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00:27 Hello and welcome to 3ABN's Worship Hour.
00:29 I'm Jill Morikone, 00:30 and we're so delighted 00:31 that you have taken time from your day 00:33 to open up the Word of God as we study His Word 00:37 and learn what He has for us today. 00:39 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 00:40 this would have been his first inaugural address, 00:43 March 1933. 00:45 Our country, the United States of America 00:47 was struggling with The Great Depression. 00:49 People were afraid, people were probably terrified. 00:53 He said, 00:54 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." 00:58 The Prophet Isaiah, 01:00 talking to the people who were oppressed, 01:02 the people who were terrified, 01:04 the people who were struggling with enemy nations 01:07 coming against them. 01:09 This is, of course, the nation of Judah. 01:11 He delivered to them an incredible message 01:14 in Isaiah 8 which we will look at later. 01:16 He said, 01:17 "We have nothing to fear when we fear God Himself." 01:22 Oswald Chambers put it a little different. 01:25 He said, "When you fear God, you fear nothing else. 01:29 Whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else." 01:35 How do you walk without fear? 01:38 How do we live as Christians 01:40 in a world today that's oppressed, 01:42 a world that has violence, 01:44 a world that has a global pandemic? 01:47 How do we live without fear? 01:49 How do we handle fear about our health 01:51 or fear about the future? 01:53 Or are we really saved? 01:55 How do we deal with fear about family members 01:59 or uncertainties? 02:01 How do we deal with that? 02:03 How do we walk without fear? 02:05 Today I want to talk to you 02:07 about seven keys to overcome fear. 02:10 Our opening scripture is John 14:27. 02:14 John 14:27. 02:16 You know the scripture so quote it at home with me. 02:19 "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you, 02:23 not as the world gives do I give unto you. 02:26 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." 02:31 You see, we have nothing to fear 02:34 when we fear God Himself. 02:36 Let's pray. 02:37 Holy Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus 02:40 and I ask right now 02:42 for the anointing of Your Holy Spirit. 02:44 This is Your time. 02:46 This is Your Word. 02:48 We are Your children. 02:50 Would you speak just now? 02:53 And we want to hear 02:54 what You have for us in Jesus' name. 02:57 Amen. 02:59 We were in the garage. 03:02 And my mom was sitting on the top step. 03:05 My mom and dad don't have the opportunity to come to 3ABN 03:09 as much as Greg and I would like, 03:10 but I love it when they can come. 03:13 And we were enjoying 03:14 one of those mother daughter talks, 03:16 just having a wonderful time 03:17 and my mom looked out over the yard and she said, 03:20 "Jill, your place is so peaceful. 03:22 I love it here." 03:24 And she's right. 03:25 Greg and I live in just a little yellow house 03:28 on a little patch of land that we call home. 03:33 The deer walk through our yard every single day, 03:36 and they also dig up my tulips and eat, 03:38 which I don't appreciate. 03:40 The fawns come and they cavort and go around. 03:43 We have opossums come through and raccoons. 03:46 We have a bobcat who visits on occasion. 03:49 There are coyotes, 03:51 but they don't come in our yard. 03:52 They stay a little distance away. 03:54 And we've had a family of wild turkeys walk through. 03:57 It's beautiful. 03:58 It's in the country and I love it. 04:01 For years, we would live, no fear, great neighbors, 04:06 wonderful place to live. 04:09 And when I would go on a walk down 04:11 our little gravel road opened up the door, 04:14 walk down the road, 04:16 leave my house unlocked because there's no fear. 04:21 That same day, 04:23 when my mom was talking and said, 04:25 "Your place is so peaceful." 04:26 That night we went to bed. 04:28 Now when we go to bed, 04:29 we always put our little cat Pebbles in the garage, 04:31 because we have bobcats and owls and coyotes. 04:34 We don't want her to get eaten at night. 04:37 So we put her in the garage. 04:39 Next morning Greg gets up 04:41 and he always goes out to feed her in the morning. 04:42 It's about 6 o'clock in the morning. 04:44 He goes out and she's not in the garage. 04:46 And he said, 04:47 "Wait a minute. She should be in the garage. 04:49 I put her in the garage last night. 04:52 Why is she not in the garage?" 04:54 So he came back in, 04:56 "Jilly, did you let Pebbles out?" 04:57 And I said, "No, I didn't. 04:59 She should be in the garage." 05:00 But she was not in the garage. 05:02 All the doors were locked in the garage. 05:04 So he started looking around. 05:06 Okay, am I missing any tools? 05:08 Are we missing anything and all of a sudden he looked, 05:10 and sure enough, our pressure washer, 05:14 you know you cleaned the siding of the house 05:16 or pressure washer other things, 05:17 our pressure washer was missing. 05:19 Somebody had broken into our garage, 05:23 stolen our pressure washer, 05:26 locked the door very kindly on their way out and left. 05:30 So we called the police. 05:32 They came, 05:33 they do their little report that they do. 05:35 And we saw the tracks from the pressure washer 05:39 being pushed out from the garage 05:41 into whatever vehicle they had used to take it. 05:44 And so I still didn't really feel too much fear. 05:47 We went that day excited, 05:49 mom and dad are there having a great day, 05:50 that night went to bed. 05:52 And about an hour after I went to sleep, 05:55 all of a sudden a car drove by on our gravel road 05:58 and I could hear the tires crunching on the gravel. 06:01 And I woke up instantly my heart pounding. 06:06 Why am I afraid? 06:08 Were they coming back? 06:10 What if they came in the house this time? 06:12 God, I really need You right now. 06:14 The next night went to bed, we prayed, 06:17 I felt really confident 06:19 and all of a sudden a car drove by real slow. 06:22 And the same thing, I woke up heart pounding, 06:25 laid awake eye staring at the ceiling. 06:28 The next night, the same thing happened. 06:32 I know that the Word of God says in 1 John 4, 06:35 there is no fear in love. 06:36 Then why was I afraid? 06:39 You know, on this journey that we have with Jesus, 06:43 I've made a discovery. 06:44 Every trial, 06:46 every experience we have in life 06:48 to me serves two purposes. 06:50 First, it shows me just a little more 06:52 about the beauty of the character 06:53 of my Father in heaven. 06:55 But second, 06:56 it shows me a new edge as it were in my heart 06:59 that needs a little more polishing, 07:01 that needs a little more refining. 07:04 And what was this edge? 07:05 This edge is called fear. 07:07 God wants me to learn 07:09 to trust Him completely with my life, 07:12 without reserve 07:13 and in return to know that 07:15 He can give me His perfect peace. 07:20 They say that fear is an emotion 07:21 that is experienced 07:23 in anticipation of pain or danger. 07:27 The key word is anticipation, meaning it hasn't happened yet. 07:31 Fear can look like anxiety. 07:33 Are you anxious today? 07:35 It can look like worry or apprehension or concern. 07:40 But it's all rooted in that fear. 07:44 We're going to talk today about the seven keys to break free, 07:48 the seven keys to overcome fear. 07:51 But before we do that, 07:52 I want to talk to you just a moment 07:53 about some phobias and some fears 07:56 that we have today. 07:57 Now if you were to Google, 07:59 what are the top 20 phobias in the world, 08:00 which I did and I'm going to read to you in a moment. 08:03 It's interesting, 08:05 because if you read different websites, 08:07 there's different rankings. 08:09 Some say the fear of public speaking 08:11 is phobia number one, that's fear number one. 08:14 Some put something else as number one. 08:16 So this list clearly could be differentiated 08:19 based on what you're looking at. 08:20 But the one I looked at says that phobia number 20. 08:24 Now remember, phobia is more serious in nature 08:26 than a standard fear. 08:27 Phobia is persistent, it is excessive, 08:31 and it is unrealistic. 08:34 Fear or phobia. 08:36 Number 20 is monophobia. 08:38 That is the fear of being alone. 08:41 It's the reason why people stay in an abusive relationship 08:44 because they're afraid to be alone. 08:46 It's the reason why people resist living alone, 08:50 or obsessively use social media just to cover that fear 08:55 of being by themselves. 08:58 Number 19, xenophobia, 08:59 the fear of something foreign or strange. 09:02 It can be used for racism, 09:04 but it's much broader than that, 09:06 and encompasses many more things than that. 09:09 Now this word, 09:10 I cannot pronounce and I'm not even sure 09:12 if I should attempt to pronounce it. 09:15 Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio phobia. 09:18 That's the best I can do with that. 09:20 And ironically, it is the fear of long words, 09:23 which is kind of funny 09:24 because it's a long word in itself, 09:26 or the fear of other people making fun of you 09:29 because you can't pronounce the word properly. 09:32 Hemophobia, of course, 09:34 is the fear of seeing blood 09:35 and I think I have a bit of that. 09:36 I do not like to see blood. 09:38 Trypanophobia is the fear of needles. 09:41 Necrophobia, the fear of dead or dying things. 09:45 This would be the fear of maybe seeing a dead body 09:48 or even going in a graveyard. 09:50 Some people are afraid to be in a graveyard. 09:54 Tropophobia, this is number 14. 09:56 The fear of holes which is an interesting fear. 09:59 Small bumps clusters that can be holes, 10:01 it can be irregularities in the skin or in nature. 10:06 Ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes. 10:09 Cynophobia, fear of dogs. 10:12 Mysophobia, fear of germs 10:15 or of being contaminated by germs. 10:18 Now Greg and I, 10:19 we might be a little mysophobic I would say. 10:22 When we went to Russia 10:23 with the 3ABN family some time ago, 10:25 several years ago actually. 10:27 We always bring our hand sanitizer 10:29 when we fly in the plane. 10:31 And the minute we get in the plane, 10:32 we whip out those little, 10:34 you know, those little wet packs, 10:35 you have hand sanitizer, 10:37 and I start to wipe down the seat 10:39 and the tray table in front of me 10:41 because who knows how long it's been since I cleaned that. 10:43 So the ironic thing is we went to Russia, 10:46 Greg and I are the only ones 10:47 who are mysophobic or a little germophobic 10:49 and careful with all that. 10:51 We were the ones who got sick, 10:53 and we were the ones who came back sick. 10:56 Fear number 10, astraphobia is the fear of storms. 11:00 This can be thunder or lightning. 11:04 My great, grandfather in his house 11:07 one time they were in a storm, 11:09 one of those thunder and lightning storms, 11:10 Greg loves thunder and lightning storms. 11:13 He could be outside in the wind 11:14 watching the lightning and the thunder 11:16 he just relishes that. 11:19 My great grandfather, they were inside the house, 11:22 they had the front door open and a window. 11:25 And this was in the middle 11:26 of a thunder and lightning storm 11:28 and the lightning came in the door. 11:30 And it went out the window, 11:31 it went straight through the house. 11:32 Praise the Lord. 11:34 Everybody lived in that, 11:35 but my family had a little bit of this fear, 11:37 astraphobia, that fear of storms. 11:40 Then there's agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces. 11:44 Now this can be, 11:46 if you feel the environment is unsafe, 11:49 maybe a fear of large crowds. 11:50 Some people their fear is, 11:53 their phobia is so strong 11:54 that they don't want to leave the house 11:56 because they're afraid to go outside. 11:59 Then there is sociophobia. 12:01 Now if you look at some websites, 12:02 this is actually number one. 12:04 It's the fear of being judged or rejected, 12:07 or dismissed by other people. 12:10 Timothy Keller says this, 12:12 "To be loved, but not known 12:16 is comforting but it's very superficial 12:18 because you think, 12:19 well, they don't even really know me. 12:21 How can they even really love me." 12:23 To be known but not loved. 12:27 That is our greatest fear. 12:30 If someone truly knew me inside, 12:33 would they still love me? 12:35 But to be fully known 12:37 and truly loved is a lot like being loved by God. 12:42 It is what we need more than anything. 12:45 It liberates us from pretense, 12:47 humbles us out of our self-righteousness 12:51 and fortifies us for any difficulty 12:53 that life can throw at us. 12:57 Phobia number seven, nyctophobia, 12:59 fear of the dark as well as what the dark conceals. 13:02 A lot of kids would have this fear 13:04 but some adults as they grew up would have this fear as well. 13:08 Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders. 13:11 Aerophobia, the fear of flying. 13:14 Claustrophobia, fear of small crowded spaces. 13:19 Acrophobia, fear of heights. 13:22 Thanatophobia is the fear of death. 13:25 Now remember, before we had necrophobia, 13:26 that's the fear of dead things. 13:28 But this is the fear of yourself dying, 13:31 what what's going to happen? 13:32 Am I going to die? 13:34 Fear number one, glossophobia, the fear of public speaking. 13:39 You know, if you look at the Word of God, 13:41 we are getting to our seven keys 13:42 to overcoming fear in just a moment. 13:44 But if you look at the Word of God, 13:45 turn with me to Isaiah 51. 13:47 The Book of Isaiah says 13:48 more about not being afraid 13:52 than almost any other book in the Word of God. 13:55 Isaiah 51. 13:57 Let's look at verse 12. 13:59 As we look at this sociophobia, or fear of other people, 14:02 or fear of what other people think of us. 14:06 Let's look at Isaiah 51:12-13. 14:09 When I study the Word of God, 14:12 if something specifically speaks to me 14:15 at a certain time, 14:17 I often put the date or the experience 14:19 or what happened in the margin, 14:21 because you can look back in my Bible and say, 14:23 there's this date, oh, this happened on this date, 14:25 because it shows what God showed me 14:27 at that specific time. 14:30 And this one, I have a certain date 14:32 written in the margin 14:33 because I know exactly the person I was afraid of. 14:36 And I know exactly the situation I was afraid of. 14:40 When God gave me this verse, Isaiah 51:12-13. 14:46 "I, even I, am He who comforts you. 14:50 Who are you that you should be afraid 14:53 of a man who will die." 14:55 How many times do we live our life 14:58 in fear of other people, 15:01 fear of what they think of us. 15:04 Who are you that you're afraid of a man who will die? 15:07 And of the son of a man who will be made like grass? 15:12 And you forget the Lord your maker, 15:16 Who stretched out the heavens 15:17 and laid the foundations of the earth, 15:19 You have feared continually every day 15:22 because of the fury of the oppressor, 15:26 when he has prepared to destroy. 15:28 And where is the fury of the oppressor?" 15:34 Some are afraid of others. 15:35 Why is that? 15:37 It says, because you forget the Lord your maker. 15:39 No, I don't think it means we actually forget God. 15:42 But maybe he seems far off 15:44 and this other person 15:46 is more present in our lives right now. 15:48 So we place more importance to this person here 15:53 and we're more afraid of this person 15:55 because God seems far off. 15:57 Other people have greater influence 16:01 over our lives than God does. 16:04 Or we care more about what other people think 16:07 than we care about what God thinks of us. 16:11 Jump over with me to Matthew Chapter 14. 16:14 Matthew 14:8-9. 16:16 Now this is, of course, a little context here. 16:20 Herod, of course, we know was a king there. 16:23 And he was involved in a relationship 16:26 that was not biblical. 16:29 His wife, not really his wife, 16:32 but it was his half-brother Philip's wife 16:35 that he took a liking to and she moved in with him. 16:38 Her name was Herodias. 16:41 Now, in addition, she was his niece. 16:43 So there's something really strange 16:46 about that relationship, 16:48 not just that it was his half-brother's wife, 16:50 but she was actually his niece. 16:52 Now her daughter was Salome, 16:53 and Salome came in and danced before the king and the men 16:57 and the King Herod was so excited and he said, 16:59 "I'll give you anything you want." 17:02 So she went to her mama and said, 17:03 "What should I ask for?" 17:05 Now her mother Herodias 17:07 did not like the Prophet John the Baptist. 17:10 Why didn't he like, 17:11 why didn't she like John the Baptist? 17:13 Well, because John the Baptist had condemned the relationship 17:18 between Herod and Herodias. 17:19 And had said, 17:20 "Herod, you shouldn't be married to her, 17:22 you shouldn't be with her. 17:23 This is wrong, and this is sin." 17:26 And so Herodias did not like John the Baptist very well. 17:29 So we pick up the story in Matthew 14:8-9, 17:32 she Salome, this is the daughter, 17:34 having been prompted by her mother said, 17:38 "Give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter." 17:40 In other words, they wanted him dead. 17:44 Verse 9 is the important verse here, 17:45 "And the king, " 17:47 that would be Herod, 17:48 "was sorry, nevertheless, because of the oath, 17:51 and because of those who sat with him, 17:54 he commanded it to be given to her." 17:58 Now, you could do 17:59 an entire sermon on that one phrase, 18:02 because of those who sat with him. 18:07 So because of peer pressure, 18:09 because of him being afraid of losing his reputation, 18:13 him being afraid of what other people thought about him, 18:19 because of those who sat 18:21 the influence of friends or associates, 18:24 in his case, they'd be subordinates 18:25 because he was the king. 18:28 He caved into the pressure, and he said, 18:31 "Okay, we'll have the Prophet John beheaded." 18:33 He didn't want John beheaded. 18:35 He didn't think it was the right thing to do. 18:37 But because of those who've sat, why is that? 18:40 He had never developed in his heart fear for God. 18:45 And we'll get to that in just a moment. 18:48 What about loneliness? 18:51 I love Hebrews 13:5. 18:54 "He Himself," 18:55 that's God Himself has said, 18:58 "I will never leave you nor forsake you." 19:01 So we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, 19:05 I will not fear. 19:06 What can man do to me? 19:10 If we're afraid of being alone, 19:12 we have the promise that God will never leave us. 19:17 God will never forsake us and He is always with us. 19:22 What about the fear of change? 19:24 I don't know about you, 19:25 but I'm not real fond of change myself. 19:27 Malachi 3:6 says, 19:31 "I am the Lord. I do not change." 19:34 We're afraid of change or uncertainty for the future. 19:38 What's unknown, not sure what's coming. 19:40 God never changes. 19:42 He said, 19:43 "I'm the same yesterday, today and forever." 19:45 He is constant, someone we hold on to, 19:49 in the midst of our uncertainties. 19:53 What happens in the future, I clearly don't know. 19:56 But my God does. 19:58 One more scripture 20:00 and then we're going to jump into our seven keys. 20:02 This is Hebrews 2. 20:04 Hebrews 2:14-15. 20:05 This is specifically dealing with that fear of death. 20:10 "And as much then 20:11 as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, 20:13 He himself likewise shared in the same, " 20:17 meaning Jesus shared in the same, 20:20 "that through death, 20:22 He might destroy him who had the power of death, " 20:25 that is the devil, 20:26 " and release those who through fear of death 20:29 were all their lifetime subject to bondage." 20:33 Are you in bondage to that fear of death? 20:35 Do you have someone in your family, 20:37 someone that you know 20:39 who is in bondage to that fear of death. 20:44 Through death, 20:45 Jesus destroyed that power of death, 20:47 and He destroyed the devil, 20:49 so that he could release you and I 20:52 from that fear. 20:55 You know, when Greg and I were first married, 20:58 I'd say the first year or two of our marriage, 21:00 neither one of us had cell phones. 21:02 And I remember many times in the evening, 21:06 he would call me from work and say, 21:08 I'm just getting ready to come home. 21:11 And it's, we live about 10 minutes from work, 21:13 maybe six minutes, 21:14 it does not take long to get home. 21:16 And I would think, okay, so I, dinner's almost ready, 21:19 I would just get the finishing touches on it 21:21 and get the food on the table. 21:23 So the minute his pickup pulled in the yard, 21:25 dinner would be ready, and we would sit down, 21:27 and we would eat. 21:29 And so he would call and say, Jill, I'm coming home. 21:31 And I'd get all excited. 21:32 Okay, I'm going to get everything ready. 21:34 Well, 10 minutes would pass, he should be home. 21:35 Clearly, it does not take long to get to our house from 3ABN. 21:39 Fifteen minutes would pass, 20 minutes would pass. 21:43 Now we don't have a cell phone. 21:44 So I can't call and say, 21:46 "Hey, did you get hung up? 21:47 Or he could text and say I got stopped in a meeting 21:49 or something happened? 21:51 Twenty five. 21:53 Now this didn't happen often but when it did, 21:55 my heart would begin to be afraid. 21:58 Sometimes I remember calling 3ABN. 22:02 Is Greg still there? 22:03 But I couldn't get him. 22:05 No extension, no one's there after hours anyway. 22:07 But I would call his extension. 22:08 And I wouldn't get him. 22:10 And then I would become afraid. 22:14 I can remember thinking, what would I do if he died? 22:17 And how would I handle that? 22:19 I can remember thinking now, what would we do for funeral? 22:24 This is pretty bad. 22:26 What would we do for a funeral and who would do music 22:29 and who would speak? 22:31 Your mind begins to spiral in a downward spiral. 22:35 And then pretty soon his, 22:37 the lights of his pickup would swing across the yard 22:39 and he would come home and say, 22:40 "Oh, I'm so sorry. 22:42 So and so stopped me in the parking lot. 22:43 And we got busy talking and whatever happened." 22:47 And that fear of death or someone that you love dying. 22:53 Philippians 4:6-7, I love this passage. 22:57 This is Paul, writing from prison. 22:59 Now Paul had something to be afraid about. 23:01 If anybody had something to be afraid about, 23:03 it would definitely be Paul. 23:04 He is in prison and getting ready to be killed. 23:08 He's writing this epistle, Philippians from prison. 23:11 And yet he says in Philippians 4:6-7. 23:14 "Be anxious for nothing, 23:16 but in everything by prayer and supplication, 23:19 with thanksgiving, 23:21 let your requests be made known to God, 23:24 and the peace of God, 23:26 which surpasses all understanding, 23:29 will keep or will guard your hearts and minds 23:34 through Christ Jesus." 23:36 You know the Greek word for everything 23:37 it says be anxious for nothing 23:39 but in everything with prayer and supplication. 23:42 That word everything is pos. 23:45 And it means each and every thing. 23:49 So Paul isn't saying 23:50 with certain things 23:51 you don't have to be anxious about. 23:53 But there's other things clearly, 23:54 God knows they're really huge. 23:57 You could be anxious about these. 23:58 Each and every thing. 24:02 Everything by prayer and supplication 24:03 with thanksgiving 24:05 we can bring before the father because He hears, 24:08 'cause He knows, 24:10 'cause He wants to answer and give us His peace 24:14 that guards our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 24:20 So how do we handle fear? 24:22 What are those keys to overcoming fear? 24:26 I don't say this as if I have arrived. 24:28 But these are seven keys 24:30 that the Lord has used in my own life, 24:34 in my own journey 24:35 with those fears in my own life. 24:38 I'm going to give you all seven 24:40 and we'll go back and unpack each one of them. 24:42 Number one, focus on Jesus. 24:46 Number two, focus on other people. 24:50 Number three, focus on who you belong to. 24:55 Number four, focus on fearing God. 25:00 Number five, focus on being chosen. 25:05 Number six, focus on God's presence. 25:10 And number seven, focus on God's love. 25:14 So let's look at number one. 25:16 First key to overcoming fear, focus on Jesus. 25:19 Let's look at Isaiah. 25:20 I told you there's a great many verses 25:22 in the Book of Isaiah, 25:24 dealing specifically with fear. 25:27 So Isaiah 26:3. 25:31 I love this passage. 25:33 "You will keep him in perfect peace, 25:36 whose mind is stayed on You," 25:39 why? 25:40 "Because he trusts in You." 25:42 Now, this is just my personality. 25:45 When I used to read that verse, it would stress me out. 25:49 You will keep him in perfect peace 25:51 whose mind is stayed on me. 25:52 God, I got to work, I got to focus. 25:56 If my mind I got to bring it back to you. 25:58 I need to focus again on you. 25:59 If my mind is not focused on you enough, somehow, 26:02 I'm going to lack the peace that you want to freely give. 26:08 There's sometimes a difficulty. 26:09 I don't know if you've ever experienced this, 26:11 but a difficulty in keeping your mind focused on Jesus. 26:16 I can get up in the morning, 26:18 have my time with God open up the Word of God 26:21 and begin to study and instantly my mind goes, 26:24 "Oh, you need to do this in the office." 26:25 "No, God, I'm having worship right now." 26:27 So let me not know God, but no, Satan, 26:30 I'm having worship right now with God. 26:31 So you bring your mind back, focus again. 26:34 And then you just begin to pray 26:36 and something else intrudes into that 26:38 sacred space with me and God. 26:41 Sometimes my mind wanders, 26:43 or it's difficult to bring it back. 26:46 So when I read the scripture, 26:48 "You keep him in perfect peace, 26:50 whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you." 26:54 I would feel stressed. 26:57 God, how am I supposed to focus and keep my mind on you? 27:03 The breakthrough occurred when I discovered what the word 27:05 stayed meant in Hebrew. 27:07 You will keep him in perfect peace 27:09 whose mind is stayed on you. 27:11 I always thought it meant focus as in, 27:13 I need to work harder. 27:14 I need to keep my mind on God. 27:15 Come on, Jill, back to God. 27:17 Come on, Jill, back to God. 27:18 Come on, Jill, don't focus on your fear, 27:20 or those anxieties, bring it back to God. 27:23 But the word stayed in Hebrew means to lean, 27:29 to rest upon, to lay down. 27:33 That's what it means 27:35 to lean, to lay, to rest upon. 27:41 So that completely changes 27:45 the context of that verse. 27:48 You will keep him in perfect peace 27:51 whose mind is stayed on you. 27:52 What does that mean? 27:53 I put my head in God's lap. 27:56 You ever see a kid do that, 27:58 just lay their head on their mama 27:59 or their daddy's lap. 28:01 I put my head in His lap knowing He's got me. 28:08 You see, we don't have God. 28:10 He has us. 28:14 Lay on Him. 28:16 Put your head in His lap. 28:17 Trust in Him. 28:19 Know that it's not about how hard you focus on Jesus 28:22 or bring your mind back to Jesus. 28:24 It's just about resting in His arms as His child, 28:30 knowing that He's got you. 28:33 And He's got whatever situation 28:35 you are going through right now. 28:38 And He's going to hold you through that. 28:42 The book Education, page 253. 28:45 This is one of my favorite quotes 28:48 from Ellen White about faith. 28:51 The book Education, page 253, 28:55 "Faith is trusting God, 28:57 believing that He loves us 29:00 and knows best what is for our good. 29:04 Thus, instead of our own, it leads us to choose His way. 29:08 In place of our ignorance, we accept His wisdom, 29:11 in place of our weakness, His strength, 29:14 in place of our sinfulness, His righteousness." 29:18 Faith is trusting God, 29:20 believing that He loves us 29:22 and knows best what is for our good. 29:25 Faith is simply putting my head down 29:28 on the lap of My Father God 29:31 and knowing that I can trust my life, 29:34 my circumstances, 29:36 my situation to His everlasting arms, 29:40 because we don't have God, He has us. 29:44 So key number one to overcoming fear 29:45 is to focus on Jesus 29:47 and when I say that, 29:48 not in a stressful sense of focusing 29:51 but in the sense of laying on His lap. 29:54 Leaning, resting upon Jesus, 29:58 in the midst of your circumstance. 30:02 Number two, focus on others. 30:06 Turn with me to the Book of Hebrews. 30:07 Of course, we know 30:09 Hebrews 11 is that incredible faith chapter. 30:13 But we get to Hebrews 12:1, 30:17 "We also, 30:18 since we're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, 30:22 let us lay aside every weight, 30:24 and the sin which so easily besets us, 30:28 and let us run with endurance, 30:31 the race that is sent before us." 30:35 The key is verse 2, looking to Jesus, 30:39 the author and finisher of our faith, 30:42 who for the joy that was set before Him, 30:45 endured the cross, despising the shame, 30:47 and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 30:53 Looking unto Jesus, 30:55 the author and finisher of our faith. 30:57 Now author, of course, 30:59 means the beginning of our faith. 31:01 Finisher in Greek means perfecter, completer. 31:06 So He began our faith and He perfects our faith, 31:10 He completes our faith, 31:12 who for the joy that was set before Him, 31:14 endured the cross, despising the shame. 31:17 Now, do you think He wanted to go to the cross? 31:20 Absolutely not. 31:21 You read in the gospels 31:23 about His experiences in Gethsemane. 31:25 This is the experience before the cross, 31:27 God's sweating drops of blood. 31:29 God, please if it's possible, I can't go through with this. 31:34 Please, I don't want to go through with this. 31:37 He endured humiliation, He endured shame, 31:40 He endured tremendous pain and spiritual anguish, 31:46 because He was separated from His Father. 31:49 He had never been separated from His Father again 31:52 because they were one. 31:54 And yet there was the separation 31:57 from His father 31:58 because of the sins that were placed on Him, 32:00 our sins on the cross. 32:04 So how did He endure that, 32:05 the pain and humiliation and all of that? 32:08 How did He endure that? 32:11 It's a joy that was set before Him 32:14 because of the joy that was set before Him, 32:16 He could endure the cross and what was that joy? 32:19 That is you and I. 32:22 He looked down the stream of time 32:23 and saw you and I able to spend an eternity with Him. 32:28 And because of that joy, because of others, 32:32 He endured the present trial, 32:35 the present circumstance that He was involved in. 32:39 Have you ever noticed that when you have a difficult day, 32:44 you can get drowned in your own stuff, 32:47 but if you choose to encourage someone else, 32:50 if you choose to focus on someone else, 32:53 if you choose to reach out of yourself, what happens? 32:57 Your attitude and your heart and your life changes. 33:00 So the first key is to focus on Jesus. 33:02 The second is to focus on others. 33:07 Third key, focus on who you belong to. 33:11 Going back to Isaiah. 33:13 Isaiah 43. 33:15 This is one of my favorite new books, Isaiah, 33:18 not that it's new, but it's one of my favorites. 33:21 Isaiah 43 begins with the words but now. 33:26 Now that means something obviously happened 33:27 before in Isaiah Chapter 42. 33:29 And if you read it, 33:30 you see that God's people had been deaf and blind, 33:35 God's people had turned their back on Him. 33:39 God's people had worshipped other idols, 33:42 God's people had done their own thing. 33:46 And it begins with, 33:48 but now, 33:50 in spite of their unfaithfulness to the covenant 33:52 that God had with them as His people, 33:55 in spite of everything that they had done, 33:59 he says, 34:00 "But now, thus says the Lord who created you." 34:04 That word in Hebrew means to form or shape." 34:08 And He who formed you, O Israel, fear not, 34:11 for I have redeemed you." 34:15 That word God means the kinsman redeemer, 34:20 that symbolism in the Old Testament, 34:22 especially with Ruth and Boaz. 34:24 And you see, God not only made us, 34:27 you and I, 34:29 He bought us back by His blood from the land of the enemy. 34:34 "Fear not, for I've redeemed you. 34:37 I have called you by your name. 34:39 You are mine." 34:42 We don't have to be afraid because why? 34:45 We belong to Him. 34:48 We're first His by creation, second His by redemption. 34:52 We're not afraid because we belong to Him. 34:56 Remember, Herod, 34:58 we read that before in Matthew 14. 35:00 He was afraid of those who sat. 35:04 Remember the people around 35:06 him, his associates, his subordinates. 35:09 He was concerned about that. 35:12 And because of the people around him, 35:15 he made certain decisions. 35:17 But if you and I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, 35:21 if we get who we are from Him, and not from other people, 35:26 if we focus on who we actually belong to, 35:30 and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. 35:32 That makes all the difference. 35:35 Henry Nouwen says this, 35:36 "At issue here is the question: 35:39 'To whom do I belong? To God or to the world?' 35:43 Many of my daily preoccupations suggest that 35:47 I belong more to the world than to God. 35:50 A little criticism, it makes me angry, 35:52 a little rejection, that makes me depressed. 35:55 A little praise, that raises my spirits, 35:58 and a little success, that excites me. 36:02 I'm like a small boat on the ocean, 36:05 tossed completely at the mercy of the waves." 36:09 What is he saying? 36:11 The issue is, who do we belong to? 36:12 Do we put more importance on the people around us? 36:17 Or do we put our importance 36:19 because we are sons and daughters of the King? 36:22 Who do you belong to? 36:25 Number four, key number four is focus on fearing God. 36:29 We have nothing to fear when we fear God Himself. 36:34 Let's look at Isaiah 8. 36:36 This is a scripture 36:37 that we referenced at the very beginning of the message. 36:38 Isaiah 8. 36:40 Now, Isaiah the Prophet, incredible man of God, 36:44 prophesied for years to the children of Judah, 36:48 for kings, some good, some horrible. 36:54 He was with the people. 36:57 There were two major national crises 37:00 that took place during that time 37:01 during his years of his prophetic call. 37:06 When I think of Isaiah, 37:08 we're going to Isaiah in just a moment, 37:09 but when I think of Isaiah, I think of Isaiah 6, 37:12 the call of Isaiah, 37:14 remember he saw the Lord high and lifted up 37:16 and His glory filled the temple and this is sanctuary language. 37:21 Isaiah is there and realizes his uncleanness 37:25 and his unworthiness 37:26 and the angel came with a coal from off the altar 37:29 and touched his lips and cleanse him, 37:32 and then called him into that prophetic ministry. 37:36 And what did Isaiah answer? 37:38 Here am I send me. 37:40 Now what's interesting to me in this whole, 37:42 this is just a side note, but in this whole context, 37:44 is that Isaiah 6 begins with what? 37:46 It says in the year that King Uzziah died. 37:49 That's when he saw the Lord high 37:51 and lifted up in the temple. 37:53 Now what's interesting, 37:54 because King Uzziah had been a good king, 37:56 but if you read about it in the Word of God, 37:58 it says he was good until he became strong. 38:04 And then his heart became lifted up. 38:07 In other words, he was a good king, 38:10 life was going well. 38:12 And then all of a sudden, 38:14 when he became prideful and egotistical and realized, 38:18 "Man, I'm really something here as Judah's king, 38:20 and I'm doing a great job." 38:22 He became lifted up in his own pride. 38:26 And at that time, 38:27 he went into the temple 38:28 and he sought to take a coal from the altar, 38:32 and to put it in and to burn incense 38:34 before the Lord. 38:35 Now, he was not supposed to do that as the king, 38:37 only the priests were involved in that work. 38:40 And he was struck with leprosy 38:41 and he was a leper until the day that he died. 38:44 Now, it's interesting that Isaiah mentions in the year 38:47 that King Uzziah died is when this happened. 38:49 And Isaiah saw this whole prophetic vision. 38:52 Because King Uzziah 38:55 in a prideful manner went into the sanctuary, 38:58 took a coal from the altar, 38:59 and he sought to burn incense. 39:02 On this side, Isaiah was in the sanctuary, 39:06 the angel took a coal from the altar, 39:09 and the angel turned Isaiah as it were into the incense. 39:13 So if you jump over, that's Isaiah 6, 39:15 but if you jump over to Isaiah Chapter 8, 39:18 we see there's great terror among the children of Judah, 39:23 the northern kingdom, Israel and Syria, 39:27 both of those kings had formed a coalition 39:30 and they were engaged in warfare 39:32 against the nation of Judah. 39:35 And the king, King Ahaz was terrified. 39:37 He was a bad king, 39:39 he made his children be burned before heathen gods. 39:43 He tore down and closed up the temple 39:46 and built altars to other foreign gods 39:49 and he did not lead the people in the way of the Lord. 39:51 And so the Prophet Isaiah came to him and said, 39:54 trust in the Lord, but he refused to do that. 39:57 And so he instead turned to Assyria 40:00 and sought help from Assyria. 40:03 So we're in Isaiah 8:11. 40:05 "For the Lord thus spoke to me with a strong hand, 40:08 and instructed me 40:10 that I should not walk in the way of the people." 40:11 Why? 40:13 Because they were seeking to turn to Assyria 40:15 or Egypt or Babylon, a neighboring nation for help. 40:18 And God said, 40:20 "I got this, I got you." 40:21 He said, "Take a stand." 40:25 Verse 12, 40:26 "Do not say, 'A conspiracy, ' 40:28 concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, 40:30 nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled. 40:34 The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow. 40:37 Let Him be your fear and let Him be your dread. 40:41 He will be as a sanctuary 40:42 but a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense 40:45 to both the houses of Israel 40:47 as a trap and a snare 40:48 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 40:51 And many among them shall stumble, 40:53 they shall fall and be broken, be snared, and taken. 40:58 Now you see some incredible contrast in that passage. 41:02 You notice that it said, 41:04 "Do not be afraid of their threats." 41:05 I love that passage. 41:07 Do not be afraid of their threats. 41:09 Why? 41:10 Because the Lord of hosts, Him you shall fear. 41:15 If you fear God, 41:16 you don't have to be afraid of others. 41:20 On the flip side, 41:21 if you're afraid of other people, 41:23 and what they think of you, 41:25 probably, we don't fear God enough. 41:30 The next section says, He will be to you a sanctuary, 41:34 but to others 41:35 He's a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. 41:38 If God is a sanctuary to you, 41:41 He won't be a stone of stumbling 41:42 or a rock of offense. 41:44 But on the flip side, 41:46 if God is a stone of stumbling or a rock of offense to you, 41:50 that means that 41:51 He has not become your sanctuary. 41:53 He has not tabernacled with you. 41:56 He told the people in Exodus 25:8, 41:58 let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. 42:03 God wants to dwell with us and tabernacle with us. 42:07 So if we don't have to be afraid of the threats, 42:09 or we don't have to fear 42:12 because God is our fear. 42:15 What in the world does that mean to fear God? 42:19 The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow. 42:22 It literally means Him you shall regard as holy. 42:28 Let Him be your fear. 42:30 Let Him be your dread. 42:31 Let Him be your fear, 42:33 let Him be your object of reference. 42:35 So in this context, 42:37 the fear of the Lord simply means 42:40 we consider the Lord as holy. 42:44 Proverbs 1:7, 42:45 one more piece I want to put into this. 42:47 Proverbs 1:7 says, 42:49 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom 42:52 or knowledge, 42:54 but fools, they despise wisdom and instruction." 42:58 In this case, 42:59 the fear of the Lord is admiration or reverence, 43:03 but it is expressed in obedience. 43:06 So there's really two pieces here 43:08 to the fear of the Lord. 43:09 The first piece here is that we regard God as holy, 43:13 we understand that He is holy. 43:15 This piece over here is your in my piece, 43:18 meaning we're to walk in obedience to Him. 43:23 We saw that in Isaiah Chapter 6, 43:25 remember when he saw that vision 43:26 and the Lord was high and lifted up. 43:28 Isaiah recognized the holiness of God. 43:31 Because He said, 43:33 "Woe is me, and I am undone." 43:34 He recognized his sin, in contrast to a holy God. 43:38 But then he walked in obedience, 43:42 because when the call went forth, 43:43 who will go for me? 43:45 He said, 43:46 "Here am I, send me." 43:50 The fear of the Lord is that recognition, 43:52 the first piece of the holiness of the Lord 43:55 combined with you and I walking in obedience to Him. 44:01 You know, this happened quite recently. 44:03 Greg said, we're talking at night, 44:07 someone came to me that day, 44:10 and I was telling Greg about it that night, 44:11 and I said, Oh, I said, you know, 44:14 someone told me such and such, 44:15 and I think it's a really good idea. 44:17 And I think that, you know, 44:19 I really think we should do this. 44:20 And Greg looked at me, and he just kind of smiled. 44:24 And I said, 44:25 "Well, what's so funny about that?" 44:26 And he said, 44:28 "Well, you know, several months ago, 44:31 maybe four or five, even six months ago, 44:34 a different person gave you the same suggestion. 44:37 But you didn't think 44:39 it was such a great suggestion then." 44:41 And I thought, 44:42 "Oh, really? Did I do that?" 44:43 And I thought back and I really had done that. 44:47 You see, 44:48 the person who just gave me the suggestion recently. 44:51 Why did I accept it so readily? 44:53 Because I like that person. 44:54 Because we get along 44:57 because we're whatever you want to call it, 45:01 but I accepted the suggestion. 45:02 Over here, I had an issue with the person. 45:05 So when they made a suggestion, 45:07 which was the very same suggestion, 45:08 as this person over here gave, 45:10 I kind of bristled at that suggestion. 45:12 Why is that? 45:13 Because I respect the person over here, 45:15 but I did not respect the person over here. 45:19 If we fear God, we recognize who He is as holy, 45:24 but we also respect Him, we also reverence Him, 45:29 we honor Him, 45:30 and we choose to live our lives in obedience to Him. 45:34 So we focus on Jesus, we focus on others, 45:38 we focus on who we belong to. 45:41 That's the Lord Jesus Christ. 45:43 We focus on fearing God or recognizing His holiness 45:47 and choosing to respect and honor Him. 45:50 Number five, we focus on being chosen. 45:54 Isaiah 44:1-2, we're still in Isaiah, 45:58 just jump over from Isaiah 8. 46:00 Isaiah 44:1-2, 46:03 "Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, 46:06 and Israel whom I have chosen. 46:09 Thus says the Lord who made you and formed you from the womb, 46:13 who will help you, 46:15 'Fear not, 46:16 O Jacob My servant, 46:17 and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen." 46:23 We don't have to be afraid because He has chosen us. 46:29 I don't know if you remember when you were kids growing up, 46:32 or maybe you're still young and involved in this. 46:36 You're in school, or maybe a church, 46:39 softball leader or something, and they start choosing sides. 46:42 Okay, you're going to be on this side, 46:43 and you just kind of stand on the sidelines. 46:45 So people are in this side, 46:46 oh, yeah, I want so and so for my team. 46:48 And then on this side, 46:49 oh, yeah, I want this person on my team. 46:51 We want to be chosen, do we not? 46:54 We want to be wanted. 46:57 We want to belong. 47:00 I remember as a little girl, probably four years old, 47:04 it's one of my first memories actually. 47:05 We were in a circle playing a game called Wink 'em. 47:08 Meaning you winked at a certain person. 47:10 And then they jump up and they try to run to the sea. 47:13 And I remember, nobody winked at me. 47:16 And I'm sitting there, 47:17 just my legs swinging 47:19 and they winked at everybody else in the circle, 47:20 and they didn't wink at me and I remember starting to cry. 47:22 Why? 47:24 Because I felt I was not chosen. 47:30 John 15:16. 47:32 Jesus speaking to His disciples, 47:34 and to you and I, through the stream of time, 47:36 you did not choose me, 47:38 but I chose you, 47:39 and ordained you that you should go and bear fruit. 47:44 We focus on the fact that God chose us 47:47 from the foundation of the world 47:49 to be His sons and daughters. 47:52 Number six, focus on God's presence. 47:56 Isaiah 41, 47:57 jump back just a couple chapters. 47:59 Isaiah 41:10, 48:02 "Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, 48:05 for I am your God. 48:07 I will help you, 48:09 I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." 48:14 Story is told of a little boy 48:15 who went with his father to visit his grandmother, 48:18 it was three miles away, 48:19 and they walked to grandma's house, 48:22 and they visited at grandma's house, 48:24 and he loved his grandma and had a great time. 48:26 And then it was time to go home. 48:28 But they'd stay too long. 48:29 And it began to get dark. 48:30 And the little boy was afraid. 48:32 And he asked his father, 48:33 "Will anything catch us?" 48:35 And the father said, 48:36 "There is no danger." 48:37 And the little boy asked again, 48:39 "Daddy will anything catch us?" 48:41 And the father said, 48:42 "There is no danger." 48:43 And the little boy asked the third time, 48:45 "Daddy, will anything catch us?" 48:48 He was still afraid. 48:50 And the father took him by the hand and said, 48:54 "I will not allow anything to harm you." 48:56 You see, fear is not the absence of trouble 48:58 because we clearly have issues 49:00 and we clearly have trouble 49:01 and we clearly encounter circumstances that are fearful. 49:06 But fear is not the absence of trouble, 49:12 but when we focus on the presence of God, 49:17 and we focus on His presence, that takes away that fear, 49:23 because God can walk with us through anything. 49:28 Finally, key number seven, focus on God's love. 49:33 1 John 4:18. 49:35 There is no fear in love, because perfect love, 49:38 it casts out fear. 49:40 It throws out fear, it gets rid of fear. 49:45 There was a workman 49:47 who was employed on a building project 49:50 working late at night. 49:52 Now the other workers had worked during the day, 49:54 but he worked late at night 49:56 and he was busy on the edge of the wall 49:59 several stories up in a big city. 50:02 And he lost his balance and he fell, 50:05 and he grasps the edge of the fall 50:06 with his fingers. 50:08 Now he cried out, 50:10 but nobody could hear him 50:11 because the street was busy below 50:13 and there was honks and noises and cars 50:17 and all kinds of stuff. 50:19 People were busy. 50:20 Nobody looked up in the dark. 50:22 Nobody saw the man desperately clinging 50:25 from the edge of the building stories up. 50:28 He cried out to God and said, 50:30 "God, please would You save me? 50:32 I'm about ready to die when my fingers let go, 50:35 I'm about ready to die." 50:38 And he cried out, 50:39 "Please, God," 50:41 but no miracle happened. 50:42 And nothing came to save him or to help him. 50:45 And his fingers got numb, and they started to relax. 50:48 And he held on with every piece and ounce of strength he had. 50:52 And in spite of everything, he couldn't hold anymore. 50:56 And so his fingers let go, and he cried out with a scream. 51:01 And he fell. 51:02 But he fell just a couple of inches, 51:05 because they're in the dark. 51:07 He didn't know but there was a scaffold set up 51:10 by the side of the building. 51:12 You see, he was terrified, 51:14 thinking he was going to fall to his death, 51:17 not knowing that the whole time he was afraid, 51:20 the whole time 51:21 he was clinging desperately to the edge of the building, 51:25 not knowing that there was safety, 51:28 and there was security right there. 51:29 All he had to do is drop a couple inches 51:33 and he had been safe. 51:35 You see, as Christians, 51:36 we believe that our salvation depends on our endurance. 51:42 We struggle, God, I'm afraid. 51:47 Somehow I can't get out of what I am in, 51:50 my circumstances feel overwhelming, 51:53 conscious of our own weakness, for fearful or anxious, 51:58 we're unhappy, 52:00 when underneath are the everlasting arms 52:05 of our faithful, all powerful Savior. 52:09 The eternal God is your refuge 52:11 and underneath are His everlasting arms. 52:14 He would thrust out the enemy from before you 52:16 and say destroy. 52:18 What are you afraid of today? 52:21 Is it a long-standing fear or deep-seated phobia? 52:24 Is fear of death or of losing a loved one, 52:26 fear of health or the lack of it, 52:28 fear of what other people say or think or do to you, 52:31 fear of losing your salvation 52:33 or not having it in the first place, 52:35 fear of the unknown, the future? 52:37 I just call them the what ifs of life. 52:41 How do we handle that? 52:43 The Lord is our light and our salvation. 52:50 We do not have to be afraid. 52:52 Listen as Tim ministers. 52:59 The Lord is my light 53:04 and my salvation 53:09 Whom shall I fear, 53:15 whom shall I fear? 53:20 The Lord is my light 53:25 and my salvation 53:31 Whom shall I fear, 53:36 whom shall I fear? 53:41 If God before us, 53:45 then who can be against us? 53:51 Who can be against us? 54:00 For He the Lord is with us 54:21 The Lord is my strength 54:25 and my redeemer 54:31 Whom shall I fear, 54:36 whom shall I fear? 54:41 Although I know 54:45 I'll walk through the valley 54:49 Oh I will fear no evil 54:58 For He the Lord is with me 55:27 We're grateful today that the Lord is our light. 55:31 The Lord is our salvation. 55:34 How do we handle fear? 55:35 How do we deal 55:37 with those circumstances in our lives 55:39 that we can't control 55:41 that we don't know 55:43 what is going to happen in the future? 55:45 We focus on Jesus, 55:47 not a rigid focus, not a difficult focus, 55:51 but we lean upon Him, 55:54 we lay as it were our head in His lap, 55:58 knowing that He is our daddy, and that He will help us. 56:02 We focus on others, 56:05 instead of focusing on our own situation. 56:09 But we put our mind and focus on someone else. 56:12 We focus on who we belong to. 56:16 The Lord created us and He redeemed us and you, 56:21 you belong to Him. 56:23 We focus on fearing God and recognizing who He is. 56:28 If we... 56:30 We don't have to be afraid of other people if we fear God. 56:35 We focus on being chosen. 56:38 And knowing that 56:40 He's the one who has chosen us. 56:42 We focus on His presence 56:44 and knowing that 56:46 He walks with us through anything. 56:50 We focus on His love, 56:52 knowing that His love will cast out that fear. 56:58 The children of Israel 56:59 when they were facing the Red Sea, 57:02 the army of the Egyptians behind them 57:04 and the Red Sea in front of them. 57:06 They're terrified, not knowing what to do. 57:09 And Moses said to the people, do not be afraid. 57:12 Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. 57:16 Do you want to see the salvation of the Lord 57:18 in your life and in your heart? 57:20 God, we come before You as Your children, 57:23 asking that 57:25 You would deliver us from all fear, 57:27 and we thank You in Jesus' name, amen. |
Revised 2020-12-05