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The study notes in this section are Matthew’s personal outlines and therefore they have not been edited.  As a result, you will find some grammatical errors.

Locating Fear - Part 1

I.      Recognizing Fear-What does fear look like?

A.    All sin and disobedience to God is rooted in fear; love obeys God, fear doesn’t (1 Jn 5:3)

1.      Afraid that if you obey God something negative will happen to you (Mark 10)

2.      Faith in the enemy to cause something negative to happen to you as a result of you obeying God

B.     All strife is rooted in fear (Strife-Contention, wrangling to get your way)

1.      All strife is rooted in the fear that won’t get your way (Genesis 26:20)

2.      Faith in the enemy to work it out for your bad or to keep it this way always

C.    All unforgiveness and bitterness rooted in fear

1.      Afraid that if you forgive them that they’ll do it again, afraid if forgive them they’ll walk all over you, afraid if you forgive them what you’ll look like to others

D.    All laziness is fear of discomfort (Matthew 25:26)

1.      All flesh actions are a fear of the flesh not being comfortable

E.     Fear is 1) Impatient 2) Unkind 3) Envious 4) Prideful 5) Rude 6) Selfish 7) Offended 8) Thinking evil 9) Feels pleasure when somebody fails 10) Is not brave 11) Does not believe 12) Does not have high expectations 13) Disobeys God 14) Discouraged and depressed 15) Filled with strife 16) Holds unforgiveness 17) Lazy

1.      We saw strife, offense, disobedience, selfishness ect, but God saw fear

2.      We need to locate fear and see it the way God does

II.     The spirit of fear will dress up in many different costumes

A.    Satan is fear himself

1.      God is Love-The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of love (1 John 4:16)

a.      When you see peace, joy, etc., that’s Love’s peace, joy, kindess, it all flows as a out of love and as a result of love

2.      Satan is Fear; He is not hate, his hate is the result of his fear

a.      Spirit of antichrist and the spirit of fear are the same spirit (1 Jn 4:3, 2 Tim 1:7)

b.      When you see strife, anger, & impatience; It’s fear’s strife, anger, & impatience

1)      They all flow out of fear and are the result of fear

B.     It’s all the spirit of fear, just dressed up in a different costume; but when you strip the costume off you’ll see it’s fear underneath

1.      Satan’s a subtle deceiver who likes to mislead; of course he’d like you to think unforgiveness is the problem when in reality it’s fear