Your Best Year Yet // Friend with God. Fear of God. Free in God. | Jordan Smucker | 01.31.21

God is a loving Father, so why would the Bible talk about our need to fear God? In this message, Jordan tackles one of the most challenging truths of Scripture; that fear of God is necessary for real, authentic, friendship with God. We all have fears. In fact, right now is a very fearful time for us all. Too often, though, we have let fear rule our lives and stop us from taking a stand for what we know God wants us to do and what God says is true. When the Church has a true fear of God, we do not fit neatly into a category, a political party, or a tribe. However, we do find ourselves in greater unity with one another and with Jesus. Maybe the reason we have become so casual in our obedience to Jesus is because we don’t fear the Lord. If we are going to truly experience the fullness of a relationship with God, there are four things we must do that we will unpack together in this message.

“The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.”
-Psalms 25:14 (ESV)-