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April 9, 2024
(207) "Delivered from Fear"
You were not designed for fear, you were designed for love! Sharon and Philip continue the conversation from episode 206 to help you understand where fear came from and how you can be delivered from it. They share encouraging scriptures and faith-building testimonies to show how you can move out of doubt and into trusting in God as your refuge in times of trouble. We know that great shakings are upon us and there are more to come, but as you learn to walk in the Spirit, you can have confidence that Jesus is with you and you can trust Him no matter what comes your way.
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So confidence and trust in the truth are the opposite of doubt.
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And when you win the battle over doubt, you have won the battle over fear.
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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.
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Welcome to global outpouring.
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Will we contend for that promise outpouring?
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Are we equipped for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring?
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I'm Philip Bus.
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And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.
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We are so delighted that you're with us and we want to continue sort of as a part two.
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It wasn't really intended to be a part two, but it's really a continuation of what the Lord
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gave us last time where we're going to talk about being delivered from fear.
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Thank you so much for joining us today.
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Before we get started, we want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, that you would go
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So today we're going to go on from the point where we left off last episode where we were
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talking about where do you run for refuge.
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And we told the story of Myrtle Bailey in Hong Kong when she was in a very, very dangerous situation
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in World War II and the Japanese were taking over Hong Kong.
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And she hid in the closet when the Japanese soldiers were coming after her, looking for her.
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And they opened the closet and all she could see in between her and them was feathers.
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Feathers. Just like Psalm 91 talks about,
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he will cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shall thou trust.
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And in the description of the story, she said at one point,
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oh, where was that peace that passes understanding?
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But at the same time, she was totally yielded to the Lord, totally yielded.
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And in that total submission to the Lord, even if you're feeling fear,
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there is a confidence that is deep in your soul that enables you to trust him no matter what goes
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on, no matter what threatens, no matter what there is, whether you feel that peace that passes
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understanding or you don't, it's still his truth is your shield and buckler.
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Yes.
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And sometimes you get afraid because of the circumstances.
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Sure. That's the natural thing.
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Exactly.
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Exactly. But we want to talk about what to do when you're afraid. And what is this fear?
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And where does it come from? We want to dig down into it.
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And when you look at the disciples, when they were in the boat,
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yeah, how long had they been with Jesus at that point?
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Well, it's been a while.
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And they've seen all the miracles and they seen all these things, but maybe this was something they
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haven't seen before.
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Well, the thing was they had seen storms on the lake before.
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That Sea of Galilee is really just a freshwater lake in case you didn't know.
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The one that wind comes down the mountains.
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Yes.
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It's like a derecho coming down.
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Yeah. It comes from the east off of the desert there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and it comes
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swooping down and it creates, there's real strong depths in that part of the Sea of Galilee.
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And it created a situation that they probably had seen before and they probably lost friends to it.
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So they're going by what they know in their human understanding.
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Yeah. What they've heard.
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Mm-hmm. What they've heard, what they've experienced.
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What was in their memory bank.
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Right.
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And then when this presented itself, it just showed up.
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Yeah. So Jesus had said to them, let's go over to the other side.
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And you've probably heard sermons on that, that they should have paid attention to the fact that
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he said, we're going to the other side instead of going by what their natural instincts taught them.
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Mm-hmm.
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But when that happened, Jesus said, why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?
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Or there's another place where it says, how is it that you still have no faith?
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Yeah.
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You've been with me this long and you don't have faith? Come on.
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Of course, they were crossing the Sea of Galilee and the demonic and the tombs was on the other side.
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Yes. I wonder why this was an attack that came up while they're in the boat,
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you know, in order to keep that from happening, because if this man gets set free.
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Right.
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It's going to change a lot of people's, you know, like how did this happen to you?
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Right. I think it was a territorial demon that he was carrying or a whole troop of territory.
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I mean, a whole legion of territorial demons and they were in control of that region using him.
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You don't always know what's going to happen when God puts you on assignment somewhere.
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Right.
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Was it Paul and Barnabas, you know, when they come over to Macedonia and help us.
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Right.
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What happened? They ended up in the stocks.
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Yes.
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Got beat.
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Yes.
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You know, we don't always know what's going to happen in the journey, but Jesus was in the boat with them.
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Amen.
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Even though they've been with them, they'd seen a lot of miracles and things like that.
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But this was something that fear took over and they just kind of panicked.
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Yeah, they did.
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Wake up, wake up.
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Don't you care that we're about to die?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, there's a similar story when Peter takes faith to step out of the boat.
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If it's really you, tell me to get out and walk on the water.
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Yeah.
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So he gets out and walks on the water and then he starts looking at the circumstances.
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Yeah.
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And the circumstances, it's interesting how it says he saw the wind.
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Saw the wind.
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He saw the wind. You don't see the wind.
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No.
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You see the result of the wind.
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So maybe he saw something in the spirit that really scared him too.
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You know, that's a possibility.
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So Peter sees the winds and the waves becoming so boisterous and he begins to be moved in the flesh.
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Instead of in the spirit. See, he stepped out in faith, which is walking in the spirit.
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So he stepped out in faith and then his natural senses took over and his experience as a
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fisherman on the lake with big waves.
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Yeah.
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And suddenly fear overcame him.
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Right.
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He's afraid.
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And what happens?
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Yeah, he sank.
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He took his eyes off of Jesus.
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Right.
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You know, which, you know, that'll preach.
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But you see the pictures of him. Sometimes you see it's not real big waves, but they get big waves.
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So if you're walking on the wave, what happens if a big wave comes and lifts you up about five,
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six feet, just, you know, that would make your, take your eyes off of Jesus and look down at what
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just happened.
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Right.
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And then as soon as you look down and saw what happened, or maybe you're in, in the trough
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there and another big one's coming and, and that's when he lost it. You know, we don't exactly know,
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but because why would he come out of the boats? He has his eyes on Jesus. He's walking on the water
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and something happened. He saw the boasterous wave. That's when he got his eyes off.
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Yeah. That's when he started to sink.
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And so if you get your eyes off Jesus, then fear comes in.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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And that is the point. So Jesus reached his hand out and caught him and said to him,
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Oh, you of little faith, why did you doubt? Okay. So let's go back to the beginning of where we see
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fear coming into the word of God. It starts with doubt actually.
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So you go back to Genesis and you see the story in the book of Genesis where Adam and Eve have
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been tempted by the serpent. The serpent keeps on, keeps on, keeps on with Eve, causing her to doubt.
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Did God really say, did God really say that you're going to die? That's not what he means.
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Yeah. So she started to doubt. So doubt after it worked on her for a while, probably,
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caused her to reach out and take that fruit and eat it and give it to Adam. And he ate it too.
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Now they both knew they weren't supposed to eat it. Adam had been told that they would die if they
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ate it. She got the message that they weren't even supposed to touch it, which wasn't what God said,
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but it would have protected her if she hadn't touched it. And the doubt moved into rebellion
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against the word of God. And then when they realized that they're naked and they cover
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themselves with aprons made of fig leaves, which must have been terribly uncomfortable,
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God calls out, where Adam, where are you? And Adam says in Genesis 3 10, I heard your voice in the
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garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. There's the first place you see fear.
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So fear came in chain reaction, but it started with doubt. So doubt created rebellion,
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rebellion created fear. So this word for fear in the Hebrew, it's yare. And it means to be afraid,
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to fear. It can also mean to revere or to be feared, to be dreadful, to be reverence, to
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terrify, to make afraid. And what I'm reading from is the lexical aids in the back of the Hebrew
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Greek key study Bible that is put out by AMG publishers. And I'm reading from my 1990s version.
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It's a little bit different now. I'm not sure what it will say now, but, but from that version,
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these lexical aids say about this word number 3372 that there are two main types of fear
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described by your ray, a the emotion and intellectual anticipation of harm.
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What one feels may go wrong for him. Okay. That's what, that's what Adam was experiencing in the
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garden. Okay. He's, uh-oh, what's going to go on now? Uh-oh, I'm in trouble. And then B is a very
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positive feeling of awe or reverence for God, which may be expressed in piety or formal worship.
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So, you know, if you're, if you've ever had this experience where you're in the presence of God and
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the presence is just so strong, I've had experiences where I've started to tremble or shake and, and,
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uh, you know, it's like, there's a reverence that comes out of just being in his presence
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that you could call it the fear of God. Did you, you don't want to disobey, right? You just don't
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want to disobey because you begin to experience his greatness and the more of his greatness that
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you experience, the more likely you are to be obedient because he's so great. He's so awesome.
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He's so, oh, beyond what we can even imagine. Yeah. So it's this experience of knowing him.
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We are designed by him to walk with him, to know him, to be in loving relationship with him,
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to be reconciled to him. And when we've goofed it up, that's when you get this fear. This fear
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comes from not having done things right. Okay. Fear comes because of sin. Okay. It breaks down
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our relationship. And you know, here's an interesting note that people who have gone to heaven
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and come back to talk about it. There's a lot of people who've gone to heaven. We haven't heard
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from again, but we're, we're hearing more and more, especially with the modern things that can be done
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with medicine. You know, they've learned ways to save lives. Yeah. So people that have come back
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have said, when I was outside of my body, I didn't have any fear and I didn't have any doubt.
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It stays with the flesh. Yeah. Wasn't that wonderful? Yeah. So doubt and fear belong to
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the flesh realm. God really wants us to live in such trust and confidence in him that we don't have
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any fear other than a reverential fear of him. We're not designed to fear. We're designed for love.
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Yeah. God designed us to live in love. And if you, if you look at a child, you know, a child that has
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come up in a safe and loving environment doesn't walk in a natural fear. You have to learn fear,
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really. Yeah. I mean, kids will do things that a wise person will never do. Cause, cause you, you
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learn the results of jumping off the roof of the house, you know, a little kid might put on it,
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you know, he watches a superhero movie and he puts on a cape and he jumps off the, he jumps off the
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balcony, you know, and oops, that didn't work. You know, I, I'm not Superman or whatever, you know,
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but you have to learn that kind of fear that, that this is not a safe thing to do. Yeah. I walked
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through high school with a bit of fear because there was kids in my class that were big and I
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was a, I was a 96 pound freshmen. Yeah. You know, I was just a little guy and there was a group of
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them. This took the light and harassing me, you know, getting all kinds of stuff. Yeah. And a lot
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of times I had a fear going to school, coming back, you know, and it felt a whole lot better when I
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start to drive a car and go to the parking lot, you know, that, but I kind of live with that through
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high school, you know, and I never, and because of that, I never liked school. I like band. Oh yeah.
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And I just kind of put that together. Probably one of the reasons I never liked school is because
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what it was getting harassed because I was there, you know, I mean, I had certain protectors, you
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know, but if they weren't around, you know, it didn't, you know, it didn't work. Yeah. So you came
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to dread going to school. Yeah, I really did. Fear and dread go together. And even as we were kids,
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you know, we grew up in, you know, Chicago, South side, and we had to take the bus,
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you know, to transfer a couple of times and it was a dangerous neighborhood. And every day was an
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adventure of some sort, you know, it was an adventure you dreaded, you know, and so you'll
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live through that, you know, my younger years and then through high school. Thank you, Jesus, you
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know, getting delivered from all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But I don't think
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that at that point you had a really strong relationship with the Lord that would give you
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confidence. No, I really didn't. Yeah. You didn't know he was your refuge and your strength. No,
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you didn't know he was a very present help in time. I know I had a mom and grandma praying for me.
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Well, that helped. Let's look at that verse. We covered it some in the last podcast, but
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let's look at Psalm 46, one to three and the passion. Okay. God, you're such a safe and powerful
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place to find refuge. You're a proven help in time of trouble, more than enough and always available
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whenever I need you. So we will never fear even if every structure of support were to crumble away.
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I love that. We will not fear even when the earth quakes and shakes, moving mountains and casting
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them into the sea. For the raging roar of stormy winds and crashing waves cannot erode our faith
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in you. Pause in his presence. And that reminds me of a missionary that was at our church. He's
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from Germany. Albert Heisen, actually was his name. He was in Mexico city in a building and he heard
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the Holy Spirit say, stand right where you are. It was in between a doorway, a big earthquake hit.
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Wow. Big one, you know, and everything was crashing all around, but in the doorway, he was safe.
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Yeah. He obeyed the voice of the Holy Spirit. Stand in this doorway, even though everything's
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shaking and crumbling around you. Yeah. That's hard to do, you know, because the first thing is
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get out of the building, you know? Yeah. But if you're on the sixth floor and there's an elevator
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or something that doesn't work. Nope. You know, God is your refuge and strength. So, so he obeyed.
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Yeah. And everything was crashing around him. That was a major quake. A lot of people died in
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that was a bad one. It was, it was when we have our confidence and our trust in God,
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we can go through a thing without fear. Yeah. And you know, the doubt that causes fear,
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if your confidence is in him, you don't have doubt. Yeah. And if something happens suddenly,
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like if you're going through a thunderstorm, all of a sudden, you know, there's a tornado
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warning or something, your adrenaline is already pumping, you know, or if you're in a wild car or
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something, you know, you got a wild taxi driver or something, you know, you're in the backseat
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praying in the Holy ghost, you know, but all of a sudden, as something happens instantly, like an
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earthquake, that's instant, you know, and all of a sudden that's when the Holy Spirit can just,
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if you're training yourself, you know, cause there's no time to think about anything. It's true. It
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has to be an instant reaction or a car pull in front of you or something. Yeah. Instant reaction.
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Yeah. I'm reminded of an accident that I was in. I was in a vehicle and we were pulling up to a
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hotel into, into the parking lot and the person who was in the driver's seat hit the accelerator
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instead of the brake. We're pulling into the parking lot, right? And it's, it's the middle
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of the night. We got there late. We had a reservation, right? So we're pulling into this place.
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She hits the accelerator instead of the brake. You had your seatbelt on, huh?
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I probably had my seatbelt on and we crashed into the building.
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Did bricks come down and all that? Well, you know, it was right there on the,
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on the front of the first floor. I think it was probably multi-story. I don't remember that part.
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I just, I remember some of the bricks falling off and, you know, and the people who were staying in
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that room coming to the door. Thankfully we didn't go all the way into the room, but you know, it,
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I don't know, it might've broken the windows. I, but here's, here's the thing. I said, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus. Okay. Yeah. I said the name of Jesus. That was what was in my spirit in that moment.
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Yeah. Okay. And that's what you're talking about, that we have this instant reaction
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that puts us in the spirit realm by calling on the name of the Lord.
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And what happens a lot of times you will see a little short video or something out there,
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unbelievers. Yeah. All of a sudden it's a tornado or something. I mean, this is a video dash cam
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and they're calling on God. This thing is happening instantly and their instinct is to call out to God,
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even if they'll say, Oh my God. Yeah. And maybe they used to be a believer and they weren't,
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and they weren't because where did that come from? Right. That was in your spirit. God wired us that
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way to say, Oh my God, just doesn't come out of the blue. Yeah. If you know, unless you've been a
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Heathen all your life, maybe or something. Yeah. But even the Heathen tend to say, Oh my God.
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Yeah, that's true. You know, they may not know him, but all of a sudden they're in a position
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where he's the only one that can help. Yeah. Yeah. So the idea is we are practicing
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learning to walk in the spirit instead of the flesh. So that even when we're in a fleshly moment
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and all of a sudden something comes up, our spirit steps up and takes control. At the worst time,
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you would think something, you didn't get your prayer time or this, this or something rattled
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your cage just before that. And maybe you felt like you lost the glory for a moment or two there.
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Yeah. Well, you know, the same thing happened when we had that accident 16 years ago.
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And, and we're flipping and I'm saying, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. And I was saying the same thing.
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I guess I didn't know it because a lot really didn't. The last thing I remember was the car
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going into the ditch, you know, on cruise control, kind of going up the other side. Yeah. And then,
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and that's the last thing. And the only other thing I remember was seeing a blurry grill of
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the oncoming truck and all that. And that's, and even though I was saying Jesus, Jesus, I don't
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remember that. Yeah. Cause at the time I had that first hit, it's probably when the final chord got
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pinched and I blacked out. I was still saying Jesus. You sure were. Your spirit was there,
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even if your consciousness wasn't. Yeah. That's, and that's the whole thing about we cultivate
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this walk with God. We cultivate overcoming, we cultivate walking with him. So I want to look at
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how doubt and fear are a part of the curse of the law. So in Deuteronomy 28, 65 to 66, it says,
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and among these nations, you shall find no ease. So this is God giving the blessings and the
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cursings to Israel so that they know how to behave and they know how not to behave.
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Mm-hmm. And you've got a chapter that has the curses and then you've got a chapter that has
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the blessings and the blessings are actually fairly short. And then it goes on with a whole
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bunch more curses. So this is what happens if you don't obey me. God's just spelling it out for us.
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If you don't do it my way, it's like he has written the owner's manual for how to operate your car.
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Yeah. Okay. So if you don't read the owner's manual, you might just be inclined to pour,
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I don't know, pour whiskey down the gas tank or, you know, never check the oil and the oil goes dry.
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If you don't do the things that the owner's manual says, something's going to go wrong eventually.
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Or the instruction manual. Yeah, the instruction manual. So the Bible is the instruction manual
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for us so that we know how to live a life that is designed to walk with him. Okay. So in Deuteronomy
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28, 65 and 66, it says, and among these nations, talking about the nations that the people groups
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that they are going to be overtaking to take the land that God has promised them. It says,
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among these nations, you shall find no ease. Neither shall the sole of your foot have rest,
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but the Lord Yehovah shall give you there. Like if you get in with their thing, he's going to give
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you a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind. And your life shall hang in doubt
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before you. And you shall fear day and night and shall have no assurance of your life. Wow. So that
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is the curse of the law. But remember what it says in Galatians 3, 13, that Christ has redeemed us
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from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written, curse it as everyone that
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hangs on a tree. So every kind of doubt and fear has no place in our lives. It's been paid to have
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removed. Exactly. And if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
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cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And we know that the curse causeless cannot fall. It cannot
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come. It cannot light like a bird. It can't light on us. And so this word that we have to stand on,
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we can build our confidence and our trust when we've done our part to confess and ask God to
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forgive us. He does. He absolutely does. And just ask him to blot it out, not only of his books,
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but also of the devil's books. So the devil has nothing to work with to come against you.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So let's build some faith. Let's build some expectation and trust
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in the Lord. Psalm 27, one to six says the Lord or Yehovah is my light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear? Yehovah is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
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When the wicked came up against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell.
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Though an army may encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war may rise up against me,
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in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek,
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that I may dwell in the house of the Lord Yehovah all the days of my life to behold the beauty of
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Yehovah and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion.
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We can count on it, beloved. We can count on it. In the secret place of his tabernacle,
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he shall hide me. He shall set me high upon a rock and now my head shall be lifted up above
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my enemies all around me. Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle. I will sing.
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Yes, I will sing praises to the Lord Yehovah. Yes. So praising him and worshiping him and offering him
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sacrifices of joy help to build your confidence in him. Yes. It really makes a difference.
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Like if you've had a bad day or if something happened and you're disappointed, just roll it
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back, get in the spirit and start to worship. He's always there waiting. Yes. And it'll make
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that stuff roll off. Yeah. And the sooner you do it, the better off you are. Amen. Amen. What does
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Psalm 56-3 say? Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you. That's so good. And I like Young's literal
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translation. The day I'm afraid, I am confident toward you. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah. You know,
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trust is a grid we trust, but confident has a stronger meaning. Yeah. Yeah. And then Isaiah 12-2,
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this is in the King James. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid
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with the Lord. That's Yehovah is my strength and my song. He also is become my salvation or my Yeshua.
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That's exactly right. Wow. Yes. And I love, you can always stand on 2 Timothy 1-7,
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for God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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And who would know that more than Paul? Yeah. I should say. So confidence and trust in the truth
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are the opposite of doubt. And when you win the battle over doubt, you have won the battle over
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fear. That is really profound. It is. It's a truth. It's a truth. When the battle over doubt,
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and you've won the battle over fear. So this is something to hang on to. Now we recorded a podcast
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in our first season. We're coming to the end of our fourth season now, but we recorded podcast
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episode number 19 with Mary Lois Little. And she told about how she overcame the spirit of fear.
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And it was a literal spirit that she had to deal with. So we're going to take a little excerpt from
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that and let her tell this testimony. And then we're going to come back and pray. Growing up,
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I was afraid of the dark, terribly afraid of the dark and would have to have lights on and just had
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to have every kind. I remember being 26 years old and walking through my house. Were you married by
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then? Yes, I was married and I had a couple of kids by then, or at least Brian was a year old or so.
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And we were living in Italy and Gene was gone on. He was in the Navy and he was gone and I was alone
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in the house and I didn't like being in the dark by myself. So I would plan my little pathway to
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before going to bed. I would see to that all the lights on my path to get from the kitchen back to
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the bedroom. All the lights had to be on and the final light went out as I ran and leaped to get
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onto my bed because I thought for sure the enemy was going to grab me. But God has not given us a
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spirit of fear. That's right. And thank God, but he's given us power and love and a sound mind.
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And so the years went on, Gene and I got filled with the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy
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Spirit was speaking in tongues. And I began to look at the Word of God. And then as I got older,
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I still had this battle with fear and I needed to be delivered. And I just knew I had to have
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something from the Lord. And this one particular time I said, Lord, please, please deliver me.
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Please deliver me. And I had this vision. It was a very powerful vision of deliverance from my life.
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And I saw the Lord coming. He came to me and he had a broom in his hand. I love this story. Yes,
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it's a great story. He had a broom in his hand and he was sweeping. And what I perceived from
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the experience that he was sweeping up all the fear in my life. He started from the beginning
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and he was coming up sweeping and sweeping. And as I watched this unfold in my spirit, yes, Jesus,
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I thought, oh my goodness, how big is this thing going to be by the time it gets to where I'm at
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now? And finally, Jesus came up to the moment that I was in and I thought it was going to be a great,
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huge black ball. And it was just Jesus with the broom. And he bent over and he picked up a dust
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pan and he swept something up on the dust pan. And he lifted the dust pan up so that I could see.
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And on that dust pan was a loony thing and it wasn't any bigger than my thumb. And it was standing
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on the dust pan and Jesus held it up so that I could see it. And it was standing on the dust pan,
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having a temper tantrum and it was going, like an imp, like, oh, it was smaller than, I mean,
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if you can, I mean, did it have like a form like a head and arms and legs? Yes, it did. It had a
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form and it was just angry and it was upset. But as it was there on that dust pan, having itself a
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fit, one infinitesimal, the tiniest, tiniest drop of the blood of Jesus came down on the top of its
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head. And that thing, it just exploded. It was, and that thing was gone. Hallelujah. And it was
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spectacular because as I said, I didn't function well at night. And but from that point on,
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I could walk through a dark house without worrying about lights. I'm telling you, the Lord
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delivered me. Yes, cleaned up all of that fear. He started back from when I was a child and it came
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up to that point in that, but it has stood. Remember what it says in Galatians chapter five.
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This is Galatians chapter five, verse one, stand fast. Therefore in the Liberty, wherewith Christ
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has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. So Jesus set me free, but he
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set me on a path to understand the responsibility that I had to take for keeping my deliverance.
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There you go. You know, and it really is. And second Corinthians 10 verses four and five became
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a foundational scripture for me. And those early days, it says for the weapons of our warfare are
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not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations
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and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity
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every thought to the obedience of Christ. And I'll read verse six as well, having in a readiness
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to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. All right. So how is my obedience
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fulfilled? It was bringing my thought life captive that the patterns of fear were not allowed to
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take root in any way. Now, wasn't that faith building? That was tremendous. I just love that
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story. I love how God dealt with Mary Lois and gave her the revelation of how small the spirit of fear
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really is. So beloved, if you're dealing with the spirit of fear or the spirit of doubt, if those
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things have been a plague to you, we're going to pray for you right now. And maybe it's not you,
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but maybe it's somebody you know. So agree with us for a deliverance from the spirit of fear.
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Yes. Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you. We thank you that you gave your son
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to die on the cross for us and that in his crucifixion, he paid the price to deliver us.
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He became the curse for us. This curse of the law. We are delivered from this curse of fear,
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these curses of doubt, all of these things that have come because of disobedience to your word,
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Lord. We thank you, Jesus, that you have paid the price for this. And we thank you that you
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know how to go sweeping through our lives and deliver us from every kind of fear and deliver us
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into trust in you, confidence in you, knowing that we can expect deliverance even in fearful times,
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even in earthquakes, even in fires, even in war, even in all of these terrible things that can
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happen. And some of them are likely to happen, but Lord, we know that you are our confidence.
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You are our refuge. You are our strong tower. We run into your name and we are safe. And we thank
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you for that, Lord. And we pray for each listener that each and every one is going to come to a
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place of deliverance, a place of full expectation of your love to deliver them in every way and for
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their loved ones as well. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes. And Lord, we thank you for your
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word in 2 Corinthians 3, 17. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is,
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there is liberty. Yes. There is freedom. Yes. Thank you, Father. You are there. Hallelujah.
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Yes. Freedom from fear. Amen. Amen.
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So confidence and trust in the truth are the opposite of doubt.
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And when you win the battle over doubt, you have won the battle over fear.
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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.
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Welcome to global outpouring.
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Will we contend for that promise outpouring?
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Are we equipped for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring?
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I'm Philip Bus.
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And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today.
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We are so delighted that you're with us and we want to continue sort of as a part two.
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It wasn't really intended to be a part two, but it's really a continuation of what the Lord
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gave us last time where we're going to talk about being delivered from fear.
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Thank you so much for joining us today.
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Before we get started, we want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, that you would go
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So today we're going to go on from the point where we left off last episode where we were
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talking about where do you run for refuge.
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And we told the story of Myrtle Bailey in Hong Kong when she was in a very, very dangerous situation
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in World War II and the Japanese were taking over Hong Kong.
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And she hid in the closet when the Japanese soldiers were coming after her, looking for her.
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And they opened the closet and all she could see in between her and them was feathers.
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Feathers. Just like Psalm 91 talks about,
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he will cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shall thou trust.
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And in the description of the story, she said at one point,
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oh, where was that peace that passes understanding?
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But at the same time, she was totally yielded to the Lord, totally yielded.
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And in that total submission to the Lord, even if you're feeling fear,
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there is a confidence that is deep in your soul that enables you to trust him no matter what goes
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on, no matter what threatens, no matter what there is, whether you feel that peace that passes
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understanding or you don't, it's still his truth is your shield and buckler.
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Yes.
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And sometimes you get afraid because of the circumstances.
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Sure. That's the natural thing.
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Exactly. But we want to talk about what to do when you're afraid. And what is this fear?
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And where does it come from? We want to dig down into it.
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And when you look at the disciples, when they were in the boat,
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yeah, how long had they been with Jesus at that point?
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Well, it's been a while.
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And they've seen all the miracles and they seen all these things, but maybe this was something they
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haven't seen before.
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Well, the thing was they had seen storms on the lake before.
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That Sea of Galilee is really just a freshwater lake in case you didn't know.
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The one that wind comes down the mountains.
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It's like a derecho coming down.
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Yeah. It comes from the east off of the desert there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and it comes
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swooping down and it creates, there's real strong depths in that part of the Sea of Galilee.
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And it created a situation that they probably had seen before and they probably lost friends to it.
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So they're going by what they know in their human understanding.
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What was in their memory bank.
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And then when this presented itself, it just showed up.
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Yeah. So Jesus had said to them, let's go over to the other side.
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And you've probably heard sermons on that, that they should have paid attention to the fact that
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he said, we're going to the other side instead of going by what their natural instincts taught them.
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Mm-hmm.
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But when that happened, Jesus said, why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?
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Or there's another place where it says, how is it that you still have no faith?
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You've been with me this long and you don't have faith? Come on.
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Of course, they were crossing the Sea of Galilee and the demonic and the tombs was on the other side.
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Yes. I wonder why this was an attack that came up while they're in the boat,
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you know, in order to keep that from happening, because if this man gets set free.
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It's going to change a lot of people's, you know, like how did this happen to you?
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I mean, a whole legion of territorial demons and they were in control of that region using him.
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You don't always know what's going to happen when God puts you on assignment somewhere.
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Was it Paul and Barnabas, you know, when they come over to Macedonia and help us.
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What happened? They ended up in the stocks.
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Even though they've been with them, they'd seen a lot of miracles and things like that.
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Wake up, wake up.
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If it's really you, tell me to get out and walk on the water.
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So he gets out and walks on the water and then he starts looking at the circumstances.
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He saw the wind. You don't see the wind.
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You see the result of the wind.
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So Peter sees the winds and the waves becoming so boisterous and he begins to be moved in the flesh.
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Instead of in the spirit. See, he stepped out in faith, which is walking in the spirit.
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So he stepped out in faith and then his natural senses took over and his experience as a
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fisherman on the lake with big waves.
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He's afraid.
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And what happens?
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Yeah, he sank.
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He took his eyes off of Jesus.
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You know, which, you know, that'll preach.
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But you see the pictures of him. Sometimes you see it's not real big waves, but they get big waves.
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So if you're walking on the wave, what happens if a big wave comes and lifts you up about five,
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six feet, just, you know, that would make your, take your eyes off of Jesus and look down at what
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just happened.
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And then as soon as you look down and saw what happened, or maybe you're in, in the trough
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there and another big one's coming and, and that's when he lost it. You know, we don't exactly know,
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but because why would he come out of the boats? He has his eyes on Jesus. He's walking on the water
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and something happened. He saw the boasterous wave. That's when he got his eyes off.
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And that is the point. So Jesus reached his hand out and caught him and said to him,
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Oh, you of little faith, why did you doubt? Okay. So let's go back to the beginning of where we see
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fear coming into the word of God. It starts with doubt actually.
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So you go back to Genesis and you see the story in the book of Genesis where Adam and Eve have
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been tempted by the serpent. The serpent keeps on, keeps on, keeps on with Eve, causing her to doubt.
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Did God really say, did God really say that you're going to die? That's not what he means.
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caused her to reach out and take that fruit and eat it and give it to Adam. And he ate it too.
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Now they both knew they weren't supposed to eat it. Adam had been told that they would die if they
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ate it. She got the message that they weren't even supposed to touch it, which wasn't what God said,
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but it would have protected her if she hadn't touched it. And the doubt moved into rebellion
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against the word of God. And then when they realized that they're naked and they cover
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themselves with aprons made of fig leaves, which must have been terribly uncomfortable,
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God calls out, where Adam, where are you? And Adam says in Genesis 3 10, I heard your voice in the
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garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. There's the first place you see fear.
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So fear came in chain reaction, but it started with doubt. So doubt created rebellion,
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rebellion created fear. So this word for fear in the Hebrew, it's yare. And it means to be afraid,
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to fear. It can also mean to revere or to be feared, to be dreadful, to be reverence, to
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terrify, to make afraid. And what I'm reading from is the lexical aids in the back of the Hebrew
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Greek key study Bible that is put out by AMG publishers. And I'm reading from my 1990s version.
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It's a little bit different now. I'm not sure what it will say now, but, but from that version,
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these lexical aids say about this word number 3372 that there are two main types of fear
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described by your ray, a the emotion and intellectual anticipation of harm.
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What one feels may go wrong for him. Okay. That's what, that's what Adam was experiencing in the
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garden. Okay. He's, uh-oh, what's going to go on now? Uh-oh, I'm in trouble. And then B is a very
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positive feeling of awe or reverence for God, which may be expressed in piety or formal worship.
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So, you know, if you're, if you've ever had this experience where you're in the presence of God and
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the presence is just so strong, I've had experiences where I've started to tremble or shake and, and,
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uh, you know, it's like, there's a reverence that comes out of just being in his presence
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that you could call it the fear of God. Did you, you don't want to disobey, right? You just don't
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want to disobey because you begin to experience his greatness and the more of his greatness that
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you experience, the more likely you are to be obedient because he's so great. He's so awesome.
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He's so, oh, beyond what we can even imagine. Yeah. So it's this experience of knowing him.
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We are designed by him to walk with him, to know him, to be in loving relationship with him,
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to be reconciled to him. And when we've goofed it up, that's when you get this fear. This fear
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comes from not having done things right. Okay. Fear comes because of sin. Okay. It breaks down
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our relationship. And you know, here's an interesting note that people who have gone to heaven
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and come back to talk about it. There's a lot of people who've gone to heaven. We haven't heard
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from again, but we're, we're hearing more and more, especially with the modern things that can be done
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with medicine. You know, they've learned ways to save lives. Yeah. So people that have come back
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have said, when I was outside of my body, I didn't have any fear and I didn't have any doubt.
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It stays with the flesh. Yeah. Wasn't that wonderful? Yeah. So doubt and fear belong to
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the flesh realm. God really wants us to live in such trust and confidence in him that we don't have
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any fear other than a reverential fear of him. We're not designed to fear. We're designed for love.
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Yeah. God designed us to live in love. And if you, if you look at a child, you know, a child that has
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come up in a safe and loving environment doesn't walk in a natural fear. You have to learn fear,
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really. Yeah. I mean, kids will do things that a wise person will never do. Cause, cause you, you
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learn the results of jumping off the roof of the house, you know, a little kid might put on it,
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you know, he watches a superhero movie and he puts on a cape and he jumps off the, he jumps off the
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balcony, you know, and oops, that didn't work. You know, I, I'm not Superman or whatever, you know,
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but you have to learn that kind of fear that, that this is not a safe thing to do. Yeah. I walked
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through high school with a bit of fear because there was kids in my class that were big and I
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was a, I was a 96 pound freshmen. Yeah. You know, I was just a little guy and there was a group of
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them. This took the light and harassing me, you know, getting all kinds of stuff. Yeah. And a lot
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of times I had a fear going to school, coming back, you know, and it felt a whole lot better when I
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start to drive a car and go to the parking lot, you know, that, but I kind of live with that through
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high school, you know, and I never, and because of that, I never liked school. I like band. Oh yeah.
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And I just kind of put that together. Probably one of the reasons I never liked school is because
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what it was getting harassed because I was there, you know, I mean, I had certain protectors, you
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know, but if they weren't around, you know, it didn't, you know, it didn't work. Yeah. So you came
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to dread going to school. Yeah, I really did. Fear and dread go together. And even as we were kids,
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you know, we grew up in, you know, Chicago, South side, and we had to take the bus,
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you know, to transfer a couple of times and it was a dangerous neighborhood. And every day was an
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adventure of some sort, you know, it was an adventure you dreaded, you know, and so you'll
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live through that, you know, my younger years and then through high school. Thank you, Jesus, you
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know, getting delivered from all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But I don't think
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that at that point you had a really strong relationship with the Lord that would give you
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confidence. No, I really didn't. Yeah. You didn't know he was your refuge and your strength. No,
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you didn't know he was a very present help in time. I know I had a mom and grandma praying for me.
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Well, that helped. Let's look at that verse. We covered it some in the last podcast, but
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let's look at Psalm 46, one to three and the passion. Okay. God, you're such a safe and powerful
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place to find refuge. You're a proven help in time of trouble, more than enough and always available
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whenever I need you. So we will never fear even if every structure of support were to crumble away.
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I love that. We will not fear even when the earth quakes and shakes, moving mountains and casting
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them into the sea. For the raging roar of stormy winds and crashing waves cannot erode our faith
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in you. Pause in his presence. And that reminds me of a missionary that was at our church. He's
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from Germany. Albert Heisen, actually was his name. He was in Mexico city in a building and he heard
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the Holy Spirit say, stand right where you are. It was in between a doorway, a big earthquake hit.
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Wow. Big one, you know, and everything was crashing all around, but in the doorway, he was safe.
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Yeah. He obeyed the voice of the Holy Spirit. Stand in this doorway, even though everything's
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shaking and crumbling around you. Yeah. That's hard to do, you know, because the first thing is
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get out of the building, you know? Yeah. But if you're on the sixth floor and there's an elevator
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or something that doesn't work. Nope. You know, God is your refuge and strength. So, so he obeyed.
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Yeah. And everything was crashing around him. That was a major quake. A lot of people died in
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that was a bad one. It was, it was when we have our confidence and our trust in God,
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we can go through a thing without fear. Yeah. And you know, the doubt that causes fear,
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if your confidence is in him, you don't have doubt. Yeah. And if something happens suddenly,
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like if you're going through a thunderstorm, all of a sudden, you know, there's a tornado
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warning or something, your adrenaline is already pumping, you know, or if you're in a wild car or
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something, you know, you got a wild taxi driver or something, you know, you're in the backseat
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praying in the Holy ghost, you know, but all of a sudden, as something happens instantly, like an
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earthquake, that's instant, you know, and all of a sudden that's when the Holy Spirit can just,
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if you're training yourself, you know, cause there's no time to think about anything. It's true. It
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has to be an instant reaction or a car pull in front of you or something. Yeah. Instant reaction.
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Yeah. I'm reminded of an accident that I was in. I was in a vehicle and we were pulling up to a
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hotel into, into the parking lot and the person who was in the driver's seat hit the accelerator
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instead of the brake. We're pulling into the parking lot, right? And it's, it's the middle
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of the night. We got there late. We had a reservation, right? So we're pulling into this place.
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She hits the accelerator instead of the brake. You had your seatbelt on, huh?
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I probably had my seatbelt on and we crashed into the building.
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Did bricks come down and all that? Well, you know, it was right there on the,
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on the front of the first floor. I think it was probably multi-story. I don't remember that part.
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I just, I remember some of the bricks falling off and, you know, and the people who were staying in
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that room coming to the door. Thankfully we didn't go all the way into the room, but you know, it,
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I don't know, it might've broken the windows. I, but here's, here's the thing. I said, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus. Okay. Yeah. I said the name of Jesus. That was what was in my spirit in that moment.
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Yeah. Okay. And that's what you're talking about, that we have this instant reaction
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that puts us in the spirit realm by calling on the name of the Lord.
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And what happens a lot of times you will see a little short video or something out there,
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unbelievers. Yeah. All of a sudden it's a tornado or something. I mean, this is a video dash cam
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and they're calling on God. This thing is happening instantly and their instinct is to call out to God,
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even if they'll say, Oh my God. Yeah. And maybe they used to be a believer and they weren't,
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and they weren't because where did that come from? Right. That was in your spirit. God wired us that
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way to say, Oh my God, just doesn't come out of the blue. Yeah. If you know, unless you've been a
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Heathen all your life, maybe or something. Yeah. But even the Heathen tend to say, Oh my God.
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Yeah, that's true. You know, they may not know him, but all of a sudden they're in a position
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where he's the only one that can help. Yeah. Yeah. So the idea is we are practicing
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learning to walk in the spirit instead of the flesh. So that even when we're in a fleshly moment
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and all of a sudden something comes up, our spirit steps up and takes control. At the worst time,
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you would think something, you didn't get your prayer time or this, this or something rattled
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your cage just before that. And maybe you felt like you lost the glory for a moment or two there.
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Yeah. Well, you know, the same thing happened when we had that accident 16 years ago.
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And, and we're flipping and I'm saying, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. And I was saying the same thing.
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I guess I didn't know it because a lot really didn't. The last thing I remember was the car
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going into the ditch, you know, on cruise control, kind of going up the other side. Yeah. And then,
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and that's the last thing. And the only other thing I remember was seeing a blurry grill of
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the oncoming truck and all that. And that's, and even though I was saying Jesus, Jesus, I don't
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remember that. Yeah. Cause at the time I had that first hit, it's probably when the final chord got
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pinched and I blacked out. I was still saying Jesus. You sure were. Your spirit was there,
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even if your consciousness wasn't. Yeah. That's, and that's the whole thing about we cultivate
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this walk with God. We cultivate overcoming, we cultivate walking with him. So I want to look at
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how doubt and fear are a part of the curse of the law. So in Deuteronomy 28, 65 to 66, it says,
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and among these nations, you shall find no ease. So this is God giving the blessings and the
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cursings to Israel so that they know how to behave and they know how not to behave.
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Mm-hmm. And you've got a chapter that has the curses and then you've got a chapter that has
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the blessings and the blessings are actually fairly short. And then it goes on with a whole
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bunch more curses. So this is what happens if you don't obey me. God's just spelling it out for us.
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If you don't do it my way, it's like he has written the owner's manual for how to operate your car.
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Yeah. Okay. So if you don't read the owner's manual, you might just be inclined to pour,
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I don't know, pour whiskey down the gas tank or, you know, never check the oil and the oil goes dry.
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If you don't do the things that the owner's manual says, something's going to go wrong eventually.
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Or the instruction manual. Yeah, the instruction manual. So the Bible is the instruction manual
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for us so that we know how to live a life that is designed to walk with him. Okay. So in Deuteronomy
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28, 65 and 66, it says, and among these nations, talking about the nations that the people groups
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that they are going to be overtaking to take the land that God has promised them. It says,
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among these nations, you shall find no ease. Neither shall the sole of your foot have rest,
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but the Lord Yehovah shall give you there. Like if you get in with their thing, he's going to give
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you a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind. And your life shall hang in doubt
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before you. And you shall fear day and night and shall have no assurance of your life. Wow. So that
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is the curse of the law. But remember what it says in Galatians 3, 13, that Christ has redeemed us
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from the curse of the law being made a curse for us for it is written, curse it as everyone that
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hangs on a tree. So every kind of doubt and fear has no place in our lives. It's been paid to have
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removed. Exactly. And if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
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cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And we know that the curse causeless cannot fall. It cannot
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come. It cannot light like a bird. It can't light on us. And so this word that we have to stand on,
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we can build our confidence and our trust when we've done our part to confess and ask God to
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forgive us. He does. He absolutely does. And just ask him to blot it out, not only of his books,
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but also of the devil's books. So the devil has nothing to work with to come against you.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So let's build some faith. Let's build some expectation and trust
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in the Lord. Psalm 27, one to six says the Lord or Yehovah is my light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear? Yehovah is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
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When the wicked came up against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell.
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Though an army may encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war may rise up against me,
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in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek,
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that I may dwell in the house of the Lord Yehovah all the days of my life to behold the beauty of
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Yehovah and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion.
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We can count on it, beloved. We can count on it. In the secret place of his tabernacle,
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he shall hide me. He shall set me high upon a rock and now my head shall be lifted up above
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my enemies all around me. Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle. I will sing.
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Yes, I will sing praises to the Lord Yehovah. Yes. So praising him and worshiping him and offering him
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sacrifices of joy help to build your confidence in him. Yes. It really makes a difference.
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Like if you've had a bad day or if something happened and you're disappointed, just roll it
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back, get in the spirit and start to worship. He's always there waiting. Yes. And it'll make
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that stuff roll off. Yeah. And the sooner you do it, the better off you are. Amen. Amen. What does
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Psalm 56-3 say? Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you. That's so good. And I like Young's literal
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translation. The day I'm afraid, I am confident toward you. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah. You know,
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trust is a grid we trust, but confident has a stronger meaning. Yeah. Yeah. And then Isaiah 12-2,
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this is in the King James. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid
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with the Lord. That's Yehovah is my strength and my song. He also is become my salvation or my Yeshua.
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That's exactly right. Wow. Yes. And I love, you can always stand on 2 Timothy 1-7,
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for God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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And who would know that more than Paul? Yeah. I should say. So confidence and trust in the truth
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are the opposite of doubt. And when you win the battle over doubt, you have won the battle over
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fear. That is really profound. It is. It's a truth. It's a truth. When the battle over doubt,
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and you've won the battle over fear. So this is something to hang on to. Now we recorded a podcast
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in our first season. We're coming to the end of our fourth season now, but we recorded podcast
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episode number 19 with Mary Lois Little. And she told about how she overcame the spirit of fear.
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And it was a literal spirit that she had to deal with. So we're going to take a little excerpt from
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that and let her tell this testimony. And then we're going to come back and pray. Growing up,
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I was afraid of the dark, terribly afraid of the dark and would have to have lights on and just had
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to have every kind. I remember being 26 years old and walking through my house. Were you married by
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then? Yes, I was married and I had a couple of kids by then, or at least Brian was a year old or so.
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And we were living in Italy and Gene was gone on. He was in the Navy and he was gone and I was alone
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in the house and I didn't like being in the dark by myself. So I would plan my little pathway to
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before going to bed. I would see to that all the lights on my path to get from the kitchen back to
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the bedroom. All the lights had to be on and the final light went out as I ran and leaped to get
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onto my bed because I thought for sure the enemy was going to grab me. But God has not given us a
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spirit of fear. That's right. And thank God, but he's given us power and love and a sound mind.
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And so the years went on, Gene and I got filled with the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy
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Spirit was speaking in tongues. And I began to look at the Word of God. And then as I got older,
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I still had this battle with fear and I needed to be delivered. And I just knew I had to have
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something from the Lord. And this one particular time I said, Lord, please, please deliver me.
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Please deliver me. And I had this vision. It was a very powerful vision of deliverance from my life.
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And I saw the Lord coming. He came to me and he had a broom in his hand. I love this story. Yes,
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it's a great story. He had a broom in his hand and he was sweeping. And what I perceived from
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the experience that he was sweeping up all the fear in my life. He started from the beginning
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and he was coming up sweeping and sweeping. And as I watched this unfold in my spirit, yes, Jesus,
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I thought, oh my goodness, how big is this thing going to be by the time it gets to where I'm at
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now? And finally, Jesus came up to the moment that I was in and I thought it was going to be a great,
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huge black ball. And it was just Jesus with the broom. And he bent over and he picked up a dust
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pan and he swept something up on the dust pan. And he lifted the dust pan up so that I could see.
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And on that dust pan was a loony thing and it wasn't any bigger than my thumb. And it was standing
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on the dust pan and Jesus held it up so that I could see it. And it was standing on the dust pan,
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having a temper tantrum and it was going, like an imp, like, oh, it was smaller than, I mean,
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if you can, I mean, did it have like a form like a head and arms and legs? Yes, it did. It had a
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form and it was just angry and it was upset. But as it was there on that dust pan, having itself a
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fit, one infinitesimal, the tiniest, tiniest drop of the blood of Jesus came down on the top of its
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head. And that thing, it just exploded. It was, and that thing was gone. Hallelujah. And it was
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spectacular because as I said, I didn't function well at night. And but from that point on,
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I could walk through a dark house without worrying about lights. I'm telling you, the Lord
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delivered me. Yes, cleaned up all of that fear. He started back from when I was a child and it came
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up to that point in that, but it has stood. Remember what it says in Galatians chapter five.
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This is Galatians chapter five, verse one, stand fast. Therefore in the Liberty, wherewith Christ
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has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. So Jesus set me free, but he
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set me on a path to understand the responsibility that I had to take for keeping my deliverance.
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There you go. You know, and it really is. And second Corinthians 10 verses four and five became
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a foundational scripture for me. And those early days, it says for the weapons of our warfare are
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not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations
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and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity
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every thought to the obedience of Christ. And I'll read verse six as well, having in a readiness
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to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. All right. So how is my obedience
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fulfilled? It was bringing my thought life captive that the patterns of fear were not allowed to
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take root in any way. Now, wasn't that faith building? That was tremendous. I just love that
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story. I love how God dealt with Mary Lois and gave her the revelation of how small the spirit of fear
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really is. So beloved, if you're dealing with the spirit of fear or the spirit of doubt, if those
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things have been a plague to you, we're going to pray for you right now. And maybe it's not you,
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but maybe it's somebody you know. So agree with us for a deliverance from the spirit of fear.
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Yes. Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you. We thank you that you gave your son
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to die on the cross for us and that in his crucifixion, he paid the price to deliver us.
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He became the curse for us. This curse of the law. We are delivered from this curse of fear,
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these curses of doubt, all of these things that have come because of disobedience to your word,
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Lord. We thank you, Jesus, that you have paid the price for this. And we thank you that you
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know how to go sweeping through our lives and deliver us from every kind of fear and deliver us
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into trust in you, confidence in you, knowing that we can expect deliverance even in fearful times,
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even in earthquakes, even in fires, even in war, even in all of these terrible things that can
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happen. And some of them are likely to happen, but Lord, we know that you are our confidence.
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You are our refuge. You are our strong tower. We run into your name and we are safe. And we thank
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you for that, Lord. And we pray for each listener that each and every one is going to come to a
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place of deliverance, a place of full expectation of your love to deliver them in every way and for
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their loved ones as well. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes. And Lord, we thank you for your
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word in 2 Corinthians 3, 17. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is,
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there is liberty. Yes. There is freedom. Yes. Thank you, Father. You are there. Hallelujah.
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Yes. Freedom from fear. Amen. Amen.
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