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Bonus: Why Christians should never fear man! · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Welcome back everyone to my podcast spending
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  time with dr. Christina We're in season 7 and
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  it's our final bonus episode and we're talking
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  about never to fear man So let's start with our
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  main passage which comes out of 2nd, Timothy
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  1 7 God has not given us the spirit of fear but
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  of power love and a sound mind So God never wants
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  us to fear anything and when we know that there
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  is a spirit of fear that's around it's not of
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  him and it is a spirit matter of fact there has
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  been a saying that's always been going around
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  in the church for some time which fear represents
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  false evidence that appears to be real Fear is
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  just not of God. And when we start to fear other
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  people and fear whatever what they think about
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  us or fear how they react to us or anything along
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  those lines, that is not of God, right? Let's
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  go to now a main text. Proverbs 29, 25, The fear
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  of man bringeth a snare, but whoso put their
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  trust in the Lord shall be safe. So God is telling
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  us here, Never to fear, man. Trust in him. It
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  doesn't matter what things look like. It doesn't
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  matter what people are telling you, like Job's
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  friends told him many things. And in the end,
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  it wasn't that way at all. He ended up praying
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  for his friends. And they received their redemption.
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  And so did he. And God blessed Job more than
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  what he had before. See, when we walk in fear
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  and being fearful, we know this is just not of
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  God. This is of the enemy, the devil. He wants
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  us to walk in fear because fear paralyzes us.
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  It keeps us from doing what normally God would
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  call us to do. Instead, we're doubting, we're
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  questioning whether we should do something or
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  not and this is not to say there is no healthy
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  fears out there from doing something wrong we're
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  not talking about that at all we're talking tonight
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  about fearing man because if you were around
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  someone and they said come on let's rob a bank
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  of course you should have a fear and say no i
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  already know not to do this right yeah we're
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  not talking about anything like this because
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  we know that is just more on the insanity side
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  However, when we think about people, they should
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  have no power over us. We should never be afraid
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  of anyone. We should know that God is always
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  for us, right? And when the Bible tells us when
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  God is for us, who can be against us? Again,
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  this is not to do anything. Ridiculous or crazy
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  because then some people put themselves in harm's
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  way. No, we're talking about using wisdom, right?
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  Again, if there's a case where someone has a
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  gun and says give me all your money You may want
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  to just give them all your money, right? So let
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  the Lord lead you in certain dynamics but clearly
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  when we think about say the workplace you shouldn't
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  be afraid of say your co -workers or afraid of
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  your manager you shouldn't be afraid of being
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  fired no because the Bible also tells us what
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  you fear comes upon you if you have a constant
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  fear of your life you'll be paralyzed you'll
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  never live your life if you have a fear where
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  gosh If I get a home, I think I'm just going
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  to lose it. I just don't think I can do it, you
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  know, meaning you can't manage the finances of
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  a home. Or maybe you're thinking more like, wow,
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  if I get a wife, I don't think I can be faithful
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  to a wife. or anything along those lines. Oh,
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  I would love to go to school. I just don't think
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  I can do the work. No, get rid of that fear.
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  Let the Holy Spirit empower you. Fortify yourself
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  in the Word of God. Go to church, go to Bible
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  study, fortify yourself and be strengthened in
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  the Lord. See, the key to getting rid of fear
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  and fear of others and what they may think is
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  to meditate on the Bible day and night as the
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  Lord tells us in the book of Joshua. The Bible
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  also tells us never forsake the gathering of
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  the believers. We are strengthened when we are
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  around other true believers. We are strengthened
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  when we go to Bible study. We are strengthened
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  when we go to service. We are strengthened when
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  we engage in activities with other Christians.
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  This is how we fortify ourselves we get in the
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  word and we study we spend time with the Lord
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  This strengthens our spirit with thus strengthen
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  our lives so When we think about again never
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  fearing man You should have no fear of what man
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  can do to you because they have no power over
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  you Only the Most High God has power over your
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  life. And when you see something that looks horrible
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  because the enemy is a distractor, he always
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  wants you to look. He's animated. He wants you
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  to hear horrible things. When that happens, you
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  stand on faith and you say, I don't believe it.
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  This is not the way that it is. This is not the
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  way that I've heard it. These are things you
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  should tell yourself when you are in trials and
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  tribulations and when you fear that man is going
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  to harm you No, he's got no power over your life
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  Well, we're gonna come back to this subject once
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  again like others and until the next time I'm
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  hoping this message was a blessing to you. I'll
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  wish you all a very good week