Genesis 2:15-17
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
Some have proposed that holy living is not required of saved christians. Fear of God is no longer required as just goes to show how one is not saved as his/hers' guilt is not cleansed. What rubbish! Read carefully in Genesis 2:15-17 in an era before the fall. In a 'perfect' relationship with God, the fear of God is put in place in the relationship. It is to safeguard the very relationship that God intended for Adam and Eve. Notice the negative connotation in v 17 "but you must not eat", it goes to show that God does intend for the fear of God (a wrathful one, not just the respectable one) to exist in a healthy and safe state situation. The redeemed are saved just so as to sin as one wishes (that would be an outright abuse of God's grace- something a church like New Creation likes to preach about), but we are saved so as to be free from sin and to be empowered not to sin. A healthy dose of the fear of God would certainly help. It humbles us as we lean on God for our sanctification. We do not end up in 'high places'(or in places where we presume to be in place of God) as we seek to 'work out our salvation with fear and trembling"
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