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Memory Work Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Is Fear A BIG PROBLEM TODAY?. How To Overcome Your Fear. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT.
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Memory Work Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Is Fear A BIG PROBLEM TODAY?
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT IN GOD WE TRUST, SPIRITUAL AMERICA: TESTING PERSONAL FAITH IN A CYNICAL AGE! “Praying to end the wave of fear. America is experiencing a fear wave. Fear flows not just from TV pictures, but from real-life experiences.”
Ann Lander’s Newspaper Column “What’s the most common problem that you find in your letters?” She Said, “Without a doubt, fear.”
USA Weekend—FACING YOUR FEAR! “Anxiety is America’s #1 mental health problem. It costs billions and ruins lives, and it’s on the rise. Why? It’s a scary place and time…Edginess is epidemic.”
OTHER NAMES FOR FEAR: • WORRY • TENSION • ANXIETY • BEING UPTIGHT • STRESS
We Know That FEAR “Fear is the dark room where negatives develop.” • Is limiting • Is draining • Is contagious “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” President Franklin Roosevelt
FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS FOR NO-FEAR LIVING Accept God’s Love for Me (1 John 4:18) Fear & Love are opposites
FOUNDATIONAL TRUTHS FOR NO-FEAR LIVING • LOVE CAN OVERPOWER Fear • Love that’s required is perfect love. • It’s your deepest human need.
Three Different Levels of Fear • Surface fears • Significant fears • Soul fear • Overpowering your deepest fears requires perfect love (1 John 4:18) • Only one Who has this perfectlove is God (v.16-17)
Three Different Levels of Fear # 1 1 John 4:18 (NCV) “Where God’s love is, there is no fear because God’s love drives out fear.”
WHY DO PEOPLE AVOID GOD? • Don’t understand His love. • Don’t think He’s interested.
WHY DO PEOPLE AVOID GOD? • Don’t understand His love. • Don’t think He’s interested. • Don’t think they’re worthy. Rom. 8:39 (NCV) “Nothing in all creation is able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.”
Three Different Levels of Fear # 2 Believe in Jesus as My Savior. John 1:12 “To all who received Him, to those who believed in His (Jesus) name, He gave the right to become children of God.” Belief isn’t just head knowledge agreement.
Belief means to rely on, trust in, cling to, adhere to, commit to. • Salvation requires placing your full reliance & trust in Jesus. • John 8:24 • Ephesians 3:7-13 • Luke 8:50 “Fear Not, … Believe”
Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.Eugene H. Peterson, The Message : The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, 2002), Heb 2:14-15.
# 3 Commit My Life & My Fears to the Lordship of Christ—Luke 6:46