Bow Down! | Episode 178

In this episode, the guys discuss the place where wisdom begins, with the fear of the LORD. What is it? Why should we do it? How can we get started?

Fear of the Lord Proverbs | Proverbs 1:7 | Proverbs 9:10 | what is the fear of the Lord | Presidents Cup picks | Trust in the Lord with all your heart | Proverbs 3:5-6 | Bible Caddie Wise Up Series

Topics in this episode:

- Congrats to David Ford on getting married to his bride Hailey!

- Presidents Cup picks and the hardest guys to leave off

- Mailbag: ball striking when your shadow is out in front of you, going all in on golf at a young age, and how professional golfers stay faithful to a local church

- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction (Proverbs 1:7)

- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight (Proverbs 9:10)

- To fear God is to know God. To begin to know Him as He really is. To receive Him as He really is. To respond to God as He really is.

- You can have an MBA from Harvard, a Theoretical Physics degree from Cambridge, a Law degree from Oxford, or be a Rocket Scientist from MIT, but if you do not fear the God of the Bible, you cannot be truly wise.

- The most important thing about you is what you think when you think about God (AW Tozer)

- The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us (AW Tozer)

- Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God (Exodus 3:6)

- Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips (Isaiah 6:5)

- To fear God is to love God as God (Joel Beeke)

- The fear of God is what is left of the storm when you have a safe place to watch right in the middle of it (John Piper)

- The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens (Proverbs 3:19)

- The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever he will (Proverbs 21:1)

- If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared (Psalm 130:3-4)

- Tis grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved (Amazing Grace, John Newton)

- Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6)

- The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil (Proverbs 8:13)

- Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord (Proverbs 14:2)

- And this is eternal life, that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent (John 17:3)

- Recommended reading: Knowing God by JI Packer, The Holiness of God by RC Sproul, Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves

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