African pastor, Malamuolo Chindongo explains how the fear of God brings order to our hearts, homes and in all of society. His analysis of the African context - If you don’t fear God it means you have no conscience. He describes what happens in nations when men do not fear God – men abuse one another. But, when the gospel comes, peoples lives are changed and the abuse stops. This is true in every sphere… When God if feared, men and women are endeared.

The fear of God is everything in life, in the sense that it is what brings order in society, it is what brings order in our homes, and it is what brings order in the heart of a man. There is this saying in Africa that a man who does not fear God is a beast. And that's true in life. If you don't fear God, it means you don't have a conscience. Now you have a conscience, but it's a conscience that's been seen.

So you don't fear anything. You don't fear God. You will not respect man. And I think that leads to people abusing other people and even murdering them. Just some of the dictators that Africa has seen in the last couple decades.

It has come from ideas, ungodly ideas, ungodly practices, and that has led to either murdering children, sacrificing them, ancestral worship. It has led to even those dictators killing people just because those people disagreed with them or they just didn't like them. So it's a lack of the fear of God that has led to such kind of practices. Again, if there is no in the conscious, if there is no sense of God in that conscious, which is the fear of God. It will lead to anything.

It will lead to chaos. It will lead to people abusing their power, abusing their authority. I would see the same thing in history, that places that did not have any knowledge of God, any fear of God. That's where we find, we read history, we find cannibalism, we find all kinds of abuses going on, And every time the gospel has entered those places, we've seen a change.