Comments on: Quotes to Note 3: Luther’s Fear of God

By: paaz

paaz — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:14:01 +0000

i want to read about god story.

By: fundyreformed

fundyreformed — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:34:51 +0000

Amen!

By: De

De — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:25:11 +0000

This idea/feeling Martin Luther addresses,Well, I thank God for bringing me into a wonderful church family now {EastHills Church – Oroville CA} where they strive to please God [Hebrews 11:6] and where I have begun a RE-Awakening in my soul. Well, not me, Almighty God has.
I have been brought to this new level lately through His mighty Hand holding me, where the Apostle Paul speaks of having this strong desire for those he has been teaching to come closer to God, to leave sin behind. I have felt that {literally} so strongly I have been brought below my knees in prayer for those lost in my life who my LORD has put in my path to pray for, to speak to.
AND – wonderfully- He has taken me further and further from wordly/ fleshly desires to an all consuming need for HIM in my life, by first stirring the need for His Holy WORD. The power of feeling the absulute miserably dreadful fear and lothing for ones own part in nailing our Savior to the cross can take your breath away.
But with my own pitiful faith & praise-giving, I thank my Holy Father for sending My Savior Jesus Christ, giving Himself as the sacrifice for my selfishness and lowliness, by Grace and, after overcoming death itself, sending His Power , our Comforter, Counselor, to reside in my body drawing me closer to Him day by day.
~De

By: Pitchford

Pitchford — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:49:42 +0000

That quote struck me, as well, when I read that book some years back. How inexcusable it is for so many evangelicals to have such a flippancy when discussing divine things! Luther’s later insistence that the Law had to break down before the Gospel could truly heal is related to this idea, I think. How many of us in so called “Evangelicalism” like to retain a “gospel” that will assure us of a place in heaven, but will not infringe upon our pursuit of worldly lusts and securities? The fear of God is very lacking these days, I’m afraid.