Awe and right respect for divinity are topics, today. Also, there is more on “the Alpha and Omega” as a holy name and title for Jesus. Readers now see a verse or passage out of the Scriptures appearing in italic type as a conclusion to each blog. This signifies my personal “bottom line,” and signature to what appears above as genuine bible-based belief and understanding. A writer at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Mr. Acyut” (Level 3 with 1,069 points, a member since June 07, 2012) posted the following originally asked on Yahoo Answers India:
What's the relation between Fear & God ?
THE BATTLE AXE: Alpha and Omega (12/29/2013)—(4.) Many mistakenly take this title “the beginning and the end” as a statement regarding the Savior’s immortality and divine authority over mortal life and death. More correctly, believers are directed to the death of Jesus upon the cross, his burial, resurrection and ascension as one-time, sacred events. Many other of the divine operations for the redemption and salvation of mankind are continuous, ongoing and eternal. This allows us to say, many workings of GOD are without beginning, and without end. Included are divine love, judgment, prayer, praise, and sanctification. Language in the Scriptures that describe Christ as the “beginning and the end” when applied to the law, refers to his primacy and exalted place over all as well as his fulfillment of the divine goals, objectives and purposes of the law, not to any annulment, destruction, or termination of the law. Consider again Romans 10: 1-4, Romans 14: 8-9 and 1st Thessalonians 3: 12-13, King James Version.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12: 22-29, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: A Need to Fear? (12/02/2012); On Seeing Jesus Serve The Poor (12/03/2012); The Fear of GOD (10/30/2012); Saved in Childbearing? (10/31/2012); Why Courage? (10/14/2012); Christian Modesty (10/15/2012)
“Mr. Acyut”, here are a few points to consider that are usually helpful to Christian believers:
(1.) To have or know “fear of the Lord” is to experience the awesome majesty and power of GOD, and to have a correct awareness that divinity cannot be bound or limited by the strength and will of created beings and living creatures. Thus, fear of the Lord appears as humility, loving obedience, right respect, and reverence.
(2.) Given that the correct way for guilty sinners to approach judgment is with humility, and a balanced response to the workings of law and justice, fear of the Lord also should appear. Hope for acquittal, correction, discovery of hidden and missing truth, dismissal of charges, mercy in punishment, resolution of all conflict, and righteousness throughout the entire process and in the final determinations also may appear; and make it that fear of destruction and harsh sentencing is removed and softened—even to the point of accepting a verdict against oneself, and acknowledging the justice of the outcome.
There is far more to be said, properly shared, and spiritually understood. (For example, (3.) Believers in Jesus Christ are trusting that the awesome GOD, who has established all life and the material universe, continues to reign and rule over the processes of final judgment of mankind through Jesus, as Son of the Highest. Thereby, judgment is a display and a revealing of GOD, particularly, divine love and sovereign righteousness. All intimidation is put aside in the lowliness of Jesus, in that he has endured and suffered as one in flesh, even, unjust imprisonment, scourging, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Grow in grace.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; (2nd Timothy 1: 7-8, KJV)
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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