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Intro
Emotions
Review of last weeks surveys
Are emotions evil?
(14% yes, 86% no)
Should we listen to our emotions?
(40% yes 60% no)
Do emotions glorify God? (100% yes)
(40% yes 60% no) Do emotions glorify God? 5 people (100% yes), Does God have emotions?
6 people (100% yes).
Should we always express our emotions?
5 people (100% no) Are emotions as important as reason? 4 people (50% yes 50% no) Did you listen to the sermon?
5 people (60% yes, 40% no).
Does God have emotions?
(100% yes)
Should we always express our emotions?
(100% no)
Are emotions as important as reason?
(50% yes 50% no)
Did you listen to the sermon?
5 people (60% yes, 40% no)
Key Emotion: Fearlessness (4a)
The entire Psalm is in a way a statement about who God is in relationship to His people…
…and likewise the reason that we have no cause for fear as God’s people.
Fear is natural
Fear is a natural emotion and a survival mechanism.
When we confront a perceived threat, our bodies respond in specific ways.
Physical reactions to fear include sweating, increased heart rate, and high adrenaline levels that make us extremely alert.
Fear is a natural emotion and a survival mechanism.
Fear is our bodies response to a perceived threat.
How we would react to a lion
How Samson reacted to a lion ()
BOTH RESPONSES TO FEAR
Fear is your bodies automatic response to a threat.
Fear is crucial to our survival.
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
―Nelson Mandela
This is what we are looking at today.
How do we become fearless?
How do we conquer fear?
We aren’t trying to get rid of fear, but want to face fear boldly like Samson.
Context:
Sheep/Shepherd analogy
Shepherd is Jesus/YHWH
Guardian of the sheep
Provider for the sheep
Manager of the sheep (business—purpose)
Sheep are God’s people
Follow the Shepherd
Stay near the Shepherd
Share in God’s purposes
(Image of sacrifice) Give life for the Shepherd
To be a Shepherd is to enable the sheep to be fearless
(where the illustration breaks down) To be a sheep is not to be a blind and stupid follower as some have said
blind or irrational faith
anti-intellectualism — we’re just stupid sheep who need to believe what we’re told and not think for ourselves
We are to image God:
Christians are thinking people: Intelligence
Christians are creative people: Giftedness
Christians are sacrificial people: Love
Not stupid sheep—the illustration is not about how dumb we are as sheep, but how great God is as Shepherd
To be a sheep is to be cared for by the Shepherd
1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I have what I need.
Four ways that the Lord provides what we need so that we can be fearless.
Body
The first is that we can be fearless because the Lord provides us…
Rest
Fast-paced society — nothing we can do about this
2 income households — many people working two jobs (almost impossible not to have this)
kids in sports and programs
family stuff
church stuff
It used to be that people lived for the weekend—2 whole days off!—but now most people just live for a morning to sleep in.
Even when we do get a day off, we spend the day anxiously trying to figure out the schedule for our next week.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
green pastures (rest for the body)
lets vs. makes (implied in the Hebrew) (READ A)
It’s not that God lets you rest --- like, if you want to, if you can squeeze it into your schedule.
It’s also not that God makes or forces you to rest when you don’t want to.
The word cause means source.
The idea behind this verse is that the Lord is the source of your rest.
This isn’t so much about what God does to give rest to your body.
It’s about what happens to our body—rest—when we remain close to the Shepherd.
A lack of rest may mean…
Quiet waters (rest for the soul/from restlessness and anxiety)
A psalm of David.
thirst as analogy for the longing of the soul (cf.
Jesus, I will give you living water)
ILL: Most of us go through life like we’re trying to get a drink from a class 4 rapid
But, the Lord leads us to a fresh cool spring to drink.
Fearless implication
Anxiety is the fear we don’t have time to do all that we think needs to be done
The promise of this verse is that, although we may not accomplish everything we want to accomplish, if we abide in Christ, we stay near to the Shepherd, God will accomplish everything He purposes.
The irony of anxiety is that the symptom of anxiety is restlessness.
But, restlessness also makes your anxiety worse.
The answer to anxiety in life isn’t to get through the next week, to push through the next season, or to figure out the right formula to make the day flow right.
The answer to anxiety in life is to draw near to God, the Shepherd.
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