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Fear Pt. 4 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Sometimes life is going great, and then something
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  Speaker 1: can happen that absolutely brings fear into your heart and mind.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe something happens that threatens your income.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly, those things that were on the back burner,
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  Speaker 1: your rent payments, your utility bills, even paying your phone
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  Speaker 1: bill and things like that, that were just, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: your income is there every month and you pay your
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  Speaker 1: bills every month, and suddenly, you're paralysed by fear. How
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  Speaker 1: am I going to pay my bills? What am I
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  Speaker 1: going to do? What's going to happen to our family?
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  Speaker 1: Where are we going to live? All of these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things.
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  Speaker 1: Or you're in a relationship and suddenly there's conflict in
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  Speaker 1: the relationship that threatens your relationship, instantly, fear grips your heart, right?
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  Speaker 1: What's going to happen to my relationship?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're talking all this week about fear. We've looked
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  Speaker 1: at the nation of Israel's experience in the Old Testament
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  Speaker 1: when God delivered them from slavery in Egypt through Moses,
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  Speaker 1: and Pharaoh started chasing them with his whole army, and
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  Speaker 1: they were so afraid. Then God, of course, parted the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea. They walked across, the sea crashed in on
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians who were trying to chase them. They were delivered.
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  Speaker 1: That experience of God showed them that God was actually
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  Speaker 1: much greater than the thing they were afraid of. And
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  Speaker 1: that's true for us as well, isn't it? I want
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  Speaker 1: to take you to another passage today in First Peter
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament of the Bible, in chapter 5.
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  Speaker 1: He says this, Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand
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  Speaker 1: of God, so at the proper time he may exalt you. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Casting all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you.
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  Speaker 1: Let me read you another few verses in Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 1: 6 where he's talking about fear in our lives and
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  Speaker 1: anxiety that overtakes us.
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  Speaker 1: He says, therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall
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  Speaker 1: we eat or what shall we drink or what will
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  Speaker 1: we wear, for the Gentiles seek after all these things. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them.
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  Speaker 1: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and all these things will be added to you. God
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  Speaker 1: will take care of you. Put Him first in your life,
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  Speaker 1: and He'll take care of you. Well, just look at
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  Speaker 1: the progression of what we've looked at this week about
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  Speaker 1: responding to fear.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, this, this reality that we fear what
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  Speaker 1: will happen because we view the possibilities of today and
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow as if God were not on our side.
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  Speaker 1: And we saw that trusting God and seeing him come
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  Speaker 1: through for you is like building up an immunity to
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  Speaker 1: the disease of fear in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Then we saw that recognising that God is greater than
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  Speaker 1: these things, puts those things in perspective, those things we're
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  Speaker 1: afraid of, and reminds us God is so much more
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  Speaker 1: powerful than that thing.
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  Speaker 1: And today we're seeing that this powerful God who delivered
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites from the Egyptian army is also your loving father,
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  Speaker 1: who cares for you.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no reason to fear. You say, but, but,
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  Speaker 1: and you start immediately thinking of those situations again. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: God is so much bigger than those situations. You may
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  Speaker 1: go through some hard times, but God will take you
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  Speaker 1: through those hard times.
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  Speaker 1: He loves you. He's your loving father. Cast all your
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  Speaker 1: anxieties on him because he cares for you. View the
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  Speaker 1: possibilities of tomorrow as if God were on your side, because.
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  Speaker 1: He is. I'm John North.
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