THINGS PEOPLE ARE AFTAID OF THAT GOD ISNT AFRAID OF ( so therefore you shouldn’t be afraid of them. )
STORMS
Nah 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
HEIGHTS.
- We will meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess 4:17)
- The devil took Jesus Christ to the pinnacle of the temple (Matthew 4:5)
- The Spirit takes John to a great and high mountain (Rev 21:10)
FEAR OF FLYING (psalms 18:10 says he rode upon a cherub and did fly)
CLOSED IN PLACES
Psa 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
- Jesus laid in the tomb but he is risen (Matthew 27:60-61)
Fear of snakes
Job 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
- he crushes the head of the serpent.
- he gave the apostles power to take up serpents (Mark 16:18)
Public speaking
Mat 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Jer 1:8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Exo 4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Exo 4:11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
FEAR OF THE DARK
Dan 2:22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
- GODLY FEAR
This is the fear you NEED.
- if people had this fear it would keep them out of trouble.
Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Godly fear will keep you from straying from Him. Just like fear of your parents kept you from disobeying them.
Heb 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Heb 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Heb 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
- Just as you feared your EARTHLY father you should fear God. You run to them for safety but you also fear their belt.
God has your breathe and heartbeat in his hands.
Job 12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Heb 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
- If you fear him than you’ll do what he says.
- What he says ain’t that bad. Don’t commit adultery, lie, cheat, steal, kill, talk to him.
DO WHAT HE SAYS…
- Noah was a “preacher of righteousness” because he feared God.
Heb 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
MOSES FEARED GOD.
Deu 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
2Co 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Eph 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1Pe 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Pro 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
You should have a HEALTHY FEAR OF authority or the police.
Rom 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Rom 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
- NO FEAR WHEN YOUR ON THE LORDS SIDE.
Deu 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
- he’s not like someone that when trouble comes you look back and they left.
Jos 10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
Lev 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- if the lord is on your side it’s like having an infinite number of people.
People can be encouraged by your fearlessness
Php 1:14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
- When people saw Paul go to prison for preaching it made them more bold. If Paul can do it than they can.
- If a Christian sees you reading the Bible than it makes them bold enough to read the Bible.
Pro 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- sometimes fear hits you suddenly.
- Remember all this world can do is kill the body but not the soul. If your saved than “to be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD.”
Pro 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
- You can let your feet hang out from under the covers.
- sometimes I was afraid to let a foot hang out…but if your saved unclean spirits can’t even touch your soul.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
FEAR YOU SHOULDNT HAVE
- FEAR FROM THE FLESH, MEN, AND THE DEVIL
- most people are afraid of what men can do to them. They are afraid of not doing what their flesh wants.
Pro 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
He says not to be afraid of the things in the tribulation.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
Mat 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Some PEOPLE DONT FEAR GOD.
- just like the devil…
Job 41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
WHY DOES THE DEVIL DO WHAT HE DOES? Because he’s not afraid of God
- People used to wear t-shirts that said “no fear.”
Rom 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
MEN WITH NO FEAR OF GOD “feed their face without fear.”
- People are getting rich off human trafficking
- Lady Gaga CD with the children and the blood around her mouth
- CARDI B getting rich off WAP
- Many Christians today live like atheists. You can’t see a fear of god from them.
Tit 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1Sa 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
2Sa 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
Num 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Num 14:7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Num 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Num 14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Num 14:10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
Jos 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Jos 1:6 Be strong and of a good courage:
Jdg 15:15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Jdg 15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
Jdg 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
Jdg 15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
