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“Fear: Friend or Foe?”

“Fear: Friend or Foe?”. “Fear: Friend or Foe?”. Fear is natural, some fears are healthy. Principle to Remember: Healthy fears protect… …unhealthy fears destroy. No Fear? Really?.

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“Fear: Friend or Foe?”

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  1. “Fear: Friend or Foe?”

  2. “Fear: Friend or Foe?” • Fear is natural, some fears are healthy.

  3. Principle to Remember: • Healthy fears protect… • …unhealthy fears destroy.

  4. No Fear? Really? • (Proverbs 1:7) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. (NKJV) • (Proverbs 9:10) "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (NKJV)

  5. “Fear: Friend or Foe?” • Fear is natural, some fears are healthy. • Some people fear the very worst. • People often fear what they do not understand.

  6. (Exodus 1:8) • Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. (NKJV)

  7. “Fear: Friend or Foe?” • Fear is natural, some fears are healthy. • Some people fear the very worst. • People often fear what they do not understand. • Fear breeds fear.

  8. (Exodus 1:9) • And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; (NKJV)

  9. “Fear: Friend or Foe?” • Fear is natural, some fears are healthy. • Some people fear the very worst. • People often fear what they do not understand. • Fear breeds fear. • Some Fear is Not Rational.

  10. (Exodus 1:10) • "come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land." (NKJV)

  11. “Fear: Friend or Foe?” • Fear is natural, some fears are healthy. • Some people fear the very worst. • People often fear what they do not understand. • Fear breeds fear. • Some Fear is Not Rational. • Fear must be conquered before it conquers us. • Fearing things that we don’t understand can cause us to act irrationally.

  12. Fearing Things We Do Not Understand = Irrational Behavior • (Exodus 1:11) Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. (NKJV) • (Exodus 1:12-14) But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage-in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor. (NKJV)

  13. Fearing Things We Do Not Understand = Irrational Behavior • (Exodus 1:16) • and he said, "When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live." (NKJV)

  14. “Fear: Friend or Foe?” • Fear is natural, some fears are healthy. • Some people fear the very worst. • People often fear what they do not understand. • Fear breeds fear. • Some Fear is Not Rational. • Fear must be conquered before it conquers us. • Fearing things that we don’t understand can cause us to act irrationally. • God does not want you to live in fear

  15. (2 Timothy 1:7) • For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (NKJV)

  16. Gideon • (Judges 7:2) And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.' (NKJV) • (Judges 7:7) Then the LORD said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place." (NKJV)

  17. Gideon • (Judges 7:10-11) "But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, "and you shall hear what they say; and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who were in the camp. (NKJV) • (Judges 7:12) Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude. (NKJV) • (Judges 7:22) When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. (NKJV)

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