1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. Today we have an impactful 2 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,320 teaching by Dr. Reginald Klimanok. Dr. Klimanok's preaching has touched the lives of many, inspiring 3 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,080 and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian theology. Join 4 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:40,600 us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom 5 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:46,360 that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as 6 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:53,560 we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klimanok's preaching. 7 00:00:53,560 --> 00:01:05,760 We're talking about faith versus fear. It's an unusual subject in the Bible. Jesus, we 8 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:13,080 talked about right believing and wrong believing last week. And it's amazing over a hundred 9 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:24,720 times when the word says have faith. The Bible also says fear not. It leaks the lack of faith 10 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:33,720 with fear. As I said to you last week, fear is a destructive force. In 1st John 4, 18, 11 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:40,800 John wrote and says, fear has torment. It says there's a spirit of fear. God has not 12 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:48,320 given us the spirit of fear. The Bible said, as I concluded last week, in Luke 21, 26, 13 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:53,360 men's hearts will fail them for fear in the last days because they'll see some things 14 00:01:53,360 --> 00:02:03,680 happening around them and that fear will possess their lives. But Jesus expects us to believe 15 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:14,960 that. He's unbelievably strong in relationship to what he expects concerning this. 16 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:23,560 It's amazing. I concluded someone here in Psalm 62, that was one of the scriptures I 17 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:32,240 want to commence with. A number of times it says, my soul wait upon God, verse 5, for 18 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:40,240 my expectation is from him. You're my strength, my refuge. Twice at least in that Psalm it 19 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:49,200 says my expectations. For God alone, my weight with confidence, for all are my expectations 20 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:58,600 are from him. The word expectation means to twist yourself into God, to bind yourself 21 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:08,560 into God. Literally, our expectations, we should be living expecting God, Church. All 22 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:18,240 my, how many? All my expectations should be from the Lord. 23 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:28,920 Indeed, you must direct yourself to faith and not fear. We're going to see tonight how 24 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:36,920 strong the Lord is concerning this. You either anticipate anticipation, disaster and troubles 25 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:45,880 and difficulties. You are expecting God to cause you to triumph. Can you say amen? If 26 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:54,680 Jesus tells us in the most unusual circumstances which we'll discuss tonight to fear not, only 27 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:03,680 believe and he gives us the imperative command to do that, it means we have to do it. We 28 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:12,320 have to not fear. Can you say amen? He cannot do without us. He says fear not, believe only. 29 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:19,720 Look at some of those circumstances tonight. We must so be entwined in God. Remember another 30 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:28,520 scripture we concluded on in Proverbs 4.23. It says, keep your heart with all diligence 31 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:35,520 for out of them are the issues of life. The issues of life don't come so much from your 32 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:43,280 circumstances but from your heart. So God tells us to keep our hearts with all diligence 33 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:50,280 for out of it, out of your heart are the issues of life. So it's what you do with your heart, 34 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:57,280 the way you respond with your heart that brings about the circumstances of life around you. 35 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:03,840 That that's so different to the way the world lives in its natural expectations. That our 36 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:11,760 expectations are from God. All my expectations are from God. And your heart must be so kept 37 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:20,360 because out of your heart come what? The issues of life. You ask how can I have faith in God 38 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:30,040 and how can I have faith, how can I feel evil? It's much easier, as I told you last week, 39 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:38,560 to live in fear than in faith. Faith is a learned behavior. You don't learn how to 40 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,940 sin, you don't learn how to do evil. That's a natural practice. You can do that without 41 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:50,880 any lessons. It's very normal to let your, not normal, to let Christians but to walk 42 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:56,720 like that. But faith is a learned behavior and yet, yet, fear is so strong. Remember 43 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:05,360 in Hebrews 11, it says faith is the substance of what things hope for. I personally, likewise, 44 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:13,560 fear is the substance. So if you elect fear, I remember so strongly Bishop Cannon Glenn, 45 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:19,200 so strongly sharing that with us. It never left me. How he illustrated it so often in 46 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:25,360 many cases, and they used to minister to thousands of people every Wednesday night in healing. 47 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:33,680 How the discovery of fear takes over, man possesses the fears. In Job 325, it says that 48 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,160 Job says, �The things that I feared came upon me.� See, this morning I talked about 49 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,680 God took Abraham. Why didn't he take Adam? Because Adam wasn't ready for anything yet. 50 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,400 I'd have no understanding. Remember I told you at first God built nations, the whole 51 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,000 world would respond to him, but they didn't. They went back into idolatry. Why didn't 52 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,520 God take Job? Well, it was a bit early yet for Job, but Job remembered that at first 53 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:03,760 he kept sacrificing for his children. I think it was out of fear more than faith. You might 54 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,120 remember then it says the things that he feared came upon him. When he had those nine months 55 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:15,640 of suffering, he didn't sacrifice once. He just sat in his little suffering and talked 56 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,760 about it and they supported him in his suffering and told him it must have been a lot of things 57 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:31,120 that happened because of that. I really believe this fear power is very strong. Your believing 58 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:40,760 power is very strong. You must determine which way you go. You have the ability to anticipate 59 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:48,800 the unseen and the unknown, be it toward God, be it toward the great things of God, or be 60 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:56,720 it toward evil and misdirected wrongly or to things of fear. I think we have to tonight 61 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:05,960 deliberately expose our fears. A fear must be mercilessly identified and covered, brought 62 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:16,160 under light so that you'll understand what's going on in your life. Fear thrives on deceit. 63 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:27,320 Fear is a blinded stuff. You hardly know you're fearing. It comes out of the deceits of this 64 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:34,120 world. You have to admit to yourself, I have these things that I must turn from in the 65 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:40,320 name of Jesus Christ. Don't say they're just personality traits I have been born with. 66 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:49,040 Rather, I will turn from the fears that possess my life. You never realize faith until fear 67 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:58,560 goes. You never have faith until fear is identified and unmasked and that spirit often that paralyzes 68 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:05,880 you is taken out of your life. People fear many things. They fear poverty, they fear 69 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:12,680 unemployment, they fear sin, they fear their neighbors, they fear fire, they fear water, 70 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:19,160 they fear disease. Now, some things are natural to fear. You've got to have a level of carefulness 71 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:29,560 in life, but that's different between this kind of fear that grabs hold of you and tries 72 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:37,680 to strangle hold your life and take from you. It's almost irrational and when it gets too 73 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:45,240 strong it torments. It sees danger before it's even there. It anticipates disaster before 74 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:51,840 disaster has come. Now, let me look at some of the things that 75 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,560 how this operates. I'm trying to do this the best I can. I've looked into this, try to 76 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:03,960 give ourselves some understanding. Fears come to people in various forms. First, if fear 77 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:11,160 undermines your confidence and strength and places inhibits you, takes freedom away from 78 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,680 you, and because of this it's often fulfilled in itself when you think, well, that's the 79 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:23,480 way it operates. Secondly, fear creates opportunity for Satan to take advantage of you. He operates 80 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:30,240 in fear. There is a spirit of fear. That's his home. That's his environment. When you 81 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:36,800 have a pain, you think cancer or something else is wrong with you. Then you have a good 82 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:45,720 wife or a good husband saying, don't be silly. You'll be all right. You get no compassion, 83 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:54,640 but it's good because it takes you out of your fears. Thirdly, fear seems to be justified 84 00:10:54,640 --> 00:11:02,960 by its fulfillment because it's well, it happened according to what I feared. It doesn't have 85 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:10,000 to happen, can you say, a man? It doesn't have to come that way. For example, a man 86 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:16,680 is prosperous, but he's continually anxious about his wealth. He becomes a miser. He becomes 87 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:23,720 destitute, loses his self-confidence. It's worse than being destitute, loses his self-confidence. 88 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:31,360 Because he goes that way, his very life goes that way, and he misses out. A person is healthy, 89 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,240 but always dreads sickness. Now, let me tell you, if you do that, you'll draw sick. I can 90 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,240 tell you of people that I know that are sick today that for years talked about sickness. 91 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:46,640 I was a pastor, and they always talked about the diseases. We don't talk sickness in our 92 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:53,280 home. They have very bad words in our home. We try not to say them. If I do, I'm in trouble 93 00:11:53,280 --> 00:12:00,040 from my wife. Thank God for a good wife, and likewise, and we don't allow. Now, I know 94 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:06,160 you have to be factual, but after you've established the fact, you let faith come, then you say, 95 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:14,360 you declare. You declare because you draw that very sickness to yourself. You see, I'm 96 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,920 talking about the spiritual realm now. You say, I don't believe. That's fine. Live like 97 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,200 you want to live. I'm talking about the Bible. We'll go a little deeper and see how that 98 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,840 all operates in the moment in the name of Jesus. A woman is terrified every time she 99 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,480 hears an ambulance. She's expecting an ambulance. She was like a nervous collapse because she 100 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:38,640 expects something to happen. I remember Elvis Presley. When his father died, he kept saying 101 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:42,680 � I'm going to die at the same age as my father. He kept saying it, and saying it, 102 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:49,520 and saying it, and saying it, and he died. I had a woman in my church in Houston, Texas. 103 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:55,280 She had a grandson who had a terrible accident and died. All she could do was talk about 104 00:12:55,280 --> 00:13:02,000 this and possess it in her soul and possess in her life. Sure enough, I couldn't break 105 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,600 it over. I was trying to be compassionate, but I tried to be firm to say, don't talk, 106 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:15,000 don't live that. She lived in that fear, and she died like that. Because you don't talk 107 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:20,920 like that, can you say amen? Come on, church. Dread of accidents. When you do that, the 108 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,960 angels are driven out of your life. They can't operate because they don't operate in an 109 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:31,320 environment of fear. They operate in an environment of faith. Come on. You say, well, this is 110 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:36,880 my makeup. I'm made like that. The Irishman says, I have a right to lose my temper. I'm 111 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:45,040 Irish. Or whatever. It's not your Christ makeup. Come on, church. We have Jesus in us. We have 112 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:51,360 the divine nature. We don't live like that. Make up your mind. Watch your language, and 113 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:57,440 you'll soon see whether you're a man of faith or a man of fear, a woman of faith or fear. 114 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:04,040 An unhappy experience is made of a woman, for example, afraid of banks. She was terrified 115 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:10,320 to enter banks after that. Well, she didn't do much good after that. He was a man anticipating 116 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:17,160 bad news. Every time he's waiting for news to come, something bad news is going to happen 117 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:23,720 to him. He lives in that environment and allows it to possess his life and allows it to turn 118 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:31,960 the phone rings or the postman comes. I'm expecting bad news. Don't do that. Some people 119 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,520 are perverted by the good sense of hygiene. You remember what television program we like? 120 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:45,200 Mock, Mock, Mock. Monk. We like Monk. He's a good one. It's a wholesome one, but he's 121 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:51,680 crazy on this hygiene business. The time he shakes somebody's hand, he needs to clean 122 00:14:51,680 --> 00:15:00,720 it. He's a fanatic on everything, that nature. Well, so was Howard Hughes. He was crazy with 123 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:06,920 that, the fear that possessed him. He finally had long fingernails and his hair, and he 124 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:12,760 wouldn't let anybody in the room. He was absolutely brilliant, one of the richest men on the earth, 125 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:19,480 and yet that fear of hygiene killed him. The thing that he thought would help him killed 126 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:28,040 him. Maybe some people are so afraid of losing the affection of the other person, a wife 127 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:33,080 can be like that, a husband. They drive them almost away by the way they act. Instead of 128 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:40,280 bringing them closer to them, destroys the marriage because the fear of that has possessed 129 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:45,560 them. I've counseled people like that. It's horrendous and you can hardly break it. There 130 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:51,240 are all kinds of phobias. I've got about 30 of them listed here. I'm sure you don't want 131 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:58,760 to listen to all of them. Ailerophobia means fear of cats. Agoraphobia, fear of pain. Androphobia, 132 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:07,200 fear of aversion to men. Let women have that. Animophobia, fear of winds and drafts. Afrophobia, 133 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:14,080 aversion of being touched by people. Astrophobia, fear of thunderstorms. That could go on. They 134 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:20,920 have all the phobias in the world listed here. I'm sure our doctor friends can tell us more. 135 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:36,200 But notice here on occasion, in Luke chapter 9, Jesus was coming to the home of Jairus's 136 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:45,800 daughter and she was very sick near to death. He was interrupted by the woman that touched 137 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:53,320 the hem of his garment. By the time he was ready to go to her, remember what it says 138 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:59,640 here somebody that people came saying, don't trouble the master. Verse 48, your daughter 139 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:10,960 was dead, trouble not the master. But Jesus said to him, fear not, only believe. Chapter 140 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:17,680 8, yes. Didn't I tell you that? You've got to learn. You've got to know these. Luke chapter 141 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:27,160 8. Now listen to what he said to him in verse 15. Fear not, believe only, and she shall 142 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:35,280 be made whole. His faith was important in Jesus' work in this situation. It wasn't 143 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:43,800 just Jesus doing the miracle. He needed this man's faith at the same time to see the miracle 144 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:51,960 happen. Because when you do fear, and barriers are erected against the possibility of God 145 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:58,560 working, I'm telling you, it's like a magnet. It's as real as anything else in life. So 146 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:07,880 Jesus said to him, fear not, only believe. He said, it's alright, I'll do it all. No, 147 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:15,200 he was involved. His link with his family was involved. You are involved in the miracle. 148 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:22,160 You are involved in what God does. And he says to him, fear not, don't panic, only believe 149 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:27,520 that the barrier will not be created. You see, the story illustrates he had two things. 150 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:33,400 He had the words of Jesus, and he had the presence of Jesus. We likewise have what? 151 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:40,200 The words of Jesus and the presence. What it says in Psalm 23, I will fear no evil for 152 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:50,720 thou art with me. Hebrews 13, 5 and 6, he said, I will never leave you, but we may boldly 153 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:59,640 say the Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me. Strong statements, 154 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:08,200 powerful statements. Since fear is so destructive, and it's so understandably destructive, why 155 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:14,080 do we cling to our fears? Why do we set them gleefully aside and say, go away, no more 156 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:19,000 fears? Well, I'm going to tell you some reasons why. You may not believe this, but I believe 157 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:28,680 it's true out of my understanding. Those who fear, fear because they're seeking protection. 158 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:37,240 They fear that the fear will keep them from harm's way. They don't realize that the stuff 159 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:45,080 they think protects them destroys them. It's like a form of security. They cling to fear. 160 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:55,040 They don't realize when it happens, they say, well, as I believed, so it's happened to me. 161 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:03,120 Strange as it may sound. Now, often also people cling to fears because of a sense of unworthiness. 162 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:09,400 They don't fear the word of anything else. They're comfortable in adversity. They're 163 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:15,040 comfortable, not comfortable in prosperity. They're not comfortable when good things happen 164 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:21,360 to them. They almost feel guilty. Why has this good thing happened to me? Is that crazy? 165 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:28,160 I tell you, the spirit of poverty is very real, and it can possess people's lives. They 166 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:34,200 almost fear that to be a servant of that condition, they almost fear, how could I be joyful, being 167 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,720 melody in my heart every day and have the superfluity of God's greatness and blessing 168 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:44,080 and goodness in my life? But I can really laugh and be happy and have an abundance of 169 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:51,920 provision. It sounds almost, you know, leanness in the lash is more... You remember, there 170 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:58,320 are literally when Martin Luther, remember, he self-flagellated himself, they literally 171 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:05,320 felt that the more they do this. And of course, number three is this, another fear is this 172 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:14,320 deep sense of guilt. They feel that by being punished in some way for their sins, they're 173 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:20,200 doing the right thing. It almost gives them like a religious satisfaction. You're never 174 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:26,080 worthy of anything. I told you that this morning. There's not a thing you can do to save yourself. 175 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:33,040 It's only the blood of Jesus, only God. Get it all together and give it all to God. It 176 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:41,760 still would not be enough in the face of a holy God. And do not believe that this self-flagellation 177 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:47,840 and this would bring you measures of holiness. It was very popular using. I heard, I want 178 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:56,840 to say his name on Larry King Live this week and the famous names. And he said, well, he 179 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:02,960 believed that his sickness says God bought them, but he has a purpose in them. What if 180 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:10,480 God got a purpose? Don't go to the doctor. Don't get, have a head operation. If it's 181 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:17,160 from God, leave it. Thank God for it. Have a good time in it. Listen to me. God does 182 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:22,440 not bring sickness. God is not afflict you with sickness. It's the work of the enemy. 183 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:29,640 It's one of the things we fight in our foreign nature. It didn't come to sin came. It came 184 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:35,960 out of the conditions very clear in the Bible. I cannot believe that God would use this as 185 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:41,600 you can humble yourself and receive something from God during these times, but I don't believe 186 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:48,200 that God does it. You just use the rod and you know, people feel where they're the heightened 187 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:54,040 the guilt. And so they feel this is like God giving them peace out of their, out of their 188 00:22:54,040 --> 00:23:01,320 fears. Get that out of your system. God is a good God. Come on church. God wants to help 189 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:09,520 us. I do not believe God uses that, that convinced at all, not in any sense. He paid the price 190 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:16,200 for our sins. Can you say amen? He paid the price for our sickness. Amen. We have a tone 191 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:22,440 for our sins. We cannot do it. Now, if you want to fast and pray, but not because of 192 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:28,440 leanness, not because you're going to be justified there by you fast and pray because you're 193 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:34,280 trying to break through something in your life and bring the powers of darkness to destruction 194 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,440 to get authority to deal with the flesh in some way, not against that at all, but you 195 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:45,560 do not justify, you do not bring yourself to the place of readiness by that. Don't live 196 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:52,280 in that fear. Many people are safe in their fears because they've been in an environment 197 00:23:52,280 --> 00:24:00,040 so long that it seems to me the only way of life. They're confident with defeat rather 198 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:05,480 than victory, with poverty rather than prosperity. What would I do? I remember someone, I don't 199 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,160 know what the situation was and the promise to tremendous amount of money. He said, what 200 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:16,760 am I going to do with all this money? I said, give it to me. I mean, God, what could we 201 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:23,960 do with money, Pastor Jeff? We could bless the world. Come on. God do things in the name 202 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:29,000 of Jesus. We could build churches and do mighty things in the kingdom, do things for missions. 203 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,840 Come on church. The kind of the mental image of living joyfully. They've always lived in 204 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:43,080 this. Break loose in the name of Jesus. No more Satan. No more the spirit of fear. They're 205 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:50,560 sort of familiar in their own defeats. You see faith enters the invisible realm and so 206 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:58,840 does fear. So faith must enter the good things of God, the great things of God. Can you say 207 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:07,080 amen? The possible things of God and refuse the others. We all are attacked at times, 208 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:15,640 but I would shake it off in the name of Jesus. I refuse to let those things possess my mind 209 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:22,240 and heart because the greatest fear is of the unknown. We look in the future and we 210 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:29,440 can either see God or we can see hopelessness and despair, but we must not see hopelessness 211 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:37,400 and despair. We must declare the mighty works of God. Amen. You see some people cling to 212 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:42,920 fears because they refuse to surrender them. They say, well, I can't do anything great 213 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:49,840 for God. I can't be something great. What can God do with my money? It doesn't matter 214 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:55,400 how much you give. It's the heart that you give with and what you've left. That's what 215 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:01,440 God sees. So it's not a man must have to give a million. Another can give one dollar in 216 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:09,560 comparison. But what I'm saying is if you don't make an excuse, well, I can't do anything. 217 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:15,680 I can do all things through Christ. Can you say amen? Amen, church. You have no just or 218 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:22,520 no reason for keeping it back. Now, I want to go to the scripture and show you that it's 219 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:30,120 almost difficult to believe. There are two scriptures that deal with this. Matthew chapter 220 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:38,120 8 where Jesus in the midst of the storm from verse 23, and notice what it says here. When 221 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:44,920 he entered into the ship, verse 23 of Matthew 8, his disciples followed him. And behold, 222 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:51,160 there rose a tempest in the sea and so much that the ship was covered with waves. Now 223 00:26:51,160 --> 00:27:00,040 listen, look at this. The ship literally was swamped with water. A great storm arose. It 224 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,520 wasn't a natural storm. It literally had completely possessed the boat. The same story is found 225 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:13,600 in Mark chapter 4. Jesus said, we're going over the other side. It was so hopeless. Now 226 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:19,080 Jesus, if you know anything about the boats in those days, they had boats in the back 227 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,400 where they had a cushion right in the back of the boat. If you've been in St. Peter's 228 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:28,080 boat and so on in Galilee in Israel, you see them there. I went on one of those boats once. 229 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:34,560 And Jesus is fast asleep on the back of that ship, on that pillar. And this boat is being 230 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:43,680 pushed like a matchbox in the midst of the sea, furious sea. And you say it would be natural to react 231 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,200 like they did. They didn't do it early when it started off. I mean the boat was nearly 232 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:56,080 swamped with water. It was pretty bad. I've only been once in a massive storm on a ship 233 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:01,720 where we, when a cargo vessel coming back from England, six passengers, we went into 234 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:10,920 the water. What was it? Out of eight, what kind of storm was it? Cyclone. I mean that 235 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:18,720 boat, even the swimming pool that they put up was smashed to pieces. That boat just went 236 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:28,480 through. I had no fear. Thank God, those days it was quite horrendous. But here, there was 237 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,760 a, you know, and literally it was more than an ordinary storm because the way that Jesus 238 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,360 rebuked the storm was literally that the demons of hell were behind it. They're trying to 239 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:49,560 kill Jesus. And so they come onto him and say, Master, care us not that we perish? And 240 00:28:49,560 --> 00:29:00,400 to me, the words of Jesus are almost like a greater experience than this miracle because 241 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:06,960 he got up and he commanded the storm to cease and it just completely ceased. And then Jesus 242 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:16,600 said, why are you so fearful? Only you have little faith. Imagine saying that. Surely 243 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:23,040 he would have said, sorry, fellas, I was asleep and I was having a nice rest. I needed it. 244 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:28,560 Imagine, but you see, he had said we're going over. Like what Robert says, you can't go 245 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,920 over before going over. God has said if you're life, you're going over, come on church. 246 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:40,040 And although the boat was swamped, he still said, now there's enough sense to say nothing. 247 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:50,760 I was like, Lord, what are you expecting from us? Give us a break. This is hard. In this 248 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:59,160 situation, I mean, it was literally, they were drowning. The boat was full of water. 249 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:07,440 Well, it's all over by the miracle that they just said, say nothing boys. Why do you have 250 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:15,560 fear? He expected them to stand against the storm and command the storm to cease. He was 251 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:23,240 teaching them how to walk. Amazing words. Now I don't have anything worse than this. 252 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:30,640 Any circumstance worse than this, than this situation. That's pretty tough statement to 253 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:37,520 make. You know, you're saying Jesus help. And he said, where's your faith? Why do you 254 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:47,960 fear? Come on, look at it. Don't just read it like a little story. See the dilemma they're 255 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,920 in. See the conditions that surround them. See the circumstances. You surely think that 256 00:30:53,920 --> 00:31:02,640 fear was permissible in this stuff. Surely we have a right to fear a little, just a little 257 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:14,520 Jesus. Care enough that we perish. Why are you so fearful? Have faith. Jesus hasn't changed. 258 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:23,000 Jesus, I'm more impressed by what Jesus said than by the miracle. What he expects from 259 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:30,120 us. Can you say amen? Well, I mean, we think on the little things and this is a big thing. 260 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,360 Surely he would understand. But you see, he said, you've discarded your faith. You've 261 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:43,520 let fear come. That's what he said. Don't fear. Why did you discard your faith? He was 262 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,440 teaching them the ways of faith. Instead of looking up, they're looking up that storm 263 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:58,560 that was just about possessing that boat. Where is your faith? His master remained unchanged. 264 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:06,280 He said, peace be still. There's three ways you can handle these things. You can go under 265 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:13,960 fear and collapse without God. You can go over and fighting, holding on God and get 266 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:21,920 old mister. You can go over in faith, conquering with God. One of the greatest miracles God 267 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:33,480 did was when God separated the Red Sea. They'd come out, it says in Exodus 12, 35 and 36, 268 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:38,760 we were the wealth of Egypt. They came out with Egyptian jewels and it says in silver 269 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:44,960 and gold and raiment. They didn't lend it. The word lend is not a good word. The rich 270 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:50,840 ones said literally that they gave it to them. I have the rich one here. It's strong as a 271 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:58,080 what should I. They made an ask, request it and they just gave it to them. What do you 272 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:07,720 say Beth? Yes, there's various meanings. One is they said, look, take it all. And literally, 273 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:13,040 they say Egypt was dispossessed of riches and wealth at that stage. And Israel came 274 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:18,480 out. He got centered and he's going to come out with much money, much wealth. And so they 275 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:24,280 did come out with that. And the Bible says in Psalm 105, 37 to 43, there was not one 276 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:30,680 feeble person amongst them. God touched them. And now they go into the wilderness with great 277 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:37,680 confidence. They've seen the miracle power of God and they come to the Red Sea. And they 278 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:48,000 arrive at this massive sea before them. There's no way out. And suddenly they hear these rumbling 279 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:55,400 going on and they look back and they see the dust in the wilderness. And suddenly they 280 00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:03,280 see the chariots of Egypt coming. And they can do three things. They can let the voice 281 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:16,880 of fear overpower them or the voice of hope wait for something or the voice of faith triumph. 282 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:23,200 They saw the people up there, saw the Dead Sea and saw under what's the dust and it's 283 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:33,680 so and so. Moses makes this powerful statement, fear not, stand still and see this. I've preached 284 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:45,600 him that wrong. He wasn't talking from God. He was talking from himself because God then 285 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:57,120 condemns this prayer and says to Moses, why are you crying unto me? Go forward. Act in 286 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:04,080 faith. Wonderful statement. Stand still and see. If they stood still and saw, there would 287 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:11,080 have been bruised and battled and scarred by the Egyptians. But God says, go forward 288 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:17,720 into the sea. He says, why do you cry unto me? Why are you praying? Sometimes praying 289 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:27,680 has to stop. Acting has to stop. What is the Red Sea of your life? What seems to be hopeless 290 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:35,400 on every side? What are you going through? Sickness, disease, bound by maybe fears and 291 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:43,520 torments and habits. What winds are coming against you? Are you standing in faith? Standing 292 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:53,800 in faith, standing, standing and nothing is happening? Somehow you've got to go forward. 293 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:59,280 What is this rod that God used in the life of Moses? What is this symbolic of in our 294 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:05,520 lives? I believe it's the Word of God. I want you to take with you some scriptures and I 295 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,040 want you to go with me. Maybe note them for yourself and let's go into them and see what 296 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:19,280 God has to say to us. In Luke chapter 10 verse 19, Jesus said, I gave you power to tread 297 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:26,640 upon serpents and over all the power of the enemy. How much power has he given us? Over 298 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:33,520 all the power of the enemy. Jesus spoiled principalities and powers on the cross. Every 299 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:38,320 believer has been given the right to share that conquest, to declare that conquest. It's 300 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:47,200 amazing. One translation says, mental strength and ability. Mental strength over all the power 301 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:52,760 of the enemy and nothing, nothing shall by any means hold us. Come on church. You've 302 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:59,760 been given authority over the devil. Come on church. Satan may muster powers against 303 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:06,840 you, may try to compare you to live under fear. Iniquity may resist you. Cunning wires 304 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:14,400 may come against you, but you must stand and declare and move into the Word of God and 305 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:20,640 see the authority of faith. Can you say amen? And the blood of Jesus, see where you are 306 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:26,520 and see who you are in Christ. Can you say amen? They overcame him by the blood of the 307 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:34,480 lamb and by the word of the testimony. Another, another part of the world is Romans 8 31. 308 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:40,480 What shall we say then? If God be for us, who can be against us? Look at these scriptures. 309 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:47,480 Look at that scripture for a minute. He says here all things work together for good. And 310 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:54,480 he says, whom he called and he called, he justified and he justified, he glorified. 311 00:37:54,480 --> 00:38:00,000 Verse 30. Then he says, he that spared not his own son, but he that ran for his own house, 312 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,800 and that with him freely he must all things. Who can lay anything to the charge of God's 313 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,840 elect? Are you God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemned? It is 314 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,840 Christ that died, it was Magain. Verse 31. If God, what shall we say to these things? 315 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:21,800 If God be for us, well who can be against you? Come on church. Write that down, put 316 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,960 it around your walls. Mourn that much with all day long. If God, get up in the morning 317 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,960 and say, if God be for me, who can be against me? Remember I told about meditation which 318 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,960 means muttering, chewing over like the cut of a cow. Keep saying it, if God be for me, 319 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,760 if God be for me, if God be for me. Mutter it on the lips, if God be for me, who can 320 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:45,800 be against me? Come on church. You don't have to be fretful, confused, or burdened with 321 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:52,800 self accusations. Let those things overpower you. As long as you have confessed your sins 322 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:58,200 and brought them under the blood of Jesus Christ, no accusation of Satan has any power. 323 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:05,200 Come on church. No one can be against you. 32 Corinthians 2, 14 please. Where am I? I 324 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:13,160 like these scriptures. 2 Corinthians 2, 14, put them down, remember them, don't look at 325 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:20,160 me like a zombie. Do them. 2 Corinthians 2, 14, thanks be unto God that always causes 326 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:31,480 us to triumph in Christ. How many times? Always, always. In 9, 8, Corinthians 9, 8 says, 9 327 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:41,920 chapter 9 verse 8 says, God is able to make all grace abound you, having all sufficient, 328 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:47,800 all things may abound in heaven. God is able to do that. Come on church. These are your 329 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:53,960 rods of faith. Can you say amen? Stand victorious at this hour, no matter what comes against 330 00:39:53,960 --> 00:40:00,720 you. Take the devil by the throat in his jagular thing, in the name of Jesus. You have power 331 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:12,240 over him. But listen, he will not go until you act. He will not move. You must take faith. 332 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:19,240 You must declare the word of God. He always leads us to triumph. No matter how furious 333 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:28,440 he gets, God always leads us to triumph. Can you say amen? If these in 6, 10 says, be strong 334 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:35,440 in the Lord, there is another great weapon and the power of his might. Imagine what Ephesians 335 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:43,680 1 says, amazing words of God for all of us as he declares the power of Jesus. He says, 336 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:48,480 enlighten you that you may understand the revelation of God of wisdom and knowledge 337 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:54,000 in Isaiah being light in verse 18. What is the hope of the one that you call to, the 338 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,600 riches of the world, this inheritance in the saints? What is the great power to the last 339 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,280 one who believed in God, the reckoning of his mighty power, which he wrote in Christ 340 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:07,280 when he raised him from the dead? Send him up with all might and power and dominion. 341 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:14,280 God's given us this. Come on church. Tremendous power, supreme power, risen power of Jesus 342 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:21,280 Christ toward us. Be strong in the Lord. Hallelujah church. Ephesians 3, 20 says, be strengthened 343 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:31,320 with the might of the spirit of being a man by the grace of God, the riches of his kindness 344 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:38,400 and goodness. Hallelujah. We have been elevated to heavenly princesses. We are made potential 345 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:43,880 occupiers of the throne of Christ. We have the power of God in us. Amen. And people that 346 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:50,880 have lived like that have seen a difference in their life. You have got to fear not in 347 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:59,840 the midst of the most hopeless situation. And he says, only believe. Surely Lord, a 348 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:06,840 little bit of fear is allowed. No sir. It's almost cruel. But I tell you, if you want 349 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:13,840 to be something great in God, if you want to be a man of faith, in Flickens 4.13 says, 350 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:22,440 I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me. Colossians 1 says to us, verse 11, strengthened 351 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:32,240 with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering and joyfulness. 352 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:37,640 And these Christians didn't have the easy those days. Some of them died for Christ, 353 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,640 persecuted for Christ, but strengthened with, they went joyfully. The world looked at them 354 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:47,640 and said, you're crazy. But they went with joy, strengthened with the might and power 355 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:54,640 of Jesus. They lived for God. The influence is so great that the whole world was revolutionized 356 00:42:54,640 --> 00:43:01,640 by their testimony until that world was turned upside down by these testimony of believers 357 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:09,640 who were dead to believe. Come on church. Satan may try to attack you. Sickness may 358 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:17,880 try to come upon you. You have peace, joy, victory. Don't accept the inward accusation. 359 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:24,880 Don't accept anything but what God says you are in Christ. It tells us to resist the devil. 360 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:40,520 It tells us to, it comes like a roaring lion, first beatified, seeking whom he may devour. 361 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:46,320 Stand steadfast it says. Why do I mention Satan? Because Jesus did. His enemy was the 362 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:52,840 enemy. When he rebuke that war, it was Satan behind that. I believe the enemy is working 363 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:58,840 strong these days to undermine the Christians and too many Christians have lost all of their 364 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:05,840 tenacity, their strength, their verility, their faith in God. In Colossians 1.27 it 365 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:11,520 says, another one of these wonderful promises. It says to whom God would make known what 366 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:18,520 is the riches of the glory of the mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you. 367 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:26,400 Where is Christ? Christ in us. Amen. Don't let anything come, don't let weakness come. 368 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:35,360 Without strength you cannot avoid this power. Don't be hemmed in by the foes. Don't look 369 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:42,360 at the outward appearance. Cultivate that spiritual art of seeing the invisible. Moses 370 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:49,840 saw the invisible. Cultivate that art. Expect God in circumstances. Figure what it is. Believe 371 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:58,760 it, receive it. Amen, church. If you have Christ in you, you have the glory of God in 372 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:05,760 you. Jesus, believe and you will see the glory of God. God's word declares that when God 373 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:13,960 comes, weakness goes. Difficulties, somehow you need enablement for some of them. The 374 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:22,640 times are completely disappear. In Colossians 2.10 it says you are complete in Him. The 375 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:29,640 same fullness that dwells in Jesus. I love this verse 9 says, from Him dwelleth all the 376 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:35,640 fullness, dwelleth his pleroma of the Godhead body and we have the same pleroma in our lives. 377 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:42,640 Same word. God, I tell you, recognize what you have and fears have to go. You will see 378 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:52,440 in a, I mean these guys in Bible days felt the lash, felt the lions, felt the fire. But 379 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:57,680 many of them, even they tell us these days in China, that when they suffer they feel 380 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:03,880 no pain. God, they look their eyes on Jesus and God takes it all away. Amen, church. I 381 00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:10,880 am not saying it is all going to be easy. Sometimes yes, but sometimes you have to face 382 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:19,520 things. But you go in triumph. You go in the strength of your living God. Can you say amen? 383 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:26,080 And you take the promises. That is what you live on. You get the strength of God and I 384 00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:33,080 believe more and more than anything else. You can get victory in the name of Jesus. 385 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:39,480 I don't believe, I believe the growth of God can be manifested so much in our life. I don't 386 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,040 believe we will have much more authority when we get to heaven than we have now. It is a 387 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,320 matter of just getting to that place of recognizing what we have. We will be changed. We will 388 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:53,720 be transformed. But if we want to grasp all that is ours today, I want to raise up people 389 00:46:53,720 --> 00:47:00,720 with faith. Can you say amen? Where the fears of life go? Already Christ is in you. Come 390 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:07,880 on church. Already you are touched with the image of God. You are transformed from glory 391 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:15,000 to glory. St. Corinthians 3.18. Already you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. 392 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:22,000 It is all happening if you can grasp it and understand and have insight. What brings the 393 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:29,520 miracle? The words of Christ in your life. The words of God that I gave you in your heart. 394 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:39,720 What brought the miracle? To the Red Sea. He took the rod. What did Jesus say? Whoso shall 395 00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:46,720 say to this mountain, be thou removed. Amen church. I believe in prayer. You know that. 396 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:55,440 I talked about that. But sometimes you have to stop praying and start speaking. You have 397 00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:01,760 to start saying the name of Jesus. This is my victory. This is my possession. Can you 398 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:08,760 say amen? Your words shape your life. How are you saved? You confess with your mouth, 399 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:15,760 Jesus. Believe in your heart. Hebrews 3.1 says Christ is the high priest of our confession. 400 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:22,280 The word is homilogia. Wish me to say the same thing as God says. We say what God says. 401 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:27,720 You said this Lord. I will always try. God says, supply all my needs. Amen church. I 402 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:34,400 am more than a conqueror. He is my healer. Look at Father the other day. He was thrown 403 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:41,400 through the earth with the greatest of ease. At our age or at that young age, it is quite 404 00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:48,280 easy. If you are drunk, it is easy they tell us. But he wasn't drunk maybe in the spirit. 405 00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:55,000 But he wasn't drunk and yet he walked away from that. Come on. God can work with us. 406 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:02,000 God can do miracles with us. Stand strong. Start saying what God says in every circumstance. 407 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:09,000 Start saying the greatness of God. Let the faith of Abraham be in you. Remember this 408 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:16,400 morning. What Peter did in Acts 3.6, he spoke to a layman and commanded in other scriptures 409 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:24,240 too God speaks of those who are already are. That is the God we serve. We have the same 410 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:29,560 ability. What does it say? Pray against the devil. Pray to God that he will remove them. 411 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:36,560 He says resist the devil. James 4.7. Resist him. Strong in the faith that says he will 412 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:43,560 first be defiled. Stand strong. Resist the enemy. Get out devil. I talk to him. Command 413 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:49,080 him to leave me alone. Any thought that comes from the word of God, I literally talk about 414 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:56,080 that. Get out in Jesus name. You have got no place to contact my mind. You have got 415 00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:03,080 no place to put those thoughts in me. Whatever they are. In the name of Jesus, amen, my children 416 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:11,080 will live. Praise God. Can you say amen? So we speak the words of faith. I could go on 417 00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:16,680 with other things but time is gone. Much more to share but that will do tonight because 418 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:23,680 I want you to have faith. Fear not. Only believe. What? Fear not. And he said that when the boat 419 00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:33,920 was going under. Always remember that. He didn't say it in some little thing that happened. 420 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:40,920 He said to the man whose daughter had died, said fear not and she is going to be well. 421 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:47,920 Somehow his faith was involved in the miracle. See I wasn't here tonight. I don't care. I 422 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:58,920 do care. Stand in faith. Don't give up. I am standing in faith in quite a few things. 423 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:04,720 Believe in God. Seeing things every day. I could have terrible fears about something 424 00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:10,960 that some people know about. But I will refuse fear. I will stand in faith. That is why some 425 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:15,960 things I haven't shared with you. Because I don't want people to bring fear to situations. 426 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:22,320 Not faith to situations. Can you say amen? I want people to have faith not fear. And 427 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:29,320 declare the works of God in the name of Jesus. Can you say amen? And believe. Now I believe 428 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:36,320 sometimes God can deliver you from terrible attacks. From prison and so on. I believe 429 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,960 that. God can perform miracles for those people. I know in the early church they wanted to 430 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:45,120 die for Jesus. A lot of those men I have read some of their life stories. There is a great 431 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:50,120 privilege to die for Christ. Great privilege to give your life as a martyr for Jesus. Paul 432 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:54,960 says I want to go and be with Jesus a long time. But it is better for me to be here for 433 00:51:54,960 --> 00:52:01,960 your sake. Let's stand. Lord teach us from this truth what we should understand and know. 434 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:22,960 My God shall supply all my needs. According to His riches in glory. He will give His angels 435 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:43,960 charge over me. Jehovah Jireh cares for me. Jehovah Jireh cares for me. I am happy to 436 00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,680 pray for people. We prayed for quite a few last Sunday on this subject. And some had 437 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:54,680 a great deliverance. If you really have fears in your life that you can't cope with. We 438 00:52:54,680 --> 00:53:01,680 can pray to break things. But you have to take these scriptures and keep saying them 439 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:09,000 and saying them and saying them and saying them and learning them and possessing them 440 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:16,000 until they are really part of you. That nothing, nothing can hurt you. That no fears. You know 441 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:23,000 what I am talking about. Whether there are fears. I mean when I went through the wars 442 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:28,000 as a little child. I used to have nightmares every night for years. Screaming nightmares. 443 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:35,000 Because I went through I used to see the suffering of the Jews. We used to have them bombarding 444 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:40,000 of those things over our lives all the time. When I was with Peggy the other day God spared 445 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:46,520 us the day before when in Dresden 350,000 people perished in one night when the whole 446 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:52,520 city was literally aflame. A few hours before God took us out of that horrendous thing. 447 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:59,520 Oh I don't know how many people died that night. 350,000. 350,000. Horrendous experience. 448 00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:09,000 But God took us out. But other times were in the midst of me. The bombardings. See the 449 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:16,000 city is aflame. And fears possessed me. And I as a younger man, my family, let me just 450 00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:23,760 share this with you. My uncles and aunties were full of fear. When I met my auntie I 451 00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,520 didn't know how bad it was when I met her in America years. Auntie Frieda. I said how 452 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:35,520 are you? I'm alright. I mean talk about being so. One of her daughters, I had administered 453 00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:42,520 to her, beautiful young lady went through hell with all those fears because her family 454 00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:51,400 was fairly negative. But my parents were strong. And then I had to take faith. I'm telling 455 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:57,560 you I used to wake up in the morning, I used to hate getting up Sunday morning pastoring. 456 00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:04,560 I mean fears possessed me. You have no idea what I had to fight to overcome that. I'm 457 00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:11,920 preaching from experience. But I'm not going to go that way. I'm more than a conqueror. 458 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:18,520 Can you say amen? I will not be defeated. Now if you have needs please come. Let me 459 00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:25,520 pray with you. Please come as we sing. My God shall supply all my need. According to 460 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:37,800 His riches and glory. He will give His angels charge over me. Jehovah Jireh cares for me, 461 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:44,800 for me, for me. Jehovah Jireh cares for me. This week we heard of all kinds of terrible 462 00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:03,360 things. Remember that one. Situations of families of children being raped and thrown out of 463 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:10,360 homes and growing up with unbelievable fears. I can't believe what people do in homes and 464 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:17,960 families these days. Father, just bless us tonight I pray. Let 465 00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:25,840 faith rise. Can you say amen? Let faith come to us as we go from this place. Let us believe, 466 00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:32,840 only believe all things are possible. Jesus looked for and commended faith. Now if you 467 00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:37,320 want to receive Jesus come forward and receive Jesus. I'm going to stay in the front here 468 00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:41,840 to pray for people if you want to otherwise you're dismissed with God's blessing, with 469 00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:56,840 God's grace. Fear not, only believe. Can you say amen? God bless you.