The Fear of the Unknown | No Fear November | Pastor Ed Young

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#fearless #courage #anxiety #fear #overcomefear The Fear of the Unknown | No Fear November | Pastor Ed Young The enemy uses fear to keep us paralyzed from being all that God wants us to be. The reason he uses fear in your life is that you matter so much to God. The enemy sees your potential and he doesn’t want you to realize it. God wants us to live fearless lives, not fearful lives. One of our greatest fears is the fear of the future or the fear of the unknown. When you think about the future, though, it’s not the future that you fear. In reality, we’re fearing the past. We’re fearing feelings we’ve experienced, emotions we’ve experienced in the past so as we face the future we don’t want to deal with those. We tend to build walls around our lives to keep us from fear. The walls we build around our lives cause us to have a greater fear as opposed to just living life and facing fear. So again, the fear you face is not the fear of the future, it’s the fear of the past. The baseline of all fear is the fear of the future. We have a couple of ways to face fear. We can either face it with a foundation or we can face it with feelings. Foundation is solid. It’s significant. Feelings would be capricious. You can’t nail them down. It’s like trying to nail Jell-o to a wall, so to speak. God has feelings, too, when it comes to fear. We either face fear with a foundation or with feelings. The Bible says in Proverbs 1:7 that the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, the beginning of wisdom. 1 John 4:18 says, There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear. It seems that the two verses don’t make sense. God is telling us perfect love drives out fear, and on the other hand, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. They’re not diametrically opposed, they’re the same. But one in a different way. The fear of God means I reverence God. You’re God and I’m not. I’m in awe of God. When I put God in his proper place as the foundation for my life, I am going to have knowledge. I’m going to have wisdom. Perfect love, the love from above. God is a perfect parent. He’s given us this incredible gospel. He arranged for our sins to be transferred to his son’s shoulders. Jesus paid the price on the cross and rose again. If we respond to that love, because God loved us first, that love, God’s love from above, gives us the ability to drive out fear. Borrow what God has done in your past in a great way and project that into the future. What we do instead is we borrow pain and borrow “I can’t do it” and “that might happen to me” and we get involved in scenario sickness. Look at the life of David. As he prepared to face the giant, he remembered something from his past. 1 Samuel 17:34 “David answered Saul: ‘Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Wherever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock, I went after it, struck it down, and rescued the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.” David borrowed from the past to face his current fear. We fear what could happen. The reason we fear what could happen is because it’s based on what did happen in our lives. Let’s don’t borrow fear from the past, let’s borrow faith from the past as we face the future. Borrow what God has done in your past in a great way and project that into the future. What we do instead is we borrow pain and borrow “I can’t do it” and “that might happen to me” and we get involved in scenario sickness. Look at the life of David. As he prepared to face the giant, he remembered something from his past. 1 Samuel 17:34 “David answered Saul: ‘Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Wherever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock, I went after it, struck it down, and rescued the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.” David borrowed from the past to face his current fear. We fear what could happen. The reason we fear what could happen is because it’s based on what did happen in our lives. Let’s don’t borrow fear from the past, let’s borrow faith from the past as we face the future. In this message, Pastor Ed Young equips us with what we need to overcome the foundation of all fear. He reminds us that God is truly in control. And he shows us what it takes to keep our fear in check and to trust God with it all. Make sure to subscribe to the channel for more inspirational content from Pastor Ed Young. Hit the Notification Bell so that you never miss Ed's most recent video. Follow #EdYoung​ on social Ed Young Facebook: http://bit.ly/EdYoungFB Ed Young Instagram: http://bit.ly/EdYoungIG Ed Young Twitter: http://bit.ly/EdYoungTW https://www.fellowshipchurch.com/ https://www.fellowshipchurch.com/locations/frisco https://www.fellowshipchurch.com/locations/dallas https://www.fellowshipchurch.com/locations/fort-worth

Topics

• Anxiety & Worry
• Leadership
• Victory Over Fear