Whom Do You Fear? God in His Love or Wrath? Do You Fear Satan and the Power He Has To Use Death? Come To Jesus, He Will Embrace You In His Arms and Drive All of Your Fears Away! Ponder That . . . !
- Dr. Roger D Duke
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A Devotional for Thursday August 6, 2026
From the Pen of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress
Whom Shall We Fear?
“[Christ] . . . himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver all those who through of death were subject to lifelong slavery”
Hebrews 2: 14b-15.
The righteous [too are not] without their fears and that even all their life long. Through fear of death, some of them, are all their lifetime subject to bondage (Hebrews 2: 15). But as the desires of the wicked shall be frustrate[d], so shall also the fears of the godly. Hence you have them admonished, yea commanded, not to be afraid neither of devils, death, nor hell. For the fear of the righteous shall not come upon them to eternal damnation (Isaiah 35: 4, 41: 10-14, 43: 1, 44: 28; Luke 8: 50, 12:32; Revelation 1: 17).
“The desire of the righteous shall be granted.” No, they are not to fear what sin can do unto them, nor what all their sins can do unto them. I do not say they should not be afraid of sinning, nor of those temporal judgments that sin shall bring upon them. For of such things, they ought to be afraid as saith the Psalmist, “My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments” (Psalm 119: 120). But of eternal ruin, of that, they ought not to be afraid of slavish fear. “Wherefore should I fear,” said the prophet, “in the days of evil, when the iniquity . . . [on] my heels shall compass me about?” (Psalm 49: 5). And again, “Ye have done all this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the Lord; —for the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake” (1 Samuel 12: 20-22).
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