"There Is No Fear Of GOD Before Their Eyes!"

Why is it?

(Arthur Pink, "Fearing GOD in HIS Sovereign Majesty")

"An oracle is within my heart concerning 
the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no
 fear of GOD before his eyes!" Psalm 36:1

Why is it that, today, the masses are so 

utterly unconcerned about spiritual and 

eternal things, and that they are lovers 

of pleasure more than lovers of GOD?

Why is it that defiance of GOD 
is becoming more open, more blatant, 
more daring?

Why is it that even among those who 
profess to be the LORD'S people, that 
there is so little real subjection to HIS 
Word, and that its precepts are so lightly 
esteemed and so readily set aside?

The answer is, because 

"There is no fear of GOD before 
their eyes!" Romans 3:18

Ah! what needs to be stressed today--

is that GOD is a GOD to be feared! 

Happy is the person who has been 

awed by a view of GOD'S majesty, 

who has had a vision of . . .

  GOD'S unutterable greatness,
  HIS ineffable holiness,
  HIS perfect righteousness,
  HIS irresistible power,
  HIS sovereign grace!

Time was, when it was the general 

custom to speak of a believer as 

"a GOD-fearing man". 

That such an appellation has become 

extinct, only serves to show where 

we have drifted. Nevertheless, it still 

stands written, 

"Like as a father pities His children, 
so the LORD pities those who fear HIM!" 
Psalm 103:13

When we speak of godly fear, of course, 
we do not mean a servile fear, such as 
prevails among the heathen in connection 
with their gods. No! 

We mean that spirit which JEHOVAH 
is pledged to bless, that spirit to which 
the prophet referred when he said, 

"To this man will I look--
even to him who is poor and 
of a contrite spirit, and trembles 
at MY Word." Isaiah 66:2
Nothing will foster this godly fear, 
like a recognition of the sovereign 
majesty of GOD!

"I tell you, MY friends, do not be afraid 
of those who kill the body and after that 
can do no more. But I will show you 
whom you should fear: Fear HIM who, 
after the killing of the body, has power 
to throw you into Hell. Yes, I tell you--
this is the ONE to fear!" Luke 12:4-5

"Our GOD is a consuming fire!" 
 Hebrews 12:29

"It is a terrifying thing to fall into 
the hands of the living GOD!" 
Hebrews 10:31

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