Deuteronomy
31:12 – Assemble the people—men,
women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can
listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the
words of this law.
Deuteronomy 4:10 – Remember the day
you stood before the Lord your
God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before
me to hear my words so that they may learn to
revere me as long as they live in the land and
may teach them to their children.”
Haggai 1:12 – Then Zerubbabel son
of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of
the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the
prophet Haggai, because the Lord their
God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord.
Malachi 3:16 – Then those who
feared the Lord talked
with each other, and the Lord listened
and heard. A scroll of
remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.
Genesis 20:11 – Abraham replied,
“I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in
this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
Application:
- · The divine call to Israel to remember the Lord’s past redemptive acts—especially how He delivered them from slavery in Egypt—is a common theme in Deuteronomy and is summarized: “Remember the days of old”.
- · Fear the Lord means showing reverence, respect and obedience.
- · “Those who feared the Lord” were those who had not given way to doubts and cynicism.
- · Fear of God was a conventional phrase equivalent to “true religion”. “Fear” in this phrase has the sense of reverential trust in God and commitment to His revealed will.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
No comments:
Post a Comment