07/14/2024 Church service

周日礼拜

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  FEAR NOT  不要害怕

 

 

Psalm 56:3,4: When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
诗篇 56:3,4: 我惧怕的时候要倚靠你。我倚靠神，我要赞美他的话。我倚靠神，必不惧怕，血气之辈能把我怎么样呢？(pg 936)

Acts 10:38: God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.
使徒行传 10:38: 神怎样以圣灵和能力膏拿撒勒人耶稣，这都是你们知道的。他周流四方，行善事，医好凡被魔鬼压制的人，因为神与他同在。(page 1784)

1 John 3:8 - The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
约翰一书 3:8:但上帝儿子的显现是为了摧毁魔鬼的工作。(pg 1979)
Heb 2:14,15: Since the children share in blood and flesh, he too shared in them, in just the same way, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and set free the people who all their lives long were under the power of slavery because of the fear of death.
希 伯 來 書 2:14,15: 既然这些孩子都是会死的血肉之躯，所以耶稣也变得和他们一样，具有血肉之躯，这样他就可以用自己的死来摧毁那个掌握死亡权力的魔鬼。 他这么做，使那些一生受到死亡恐惧奴役的人们获得了自由。(page 1941)
1 John 4:18: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.約 翰 一 書 4:18: 爱里没有恐惧，纯全的爱能驱除恐惧，因为恐惧意味着怕受惩罚。人若心里恐惧，就表示他尚未明白那纯全的爱。(page 1981)

 

 

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Fear NOT!
Psalm 56:3,4

some advice I received years ago…
1) Follow God 2) Don‘t let the past hold you back

“Don‘t let the past hold you back.”

? Is fear holding you back - keep you a prisoner of the past?

Sometimes the “tough guy” acts that way because they’re afraid to show you their true self. Most people’s biggest fear is that you will find out who they really are…

*(it’s been said) The quality of your life is contained in the quality of your questions

We think in the form of questions

“Do we?” “Is this true?” (yes, these are both questions)

When we address a fear thought (which requires we first recognize it,) we can ask
“Is this true?”
Weigh that thought – inspect it. Analyze it.

How does this thought fit with what I believe is really true?
How does this thought line up with the Word of God and who I am according to what God’s Word says?

We need to answer our fears with God’s Word.

Thoughts are like magnets.
When you begin to think about something repetitively, you draw into your life the people, places and things that make those thoughts become a reality.

Job: “That which I feared most”

Your RAS
Continued aberrant thinking can create delusion (you can actually become delusional)

When you wonder why people believe some of the irrational things they express to you, when they support a leader or a lifestyle that doesn’t even make sense to you, you can know that it was a progressive programming that eventually created a delusional mindset.
In other words, fear can make people crazy. Don’t let fear make you delusional.

Psalm 56:3,4: When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise — in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”

Fear can manifest itself in different ways…

Sleepless nights “Fear hath torment” (anxiety)
The Law of Expectation “The thing I feared most…”
Stress “If I don’t achieve this… I won’t be loved”

Take a look around. Almost all you see and hear these days is fear.
It's everywhere.

Maybe now all the world is about to see a striking difference between believers and non-believers.

Because, unlike the rest of the world, believers don't have to cope with or tolerate fear in any way. We attack it–and get rid of it.

In a season of adversity, David encouraged himself:
But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. I praise God for what he has promised. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals do to me?

God has not called the Body of Christ–the Body of His anointed ones in the earth–to cope with fear…

Jesus went to great effort to deliver us from all fear and oppression.

Acts 10:38: "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil."

Jesus didn't cope with the works of the devil. He destroyed them.
1 John 3:8: …The reason the Son of God was revealed was to undo and destroy the works of the devil.

And He destroyed them by going straight to the core of the matter.

Hebrews 2:14,15: Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood.
For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.

Before Jesus came into this earth, all mankind was subject to bondage.
How? Through the fear of death.

The fear of death is the master fear. It's what all forms of fear are based on.

If you're afraid of flying, afraid of the dark, or afraid of standing up to talk before a group of people, it all stems from the fear of death.

Notice, however, Jesus came along and destroyed fear at its root by taking the power of death away from Satan. Suddenly we no longer had to be subject to fear–-any fear.

“Any fear satan can bring to our minds is a fear of failure of God’s Promises.”

It’s called doubt.
The enemy of our faith cannot create – he can only pervert the truth.

We tear down these lies, these strongholds, these perversions, by the Word of God.

I have a good friend, who although is very educated and has studied all the religions, he still has not opened his heart to the truth that Jesus Christ is THE Way – the only way – to salvation and eternal life.

Because of that, when c0viid hit the world and he got sick, he was terrified.
Terrified of death.

1 John 4:18: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

What's more, the moment we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we no longer have "the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Tim1:7).

Romans 8:14-15 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."

Where we once had a spirit of fear, we now have the Spirit of God, the Spirit of love, because God is love (1 John 4:16). And "perfect love casteth out fear" (vs 18).
So there's a huge difference between just coping with fear, just trying to "make it" through life, and being delivered from fear where it's totally and completely out of your life forever.

“When I am afraid, O LORD Almighty, I put my trust in you.”

As a born-again child of God, you don't have to be dominated or controlled by fear anymore because Jesus destroyed the root to all fear.

In other words, you no longer have a spirit of fear living inside you.

…and though we no longer have to be subject to fear, we still live in a world that's held captive by fear. This means we will encounter it, and we will have to deal with it.

Romans 8:2 tells us that "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made [us] free from the law of sin and death."

Because Jesus died and rose again from the grave, we've been given authority in the law of the Spirit of life through the Anointed One, Jesus.
We've been freed from the law of sin and death.

And since fear is a spiritual force, we must attack it with the spiritual weapons of our warfare that we've been given–weapons which "are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds" (2 Corinthians 10:4).

Yes, fear is a stronghold and it's up to us to pull it down.

Remember how we said God is love and "perfect love casteth out fear" (1 John 4:18)

God is love (1 John 4:16), and we see that God’s Word is a manifestation of that love, the perfect love which casts out fear.

John 1:1 tells us, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Getting rid of fear takes some action on our part.

Like God told Joshua, we have to meditate–constantly give our attention to–the Word of God.


Joshuah 1:8: This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

That means keeping our mind stayed on Him, keeping our mind stayed on His Word, and keeping our mind stayed on His love.

And we have to do that until we receive revelation of Hebrews 13:5-6: "...For [God] hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."

We have to get our mind off what the world says and onto what the Word says.

And the Word says:
All authority in heaven and earth has been given to you by the Name of Jesus.
(that’s why the devil wants people to blaspheme that name)

Jesus said, “The Holy Spirit is the one who gives life, that which is of the natural realm is of no help. The words I speak to you are Spirit and life. But there are still some of you who won’t believe.” (John 6:63)

Isaiah 10:27: the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

So focus on the Word. Draw on the love of God.

Then seize your authority like never before and pull the plug on fear!


1 John 16-19: We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them. By living in God, love has been brought to its full expression in us so that we may fearlessly face the day of judgment, because all that Jesus now is, so are we in this world. Love never brings fear, for fear is always related to punishment. But love’s perfection drives the fear of punishment far from our hearts. Whoever walks constantly afraid of punishment has not reached love’s perfection. Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.

When I am afraid, O LORD Almighty, I put my trust in you.

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