WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 1 John chapter 4 and verse 17. This is now our 00:00:03.419 --> 00:00:05.799 third installment of our Love Matters series. 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:08.720 I want to say Love Matters. Amen. We've been 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.439 going through, for the most part, 1 John chapter 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:18.480 4. And we've still got a few more weeks to go 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.199 in this series, but I believe that God's going 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:26.160 to speak to us today, once again, on love. Reading 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:30.579 at verse 17, 1 John 4, it says this way, love 00:00:30.579 --> 00:00:35.820 has been perfected among us in this, that we 00:00:35.820 --> 00:00:39.560 may have boldness in the day of judgment because 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:46.780 as he is, so are we in this world. There is no 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:50.399 fear. Someone say no fear. There is no fear in 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.640 love, but perfect love. Somebody say perfect 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.850 love. Come on, say it again. Perfect love. That's 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:00.729 right. You know there's love and then there's, 00:01:00.729 --> 00:01:04.230 come on, help me out. There's love and then there's 00:01:04.230 --> 00:01:07.209 perfect love. There's a difference. Perfect love 00:01:07.209 --> 00:01:11.269 casts out fear because fear involves torment. 00:01:11.609 --> 00:01:16.569 But he who fears has not been made perfect in 00:01:16.569 --> 00:01:20.650 love. Today's message is love is greater than 00:01:20.650 --> 00:01:23.780 fear. Somebody say amen. And you may be seated 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:29.079 in God's presence. Love is greater than fear. 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.439 You know, we're often told that the opposite 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:39.659 of fear is faith. How many of you have maybe 00:01:39.659 --> 00:01:42.400 heard that before, right? That if you don't want 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.040 fear, you got to have more faith, right? We need 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.640 to grow in faith. And that idea does make sense. 00:01:50.299 --> 00:01:52.519 I think there is truth to that. Certainly faith 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.939 matters. But the title of this series is not 00:01:55.939 --> 00:02:00.540 Faith Matters, it's Love Matters. And John wants 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:02.959 us to understand something in this short letter 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.060 about the power of love. And we need faith because 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:09.020 we know that without faith it's impossible to 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:11.900 please him. But faith alone is not the antidote 00:02:11.900 --> 00:02:16.539 to fear. Because what we begin to understand, 00:02:16.659 --> 00:02:21.479 the more we get into... understanding the nature 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.199 of our relationship with Jesus Christ and begin 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.539 to grow and develop in that walk with the Lord 00:02:29.539 --> 00:02:33.879 is that fear alone is not what's going to preserve 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:35.979 us. There has to be something, or excuse me, 00:02:35.979 --> 00:02:38.419 faith alone, but there has to be something that 00:02:38.419 --> 00:02:41.919 goes deeper than that. And John takes us beyond 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:45.659 just resisting fear into replacing it altogether. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.740 And according to him, fear is not ultimately 00:02:48.740 --> 00:02:52.280 overcome simply by trying harder and believing 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:58.080 more. But fear is removed when something greater 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.219 takes its place. It's removed when something 00:03:02.219 --> 00:03:05.039 greater takes its place. In his words, perfect 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:10.800 love casts out fear. Perfect love casts out fear. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:15.039 And so what we read in our text today is that 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.439 the true antidote to fear, which is something 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.340 we all face. There's not a person in this room 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:24.020 today that does not experience some level of 00:03:24.020 --> 00:03:26.520 fear in your life from day to day. The things 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.539 that we worry about, the things that get us anxious. 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.379 There's a button of fear that the devil can press 00:03:31.379 --> 00:03:35.520 in all of our lives. whether it's fear over tomorrow, 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.840 the uncertainty of tomorrow, fear about our health, 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.080 our finances, our relationships, our loved ones. 00:03:42.139 --> 00:03:44.479 There's so many things that we can be afraid 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:49.520 of or have fear about. And so if that wasn't 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.120 the case, then Scripture wouldn't be as replete 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.879 as it is telling us to not fear. It's something 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.039 that we all experience. So Bible's always telling 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.360 us to fear not, fear not. So it's something we 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.800 all have in common. No matter how strong you 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:07.300 are in the Lord, no matter how long you've been 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:11.000 serving him, fear comes knocking, and it wants 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.139 to reside in our life. But if we learn to grow 00:04:15.139 --> 00:04:18.639 in love and to rest in, settle in the love of 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.379 God the way God intended it to, we can live a 00:04:21.379 --> 00:04:24.399 life above and beyond our fears. Somebody say 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.579 amen today. This is why Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 00:04:27.579 --> 00:04:33.980 13, 13, Now abide faith, hope, love, these three. 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:39.720 But the greatest of these is love. Now we're 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.819 not diminishing the power of faith. We're not 00:04:42.819 --> 00:04:45.259 diminishing the power of hope. These are great 00:04:45.259 --> 00:04:49.079 virtues that... will sustain us. Faith will sustain 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:52.699 us. Amen. Hope will keep us motivated. Hope will 00:04:52.699 --> 00:04:55.240 anchor us, right? Because these are important 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.100 things. Faith is the substance of things hoped 00:04:58.100 --> 00:05:03.040 for. But love is greater than those things. If 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:07.040 you put all these three virtues side by side, 00:05:07.180 --> 00:05:09.439 they're all valuable. They're all important to 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:14.529 the life of a believer. But love... is greater 00:05:14.529 --> 00:05:16.990 than these. Now, you might ask, why is love greater 00:05:16.990 --> 00:05:19.829 than faith? Why is love greater than hope? Think 00:05:19.829 --> 00:05:21.329 about it for a moment. I'm not going to dwell 00:05:21.329 --> 00:05:23.810 on this thought too long, but if you really start 00:05:23.810 --> 00:05:27.470 to think about it, what faith and hope is needed 00:05:27.470 --> 00:05:32.470 for, these things are temporal. When we get to 00:05:32.470 --> 00:05:34.509 heaven, you're not going to need faith anymore. 00:05:34.689 --> 00:05:36.649 You know why? Because we'll be living in the 00:05:36.649 --> 00:05:39.959 fulfillment of it all. You're not going to need 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:41.779 faith anymore. When you get to heaven, you're 00:05:41.779 --> 00:05:43.600 not going to need hope anymore. Why? Because 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.600 hope is fulfilled. We're living in the fulfillment 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.439 of hope. But you know the one thing that you're 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:50.899 going to have, regardless of whether you're here 00:05:50.899 --> 00:05:52.839 or in eternity, is love. We're not going to stop 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.079 loving Him when we get there. So that's one reason 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.600 why hope is greater than faith, or excuse me, 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:00.779 love is greater than hope. And faith is because 00:06:00.779 --> 00:06:05.100 it's eternal. It continues. So love is greater. 00:06:05.769 --> 00:06:09.230 Because love is the atmosphere of God's presence. 00:06:09.290 --> 00:06:12.290 It's the evidence of his constant, continual 00:06:12.290 --> 00:06:15.730 work in our hearts. And so my message today is 00:06:15.730 --> 00:06:18.829 not about managing your fears. It's not simply 00:06:18.829 --> 00:06:22.170 about getting your fears under control and keeping 00:06:22.170 --> 00:06:24.649 your fears in check. This is not simply about 00:06:24.649 --> 00:06:28.410 coping with your fears or learning how to coexist. 00:06:28.550 --> 00:06:30.449 If I could just get along with my fear, maybe 00:06:30.449 --> 00:06:32.370 I'll be all right. No, that's not what God, God 00:06:32.370 --> 00:06:36.030 has something better for you than that. Amen. 00:06:36.030 --> 00:06:38.449 I don't want to make room for the enemy that 00:06:38.449 --> 00:06:42.269 way. I don't want to give him a corner space 00:06:42.269 --> 00:06:45.689 in my life where we can stay out of each other's 00:06:45.689 --> 00:06:47.350 way. And if you stay on your side of the line 00:06:47.350 --> 00:06:49.310 and I stay on my side of the line, then maybe 00:06:49.310 --> 00:06:53.290 I can live with some acceptable fears and disturbances 00:06:53.290 --> 00:06:55.449 in my life. No, God's got a greater plan for 00:06:55.449 --> 00:06:58.550 us than that. And today's message is really about 00:06:58.550 --> 00:07:01.310 understanding what it means to truly overcome. 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.199 Our fears. And it's about having a heart that 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:10.120 is so occupied with love that fear no longer 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:18.339 has a place to live. Amen. Love is fear's eviction 00:07:18.339 --> 00:07:24.519 notice. Love. is fear's eviction notice. We're 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.420 going to see today how love is not this gooey, 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:30.860 gushy, you know, warm and fuzzy emotion. Love 00:07:30.860 --> 00:07:35.430 is tough. You don't want to mess with love. not 00:07:35.430 --> 00:07:37.990 the kind of perfect love that God desires to 00:07:37.990 --> 00:07:40.310 instill in the hearts of his children, that this 00:07:40.310 --> 00:07:42.370 kind of love is a love you don't want to mess 00:07:42.370 --> 00:07:45.790 with. This is a strong love. And John, as I mentioned 00:07:45.790 --> 00:07:47.589 last week, he's writing this letter, and he's 00:07:47.589 --> 00:07:49.430 dealing with some tough things. He's got some 00:07:49.430 --> 00:07:52.250 tough issues that he's addressing in the church. 00:07:52.329 --> 00:07:54.610 There's false teaching going on here that he's 00:07:54.610 --> 00:07:57.769 addressing. There is relational strife happening. 00:07:57.889 --> 00:07:59.829 And, of course, none of these things happen in 00:07:59.829 --> 00:08:02.990 the 21st century, right? Amen. And there's tension, 00:08:03.170 --> 00:08:05.490 all these things happening. in a very straightforward 00:08:05.490 --> 00:08:09.970 fashion he presents perfected love as that balm 00:08:09.970 --> 00:08:13.589 as that salve that healing agent for relational 00:08:13.589 --> 00:08:17.129 wounds it's so it's like the one magic pill so 00:08:17.129 --> 00:08:19.910 to speak that if you if you just have a steady 00:08:19.910 --> 00:08:23.110 dose of love in your life if you have love uh 00:08:23.110 --> 00:08:25.870 growing in your heart and established in your 00:08:25.870 --> 00:08:28.970 life then it's kind of the the one solution that 00:08:28.970 --> 00:08:33.789 all in purpose uh healing agent for for the different 00:08:35.179 --> 00:08:38.480 and tensions and problems and things that we 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.179 go through in our life and the fears that we 00:08:41.179 --> 00:08:44.100 face, that if we can just get our hearts settled 00:08:44.100 --> 00:08:47.059 in the love of God. God it would solve a lot 00:08:47.059 --> 00:08:50.340 of these things for us troubled minds and anxious 00:08:50.340 --> 00:08:53.320 hearts this is what what he's addressing our 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:56.080 final standing with God you know many people 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:57.879 are worried that one day when they stand before 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:01.340 God that that God's going to uh that that his 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:03.539 grace is going to fall short that his that that 00:09:03.539 --> 00:09:06.100 they're going to be judged harshly before him 00:09:06.100 --> 00:09:08.759 and that that your good wasn't good enough but 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:12.759 but I want you today to to be confident and secure 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:16.139 the word of God wants you to be secure in the 00:09:16.139 --> 00:09:21.200 love that he has for you. So John invites us 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.460 to imagine a life where fear doesn't dominate 00:09:24.460 --> 00:09:26.159 us anymore. How many of you want that kind of 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:29.580 life? Where fear doesn't dominate. Where it doesn't 00:09:29.580 --> 00:09:32.159 control. It doesn't control our decisions. It 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.879 doesn't control our relationships. It doesn't 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:39.659 ruin and disrupt our peace. But he wants us to 00:09:39.659 --> 00:09:42.840 imagine a life where fear not only loses its 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:48.220 power, but it loses its place. But how does this 00:09:48.220 --> 00:09:51.320 happen? John answers this question, and so what 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.899 we're going to do is go a few verses back. We're 00:09:53.899 --> 00:09:56.480 going to start reading now in verse 12. He answers 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.879 this question. He dissects it for us systematically, 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.399 how it is that we can live in this love. Verse 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.240 12, let's go there. It says, no one has seen 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.759 God at any time, meaning God's invisible. If 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:15.120 we love one another, God abides in us and his 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:19.779 love has been perfected in us. By this we know 00:10:19.779 --> 00:10:23.879 that we abide. That's a very important word, 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:27.440 that we abide in him and he in us because he 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:34.440 has given us his spirit. So in order to cast... 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.659 out fear from our life, for love to cast out 00:10:37.659 --> 00:10:39.480 fear, the first thing that we need to do, number 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:44.580 one, we have to receive His Spirit. And when 00:10:44.580 --> 00:10:47.440 we receive His Spirit, this is what happens. 00:10:47.620 --> 00:10:51.720 Love moves in. Love moves into our hearts. Amen. 00:10:51.820 --> 00:10:53.679 How many of you are thankful for the Holy Spirit? 00:10:53.820 --> 00:10:55.240 How many of you are thankful for the Spirit of 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.830 God today? Amen. I'm thankful for the Holy Ghost. 00:10:58.909 --> 00:11:01.669 I'm thankful for his spirit. Why? Because when 00:11:01.669 --> 00:11:05.129 the spirit of God takes residence in my life 00:11:05.129 --> 00:11:07.750 and in my heart, this is what happens. Love moves 00:11:07.750 --> 00:11:12.269 in. Love moves in. The Bible teaches us that 00:11:12.269 --> 00:11:16.110 God is spirit. And that means that he is eternal. 00:11:16.289 --> 00:11:19.470 He's invisible. And that he is not limited by 00:11:19.470 --> 00:11:24.190 the natural laws that govern our physical world. 00:11:24.929 --> 00:11:27.990 He transcends all of that. And also the Bible 00:11:27.990 --> 00:11:30.649 teaches us that God is love. So God is spirit 00:11:30.649 --> 00:11:33.450 and God is love. These are the attributes of 00:11:33.450 --> 00:11:36.289 his nature. And so when his spirit comes and 00:11:36.289 --> 00:11:39.029 then fills our hearts and our lives, it's not 00:11:39.029 --> 00:11:42.389 just to have more power, although that's what 00:11:42.389 --> 00:11:45.269 also happens, or just to have his gifts. And 00:11:45.269 --> 00:11:47.929 of course he brings his gifts with him, but primarily 00:11:47.929 --> 00:11:51.850 it's so that we can abide in his love. So his 00:11:51.850 --> 00:11:54.990 love can live within us. Amen, somebody. And 00:11:54.990 --> 00:11:57.990 love, as it moves into our hearts, it begins 00:11:57.990 --> 00:12:01.149 to rearrange our hearts, rearrange things, because 00:12:01.149 --> 00:12:04.389 love doesn't just move in. Love moves in and 00:12:04.389 --> 00:12:07.669 it starts moving furniture around. It starts 00:12:07.669 --> 00:12:10.549 rearranging your stuff. I know, I caused anxiety 00:12:10.549 --> 00:12:12.929 right there when I said that. Don't touch that. 00:12:13.769 --> 00:12:17.509 I like it right there. Amen. Hallelujah. You 00:12:17.509 --> 00:12:19.409 know, I don't know if you marry couples, you 00:12:19.409 --> 00:12:20.990 never come home and you see that your spouse 00:12:20.990 --> 00:12:24.169 rearranged something. Wait, what happened? Hallelujah. 00:12:25.169 --> 00:12:29.149 That's when you know love is in, you know. And 00:12:29.149 --> 00:12:31.090 a lot of people, they want the love of God, they 00:12:31.090 --> 00:12:32.590 want the Spirit of God to move in, but they don't 00:12:32.590 --> 00:12:35.990 want Him to rearrange the furniture. Oh, don't 00:12:35.990 --> 00:12:37.950 mess with that. Just leave that as it is. I like 00:12:37.950 --> 00:12:41.250 things how they are. Well, how the things as 00:12:41.250 --> 00:12:43.750 they are wasn't working for you to begin with. 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.519 That doesn't work. So we need the love of God 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.419 to come in. But as he starts to rearrange things 00:12:49.419 --> 00:12:51.960 and as the love gets more comfortable and more 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.320 settled and more established in our hearts, if 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.620 I could just picture your heart like a home and 00:12:58.620 --> 00:13:01.740 it comes into the home of your heart and it establishes 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:06.070 itself. fear starts to feel like it can't stay 00:13:06.070 --> 00:13:10.350 anymore. What once fear occupied, now love is 00:13:10.350 --> 00:13:13.149 reclaiming, and now love is establishing itself. 00:13:13.490 --> 00:13:15.809 And Paul, the apostle, agrees with this, with 00:13:15.809 --> 00:13:18.970 John, and he uses some powerful terms, and these 00:13:18.970 --> 00:13:21.070 are verses that we've heard, but let me tell 00:13:21.070 --> 00:13:24.809 you, he told Timothy in 2 Timothy 1, 7, for God 00:13:24.809 --> 00:13:28.600 has not given us a spirit of fear. Amen. But 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.700 of power and of love and of a sound mind. Now, 00:13:32.740 --> 00:13:35.200 we preach this apostolic and we get all happy 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.539 and excited because he gave us power. Don't stop 00:13:37.539 --> 00:13:41.139 there. God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but 00:13:41.139 --> 00:13:43.460 of power. Praise God. Hallelujah. Speak in tongues. 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:47.720 But wait, he also gave us love. And I don't think 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.620 we talk enough about that part. And a sound mind. 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:55.700 Amen, a sober mind, but he gave us love. So when 00:13:55.700 --> 00:13:59.120 love comes in, it evicts fear from our life and 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.980 the two are incompatible. They're not supposed 00:14:01.980 --> 00:14:05.960 to live in the same space. It's got to be either 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.740 one or the other. He also wrote in Romans 8, 00:14:08.779 --> 00:14:13.360 15, for you did not receive the spirit of bondage 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:19.519 again to fear, but you received the spirit of 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:25.279 adoption. I'm going to say adoption. You receive 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.779 the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, 00:14:28.779 --> 00:14:34.620 Father. Adoption is a powerful biblical term. 00:14:34.980 --> 00:14:42.120 It speaks of intentional love, chosen love. Adoption 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.059 says to every one of us, the spirit of adoption, 00:14:45.340 --> 00:14:52.360 you belong here. You belong here. Amen. That's 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.740 powerful. And when the spirit of adoption, the 00:14:55.740 --> 00:15:00.700 spirit of love moves in, fear loses its right 00:15:00.700 --> 00:15:08.000 to stay. You see, fear thrives in orphan thinking. 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.580 I'm going to explain something to you. I'm going 00:15:12.580 --> 00:15:15.279 to give you a few like aha moments in your faith 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.169 right now. Is that all right? And these are just 00:15:18.169 --> 00:15:20.570 things the Lord showed and impressed upon me. 00:15:20.990 --> 00:15:25.009 The reason why fear thrives in orphan thinking 00:15:25.009 --> 00:15:28.330 is because an orphan is always asking questions 00:15:28.330 --> 00:15:31.629 about his security. An orphan is always wondering, 00:15:31.750 --> 00:15:37.129 am I safe? A child never has to ask that question. 00:15:37.649 --> 00:15:42.450 But an orphan is always wondering, am I really 00:15:42.450 --> 00:15:48.029 wanted? An orphan is wondering. Am I loved? An 00:15:48.029 --> 00:15:50.889 orphan is wondering, will I be provided for? 00:15:50.990 --> 00:15:53.029 You see, the reason why an orphan thinks that 00:15:53.029 --> 00:15:55.309 way is because an orphan has been abandoned and 00:15:55.309 --> 00:15:59.409 so it expects abandonment. An orphan feels that 00:15:59.409 --> 00:16:01.669 way. And you know what an orphan mentality is? 00:16:01.870 --> 00:16:04.169 And the reason why fear thrives in an orphan 00:16:04.169 --> 00:16:06.590 thinking is that an orphan feels like they have 00:16:06.590 --> 00:16:12.110 to justify their place. They have to work harder 00:16:12.110 --> 00:16:14.769 than those who were biologically born in the 00:16:14.769 --> 00:16:18.799 family. Come on now. They have to work to prove 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.740 themselves, to earn the love, the security. They 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:26.639 have to justify their place in the family and 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.919 work for it. That is the very opposite of what 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.299 Christ came to give us. That is the very opposite 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:36.340 of what it means to be a child of God. We are 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:38.480 no longer, man, we were singing it just a little, 00:16:38.539 --> 00:16:42.269 I'm no longer an orphan. I am a child of the 00:16:42.269 --> 00:16:45.149 king. And this is what God wants you to understand. 00:16:45.370 --> 00:16:47.669 You don't have to live in fear. Why? Because 00:16:47.669 --> 00:16:51.090 you're not an orphan anymore. You have been adopted 00:16:51.090 --> 00:16:53.649 into the family of God. Somebody should give 00:16:53.649 --> 00:16:59.309 the Lord some praise for that today. So stop 00:16:59.309 --> 00:17:02.769 trying to justify yourself and earn your way 00:17:02.769 --> 00:17:07.920 to God. earn my keep and I gotta validate myself. 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.339 I gotta justify why I'm here. No, you have to 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:14.000 be completely settled in your mind that you are 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.279 beloved. And accept it just as you are. And you 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:22.500 belong here. A son or a daughter, unlike an orphan, 00:17:22.660 --> 00:17:26.420 can rest. They can abide because they know who 00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:30.220 their father is. And they know where they belong. 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.880 And this is what God desires for every one of 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:38.140 us. To live in the security of knowing that I 00:17:38.140 --> 00:17:41.660 am wanted. That I am cared for. That God loves 00:17:41.660 --> 00:17:45.819 me with an everlasting love. unconditional love. 00:17:45.940 --> 00:17:49.460 An orphan feels that if they mess up or if they 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:52.059 fail, that their father's going to kick them 00:17:52.059 --> 00:17:54.400 out of the house or they're going to lose the 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:57.140 right to be there. But that's not what we have. 00:17:57.259 --> 00:18:00.680 When I mess up or when I fail, I'm a child of 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.500 God. He may not like what I did, but he still 00:18:03.500 --> 00:18:07.279 loves me anyhow. He corrects me. He builds me 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:13.779 up in my most holy faith. Hallelujah. The reason 00:18:13.779 --> 00:18:15.640 why there are people that miss out with God, 00:18:15.819 --> 00:18:18.799 even backslide if I can say that, is because 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:21.529 they have a loud fear. to thrive in an orphan 00:18:21.529 --> 00:18:25.549 mindset, and they forgot that God is patient 00:18:25.549 --> 00:18:28.150 and that God is forgiving and that God is loving 00:18:28.150 --> 00:18:31.029 and that God is merciful and he's a God of second 00:18:31.029 --> 00:18:33.589 and third and fourth chances and that he never 00:18:33.589 --> 00:18:37.690 runs out of that. Hallelujah. And I want somebody 00:18:37.690 --> 00:18:40.289 today, you're living in fear. You're over in 00:18:40.289 --> 00:18:42.809 fear over your standing with God, over your standing 00:18:42.809 --> 00:18:45.769 with man. You're in fear about so many different 00:18:45.769 --> 00:18:49.049 things that are coming across your life and reports 00:18:49.049 --> 00:18:51.190 that you're here. Hearing and news that's being 00:18:51.190 --> 00:18:53.710 spread. But I want you today when you leave this 00:18:53.710 --> 00:18:57.670 place to be. completely and totally at rest in 00:18:57.670 --> 00:19:01.029 the arms of God and understanding that you are 00:19:01.029 --> 00:19:04.890 accepted in the beloved and that you are cherished 00:19:04.890 --> 00:19:07.910 and that you belong. Somebody say amen today. 00:19:08.309 --> 00:19:11.390 When the spirit of love and adoption moves into 00:19:11.390 --> 00:19:14.849 your heart, not just as a guest, but as a resident, 00:19:14.950 --> 00:19:17.029 you'll stop living in fear. And this brings us 00:19:17.029 --> 00:19:20.190 to the second truth, which is to remain in him. 00:19:21.170 --> 00:19:23.410 We don't just want love to move in. We want love 00:19:23.410 --> 00:19:27.930 to stay. And church, this is the message that 00:19:27.930 --> 00:19:29.849 we need to preach. This is the gospel. We've 00:19:29.849 --> 00:19:32.829 got to preach to those out there. Amen. This 00:19:32.829 --> 00:19:34.890 is what makes the gospel, this is what makes 00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:37.029 our message so powerful, so beautiful, so life 00:19:37.029 --> 00:19:40.950 -changing. Amen. We've got to tell people about 00:19:40.950 --> 00:19:44.230 the love of God. So remain in him. Love stays. 00:19:44.670 --> 00:19:47.730 Receiving the spirit allows love to move in, 00:19:47.789 --> 00:19:51.450 but remaining in him, that allows love to settle 00:19:51.450 --> 00:19:55.490 in, to abide. You got to tell love, hey, love, 00:19:55.529 --> 00:19:59.069 why don't you stay a while? Kick off your shoes, 00:19:59.289 --> 00:20:03.430 love. Don't be in a hurry. I want you to stay. 00:20:04.109 --> 00:20:09.089 I want you to be, you know, mi casa es tu casa. 00:20:10.309 --> 00:20:14.349 Hallelujah. Open up the fridge, huh? Hallelujah. 00:20:14.549 --> 00:20:16.809 You don't have to knock anymore. Just come on 00:20:16.809 --> 00:20:21.700 in. You know, this is home. Love, I want you 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:25.079 to abide in it. See, many believers receive the 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.299 spirit of love, but they don't remain in that 00:20:27.299 --> 00:20:33.000 love. Because remaining requires ongoing attention. 00:20:33.380 --> 00:20:35.240 You know what it requires? It requires intimacy 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:41.339 and commitment. Uh -oh. Hallelujah. Devotion 00:20:41.339 --> 00:20:45.150 and care. You got to tend to that love, that 00:20:45.150 --> 00:20:47.029 first love. You got to tend to those things that 00:20:47.029 --> 00:20:50.170 God has instilled in your heart through a daily 00:20:50.170 --> 00:20:52.910 relationship. I cannot stress enough how important 00:20:52.910 --> 00:20:55.049 it is today, church, for you to have a daily 00:20:55.049 --> 00:20:59.490 relationship with Jesus Christ. A daily prayer 00:20:59.490 --> 00:21:02.710 life. Amen, somebody. Hello. You've got to talk 00:21:02.710 --> 00:21:05.109 to God daily. You've got to engage with him daily. 00:21:05.269 --> 00:21:07.730 You've got to commune with him daily through 00:21:07.730 --> 00:21:11.170 prayer and his word so that you can remain in 00:21:11.170 --> 00:21:14.849 his love. And I can always trace my fears. My 00:21:14.849 --> 00:21:16.910 greatest fears in my life can always be traced 00:21:16.910 --> 00:21:19.609 to times in my life or in my heart when I got 00:21:19.609 --> 00:21:22.150 away from his word and I started neglecting my 00:21:22.150 --> 00:21:24.670 altar, started neglecting my prayer life, started 00:21:24.670 --> 00:21:26.990 neglecting the word, spending a little more time 00:21:26.990 --> 00:21:31.210 on Netflix and PS4s and all that than I did the 00:21:31.210 --> 00:21:34.140 word. And no wonder why the devil is wreaking 00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:36.579 havoc on my mind. No wonder why I'm stumbling 00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:38.940 over the smallest things. No wonder why my attitude 00:21:38.940 --> 00:21:40.920 is all out of whack and out of alignment. No 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.160 wonder why I'm getting easily annoyed, hot, and 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.339 bothered. It's because I'm not tending to the 00:21:46.339 --> 00:21:49.200 love that God has established in my heart through 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.900 a daily relationship with God through his word. 00:21:52.059 --> 00:21:54.400 And so when that begins to happen, guess what 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:56.519 happens? Fear starts to make its way back in. 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:01.660 Old intruders, insecurities, old fears. and old 00:22:01.660 --> 00:22:04.700 doubts start coming back into my life and they 00:22:04.700 --> 00:22:06.640 start sitting on the couch of my heart again 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:09.299 and all of a sudden things are not the way that 00:22:09.299 --> 00:22:12.079 they're supposed to be. But John shows us that 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:15.230 the power The power, he shows us, of remaining 00:22:15.230 --> 00:22:18.410 is not an emotional effort. It's not in how much 00:22:18.410 --> 00:22:21.769 I do and how much I prove, but it's in the power 00:22:21.769 --> 00:22:25.630 and the assurance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:22:25.970 --> 00:22:29.670 It is in the gospel. Hallelujah. Let's read some 00:22:29.670 --> 00:22:32.170 more in verses 14 and 15. He writes, I'll be 00:22:32.170 --> 00:22:34.569 just a few more moments. He said, and we have 00:22:34.569 --> 00:22:37.369 seen and testified that the Father has sent the 00:22:37.369 --> 00:22:41.279 Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.420 that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:50.859 and he in God. You see, our security, our security 00:22:50.859 --> 00:22:55.440 is not based on what we do, but on what Christ 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.140 has already done for us. What so many Christians 00:22:59.140 --> 00:23:02.940 today are hampered by is performative Christianity. 00:23:04.259 --> 00:23:06.500 Can I help somebody today? Amen. Somebody say, 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:10.309 go ahead. Performative Christianity. Performance 00:23:10.309 --> 00:23:15.849 -based Christianity. Works -based Christianity. 00:23:15.930 --> 00:23:19.849 Now, of course, if Christ has saved us, sanctified 00:23:19.849 --> 00:23:23.470 us, forgiven us, changed our life, redeemed us 00:23:23.470 --> 00:23:27.150 then, out of that flow service and sacrifice, 00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:31.190 out of a desire to please the Lord, but not the 00:23:31.190 --> 00:23:35.029 other way around. But many today are stricken 00:23:35.029 --> 00:23:42.140 or held back. or under the delusion even. A performative 00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:45.140 Christian. What I mean by that is they're constantly 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:48.000 feeling that they have to perform for God. Perform 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:50.900 for the church. Perform for the leader. Perform 00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:54.059 for their friends and their coworkers. Perform. 00:23:54.339 --> 00:23:57.400 And Christianity is nothing but a performance. 00:23:58.180 --> 00:24:00.900 That's not what living for God is about. It's 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:03.400 not. Now, I know we come and, you know, we dress 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.519 a little nicer on Sundays. And, you know, we 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:07.400 comb our hair. Praise God. I don't know. You 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:09.099 know, we do these things. We brush our teeth. 00:24:09.140 --> 00:24:10.990 Hopefully you do that every day. We come to that, 00:24:11.049 --> 00:24:14.549 well, this is God's house. But let us never allow 00:24:14.549 --> 00:24:17.589 the mentality of coming into the house of God 00:24:17.589 --> 00:24:21.250 as the same as putting on a mask and being performative 00:24:21.250 --> 00:24:24.069 in our worship. Let us be who we are out there 00:24:24.069 --> 00:24:27.170 in here and who we are in here out there. Amen, 00:24:27.210 --> 00:24:32.049 somebody. You don't got to perform for me, you 00:24:32.049 --> 00:24:35.269 know. I don't need to perform for you. And I 00:24:35.269 --> 00:24:37.210 certainly don't need to perform anything for 00:24:37.210 --> 00:24:40.829 God. This is not performative Christianity. It 00:24:40.829 --> 00:24:44.049 is me resting and knowing that even if I'm on 00:24:44.049 --> 00:24:48.390 my bad day, even if I've just had a bad day or 00:24:48.390 --> 00:24:50.930 things are not going my way, I'm in a stuck in 00:24:50.930 --> 00:24:53.509 a rut or I'm just not feeling it today, that 00:24:53.509 --> 00:24:56.990 it's okay. God still loves you. And it's okay. 00:24:57.009 --> 00:25:01.730 God is not flippant. He's not, oh, my Lord, help 00:25:01.730 --> 00:25:06.230 me here today. He's not bipolar. He's not schizophrenic. 00:25:06.349 --> 00:25:09.470 He's not changing his mind about you every other 00:25:09.470 --> 00:25:12.609 day. God doesn't fall in and out of love with 00:25:12.609 --> 00:25:15.890 you from Monday to Tuesday. God thinks highly 00:25:15.890 --> 00:25:19.609 of you today just as he does in the middle of 00:25:19.609 --> 00:25:22.430 the week. And if you would understand that, believe 00:25:22.430 --> 00:25:24.910 that wholeheartedly, then you would live your 00:25:24.910 --> 00:25:27.369 life with a little more confidence in telling 00:25:27.369 --> 00:25:29.630 the devil, devil, I don't care what you say about 00:25:29.630 --> 00:25:32.970 me. I don't care what you do to me. I am a child 00:25:32.970 --> 00:25:38.049 of the living God. I am loved with the love of 00:25:38.049 --> 00:25:41.519 God. Why? Because Jesus went to the cross. He 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:44.619 shed his precious blood for me. Oh, I think about 00:25:44.619 --> 00:25:47.359 his amazing grace. I think about how precious 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:50.599 his blood is. Oh, I think about how merciful 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:55.299 he is. I think about the cross. I think about 00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:58.640 Calvary. I think about, and then I confess that 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:03.420 he loved me while I was still a sinner. He loved 00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:07.940 me that way. Amen. Think about his precious blood. 00:26:08.430 --> 00:26:11.750 There is power, power, wonder working in the 00:26:11.750 --> 00:26:14.089 blood. How many of you know there's power in 00:26:14.089 --> 00:26:18.049 the blood? There's power in his amazing grace. 00:26:19.470 --> 00:26:22.849 How sweet the sound. We got to remember these 00:26:22.849 --> 00:26:25.710 things. And whether you got to put on your favorite, 00:26:25.890 --> 00:26:28.289 I was going to say CD. You guys don't even have 00:26:28.289 --> 00:26:34.470 those. Hallelujah. MP3s and Spotify, carefully 00:26:34.470 --> 00:26:38.279 curated music. Algorithms, they know what you 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:40.660 like. Okay. The Holy Ghost is checking some of 00:26:40.660 --> 00:26:44.980 your algorithms. Praise the Lord. Amen. I don't 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:46.920 care what kind of mood you got to put yourself 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:50.369 in. I don't care what kind of, as long as you 00:26:50.369 --> 00:26:52.569 are surrounding your, as long as you are feeding 00:26:52.569 --> 00:26:54.609 yourself the right things, surrounding yourself 00:26:54.609 --> 00:26:57.089 with the right thing and the right words, affirming 00:26:57.089 --> 00:26:59.569 love, God, Holy Spirit affirming, truth affirming 00:26:59.569 --> 00:27:02.549 things, hallelujah, and remembering that it's 00:27:02.549 --> 00:27:04.569 God's goodness and God, whatever it is, whatever 00:27:04.569 --> 00:27:07.529 mood you got to create in your life and in your 00:27:07.529 --> 00:27:09.730 heart and in your home and in your marriage and 00:27:09.730 --> 00:27:11.869 among your children, then you do what you got 00:27:11.869 --> 00:27:15.470 to do, but remain in his love, steadfast and 00:27:15.470 --> 00:27:18.029 unmovable, always above. abounding in the work 00:27:18.029 --> 00:27:20.390 of the Lord Jesus Christ. Somebody give God a 00:27:20.390 --> 00:27:27.170 hand. Praise today. Hallelujah. I'll be just 00:27:27.170 --> 00:27:29.049 a couple more minutes. Hallelujah. There's no 00:27:29.049 --> 00:27:30.829 Super Bowl today, right? Hallelujah. Praise God. 00:27:30.970 --> 00:27:34.509 Okay. That's gone. Hallelujah. Amen. The love 00:27:34.509 --> 00:27:37.250 of Christ is our security, and nothing has the 00:27:37.250 --> 00:27:40.190 power to remove it. In case you weren't convinced 00:27:40.190 --> 00:27:42.670 by what I preached thus far, let the word speak 00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:46.930 for itself. That the power of his love or God's 00:27:46.930 --> 00:27:50.069 love is so powerful that nothing can remove it 00:27:50.069 --> 00:27:53.349 from your life. You are secure in his love. And 00:27:53.349 --> 00:27:55.269 that's why the devil hates this message so much. 00:27:55.430 --> 00:27:57.029 He doesn't want you to have this revelation. 00:27:57.109 --> 00:27:59.390 He doesn't want you to know how powerful his 00:27:59.390 --> 00:28:02.329 love is. But Paul said this in Romans 8 .35. 00:28:02.430 --> 00:28:05.289 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 00:28:06.389 --> 00:28:09.069 That's a powerful question. And the answer, shall 00:28:09.069 --> 00:28:14.130 tribulation or distress or persecution, famine, 00:28:14.269 --> 00:28:18.450 nakedness, peril, or sword? Can any of these 00:28:18.450 --> 00:28:22.509 things separate us from the love of Christ? Verse 00:28:22.509 --> 00:28:27.230 37, yet in all these things we are more than 00:28:27.230 --> 00:28:31.950 conquerors. Through him who loved us. Through 00:28:31.950 --> 00:28:37.609 him who Through him who loved us. For I am persuaded. 00:28:37.650 --> 00:28:41.150 Is anybody persuaded today? Hallelujah. I'm going 00:28:41.150 --> 00:28:42.529 to invite the keyboardist to come up here in 00:28:42.529 --> 00:28:45.250 about 30 seconds. Is anybody persuaded today? 00:28:45.549 --> 00:28:47.250 Come on. You see, here's the thing. You've got 00:28:47.250 --> 00:28:49.880 to be persuaded about it. Don't just read these 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:51.720 things, oh, like this is like a nice, you know, 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:53.740 Hallmark card, you know, light a candle, you 00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:56.119 know, drink coffee. No, you got to be persuaded 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.500 in your heart. It's got to go down deep. I am 00:28:59.500 --> 00:29:02.799 persuaded about this. I am convicted about it. 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:06.529 I am convinced in the uttermost. depths of my 00:29:06.529 --> 00:29:09.130 heart about this. I am persuaded that neither 00:29:09.130 --> 00:29:13.490 death nor life, hallelujah, nor angels, nor principalities, 00:29:13.490 --> 00:29:16.309 nor power, nor things present, nor things to 00:29:16.309 --> 00:29:18.769 come, hallelujah. That's talking about the stuff 00:29:18.769 --> 00:29:20.950 you're going through right now and the stuff 00:29:20.950 --> 00:29:23.470 that you might have to deal with tomorrow, nor 00:29:23.470 --> 00:29:26.630 height, nor depth, amen somebody, nor any other 00:29:26.630 --> 00:29:29.289 creative thing. There's no devil in hell. There's 00:29:29.289 --> 00:29:32.369 no person. There's no thing shall be able to 00:29:32.369 --> 00:29:35.559 separate us from the love of God which is in 00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:38.599 Christ Jesus. I've got news for you today. You 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:42.039 can stand firm. You can hold your head up high. 00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:45.480 You can raise up your voice and your hands without 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.960 shame, without condemnation, without fear, without 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:53.799 insecurity because you are perfectly and wonderfully 00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:57.200 loved by your God. Come on, why don't we give 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.700 God some praise right now? Why don't we love 00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:04.029 Him in this house? I invite you to stand with 00:30:04.029 --> 00:30:06.890 me here today. You got to reclaim that space. 00:30:07.109 --> 00:30:11.509 Hallelujah. I came to preach that love evicts 00:30:11.509 --> 00:30:16.730 fear. Hallelujah. Love evicts fear. I did not 00:30:16.730 --> 00:30:20.250 come today to negotiate with my fears. I didn't 00:30:20.250 --> 00:30:24.269 come to have a conversation with my fear. I didn't 00:30:24.269 --> 00:30:29.190 come today to dialogue with my fear. I came to 00:30:29.190 --> 00:30:33.430 put fear in its place. I came to tell fear, fear, 00:30:33.589 --> 00:30:37.769 you don't live here anymore. I came to tell fear, 00:30:37.910 --> 00:30:41.650 fear, here's your eviction notice, fear. You 00:30:41.650 --> 00:30:44.430 want to know what the eviction notice is? It's 00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:48.109 called the B -I -B -L -E. It's called the word 00:30:48.109 --> 00:30:52.390 of God. By the authority of this word and the 00:30:52.390 --> 00:30:55.809 power that's in the name of Jesus, I have come 00:30:55.809 --> 00:31:00.450 to tell fear, you've to get out of here get out 00:31:00.450 --> 00:31:04.410 of my head get out of my heart get out of my 00:31:04.410 --> 00:31:07.809 life is there somebody here today that would 00:31:07.809 --> 00:31:11.990 rise up in faith and love and say fear i cast 00:31:11.990 --> 00:31:17.970 you out my life fear you don't belong here anymore 00:31:17.970 --> 00:31:22.269 i cast you out i'm serving you you know fear 00:31:22.269 --> 00:31:27.009 doesn't go politely you can't ask fear fear Do 00:31:27.009 --> 00:31:35.650 you want to leave today? You can't ask fear. 00:31:35.890 --> 00:31:39.210 You can't ask the devil, would you like? No, 00:31:39.210 --> 00:31:43.029 no. You can't negotiate. No, no, no. You've got 00:31:43.029 --> 00:31:48.410 to kick it out forcefully from your life. For 00:31:48.410 --> 00:31:51.509 the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but 00:31:51.509 --> 00:31:54.549 mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting. 00:31:55.150 --> 00:31:58.109 down arguments and every high thing that exalts 00:31:58.109 --> 00:32:00.829 itself against the knowledge of God, the knowledge 00:32:00.829 --> 00:32:03.250 of his love, the knowledge of his goodness in 00:32:03.250 --> 00:32:05.869 your life. Hallelujah. Bring in every thought, 00:32:05.970 --> 00:32:09.269 every idea, every concept that's contrary to 00:32:09.269 --> 00:32:13.210 what the Bible tells me into captivity to the 00:32:13.210 --> 00:32:16.630 obedience of Christ. Today, I feel in my spirit, 00:32:16.710 --> 00:32:19.109 I feel in the Holy Ghost that somebody is going 00:32:19.109 --> 00:32:21.190 to kick fear out of your life. Right there where 00:32:21.190 --> 00:32:23.130 you are, I'm going to invite you to start praying 00:32:23.130 --> 00:32:25.269 with me. Right there. where you are. I know you 00:32:25.269 --> 00:32:27.630 feel the Holy Spirit. Come on. I know you feel 00:32:27.630 --> 00:32:30.049 the Spirit of God. I know there's something just... 00:32:30.829 --> 00:32:33.829 I know something is happening. Oh, hallelujah. 00:32:33.890 --> 00:32:36.950 This is the will of God for you, friend. To live 00:32:36.950 --> 00:32:40.970 in perfect love. Perfect love. To live in perfect 00:32:40.970 --> 00:32:45.009 love. Knowing that you are loved. Not for what 00:32:45.009 --> 00:32:49.329 you do. Not for what you bring. But for who you 00:32:49.329 --> 00:32:53.549 are. You are loved. You are fearfully and wonderfully 00:32:53.549 --> 00:32:57.950 made. God. Oh, I feel something in the Holy Ghost. 00:32:58.609 --> 00:33:02.410 God's love. Love is so rich and so profound. 00:33:02.509 --> 00:33:04.549 You're never going to understand it. You're never 00:33:04.549 --> 00:33:06.369 going to wrap your head around it. You're never 00:33:06.369 --> 00:33:10.009 going to comprehend the depth of his love for 00:33:10.009 --> 00:33:13.930 you. But if you today can let love move in, perfect 00:33:13.930 --> 00:33:16.440 love, it's going to kick up that. fear. That 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.319 fear of losing your job. That fear of losing 00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:21.960 your mind. That fear of losing your children. 00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:25.019 That fear of losing your marriage. That fear 00:33:25.019 --> 00:33:28.299 of losing all precious things in your life. That 00:33:28.299 --> 00:33:32.200 fear of losing your health. That fear. Oh, that 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:36.359 fear that comes and shakes your mind. Some of 00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.019 you have had trouble sleeping at night because 00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:42.240 of fear. You lay your head down at night, and 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:45.180 as you're trying to sleep and fall into a sleep, 00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:48.319 all of a sudden you start to worry about this. 00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:51.180 You start to worry about issues in your family. 00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:53.880 You start to worry about the bills. You start 00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:56.759 to worry about unsettled debts. You start to 00:33:56.759 --> 00:34:01.269 worry about this. And you just, oh. It's hard 00:34:01.269 --> 00:34:05.470 to find that rest. You're struggling. But God 00:34:05.470 --> 00:34:10.070 today sent me with an assignment. God brought 00:34:10.070 --> 00:34:13.489 us here for this moment so that you can kick 00:34:13.489 --> 00:34:16.690 that fear out of your life with the love of God.