The System Of Fear
I. The system of fear vs. The
system of faith
A.
God set the system up where man has free will
1. What must he do if he wants to get involved in a persons life?
2. What must Satan do to get involved in a person’s life
3. Satan is not a creator, he is a perverter
B.
Satan’s system runs on fear; He can’t do
anything to you apart from fear
1. Fear is the access card that grants him access (Matt 14:24, Job 3,
Isaiah 54:14)
2. Fear is confidence in Satan to bring misfortune in your life
3. God’s system runs on faith working by love
C.
Faith and fear without works is dead (James
2:17)
1. Faith without actions is dead and cannot access God’s power
2. Fear without acts of fear is dead and cannot deactivate God’s power
3. There’s a principle that says what gets in your heart in abundance you
will act on (Matthew 12:34)
II. Romans 10:11-17-God’s side
A.
Whoever believes on God will never be disappointed-defeat one’s expectation
1. God says whoever believes on me will never be disappointed; They’ll
never get less than what they are expecting
2. That tells me that if whoever has been disappointed hasn’t believed on
him
B.
He’s not a God of just enough; It didn’t say
he’ll be just what you need him to be it said he’ll be rich unto those that
call upon him, that’s more than you need
1. He will be more than enough for you, in whatever you need him to be
C.
What does it mean to call upon the Lord? It’s
more than crying out, it’s calling on in faith
1. Call-To invoke-to address in prayer, to call upon
for assistance (Mark 11:24)
a.
Call means to address in prayer
b.
When you address in prayer you’re supposed to
believe you receive
c.
If you believe you received there should be
some action to back that belief up
d.
When you act on what you believe you’re
calling on him
2. Calling upon him is not just saying something, it’s
acting like you received what you desire and every second you act you’re making
the call
3. If God is going to get involved in your life where His
power is working you have to get so full of faith that you start acting in
faith
D.
What the system says
1. Calling can’t come without believing
2. Believing can’t come without hearing
3. Hearing can’t come without speaking
4. Speaking for God can’t come without Him sending someone
E.
The feet of them who preach the gospel of
peace are beautiful because those feet mean the man his hear who God sent to
speak words to me and I’m supposed to take these words and give me attention to
them, when I do faith will come, when I get full of faith I’ll act in faith,
call upon the Lord and He’ll be rich unto me
F.
17-Faith doesn’t just come by hearing, it
comes by attending to what has been said
1. The mind is the gateway to the spirit (Proverbs 4:20)
a.
You give your mind to God’s words by giving
your eyes, ears, & mouth to them
b.
If you give your mind to God’s words they’ll
get down in your heart
2. God can speak, but if you don’t give your attention to
what he said, then faith won’t come
III. Satan has perverted the system
of God
A.
12-Satan will bring poverty upon those who
call to him in fear
1. When you act in fear you are calling upon him to come and oppress
2. Job got in fear was calling on Satan in fear to bring the thing he
feared to pass
B.
13-Satan’s no respecter of persons; those who
operate in fear, saved or not, he’ll harm
C.
14-He knows you won’t call upon him in fear
(act in fear) if you, don’t have confidence/belief in him to bring misfortune
in your life
D.
14-He knows you won’t have faith/confidence
in him to bring misfortune in your life without hearing his words
E.
14-He knows if you’re going to hear his words
somebody is going to have to speak (Satan seeks to have a voice or an avenue
through which he can speak)
IV. What you give your attention to
becomes the determining factor in whether faith or fear is fed into your
spirit, whether or not you act in faith or fear and whether or not God’s power
shows up and you win and Satan has access into your life and you lose
A.
Mark 5-The woman with the Issue of Blood
B.
1 Samuel 17-David
C.
Matthew 14-Peter