Breaking Terrors Stranglehold (2)
Breaking Terror’s Stranglehold
Ps 27:2
- 2001 – Fear Factor
- "Imagine a world where your greatest fears become reality. Welcome to Fear Factor. Each show, six contestants from around the country battle each other in three extreme stunts. These stunts are designed to challenge the contestants both physically and mentally. If a contestant is too afraid to complete a stunt, they're eliminated. If they fail a stunt, they're eliminated. But if they succeed, they move one step closer to the grand prize: $50,000. Six contestants, three stunts, one winner. Fear Factor."
- Jan. 25, 2007 Nell Hamm, 65, at Mad River Hospital in Arcata, Calif.,, with her husband of 50 years, Jim Hamm, 70, after saving his life by using a log to club a mountain lion that had his head in its mouth.
- Fear or it’s equivalent almost 700x 648 verses
- Terror – a state of intense overpowering fear
- 773,692 words in the Bible
- Worry is not found once
David Garland notes that the violence of renegades like Barabbas continued in the decades that followed until it finally erupted into a full-scale war with Rome. Rome invaded Palestine and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and most of the people who lived there. The leaders had been afraid of Jesus because supposedly he was a threat to the Temple. And they released Barabbas. The violent ways of men like him eventually reigned terror on the land and led to the destruction of the very Temple that they were trying to protect. It’s an interesting irony.
A well known American internist and a growing body of medical specialist say, 90% of the chronic patients they treat illnesses started not with a cough or cold but with fear.
• Fear of losing a job,
• Fear of old age,
• Fear of money troubles,
• Fear of being exposed.
- Sometimes the fear is nothing more than a superficial anxiety;
- Sometimes it is so deep seated that the patient himself denies its existence.
- Sooner or later these fears manifest themselves as “a clinical symptom.”
- The patient begins a series of rounds, doctor to doctor, taking injections, hormones, tranquilizers and tonics in search of for relief.
- Fear found in the Garden Gen 3:10
Ge 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
- Fear keeps us out of glory Rev 20:8
Re 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable (perverts), and murderers, and whoremongers (sexually immoral), and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Darkness marks distress, trouble, confusion, and sorrow;
- Light causes these to disappeared,
- Light signifies understanding, joy, and life
And my salvation
That is, He saves or delivers me.
whom shall I fear? Compare Romans 8:31. Ro 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
- If God is on our side, or is for us, we can have no apprehension of danger.
- He is abundantly able to protect us
- We may confidently trust in Him.
- No one needs any better security against the objects of fear or dread than the conviction that God is his friend.
The LORD is the strength of my life
- Citadel/Fortress stronghold – Ps 31:3
Ps 31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
- The support of my life.
- Or, in other words, He keeps me alive. - In itself life is feeble, and is easily crushed out by trouble and sorrow;
- As long as GOD is its strength, there is nothing to fear
Of whom shall I be afraid? No one has power to take life away while He defends me.
Light shows us where and what we are —
lost, ruined, dead. Christ, our salvation, brings us from the depths of the Fall, recreates us, imparts to us His Spirit, righteousness and life.
LORD - YHWH – To Be
Source of all Reality
Source of all Existence
Source of all Being
Father -
1 Jn 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
2 Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Son -
.Jn 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Jn 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Jn 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness
HS. - Guides Jn 16:13
Jn 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Ex. 14 - Israel coming out of Egypt