 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1831 - 428 pages
...given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind ?' Yet we are to ' serve him acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a consuming fire ?' Of several other significations given to the word fear in scripture, I will mention but one. It... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pages
...Apostle, and that too in reference to the history before us ; " Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a consuming fire .d"] 2. To submit to his dispensations — [It pleases God sometimes to try in a peculiar manner his... | |
 | 1832 - 834 pages
...remain. Wherefore we, receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a consuming fire.'' 1 The analogy between these passages and the whole of the third chapter of the second epistle of Peter,... | |
 | John Howe - 1832 - 548 pages
...heaven ; We having," says he, " received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear : For our God is a consuming fire." You have now the frame and model of this kingdom brought among you, which is never to be shaken ; you... | |
 | 1832 - 438 pages
...heaven: wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire." (Heb. xii.) " O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...to destroy both soul and body in hell," Matth. 10:28, and " let us have grace whereby wo may serve e is, lleb. 12:28,29. Upon these reasons God is resolved sin shall not pass unrevenged, lest thereby his... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 636 pages
...escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven," viz. the Saviour Jesus Christ. " Wherefore let us serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear : for our God is a consuming fire," Heb. xii, 25, 29. But though the true minister courageously announces the most severe declarations... | |
 | Derek Prince - 1996 - 68 pages
...Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. The NIV uses the word "awe." I ask myself, and I ask you: How much awe do you find in the church today?... | |
 | Emery H. Bancroft - 1977 - 406 pages
...sin: "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire" (Heb. 12:28,29 — cf. Exod. 3:4-6; Isa. 6:1-3). "The one all-inclusive aim of biblical Christianity... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1996 - 52 pages
...we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we ^ry serve God acceptable with reverence and godly fear: For OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE" (Heb. 12:29). In his work, "Back To The Sun," Charles \.Tiitby, BA, MD, wrote: "All beings proceed... | |
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. 
