{"id":60224,"date":"2023-04-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60224"},"modified":"2023-04-27T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:00:48","slug":"fear-of-man-how-is-it-working-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60224","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Man: How Is It Working for You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Ed Welch recently released a second edition of his book <\/em>When People Are Big &amp; God Is Small.<em> It&#8217;s currently on sale for 30% off at Westminster Bookstore! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/when-people-are-big-and-god-is-small-overcoming-peer-pressure-codependency-and-the-fear-of-man-9781629958071?variant=42614154920136\">Purchase it here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For years, the book of Galatians was a mystery to me. It seemed to be much ado about the Jewish rite of circumcision, but\u2014like so much of Scripture\u2014it yields its treasures gradually. Its primary theme reaches all the way to the fear of man.<\/p>\n<p>Circumcision was a prominent way to distinguish Jew from Gentile. The Jews did it, the Gentiles did not, so the Jews were better. Dietary laws were another way to establish Jewish superiority (Gal 2:12). Together they became part of a non-gospel that Paul referred to as \u201cworks of the law.\u201d He decried these works because through them \u201cno one will be justified\u201d (2:16).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorks\u201d still seem to be far from the fear of man, but we are getting closer. Works of the law were the way people distinguished themselves before God. It was a way to achieve righteousness, even though every Jewish person ultimately knew that their existence was based on the grace of God and not on their own deeds (2:16). Yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Welch recently released a second edition of his book When People Are Big &#038; God Is Small. It\u2019s currently [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Fear of Man: How Is It Working for You? appeared first on Christian Counseling &#038; Educational Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[281],"tags":[669,872],"class_list":["post-60224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-counseling-educational-foundation-ccef","tag-blog-posts","tag-fear-of-man","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60227,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60224\/revisions\/60227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}