The Consequences Of Fear-Part 2
I. Fear will connect you to the
thing you fear and bring it to pass
A.
Fear is a twisted form of faith; fear is not
feeling it’s believing
1. God put faith in Adam and when Adam sinned Satan twisted/perverted faith
a.
What was faith in God to bless, provide, &
protect became faith in Satan to steal, kill, & destroy
b.
Fear is confidence/belief in Satan to bring
misfortune in your life
c.
Fear is believing that something bad is going
to happen
2. Mark 4:40-Fear was their problem and yet he didn’t address their
feeling, he addressed their believing
B.
Belief is a connector; Belief connects you to
the unseen realm
1. Faith is a belief that will connect you to what u desire and bring it to
pass-Mark 11:24-Through believing u can get what u desire from the unseen to
the seen
a.
Matthew 8:13, 9:18,23-25 9:22-Healing was in
the unseen, but faith connected them to it and brought into the seen
b.
Matthew 14-Provision couldn’t be seen, but
faith connected them to it and brought it into the seen
2. Fear is a belief that will connect you to the thing you dread &
bring it to pass
a.
Your fear will connect you to the thing you
fear and bring to pass the way your faith will connect to the thing you believe
and bring it to pass
b.
Hebrews 11:1-Faith is the confidence that
what you desire will come to pass; fear is confidence that what you dread will
come to pass
3. Proverbs 23:7, 4:23-Good or bad your life is a sum-total of what you
believe
C.
What you fear will come on you
1. Job 3:25-Job’s fear connected him to the thing he feared & brought
it to pass
2. Proverbs 10:24-Operating in fear is wicked & your fear will come on
you
a.
Fear is wicked/twisted faith; when u operate
in fear u operate in wickedly
b.
Job was not wicked, he was righteous, but
when he operated in fear he operated wickedly and his fears came on him
3. Gen 31:31-32, 35:16-19, 49:31-Jacob feared losing his wives and it came on
him
4. Exodus 14:10-14, Numbers 26:65-This generation of the COI feared dying
in the wilderness the moment they left Egypt and what they feared came upon
them
5. 1 Sam 28:5,31:3-Saul feared dying at the hands of the Philistines & it
happened
6. Jeremiah 26:20-23-Urijah feared and acted on the fear by fleeing to
Egypt and the thing that he feared came upon him and he was murdered
7. Jeremiah 41-43-This wicked man Ishmael was a murderer and was holding
people captive. When Johanan heard
that he got people together & fought Ishmael & his men and won, but
Ishmael escaped.
a.
41:17-18-Johanan feared the Chaldeans would
retaliate against these people b/c of what Ishmael did
b.
42:5-6-They told Jeremiah to pray & tell
them what to do and they’d do it
c.
42:11-They were afraid of the King of Babylon
(Nebuchadnezzar)
d.
42:9-17-They feared the sword and they feared
famine
1) To go down to Egypt would be for them to go down b/c they feared war and
famine & they thought going to Egypt would keep them fed & safe, but to
go down there was to go down in fear not trusting God
e.
43:2-7-They went down to Egypt b/c they
feared famine and the sword
f.
44:12,26-28-The famine they feared, the sword
they feared came on them
D.
If the thing you fear will come on you, then
the thing you faith will come on you
1. Instead of connecting yourself to bad things by fearing/dreading them,
be free from fear & connect yourself to good things by believing you have
them
2. If fearing something could bring that thing to pass; then faithing something could bring that thing to pass
3. If fear connects you to bad, faith must disconnect you from bad
II. Fear deactivates the power
of God and keep God power from working in your behalf
A.
Matt 14:24-31-Peter is a man doing something
supernatural by the power of God
1. Peter stepped out on the water by faith and accessed God’s power
a.
The power of God didn’t shut off until the
fear began and when the fear began the oppression started
2. Fear deactivated that power & w/ that power off Satan could oppress &
win
a.
With that power working Satan can’t win (Acts
10:38, Isaiah 54:14)
B.
If operating in fear deactivates God’s power,
then operating faith must activate it
1. Could you stay in faith and love, activate God’s power and never be
oppressed by Satan again?
III. Fear grants Satan access
into your life
A.
Ephesians 4:27-If you can give place or not
give place to him
B.
1 Peter 5:8-Fear is grants him access
1. 6-Pride would be taking the care and operating in fear, when God has
designated himself the caretaker; you’re not better at His job than He his
2. 7-Cast all of your care; that means you have none
3. 8-Be sober (calm & collected) & be vigilant (watch, give attention,
be active)
4. 8-He’s seeking who will give him access/place by getting over into fear
5. 9-If you’ll resist him in faith he’ll flee because he has no access
(James 4:7)
C.
If fear grants Satan access, then a person
who doesn’t operate in fear gives him no access into their lives
1. Satan can want to do something to you, but without fear his access is
denied
2. Satan wanted to kill David, but couldn’t; wanted to kill the three Hebrews,
but couldn’t; wanted to kill Daniel, but couldn’t; wanted to kill Jesus, but
couldn’t because access was denied
IV. When Satan sees you
fearless, it’s a clear sign/message to him that he loses and you win
(Philippians 1:28)
A.
If the consequences of fear are it makes you
vulnerable, connects you to what you dread, deactivates God’s power, and grants
Satan access, then the results of not walking in fear must be it keeps you
safe, disconnects you from evil and connects you to good things you desire,
activates God’s power, and denies Satan access