Al Martin

Ingredients: Part 2c May I use one more illustration? I’ve labored at trying to make this concept clear. Suppose we went down to the local library, and we were going to find out all the facts we could find out about the Grand Canyon. I’ve talked with some people who have been to the Grand […]

Ingredients: Part 2b And then the third thing: the most profound experience is the recognition that God is here. The most profound word: God. The most profound fact: God is. The most profound transforming experience: God is here. And that’s what I’m driving at. It’s interesting–and I want to support this now from Scripture–that in

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