July 2, 2024 • 42 mins
In this episode, Pastor Steven Perry teaches us the concept of fear, its origins, and how it can serve as both a warning and a hindrance in our lives. We explore the distinction between fear and anxiety and how fear, when used correctly, can keep us safe. Through biblical references and personal anecdotes, we discuss how God allows fear to protect us but also teaches us to discern beneficial fear from the fear that impedes our spiritual journey.
We revisit the story of Adam and Eve to understand how fear entered the world through sin and how it affects our relationship with God. The episode emphasizes that while fear is a natural response of our fallen flesh, our spirit, once born again, should be free from fear. We explore the idea that fear is not from God, as perfect love casts out fear, and how faith and love can help us overcome the fears that hinder our Christian walk.
Join us as we discuss practical ways to overcome fear through faith, prayer, and understanding God's perfect love. Whether it's the fear of stepping out in faith, sharing your testimony, or dealing with personal anxieties, this episode provides insights and encouragement to help you face your fears with confidence and trust in God's love.
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I'm going to put this down, a lesson about what exactly is fear and how we can overcome that.
But I got the definition of fear as a strong, unpleasant feeling caused by being
aware of danger or expecting something bad to happen.
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This is not to be confused with anxiety, that's a different lesson.
And I'm sure we've all got some that have that, but that's a different lesson
that we can have. but I'm going to lump it in with fear. All right.
But is fear a good thing at times?
Yeah. Yeah. When it's used correctly, fear is good. It is. And it's a warning about danger.
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All right. Now, Gabe, I know you're a manly man, but would you go up and pet
a lion while it's eating, or would you be too afraid to do that?
I'd probably be a little too afraid. Okay.
That's a good thing, right? Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, our mind and God
allowing that to happen so that we don't go up there and get our hands bit off
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or our heads bit off, right?
I mean, that's a pretty good thing. Fear is a good thing to have at times.
So you see a poisonous snake out there, Brother Chris?
Drew a blank there. My goodness, you see that? Are you going to run up there
and try to dance with it? No?
Okay. Okay, that's a good thing, right? Because it could bite you and you could die very quickly.
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So it's a good thing. It's in our best interest to have some fear.
So God allows fear in our lives to keep us safe.
But we have to understand what is
good fear and what is fear that is not beneficial to our Christian walk.
But also, were we created with fear? we weren't creative with fear were we no
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let's go to Genesis chapter 3.
1 through 10,
1 through 10,
Thank you.
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Genesis chapter 3, 1-3 Chris, do you want to read that for us?
Not one through three, one through ten. Sure. Okay.
Okay.
Now the serpent was more than the beast of the field, which the Lord God had made.
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And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat every tree of the garden.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of
the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden.
God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die,
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant
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to the eyes and the tree to be desired to make one wife.
She took up the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were open And
they knew that they were naked And they
saw fig leaves together And
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made themselves aprons And they
heard the voice of the Lord God Walking in the garden in the cool of the day
And Adam and his wife hid themselves From the presence of the Lord God Amongst
the trees of the garden And the Lord God called unto Adam And said unto him You know, work hard.
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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked and hid myself. All right.
So Adam and Eve weren't afraid, right, when God created them.
Fear was never a part of God's design for man.
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It wasn't, because there wasn't any sin in the world. He created them just the
way you want them to, Josh.
So they were around all You know they were around lions They could pet the lions
I mean Adam went right up And named them right God allowed him to do that And
they weren't afraid Most animals attack.
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Humans or something like that Because they're afraid of us And they weren't
afraid either Because sin had not come into the world But when Eve eats the,
Fruit And Adam eats the fruit we have
fallen from grace we have fallen so far that
we are not the original design that
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god wanted for mankind so now now
we're afraid and that now fear comes in so fear is
because we have sin right and so
they were created perfect just how god wanted them they didn't have any sin
so but i'm glad that along that death was never supposed to be a part of human
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life either and that they were supposed to live and that they were going to
live forever and worship God forever in the garden.
And everything was perfect. But then sin came in and it messed it all up.
Right? And that we fell. And that no longer the way that God had intended for us to be.
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So it is natural to have fear because it's unnatural to have fear. Does that sound right?
And that we weren't originally supposed to have it, but now that we're not able
to stand in the presence of God in the state that we are before we get saved, we have fear.
And that it's not the way that God wants it to be.
And so we should have fear.
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We're going to get to how you overcome it in just a little bit.
And don't think I'm telling you to go around being afraid of everything.
But because sin entered in and death by sin, now there's fear.
Anybody got anything? Anybody want to share anything?
Don't make me do all the talking.
Michaela, you got something. I know you do. Not a thousand year reign. I'll be doing that.
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Yeah, yeah. All right, so it's natural to have fear because it's unnatural for us to have fear.
Alright, so now let's go to John chapter 3 Verse number 16 Okay,
so there is a way out Even though we've fallen There's a way out,
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Hopefully I'm not Going to bore you all like you are in school,
John 3 John 3 16.
When we get there Because we have I have... How about...
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Gabe's looking down at the floor like, nope, nope. All right.
How about Josh Graves? Read that for us, bro.
For God so loved the world that He was the only begotten Son that whoever should
leave the land should not perish, not everlasting. Okay.
So, now that fear had become a part of our DNA and that sin had become...
We were all born into sin. What happens?
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Jesus, man had nothing to do with Jesus' birth, in that he was the way that
God wanted us to be, right? And that without sin.
And so he died for our sins, and now there's a way out, Jesus' blood,
okay? My goodness, that's good.
Tim, will you read 1 through 6? John 3? Yep.
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There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, We know that thou art a teacher
come from God for no man can do these miracles except thou doest.
That thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again,
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he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
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Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again The wind bloweth where
it listeth And thou hearest the sound thereof But canst not tell whence it cometh
And whither it goeth So is everyone that is born of the Spirit,
Nicodemus answered and said unto him How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him Are thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things?
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Alright Alright so Here Nicodemus is coming to Jesus And that by night he's
ashamed to come to the world Probably a little fearful, right? He's afraid.
And they come to the Lord because he doesn't want people to think differently about him. Okay?
He's a Pharisee. Right? Chief one. Yeah, chief Pharisee. And so he's got a high position.
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Nicodemus is hiding behind that position a lot. But he's got questions.
He's got a desire. He wants to understand.
He believes who Jesus is. He knows there's something different about Jesus.
But he's too afraid to go during the day He's got to go by the cloak of night
Right So he allows fear to get in there Was that him being fearful in the soul
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Or was that him being fearful in the flesh,
Flesh. Flesh. And right here, Jesus plainly telling them, look,
there's two parts to us. There's flesh and then there's spirit.
Okay? And that which is born of the flesh is always going to be flesh.
That which is born of the spirit is always going to be spirit.
Right. You can't mix and mingle them. They're not mixed together.
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So we have a flesh, which is our outer man. Okay?
Our mind, our hands, our feet, all these things. Okay?
But we also have an inner man, which is the soul that God breathed into us.
And these two have two different fears. Okay?
They do. And they have two different fears. So the flesh was corrupted in the garden.
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All right? And the flesh will remain corrupt.
It's going to remain corrupt. Even after you get born again,
your flesh is still corrupted.
And that he does not save your flesh. Amen. He does not save your mind. Right?
And that he does not save anything but the soul. Right. That the soul is born again.
That's what God breathed into us on that sixth day.
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Came down, formed us, and then breathed into us. And then we became a living
soul. Amen. At that point. Okay.
So there's two parts to this. The flesh came from the ground.
And that the spirit came from God.
Isn't that good to think about? That you got a little part of God down there. Amen. Praise God.
Praise the Lord. So our flesh If it's always going to stay flesh Even after
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we're saved It's in a fallen state It's going to go back to the dust of the
earth So it's going to naturally fear,
It's going to stay fearful of things Alright So it's okay to be afraid,
I'm just going to get real. It's okay to be afraid to die.
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Isn't that right? And that because death was never supposed to be for man.
And that there's a lot of preachers that will get up there and tell you,
I'm not afraid to die because I know I'm going to heaven.
I got a problem with that. I'm not afraid of where I'm going to go when I die.
Right. But I sure don't want to go in certain. I don't want to drown.
I don't want to be mauled by a bear. Right. I mean, my flesh is afraid of that.
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Right. I'm not going to go up and try to grant a bear like Brother Gabe would.
And that, my goodness, and that because I know there's a good chance that I
know that bear is stronger than me.
Yeah. And that praise God, if it lays down on bench press, they can bench at
least easily 300 pounds more than me. Right. Easily. I don't know.
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But it most certainly could. And my flesh is going to stay afraid.
And that is okay but there is a way to overcome that and that we have an inner
man now the inner man it's from God the soul does not fear it doesn't once you're born again,
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so I'm thankful for that anybody got anything?
I appreciate you saying that yeah it took I was your guys' age when I started
getting into church, and it wasn't until, I mean, I had my second kid that,
because I had always heard, you know, you're saved, you shouldn't be depressed.
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You're saved, you shouldn't be scared. Foolishness. You know,
and so I struggled because I was depressed. I didn't want to tell anybody.
Yeah. Because I felt I was going to be judged. Yeah.
You know, I didn't doubt my salvation, but I was like, why am I going through this?
Yeah. And it wasn't I mean
really until I got the help that I needed That God You
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know and put some people in my life That were like I'm so
sorry you carried This so long You know but with people And themselves saying
that You know that I shouldn't be depressed Because it should always be Sunshine
because we have God in our hearts And our soul is always sunshine It's always sealed Like you said,
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we're still in this world we still have our genetics we still have our home
life we still have our work life we still have struggles in relationships.
And that takes a toll on our flesh. It sure does. And so I appreciate you saying
that. We need to remember that.
So I genuinely thank you.
And I hope you can take that to heart. Don't keep it in there.
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You're less of a person because you have anxiety. You're less of a person because you're afraid to die.
Not your eternal salvation, but like you said, you might struggle with depression.
That's all things that go on in the flesh You've got nothing to do with your
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soul Nothing to do with your salvation That's fear And things that stem from fear.
Anxiety, depression Natural things that Really mess with us But it doesn't get
to the soul Just know that If there's something going on in your mind In your
flesh or in your thoughts,
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it's got nothing to do with your salvation.
And that's naturally going to happen. Okay?
Hope I'm on everybody's level. I'm just trying to make it easy and deep at the
same time, which is not my forte.
I'm not Gabe Faulkner. Amen.
Praise the Lord. To piggyback off Julia, my thing is this. If we didn't have
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afflictions in the flesh, then why did Jesus have to heal people with leprosy?
Yep. You know, things like that. Why did he have to heal men that were lame
that couldn't walk, people that couldn't talk?
If those same things didn't exist, he wouldn't have had to heal and come for
those things. That's right.
Like you said. Yeah, absolutely.
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That's all things that are because of sin that has entered in.
If we had not fallen, we wouldn't be here.
But we didn't ask for it, like the preacher said. Which one said that? It was Cooper.
Didn't ask for it, but it was inherited. And now you've got to deal with it.
So anybody else got anything?
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The biggest event of fear that I can think of in the Bible is that Jesus was on the cross.
I believe that people that put him on the cross were afraid of what he might do.
They were fearful of what he might do. Yeah. Amen.
And that goes to another thing, acting out in fear, right? That acting out of fear.
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And that, you know, we got to learn what's the right fear, what's the wrong fear.
You know, they're running from a lot. Well, you're not going to help.
You're not going to outrun it.
But that fear, that instinct that's telling you, look, I don't need to go over there.
That's good. That's good. There's something dangerous over there.
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I need to stay over here. That's the good stuff.
But when we get into it, that's why I had you write down one outside of church
and one inside of church. We're two different people.
We've got the flesh and we've got the spirit. So those fears that are in the
church, those are the things we can overcome.
And that we should try to overcome.
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Somebody else got anything? Alright. The soul wants it saved. It won't be afraid.
And that's because it's restored to the state that God originally intended.
He came, He died, so we can be reconciled back to Him.
Reconciled to where He wanted us to be able. Before Adam fell,
He stood in the presence of God.
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He talked with God, right? He enjoyed the presence of God in the garden.
It says that he came in the garden in the cool of day.
The voice of the Lord came walking in the garden in the cool of day.
But once sin came in, he was afraid and he knew he couldn't stand and be present with the Lord, right?
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So once we get born again, that fear is gone. Isn't that right?
It's good to be able to worship God and to feel like he's just right down here
with us. Remember Tuesday night?
We was in the presence of God. Remember yesterday morning?
Amen? We were in the presence of God. And God's good. Amen? Those that are saved, you weren't afraid.
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In your soul. You might have been afraid in your flesh, you know,
for people that aren't saved.
We got to understand where the fear is coming from.
It takes a while to learn that. Like Julia said, she held on to it.
I wish somebody could have told her before.
That's a lot of suffering. Fear makes you suffer sometimes.
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But when we understand where it's coming from, we know who is given the fear,
which we'll understand that in a little bit.
We can know that we can overcome it through the Lord. Amen.
Alright, so, nobody else got anything? Daniel, you got nothing?
Why are you quiet on the bed?
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So what shouldn't I fear? There's some things we shouldn't fear, okay?
Because we're flesh and soul. Alright, so let's go to Romans chapter 5, verse 1 through 2.
I'm going to make you talk. You're going to read it. Okay.
Romans chapter 5, verses 1 and 2.
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Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom also we have us crossed by faith into this grace.
Therein we stand, rejoiced in hope of the glory of God. Amen.
Alright, so like we said, I'd be afraid of the presence of God.
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My dad told me one time that when he first got saved, the spirit,
when he felt it, it kind of scared him a little bit.
Right? That was in his flesh.
Okay? We don't have to be afraid of the presence of God when we're born again, right?
Now the presence of God when you're lost and it's convicting you,
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there should be a godly fear there.
Okay? A fear that will get you to the altar to get more again. Yes. Okay.
Now that we're saved, we can spiritually stand. Obviously, like Moses, we couldn't stand.
We couldn't see God and live. It says no man could see God and live.
All right. But spiritually, we can be in the presence of God.
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And I thank the Lord for that. What did Paul say?
My goodness. And that we can sit in heavenly places with the Lord. Yeah.
To be absent from this body is to be in the presence of the Lord.
When we're shouting hallelujah and that my goodness spirit everywhere and that
we're not, this present world just melts away and we're in the presence of God.
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And there's nothing else better than that. Amen.
So we can spiritually say, we ought not be afraid of that.
When it's coming on, my goodness, and that should be something we should be
linked up to. Okay. Does that make sense?
Anybody else got anything?
Chris, you got anything? No.
Alright, so let's go to James chapter 2, 14 through 24. We can break that up.
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I know that's a lot of reading, but the Lord was just flowing through it last night when we had a call.
What was the beginning, sir? James chapter 2, verses 14 through 24.
Alright, I'll read a few and then we'll pass it on to somebody else.
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But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own life.
I'm in the wrong chapter, my goodness. Get together with it, teacher.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he have faith and have not
works? Can faith save him?
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warned and filled.
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Notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?
Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works.
Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble.
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But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Mike, can we read the rest of that to 24? Yeah. Was not Abraham our father Justified
by the words When he had offered Isaac his son Upon the altar Seeest thou how faith,
Wrought with his words And my words And the scripture was fulfilled Which saith
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Abraham believed God And it was imputed unto him for righteousness And he was
called the friend of God We see then How that by words a man is justified And not by faith Amen,
So we ought not be afraid to work for the Lord The work of the Lord, right?
So our work for the Lord is important after we get saved because that's how
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we show people that there's a better way.
That's how we show people there's a difference in our life.
And that's how you can know that you're born again, not only that you feel something
down on the inside, you know what happened to you, but it's going to start working on you.
Isn't that right? My goodness, and now you're going to start wanting to tell
somebody about the Lord.
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And that though it may be scary at first, okay? okay, there might be a little fear we have.
We can overcome that through the Spirit of God, and that we can.
We might be afraid to maybe stand
up and testify in church. We might be afraid to get up and sing a song.
But we don't need to be afraid of those things.
Because fear doesn't come from the Lord. We'll read that verse here in just a minute.
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And that all that fear is coming from the flesh. Right?
Amen? It does not come from the Lord. And that's so when we understand that's
just my flesh, who's an enmity against God.
But my spirit and God really wants me to stand up and do it.
It's easier to overcome that fear, is it not?
When we understand where it's coming from, we can fight it a little bit better.
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So we ought not be afraid to work for the Lord with a job, which I've seen in
that quite a bit this week, and I appreciate it all.
I appreciate everything that everybody's been doing.
Children have been, not children, teenagers. Everybody's been stepping up and working for the Lord.
And that have you noticed that once you start doing
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it once it gets a little easier to overcome that fear
the next time right and that
once you realize that hey in that my flesh may not want
me to do that because it's in a fallen state it's corrupt
it doesn't like the things of god in that
right but my spirit is restored to the
state that it should be and that and it's always willing to serve the lord now
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that i understand and i get up and i do it it's easier to do it next time And
that Morgan you sing Right with the family And that so Wasn't it hard the first
time But when you got back up the second time It was a little bit easier.
Now I love watching her sing in there She sings with the spirit of God And that
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my goodness And that was it hard to maybe get up and Come to the altar and that
the first time Sister Emily and that praise God,
Because you thought maybe everybody would laugh at you But you got up
because the spirit overtook you You came and you noticed
that there was people around you that cared about you
and that that's what the the devil does
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not want you to enjoy he does not
want us to enjoy our salvation if you're if you're lost you don't want to get
saved and that he's he's bound for hell right there ain't no change in that
he's unredeemable but you that are lost you're absolutely redeemable and that
praise god and that and he and the flesh is going to try to do everything it
can to keep you from doing what God wants you to do.
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But if you stand up and resist the devil and he'll flee from you.
That's what James said, and that prayer is gone.
It'll be easier and easier and easier until the next thing you know,
you're standing up like Gabe preaching.
And then on a Wednesday, praise God, at a youth retreat, nervous still, that's good.
Because you don't want to mess up for the Lord. That's a good fear to have.
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Because that fear breeds obedience.
But, my goodness, and that it's easier to get up and say, you know what,
the Lord will be with me because He's been with me before. Anybody got anything?
Alright. Let's go to Hebrews 4. I don't know how much time I got.
I got just a little bit more.
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It ain't going to be long, I promise. I'll let you go.
You bless the Lord.
Hebrews 4, 14-16. It's one of my favorite scriptures.
Matthew, do you want to read that? Yeah.
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Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our
eternity, but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin.
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Let us therefore come boldly unto a throne of grace that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in times of need. Amen.
Some of my favorite scriptures.
So we ought not be afraid to come and pray. Okay.
My goodness. I know I already touched on that but a lot of times we get afraid
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in that to come because we think maybe God God won't understand,
or God won't care, or God won't be able to help.
But right there, that scripture blows that right out of the water.
We have not a high priest which cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmities. Yeah, amen.
And that he understands everything you're going through. He gets it.
Okay? Like, remember Brother Tim? He gets it. He gets it. And that praise God.
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He gets the anxiety. He gets the depression.
Yeah. He gets the fear. Amen. He understands it. He's been through it.
And that he lived in this world for 33 and a half years and that he lived like
we did and that yet without sin and that, my goodness, but he was tempted by the devil.
He overcame it. He knows what it's like to be tempted from the devil.
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Okay. He had fear, I'm sure. And I'm sure he didn't go up and pet, you know, vipers.
He didn't take a flute and try to get the cobras to come up out.
Did he? And he didn't do that. And I'm sure he didn't. And then praise God.
And that's the same God that he even quoted. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
And so, but he understands everything that we're going through, our sadness.
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You think he wasn't sad when he walked in to
a place and people didn't believe that he
was the son of God that had to break his heart he
understands broken hearts he understands anger
he got angry and that my goodness right when they were selling and buying and
money changing in the temple he came down through flipped over the tables it
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was a righteous anger because his father's house was being desecrated.
And that not used for what it's supposed to be used for. And that he had righteous
anger. But he understands when we're angry. He understands all these things.
And his desire is to help us.
So we ought not be afraid to come and talk that over with him. Right?
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You say, preacher, I don't know if I can make it to the altar.
You can pray anywhere you're at. I got saved in a pink Chevy Brantley.
In a parking lot. Right?
Amen. Praise the Lord. You can pray anywhere. Praise God. And he will understand.
And he'll help you with it. And if we let go of it, he'll take it.
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He will. And he'll understand. Praise God. We ought not to be afraid to come
and pray. So he understands our feelings.
I truly believe, I'm convinced, that when we come and we just let our feelings
out and we're praying to him, I believe he feels them right alongside us.
If you're sad, he's going to be sad with you. But he'll help you overcome it.
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You think that he's less Jesus because he's not physically here?
No. He's still the same God.
Right in the right hand of the Father. Amen.
He still feels what we feel. And that, my goodness, when we bring it to him,
and he'll take that from us.
Come up. I'm sad, Lord.
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This is going on in my life. this is over here my girlfriend is mad at me my
boyfriend is mad at me, my husband my wife and that my goodness and that,
maybe somebody is sick in your family and you're just coming up and you're sad,
boy not only will he get right next to you and feel that with you,
amen but he'll take that feeling,
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with him, amen, once you get back up, right?
I believe it I believe you can't convince me anything otherwise,
so I thank the Lord for that. He gets it and he wants to help. He wants to help you.
Anybody got an experience they want to tell that that's happened?
You don't have to. I know everybody stayed up until 3 or 4 in the morning.
Amen. I'll say a revival.
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It was the last revival we had and Terry Rock was preaching. I had kind of,
You know, let my mind get the best of me. You know, even a couple weeks prior,
just worrying about things and stressing about things.
And, you know, it's not really in my typical everyday thing to have that really
bad anxiety and just worrying about every little thing. Yeah.
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And I was so stubborn Monday night about going to the altar.
And I knew that I needed to go. Yeah. And here I am, 28 years old.
I've been saved since I was 12. And I was too prideful to go up there.
Yeah. And I remember he, you know, he had just. Bless the Lord.
He kept drawing altar call out, and I was standing by Morgan,
and he said, if you've got something going on, why not get it fixed up the first night? Yeah, amen.
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And I was like, yeah, you dummy.
I remember asking Morgan to go up and pray with me, just about some things that
were just really heavy on me, and the rest of the revival was just that much better. Amen.
I just not having to worry about it when I got back up. Amen.
He just took care of it. I just needed to go up there and just pass him upon.
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Yeah, amen. When you deloaded all on him, he took it, didn't he? Amen.
My goodness. Now, I'm not saying he ain't going to come back.
You might get anxious about things again in the future.
But now she, and she already knew this, but sometimes we got to remind ourselves
in the spirit, hey, the Lord took it last time. Why wouldn't he take it this time? Right.
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Lord, help me through it this time. Why wouldn't he?
And the next time, right? Praise the Lord.
So, and that's another thing. When we understand that it's the flesh that's
being stubborn, her soul desired, I'm sure, to be at rest again.
Amen. Right?
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Her flesh liked that she was being stubborn.
Okay? I know that might not make sense to everybody, but if you're saved,
you know what I'm talking about.
And praise God. We can't let our fears and our flesh overcome our spirituality,
right? Our spiritual will.
Anybody else? Got anything on your heart?
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Keep thinking about the man that came to Jesus and said, help my unbelief. Yep.
You know, God didn't, you know, put him down. God didn't beat him up.
Yeah. He didn't turn him away. Yeah. He helped him through that. Amen.
You know, that's, that's a beautiful part about, you know, Thomas,
you know, like I, I mean, doubting Thomas, we were kind of talking about it last night.
You know, he, he was even willing to, I believe wholeheartedly that Jesus was
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willing to let him put his fingers in his side and in his hands,
you know, but Thomas, he knew, you know, as soon as he saw him,
you know, He didn't need to do those things.
But, like, I don't know. I'm guilty of this. I'll just, you know, say this to myself.
You know, there's often times God has helped me repeatedly with some things.
And I'm like, man, I don't want to burden him or annoy him with the same thing again.
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But I forget that we've got a God that won't turn you away to deal with those things. Amen.
He's going to work through those things. Like, that's awesome. Amen.
Amen. Is he going to turn you away because you picked him back up later on down the line? No.
No. He loves you. I'm glad he understands. Amen.
My goodness. What a God we serve. One more verse and I promise we'll be done.
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All right. 1 John chapter 4, verse 18.
Promise I'm almost done.
Okay. It says, there is no fear in love, But perfect love casteth out fear.
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Because fear hath torment, he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love Him because He first loved us.
Alright, so if God is love and there's no fear in love, is that fear coming from God?
No, it's not. And that fear is not coming from God.
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And that it's our flesh. And that which can't be good at times,
God allows fear to happen to keep us safe.
But is it coming directly from Him? No.
So let me ask you this. Do you promise, amen, that this coming service,
the rest of the day, that if God lays something on your heart,
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you begin to get that fear, that feeling, feeling and that, man, I don't want to do that.
Or if I do that, somebody will make fun of me. Or if I do that,
everybody's going to look at me weird.
Or I've had this. They think that they don't think you're worthy to do that. Right.
I'm not worthy to do it. Right. But God wants me to do it anyways. Right. Amen.
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That's a big fear. And that praise God. Let's overcome. How do we overcome?
Overcoming fear? Through the love of God. Amen. Amen. We love him because he loved us. first.
Amen. The more love we have in him, if it's made perfect in love,
we can serve him more perfectly.
Amen. So to have perfect love, there's a back and forth there.
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We got to love him and he loves us.
And so if there's fear and what you're about to do, or there's fear in your
life about the Lord, and that maybe that, you know, maybe I'm afraid to go to
hell. It's not perfect love.
The flesh can be afraid of its demise it'll happen, it's supposed to be but
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if you're afraid of where you're going to go after, it's not perfect love okay,
everybody alright? did I go too long?
Alright, is there anybody else got anything on their heart?
That's the end of my list the way that I kind of like to think about it is like,
you know you have that overwhelming fear when you're not too involved to get
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saved and once you get up, it's gone. It's gone. Yeah.
Ain't it, man? Yeah.
So, if you're sitting there and you're so terrified to go up there,
you know once you get up, it's going to be gone. Yeah.
Thank you, Lord. Of course, you're sitting there and you're scared in the moment,
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but your soul beat down telling you, once you go up there, you're going to be fine. Amen.
The first step is fearful but after that you'll be happy,
yeah amen I couldn't have said it better myself amen praise God it's perfect
that is the way it is and that fear is just for but a moment and then grace comes amen,
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thank you Lord thank the Lord for that amen glad she didn't let her fear get
the best of her her flesh and that it not say that Yeah. Somebody else.
Brother Stephen, I found, this is my mom's Bible, and I found a spot where you preached in 2015.
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It's the first John, chapter 2,
verse 12 through 14, and it says, I write unto you, little children,
who are so separate in me for his name's sake.
I write unto you, Fathers, because we have now known you that did so in the day.
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I write unto you, young men, because we have overcome the wicked one.
I write unto you, young men, because you have known the Father.
I have written unto you, Fathers, because we have known that is from the beginning.
I write unto you, young men, because we are strong in the word of God.
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And be with you and you have no time to look at it.
Yeah. Amen.
Overcoming. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen.
I'm glad Levi didn't let his flesh fear too much to get at this.
Amen. Scripture. Work for the Lord.
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God's good. He's good. He's too good not to work for you. Amen. Somebody else?
I would just like to say that I feel the change in my faith this week.
Bless you, Leah. Bless her, sis.
I didn't have to go to college because I didn't have to do one last year. Yeah.
Amen. And so, I just knew where you were going to go.
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Yeah. Awesome.
Amen. Amen. Praise God. How do we overcome that? It's awesome. Love.
Feeling the love of God. It's a simple answer. Sometimes it's harder to put it into motion. It is.
Sometimes it's easier said than done. But if we do it, it will work. Yeah. It will work.
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Amen. Praise the Lord. Somebody else.
All right.
Now I gave you these. I was thinking if you want to hold on to them,
remind you that I don't need to be afraid of these things. You can.
But if you want to overcome, you know, rip it up, throw it in the garbage can.
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You're ripping up, you're getting rid of your fear. And that's just kind of
a symbolic thing, what you want to do spiritually.
And I got on here, I'm an outsider church, I'm afraid of spiders.
I'm going to stay afraid of spiders because they're killers.
They're silent killers. But I also got on here, I'm not following God is a big
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fear of mine because I know what it leads to. I'm going to wrap that up.
I'm going to wrap that up. I want to follow God. Amen. All right, that's all I got.
I'm going to put this down, a lesson about what exactly is fear and how we can overcome that.
But I got the definition of fear as a strong, unpleasant feeling caused by being
aware of danger or expecting something bad to happen.
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This is not to be confused with anxiety, that's a different lesson.
And I'm sure we've all got some that have that, but that's a different lesson
that we can have. but I'm going to lump it in with fear. All right.
But is fear a good thing at times?
Yeah. Yeah. When it's used correctly, fear is good. It is. And it's a warning about danger.
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All right. Now, Gabe, I know you're a manly man, but would you go up and pet
a lion while it's eating, or would you be too afraid to do that?
I'd probably be a little too afraid. Okay.
That's a good thing, right? Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, our mind and God
allowing that to happen so that we don't go up there and get our hands bit off
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or our heads bit off, right?
I mean, that's a pretty good thing. Fear is a good thing to have at times.
So you see a poisonous snake out there, Brother Chris?
Drew a blank there. My goodness, you see that? Are you going to run up there
and try to dance with it? No?
Okay. Okay, that's a good thing, right? Because it could bite you and you could die very quickly.
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So it's a good thing. It's in our best interest to have some fear.
So God allows fear in our lives to keep us safe.
But we have to understand what is
good fear and what is fear that is not beneficial to our Christian walk.
But also, were we created with fear? we weren't creative with fear were we no
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let's go to Genesis chapter 3.
1 through 10,
1 through 10,
Thank you.
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Genesis chapter 3, 1-3 Chris, do you want to read that for us?
Not one through three, one through ten. Sure. Okay.
Okay.
Now the serpent was more than the beast of the field, which the Lord God had made.
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And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat every tree of the garden.
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of
the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden.
God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die,
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant
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to the eyes and the tree to be desired to make one wife.
She took up the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were open And
they knew that they were naked And they
saw fig leaves together And
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made themselves aprons And they
heard the voice of the Lord God Walking in the garden in the cool of the day
And Adam and his wife hid themselves From the presence of the Lord God Amongst
the trees of the garden And the Lord God called unto Adam And said unto him You know, work hard.
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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked and hid myself. All right.
So Adam and Eve weren't afraid, right, when God created them.
Fear was never a part of God's design for man.
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It wasn't, because there wasn't any sin in the world. He created them just the
way you want them to, Josh.
So they were around all You know they were around lions They could pet the lions
I mean Adam went right up And named them right God allowed him to do that And
they weren't afraid Most animals attack.
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Humans or something like that Because they're afraid of us And they weren't
afraid either Because sin had not come into the world But when Eve eats the,
Fruit And Adam eats the fruit we have
fallen from grace we have fallen so far that
we are not the original design that
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god wanted for mankind so now now
we're afraid and that now fear comes in so fear is
because we have sin right and so
they were created perfect just how god wanted them they didn't have any sin
so but i'm glad that along that death was never supposed to be a part of human
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life either and that they were supposed to live and that they were going to
live forever and worship God forever in the garden.
And everything was perfect. But then sin came in and it messed it all up.
Right? And that we fell. And that no longer the way that God had intended for us to be.
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So it is natural to have fear because it's unnatural to have fear. Does that sound right?
And that we weren't originally supposed to have it, but now that we're not able
to stand in the presence of God in the state that we are before we get saved, we have fear.
And that it's not the way that God wants it to be.
And so we should have fear.
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We're going to get to how you overcome it in just a little bit.
And don't think I'm telling you to go around being afraid of everything.
But because sin entered in and death by sin, now there's fear.
Anybody got anything? Anybody want to share anything?
Don't make me do all the talking.
Michaela, you got something. I know you do. Not a thousand year reign. I'll be doing that.
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Yeah, yeah. All right, so it's natural to have fear because it's unnatural for us to have fear.
Alright, so now let's go to John chapter 3 Verse number 16 Okay,
so there is a way out Even though we've fallen There's a way out,
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Hopefully I'm not Going to bore you all like you are in school,
John 3 John 3 16.
When we get there Because we have I have... How about...
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Gabe's looking down at the floor like, nope, nope. All right.
How about Josh Graves? Read that for us, bro.
For God so loved the world that He was the only begotten Son that whoever should
leave the land should not perish, not everlasting. Okay.
So, now that fear had become a part of our DNA and that sin had become...
We were all born into sin. What happens?
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Jesus, man had nothing to do with Jesus' birth, in that he was the way that
God wanted us to be, right? And that without sin.
And so he died for our sins, and now there's a way out, Jesus' blood,
okay? My goodness, that's good.
Tim, will you read 1 through 6? John 3? Yep.
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There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, We know that thou art a teacher
come from God for no man can do these miracles except thou doest.
That thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again,
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he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?
Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
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Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again The wind bloweth where
it listeth And thou hearest the sound thereof But canst not tell whence it cometh
And whither it goeth So is everyone that is born of the Spirit,
Nicodemus answered and said unto him How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him Are thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things?
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Alright Alright so Here Nicodemus is coming to Jesus And that by night he's
ashamed to come to the world Probably a little fearful, right? He's afraid.
And they come to the Lord because he doesn't want people to think differently about him. Okay?
He's a Pharisee. Right? Chief one. Yeah, chief Pharisee. And so he's got a high position.
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Nicodemus is hiding behind that position a lot. But he's got questions.
He's got a desire. He wants to understand.
He believes who Jesus is. He knows there's something different about Jesus.
But he's too afraid to go during the day He's got to go by the cloak of night
Right So he allows fear to get in there Was that him being fearful in the soul
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Or was that him being fearful in the flesh,
Flesh. Flesh. And right here, Jesus plainly telling them, look,
there's two parts to us. There's flesh and then there's spirit.
Okay? And that which is born of the flesh is always going to be flesh.
That which is born of the spirit is always going to be spirit.
Right. You can't mix and mingle them. They're not mixed together.
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So we have a flesh, which is our outer man. Okay?
Our mind, our hands, our feet, all these things. Okay?
But we also have an inner man, which is the soul that God breathed into us.
And these two have two different fears. Okay?
They do. And they have two different fears. So the flesh was corrupted in the garden.
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All right? And the flesh will remain corrupt.
It's going to remain corrupt. Even after you get born again,
your flesh is still corrupted.
And that he does not save your flesh. Amen. He does not save your mind. Right?
And that he does not save anything but the soul. Right. That the soul is born again.
That's what God breathed into us on that sixth day.
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Came down, formed us, and then breathed into us. And then we became a living
soul. Amen. At that point. Okay.
So there's two parts to this. The flesh came from the ground.
And that the spirit came from God.
Isn't that good to think about? That you got a little part of God down there. Amen. Praise God.
Praise the Lord. So our flesh If it's always going to stay flesh Even after
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we're saved It's in a fallen state It's going to go back to the dust of the
earth So it's going to naturally fear,
It's going to stay fearful of things Alright So it's okay to be afraid,
I'm just going to get real. It's okay to be afraid to die.
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Isn't that right? And that because death was never supposed to be for man.
And that there's a lot of preachers that will get up there and tell you,
I'm not afraid to die because I know I'm going to heaven.
I got a problem with that. I'm not afraid of where I'm going to go when I die.
Right. But I sure don't want to go in certain. I don't want to drown.
I don't want to be mauled by a bear. Right. I mean, my flesh is afraid of that.
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Right. I'm not going to go up and try to grant a bear like Brother Gabe would.
And that, my goodness, and that because I know there's a good chance that I
know that bear is stronger than me.
Yeah. And that praise God, if it lays down on bench press, they can bench at
least easily 300 pounds more than me. Right. Easily. I don't know.
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But it most certainly could. And my flesh is going to stay afraid.
And that is okay but there is a way to overcome that and that we have an inner
man now the inner man it's from God the soul does not fear it doesn't once you're born again,
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so I'm thankful for that anybody got anything?
I appreciate you saying that yeah it took I was your guys' age when I started
getting into church, and it wasn't until, I mean, I had my second kid that,
because I had always heard, you know, you're saved, you shouldn't be depressed.
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You're saved, you shouldn't be scared. Foolishness. You know,
and so I struggled because I was depressed. I didn't want to tell anybody.
Yeah. Because I felt I was going to be judged. Yeah.
You know, I didn't doubt my salvation, but I was like, why am I going through this?
Yeah. And it wasn't I mean
really until I got the help that I needed That God You
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know and put some people in my life That were like I'm so
sorry you carried This so long You know but with people And themselves saying
that You know that I shouldn't be depressed Because it should always be Sunshine
because we have God in our hearts And our soul is always sunshine It's always sealed Like you said,
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we're still in this world we still have our genetics we still have our home
life we still have our work life we still have struggles in relationships.
And that takes a toll on our flesh. It sure does. And so I appreciate you saying
that. We need to remember that.
So I genuinely thank you.
And I hope you can take that to heart. Don't keep it in there.
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You're less of a person because you have anxiety. You're less of a person because you're afraid to die.
Not your eternal salvation, but like you said, you might struggle with depression.
That's all things that go on in the flesh You've got nothing to do with your
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soul Nothing to do with your salvation That's fear And things that stem from fear.
Anxiety, depression Natural things that Really mess with us But it doesn't get
to the soul Just know that If there's something going on in your mind In your
flesh or in your thoughts,
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it's got nothing to do with your salvation.
And that's naturally going to happen. Okay?
Hope I'm on everybody's level. I'm just trying to make it easy and deep at the
same time, which is not my forte.
I'm not Gabe Faulkner. Amen.
Praise the Lord. To piggyback off Julia, my thing is this. If we didn't have
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afflictions in the flesh, then why did Jesus have to heal people with leprosy?
Yep. You know, things like that. Why did he have to heal men that were lame
that couldn't walk, people that couldn't talk?
If those same things didn't exist, he wouldn't have had to heal and come for
those things. That's right.
Like you said. Yeah, absolutely.
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That's all things that are because of sin that has entered in.
If we had not fallen, we wouldn't be here.
But we didn't ask for it, like the preacher said. Which one said that? It was Cooper.
Didn't ask for it, but it was inherited. And now you've got to deal with it.
So anybody else got anything?
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The biggest event of fear that I can think of in the Bible is that Jesus was on the cross.
I believe that people that put him on the cross were afraid of what he might do.
They were fearful of what he might do. Yeah. Amen.
And that goes to another thing, acting out in fear, right? That acting out of fear.
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And that, you know, we got to learn what's the right fear, what's the wrong fear.
You know, they're running from a lot. Well, you're not going to help.
You're not going to outrun it.
But that fear, that instinct that's telling you, look, I don't need to go over there.
That's good. That's good. There's something dangerous over there.
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I need to stay over here. That's the good stuff.
But when we get into it, that's why I had you write down one outside of church
and one inside of church. We're two different people.
We've got the flesh and we've got the spirit. So those fears that are in the
church, those are the things we can overcome.
And that we should try to overcome.
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Somebody else got anything? Alright. The soul wants it saved. It won't be afraid.
And that's because it's restored to the state that God originally intended.
He came, He died, so we can be reconciled back to Him.
Reconciled to where He wanted us to be able. Before Adam fell,
He stood in the presence of God.
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He talked with God, right? He enjoyed the presence of God in the garden.
It says that he came in the garden in the cool of day.
The voice of the Lord came walking in the garden in the cool of day.
But once sin came in, he was afraid and he knew he couldn't stand and be present with the Lord, right?
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So once we get born again, that fear is gone. Isn't that right?
It's good to be able to worship God and to feel like he's just right down here
with us. Remember Tuesday night?
We was in the presence of God. Remember yesterday morning?
Amen? We were in the presence of God. And God's good. Amen? Those that are saved, you weren't afraid.
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In your soul. You might have been afraid in your flesh, you know,
for people that aren't saved.
We got to understand where the fear is coming from.
It takes a while to learn that. Like Julia said, she held on to it.
I wish somebody could have told her before.
That's a lot of suffering. Fear makes you suffer sometimes.
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But when we understand where it's coming from, we know who is given the fear,
which we'll understand that in a little bit.
We can know that we can overcome it through the Lord. Amen.
Alright, so, nobody else got anything? Daniel, you got nothing?
Why are you quiet on the bed?
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So what shouldn't I fear? There's some things we shouldn't fear, okay?
Because we're flesh and soul. Alright, so let's go to Romans chapter 5, verse 1 through 2.
I'm going to make you talk. You're going to read it. Okay.
Romans chapter 5, verses 1 and 2.
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Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom also we have us crossed by faith into this grace.
Therein we stand, rejoiced in hope of the glory of God. Amen.
Alright, so like we said, I'd be afraid of the presence of God.
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My dad told me one time that when he first got saved, the spirit,
when he felt it, it kind of scared him a little bit.
Right? That was in his flesh.
Okay? We don't have to be afraid of the presence of God when we're born again, right?
Now the presence of God when you're lost and it's convicting you,
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there should be a godly fear there.
Okay? A fear that will get you to the altar to get more again. Yes. Okay.
Now that we're saved, we can spiritually stand. Obviously, like Moses, we couldn't stand.
We couldn't see God and live. It says no man could see God and live.
All right. But spiritually, we can be in the presence of God.
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And I thank the Lord for that. What did Paul say?
My goodness. And that we can sit in heavenly places with the Lord. Yeah.
To be absent from this body is to be in the presence of the Lord.
When we're shouting hallelujah and that my goodness spirit everywhere and that
we're not, this present world just melts away and we're in the presence of God.
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And there's nothing else better than that. Amen.
So we can spiritually say, we ought not be afraid of that.
When it's coming on, my goodness, and that should be something we should be
linked up to. Okay. Does that make sense?
Anybody else got anything?
Chris, you got anything? No.
Alright, so let's go to James chapter 2, 14 through 24. We can break that up.
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I know that's a lot of reading, but the Lord was just flowing through it last night when we had a call.
What was the beginning, sir? James chapter 2, verses 14 through 24.
Alright, I'll read a few and then we'll pass it on to somebody else.
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But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own life.
I'm in the wrong chapter, my goodness. Get together with it, teacher.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he have faith and have not
works? Can faith save him?
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warned and filled.
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Notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?
Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works.
Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble.
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But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Mike, can we read the rest of that to 24? Yeah. Was not Abraham our father Justified
by the words When he had offered Isaac his son Upon the altar Seeest thou how faith,
Wrought with his words And my words And the scripture was fulfilled Which saith
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Abraham believed God And it was imputed unto him for righteousness And he was
called the friend of God We see then How that by words a man is justified And not by faith Amen,
So we ought not be afraid to work for the Lord The work of the Lord, right?
So our work for the Lord is important after we get saved because that's how
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we show people that there's a better way.
That's how we show people there's a difference in our life.
And that's how you can know that you're born again, not only that you feel something
down on the inside, you know what happened to you, but it's going to start working on you.
Isn't that right? My goodness, and now you're going to start wanting to tell
somebody about the Lord.
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And that though it may be scary at first, okay? okay, there might be a little fear we have.
We can overcome that through the Spirit of God, and that we can.
We might be afraid to maybe stand
up and testify in church. We might be afraid to get up and sing a song.
But we don't need to be afraid of those things.
Because fear doesn't come from the Lord. We'll read that verse here in just a minute.
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And that all that fear is coming from the flesh. Right?
Amen? It does not come from the Lord. And that's so when we understand that's
just my flesh, who's an enmity against God.
But my spirit and God really wants me to stand up and do it.
It's easier to overcome that fear, is it not?
When we understand where it's coming from, we can fight it a little bit better.
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So we ought not be afraid to work for the Lord with a job, which I've seen in
that quite a bit this week, and I appreciate it all.
I appreciate everything that everybody's been doing.
Children have been, not children, teenagers. Everybody's been stepping up and working for the Lord.
And that have you noticed that once you start doing
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it once it gets a little easier to overcome that fear
the next time right and that
once you realize that hey in that my flesh may not want
me to do that because it's in a fallen state it's corrupt
it doesn't like the things of god in that
right but my spirit is restored to the
state that it should be and that and it's always willing to serve the lord now
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that i understand and i get up and i do it it's easier to do it next time And
that Morgan you sing Right with the family And that so Wasn't it hard the first
time But when you got back up the second time It was a little bit easier.
Now I love watching her sing in there She sings with the spirit of God And that
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my goodness And that was it hard to maybe get up and Come to the altar and that
the first time Sister Emily and that praise God,
Because you thought maybe everybody would laugh at you But you got up
because the spirit overtook you You came and you noticed
that there was people around you that cared about you
and that that's what the the devil does
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not want you to enjoy he does not
want us to enjoy our salvation if you're if you're lost you don't want to get
saved and that he's he's bound for hell right there ain't no change in that
he's unredeemable but you that are lost you're absolutely redeemable and that
praise god and that and he and the flesh is going to try to do everything it
can to keep you from doing what God wants you to do.
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But if you stand up and resist the devil and he'll flee from you.
That's what James said, and that prayer is gone.
It'll be easier and easier and easier until the next thing you know,
you're standing up like Gabe preaching.
And then on a Wednesday, praise God, at a youth retreat, nervous still, that's good.
Because you don't want to mess up for the Lord. That's a good fear to have.
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Because that fear breeds obedience.
But, my goodness, and that it's easier to get up and say, you know what,
the Lord will be with me because He's been with me before. Anybody got anything?
Alright. Let's go to Hebrews 4. I don't know how much time I got.
I got just a little bit more.
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It ain't going to be long, I promise. I'll let you go.
You bless the Lord.
Hebrews 4, 14-16. It's one of my favorite scriptures.
Matthew, do you want to read that? Yeah.
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Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our
eternity, but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin.
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Let us therefore come boldly unto a throne of grace that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in times of need. Amen.
Some of my favorite scriptures.
So we ought not be afraid to come and pray. Okay.
My goodness. I know I already touched on that but a lot of times we get afraid
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in that to come because we think maybe God God won't understand,
or God won't care, or God won't be able to help.
But right there, that scripture blows that right out of the water.
We have not a high priest which cannot be touched by the feelings of our infirmities. Yeah, amen.
And that he understands everything you're going through. He gets it.
Okay? Like, remember Brother Tim? He gets it. He gets it. And that praise God.
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He gets the anxiety. He gets the depression.
Yeah. He gets the fear. Amen. He understands it. He's been through it.
And that he lived in this world for 33 and a half years and that he lived like
we did and that yet without sin and that, my goodness, but he was tempted by the devil.
He overcame it. He knows what it's like to be tempted from the devil.
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Okay. He had fear, I'm sure. And I'm sure he didn't go up and pet, you know, vipers.
He didn't take a flute and try to get the cobras to come up out.
Did he? And he didn't do that. And I'm sure he didn't. And then praise God.
And that's the same God that he even quoted. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
And so, but he understands everything that we're going through, our sadness.
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You think he wasn't sad when he walked in to
a place and people didn't believe that he
was the son of God that had to break his heart he
understands broken hearts he understands anger
he got angry and that my goodness right when they were selling and buying and
money changing in the temple he came down through flipped over the tables it
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was a righteous anger because his father's house was being desecrated.
And that not used for what it's supposed to be used for. And that he had righteous
anger. But he understands when we're angry. He understands all these things.
And his desire is to help us.
So we ought not be afraid to come and talk that over with him. Right?
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You say, preacher, I don't know if I can make it to the altar.
You can pray anywhere you're at. I got saved in a pink Chevy Brantley.
In a parking lot. Right?
Amen. Praise the Lord. You can pray anywhere. Praise God. And he will understand.
And he'll help you with it. And if we let go of it, he'll take it.
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He will. And he'll understand. Praise God. We ought not to be afraid to come
and pray. So he understands our feelings.
I truly believe, I'm convinced, that when we come and we just let our feelings
out and we're praying to him, I believe he feels them right alongside us.
If you're sad, he's going to be sad with you. But he'll help you overcome it.
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You think that he's less Jesus because he's not physically here?
No. He's still the same God.
Right in the right hand of the Father. Amen.
He still feels what we feel. And that, my goodness, when we bring it to him,
and he'll take that from us.
Come up. I'm sad, Lord.
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This is going on in my life. this is over here my girlfriend is mad at me my
boyfriend is mad at me, my husband my wife and that my goodness and that,
maybe somebody is sick in your family and you're just coming up and you're sad,
boy not only will he get right next to you and feel that with you,
amen but he'll take that feeling,
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with him, amen, once you get back up, right?
I believe it I believe you can't convince me anything otherwise,
so I thank the Lord for that. He gets it and he wants to help. He wants to help you.
Anybody got an experience they want to tell that that's happened?
You don't have to. I know everybody stayed up until 3 or 4 in the morning.
Amen. I'll say a revival.
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It was the last revival we had and Terry Rock was preaching. I had kind of,
You know, let my mind get the best of me. You know, even a couple weeks prior,
just worrying about things and stressing about things.
And, you know, it's not really in my typical everyday thing to have that really
bad anxiety and just worrying about every little thing. Yeah.
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And I was so stubborn Monday night about going to the altar.
And I knew that I needed to go. Yeah. And here I am, 28 years old.
I've been saved since I was 12. And I was too prideful to go up there.
Yeah. And I remember he, you know, he had just. Bless the Lord.
He kept drawing altar call out, and I was standing by Morgan,
and he said, if you've got something going on, why not get it fixed up the first night? Yeah, amen.
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And I was like, yeah, you dummy.
I remember asking Morgan to go up and pray with me, just about some things that
were just really heavy on me, and the rest of the revival was just that much better. Amen.
I just not having to worry about it when I got back up. Amen.
He just took care of it. I just needed to go up there and just pass him upon.
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Yeah, amen. When you deloaded all on him, he took it, didn't he? Amen.
My goodness. Now, I'm not saying he ain't going to come back.
You might get anxious about things again in the future.
But now she, and she already knew this, but sometimes we got to remind ourselves
in the spirit, hey, the Lord took it last time. Why wouldn't he take it this time? Right.
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Lord, help me through it this time. Why wouldn't he?
And the next time, right? Praise the Lord.
So, and that's another thing. When we understand that it's the flesh that's
being stubborn, her soul desired, I'm sure, to be at rest again.
Amen. Right?
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Her flesh liked that she was being stubborn.
Okay? I know that might not make sense to everybody, but if you're saved,
you know what I'm talking about.
And praise God. We can't let our fears and our flesh overcome our spirituality,
right? Our spiritual will.
Anybody else? Got anything on your heart?
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Keep thinking about the man that came to Jesus and said, help my unbelief. Yep.
You know, God didn't, you know, put him down. God didn't beat him up.
Yeah. He didn't turn him away. Yeah. He helped him through that. Amen.
You know, that's, that's a beautiful part about, you know, Thomas,
you know, like I, I mean, doubting Thomas, we were kind of talking about it last night.
You know, he, he was even willing to, I believe wholeheartedly that Jesus was
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willing to let him put his fingers in his side and in his hands,
you know, but Thomas, he knew, you know, as soon as he saw him,
you know, He didn't need to do those things.
But, like, I don't know. I'm guilty of this. I'll just, you know, say this to myself.
You know, there's often times God has helped me repeatedly with some things.
And I'm like, man, I don't want to burden him or annoy him with the same thing again.
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But I forget that we've got a God that won't turn you away to deal with those things. Amen.
He's going to work through those things. Like, that's awesome. Amen.
Amen. Is he going to turn you away because you picked him back up later on down the line? No.
No. He loves you. I'm glad he understands. Amen.
My goodness. What a God we serve. One more verse and I promise we'll be done.
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All right. 1 John chapter 4, verse 18.
Promise I'm almost done.
Okay. It says, there is no fear in love, But perfect love casteth out fear.
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Because fear hath torment, he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
We love Him because He first loved us.
Alright, so if God is love and there's no fear in love, is that fear coming from God?
No, it's not. And that fear is not coming from God.
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And that it's our flesh. And that which can't be good at times,
God allows fear to happen to keep us safe.
But is it coming directly from Him? No.
So let me ask you this. Do you promise, amen, that this coming service,
the rest of the day, that if God lays something on your heart,
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you begin to get that fear, that feeling, feeling and that, man, I don't want to do that.
Or if I do that, somebody will make fun of me. Or if I do that,
everybody's going to look at me weird.
Or I've had this. They think that they don't think you're worthy to do that. Right.
I'm not worthy to do it. Right. But God wants me to do it anyways. Right. Amen.
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That's a big fear. And that praise God. Let's overcome. How do we overcome?
Overcoming fear? Through the love of God. Amen. Amen. We love him because he loved us. first.
Amen. The more love we have in him, if it's made perfect in love,
we can serve him more perfectly.
Amen. So to have perfect love, there's a back and forth there.
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We got to love him and he loves us.
And so if there's fear and what you're about to do, or there's fear in your
life about the Lord, and that maybe that, you know, maybe I'm afraid to go to
hell. It's not perfect love.
The flesh can be afraid of its demise it'll happen, it's supposed to be but
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if you're afraid of where you're going to go after, it's not perfect love okay,
everybody alright? did I go too long?
Alright, is there anybody else got anything on their heart?
That's the end of my list the way that I kind of like to think about it is like,
you know you have that overwhelming fear when you're not too involved to get
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saved and once you get up, it's gone. It's gone. Yeah.
Ain't it, man? Yeah.
So, if you're sitting there and you're so terrified to go up there,
you know once you get up, it's going to be gone. Yeah.
Thank you, Lord. Of course, you're sitting there and you're scared in the moment,
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but your soul beat down telling you, once you go up there, you're going to be fine. Amen.
The first step is fearful but after that you'll be happy,
yeah amen I couldn't have said it better myself amen praise God it's perfect
that is the way it is and that fear is just for but a moment and then grace comes amen,
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thank you Lord thank the Lord for that amen glad she didn't let her fear get
the best of her her flesh and that it not say that Yeah. Somebody else.
Brother Stephen, I found, this is my mom's Bible, and I found a spot where you preached in 2015.
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It's the first John, chapter 2,
verse 12 through 14, and it says, I write unto you, little children,
who are so separate in me for his name's sake.
I write unto you, Fathers, because we have now known you that did so in the day.
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I write unto you, young men, because we have overcome the wicked one.
I write unto you, young men, because you have known the Father.
I have written unto you, Fathers, because we have known that is from the beginning.
I write unto you, young men, because we are strong in the word of God.
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And be with you and you have no time to look at it.
Yeah. Amen.
Overcoming. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen.
I'm glad Levi didn't let his flesh fear too much to get at this.
Amen. Scripture. Work for the Lord.
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God's good. He's good. He's too good not to work for you. Amen. Somebody else?
I would just like to say that I feel the change in my faith this week.
Bless you, Leah. Bless her, sis.
I didn't have to go to college because I didn't have to do one last year. Yeah.
Amen. And so, I just knew where you were going to go.
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Yeah. Awesome.
Amen. Amen. Praise God. How do we overcome that? It's awesome. Love.
Feeling the love of God. It's a simple answer. Sometimes it's harder to put it into motion. It is.
Sometimes it's easier said than done. But if we do it, it will work. Yeah. It will work.
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Amen. Praise the Lord. Somebody else.
All right.
Now I gave you these. I was thinking if you want to hold on to them,
remind you that I don't need to be afraid of these things. You can.
But if you want to overcome, you know, rip it up, throw it in the garbage can.
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You're ripping up, you're getting rid of your fear. And that's just kind of
a symbolic thing, what you want to do spiritually.
And I got on here, I'm an outsider church, I'm afraid of spiders.
I'm going to stay afraid of spiders because they're killers.
They're silent killers. But I also got on here, I'm not following God is a big
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fear of mine because I know what it leads to. I'm going to wrap that up.
I'm going to wrap that up. I want to follow God. Amen. All right, that's all I got.
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