ENDANGER MY HEAD

Daniel requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he not be required to eat of the king’s rich food, which was definitely not kosher. His overseer was afraid that Daniel and his friends would look less healthy than the others due to the insufficient diet. He was afraid, as he said, of losing his head: Daniel1:10.
In this same verse the prince of the eunuchs says: “I fear my lord the king”. It’s interesting that this same Hebrew word for fear (YAWRAY) is used in connection with the believer’s fear in God, which Daniel had. His fear of God was greater than his fear of the might of Babylon. In Malachi 4:2 we read: “But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings”, and in Psalm 115:13: “He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great”.
We find the same thing true in the New Testament. In Luke 12:4 and 5 we are told not to fear those who can only kill the body, but to fear Him who “after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell”. The word fear is the same in both. It is the Greek word PHOBEO.
The teaching common today in evangelical circles is that the word fear really means something else like reverence, awe, high regard, etc. It’s greatly watered down. We are also told that the unbeliever is afraid of God even though the Bible states clearly of the unbeliever that “there is no fear of God before their eyes”: Romans 3:18..
This is the result of the relativistic age in which we live. In 1991, a letter written by James Dobson quotes from a survey taken by researcher George Barna : In the survey, interviewees were asked: “Do you agree strongly with the following statement: There is no such thing as absolute truth”. Only 28% of the respondents expressed strong belief in “absolute truth” and more surprisingly only 23% of evangelical Christians accepted this idea.
If there is no absolute truth then by definition nothing can be said to be absolutely true. To the majority, it’s all relative. Nothing is certain. Might be, might not be. Who knows for sure? Take your guess and hope for the best. Once you have done away with the belief in absolute truth you have lost the fear of God. It is absolutely true that someday I will stand before God to give account of all I have done. Whether or not I believe this will never alter the fact, but it removes the fear of God. The fear of God is a very healthy thing. Satan is using evangelical preachers to remove it.