{"id":10038,"date":"2026-01-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:00:39","slug":"how-know-fear-god-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/how-know-fear-god-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we know if we have the fear of God in our lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"Hello Friends!\r\nMay this day be full of great victories and breakthrough in your life in Jesus Name!\r\n\r\nAs you know every blessings or valuable things carries with it a price tag. Victories, success and breakthroughs are no exception. One of the prices for divine fulfilment is the fear of God. We have been talking about that for some times now, and today I want us to answer this question: How do we know if we have this fear of God in our lives?\r\nThe first way to know this is to understand that the fear of God expresses itself in a hatred of evil.\r\n
\r\n“To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech”\u00a0(Prov. 8:13)<\/h6>\r\n(see also Prov. 3:7; 14:16; 16:6; 23:17; Job. 1:1,8; ; II Cor. 7:1).\r\nThis is just the opposite of the wicked (Eccl. 8:13-“Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow”). (see also Prov. 1:29; Ps. 36:1-4. ).\r\n\r\nFearing God means we hate the wrong things that by nature we want to do.\u00a0<\/strong>People can have four levels of hatred toward sin. Not all of these levels demonstrate the presence of the fear of God. That is why we need to go through all four levels so that you can define for yourself what level you are.\r\n\r\nLevel one:<\/strong>\u00a0This is a person who doesn\u2019t sin because the consequences are too great. A person may lust after another, but doesn\u2019t commit the act because of the possible results-i.e., pregnancy, jail, sexually transmitted disease, addiction, etc. There\u2019s no fear of God, just a fear of the consequences.\r\n\r\nLevel two<\/strong>: These people live at the level of the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” They do good deeds for others, but have little hatred of sin-such as selfishness.\r\n\r\nLevel three:<\/strong>\u00a0People who live at this level are sincere Christians who don\u2019t want to sin. They are sensitive to sin, and confess quickly when it is committed. They feel badly when they keep confessing the same sins, but often find they are in defeat and failure in some areas of their life.\r\n\r\nLevel four:<\/strong>\u00a0This person has faced the reason for sin, and has done something about it.\r\n\r\nDo you know that the reason we sin is because we love it and choose to do it?<\/strong>\r\nThere must be a love in our heart for that sin, which we often commit. In James 1:13-15, the Bible says:\r\n
\r\n“When tempted, no one should say, \u2019God is tempting me.\u2019 for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each on is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.”<\/h6>\r\nWe sin because we love it and then we choose to do it<\/strong>. We choose to do something we love. We don\u2019t choose to do something we hate to do, unless we are forced by an authority structure.\u00a0When we have the fear of God, however, what will be our reaction to sin?\u00a0<\/strong>We will choose not to do it, because we hate sin.\r\nPeople in level four have faced the reason for sin and have done something about it. They have done some thing to their love for sins.\u00a0If sin still has any fascination to us, we do not yet fear the Lord as we should<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nYou are three-quarters of the way through victory over temptations if you hate sin. You can have knowledge of the weapons of warfare, but they will not work if you don\u2019t hate sin.\r\n\r\nA proper response for those who fear God is a hatred for the sins they are committing-a loathing of the sins they love.\r\n\r\nTake some time today to tell God where you are with regard to your love for sin. If you have a love for certain sins, are you willing to confess that and ask God for a holy hatred for them? If you are, do that right now!\r\n\r\nRemain blessed!\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first way to know this is to understand that the fear of God expresses itself in a hatred of evil. \r\n\r\n“To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech” (Prov. 8:13) (see also Prov. 3:7; 14:16; 16:6; 23:17; Job. 1:1,8; ; II Cor. 7:1). \r\nThis is just the opposite of the wicked (Eccl. 8:13\u2014”Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow”). (see also Prov. 1:29; Ps. 36:1-4. ).","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/pexels-photo-1462641-1-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40532,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions\/40532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}