WK1 The Invisible Enemy (The Origins of Fear)

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Today we’re starting a brand new series called ‘The Invisible Enemy’, all about we can have faith in the midst of fear.

You ready for todays message? Here’s our scripture to frame todays message … Genesis 3:1-4 ...

Ephesians 6:10-12

The New International Version Chapter 3

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

For Week One of our series ‘The Invisible Enemy’ I’m bringing a message called ...

The Origins of Fear

Story: Benaiah looks like us because we are his parents. But as parents we are not his orgins.

The New International Version Psalm 139

13 For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

You see, you did not come from your parents, you came through them. You formed and created by God.

The same is true about our fear. If we’re not careful we can think that the origin of our fear and anxiety is the tangible problem we can see. For example, the reason I am anxious is because of ___ or ___.

But the origin of fear is not circumstance, our situation just a trigger. The origin of fear is of spiritual orgin __ which is why fear is ultimately a spiritual battle.

Some references:

1 Peter 5:8

And so our fear is not merely of natural origin, this means we need to learn how to fight on only from the ground (naturally) but in the air (spiritually).

Ephesians 6:10-20

The New International Version Chapter 6

13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive Spiritual Warfare—Part 1

What is the evil day? In the evil day, we sense there is some power, there is some force, that’s coming around, shadowing us like a cloud, taunting us and jeering at us and undermining us and making us feel guilty and making us feel tempted and making us feel bad and egging us on, and essentially, something is out to get us.

The Timothy Keller Sermon Archive Spiritual Warfare—Part 1

You know those days are there. You cannot believe the way everything seems to be coming together to make things as bad as they possibly could be. You’ve been through some; maybe for some of you, this is one of them. What are you going to do? One of the things you can possibly do, and this what a lot of people will say, is you shrug it off and dismiss it as just a series of coincidences. Maybe, maybe not.