SNS - Room 101 Series

Room 101 Series (1/4)
Pastor Steven at Elevation Church

"Forever Fearful, Never Scared"

1 John 4:18 (ESV)

"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love."

• God's love drives out fear.
• Perfect love turns fear out of doors.
• The child of God never has to live in fear of what life brings their way.
• The only limit fear has to place on our lives is what we allow fear to limit.
• Don't fear what they fear, don't be dismayed at what they're dismayed at. Because God is with us and He will uphold us.
• We don't have to be afraid!!

Proverbs 1:7 (ESV)

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."

• We are to be forever fearful of the Lord, but never scared.

Genesis 3:10-11 (ESV)

And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

• The fear that we feel is usually the result of a lie (from satan) that we have believed.

Revelation 1:17-18 (ESV)

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

• In Adam (our condition apart from Christ) we hide from God because in our sin we have everything to fear. But in Christ we worship God because in His righteousness we have nothing to hide.
• Perfect love drives out fear.
• The fear of the Lord is different then being scared of God.
• When we're scared of God we're scared of what He's going do to us because of what we've done against Him.
• But when we realize that the love of God means that God already did to Jesus what He should have done to us, the fear of the Lord is no longer being scared of God; the fear of the Lord is being terrified to be outside of His protection.
• Don't fear God out of intimidation because if God wanted to destroy us He could, but He wants me to respect Him and love Him out of intimacy.
• The fear of the Lord is "God I never want to do anything that would land me out of your protection because I know I can't do anything that would land me outside of your love."
• I don't want to do anything that would land me outside your protection God.
• The fear of the Lord is routed in our understanding of His love for us; and the only thing that we would ever be afraid of is to land outside His protection.
• Faith in God is not the absence of fear, faith in God is the presence of Christ bigger then any fear that I face.
• Fear stands at the doorway of every destiny and says "I dare you to come up here" and the enemy plants fear at every threshold of our life.
• Fear comes to stop somebody who God has called to do something before they ever get the opportunity to do it.
• Our fear isn't an indication that we won't ever do anything great for God, it's actually a sign that the enemy is threatened by us and has dispatched something in our hearts to keep us from getting where God has called us.
• If we get free of our fear, we'll set others free too.
• Fear needs to meet God's love.
• God's love comes in and says thank you very much, but you can't stand here anymore.
• God's love turns fear out of doors.
• God's love says, "fear you gotta go, you can't hold down {insert name} anymore"
• The love of God is bigger, the love of God is greater, the love of God is stronger then any fear could ever be.
• Stand up to fear and say, "Whatcha gonna do fear, when the love of God casts you out."