in which it's a part of the Word of God, and we're gonna see that here in this next... this next key text.
This is the next big text for us for today about the fear of the
Lord. So I'm gonna read it in Psalm 19. I'm reading all these out of the ESV, by the way, just if I've never explicitly said that.
So here we go. Psalm 19 verses
7 through 10. "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.
The testimony
of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure and lightening the eyes.
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The rules of
the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb." So we have a text where David is describing aspects of the Word of God.
We have laws, we have testimonies and precepts, commandments from the Lord, rules, all these things are elements of what is to be found in the Word of God. Now what is the thing that's thrown in there in the middle of all of these aspects of the Word of God? The fear of the Lord. In the middle of that little procession he gives of all these different parts of God's Word, he throws in fear of the Lord there.
And this is a thing that I don't think a lot of
Christians understand, and I really didn't understand it too very recently either. This is why I'm eager to share it with you guys and why I wanted to do this episode. The fear of the Lord is an aspect of the Word of God.
Now here's a
few texts that would lead one to think that it's not merely just a mental state but also something that can be taught. It isn't the Word of God, it's a propositional piece of knowledge that you can write down on a piece of paper. It's, you know, me being afraid of God, you can't really write that down, it's a feeling.
You can't write down a feeling, but there's an element which the fear of
the Lord is a thing that is written down. So Psalm 34 verse 11 is huge. Here it comes, "Come you children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord." So remember guys, there's these texts show us there's a way in which the fear of the Lord is something that which is taught and given to us, and it's found in the Word of the Lord.
And that's why the fear of the Lord, you know, when we
read Isaiah 8 13, it should make us actually fear God. That fear of the Lord there in Isaiah 8 13 leads us to mentally and emotionally fear the Lord spiritually in this life, in this brand. Any thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean one quick thought is, I mean that's why the prophets when they went to the nation Israel or Judah, they would proclaim to them the fear of the Lord to cause them to recognize their sin.
And that's a big aspect of what they were doing. You can
honestly say of that Psalm 34 verse that that's exactly what the prophets were doing. They would expose the nation by teaching them the fear of the Lord.
Yes.
Yeah. To expose their sin.
And that's why the fear of the Lord is clean because
it's a purifier. Yeah. Through that that propositional knowledge, the proclamation of God's Word.
Yeah. 100%. That's a really good point.
That's what
they were doing. God was sending them with the fear of the Lord. Right.
These
prophets and saints of old had the fear of the Lord and they were sent with it. So in Matthew Henry's commentary, when you look at that Psalm 19 verse, specifically verse 9, when that talks about the fear of the Lord in Psalm 19, Matthew Henry in his commentary alludes and references John 15 verse 3. So Jesus says, "I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. Every branch of me that does not bear fruit he takes away and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit.
Already you are clean because of the word that I have
spoken to you." So why are these men clean? The disciples. Because of the word that Jesus had spoken to them. They ought to fear the Lord rightly.
Now
they've been taught the fear of the Lord. It makes you clean because it, remember, the fear of the Lord, that which rules your life, is the Lord because you feared him rightly, is a determinant against sin. So let me, so like Job 4 verse 6, "It's not your fear of God, your confidence, and the integrity of your ways, your hope." Let's see, I have a few more written down.
If you have anything
Bryce, just hop in but I'm gonna find some. Right, yeah, I mean I just think it's such a great point to bring up how the fear of the Lord is something that is in a way a deterrence from sin because it's, I mean we've hit on this very frequently but I mean the Lord God is holy and not only is he holy but he is holy, holy, holy. And we need to recognize just his authority that he has and how we need to have a type of fear that is not only that feeling, it's not only a reverential fear but it's also a propositional knowledge that can be found in God's Word that drives us to our knees in repentance daily and that's why it's clean, that's why it's a, like it said in Psalm 19, how his commands is the hatred of evil, right, and I mean Paul brings that up and even in Romans 12 that we're to love what is good and to abhor what is evil.
So yeah, I really do think
that's a great point. Yeah, okay I found a few of those verses. So Psalm 25 12, "Who is the man who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
The fear of the Lord is a de-turn against sin. It makes you do what is right and not what is wrong." And then we have, so Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12, "And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you but to fear the Lord your God to walk in his ways, to love him to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul?" The fear of the Lord is what God commands us because it does what? It'll make us walk in his ways. That's why God commands that.
And
Deuter, a little bit later in that same chapter 10 in Deuteronomy verses 20 and 21, "You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him and by his name you shall square. He is your praise, he is your God.
Who has done for
you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen?" So again, we get both of them there that we need to hold fast to him and serve him. The fear of the Lord is what causes us to serve him rightly and to do what is correct but also it's because we see terrifying things with our eyes, right? It's that mental state with the being fear of the Lord being taught. So those are some good texts to show the fear of the Lord is also something that which is taught and it's... and we're gonna start wrapping up here but that is gonna lead us next week.
We're gonna release an episode about biblical wisdom rooted in the fear of the Lord because one text that you guys are probably all thinking of that we haven't got to yet is in Proverbs 8 13 it says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of what? Wisdom, right? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Which is an odd concept for a lot of Christians but hopefully this beginning episode will give some good... a good framework and a good foundation for us to talk about that next week and to piggyback on why fearing God rightly, both the mental state and being taught the fear of the Lord, will lead one to be wise and we're gonna talk about wisdom next week. But the very last thing I wanted to talk about unless you had one other point on that. Were you gonna bring up Exodus 20 at all? No, hit it real quick.
Okay, Exodus 20 20 says... and this is... I mean you guys
should know this Exodus 20 is the Ten Commandments, right? This is right after God gives the command to his people, ethnic Israel. He says, "Moses said to the people, 'Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.'" So, okay, yes, okay. I guess I didn't find that one.
Thank you. Yeah, I saw it on the notes. Oh, I guess I just scrolled over it.
Yeah, okay.
You just don't properly fear. I don't.
If I actually feared the Lord, I would have looked for that verse.
I mean that's a... that's so clear right there. This is right after he gave them a list of Ten Commands, right? Of how they are to follow God properly, and he says, "The fear of the Lord will be ever before you." Right? And it's in these commands that he's giving to them.
Exactly. That's why Psalm 19 talks like that.
Absolutely, right? The fear of the Lord is very synonymous with God's commands, with his precepts and statutes, and that causes us to not sin.
That's why David
says in Psalm 119 that, "I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you." Yeah. Why did he store up in his heart? It was the law of God. It was his words, the fear of the Lord, and the express law, so that he wouldn't fall into temptation and sin.
Yeah. Right? And that's why he says, "Only the law I
meditate day and night." Day and night. There it is, right? The great song.
You can't keep away from sin if you're not having a high feeder of the
Lord. Absolutely. Yeah.
That was probably the best text for that. I can't believe it.
I didn't get that one.
Okay, thanks for reading that. That was perfect. I mean, that's why I'm here.
Yeah. To strike me out, make sure I don't miss a thing. Okay, so the last thing I want to read that I thought was really cool when I was looking at all the text on this.
Wow, I didn't put the actual where I got it from. It's somewhere in
Isaiah. It's like Isaiah 13 or something.
I'll put it in the
show notes because I forgot to actually write. This is how heresy slips in. Yeah, I know.
It's okay. This is a prophecy about Christ, the shoot of Jesse, okay? So I thought this was cool. "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit." This is talking about Christ.
"And the Spirit of
the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord." So this is a thing, you know, so we started off talking about how the fear of the Lord is. You should literally be in dread in fear of God's divine displeasure against you because of your sin and unrighteousness.
Yes, 100%. But Jesus came in the fear of the Lord and
it was his delight. Because when we fear God rightly, we know there's no judgment.
He is our Savior. He is our rock. David had confidence in that in Psalm 51.
Where he, the great repentance Psalm after his sin with Bathsheba, and like even David had confidence in God. Not a fear that which drove you away from the thing that you're fearing, but it's a type of fear towards God that drives you to your daddy. I'm afraid of my dad because he might judge me.
You know, what? No daddy.
Alright, the Father. The Divine Father.
Is that more respectable? I think so. Okay.
It drives us to the Divine Father and not away from him, right? It's that kind of fear, which is why Jesus came in the fear of the Lord.
That was the Spirit in which
he came with, which is the Spirit of God. And this text, by the way, when it keeps saying the different spirits, there's seven spirits here. Seven is the number of completion.
It's one spirit. There's not seven different weird spirits from
God that Jesus, that's resting on Jesus. The number seven in scriptures is a number of completion.
So when it says these seven different things here about
the Spirit of the Lord, it's all one spirit. Okay. Yeah, absolutely.
I think one
point piggybacking off of that is the fear of the Lord, as we've talked about it being a purifier, like we said in Psalm 19, that the fear of the Lord is clean. It leads us from that dread to delight because Christ came in perfection. Though he came in the likeness of sinful flesh, he himself was without sin.
That's why it was imperfect delight, right? Because he
was in perfect standing before God. Exactly. Or justified before his sight, but we're in a process of becoming more clean.
Yeah. So that's why the fear of the
Lord drives to that. Yeah.
And we walk in the likeness of our Savior. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I guess that, I guess logically one could think by what, by this text pointing to Christ, that Jesus feared the Lord because of his displeasing his father.
Yeah, he was perfect. He was with us and he, the Father was perfectly pleased in Christ. So we also see that there's an element in which the fear of the Lord isn't merely reduced to just your fear of punishment for sin because first John kind of gets us away from that.
Right. You don't merely just, you're not just
afraid of God because of his, he might punish you for sin because Jesus feared the Lord. That was his delight.
Right. And Jesus never sinned. He was one without
sin.
Right. So we got to remember that the fear of the Lord is supposed to drive us
to God. It's supposed to be a delight.
It's a purifier. It makes us clean. But for us
humans in our sinful state, there is an element of fear and dread because of his punishment.
Right. But there's an element of the fear of the Lord where it is taught
and it is clean and pure and it deters us from sin even in the first place that we might delight in God. Right.
Any last thoughts? Nothing I can think of. No, I think I was pretty...
Yeah, I had a ton of fun doing that just now and learning about this. Yeah, this is... Sorry, what? I guess maybe one last point you can make.
Okay. If it's... Go ahead. If I'm allowed.
I was done, but whatever. Forget it. Go for it.
I mean, this is just the whole point of theology.
Theology is always practical. We need to drive this stuff home.
This should bring us to a
fruit of repentance more and more. Right. This is something where we can't just merely know it.
Right. It's not just the proposition of knowledge. It needs to be taught that impacts and affects our souls that we actually do this.
This is something we need to be doing as Christians.
So yeah. Amen.
Hopefully you guys took that away from this and you guys were encouraged.
As always, Christ was exalted. Thanks for joining me, Bryce.
I appreciate it. But I should probably
be here most Sundays. We actually do this right after church.
So we go to church and sit under
some preaching and then come back here and fill in this episode. We usually prepare... We spend this seven days in between preparing for each episode and stuff. So we're holy and ready to go by the time of the year.
Upright, righteous, but we still fear the Lord. I guess we're not always like that.
Yeah.
We love you guys. We hope that you guys took something away from this. This is going to
be the second episode about fearing the Lord.
Next week, we're going to do a follow-up episode about
biblical wisdom, finding its root in the fear of the Lord. And there's a ton of text on that that we're going to go through. So this is the For the King podcast.
We hope you guys enjoyed it.
God bless. Soli Deo Gloria.
For the King.
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The Plausibility of Jesus' Rising from the Dead Licona vs. Shapiro
The Plausibility of Jesus' Rising from the Dead Licona vs. Shapiro
Risen Jesus
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In this episode of the Risen Jesus podcast, we join Dr. Licona at Ohio State University for his 2017 resurrection debate with philosopher Dr. Lawrence
The Resurrection - Argument from Personal Incredulity or Methodological Naturalism - Licona vs. Dillahunty - Part 2
The Resurrection - Argument from Personal Incredulity or Methodological Naturalism - Licona vs. Dillahunty - Part 2
Risen Jesus
March 26, 2025
In this episode, Dr. Licona provides a positive case for the resurrection of Jesus at the 2017 [UN]Apologetic Conference in Austin, Texas. He bases hi
What Questions Should I Ask Someone Who Believes in a Higher Power?
What Questions Should I Ask Someone Who Believes in a Higher Power?
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May 26, 2025
Questions about what to ask someone who believes merely in a “higher power,” how to make a case for the existence of the afterlife, and whether or not
Nicene Orthodoxy with Blair Smith
Nicene Orthodoxy with Blair Smith
Life and Books and Everything
April 28, 2025
Kevin welcomes his good friend—neighbor, church colleague, and seminary colleague (soon to be boss!)—Blair Smith to the podcast. As a systematic theol
Mythos or Logos: How Should the Narratives about Jesus' Resurreciton Be Understood? Licona/Craig vs Spangenberg/Wolmarans
Mythos or Logos: How Should the Narratives about Jesus' Resurreciton Be Understood? Licona/Craig vs Spangenberg/Wolmarans
Risen Jesus
April 16, 2025
Dr. Mike Licona and Dr. Willian Lane Craig contend that the texts about Jesus’ resurrection were written to teach a physical, historical resurrection
What Discernment Skills Should We Develop to Make Sure We’re Getting Wise Answers from AI?
What Discernment Skills Should We Develop to Make Sure We’re Getting Wise Answers from AI?
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April 3, 2025
Questions about what discernment skills we should develop to make sure we’re getting wise answers from AI, and how to overcome confirmation bias when
Does “Repent from Your Sin and Believe” Describe a Works Salvation?
Does “Repent from Your Sin and Believe” Describe a Works Salvation?
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March 6, 2025
Questions about whether “repent from your sin and believe” describes a works salvation and Greg’s stance on the idea of “easy beliefism”—i.e., the ide
Should We Not Say Anything Against Voodoo?
Should We Not Say Anything Against Voodoo?
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March 27, 2025
Questions about how to respond to someone who thinks we shouldn’t say anything against Voodoo since it’s “just their culture” and arguments to refute
How Should I Respond to the Phrase “Just Follow the Science”?
How Should I Respond to the Phrase “Just Follow the Science”?
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March 31, 2025
Questions about how to respond when someone says, “Just follow the science,” and whether or not it’s a good tactic to cite evolutionists’ lack of a go
Can You Really Say Evil Is Just a Privation of Good?
Can You Really Say Evil Is Just a Privation of Good?
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April 21, 2025
Questions about whether one can legitimately say evil is a privation of good, how the Bible can say sin and death entered the world at the fall if ang
Licona vs. Shapiro: Is Belief in the Resurrection Justified?
Licona vs. Shapiro: Is Belief in the Resurrection Justified?
Risen Jesus
April 30, 2025
In this episode, Dr. Mike Licona and Dr. Lawrence Shapiro debate the justifiability of believing Jesus was raised from the dead. Dr. Shapiro appeals t
How Do You Know You Have the Right Bible?
How Do You Know You Have the Right Bible?
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April 14, 2025
Questions about the Catholic Bible versus the Protestant Bible, whether or not the original New Testament manuscripts exist somewhere and how we would