{"id":351385,"date":"2026-05-06T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=351385"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:57:19","slug":"fear-of-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/fear-of-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nMan fears many things in this world (violence, disease, death, the future, poverty, and people\u2019s opinions), but the Creator of all things, who has the power and authority to rebuke and bless, is disregarded. People have no fear of God and even blame Him for the evil that befalls them. However, God patiently awaits the day when they will hear His voice and heed Him, repentant, asking for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28) &nbsp; Man fears many things in this world (violence, disease, death, the future, poverty, and people\u2019s opinions), but the Creator of all things, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":351387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[6126,6223,6224],"site":[],"class_list":["post-351385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women","tag-bible","tag-meditation","tag-the-word-of-god"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351386,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351385\/revisions\/351386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351385"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=351385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}