Michael Youssef

Overcoming Fear

April 11, 2021 | 2115 | 27:29

Michael Youssef passionately proclaims uncompromising truth from God’s Word. Learn more at LTW.org.

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Michael Youssef | Overcoming Fear | May 16, 2021

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male announcer: Coming up next on "Leading the Way."
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Dr. Michael Youssef: Get out the Word of God
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and start remembering.
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Start remembering God's past blessings.
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Start remembering God's past protection.
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Start remembering God's past watching over you.
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Start remembering how God used you in the past,
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and today that same God wants to bless you,
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encourage you, and use you again.
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announcer: Coming up next.
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Dr. Youssef: Never give up.
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Never give up on biblical truth.
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Never give up
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on the infallibility of the Word of God.
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Never give up on the faith that once delivered.
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Never give up on the biblical orthodoxy.
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And when you understand
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the backdrop to this epistle,
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second epistle of Timothy,
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and when you understand that this,
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the importance of this message for our generation
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where the apostle Paul, the aged, imprisoned apostle,
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realized that his days are numbered
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and that the day
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of his meeting Jesus face-to-face is approaching,
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he decides to leave this epistle as his legacy
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for future generation
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of church leaders and church members.
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But in reality, this is an exhortation
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to this and future generation
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of church leaders, church members,
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that in every generation,
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there is falsehoods and compromise,
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and those falsehoods and compromises
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always start on a very minuscule component.
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They are so imperceptible, most people sitting in the pews,
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they don't even realize it, they don't even understand it.
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And yet, in time, it keeps going in a downward direction.
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From the book of Acts and from historical documents,
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we know that the apostle Paul was imprisoned twice.
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He was imprisoned twice.
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You remember when he had the shipwreck,
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going from Jerusalem to Rome?
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There that his first imprisonment
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was more like a house arrest.
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He was in a rented accommodation.
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Sure, he was under guard, but he was rented accommodation,
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and he was able to receive visitors.
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But then he was freed
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because of lack of evidence against him.
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Then there is a strong indication
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that he went from there to Spain.
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You remember when he wrote to the Romans?
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And he said, "I have longing to come to you
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so that you might send me on my way to Spain."
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The goal of his life, the desire of his life,
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the longing of his life was to go to Spain
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and preach the gospel there too.
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That way, he would've covered the empire from side to side.
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And then, after he preached in Spain and came back,
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that he was arrested in Troas.
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This was during the time of the great persecution.
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You remember Nero burned Rome and blamed it on the Christian.
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And the severe persecution began back then,
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and it was so severe that Paul himself was arrested
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and he was placed in a dungeon.
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This aged, physically weak apostle of God
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was languishing in a dungeon.
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These were four walls, no windows whatsoever
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to look out on the outside world.
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And I'm told that in winter, it's so damp and it's so cold,
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you talk about plants in a hot house, far from it.
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We don't know exactly how long
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the apostle Paul was in that dungeon,
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in that miserable place,
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but we know that, from there,
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he was taken to the place of execution on the Ostian Way.
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There he laid his gray head on a great stone,
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and in a moment,
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the executioner's ax decapitated him,
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and Paul experienced absence from the body
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and presence with the Lord instantly.
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Sometimes immediately before
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that horrible, violent act, the apostle took pen to paper,
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and he wrote for the future generation.
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I am so grateful to the sovereign Lord
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for preserving such document,
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but also, I believe that the apostle Paul
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wrote this epistle
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so that every person who's defeated
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may experience victory and triumph,
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that each one may know joy in the midst of their despair,
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that every one of us can experience encouragement
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in the midst of discouragement.
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The one thing that comes through again and again and again
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is that the apostle Paul knew his spiritual son Timothy.
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He knew him only too well.
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He knew his strength, and he knew his weaknesses.
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He knew how prone Timothy was to discouragement
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and how he's prone to self-pity
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and how he's prone to the temptation
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of throwing in the towel and giving up.
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Timothy apparently was a timid soul--was not assertive,
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which made unscrupulous people take advantage of him.
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And therefore, the apostle Paul,
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as he contemplates
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his own departure from this side to heaven,
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he writes to Timothy and basically,
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if I can put it in few words, saying to him,
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"Don't ever give up."
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Can you say that with me?
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"Don't--" at this stage in my life and ministry,
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that this is an urgent message
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to the church in the 21st century.
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We have lost our sense of urgency,
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and I pray under God that he will indeed stir up
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that sense of urgency in every one of our hearts,
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and even those who are watching around the world.
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So many in my generation
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are losing their grip of the truth,
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but I thank God every day,
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and God only knows that he is now raising up
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a new generation of young Timothys,
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and I believe with all my heart
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that these young Timothys in this church,
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who, by the power of God,
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are unashamed of the truth of the gospel,
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those young Timothys
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that we are blessed to have in this church
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will guard the truth until Jesus comes back.
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And so look with me
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at the first seven verses of chapter 1, 2 Timothy.
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In verse 1, you see the apostle Paul asserts,
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as he does in all the epistles,
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he asserts his unique calling in Christ Jesus,
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the unique call on his life.
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Like all the other 12,
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the apostle Paul was qualified to be called an apostle
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because the main qualification for being called an apostle
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is that they have seen the resurrected Jesus,
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and that is why the apostle Paul called himself an apostle
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because he not only saw
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the resurrected Jesus on the road to Damascus,
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but he was commissioned by the resurrected Jesus
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to take the gospel to the Gentiles.
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And that is why now he's not afraid
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to die in Jesus and for Jesus.
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Look at verse two.
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Paul addresses Timothy as "son."
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Of course, he's not his physical son.
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He's his spiritual son.
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Timothy came to the Lord
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through the ministry of the apostle Paul,
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and Paul becomes his spiritual father.
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If you follow "Leading the Way,"
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you know that we have the 2025 Vision
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that I believe God gave me after fasting and praying,
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and the vision is that, when I get to heaven,
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I want to see 1 million people,
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sons--spiritual sons and spiritual daughters
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with me in heaven,
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and I thank God that this is already happening.
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Look with me at verses 3 to 6.
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Here you find not some of,
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the most intensely personal words
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that you ever hear from the apostle Paul.
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These are the most intensely intimate words
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that the apostle ever expressed in all of his writings.
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Here he said to Timothy, I remember you in my prayers,
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not just when I pray in the morning,
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not just on occasions, not like I said to others,
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"in remembrance of you,
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Every time I think of you, I pray for you," no, no, no.
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He said, "I pray for you day and night."
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What an encouragement,
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what a shot in the arm to Timothy to know
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that the great apostle Paul
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praying for him day and night.
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Day and night.
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And he said, "As I pray for you day and night, Timothy,
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I recall your tears.
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I recall your faith, your sincere faith.
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I recall your godly heritage.
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I recall your godly mom and your godly grandma,
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who have prayed for you, who have ministered to you,
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who had instructed you
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so much so that you were prepared.
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As soon as you heard the message of the gospel,
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you believed it.
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Now, beloved, I wanna stop here for a minute,
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and I wanna tell you, sowing seed
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in the minds and the hearts of your children at home
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and grandchildren will bear fruit.
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Trust me.
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I saw it on the authority of the Word of God.
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You might not see the fruit right away.
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You might not experience that fruit immediately,
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but make no mistake about it,
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sooner or later, the fruit will come about.
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In Timothy's case, obviously, his mom and his grandmother
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have trained him well in the Old Testament,
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and have showed him
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the prophesies about Jesus in the Old Testament.
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They prepared his heart
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to be expectant of the coming of the Messiah.
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They obviously taught him to hope for the coming Messiah
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from the pages of the Old Testament.
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They taught him the importance
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of living expectantly of the coming Messiah.
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No wonder that kind of preparation
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compelled him that,
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as soon as he heard from the apostle Paul
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that the Messiah came,
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that he lived, that he died,
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that he rose again, he's he's ascended into heaven,
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and that he's soon coming back as judge,
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Timothy put his faith in Jesus Christ.
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announcer: Stay tuned for the conclusion
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of Dr. Youssef's message in just a moment.
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Dr. Youssef: Truth versus partial truth.
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So many preachers and so many theologians
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are teaching falsehood under the guise of truth.
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And what causes that defection from the faith?
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What causes giving in to this false teaching?
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Some think they're trying to save Christianity.
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Christianity does not need to be saved.
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That is why I want you to get this book,
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"Saving Christianity?"
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because it will show you how false that thought is.
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And I mention all the names of these people
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who are false teachers around us now,
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not in order to attack people
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but to attack their false teaching.
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I wanna help you galvanize,
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immune yourself from that false teaching.
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announcer: And now the conclusion
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of Dr. Youssef's message,
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"Don't Ever Give Up: Overcoming Fear."
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Dr. Youssef: We don't know, but apparently Timothy's father
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was a Gentile and possibly a Greek.
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He's not mentioned here, so I'm not gonna speculate.
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But what Paul is doing here, he's giving us
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an example of what I taught you
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when I preached through 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
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When Paul said that the children of a believing--one parent,
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doesn't have to be both, one,
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are sanctified in that believing parent,
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meaning that God has a plan for the children
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if even one parent is a believer.
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I hope that you vividly remember that.
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And here, what the apostle Paul is doing,
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he's saying here's an Exhibit A.
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Here's an Exhibit A of what I'm teaching about,
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how the children of believing parent
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will come to Christ.
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Exhibit A is Timothy.
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Timothy, because of his faith
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of his mother and his grandmother
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and the preparation and the seeds
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that they have planted in his heart, in his life.
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Now he became the successor of the great apostle Paul.
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And Paul, remember, he says, "I remember
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how you received the Holy Spirit when we laid hands on you.
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I remember how you got the gift of the Holy Spirit
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like we all have the gifts of--
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different gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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And I remember how you exercised that gift of the Holy Spirit,"
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and here he says, the great encourager,
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the apostle Paul is saying,
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"I remember all of that, Timothy,
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and I thank God for you."
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Those are truly magnificent word to a discouraged Timothy.
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Beloved, probably the same devil
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who was working on Timothy to discourage him,
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the same devil
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who was trying to tempt him to give up
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is the same devil who's working on some of you today.
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No doubt it's the same devil. It's the same devil.
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Probably the same devil
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who was tempting Timothy to throw in the towel
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and give up and slow down and give up the fight
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is that same devil who's tempting you today.
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I would do whatever it takes to encourage you to get up,
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get out the family album,
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get out the Word of God and start remembering,
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start remembering God's past blessings.
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Start remembering God's past protection.
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Start remembering God's past watching over you.
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Start remembering how he rescued you.
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Sometimes you did not even know it.
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Start remembering how God used you in the past,
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how God worked in you in the past.
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And today that same God wants to bless you,
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encourage you, and use you again.
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Which brings me to the very heart
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of what Paul is saying to Timothy
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in this particular passage.
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Here's what he's saying.
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He said, "Timothy, shake off your timidity.
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Shake off your fear.
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Shake off your discouragement.
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Shake off your weariness.
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Shake off the temptation to give up and take it easy.
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Look at verse 7 with me.
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"For God did not give us a spirit of fear or timidity--"
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it's really the same word-- "but the spirit of power,
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and of love and of self-control."
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I need to do a whole series of messages
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just from this verse.
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I know it would take that much.
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But--so let me summarize the best I know how.
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I understand from this, that there is a specific spirit,
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evil spirit, not from God, has nothing to do with God.
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It's an evil spirit.
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And he specializes in fear.
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Can I get an "Amen"?
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He specializes.
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You know, you gotta understand, if you read Ephesians,
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you understand that there's a hierarchy.
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If you read my book, "Conquer,"
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I show you the hierarchy in the spiritual realm
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among Satan and his demons.
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There is powers and authority, and they all have a hierarchy.
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And this evil spirit, who's not from the Lord,
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as I said, specializes in fear.
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Now, I don't know how many demons--
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could be billions or trillions, we don't know.
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We have no idea
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how many demons he would have deployed,
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this particular evil spirit,
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he would deploy to work on God's believers.
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We don't know.
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We don't know how many of those demons
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are doing the bidding of that evil spirit.
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It doesn't matter.
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What matters is that we recognize,
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A, that it's not from the Lord.
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It's an evil spirit.
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The Bible says, "He who is in us,"
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that's the Holy Spirit,
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"is greater than he who's in the world."
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That's the evil spirits, all of them put together.
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"He who's in us is greater
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than he who's in the world."
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Can you say that with me?
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"He who's in us is greater than he who's in the world."
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The evil spirit of fear has one overarching task.
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Oh yes, they're focused.
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I don't think the demons have ADD.
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And I do.
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And I have to work hard. I'm concentrating.
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They are laser-focused.
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What is it? What do they want to do?
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They want to paralyze your effectiveness.
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They want to neutralize your impact.
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They want to numb your spiritual senses.
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They want to terrify you
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into a prison cell of your own making.
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I hope the irony is not wasted on any of us.
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Paul is in a dungeon of a Roman prison.
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But he knew that if we live in fear,
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we are in a prison worse than his.
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If we live in fear,
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we're behind bars more powerful than steel.
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If we live in fear, we are
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in a prison more inescapable than Alcatraz.
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Fear can destroy your abilities.
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Fear can hamper your drive.
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Fear can paralyze your commitment.
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Fear can stump your spiritual growth.
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Fear can destroy your marriage,
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your family, and your relationships.
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Fear can destroy your health and even can kill you,
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which is the desire of the devil anyway,
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and that is why Paul wants Timothy
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and every one of us to know
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that because the devil controls a spirit of fear
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and because the devil is a liar, he will masquerade.
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He will not come and say,
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"I am fear, and I'm here to terrorize you."
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No, no, no, no, no, he will come to you
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with something like, "Be super cautious."
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You know what I'm talkin' about?
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"Just being careful.
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I just wanna make sure I'm doing the right thing.
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Let's not take risk.
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Let's not do crazy things.
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Let's not trust God with things
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that we're not sure he's gonna do or not."
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And it's being incapable and feeling inadequate
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or insecure or lacking in confidence.
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False humility.
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"Oh, others can do better."
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Course they can, but God's calling you,
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and you, and you, and you.
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I know what I'm talking about.
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I have experienced raw fear
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within inches of my face of facing death.
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But the Holy Spirit of God
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breathed in me and said, "Fear not."
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In fact, that is why
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those two words are repeated by Lord Jesus
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again and again and again, "Fear not," "Fear not."
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Say it with me, "Fear not."
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Fear not life. Why?
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Because Jesus said,
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"I am the way, the truth, and the life."
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Not "A life." "The life."
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Fear not death. Why?
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Because Jesus said, "I am the one who lives,
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was dead, and behold, I'm living forevermore."
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Fear not the unknown. Why?
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Because Jesus said, "I'm the Alpha and the Omega.
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I'm the Beginning and the End," and everything in between.
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The one thing the great apostle has learned
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in over 30 years of walking with the Lord,
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serving the Lord,
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preaching the gospel of the Lord,
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the one thing he understood,
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that there's only one antidote to fear, beloved, listen to me,
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there's only one antidote to fear.
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What is it? What is it?
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What is it?
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The God who is in total control of your life
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can banish fear out of your life.
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It might not happen in an instant,
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but it's a daily thing.
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Ask yourself the question:
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What is stopping your effectiveness?
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What excuse do you have
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for not serving and giving and doing?
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Is it fear of failure?
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I know all about failure.
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I've experienced it in my life many times.
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But I would rather try to do something and fail
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than succeed at nothing.
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Listen to me, you cannot be defeated
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unless you accept defeat in your heart.
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Let me repeat this, you cannot be defeated
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unless you accept defeat in your heart.
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Please hear me right. I'm about to finish.
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Falling down does not make you a failure.
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Staying down does.
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Did you get that?
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Falling down does not make you a failure,
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but staying down does.
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There's never a dead-end street when you are in Jesus.
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It's only a detour.
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Sometimes I hear people say, "Well, Michael,
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my past sins are just haunting me."
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Not if you place them under the blood of Jesus, amen?
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God buried your sins in the deepest sea,
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and there he put a sign, "Fishing is not allowed."
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Is it the fear of the unknown?
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The Bible said,
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"No weapon that's formed against you will prosper."
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It may look like succeeding, but it will not prosper.
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"The Lord is my light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear?"
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And so the Word of God
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to us today, all of us,
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regardless of where we are,
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the Word of God as he spoke unto Timothy,
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it's spoken to every one of us.
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We need to know that God is in control
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of every aspect of our lives.
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No matter how much the devil might bark,
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we already have received the victory
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because he has given us the Holy Spirit,
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and the Holy Spirit gives us power,
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gives us courage, gives us strength,
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give us power, give us
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the ability to love the unlovable,
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gives us all that we need to be
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faithful soldiers of Jesus Christ.
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Overcoming Fear

April 11, 2021 | 2115 | 27:29

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