Moraine Valley Church

                               Fearing God Various passages   August 7, 2022    Introduction: I do not know about you but when I hear the phrase “the fear of the Lord” I often take a pause in my heart and mind because it seems so vague way up there in the sky and so spiritual  Since the fear of God is the key application to the book of Ecclesiastes, we need to understand what it means to bring it down to earth and get the arms of our minds around it so this book can transform our lives!  Let’s look at it in Ecclesiastes: Turn to Ecclesiastes 12:13 where we see the conclusion to this whole book.  Read v13  We already saw this is the essence of the meaning of life Turn to 3:14 where we learned two weeks ago, that God is in control of everything and that everything he does is all a part of his eternal and beautiful plan and that everything he does is perfect and permanent.   Then he says this, read v14   So that …….   fear him Some people will say “wait a minute is that not an Old Testament concept that now