Oct 14
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THEY FEAR BECAUSE GOD IS IN US
Psalm 14: 5: There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Have you noticed the closer this world comes to the Day of Judgment the more fearful the unregenerate world becomes? They are fearful we will run out of water, fearful of climate change, fearful of guns, fearful of terrorists. Their fear is of things. One of the false doctrines of our day is separatism—the teaching that good and evil is in things rather than in the sinner’s own heart. So with all man’s might he is trying to avoid some things and save other things. He is full of fear. But most of all, God says they are “in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.”
God is in his people. He has made us righteous. Through the Holy Spirit, Christ our God abides within each believer and Christ is in his church. (Jn 6:56; 17:23; Gal 2:20; Rev 1:13;Phil 1:6; 2:13) Therefore our fear is of God himself. Believers are not fearful of things, nor of things the unregenerate are fearful of, not even of the ungodly themselves. By this the reprobate is reminded he is an enemy of God, “which is to them, an evident token of perdition.” (Phil 1:28) The Holy Spirit exhorts us “If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.” (1 Pet 4: 14) We have no reason to even fear their anger toward us. When they feared in Moses day it was for this reason, “Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.” (Ex 15: 16) Everything—good and evil—God is working together “for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” (Rom 8: 28) “What can we say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?” (Rom 8: 29-31) Clay Curtis.