Everything flows from our understanding of God. Clarence Simmons, calls this our "crowning problem," and he contends that we have to start with who God really is, if we ever hope to have a proper fear of God. For there can be no appropriate fear of God without a true knowledge of God. In order to reap the blessings from the fear of God, you must know the true God, not the god of your own invention. Yes, God is a "friend," but that's not all He is. Clarence recommends that we read Chapel Library's offerings by AW Pink on the Attributes of God and the "Sovereignty of God."

The crowning problem I think in our day is we don't know who God is. And since we don't know who God is, we have to start with who God is. Arthur Pink has a great book that we published called attributes of God. It Traces out 19 attributes, qualities, perfections of God. And I think that's a great place to start because once you get a view of who God is then you will have some sense of fear but if we don't know who God is the fear of God will not be there will not be there.

If God is just simply our buddy there will be no fear of God. If God is simply just a friend and he is a friend of sinners in Jesus Christ but if he's just simply a friend there will be no fear of God and so if we treat God like us there will be no fear of God At all so I think of Arthur Pink's book this the attributes of God Also, he has another one the sovereignty of God that God rules over Everything you know he's not like our president We don't vote him in and vote him out And so once we get a view of God, who He is, and He's in control, and He's ruling the world that He made, then we can have this sense of the fear of God. You