258: Jason Hensley – Exhortation: Overcoming Fear

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this week’s talk.
Hello and welcome back for this

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week.
We’re listening to an

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exhortation that Brother Jason
Hensley gave in.

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February of 2020 at the Simi
Hills Ecclesia.

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The exhortation is entitled
Overcoming Fear.

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And what I appreciate about this
one, it was a suggestion that we

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actually got sent in fairly
recently, but it’s from, like I

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mentioned from 2020.
Some interesting context is that

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this exhortation was given on
the 16th of February in 2020, so

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that for the United States was.
Just a few weeks before kind of

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all the major lockdowns happened
around COVID-19.

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And it makes the overall concept
of overcoming fear that Brother

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Jason is looking at to be a
interesting one to look at.

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And he’s not.
He’s not talking about the

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really big serious fears and
mental health issues that people

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sometimes would struggle with,
but he’s talking about the

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little doubts and
inconsistencies that we can feel

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in ourselves and how that should
be approached and how we should

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have faced that.
And I feel like.

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Not knowing what was coming when
he gave this excitation actually

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makes the advice even more
powerful in a way, because it’s

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some of the guidance and things
that I remember feeling.

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And it was one of those.
I didn’t hear this excitation

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when he gave it live, obviously.
So it was one of those.

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I kind of wish it had been fresh
in my mind when all of that was

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going on in the fear and
uncertainty that everyone was

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having so.
I found it to be a really

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encouraging exhortation, one
that’s a good reminder of when

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we’re feeling uncertain and how
we’re supposed to approach that.

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So thank you to the person who
sent this in as a

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recommendation.
I hope you find it to be as

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encouraging as I do.
As always, we always appreciate

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and encourage any suggestions or
recommendations that you might

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hear from wherever they may be
coming from, feel free to send

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them in on the website or on
social media.

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And with that, I will turn it
over to brother Jason for his

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exhortation entitled Overcoming
Fear.

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Good morning, everyone.
So the exhortation today is a

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little bit kind of coming out of
an odd place.

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I guess I should tell you why
I’m talking about what I’m

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talking about.
Usually I like to look at the

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readings and try and come up
with something that’s coming

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from the readings.
That’s not what we’re doing this

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time, as you may have noticed
that we read John 12.

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This actually happens what we’re
talking about today because of

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an event that took place a few
weeks ago.

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So I was driving along the 405,
I drive an older car to 2001 and

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my car just died as I was
driving on the 405, which I’m

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sure a lot of you have
experienced that before.

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I have not.
So.

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So I was driving and I thought,
wow, my car’s not doing

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anything.
This feels very strange.

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And then I realized.
The engine wasn’t running and

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that was why.
So since that point, when

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driving down to downtown LA, I
have thought, wow, I sure hope

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my car doesn’t die.
Should I think, you know, that’s

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like a reasonable thing to think
and it hasn’t so far, which is

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good.
But subsequently every time now

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that I get into the car.
I’m always looking at all the

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gauges, you know, my hands
sweating and I’m thinking, you

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know, like what’s going to
happen, right?

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Like that you just, that’s how
it works sometimes.

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And so as I started to get ready
for the exhortation, I started

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to think, wow, you know, this is
silly that I’m having this

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reaction.
I think it’s an understandable

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reaction, but it got me thinking
about fear.

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And I know that we’ve had talks
about fear lately.

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But it was on my mind a lot.
So that’s that’s why we’re going

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to talk about it again.
What we’re going to do today is

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first I want to look at the
first instance of fear in

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scripture and then sort of the
last instance.

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And then I have a suggestion.
Obviously, I’ve just told you

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that I’m working through fear.
So you know, I’m not coming up

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here as like the guy who knows
how to fix fear problems, right?

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But.
This is my suggestion I think on

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how to work through them.
So it’s a two step process and

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hopefully you find it helpful.
So if you come with me to

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Genesis chapter three, I think
this is the first place that we

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see fear.
So this creates an interesting

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question.
I want you to look for as we

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read Genesis 3, look for fears,
associations.

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So what is fear connected to in
Genesis 3?

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So we’ve just had the serpent
speaking to Eve.

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Eve has taken the forbidden
fruit, so has Adam.

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And it says listen for fears,
associations, it says starting

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in verse 8, Genesis 3, verse 8
says And they heard the sound of

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the Lord God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day.

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And the man and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of

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the Lord God among the trees of
the garden.

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But the Lord God called to the
man and said to him, where are

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you?
And he said, I heard the sound

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of you in the garden, because I
was afraid, because I was naked,

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and I hid myself.
So you see the association there

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with fear.
And he says very specifically.

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I hid because I was afraid.
Because I was naked.

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Right.
So you get this idea that he was

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afraid because he was naked.
Now that’s interesting because

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how did he know that he was
naked?

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Well, it was because that
sinned.

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They took the fruit from the
tree of knowledge of good and

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evil, and it says their eyes
were open and they realized that

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they were both naked.
And so I think what you have

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that’s interesting.
Is there is suddenly the 1st

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place that fear ever appears.
There is this connection between

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fear and sin.
Now I’m not saying that you know

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when I sit in my car and my
hands like shaking on the the

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shifter that that’s not like you
know that’s a sin.

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But I think it’s important to
note that there is an

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association between the two that
fear seems to exist here because

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sin exists.
That makes sense.

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So that’s the first place.
So then I think that more or

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less should prompt us to ask a
question to say, well, if that’s

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the first place that sin appears
or that fear appears and it

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seems to be associated with sin,
then was there any fear before

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sin you can think about that?
It doesn’t say sorry for

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introducing a question without
an answer, but I think it’s good

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to ask these kind of questions.
Now, as far as the last time

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that it shows up, come over to
Mica chapter 4.

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Now, clearly Fear and Being
Afraid shows up later in the

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Bible, but Mica 4 is a prophecy
about the end time, and here’s

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what it says.
Mica Chapter 4.

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This is a time of
transformation.

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You have verse one and mica 4
where God’s house is being

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established above all the other
hills.

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Verse two nations are coming and
they want to come and worship

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God.
This is a prophecy of the time

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of the Kingdom and you know we
love verse 3 where it talks

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about they’ll beat their swords
and the plowshares, their Spears

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and the pruning hooks.
So you have this this picture of

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no more war, no more violence.
And so in that context, notice

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verse four.
It says in verse 4 but they

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shall sit.
Every man under his vine and

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under his fig tree, and no one
shall make them afraid, for the

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mouth of the Lord of Hosts has
spoken.

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And so I think we can probably
say that it would seem that in

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the Kingdom of God you have this
picture in which fear is gone,

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fear is taken away.
And I mean, we don’t think about

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this a lot.
At least I didn’t.

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That doesn’t really sound like
all that awesome of a picture of

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the Kingdom, you know, if there
is fear and Can you imagine that

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like, wow, I’m immortal, but I’m
scared all the time, right?

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Like that.
That would just be really a

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bummer, right?
Like said.

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So I think we get this picture
of a time without fear in the

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Kingdom of God.
The reason that’s interesting is

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as you go throughout the
Gospels, I think what we see is

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the Lord Jesus attempting to
create a time.

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In which he and his disciples
lived in the Kingdom of God at

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that moment.
Here’s what I mean by that.

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You remember that as the Lord
Jesus preached from city to

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city, do you remember what he
said?

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He said repent, for the Kingdom
of heaven is at hand.

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But that’s what he would tell
everybody.

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And when he sent his disciples
out, that’s what he told them to

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say.
So disciples would say repent,

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for the Kingdom of heaven is at
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And now if we’re taking that,
you know, literally the Kingdom

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of heaven, like, for real, well,
we have a problem because it

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really wasn’t at hand, right?
It wasn’t.

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We’re 2000 years later.
And so I think that what you get

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is what Jesus was really saying
was I’m here giving you an

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experience of the Kingdom.
You know, when when you were

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with the Lord Jesus, it was
like, in a sense, it was like

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you were in the Kingdom of God,
right?

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You were sick.
Well, you weren’t anymore.

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You know, all your problems
could be solved by the Lord.

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And so he says that the Kingdom
is at hand because in him it

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was.
In fact he says that if you can

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go to the reference, I’m not
going to turn it up, but it’s

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Luke Chapter 11 and it’s verse
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It’s Luke 11/20.
He says he’s casting out demons

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with a finger.
He says.

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If I cast that demon with a
finger of God, then Kingdom.

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And so that’s really the picture
he’s saying in me.

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The Kingdom of God is here.
And I think that’s the example

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for us, that it wasn’t just the
Lord Jesus who was supposed to

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live in the Kingdom every day,
but he wanted his disciples to

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do the same thing.
That’s why even when they

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weren’t with him, they said to
people the Kingdom of heaven is

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at hand, because in them people
were to experience the same

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thing.
So fear enters.

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When sin enters, fear is taken
away.

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When sin is taken away in the
Kingdom of God, and we are to

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Live Today as though we are in
the Kingdom of God, that’s the

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ideal, right?
So I think we can put that

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together and say, well,
therefore we should attempt to

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live lives without fear.
And that’s lofty, right?

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So the question then becomes,
OK, if that’s the goal, living a

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life without fear, then how do
you do it?

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How do we do that?
Now here is the two step process

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that I made-up.
You can see if this works for

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you and I think it’s biblical.
So I think this is a 2 step

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biblical process, but I mean,
this is my own model and you

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know, I’m not a psychiatrist or
anything like that, but let’s

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see how this goes.
I think when we think about our

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fears and you ask yourself,
where do my fears come from?

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I know that, at least for me, a
lot of my fears stem from

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anxiety.
You know, you’re you’re afraid

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of something that’s going to
happen, right?

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It it probably won’t actually
happen, but you’re afraid that

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it will.
So you you feel anxious and

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worried over that.
And I think scripture is pretty

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clear about worry.
Let’s just take a look at a

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couple of these.
Because they tell us about how

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God feels on worry and what we
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So let’s go to Matthew Chapter
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This is a passage that in which
the Lord Jesus talks to us about

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worry.
We’re going to go into it a

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little deeper.
It’s Matthew Chapter 6.

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It’s a sermon on the mount, and
perhaps you’ll recognize the

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words Matthew 6.
We’re going to start at verse

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25.
So you’ll notice that he talks

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about anxiety over and over
here, and he gives us a

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solution, Matthew Sixers, 25,
says.

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Therefore, I tell you, do not be
anxious about your life, what

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you will eat or what you will
drink, nor about your body, what

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you will put on.
It’s not life more than food and

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the body more than clothing.
Look at the birds of the air.

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They need their sew, nor reap,
nor gather into barns.

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And your your Heavenly Father
feeds them, are you not?

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Of more value than they?
And which of you, by being

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anxious, can add a single hour
to his span of life?

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Why are you anxious about
clothing?

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And so he goes on.
So I you know, he makes it

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pretty clear here that we’re
supposed to take anxiety out of

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our lives.
Did you notice, however, what

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his solution is for that?
He says the solution to anxiety

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is to know.
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They don’t sow.
They don’t reap, They don’t

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gather into barns.
Yeah, God takes care of them.

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Now, I think sometimes we get
pretty familiar with these words

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and we say, OK, yeah, God takes
care of the birds.

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Have you ever stopped to really
kind of think about that?

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I know that for me, when I
stopped to think about it, that

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actually made the whole verse
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And, you know, sometimes it goes
that way, right?

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Because Jesus says, well, look
at the birds, you know.

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God takes care of them.
And I have to tell you, this

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reminds me, every time I read
this, it reminds me of when I

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was 13 years old and a group of
us had little BB guns.

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And we thought, you know, we
were so cool.

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And we were, we were out down in
Ramona, and we saw a little bird

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on a fence.
And we were like, oh, shoot the

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bird.
That would be cool, you know,

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when you’re 13.
So we all shot this little bird

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and it died.
And then we couldn’t, like, we

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couldn’t handle it because none
of us had ever shot anything

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before.
It was, it was, you know, a

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little teeny cute black one.
I still remember so.

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And like, we couldn’t handle it,
so we buried it.

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And we were sad.
But I read this verse, Your

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heavenly Father feeds the birds.
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And I killed them, right?
Like, you know, that’s not very

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good.
But but like, you look at that

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and you think, well, how does
that comfort us?

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But I think it does.
If you come over to Luke,

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chapter 12, Jesus says the same
thing again.

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But he gives us a little, he
says a few different words here

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that I think show us really what
it was that he was saying and

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that he wasn’t just saying,
well, God will always feed the

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birds all of the time.
And you know, everything.

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For little birds, lives is just
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So if you look at Luke chapter
12, look again for the birds

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starting at verse 7.
Luke 12 sorry at verse 4.

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Luke 12 verse four, listen for
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I tell you, my friends, do not
fear those who kill the body,

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and after that have nothing more
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I will warn you whom to fear.
Fear him, whom, after he has

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killed, has authority to cast in
hell.

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Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Are not five sparrows sold for

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two pennies, and not one of them
is forgotten before God?

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Why even the hairs of your head
are all numbered.

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Fear not.
You are of more value than many

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sparrows.
Do you see what the Lord Jesus

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said here?
That’s different than what was

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said in Matthew and Matthew?
He says God feeds the birds,

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right?
So don’t be afraid.

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He takes care of the birds.
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He elaborates on that though,
and he doesn’t necessarily say

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that God takes care of the
birds.

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Instead, he says, not one of
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I think that’s a really
important distinction to kind of

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overlay on top of what Christ
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In Matthew 6, Christ was not
saying, you know, no birds ever

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die, right?
You should have wished that you

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were a bird.
That’s not what’s going on.

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Instead, he’s saying here in
Luke chapter 12, that God knows

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everything that’s happening.
And so you even see those silly

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little black birds that bounce
around, right?

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He says God knows what everyone,
those little blackbirds, is

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doing.
God doesn’t forget any of them.

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In fact, God knows how many
hairs you have.

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He knows about the one that fell
off this morning, right?

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Like that’s he.
He knows about all of those

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things.
And so, because he knows that,

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you don’t need to worry.
You don’t need to be anxious,

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because if something happens to
you, God allowed that to happen.

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God knew that it was going to
happen.

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He doesn’t forget.
And I think that that’s really

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the important piece here.
Jesus says you don’t have to

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worry.
Not because God’s going to take

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care of you all the time and
everything will be wonderful,

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but because God knows what He’s
doing and God knows what you’re

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going through now.
I think that’s really the key

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here in step one of dealing with
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It’s really a recognition that
God is working and that God has

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a plan.
And the way, the way that it was

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helpful for me to think about
this was that, you know, in

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front of us we have reality that
we see, that we experience.

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And it’s almost as though God
calls us to see his reality.

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To see that he looks at
circumstances and events in a

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way that is totally different
from how we experience them.

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Because he knows what’s going to
happen, he can control what’s

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going to happen, and we have to
step out of this reality that we

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see in front of us and attempt
to experience God’s reality.

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So let’s look at 3 case studies
here before we move into step

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number 2 with fear.
This is chapter 15.

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So in Genesis 15, you have the
story of Abraham.

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This, by the way, is one of the
first times that the word fear

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is actually used.
So in Genesis 15, we’re going to

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start at verse one.
That’s for context.

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Genesis 14 is the story of
Abraham fighting against Kita

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Laomer.
This is a pretty cool name.

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So he goes and he fights against
Kita Laomer and he rescues a

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lot.
Now I think that’s a helpful

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context because you think about
this.

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Abraham had 318 people with him
and he’s fighting 5 kings,

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right?
So you can just imagine Abraham

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probably would have been pretty
freaked out by this whole thing,

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but he goes and he does it
anyway because you know, he

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thinks that’s the right thing to
do.

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So in verse 15, right after all
these things, right after

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Abraham has succeeded, God says
to him 15 verse one, after these

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things, the word of the Lord
came to Abram in a vision.

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Fear not, Abram.
I am your shield.

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Your reward shall be very great,
right?

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So God said, I know that was
scary.

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You don’t have to fear.
And yet I think God said it for

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another reason.
It wasn’t just because of what

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had happened in chapter 14, but
if you keep reading, notice what

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Abram says in response.
Verse 2, Abram said, Oh Lord

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God, what will you give me?
For I continue childless, and

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the heir of my house is Eliezer
of Damascus.

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So Abram wasn’t just scared of
the battle, but I think Abram

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was looking at this.
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it seems like this was probably
about 10 years from the point at

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which Abram had been told that
all the earth would be blessed

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in him.
And so he’s thinking, OK, you

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know, I’m going to have a child
and descendants and they’re

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going to blast the earth.
And so now, 10 years later, he’s

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afraid because he says, you
know, you made these promises

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and what’s going on, you know,
it’s not working.

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So look at what God says in
verse three.

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Remember, we’re considering this
idea of our reality versus God’s

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reality.
So verse three, it says, And

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Abrams said, behold, you have
given me no offspring and a

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member of my household will be
my heir.

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And behold, the word of the Lord
came to him.

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This man shall not be your heir.
Your very own son shall be your

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heir.
And he brought him outside and

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said, look toward heaven and
Number the Stars.

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If you are able to number them,
then he said to him, so shall

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your offspring be.
And he believed in the Lord and

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he counted it to him as
righteousness.

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Now that’s a pretty famous
verse.

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It’s picked up in the New
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And I think what we want to
notice is in Romans chapter 4,

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the apostle Paul takes that
verse and he believed in the

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Lord and he counted it to him as
righteousness.

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Apostle Paul takes that verse
and he says, you know, why was

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this so amazing that Abraham
believed what God said?

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You know, God told him this
couldn’t.

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You just said, yeah, that’s
great.

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You know, I believe it.
But Paul says, you know, you

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have to understand the
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And the way that Paul describes
it is he says his own body was

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as good as dead, and so was
Sarah’s.

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And so you think about this
right, Abrams reality.

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I AM 85 years old.
I am not going to have children,

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right?
Seems pretty clear.

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And yet God says you have to see
my reality.

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You have to recognize that I
don’t work within this scope of

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your experiences.
And so because of that, God

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could come and you could say,
fear not.

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I know that you’re afraid.
How are these things going to be

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accomplished?
I know that you were afraid from

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the battle.
But see my reality, recognize my

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overarching control and my
overarching plan.

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So you see that in Genesis 15.
Here’s, here’s another example.

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You don’t have to go there, but
you can if you want.

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It’s in Second King’s Chapter 6.
You might remember the story.

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Second King 6.
This is the king of Syria is

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trying to conquer the Kingdom of
Israel.

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And so the king of Syria sends
an army to go fight against

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Israel.
And he says, ha ha, this is

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going to be a good sneak attack.
And then all of a sudden his

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troops get there and the army of
Israel’s waiting.

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And the king of Syria says what
somebody told them, you know,

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And he does it again.
He says, OK, we’ll go sneak

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attack somewhere else.
And then they go and the army of

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Israel’s waiting there.
And he says, who’s telling these

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people, oh, it’s Elisha, right?
They figure out, you know,

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Elisha knows this and so they go
and they surround the city where

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Elisha is.
And Elisha servant says all

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we’re done for.
You know we can’t do this.

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And do you remember what Elisha
says?

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Fear not, for they that be with
us are more than they that be

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with them.
Now can you just imagine this,

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right?
Elisha’s saying that to this to

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the servant and the servant
would be like this guy is nuts,

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right?
We don’t have an army, you know

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we don’t have anything here.
What is he talking about?

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And then Alicia says, oh, Lord,
God, open his eyes.

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And then he sees the Chariots of
fire all around the city.

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Right?
This is a glimpse into God’s

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reality.
And so he didn’t need to fear.

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I think it’s helpful for us to
recognize that God works on a

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level and in a way that is so
much bigger than what we can

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often think.
And so when we sit there in our

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anxiety and we think, well, if I
do this, this is what’s going to

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happen.
God is working and God has a

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plan.
Here’s another example for you.

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Come over to Luke chapter 8.
This is the last one in Luke

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chapter 8.
This is the story of Jarius’s

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daughter.
In Luke 8.

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Jesus has been approached by
Gyrus who is the ruler of the

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synagogue, and he asked him to
come and heal his daughter.

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And while he’s on the way, he
stopped by someone else who

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needs healing, right?
She grabs his cloak and she’s

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healed and Christ turned around
and he says he touched me there,

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that whole story.
And that takes just long enough

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so the Lord Jesus is held up and
doesn’t make it to Gyrus’s house

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before his daughter dies.
And so verse 49, Luke 8, verse

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49 says verse 49 while he was
still speaking, someone from the

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ruler’s house came and said your
daughter is dead.

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Do not trouble the teacher
anymore.

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Now look at Jesus’s answer.
Jesus on hearing this, answered

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him, do not fear.
And you see the opposite of fear

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here.
Do not fear, only believe and

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she will be.
Well, Jesus essentially says you

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don’t believe in what I think
this is belief in God’s reality.

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Like don’t fear, You know you
looking in front of you and it

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looks like your daughter’s dead,
but I’m telling you she’s not.

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But that’s what Jesus says,
verse 51.

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And when he came to the house he
allowed no one to enter with him

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except Peter and John and James
and the father, the mother and

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child.
And all were weeping and

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mourning for her.
But he said do not weep, for she

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is not dead but sleeping.
Now everybody standing in that

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house would have thought that
Jesus was crazy and they did,

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and they laughed at him knowing
that she was dead but she wasn’t

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in God’s reality.
Taking her by the hand, he

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called saying child arise, and
her spirit returned and she got

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up at once and he directed that
something should be given her to

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eat.
And her parents were amazed, but

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he charged them to tell no one
what had happened.

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And so I think when we we find
ourselves bombarded by these

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anxieties, the first step is
really to recognize that, well,

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God is working.
We don’t know how he’s working.

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It’s it’s still going to be
hard.

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But he’s working and he has a
plan that’s bigger than what we

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know.
And so we have to try and step

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out of our reality and what we
see and to see his reality.

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Now here’s step two.
I think even in that, you know,

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we can’t say you can get rid of
fear because, you know, I can

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very fully well acknowledge that
God is working but still be

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afraid of things.
You know what?

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If I say, OK, God is working,
but you know, I know that I

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could get hurt in this situation
and maybe God is going to allow

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me to get hurt and I don’t like
getting hurt.

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So, you know, that’s scary.
And in fact, I think you see

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that now, if you remember what
we just read here in John

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chapter 12, the Lord Jesus, I
think, even gives us an example

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of that.
Now I have to be careful here.

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Scripture doesn’t say that Jesus
was afraid in this chapter, but

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I think you can infer that in a
sense.

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So as we come to remember him
now, let’s bring our thoughts

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here to the Lord Jesus in John
chapter 12 he says in verse 27,

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listen for the fear.
John 12, verse 27 says, Now, is

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my soul troubled?
And what shall I say, Father

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saved me from this hour, But for
this purpose I have come to this

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hour.
And so you can almost hear this

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wrestling, right?
Jesus wasn’t scared because, you

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00:29:36,380 –> 00:29:39,820
know, he thought that that
something really bad was going

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to happen to him.
I mean, he knew that something

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really bad was going to happen
to him.

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This wasn’t just like anxiety
over what might take place.

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And I think in this situation
you legitimately can be scared,

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you know, what he was doing was
going to be something

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terrifying.
And so he says, my soul

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troubled.
And yet I think that this is

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really where it all comes
together for us, because we can

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recognize that God’s in control
and yet we can still be

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paralyzed by fear, even knowing
that he’s taking care of things.

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And so the Lord Jesus gives us
the example, because what he

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does is he says, you know what?
I’m.

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I’m afraid.
And do you see what he says

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after that?
Verse 28, Father, glorify your

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name.
And I think that’s the point at

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which the antidote for fear is
courage.

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You know, we just have to say,
you know, I’m really afraid

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right now, but I’m going to do
this anyway because this is what

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I should do.
Now let’s see how this comes

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together.
Let’s go to Second Timothy.

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Chapter one for the gym brought
us to this one a few weeks ago,

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Second Timothy one, And I think
that this really kind of brings

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it together.
Second Timothy chapter one.

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Notice the different character
traits or ideas that are here in

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this verse.
In verse 7, Second Timothy one,

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verse 7 says for God gave us a
spirit not of fear.

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So what’s the antidote to fear
of power and love and

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self-control?
And I think what we see going on

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here is you have this idea of
power, which is courage.

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You have this idea of courage,
love and self-control all coming

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together in which where you find
yourself trembling from fear.

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You say, I’m going to be
courageous and the question is

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why?
Because of love.

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And I think that’s how this all
works together, is that the step

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two of the process of going
against fear is essentially

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saying, I’m afraid, I’m
terrified, but I’m going to do

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this because I love God, because
I love you, you know, And that’s

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really how this comes together
for us.

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Love is what conquers fear.
You know, I think we’re familiar

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with the verse in which John
says perfect love casts out

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fear.
Right?

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00:32:41,410 –> 00:32:44,090
And I love the way that he
describes it because, you know,

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when you actually look at the
Greek, the word there for casts

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out is, is balo, which means
like, throws, right.

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So it’s not just, you know,
perfect love sets to fear, OK,

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You know, you can’t be here
right now.

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It’s perfect love.
Like picks up fear and says get

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out of here.
You can’t.

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You got to go away.
This isn’t going to work.

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We can’t exist together.
And so when we look at the Lord

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Jesus and at his sacrifice, I
think it’s helpful for us to

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recognize that here, it’s
somebody who fully acknowledged

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00:33:12,090 –> 00:33:14,930
that God was in control.
He fully saw God’s reality.

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He saw the joy that was set
before him, and yet he was

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00:33:18,530 –> 00:33:22,030
scared because of what he was
going to have to go through.

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And so when we see the same
thing with ourselves and we

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think, how am I going to get
through this, we take courage

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00:33:34,270 –> 00:33:40,310
and we think on how much we love
our God, how much we love his

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Son.
And that love spurs us to

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action.
And courage and courage teaches

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us to face that fear and to
conquer, just as the Lord Jesus.

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