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not fear at all? Didn’t they have reverence enough for God to produce the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom?
    ■    When they turned from sin, how did they “flee from the wrath to come” without fear?
    ■    If they were “moved by the love of God” seen in the cross, did they not fear at the extreme to which God went to redeem them because of their sin?
    As Christians, have they yet come to a point of fearing God? What do they think when they read that God killed a husband and wife because they broke the Ninth Commandment (Acts 5:1-10)? Do they conclude that the psalmist was misguided when he wrote, “My flesh trembles for fear of You , and I am afraid of Your judgments” (Psalm 119:120)? Have they obeyed the command of Jesus: “I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast in-to hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!” (Luke 12:5)? Psalm 2:11 commands, “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” The early Church did just that; they walked “in the fear of the Lord” (Acts 9:31). Do they have Paul’s motive for seeking the lost: “Knowing, there-fore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men” (2 Corinthians 5:11)?
    Scripture makes it very clear what it is that causes men to flee from sin. It’s the “fear of the Lord” (Proverbs 16:6). Understandably, Maxwell’s conclusion was not a concern that so many had fled to Christ in fear, but that some hadn’t. When F. B. Meyer questioned four hundred Christian workers about why they came to Christ, “an over-whelming number testified that it was because of some message or influence of the terror of the Lord.” The famous Bible teacher then said, “Oh, this is more than interesting and astonishing, especially in these days when we are rebuked often for not preaching more of the love of God!” R. C. Sproul said, “Jesus doesn’t save us to God. He saves us from God.” He also stated, “There’s probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modem America than the idea of divine wrath.”
    “The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for millions . ”
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    As I was waiting to witness to a couple, I couldn’t help but hear some of the filthy language a young lady was using to describe a situation that displeased her. When I found a gap in the conversation, I gave them a couple of our tracts, along with two pennies with the Ten Commandments pressed into them, and swung the convex sation to the Law. The young lady with the dirty mouth claimed she was a Christian, but when I said that I had heard her language and that something wasn’t right, she admitted she was a “backslider.” She was very well versed in the knowledge of the way of salvation, but she was adamant that one should not come to Christ be-cause of the fear of “Judgment Day, hell, or the wrath of God.” She said that we should come to Christ because of God’s love, expressed in the cross.
    It was obvious by her sinful lifestyle that she had mere head knowledge of God’s love. She didn’t consider it a love worthy of her attention. When I told her, “Jesus said, ‘ Don’t fear him who has power to kill your body, and afterward can do no more. But fear Him who has power to kill the body and cast your soul into hell; fear Him, ’ then she said, “I think that you were sent to me today.”
    A. W. Tozer wrote in The Knowledge of the Holy:
    God’s justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws every day nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded . As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.
    A close friend of mine told me that as a professing Christian he