1. Taking the Name God December 15, 2002

2. Leviticus 19:14 Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.

3. Deuteronomy 6:13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.

4. Joshua 4:24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God."

5. Psalm 34:9 Fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing.

6. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

7. Malachi 3:5 “So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, …but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.

8. Zechariah 8:15 So now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.

9. Luke 1:74 …to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear…

10. John 12:15 Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt.

11. Luke 2:10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.”

12. Isaiah 57:11 "Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?”

13. Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

14. 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.