Albert Martin

Ingredients: Part 2a If someone were to read through his Bible with pen and paper in hand, jotting down every explicit, overt reference to the fear of God, and then seek to keep a column where passages dealt with not so much the words but the thought and illustrations of the reality of the fear […]

Ingredients: Part 1d The framers of the shorter catechism caught this concept, for in answer to the question “What is God?”, they framed the answer in this way: “God is a Spirit.” That’s His essence. Therefore, He’s boundless. He cannot be contained. Then they used three adjectives: infinite, eternal, and unchangeable. And He’s those three

Ingredients: Part 1c When that recognition dawned upon him–“I’m in the presence of deity”–what was his reaction? To fall at His feet overcome with a sense of reverential awe and dread that made him blurt out, “Depart from me, Lord. It’s not fit that You and I should be in such close proximity.” And yet

Ingredients: Part 1b And he goes on to say, “I will deliver My people.” And Moses enters into conversation with God beginning with verse 13. Now get the picture, here Moses is out tending sheep–try to relive the situation–and all of the sudden as perhaps he’s just looking over his flock to make sure they’re

Ingredients: Part 1a “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7). That which is the chief part of knowledge, then, must be the concern of everyone who has any interest in true knowledge. So for the past few Lord’s Day mornings, we’ve been considering that

Definition – 4 David mentions that in other places. But here, as he’s contemplating the judgments of God and what it would be to have this God whom he knows by divine revelation, this God whom he has come to see and love in all the magnitude and glory of His holiness and omnipotence–and he

Definition – 3 But a second question, I trust, arises in your mind, and it is this: what lies at the basis of this dread and fear? Let me state it negatively. It is not a work of God’s grace. This fear is known by unconverted people. This fear and dread is rooted in things

Definition – 2 So then, let us move to first consider the first aspect of the meaning of the fear of God as found in Scripture: the fear of dread, of terror, and a fear that leads to anguish. The first instance of this fear is Genesis 3:10. The first recorded instance of any fear

Definition – 1 “The fear of God is the soul of Godliness.” And yet, as we commented last Lord’s Day morning, it is obvious to any observing person that this pervasive and dominant theme of Holy Scripture has well nigh been lost to our own generation. Now, this morning we begin to come to the

Introduction – 4 Well, look at Ephesians 5:21 and then Colossians 3:22. Ephesians 5:21 introduces the climate of the home: husband-wife relationship, parent-child relationship. And notice what the Apostle says in introducing that subject: “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” All of these injunctions concerning the nitty gritty of practical Godliness