Sermon Tone Analysis

*Date:*      9th September 2007                                                               (Sunday AM)                                                                       *Ref:* A0336

*Place:     Kambah P.S.*

*Title: Faith Not Fear*

*Text:        *& Mark 5:36

 

*Illust:     *From an article in ‘Psycholgy Today’[1]*  ~~  *It can come out of nowhere.

You're shopping for groceries or buckling your seat belt when suddenly your muscles contract and your heart begins to pound.

Panic attacks can be both bewildering and terrifying, but they're not unusual.

An estimated 2.4 million people experience one every year.

It may begin as tightness in the chest, shortness of breath or a galloping heartbeat.

Many sufferers believe they are having a heart attack and rush to the emergency room.

The cause of an attack can be unclear, but they often arise in the face of major life changes, such as childbirth or a new job.

Attacks may also follow trauma.

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I.                   The Fear of Fear

!! A.               Fear Rising

i.                 Major problem facing mental health organisations & society is the growing rise of fear.

People are desperately afraid.

Found one person who has over the years researched the names of the different phobias – Fears that people have.

Created a list.

Things like:

      Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.

Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.

Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.

Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.

Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.

ii.

All up about 530 phobias, that’s a lot of fear.

Enough so that we need to treat fear seriously and address it.

See what the Word of God has to say and apply this to our lives & the fears that beset us.

iii.

Because the tragedy is that many Christians also are struggling with fear.

!! B.               Rising Pain

i.

This plague of fear is not just something that you work through on the inside and get over, it has a major effect, an outflow into your body.

ii.

Physicians, psychologists and those who have long experience in praying for the sick are more and more coming to the realization that anger, hatred, fear, and a sense of guilt are responsible for a large percentage of even organic diseases including stomach ulcers, arthritis, bone spurs, heart trouble, deafness and asthma.

iii.

As fear can directly impact your physical health, then surely we should do all that we can to eliminate fear from our lives.

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II.

Faith against Fear

!! A.               Faith

i.                 Firstly need to see fear for what it is.

~~ So lets’ look at how God wants you to live.

Common word in the bible that is Faith.

         2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

(NKJV)