The Fear of God and Eternity

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Will the redeemed fear God in heaven? Scripture surprisingly says yes. Yet this is news of unparalleled joy. Today, Michael Reeves explains that to quake with wonder at the grace of God is to taste heaven now.

Request Michael Reeves’ teaching series The Fear of the Lord on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide, with your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3910/donate

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

Michael Reeves is president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He is the featured teacher for the Ligonier teaching series The English Reformation and the Puritans. He is author of many books, including The Unquenchable Flame, Delighting in the Trinity, and Rejoice and Tremble.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Nathan W. Bingham, and before we get to today's episode, I wanted to encourage you to download the free Ligonier app if you haven't already.
0:09.4	You can easily get the app by searching for Liganeer in your app store of choice or by visiting Liganeer.org slash app.
0:17.9	As a renewing your mind listener, you know that most days our resource offer has a digital
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0:51.3	Ligonier in your app store and make the Ligoneer app something that you use every day.
0:57.0	Now on to today's episode.
1:00.0	Jonathan Edwards said saints there in heaven will be like a flame of fire with love.
1:06.7	Yes, where hell is the dreadful sewer of all sinful fears,
1:12.6	heaven is the paradise of unconfined, maximal, delighted filial fear.
1:22.2	And right now, heaven is the home of this happy fear.
1:31.6	Music Heaven is the home of this happy fear. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
1:35.2	and we've learned all week there is a right kind of fear of God
1:38.6	that the Christian is to have in this life.
1:41.0	But will this fear be a part of eternity?
1:43.8	Will it be in heaven? You're listening to
1:47.0	renewing your mind, and this week Michael Reeves, the president and professor of theology at
1:52.5	Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom, has been our teacher. Until midnight tonight,
1:58.8	you can request Dr. Reeves' complete series, The Fear of the Lord,
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