Acts 9:26-31, "Walking in the Fear of the Lord" - a podcast by Benjamin Glaser

What is fear? What does it mean to be afraid? These and other questions are tackled in our sermon from yesterday morning brought from Acts 9:26-31 and Saul's introduction to the saints in Jerusalem. 

The men and women there had heard of Paul's life and works, how he had sent their spiritual family to prison, and worse. They had many preconceived notions about who He was, and that is the beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That was who he was, but was no longer. This man who was an enemy of God, had become by His amazing grace a new creature, reborn as a lover of the Word and the word. Their initial fear was in ignorance, yet the Lord in his mercy provided Barnabas to intercede on Paul's behalf and then he was received with warmth and gladness, and the spiritual goodness of their love for one another was shown in their "walking in the fear of the Lord", that is they loved the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, strength, and mind witnessing to their faith through obedience to God's law. 

One of the things we can learn from this passage is that it is good to have a healthy, and rightly understood, fear of God, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, and to humbly submit to His word, and to the works of His power, even especially the conversion of those whom may have been enemies in their former manner of life, but are now blessed brothers and sisters in Christ. 

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