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Introduction:
Last week we looked at the first step in developing a battle plan to confront our fear, worry, and anxiety.
The first thing is that we engage our emotions.
We do this by listening to our anxiety.
What is my fear and anxiety saying?
What predictions is it making?
What is it telling me to do?
What is it saying about God? Now, I think it might be helpful to also point out that sometimes the best things we can do to engage our emotions is to table them.
Meaning that we say, “I’m feeling this certain way, I’m not in a position to really pull all of these things out right now, I need to get to a place of calm before I can analyze.”
Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is take a nap.
But engaging and listening to our emotions is only the first step.
A good reason why we engage our emotions is so we can hear God speak to our anxiety.
That is what we will look at this morning.
God speaks in
Put yourself in their sandals for a moment.
What must they have felt?
God delivered me from Egypt—but will he deliver me here?
What lesson did they have to learn.
Not especially verse 13-14.
Their lesson: Be still.
God will fight for you.
God speak in
Their lesson: the manna principle.
Today’s grace is for today’s hunger.
God’s
God gives you the grace for today.
Today’s manna is for today’s hunger.
Tomorrow’s manna is for tomorrow.
You don’t have manna today to satisfy tomorrow’s hunger.
That’ll come tomorrow.
Ultimately this is about teaching fear of God over fear of anything else.
What does it mean to fear God?
Here is a short definition:
Reverent submission that leads to obedient trust AND worship.
Who should fear the Lord?
Let’s consider a few verses about the fear of the Lord.
Psalm 33:8 reads, Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
Fearing the Lord is something everyone should do.
No one is exempt from the fear of the Lord.
Yet, the wicked refuse to fear him.
Psalm 36:1 Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
So everyone SHOULD fear God but the wicked don’t.
Ultimately, we read in Romans 14:11 that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, everyone will fear God in one way or another at the final judgment.
Everyone should fear the Lord
The wicked do not fear the Lord
Eventually everyone will fear God
Why should we fear God?
As image bearers of the one true God, we were designed to fear God.
(Genesis 1:26-27)
says, Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
We were created in the image of God and meant to exercise dominion over the creation.
We were designed to live in perfect fellowship with Him and devotion towards Him, as we had been given His image to bear in His world.
He designed us to live with no shame towards one another, no fear of being exposed or rejected by other men.
We see in verse 31 of chapter 1 that “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”
He created man to be like Him, to bear his image, but not to be over Him, He created them that though we would be a representation of Him we would still live in fear of Him.
We should fear God because he’s intrinsically worthy of our fear and obedience and worship.
We see throughout Scripture that God alone is worthy.
He alone can bear the weight of your soul’s need to worship.
Let’s consider his worthiness for a few moments.
— The psalmist warns the rulers of the earth… Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
It is at the heart of what it means to serve the Lord.
Who among the heavenly being is like the Lord, a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones and awesome above all who are around him?—He is more awesome than all that surround Him.
—His wrath is equal to the fear He deserves.
- The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold[a] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
We needn’t fear anyone or anything because our God saves us.
Really all Scripture is proclaiming the worthiness of our God to be feared and worshiped.
Fearing God is also for our good.
We often hear prayers end with the phrase “For our good, and your Glory.”
This is how Christians should think and pray.
Scripture affirms it over and over.
We should fear God because it’s for our good to do so.
/—Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge
—He is a help and shield to those who fear Him.
—He will bless those who fear Him.
— Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”
Amen, His love endures forever.
The fear of the Lord is intimately tied to our own happiness and holiness.
Never divorce holiness from happiness.
Psalms and Proverbs actually show us what life in the kingdom of God will be like with God as our ruler.
Psalms and Proverbs (as wisdom literature) instruct us that the good and rational life is living in a right fear of the Lord.
What does the fear of God look like in action?
The fear of the Lord is intimately tied to our own happiness and holiness.
Never divorce holiness from happiness.
Psalms and Proverbs actually show us what life in the kingdom of God will be like with God as our ruler.
Psalms and Proverbs (as wisdom literature) instruct us that the good and rational life is living in a right fear of the Lord.
Noah; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednigo; Jesus; Peter
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednigo
In the story of the Exodus and in all of these stories about those who feared God and responded accordingly we see the importance of knowing God’s character and trusting in God’s provision.
So as we engage our emotions we don’t only listen to what they are saying we also listen to what God is saying.
What specifically does that mean?
It means that we think about his character and his provision.
Romans 12:1-2
Jesus
What the fear of God does is renews and transform our minds.
Consider some of the unhealthy thought patterns that we can develop—and even default towards.
Our heart gets filled with all of these different voices.
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