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Hey everybody, this is Pastor 
John Ewart from Inglewood 

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Baptist Church here in Rocky 
Mountain, North Carolina. 

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Thank you for tuning in to the 
podcast today. 

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Today we're going to continue in
our series called Help Searching

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for God's peace with him, with 
one another, and with ourselves.

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Listen closely to what God has 
to say to you today. 

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Good to see everybody here 
tonight appreciate you being 

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here live with us and those of 
you who are listening to this as

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a podcast. 
Thank you so much for tuning in 

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to this episode. 
I hope that you'll go back and 

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listen to the other episodes if 
you happen to miss those. 

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And we're going to study God's 
Word tonight. 

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Appreciate so much those of you 
who have been praying for us as 

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we've been moving and we've made
an initial load over to the 

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temporary place we're going to 
live, which we appreciate, on 

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the Manning farm out there near 
MO Meyer. 

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Here's what's going to happen 
next. 

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We're going to be out of our 
house in Roseville by Monday. 

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We have no choice at that point.
We'll be in violation of 

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contract. 
So Teresa will be cleaning the 

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house on Monday. 
Some of you have expressed 

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interest in helping Teresa to 
clean the house, the final 

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cleanup. 
If you're interested in that, 

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contact Michelle in the office. 
She'll actually line you up and 

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help you understand how we might
do that. 

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So I appreciate those who are 
willing to do that. 

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Appreciate the men who came over
yesterday and helped us or 

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didn't help us. 
Did everything. 

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I stood and watched them. 
It was great. 

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I was too busy banging my head 
on cabinets. 

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I'm thankful that I got a little
sun. 

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If not you would see a a real 
red mark right here. 

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I walked flat out full speed 
into a cabinet door that was 

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wide open and I thought I can 
cuss myself so I may teach 

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better tonight than I ever have.
Then I was out earlier and got 

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hell. 
Hell come down beating off my 

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bald head. 
So maybe God's trying to teach 

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me something. 
Appreciate you. 

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So take your Bibles and turn to 
second Timothy while I, I catch 

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up to you. 
You have a listening guide. 

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Those of you listening online 
can download that. 

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Thank you for listening. 
This series is going to continue

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for a few more weeks. 
We appreciate that. 

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You know, most of us, you know, 
we, we're driving on 64 all the 

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time. 
You've heard me bemoan the 

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construction on 64 a little bit.
I appreciate the the workers who

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are working. 
My son actually sells asphalt, 

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so I should be happy they're 
they're doing things. 

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So my son is a regional manager 
of asphalt sales. 

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Now. 
I never thought I needed to know

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about asphalt, but I've learned 
more about asphalt. 

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And most of the time when you're
getting on the highway, you know

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how it is when the, you know, 
people coming in those on ramps,

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you know, they're just coming 
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You know, I remember a day when 
they used to yield, but now they

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don't do that, do they, this 
kind of full speed and you're 

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kind of expected to yield for 
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You know what I'm talking about?
And you know, as they come, 

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you're, you're, you're doing 79 
or so, you know, and they're 

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doing 85, you know what I'm 
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Or something? 
Well, one day there was a driver

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and, and, and they come to that 
on ramp and they, and they, they

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get scared and they just stop 
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And of course the people behind 
them are just honking on the 

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horns and honking on the horns 
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How come you're not going? 
And finally, 1 driver rose the 

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window down and says the sign 
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You know, that's kind of like 
this series we're talking about 

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how to yield to God's help, but 
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We are people who need help, all
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I'm very thankful, as I say in 
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that very thankful for Christian
counselors. 

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I'm thankful for recovering 
ministries and ministries like 

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that in our church for the 
people who help one another. 

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And you might need that extra 
support of network because you 

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might be dealing with something 
very intense. 

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Perhaps you need help from 
medical experts or even law 

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enforcement. 
And I say that every week on 

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purpose because we deal with 
those situations sometimes where

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people need in cases of abuse, 
they need, they need extra help,

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they need that network of 
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And so we all though, because 
regardless of where we are in 

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life, we all need help. 
We're all seeking, we're all 

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seeking peace with God, peace 
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others. 
We seek Shalom. 

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We seek that completeness, that 
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And so we recognize that long 
term health and long term wisdom

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that we need on this journey 
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God's will. 
So regardless of where else you 

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are and what else is going on in
your life, we all need, we all 

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need God's word. 
We all need God's will to guide 

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us. 
So that's what we're going to do

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tonight. 
So, so I, I have a lot of 

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anticipation and excitement 
about what, what, what God's 

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going to do and continue to do 
at Inglewood. 

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I was very thankful on Sunday. 
And, and I'm not a scoreboard 

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person. 
In other words, I'm not living 

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by the numbers. 
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But I am thankful we had over 
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Sunday and just thankful for 
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Just praise God for that. 
We're going to baptize again 

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Sunday and just thankful for 
what he's doing in people's 

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lives. 
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Wednesday nights, I'm just a bit
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Thank you for being here. 
We're very thankful. 

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And those of you who are 
listening, I'm here and getting 

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a lot of feedback from people 
listening to the podcast and we 

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appreciate you doing that very 
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We're going to produce more 
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people can listen. 
And so when we recognize that we

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all need this, so, so, so we 
have excitement about the next 

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chapter, but we also need help 
as we walk together through 

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God's word and to find that 
Shalom. 

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So tonight we're going to talk 
about an issue that is a common 

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issue in my world of evangelism.
As a professor who teaches 

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evangelism, fear is always the 
number one reason people don't 

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share their faith. 
But there's a lot of fears out 

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there. 
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talk about evangelism tonight by
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We're going to talk about fear 
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But fear is an enemy of peace, 
and you've got to recognize it 

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now. 
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One of the most basic instincts,
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And so we fear things. 
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fear things. 
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deal with a lot of fear on this 
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And and so there's a negative 
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misguide us, where there's also 
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we'll talk about for a moment. 
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from being who God desires us to
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And so in fact, if you'll pay 
attention to the Bible, the idea

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of fear not is found 189 times 
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that many times, depending upon 
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many times. 
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the Bible has some version of 
fear, not the unhealthy fears 

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that you should have. 
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problem. 
God knew that we would struggle 

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at times with different fears in
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And so there was a popular 
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looking at. 
It had 368 different phobias. 

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So let me list 300 of them. 
Here's let me list just a few. 

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You'll know some of these. 
You won't know some of them 

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probably, or maybe you will. 
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One Arachnophobia, you know that
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What's that a fear of? 
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There's Avia, aviophobia, Avio. 
Fear of you think birds? 

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That'd be a great guess. 
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That's right. 
Birds might fall into that 

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category too, because some of 
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little reptiles. 
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You know, claustrophobia, one of
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you're you're scared to sit by 
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That's good. 
There's actually a dentophobia. 

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Guess what that's a fear of. 
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don't do that. 
So your teeth rot out and you 

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have trouble. 
Here's a here's a couple of 

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them. 
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One of them is and I got to read
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Pintherophobia. 
Pintherophobia. 

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Pintherophobia. 
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That's a fear of mother in 
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Anybody have a testimony? 
Got testimonies out there that 

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he get an Amen. 
I get any look into how 

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Hallelujah. 
I have a wonderful 

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mother-in-law, by the way. 
She's taught me how to love as 

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much as anybody has. 
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Venus straphobia. 
Venus straphobia. 

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That's the fear of beautiful 
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See. 
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scares me to death. 
See what I did there? 

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Thank you all. 
Good night, everybody. 

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Thank you. 
Thank you very much. 

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Thank you. 
And then you might get this one.

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Ecclesiophobia. 
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Think of ecclesia, fear of 
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this, but thankfully you don't. 
But there's also a healthy fear 

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in there. 
There's, there's a Basic 

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Instinct, healthy fear that that
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God. 
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the when the alarm sounds, we 
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extinguish it. 
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fire. 
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that recognize God for who he 
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supposed to have a fear of God. 
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recognizes who he is. 
We'll talk more about that a 

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little bit later, but first, the
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the negative side. 
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negative side for a while here. 
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that. 
So let's look at this, this 

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warning or encouragement that 
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in second Timothy chapter one, 
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For this reason, I remind you to
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which is in you through the 
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For God gave us a spirit, not of
what, yeah, but of power and 

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love and self-control. 
So we're going to break this 

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verse down quite a bit tonight, 
and then we're going to have 

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some other support text. 
You have them listed there on 

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the handout that you can follow 
along with. 

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So Paul's context here was 
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gifts in the in the acting out 
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That's what he's trying to 
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And I'll talk more about why he 
probably did that here in a 

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minute. 
But Timothy was struggling with 

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evangelism, struggling with 
ministry, and Paul's encouraging

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him to use his spiritual 
giftedness. 

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Now let me share a different 
translation. 

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Let me share from the Amplified 
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If you've never heard of the 
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probably have one. 
It actually will often express 

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more of what the original 
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And so it's it's difficult to 
read. 

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You wouldn't want to preach from
it, but it because it, it chops 

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language up a little bit, but 
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bit. 
So let me just read verse 7 from

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the amplified version. 
For God did not give us a spirit

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of timidity, of cowardice, of 
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fear, since the strength of it. 
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spirit of power and of love and 
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and discipline and self-control.
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meaning behind some of these 
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So there's a strong negative 
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here. 
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things from this passage. 
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is avoid a spirit of fear. 
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fear? 
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you're one of them. 
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people in my life and they live 
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They seem to be afraid of 
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They're they're worried and 
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already talked about stress. 
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little while. 
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there's, there's overlap. 
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And, and so we want to avoid 
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common, nagging, ongoing, 
paralyzing type spirit that 

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keeps us from being who God 
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So there, there's more than one 
Greek verb that's translated 

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fear in the New Testament. 
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them. 
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and some mean different types. 
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That makes sense. 
Phobos. 

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That's where we get what word? 
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Phobia. 
A lot of our English comes from 

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Greek. 
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in the New Testament. 
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And it can be either good or bad
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good or bad fear that that when 
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specific, because then verse 7, 
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used for bad. 
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positive fear. 
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what Paul's trying to 
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This is this fear or timidity, 
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It's a fearfulness. 
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fearfulness. 
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moment of fear. 
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fear. 
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life on a regular basis, you 
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in the morning for those who've 
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hitting that that manageable 
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You've crossed over and you're 
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And I know people who are scared
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They're scared of the changes in
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They're scared of growing old. 
They're scared of being young. 

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They're scared of, you know, 
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So well, you got to be careful 
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the root of this word is, is the
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It actually, it actually can 
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So I just want you to get the 
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So this isn't just I'm, you 
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That's not what we're talking 
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In fact, you should probably be 
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Ed Joyner has accused me of 
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because I have some black snakes
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grab them by the tail so I can 
move them. 

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And it doesn't like that. 
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that to the copperheads. 
You know, I pet them and snuggle

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with them, but that's tell 
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No, I do not do that. 
Don't do that. 

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Anybody's listening. 
Do not try that at home. 

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So this is a spirit of 
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It's the word also used. 
Let me read a verse John 1427. 

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Hopefully you have that 
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He says peace, I leave with you.
You know this verse peace I 

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leave with you, my peace I give 
to you not as the world gives do

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I give to you. 
Let not your hearts be troubled,

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neither let them be afraid and 
that word afraid there's the 

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same word. 
So what Jesus is saying is don't

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live in this state of fear. 
Don't live in a constant state 

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of fearfulness. 
That's not who God wants you to 

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be. 
That's not how you're supposed 

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to go through life. 
That's not the the type of 

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disciple that we want to become.
So, so we're not to live in 

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this. 
So what Paul saying to Timothy, 

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it's very clear. 
Timothy, my spiritual son, God 

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has given you the adequate power
to do your ministry. 

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He's given you the adequate 
resources to use your spiritual 

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giftedness. 
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You don't need to live in the 
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So we're not to be cowards. 
We're not to shrink back from 

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this life and our ministry 
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And we all have ministry 
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It's not just me, it's all of 
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And So what we recognize is, is 
that we need to discover who God

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wants us to be and we need to 
live out Our Calling and 

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giftedness. 
In fact, the pastors here will 

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tell you they've heard it a 
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definition of leadership, some 
of you heard it if you were here

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in the view of a call time. 
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leadership comes from a guy 
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But I paraphrase it to where 
what I want to do is I want to 

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understand my giftedness in 
calling. 

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And I want to use that to the 
best of my ability to help you 

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understand your giftedness in 
calling so that together we join

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all that together and we can 
feel God's mission together. 

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So I, I want, I want to equip 
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who you're supposed to be that 
that's called discipleship for 

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me and leadership. 
But many unfortunately, in the 

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church and outside the church 
fall prey to these false beliefs

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that lead to unhealthy fear, 
lead to Dahlia. 

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So there's several these listed 
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Let's talk about these for a 
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Here's some falsehoods that lead
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Number one, I must be loved or 
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You know, people like that. 
Anybody know somebody to where 

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every everybody's got to love 
me. 

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Everybody's got to be approved 
of me or I'm going to kill 

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myself, making sure everybody 
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the point of maybe I'm not even 
authentic anymore, you 

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understand? 
And so there's an old saying 

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that says, I used to worry about
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me. 
Then I realized they weren't 

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thinking about me at all. 
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about what other people were 
thinking about them. 

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And you can just cut cotton that
you see the trap. 

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You see the trap there. 
I, I, I certainly don't want to 

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offend people any more than I 
have to. 

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I try not to be rude or boorish,
but at the same time I'm, I'm 

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trying to, to perform for an 
audience of one, right? 

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I'm trying to approve and bless 
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And so we've got to be careful. 
We can get trapped in this 

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people pleasing mode to where we
can lose ourselves and, and not 

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be authentic #2 I must always be
perfectly competent. 

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This is an interesting thing 
that people in ministry suffer 

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from. 
I have to tell the seminary 

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children about this all the time
because it's weird for some 

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reason. 
And you all may be guilty of 

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this. 
Shame on you. 

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Shame. 
Shame, shame, shame. 

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It's weird that people think 
that the pastor ought to know 

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everything. 
It's always weird to me, you 

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know. 
Well, what does this mean? 

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I don't know. 
I don't know what that means. 

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Well, actually, why should I 
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I don't know what that means. 
Depending upon what it is. 

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But some are afraid. 
They have to be Omni competent. 

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They must always be right. 
They can never be wrong. 

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You have those people in your 
life, they know everything about

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everything, whether they know 
anything about anything. 

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And that's just quite a load to 
carry. 

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And this may sound 
disrespectful, but if you 

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understood my family, it's, it's
just a true funny thing. 

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When my mother died and she died
suddenly, it was quite a 

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dramatic experience. 
We were, I was pastoring in 

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Northern Arizona, planted, we 
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across Northern Arizona. 
And they came out to see us and 

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came to see the Grand Canyon. 
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my arms dying. 
So it's quite dramatic 

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experience. 
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oldest sister and I were talking
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preached the funeral. 
But my older sister, and this is

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kind of morbid, I shouldn't 
share. 

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Maybe I shouldn't share these 
things, but we were talking 

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about what ought to be on the 
headstone and, and, and she said

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we really should put on there 
often wrong, but never in doubt 

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because that was my mother, you 
know, and she would have been 

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proud of that, by the way. 
So that's the part that's not 

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morbid. 
She would have said, yes, that 

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would have been good for my 
tombstone. 

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And and then my sister said that
this must have been quite a load

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to carry your whole life, to 
always have to be right, you 

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know? 
And so I hope that that's not a 

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burden you're carrying, because 
there's only been one perfect, 

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one perfect person, whoever 
lived. 

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And he died on a cross, you 
know? 

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And so I try to tell people in 
ministry, some of the most 

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freeing words you can ever know 
are, I don't know, but we can 

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look for the answer together. 
We'll discover that together. 

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But I, I don't have to be 
omnicompetent. 

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I don't try to. 
I don't want to try to be that. 

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And so they're often wrong. 
But #3 it's a catastrophe when 

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things are not as I want them to
be. 

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You know, as I mentioned a few 
weeks ago there, there are those

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who believe that they should 
always get things just exactly 

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the way they want them. 
And it really throws them off 

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when that doesn't happen. 
And, and you need to hear my 

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advice a little bit. 
And let me put this to you as as

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clearly as I can. 
Grow up a little bit, Just grow 

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up a little bit, mature a little
bit. 

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Life doesn't always go the way 
you want it to. 

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And you can't be afraid. 
You can't be paralyzed because 

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this may not turn out exactly 
the way I want it to. 

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You're talking about a control 
issue that we're going to talk 

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more about in a minute. 
There's a Lordship issue going 

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on there. 
And so they, they, they need to 

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grow up a little bit #4 it's 
easier. 

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This might be one for you. 
It's easier to avoid certain 

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difficulties and 
responsibilities than to face 

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them. 
Anybody here put off the 

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conflict, put off the 
confrontation, Avoided at all 

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costs. 
I've seen a lot of heads nodding

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now, so I know I was going to 
get you before one of these was 

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over. 
You're mad at me because I was 

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mean about my Mama. 
Now you're cutting down, you're 

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nodding your head at me. 
So we're all right. 

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But listen, they carry their 
fear. 

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When you do this, you're just 
carrying your fear and you're 

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applying it to everything and 
everyone and you hold on to it. 

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Often with the problem with this
is, is people hold on to it, 

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hold on to it until they finally
explode in some emotional way, 

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either anger or just meltdowns. 
And, and it's because they 

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haven't dealt with things as 
they're going in the right way 

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#5 maybe this is you. 
My past determines my present 

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and I cannot alter the influence
of the past. 

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You know, it's interesting. 
You can't change the past, but 

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you can run a perfectly good 
present and future by fearing it

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and dwelling on it. 
Fear often. 

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And this is what Satan will do. 
He'll press your nose up against

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the future, forcing you to worry
about all the what ifs. 

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One of you posted, I don't know 
when that's one of somebody here

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who's posting that trace on on 
Facebook or something. 

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Somebody posted, you know, where
it says fear says what if? 

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And faith says, even if. 
See the difference? 

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And so fear presses your nose up
against this stuff. 

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And we can allow negative 
experiences, negative attitudes 

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from the past to absolutely 
drain us of our present and our 

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future power. 
Corey 10 Boom once said, worry 

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does not empty tomorrow of its 
sorrows. 

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It empties today of its 
strength. 

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And so fear has power. 
Now, what I'm about to say is 

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that maybe the most important 
part of the night, I've said it 

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multiple times. 
I will say this multiple more 

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times. 
So you'll go, here he goes 

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00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,080
again. 
You bet. 

454
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,520
Relevancy and redundancy are a 
key part of us remembering 

455
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,480
things. 
And one of the things that I've 

456
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,000
shared with you before, more in 
passing, is to remember that 

457
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,440
there's a reason why fear has 
power. 

458
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,200
This is this is crucial. 
This might be the deepest 

459
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,680
uridism you may ever hear. 
And that's because fear is an 

460
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:52,000
act of worship. 
Fear is an issue of relational 

461
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,560
authority. 
See, we need to be careful that 

462
00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:00,040
we don't deify our fears. 
When you fear something, you pay

463
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:01,560
homage to it. 
Think about it. 

464
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,800
When you fear something, you pay
homage to it. 

465
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,080
You you submit to its authority 
in your life. 

466
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,600
You give it power over you when 
you fear it that way. 

467
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:15,520
And if you fear anything or 
anyone more than God, you commit

468
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,400
idolatry. 
And we've got to keep this in 

469
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,120
perspective. 
I'm not talking about being 

470
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:21,880
afraid of walking out in a 
moving bus. 

471
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,520
I'm not talking about being a 
being afraid of of handling a 

472
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,360
snake. 
It was, you know, Ed doesn't 

473
00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,160
want me to do that. 
And then I'm we're putting your 

474
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,160
hand in the fire, right? 
That's that's not what we're 

475
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,600
talking. 
We're not we're talking about 

476
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,280
this attitude, the spirit of 
fearfulness, right? 

477
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,560
Be careful because what throne 
are you worshipping at that 

478
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,560
point? 
And so when we fear the wrong 

479
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,920
things and we love the wrong 
things, we're committing 

480
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,400
adultery. 
Idolatry. 

481
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,120
Not adultery. 
Idolatry. 

482
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,400
Idolatry. 
Oklahoma. 

483
00:24:54,400 --> 00:25:02,240
Sorry, idolatry. 
So number six, fear is caused by

484
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,000
outside circumstances over which
there's no control. 

485
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,800
And what we're going to see here
is we have to lift our eyes 

486
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,720
above the circumstance. 
We have to look to God. 

487
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,280
We have to trust Him. 
We're going to talk a whole lot 

488
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,760
more about that. 
God is sovereign. 

489
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,400
He's orchestrating 
circumstances. 

490
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,600
They're all within his realm, 
within his control. 

491
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,320
We got to look to Him. 
And then #7 I must dwell on 

492
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,560
fearsome things continually. 
That's this description that 

493
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,160
Paul's trying to get around, 
that you can't dwell here, You 

494
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,360
can't live here. 
So some people are certain that 

495
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,400
no matter what they do, it's 
going to turn out wrong. 

496
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,120
So they don't do anything. 
And the response is to not try 

497
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,640
anything new. 
The response is to fear change. 

498
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,960
And they become paralyzed by 
fear, and the future looks 

499
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,320
bleak. 
No matter how they slice it. 

500
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,840
There's no way out of this or 
that. 

501
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,200
Some believe they don't have 
anything to be afraid of and 

502
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,600
they need to be afraid of that. 
You know, so there's a 

503
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,840
difference between fear and this
legitimate concern. 

504
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,560
Legitimate concern produces 
constructive, positive, 

505
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,120
redemptive action. 
It saves you, it helps you. 

506
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,680
Life throws enough at us for 
which we need to be legitimately

507
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,200
concerned and and to determine 
God's will. 

508
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,120
But healthy fears is healthy 
fear produces solutions. 

509
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:22,920
It rather than paralyzing, hand 
wringing, and in fact, unhealthy

510
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,680
fear just wastes time and 
energy. 

511
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,000
One study showed this. 
This will be interesting to you.

512
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,920
Maybe one study showed this, 
that the average person's fear 

513
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:36,200
is focused in the following 
ways. 40% of the time it's about

514
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,560
things that will never happen. 
30% of the time it's about 

515
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:45,400
things in the past that can't be
changed. 12% of the time it's 

516
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,360
other people's opinions that 
can't be controlled. 10% of the 

517
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,880
time is on about personal 
health, which deteriorates the 

518
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,680
more you fear. 8% is about real 
problems that you're soon going 

519
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:02,240
to face. 
So 92% of the fear that most 

520
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,800
people experience are about 
things you can't control. 

521
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,280
We've got to recognize what a 
waste of time. 

522
00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:14,000
There's an old Scottish proverb 
that says what may be, may not 

523
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,800
be. 
And so we sometimes fear about 

524
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,200
what ifs, what could happen. 
And so because of this ever 

525
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,320
present fearful emotion, a 
person can run, constantly run 

526
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,400
over in their mind all the 
possible reasons why they can't 

527
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:34,160
do what God wants them to do. 
They constantly rationalize that

528
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,840
lack of action as well and and 
they imagine all these what ifs.

529
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,760
So this cloud of pessimism hangs
over their heads and a constant 

530
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,360
fear of the worst case scenario.
And so it's the epitome of a, of

531
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,400
a self defeating cycle and 
outlook that creates this 

532
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,400
unending, cannibalizing cycle in
your life. 

533
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,400
And you become a person that 
frankly, nobody else wants to be

534
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,560
around because of your 
paralysis. 

535
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,520
And so unresolved negative fear 
can lead to major problems. 

536
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,080
It can also be physical 
problems, obviously 

537
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,120
sleeplessness, tension, chest 
pain, increased blood pressure, 

538
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,520
you name it. 
A spirit of fearfulness is not 

539
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,720
good for you. 
Spirit of fearfulness bad, 

540
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,360
right? 
But I don't know about you. 

541
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,200
Maybe you're in that cycle. 
You just can't get out of it. 

542
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,560
I'm always thinking about what's
going to go wrong. 

543
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,640
I'm always the person who's 
afraid of taking that step, that

544
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,880
person who lives in a spirit of 
fearfulness. 

545
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,600
Luke says this about worry. 
Really, he says of which you 

546
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,000
beat by being anxious can add a 
single hour to his span of life.

547
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,280
Same thing is true of fear. 
I don't add a single second 

548
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,400
because I'm afraid. 
I often lose minutes, hours and 

549
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,160
days because of fear can be the 
state of being. 

550
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,920
So a fearful father told his 
rebellious son one day he told 

551
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,880
his little rebellious son, he 
said, every time you act that 

552
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,200
way, you give me another Gray 
hair. 

553
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,040
And the son looked at him and 
replied, says, Gee, dad, you 

554
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,960
must have been a rotten kid. 
Look at grandpa. 

555
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,800
So fear not only hurts our walk 
with God, but fear also harms 

556
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,440
our testimony with others. 
It it hurts us. 

557
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,000
I mean, if I'm afraid of 
everything, what does that say 

558
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,960
about my walk with Christ to 
those who know me and watch me? 

559
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,360
Why would they want to be like 
that? 

560
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,840
Why? 
Why do they think I have 

561
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,800
something better or different 
than they? 

562
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,280
And this is part of the context 
of Paul Rudd and Timothy. 

563
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:40,040
So let's get back to this. 
So Timothy was obviously either 

564
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,800
afraid of sharing about Christ 
or suffering for Christ because 

565
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,240
of the context he was in, or he 
had the potential for being 

566
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,720
afraid like that. 
And so Paul's encouraging him to

567
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,920
avoid that fear. 
So Paul challenges Timothy 

568
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:57,760
again. 
Let's start in verse 7. 

569
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,200
He says, for God gave us a 
spirit, not of fear, but of 

570
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,080
power and love and self-control.
Therefore, do not be ashamed of 

571
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,000
the testimony about our Lord, 
nor of me his prisoner, but 

572
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,840
share in suffering for the 
gospel by the power of God who 

573
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,960
saved us and called us to a holy
calling, not because of our 

574
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,080
works, but because of his own 
purpose and grace which he gave 

575
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,520
us in Christ Jesus before the 
ages began. 

576
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,160
There's a lot of stuff in there.
And so that's where we infer 

577
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,200
that for some reason Timothy was
either afraid of sharing about 

578
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,040
Jesus or maybe in the midst of 
persecution, afraid of standing 

579
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:42,360
strong for him and and afraid of
the persecution that might come 

580
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,480
from suffering. 
Or it was coming and Paul was 

581
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,760
trying to help him before it got
there one way or the other. 

582
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,200
But we see some solutions here. 
So we're going to try to avoid 

583
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,800
this spirit of fear of of 
fearfulness. 

584
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,240
So what, what do we do? 
Well, one of the things we need 

585
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,560
to do is just listen and read 
the scripture. 

586
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:07,240
We need to adopt A spirit of 
power, love, and self-control. 

587
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,920
These are Paul's words. 
So here's what we need to do. 

588
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,640
Rather than respond to the past 
and present or face the future 

589
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,600
with some sense of panic or a 
spirit of fearfulness. 

590
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,520
We need to be disciplined 
enough. 

591
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,040
If you remember the amplified 
version, calm enough, trusting 

592
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:30,280
enough to focus upon the power 
of God in our lives and reflect 

593
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,760
that grace and purpose back as a
testimony to be that mirror of 

594
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,360
what God is doing for us. 
And and so we can't live. 

595
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,520
Paul's clear here. 
We can't do this by our own good

596
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,720
works. 
You're not going to pull this 

597
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,040
off by your own good works. 
You, you got to understand God's

598
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,840
purpose. 
You got to understand God's 

599
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,600
grace which he's bestowed upon 
us even before time began. 

600
00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:00,640
So the true opposite of fear 
that that issue of relational 

601
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,720
authority, that act of worship 
is not my ability to deal with 

602
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,040
things by my own strength. 
I, I hesitate to even say that 

603
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,080
it's bravery or courage. 
In the Christian realm, in the 

604
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,840
spiritual realm, the opposite of
fear is faith. 

605
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,840
We believe, we trust. 
And so we must be self 

606
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,840
controlled enough, disciplined 
enough, loving enough to make to

607
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,880
move from this, this negative 
earthly fear to a radically 

608
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,000
different kind of fear. 
We replace one fear with 

609
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,800
another. 
That may sound odd, but that's 

610
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,360
what we're doing. 
We, we depend upon his power, 

611
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:48,480
his love, his salvation, his 
holy calling, his purpose, his 

612
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,000
grace, which is given to us in 
Christ Jesus to be able to do 

613
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,120
this. 
So you can't do this on your 

614
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,600
own. 
Only a Christian can know this. 

615
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,840
And so since fear is an act of 
worship, now follow me here. 

616
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,400
We have to redirect its proper 
destination. 

617
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,320
So instead of worshipping 
earthly things and the fears of 

618
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,520
this world, we are to fear who 
God. 

619
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,120
That's why the Bible talks like 
that. 

620
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,320
It's an act of worship. 
So we have to make sure we're 

621
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,840
aiming at the right throne, and 
often we're aiming at ourselves.

622
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,520
We're looking in the mirror when
we need to be looking in the 

623
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,320
throne room and to recognize 
that we have to redirect this 

624
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,680
act of worship. 
We have to redirect this this 

625
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,200
act of fear. 
So we take our we must take the 

626
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,440
worship off of earthly trials 
and things around us. 

627
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,440
If fear is proper object, the 
Bible says that we should fear 

628
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,200
God above all else. 
That doesn't mean we're scared 

629
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:49,880
to death of God. 
That doesn't mean that we're 

630
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,480
we're frightened to death by 
God. 

631
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,000
Although to be honest with you, 
there are aspects of God that 

632
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,800
ought to frighten us. 
His Holiness. 

633
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,680
Moses couldn't look upon him 
directly. 

634
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,640
It would have killed him. 
And when he, when he looked at 

635
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,480
him indirectly, he shone like 
the sun had to wear a veil. 

636
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,120
In fact, I've often wondered and
it probably says, and I just 

637
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,040
don't remember. 
You know, I was reading through 

638
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,800
Exodus and, and I was 
remembering, you know, he, he 

639
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,639
had to, every time he went in 
there, he, he, he got lit up 

640
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:17,360
again and he'd have to wear the 
veil again. 

641
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,639
And I wonder how long that 
lasted. 

642
00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,960
How long did, how long did Moses
shine? 

643
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,480
You know, did Moses just walk 
around the rest of his life with

644
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,280
a veil on somebody? 
Look that up and let me know 

645
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,159
when that quit. 
I don't know if I can find it in

646
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,760
there. 
But but I do think that the fear

647
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,440
of God, especially in our 
culture today, because everybody

648
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:41,920
just wants God to be what in our
culture God is what love that's 

649
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,719
and he is, but that's all they 
want him to be. 

650
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,400
In other words, what they really
want him to be is God is so 

651
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,120
loving. 
He will accept anything I choose

652
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,960
to do and not really hold me 
accountable for it. 

653
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,960
So I can justify anything. 
So there's there's there's no 

654
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,000
objective truth anymore. 
I get to pick it. 

655
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,520
I get to make it and God's love.
So it's all OK. 

656
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,880
He's just really happy for me. 
We even have some contemporary 

657
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,320
Christian music who probably 
kind of leads leans into that a 

658
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,200
little bit too much for me. 
But but but what we see is is 

659
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,760
that the fear of God is often 
one of the most misunderstood 

660
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,440
concepts in the Bible. 
God is not out to get you. 

661
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,360
That's, that's not the point. 
He seeks to know you, He seeks 

662
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,920
to save you, He seeks to call 
you, He seeks to gift you. 

663
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,240
He seeks to empower you and to 
use you. 

664
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,320
But the fear of God is this true
understanding of who God really 

665
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,960
is. 
It's a recognition of his 

666
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,120
character and nature. 
And if we really began to 

667
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,640
understand even a fraction, 
because that's all we get to 

668
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,240
understand of who God really is,
it, it ought to bring to us an 

669
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:51,080
awesome reverence and respect 
for his authority. 

670
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,080
So fearing God means that that 
proper, all of his power, His 

671
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,840
Majesty, and certainly His 
Holiness. 

672
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,280
And often I'm not too sure we 
keep up with that. 

673
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,520
Will I? 
We want Jesus as our buddy, God 

674
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,960
as our pal. 
And don't misunderstand me. 

675
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,160
They want that intimate personal
ABBA relationship with you. 

676
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,200
But there's also this other 
aspect of God. 

677
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,640
We need to remember that we 
can't just justify our sin and 

678
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,080
then do it again and then do it 
again and then do it again and 

679
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,040
ignore the consequences of those
acts. 

680
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,560
So this is not fear of 
punishment. 

681
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:33,040
It's an unrivalled respect, an 
unrivalled respect and 

682
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:39,440
admiration and appreciation for 
God leading them to action. 

683
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,200
That's what Paul's trying to get
to Timothy. 

684
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,120
Don't forget who God is. 
You know, you're looking around 

685
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,200
you. 
You're getting worried, you're 

686
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,960
getting scared, or you're going 
to because you're in a tough 

687
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,360
spot, you're ministering in a 
difficult place and you and 

688
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,520
you're, you're getting 
paralyzed. 

689
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,520
You're not living out your 
spiritual giftedness. 

690
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:58,920
You're not living out your 
calling. 

691
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,440
You're not doing everything God 
wants you to do because you're 

692
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,960
looking around you too much. 
You know Peter, Peter, you're 

693
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,880
looking at the waves. 
You know the story. 

694
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,920
You're looking at the waves. 
You need to look at me and 

695
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,880
you're looking at the waves. 
And So what do you, what does 

696
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,360
Peter do? 
Begins to sink. 

697
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,680
So we see this, listen to Psalm 
2, verse 11. 

698
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,960
Serve the Lord with fear and 
rejoice with trembling. 

699
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,680
Isn't that amazing? 
Those words go together. 

700
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,840
Serve the Lord with fear and 
rejoice. 

701
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,680
See, this isn't something that 
we should, we should hate. 

702
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,720
This isn't something we should 
avoid. 

703
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,560
This is something we need to 
embrace. 

704
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,320
You are so majestic, so, so much
greater than we are. 

705
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:48,040
You deserve all of my respect, 
all of my awe, all of my wonder,

706
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:53,080
all of my fear, my healthy fear 
because of who you are. 

707
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,720
And I rejoice because I get to 
know you now. 

708
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,200
I made tremble in front of you 
because that's the way I ought 

709
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,000
to be. 
I need to understand who you 

710
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,720
are, and I need to understand 
who I am, and I need to 

711
00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:05,320
understand the difference 
between the two. 

712
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,960
And sometimes I think we we lose
that because the fear of God 

713
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:16,320
produces joy, because we know 
God is our salvation. 

714
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,720
We know God is our security. 
I don't have to fear that. 

715
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:24,000
God's got that. 
If I'm just right with you, I 

716
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,640
don't have to worry about that. 
You've got that. 

717
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,000
You'll take care of that. 
Or them or the snake, you know, 

718
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,760
snakes. 
I'm going to hear all about that

719
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,920
later. 
But anyway, so our reverence for

720
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:46,840
him then draws us to him and it 
drives us to call on him to 

721
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,360
understand what's your will? 
How can I serve you? 

722
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,320
You're the King and and our love
for God should also reveal his 

723
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,960
love for us. 
Listen to the Psalmist again in 

724
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,400
Psalm 118 verse. 
What is it for you? 

725
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:08,720
Let those who fear the Lord say 
his steadfast love endures 

726
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:11,720
forever. 
So not only does fear and joy go

727
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:15,880
together, fear and love go 
together, and we just don't 

728
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,280
think like that down here. 
We see fear as something to be 

729
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,000
afraid of, something to dread, 
something that holds us back, 

730
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,320
something that paralyzed. 
We see this negative side 

731
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,040
because that's the fear we live 
in that spirit of fearfulness. 

732
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,840
And if we were to adopt this 
spirit of power, love and 

733
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,520
self-control, we'll recognize 
that we can rejoice and we can 

734
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,080
even love in the midst of the 
fear because because it's a, 

735
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,200
it's a fear that leads us to a 
better place, to a better 

736
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:52,520
person. 
But unresolved lingering fear, 

737
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,480
hear me now, that's sin. 
God doesn't want us to live in 

738
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,680
that. 
So it's not God's will. 

739
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,320
It's contrary to God's will. 
So we're missing the mark, 

740
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,640
Hamartiya word for sin. 
We're missing the mark. 

741
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,560
It's sin. 
And So what we see is when you 

742
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,520
have your heart set in the 
world, you're not focused enough

743
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,040
on Him. 
This is a worship issue. 

744
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,440
I'm not focused enough on him. 
And my heart set down here on 

745
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,680
this stuff, and all I see is 
this stuff, then I'm going to 

746
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,360
fear this stuff. 
But if our primary focus is on 

747
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,080
the Kingdom of God, there's just
a different perspective. 

748
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,680
So how do we do this? 
All right, we need help. 

749
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:40,480
Thus a Bible study called help. 
Look at verse 7 one more time. 

750
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:47,400
For God gave us a spirit not of 
fear, but of love, excuse me, of

751
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,600
power and of love and 
self-control. 

752
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,800
So listen, how do we overcome 
negative fear? 

753
00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:55,680
Well, first of all, this 
recognize God's grace. 

754
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,240
God, we're just going to break 
this verse down. 

755
00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:02,200
God gave. 
This is a gift right? 

756
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:07,480
This is not something I create. 
This is why first of all you 

757
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,680
need to trust in Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior and be a 

758
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,400
follower of Christ in order to 
be able to access this 

759
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,960
resourcing. 
A non Christian can't access 

760
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,320
this and so we need to access 
this by first being saved. 

761
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,000
Now we're in the right 
relationship with God and we can

762
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,120
have the right fellowship with 
God. 

763
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,720
One of these days I'm going to 
teach a lesson on assurance of 

764
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,680
salvation that once saved, 
always saved concepts. 

765
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,560
And I want you to understand the
difference between a 

766
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,680
relationship with God and 
fellowship with God. 

767
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,560
Let me just illustrate it this 
way. 

768
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,960
I'll say this again later 
sometime when we're together. 

769
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,640
So just, you know, act like you 
never heard it before. 

770
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,480
Make me feel good. 
But but, but my youngest son's 

771
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,000
name is Josiah. 
Now let's pretend that Josiah 

772
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:54,920
hated me. 
Now he doesn't. 

773
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,480
But let's just pretend that. 
And in fact, we we were together

774
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,760
this weekend and had some pretty
good Mexican food and he's a 

775
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,080
great uncle to his sister's 
kids. 

776
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,120
And so Uncle Joe Joe. 
So let's say Uncle Joe. 

777
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,440
Joe grows up and he hates me, 
and he moves as far away from me

778
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,600
as he can, changes his name, act
like he never even know me, just

779
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,360
absolutely writes me off, 
disowns me, doesn't have 

780
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,200
anything to do with me ever 
again. 

781
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,560
Is he still my son? 
Yeah, because he can't change 

782
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,440
the relationship. 
He was born into that 

783
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,680
relationship as my son. 
Is the fellowship any good? 

784
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:35,400
No. 
You can understand the 

785
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:36,720
difference between these two 
things. 

786
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,000
See, I know a lot of people who 
might have a relationship with 

787
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:46,960
God, but their fellowship is the
roller coaster, right off and 

788
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:51,120
on, cold, hot, lukewarm, we got 
to recognize God's grace. 

789
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,560
This is a gift from God, and 
this powerful, this new 

790
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:01,640
powerful, disciplined spirit is 
only given to us by God. 

791
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,040
So I have to spend time with 
Him. 

792
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,960
I have to be focused in my 
spiritual disciplines. 

793
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,720
I got to be in the Word. 
I got to be in worship. 

794
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:09,200
I got to be in prayer. 
All these things are there for a

795
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,080
reason. 
These are the building blocks 

796
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,440
that allow me to have this 
access to resourcing from the 

797
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,760
Kingdom and so I need to be 
exposing myself. 

798
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,680
I don't create this. 
I receive this. 

799
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,360
In fact, Romans 8:15 that talks 
about this relationship. 

800
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,560
He says, for you did not receive
the spirit of slavery to fall 

801
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,760
back into fear, but you've 
received the spirit of adoption 

802
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:39,880
as sons by whom we cry ABBA 
Father, we're in this unique 

803
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:44,480
relate what a what a privilege. 
See, becoming a Christian isn't 

804
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,000
just getting out of hell and 
going to heaven whenever you 

805
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,120
die. 
That's a byproduct and a 

806
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,640
wonderful long term part of it. 
It's about who you are right now

807
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,640
here on this place. 
He's left us here for reasons 

808
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,720
and one of them is for us to 
worship him in the midst of this

809
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:05,760
nonsense, to serve him in the 
midst of this junk that we go 

810
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,160
through every single day. 
We're to be a testimony, a 

811
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,880
light. 
So it's pointless for pointless 

812
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:16,000
for us to attempt to to serve 
and to fear him without the Holy

813
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,560
Spirit really empowering us and 
guiding us to do that. 

814
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,640
We can't handle the fear of this
world without his grace. 

815
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,080
I mean, evil's rampant, I mean 
mayhem throughout our culture 

816
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,040
today. 
Yet yet by the supernatural 

817
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,920
restraining of the Holy Spirit, 
it could be even more crazy. 

818
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,760
I promise you, he's holding it 
back, He's restraining it. 

819
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,880
God is still in complete 
control. 

820
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,480
He's still calling the shots. 
And we don't have to fear 

821
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,440
because we trust the Providence 
and the power of God. 

822
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:55,160
We can transcend this place. 
But that takes discipline and it

823
00:44:55,160 --> 00:45:00,600
takes a closeness, It takes an 
intimacy with God in order to do

824
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,560
that. 
So unhealthy fear here, this 

825
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,840
here, here. 
What I'm about to say unhealthy 

826
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,120
fear insults God. 
You got that? 

827
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,040
Because what are you saying? 
It, it denies his grace. 

828
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,720
We're basically saying, I don't 
really believe you can handle 

829
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:20,480
this. 
I've got to try to handle this 

830
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,520
myself. 
And it's an insult to God. 

831
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,440
It it, it's a, it's an insult to
the relationship that he's 

832
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,120
brought us into a relationship 
of faith and trust. 

833
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,760
We're saved by grace through by 
grace through faith. 

834
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,840
And we're we're maintained that 
way. 

835
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,480
And sometimes we take back 
control. 

836
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,400
We don't let Jesus have the 
will. 

837
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,040
We we like to put it on cruise 
control ourselves. 

838
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,800
And so we, we often fear because
we want to control rather than 

839
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:53,720
trust in him for our future. 
We fear and and and and that's a

840
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:59,040
prideful thing. 
We fear as pride deceives us to 

841
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,240
justify ourselves. 
You tracking with me. 

842
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:07,240
So I am so proud, prideful that 
I, I can't, I deceive myself 

843
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:08,800
into believe I can't. 
I can do this. 

844
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,920
I can handle this. 
I'm supposed to. 

845
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,080
I'm do this myself. 
I can do it. 

846
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,240
I wait. 
I can do this. 

847
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:23,080
I don't need you. 
Then I'm afraid because I can't 

848
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,880
do it. 
Then I'm afraid because I 

849
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,760
failed. 
Then I'm afraid because what? 

850
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,760
What, what's everybody going to 
think about me? 

851
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,320
They're going to think I'm weak 
and I'm puny. 

852
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:36,520
I'm. 
I'm wrong. 

853
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,320
I can't be wrong. 
I'm never wrong. 

854
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,000
Spiraling. 
Can you hear a snake whispering 

855
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,120
in your ear? 
There's a reason I've been 

856
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,240
talking about snakes. 
Can you hear him whispering in 

857
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:51,680
your ear? 
Listen, we got to be careful. 

858
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:58,680
Jesus calls the person who fears
you of little what he does. 

859
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:05,080
O you of little faith. 
See when we dwell in negative 

860
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,880
fear, we're saying to God, I 
have no faith in you. 

861
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,840
An unhealthy fear calls God a 
liar. 

862
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,400
It's a sin. 
In fact. 

863
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,640
God says I will provide your 
every need while you're here on 

864
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,480
earth. 
Fear says, I'm not sure he'll 

865
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,280
come through. 
God says when you have problems,

866
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,760
I'll make sure you can cope. 
I won't give you more temptation

867
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,120
and and and burden than you can 
handle. 

868
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,920
Fear says no way I won't be able
to deal with this. 

869
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,480
God says, trust me, in the end, 
all things work together for 

870
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,160
your good. 
Fear says, I don't think any 

871
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,360
good will ever come out of this.
There's no way God's going to 

872
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,800
work in that. 
And so we recognize and when I 

873
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,080
by the way, when I do community 
assessments like I've done this 

874
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,440
huge 10 mile radius from right 
here study not just of 

875
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:55,000
demographics, but what are 
called psychographic and 

876
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,560
practicing. 
How do people think what do 

877
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,320
people do pretty thorough study.
Guess what is a high up on the 

878
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,400
list? 
Fear. 

879
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,240
They're afraid of this, they're 
afraid of that. 

880
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,760
They're afraid of another thing.
Just list after list after list 

881
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,280
after list full of fear. 
Fear of the future, fear of 

882
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,400
commitment, fear of failure, 
fear of loneliness, fear of 

883
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,680
finances, fear of family issues,
fear of crime, fear of death, 

884
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,160
all these things. 
So we need to be different. 

885
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,040
We need to be a testimony of 
faith. 

886
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,960
We need to be a community that 
says grace and power rule here 

887
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,160
and enough self-control to live 
it out. 

888
00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:37,240
But we also got to be honest. 
And we have to admit sometimes 

889
00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:41,840
we're afraid. 
Sometimes things pile up on us 

890
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,280
and we're afraid. 
But we also recognize there's a 

891
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,320
pathway to faith that'll help us
overcome that. 

892
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,760
Sometimes we got to go through 
that fear is the testimony for 

893
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,520
others and they need to watch 
how we handle it. 

894
00:48:54,440 --> 00:49:01,840
So if we're more afraid of life 
than they are, why would we ever

895
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,560
expect them to show up here, 
right? 

896
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,280
We're called to be different. 
So look at verse eight. 

897
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,480
Look at verse 8. 
Therefore, do not be ashamed of 

898
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,960
the testimony about our Lord, 
nor of me his prisoner, but 

899
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,520
share in suffering for the 
gospel by the power of God who 

900
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,480
saved us and called us to be 
holy, called us to a holy 

901
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,120
calling, not because of our 
works, but because of His own 

902
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,440
purpose and grace which He gave 
us in Christ Jesus before the 

903
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,640
ages began. 
So we have to face the reality, 

904
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:36,680
and it's hard for people that we
can't control things on our own,

905
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,560
that we can't control the future
no matter what, no matter how 

906
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,640
hard we try. 
I can't see the boards, if you 

907
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,760
remember that story. 
I can't see tomorrow. 

908
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,280
I don't know what's going to 
happen 10 seconds from now. 

909
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,960
I can't control that. 
And that can either paralyze me 

910
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:58,600
or it can drive me into the arms
of the one who created time and 

911
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,360
who sees it all at once. 
Right. 

912
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,360
And this is I can't see the 
future for my own life. 

913
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,560
I can't see it for this church. 
And the and the Bible promises 

914
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,800
me no matter what, no matter 
what some prosperity gospel is 

915
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,040
want us to believe the Bible 
promises me that I'm going to 

916
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,960
have trouble. 
I'm of trouble in this world. 

917
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,600
We're going to have troubles. 
We're going to have problems. 

918
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,080
He promises us that. 
Don't be surprised when they 

919
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,480
come. 
He promises you they're coming. 

920
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,040
He warns you, He told you you're
going to struggle in this life. 

921
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,360
You're going to struggle in this
world. 

922
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,280
You've got problems in this 
world, right? 

923
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:41,920
But you can overcome them by 
fearing him more than that to 

924
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:46,240
make your faith strong. 
So faithful contentment. 

925
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:52,040
Shalom is knowing I already have
everything I need in my 

926
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,400
relationship with Jesus Christ. 
I have enough to deal with 

927
00:50:55,400 --> 00:51:00,760
whatever comes more than enough 
and and if we're not satisfied 

928
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,560
with what you have with him, 
you're never going to be 

929
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,760
satisfied with what you want for
tomorrow. 

930
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:10,160
It's just going to cycle and 
cycle and cycle. 

931
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,800
So listen to the word of God. 
Listen to just what some other 

932
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,560
writers say that this will 
encourage you. 

933
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:22,720
Hebrews 13 verses 5 and 6. 
Keep your life free from love of

934
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:25,640
money and be content with what 
you have. 

935
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,120
For he has said I will never 
leave you nor forsake you. 

936
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,240
So we can confidently say the 
Lord is my helper. 

937
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,880
I will not fear. 
What can man do to me? 

938
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,200
Deuteronomy 31 Six. 
Be strong and courageous. 

939
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,320
Do not fear or be in dread of 
them. 

940
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,600
For it is the Lord your God who 
goes with you. 

941
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,560
He will not leave you or forsake
you. 

942
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,840
Philippians 419 and my God will 
supply every need of yours 

943
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,760
according to his riches in glory
in Christ Jesus. 

944
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,320
So this grace of God is not some
shallow thing. 

945
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,040
Remember I alluded to it a few 
weeks ago. 

946
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,000
Remember the 23rd Psalm, just 
verse 4. 

947
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:25,920
Even though I walk through the 
what I will for your right, just

948
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,120
plug that plug in whatever's 
going on in your life. 

949
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:36,520
Even though I walk through 
blank, whatever it is, I will 

950
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:41,960
not fear, for you are with me, 
and that's much deeper than you 

951
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,440
may appreciate tonight. 
Even though I walk through the 

952
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,000
Valley of the Blank, doesn't 
really matter what it is. 

953
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:55,400
I will not fear. 
If Satan is just hoping, Satan's

954
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:59,320
counting on Satan's tempting 
that I would fear him and his 

955
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,440
work and what he's throwing in 
front of me. 

956
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,320
But I won't, because you're with
me. 

957
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,640
Your rod and your staff. 
They're more powerful than the 

958
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:10,840
snake. 
They're more power. 

959
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:13,520
They can, they can chop the head
off a snake, crush the serpent's

960
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,680
head. 
You're more powerful right 

961
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:18,800
there. 
There was a specific Native 

962
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,680
American tribe up in the Pacific
Northwest that did a rite of 

963
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,840
passage when a when a boy 
reached 13 years old, he was 

964
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,000
blindfolded and LED into the 
woods and left to spend the 

965
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,400
night alone. 
And he couldn't take the 

966
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,840
blindfold off all night long. 
That was part of the test. 

967
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,120
He had to leave the blindfold 
on. 

968
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,880
And so his courage, courage 
would be proven if he could just

969
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,640
sit there and listen to the 
frightening sounds all around 

970
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,040
him without taking that 
blindfold off. 

971
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,400
And then when they felt the 
warmth of the sun in the 

972
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:47,600
morning, then he could remove 
the blindfold and and what he 

973
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,480
found was his his father was 
sitting there right by him all 

974
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:57,680
night long protecting him. 
So he'd been by his side all the

975
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,640
time. 
There was never really a danger.

976
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:05,520
Verse 7 Because I want you to 
get it. 

977
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,960
For God gave us a spirit not of 
what? 

978
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:15,480
What? 
Not of Phobos, not of fear, but 

979
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:18,200
of power and love and 
self-control. 

980
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:22,320
So we've got to overcome 
negative fear by recognizing 

981
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,440
it's God's grace. 
We've also got to overcome 

982
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,760
negative fear by embracing God's
empowerment. 

983
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:32,200
We can't do this alone. 
We can't do this by ourselves. 

984
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,480
We need God's help only by the 
power of the Holy Spirit. 

985
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:40,360
Remember Acts 1/8, we're 
waiting, the disciples are 

986
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,920
waiting, and when the Holy 
Spirit comes, you will receive 

987
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,720
power again. 
Dunamis is that Greek word that 

988
00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:48,760
some of you might know, but what
you may not understand. 

989
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,440
And I shared that in the sermon 
on Acts One. 

990
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,120
That first part of that word, 
duna means able. 

991
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,280
I'm capable. 
Only the Holy Spirit is capable.

992
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,000
Only He is able. 
He can handle anything. 

993
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,640
He can handle everything, and He
is able. 

994
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,600
And we're going to receive His 
power upon us, and then we're 

995
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,480
going to be able to serve and 
minister. 

996
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,800
So it kind of brings us full 
circle. 

997
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,480
Either the words of Christ are 
true or not, see. 

998
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,000
And at the moment of salvation, 
we are either in dwelled, 

999
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:21,760
baptized, gifted and called by 
the Holy Spirit and transformed,

1000
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,440
made new. 
The old things pass away, all 

1001
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,600
things become new by His power. 
Or that's not really true. 

1002
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,440
And it ought to. 
And then we ought to be used to 

1003
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,440
transform our world because of 
that. 

1004
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,760
And either that indwelling is 
true in your life or it's not. 

1005
00:55:38,720 --> 00:55:41,200
And we've got to lean into that.
That's the relationship that's 

1006
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,080
there. 
The fellowship we get sometimes 

1007
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,720
off and on, but we recognize 
we're leaning into this. 

1008
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,280
So the storms and fears of life,
listen, I was out earlier, got a

1009
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,120
piece of hell right on top of my
head. 

1010
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:57,680
I mean, being me right on the 
skull, I didn't care for that 

1011
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,800
much. 
The storms and fears of life 

1012
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:06,800
then, can become opportunities 
for God to display His strength.

1013
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,080
The one who tells the sun to 
rise each morning, I promise 

1014
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,160
you, is greater than whatever 
you're afraid of. 

1015
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:18,600
The one that causes the waves to
come, He's greater than anything

1016
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,680
you fear. 
And so our response cannot just 

1017
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,520
be avoidance. 
Our response can't just be 

1018
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:29,320
paralysis. 
We must move through fear with 

1019
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,360
faith, right? 
So to overcome negative fear, we

1020
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:37,960
celebrate #3 God's love, true 
Christian love, energized by the

1021
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,920
love of God and the Holy Spirit 
can enable us to sacrifice for 

1022
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,520
others and not be afraid to do 
so. 

1023
00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:48,000
Listen to what Peter wrote in 
First Peter 57, casting all your

1024
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,600
anxieties on him because he 
cares for you. 

1025
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:57,880
I can release my fears to him 
because I know He loves me and 

1026
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:01,040
and He's got me. 
And so the love of God assures 

1027
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,480
us we have nothing to fear. 
That's why God said in first 

1028
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:11,160
John 418 this is important. 
There is No Fear in love, but 

1029
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:16,960
perfect love casts out fear. 
And you got to understand what 

1030
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,960
that verse really means. 
So in the original language you 

1031
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,200
got to understand there's No 
Fear in love and, and, and 

1032
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,000
perfect love casts out the word 
for love. 

1033
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,240
There is agape and that agape 
love because there's more than 

1034
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,720
one word for love. 
But agape love is a willful 

1035
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,280
decision by God to love you no 
matter what. 

1036
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,880
You don't get to decide whether 
God loves you. 

1037
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,240
You don't have that. 
You don't get to do that. 

1038
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,960
That's not a luxury you possess.
You don't have the power to 

1039
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,240
decide that God unconditionally 
loves you. 

1040
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,480
It's not about what you've done.
It's not about what you haven't 

1041
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:49,640
done. 
It's about who you are as His 

1042
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,960
creation. 
He loves you. 

1043
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:57,520
So if there is perfect agape 
telios, the word means complete.

1044
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,400
All the pieces are there. 
There's nothing missing. 

1045
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:04,400
This is an absolutely perfect, 
unconditional, willful decision 

1046
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:06,240
by God to love you no matter 
what. 

1047
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:14,280
If I believe that there's no 
room for Phobos, it pushes it 

1048
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:17,560
out because I'm so filled with 
the Holy Spirit. 

1049
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,880
There's no room for that. 
There's no room for that because

1050
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,120
I do believe that God really 
does love me that way. 

1051
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:26,720
Now, some of you struggle with 
that. 

1052
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,960
Maybe not in this room, but 
somebody listening to me 

1053
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,720
struggles with that because 
there are people who absolutely 

1054
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,280
believe they can't be loved. 
There are people who believe 

1055
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,840
they're unlovable, and you're 
just wrong. 

1056
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,160
You don't understand the word of
God. 

1057
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,120
You don't understand the nature 
of God. 

1058
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,400
He knows more about you and your
issues than you do, and He loves

1059
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,280
you anyway. 
Now, that doesn't mean he loves 

1060
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,280
what you're doing. 
It doesn't. 

1061
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:53,960
That doesn't mean he loves your 
attitudes. 

1062
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,160
That doesn't mean he loves your 
negative fears, but he loves 

1063
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,320
you. 
You got to separate yourself 

1064
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,400
from your actions. 
Separate yourself from your 

1065
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:02,800
attitudes. 
That's not who you are. 

1066
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,760
God knows who you are, and he 
loves you. 

1067
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:10,120
And so when we love the wrong 
things or fear the wrong things 

1068
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,320
and we're committing this 
idolatry and we're sinning, we 

1069
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:18,680
should feel all fear and all and
privilege and blessing, love and

1070
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:24,640
joy, even in the midst of a of a
fear of God, right? 

1071
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,320
So this complete nothing 
missing, willful decision by God

1072
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:34,280
pushes out the need for the room
for the reliance upon trying to 

1073
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:38,120
think what else it means. 
Dependence upon fear. 

1074
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:43,360
I don't have to worship that way
because of what he has done for 

1075
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,360
me. 
I can worship him. 

1076
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,040
I don't have to let this control
me in my life. 

1077
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:51,640
So that's not the spirit he 
gives us. 

1078
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,640
He gives us a, a spirit of power
and love and self-control in 

1079
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,000
verse 7. 
So #4 to overcome negative fear,

1080
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,960
we have to grow in self-control.
Easy thing to say out loud. 

1081
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,400
It's a weird word. 
It's the only time it's used in 

1082
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:09,440
the New Testament. 
And this word means a sound 

1083
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,320
mind. 
It means a disciplined mind. 

1084
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,680
There's there's a mental aspect 
to this. 

1085
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,440
To where my mind's and my head's
in the right, in the right 

1086
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,000
place, I'm thinking the right 
way. 

1087
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,120
And so in Proverbs 17 it says 
the fear of the Lord is the 

1088
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:27,880
beginning of one translation 
wisdom. 

1089
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,040
Another would say beginning of 
knowledge. 

1090
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,840
Fools despise wisdom and 
instruction. 

1091
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,280
And so to recognize that there 
is a cognitive aspect of this, 

1092
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,320
there's, there's a mental 
intellectual side to this as 

1093
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:42,360
well, to where this isn't just 
a, a spiritual thing. 

1094
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:45,480
This is more holistic than that.
I actually believe in my mind. 

1095
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:50,440
I get it, my mind, I can, I can 
think in my brain that this is 

1096
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,280
true of God, that the Spirit of 
God produces love. 

1097
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:57,480
It produces power. 
It produces a sound disciplined 

1098
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,240
mind. 
I can think clearly. 

1099
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,560
I can make right choices. 
I don't have to be afraid. 

1100
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,320
This coming Sunday, Senior 
Sunday, it's also new member 

1101
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,280
presentation, by the way. 
There's going to be a whole slew

1102
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,000
of them joining the church on 
Sunday. 

1103
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:15,800
Yeah. 
And so, and then the seniors, a 

1104
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,080
bunch of seniors. 
So we're going to cram all this 

1105
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,800
into one service. 
I'm going to preach for about 2 

1106
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,080
1/2 minutes. 
But that's not true at all. 

1107
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,200
We got plenty of time. 
Things are really mapped out. 

1108
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,840
Skyler and company, these are 
pastors. 

1109
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,080
They do a fantastic job of 
working through all this. 

1110
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:32,280
They really do fantastic. 
And so but when I'm going to, 

1111
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:36,560
I'm going to share and acts from
acts about where Peter and John 

1112
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,600
are are arrested and warned not 
to share about Jesus anymore by 

1113
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,520
the Sanhedrin. 
And one of the things that we're

1114
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:43,640
going to talk about is we're 
going to talk about the fact 

1115
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:48,640
that they didn't have to fear 
that most powerful body in their

1116
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:53,760
Jewish world because they had 
faith and belief in Jesus, 

1117
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,440
right? 
And so they had a sound mind. 

1118
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,440
And so sometimes these seniors, 
by the way, you think about it, 

1119
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,680
when you go off to college, 
people go nuts, right? 

1120
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,280
Christian kids, I mean, there's 
a huge high percentage. 

1121
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:06,480
They're in church their whole 
life. 

1122
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,280
They've been church all through 
the student ministry. 

1123
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:09,720
And then they go off to college,
they go crazy. 

1124
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,080
I mean, it's just a high 
statistic. 

1125
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:14,320
Now, none of our kids will do 
that, will they? 

1126
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,120
But it's just as this, well, 
think about they're making bad 

1127
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,880
choices. 
They go off and they make bad 

1128
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:22,960
choices. 
Their minds aren't disciplined 

1129
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,320
enough. 
They're they're, they're not 

1130
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:28,280
equipped to make the right 
choices. 

1131
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,960
They need to focus on passages 
like this. 

1132
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,560
And so if we're engaged in 
selfishness and not 

1133
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:38,400
self-control, we're going to be 
led to this wrong fear. 

1134
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,760
We're going to be LED away. 
If we're selfish and interested 

1135
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,560
only and what we're going to get
out of life or what life's not 

1136
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:47,960
giving me, then we're going to 
be afraid of losing something 

1137
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:49,680
that's not even ours to begin 
with. 

1138
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,720
And, and we're going to, we're 
going to be distorted. 

1139
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,960
This is what Satan does. 
He'll he'll distort our 

1140
01:02:56,960 --> 01:03:00,200
judgement because he's going to 
make us believe we deserve 

1141
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:02,480
something that was never ours in
the 1st place. 

1142
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:08,440
So he's sneaky. 
And so it makes our mind and 

1143
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,680
sound and we make bad decisions.
It reminds me of this line. 

1144
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:12,480
You're ready. 
Here we go. 

1145
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,080
You better not trouble trouble 
till trouble troubles you. 

1146
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:18,000
For you only make your trouble 
double trouble when you do. 

1147
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:23,120
I couldn't even get through it. 
It's like when you go to the 

1148
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,280
Mexican place and you get the 
salsa and the cheese dip. 

1149
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,200
You always have to have a drip 
chip for your dip chip so you 

1150
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,200
don't drip off your off your dip
chip. 

1151
01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,880
My kids have that memorized. 
They say it better than I do. 

1152
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,920
We trust in God and we trust in 
his strength. 

1153
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:45,080
And so you just don't 
understand. 

1154
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:47,560
I've struggled. 
This is what people will say to 

1155
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:48,320
me. 
I've struggled with. 

1156
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,240
I had a church member say this 
to me one time. 

1157
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,120
Not here, but another church. 
I used to understand preacher. 

1158
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:55,960
I've struggled with fear my 
whole life. 

1159
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,800
My mother did this too. 
It's in my genes. 

1160
01:03:59,880 --> 01:04:01,880
I've learned that my whole am. 
I got a testimony. 

1161
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:07,000
You're with me. 
It's just the way I am now. 

1162
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,720
Listen, you may have learned 
ways that are unhealthy to cope 

1163
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:17,560
with fear and thus find yourself
mimicking unhealthy patterns 

1164
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:21,040
you've observed than others 
maybe your whole life. 

1165
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:26,760
But God can help you overcome 
that and be free. 

1166
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:33,560
You can break the generational 
chain and be better if you trust

1167
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:36,200
in Him. 
Unhealthy fear is not 

1168
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,760
inevitable. 
It's a sin that can be forgiven 

1169
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:43,120
and it can be overcome. 
Yesterday's gone, tomorrow's not

1170
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,720
assured, but you have the 
privilege of right now. 

1171
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:52,680
We got to soak it up in joy and 
love and faith because we got to

1172
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,760
redirect our worship. 
Sometimes we just are putting 

1173
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,360
ourselves on the throne. 
And when we do that, you're just

1174
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,320
worshiping the mirror and it's 
not going any further. 

1175
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,720
And we've got to redirect our 
worship again. 

1176
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:09,680
Psalm 118 says this verse 24, 
this is the day that the Lord 

1177
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:10,600
has made. 
What is it? 

1178
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:15,440
How's it finish? 
See, there's your there's your 

1179
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:19,280
formula 1st, I have to recognize
who made the day. 

1180
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,480
I didn't make the day. 
I couldn't make the day. 

1181
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:28,040
You had to make the day, right? 
And so we got to move from fear 

1182
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:33,080
to faith and trust. 
I don't know if some of you 

1183
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:36,600
guys, military first responders,
and then some of you just crazy 

1184
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,560
enthusiasts have probably 
repelled before. 

1185
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:43,720
I don't mean you're repelling, I
mean you repelled off a mountain

1186
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,080
or a building on a rope. 
You all following me, you know, 

1187
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:51,040
you, you get on a rope and, and,
and you lean way out on that 

1188
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,280
rope and then you kind of hop 
down the side of the mountain. 

1189
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:55,040
You're with me. 
Some of your military guys, you 

1190
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:59,520
had probably do that in basic. 
Well, we used to do that for fun

1191
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:05,080
because we're stupid. 
And so we would go find 

1192
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,320
mountains, me and some other 
folks that I knew, and we used 

1193
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:12,400
to go repelling a lot. 
And I don't know if you've ever 

1194
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,040
done this or not. 
You'll tie off on a tree or a 

1195
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:19,240
rock and you're on a hundred 150
foot Cliff, straight down rocks 

1196
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,800
below, sometimes highways 
because we were really not very 

1197
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:27,280
smart. 
And and and you and you and you 

1198
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:29,640
lean out. 
Anybody ever done this? 

1199
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,000
If you've repelled, raise your 
hand. 

1200
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:32,200
I need to see Tiffsa. 
Yeah. 

1201
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,720
You understand how you lay on 
and and what does that rope do? 

1202
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:42,040
It stretches now that rope is 
strong enough to hold two or 

1203
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,920
three vans. 
It's rated for thousands of 

1204
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,040
pounds. 
And regardless of how big I've 

1205
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:48,960
been in my life, I still didn't 
make the limit. 

1206
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:52,960
But when you first lean out on 
that rope, it starts to stretch 

1207
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,960
and you can hear it stretching 
and you can hear the knot 

1208
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:58,000
tighten up. 
And you got, you know, you got 

1209
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,200
harnesses on and carabiners and 
all this equipment you got to, 

1210
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,720
you got to hold the rope a 
certain way to create the brake 

1211
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:05,360
for yourself. 
And I was like, but that ropes 

1212
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,640
and you're there's 100 foot 
behind you and you're leaning 

1213
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,440
out there and you just like, 
when is this going to stop 

1214
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:19,440
stretching? 
So one time his name's Richard. 

1215
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,760
We were in the Mark Twain 
National Forest in Missouri and 

1216
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,680
we were on the side of a Cliff. 
And and you got to the way we 

1217
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:30,840
had it rigged. 
You had to hold a break up like 

1218
01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:32,640
this around you. 
And that's how you would stop 

1219
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,080
yourself. 
You could control your dissent 

1220
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:36,560
by doing that. 
Sorry for the technical stuff. 

1221
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:42,840
I'm moving on. 
Well, Richard freaked out and he

1222
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:44,760
stretched. 
That rope begins to stretch and 

1223
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:49,120
he doesn't think it's going to 
stop and he gets scared and he 

1224
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:53,960
lets go of the break hand. 
Now we had what's called a 

1225
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,520
suicide line on it. 
Sorry for the word, but it was 

1226
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,720
another little bitty rope that 
had a Slipknot in it. 

1227
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,520
And as you went down the rope, 
you moved it with your hand. 

1228
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:08,800
So just in case you lost that 
this little bitty rope, little 

1229
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:14,920
bitty string of a thing would 
hold you, he's halfway down that

1230
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:24,720
Cliff, dangling from a thread 
and screaming like he was 

1231
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:31,120
afraid. 
Well, you got two options. 

1232
01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:35,600
You can try to regather your 
rope cut, because you're not 

1233
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:40,760
going to loosen that knot, cut 
the safety line and go all the 

1234
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,359
way down. 
But he wasn't going to do that. 

1235
01:08:44,359 --> 01:08:47,960
So guess what we had to do? 
Somebody else had to get another

1236
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:51,680
rope, had to rig it up. 
We had to go down on either side

1237
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:56,040
of Richard so we could literally
pull his weight up enough to get

1238
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:57,880
him to where he could gather 
himself up. 

1239
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:02,520
And then together we walked down
that Cliff, inch by inch to the 

1240
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,960
bottom. 
We didn't let Richard do that 

1241
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:10,080
again. 
But I've often thought of that 

1242
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:13,880
story, and I thought, there's a 
lot of lessons there. 

1243
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:18,920
First of all, sometimes God's 
going to let the rope stretch a 

1244
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:22,080
little bit. 
Sometimes life's going to get a 

1245
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:25,040
little iffy. 
Sometimes we're going to face 

1246
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:28,439
stuff. 
Trials, tests, tribulations. 

1247
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,720
We're going to face some stuff 
in order to see whether or not 

1248
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:36,479
we'll trust the rope. 
Will we really trust that he's 

1249
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:39,200
not going to let it go too far, 
that he's got us? 

1250
01:09:39,319 --> 01:09:43,560
It's it's more than capable, 
thousands of times capable of 

1251
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:48,000
supporting us and he's going to 
make sure that everything's OK. 

1252
01:09:49,319 --> 01:09:55,640
And then when we don't make the 
right choice and we let go, we 

1253
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:57,760
don't hold on. 
We don't have faith. 

1254
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:03,120
We just let fear consume us and 
we scream so the whole world can

1255
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:10,720
hear us and we're left dangling.
Inglewood Baptist. 

1256
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:13,480
That's where we as a church need
to step in. 

1257
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,160
We got to be there for one 
another. 

1258
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,320
You know what? 
We'll just throw down another 

1259
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:20,480
rope. 
We're going to come right down 

1260
01:10:20,480 --> 01:10:23,560
there beside you. 
We're going to show you how to 

1261
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:25,920
do this. 
We're going to walk with you 

1262
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,240
through this. 
We're going to help you overcome

1263
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:29,440
what you're going through right 
now. 

1264
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,960
That's what the church is all 
about, right? 

1265
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,880
We're in this together. 
So one of the things that we 

1266
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:38,160
haven't talked about enough 
because he's talking to one 

1267
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:41,640
person, he's talking to Timothy.
But what I want to say to you is

1268
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:45,920
don't forget the unity of the 
body in these kind of situation.

1269
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,200
You don't have to deal with your
fear by yourself. 

1270
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,520
Don't try to do that. 
Not only do you need God's help,

1271
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,720
not only do you need God's 
resourcing to do that, but you 

1272
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,280
have the body, His body, his 
bride. 

1273
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,600
And I pray that you're evolved. 
This is why this is more than 

1274
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,200
just an infomercial to get you 
into some program. 

1275
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,520
This is why you need to be in a 
Connect group. 

1276
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,480
This is why you need to be in a 
small group that's going to love

1277
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:13,400
you, that knows you. 
We know they're dangling right 

1278
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,280
now. 
They're Dang. 

1279
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,240
This is what your deacons are 
helping with too. 

1280
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:20,120
They're dangling right now. 
We need to go sweeping in there.

1281
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:21,800
We going to think he wouldn't 
throw down a rope. 

1282
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,960
And we need to get alongside of 
them and help help lift them up 

1283
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:29,000
so they can get their get their 
footing, they can get their grip

1284
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:30,840
back. 
And then let's just go down 

1285
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,520
together. 
Let's just do this together. 

1286
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:36,560
Isn't that something? 
Now see, that's who, that's who 

1287
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,080
we got to be. 
That's who we need to be. 

1288
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,040
That's what this world 
desperately needs. 

1289
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,840
They're scared. 
This world's scared. 

1290
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,080
That's why they act out. 
That's one of the reasons they 

1291
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:48,760
act up is they're scared. 
They don't know about the 

1292
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:50,320
future. 
They don't know what's coming 

1293
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:52,520
up. 
They don't know that God made 

1294
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,400
the day. 
They have no concept of 

1295
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:58,560
rejoicing in it. 
They have no concept of being 

1296
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:01,920
glad in it. 
And so they need us to show 

1297
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,600
them. 
They need us to come alongside 

1298
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:07,560
of them and to help them to 
grow. 

1299
01:12:08,440 --> 01:12:11,240
So one final thing, one final 
story and I'll let you go. 

1300
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:16,440
So one year we were in, I was in
Malawi, East Africa, and we were

1301
01:12:16,440 --> 01:12:18,400
running a hospital. 
And we'd run these these 

1302
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:22,360
hospitals where we would take 
4050 people in a medical team 

1303
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:25,440
and we would take over an entire
school compound and we could see

1304
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:28,280
1000 patients a day, right? 
So this is a pretty big 

1305
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,120
operation. 
We'd have a million plus dollar 

1306
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:32,800
pharmacy we took and all this 
stuff because we knew 

1307
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,000
pharmaceutical companies. 
So this is pretty big operation.

1308
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,440
So I'm in charge of the 
management of this whole thing, 

1309
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:39,840
and I've shared some of those 
kinds of stories about those 

1310
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:41,320
things before. 
This one's different. 

1311
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:46,000
So one day I'm over there and I 
hear a commotion over here. 

1312
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,240
So I run to the commotion 
because that was my job. 

1313
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:52,960
Commotion runner. 
And I run to the commotion, and 

1314
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,360
there's a group of about 40 men 
with machetes getting ready to 

1315
01:12:56,360 --> 01:13:00,760
kill a man. 
And I said, no, let's not do 

1316
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,800
that. 
And I'll never forget. 

1317
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:07,360
I was up on a little platform 
and they were all down there, 

1318
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:11,960
all with machetes, all very 
angry about this man because he 

1319
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,120
had cut line and he was trying 
to steal medicine. 

1320
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:16,760
So they just thought, well, 
we'll just take care of him. 

1321
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,160
He won't need any more medicine 
when we're done with him. 

1322
01:13:20,440 --> 01:13:24,360
And so I'm standing there, a 
pastor comes alongside him, an 

1323
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:28,200
African pastor, and, and I have 
to stand off 40 men with 

1324
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:32,560
machetes, calming them down and 
helping them to understand that 

1325
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,000
we're not going to murder a man 
at my feet today. 

1326
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:36,760
Now, tomorrow might be 
different. 

1327
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:38,840
I might be tired, but today 
we're not going to do this 

1328
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:43,080
right? 
And I'm convincing them that 

1329
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:45,360
he's just afraid. 
I'll never forget this speech. 

1330
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:48,000
I'm not smart enough to think 
this stuff up. 

1331
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:52,120
God just helped me not to die 
that day. 

1332
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:56,160
But you, when you're standing 
off 40 men with machetes, you 

1333
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,680
need the Holy Spirit. 
Just remember that next time it 

1334
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,080
happens to you. 
When you're standing off 40 men 

1335
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:02,680
with machetes, you need the Holy
Spirit. 

1336
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,240
And so I was telling them that 
this man was just terrified. 

1337
01:14:06,440 --> 01:14:08,560
So because I was talking to the 
man and he was just trying to 

1338
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:11,040
get medicine for his mother, he 
just wanted to admit he's afraid

1339
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:13,280
she's going to die. 
He's afraid if he waited in 

1340
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,840
line, we were going to run out. 
He's afraid if we didn't, if he 

1341
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:17,960
couldn't get it, she was going 
to die before she got. 

1342
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:21,720
He was just afraid. 
And I said, now, now and and 

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then I convinced these guys, 
what are you making him even 

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more more afraid? 
And I said, and it's because 

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01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:31,680
you're afraid. 
So of course I get to preach the

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gospel to 40 men with machetes. 
It's a great story. 

1347
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:37,560
I wish I could say they all 
dropped their machetes and fell 

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to their knees. 
Oh, Sir, what must we do to be 

1349
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:40,880
saved? 
That didn't quite happen that 

1350
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,560
way, but we did save the man's 
life. 

1351
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:47,680
Sometimes we do things because 
we're afraid. 

1352
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,680
My, my last word to you is keep 
doing that. 

1353
01:14:54,480 --> 01:14:56,520
Keep doing things because you're
afraid. 

1354
01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:01,080
But make sure your fear has the 
right object. 

1355
01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:03,880
Let's do things because we fear 
him. 

1356
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:08,640
I'm more afraid of his 
displeasure than I am of what a 

1357
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:13,520
lost person might think of me. 
I'm more afraid of failing him 

1358
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:17,120
than I am about whether this 
world appreciates me all the 

1359
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:21,400
time or not. 
I I I want to honor and worship 

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01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:24,920
him. 
And so let's let fear motivate 

1361
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:30,080
us, but let it be the positive 
fear and not negative fear. 

1362
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:36,640
Power, grace, love, 
self-control. 

1363
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:42,680
It's hard, not easy, but we'll 
keep building on that every 

1364
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:44,720
week. 
Next week we're going to talk 

1365
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:48,280
about guiding guilt. 
Now that may be odd sounding to 

1366
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:52,080
you, but there are people who 
carry around it a toxic guilt, 

1367
01:15:52,480 --> 01:15:55,080
and they carry it and carry it, 
and they will not accept the 

1368
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:57,080
grace of God and the forgiveness
of God in their life. 

1369
01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:59,600
And then other people should 
feel guilty and they don't. 

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01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,760
We're going to talk about both 
sides, what conviction means, 

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01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:06,480
what guilt ought to be. 
Where's the balance of healthy 

1372
01:16:06,480 --> 01:16:08,880
guilt and unhealthy guilt next 
week? 

1373
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:10,760
So thank you all for coming. 
Let's pray together. 

1374
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:13,400
Father, we thank you so much for
your word. 

1375
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:16,440
Father, we just thank you that 
we can just walk through a 

1376
01:16:16,440 --> 01:16:19,400
couple of verses and there's 
enough for an hour and a half. 

1377
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:24,440
Father, we could stay for hours 
more and just continue to glean 

1378
01:16:24,440 --> 01:16:28,360
from your word. 
Father, the key part of this 

1379
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,600
whole thing is simple. 
Though it's difficult, it's 

1380
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:36,000
simple to understand. 
I have to take the focus off of 

1381
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,640
myself. 
I have to take the focus of off 

1382
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:44,080
of me sitting on the throne. 
I have to quit looking at the 

1383
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:47,800
waves around me, and I have to 
focus on you. 

1384
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:53,120
I have to worship you. 
I have to fear only you. 

1385
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:57,760
So help me, Father, in the 
moments when I'm gripped by 

1386
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:02,080
fear, maybe, maybe I live in a 
constant state of fearfulness, 

1387
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:06,240
that Father, help me to 
recognize tonight that that's 

1388
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:10,880
not the life you want for me. 
That you want me to live a life 

1389
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:16,720
of faith and of joy and of love 
and of service that transcends, 

1390
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:19,320
that overcomes the troubles of 
this world. 

1391
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,920
But Father, I can only do that 
by your strength and power, not 

1392
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:26,400
mine. 
So fill this with your Spirit. 

1393
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:30,680
Help us to dwell in your word. 
Help us to abide closely with 

1394
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:36,240
you, to give us the strength and
the grace, the power, the 

1395
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:40,840
self-control that we need in 
order to live in healthy fear of

1396
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:46,480
You and to push out, to leave no
room for Phobos. 

1397
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:50,120
Thank you Father, in Christ's 
name, Amen. 

1398
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:52,600
God bless you all. 
Thank you so much. 

1399
01:17:55,480 --> 01:17:57,160
Thank you so much for listening 
today. 

1400
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:58,440
And I also hope that you'll go 
to 

1401
01:17:58,440 --> 01:18:02,280
ourwebsite@englewoodbaptist.com 
as well as our app and find many

1402
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,640
other resources that will bless 
you and your families. 

1403
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:05,840
Thank you once again.