Move Past F.E.A.R

00:00 hi my name is Sue Burdullis and I'm the
00:03 director of the Camarillo Healing Rooms
00:05 and I welcome you to our fearless living
00:09 series and tonight we are in our second
00:12 session in tonight's session is entitled
00:16 moving past fear that false expectations
00:21 that appear real and my desire for you
00:23 tonight is that you'll be able to live
00:26 from a place of God's love rather than
00:29 from a place of fear where you might be
00:33 living at right now so let us pray
00:37 father I thank you Lord that in this
00:41 Psalm you told King David to seek your
00:45 face and to behold your beauty and Lord
00:49 we thank you that you invited each one
00:51 of us to seek your face and I pray that
00:55 you would grant us for the revelation of
00:58 the face of Jesus Christ that we would
01:04 see you Lord our Father we would see you
01:10 in the face of Christ we praise you and
01:13 we bless you in Jesus's name Amen so
01:19 tonight's session moving past fear the
01:22 false expectations or the false evidence
01:26 that appears real
01:31 love and fear come from two different
01:34 kingdoms they're the exact opposites
01:38 love lead you in one direction will fear
01:43 lead you in a completely opposite
01:45 direction love will lead you into the
01:49 very life of who God is what fear will
01:52 lead you into the very life as Satan
01:56 himself fear gives you that foreboding
02:00 feeling of Darkness where love will make
02:05 you feel like wow everything is going to
02:07 be alright and that's where God wants us
02:10 to live and just that knowledge that he
02:12 has us and he is going to make
02:14 everything all right in our lives so
02:18 what is fear when I looked up the
02:21 definition I'm just going to give you
02:22 like if called dictionary.com it's a
02:25 dictionary online fear is a noun is
02:29 defined as a distressing emotion aroused
02:33 by impending danger evil pain etc
02:37 whether the threat is real or imagined
02:41 it's a feeling or condition of being
02:44 afraid to help you understand this I'm
02:47 going to explain to you about cattle
02:51 grids the ones that are virtual and the
02:54 ones that are real one time when my
02:56 husband and I we are driving from
02:58 Camarillo
02:59 to Bishop California we are passing
03:02 through these small towns and as we
03:05 entered and exited these small towns we
03:07 were seeing these consecutive white
03:09 painted lines on the roadway and my
03:11 husband turns to me and he says sue do
03:14 you know what these are all about I says
03:17 I have no idea and he says because those
03:22 are for cattle and it prevents them from
03:27 crossing over these lines because they
03:30 think they're the real thing and the
03:33 real thing or real crap cattle grids are
03:36 actually metal bars over a pit like
03:39 structure that are usually in roadways
03:42 and the cattle will get their foot
03:44 stuck in those so that the owner can go
03:46 and retrieve the cattle that rightfully
03:49 belongs to them so they aren't wandering
03:52 off into somebody else's territory and
03:55 so when you look up this idea about
03:58 virtual cattle grids it's like well
04:01 we'll hire the cattle actually you know
04:04 thinking that these are real and not
04:07 just imaginary why is it preventing them
04:10 from crossing over and it says that when
04:15 I was looking this up it's because they
04:17 don't have the depth perception that was
04:20 one theory they had several theories but
04:22 that was the main one is that the cattle
04:24 don't have the depth perception so when
04:26 they look at these white painted lines
04:32 and so you can think about that in your
04:35 own life there are some things that are
04:38 not real rats but their virtual threats
04:42 it makes you think that they're real but
04:46 in essence they are really not so now
04:50 when we think about what a lot of
04:52 biblical stories we have an
04:53 understanding of this one of the things
04:58 in for the Israelites when they wanted
05:01 to cross over God said you know I'm
05:03 giving you the Promised Land and they're
05:06 going like there's some virtual painted
05:10 white consecutive lines and we can't
05:12 cross over or what were those those were
05:16 the giants there were giants in the land
05:19 and they were told from their top ten
05:22 leaders you know what those giants are
05:25 really big and they're gonna eat you up
05:28 you're like little brass hoppers in
05:30 comparison to them so the virtual
05:35 reality for the majority the Israelites
05:38 became those consecutive white painted
05:40 lines we are not crossing over because
05:45 we are going to get stuck in fact we are
05:48 going to get killed by those giants so
05:51 think about that in your own life what
05:53 are those white painted consecutive
05:56 lines in different areas of your life
05:58 that appear to be a real and are
06:00 preventing you from going into your
06:03 promised land
06:04 [Music]
06:11 King David it's very interesting here he
06:15 is he's a young man and he is given
06:18 these prophetic words that he is going
06:21 to be king over all of Israel as a young
06:27 boy but then he has all these white
06:32 painted consecutive white white lines
06:35 that he has to cross over all these
06:37 things that could have caused him to be
06:40 so afraid that he doesn't move forward
06:43 into the promises that God has had for
06:47 him and so he can see King David
06:49 throughout his life as a young boy he
06:51 crosses over one cattle grid over
06:54 another one over another one and a lot
06:56 of those weren't really just virtual
06:58 they were actual cattle grids for him in
07:02 essence and so when we look at Kings
07:09 David's life and everything he did he
07:11 didn't live perfectly but he pursued
07:15 this reality the presence of God so that
07:18 he wouldn't become afraid of the
07:22 apparent or real impending dangers in
07:24 his life and preventing him from going
07:28 on into the future that God had for him
07:31 in Psalm 27 we see this unwavering
07:34 decision of King David a decision that
07:38 the Holy Spirit wants all of us to hear
07:43 and to follow in verse one King David
07:46 says the Lord is my light and my
07:48 salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is
07:53 the strength of my life of whom shall I
07:56 be afraid the one army being camp
08:01 against me I will not be afraid my heart
08:07 shall not fear
08:09 so no matter what fear provoking
08:11 situations that you are facing whether
08:13 they're virtual or real you have a
08:15 choice between fear choosing fear or
08:20 choosing love you have a choice of
08:24 whether you allow the fear to imprison
08:27 you and confine you or whether you allow
08:30 God's love to set you free to be the
08:34 person who God has created you to be and
08:36 to live in the destiny that he has
08:39 called you into so there are some other
08:46 theories about why the cattle didn't
08:51 cross over and one of them was that they
08:55 would look you know at other cattle and
08:58 see well they're not crossing over so
09:01 why should I or the other theories maybe
09:04 they got stuck one time so they're going
09:06 like ah I'm not been there I'm not going
09:10 to cross over
09:16 we are talking about depth perception
09:20 that first one and our spiritual depth
09:22 perception
09:24 is huge when it comes to the direction
09:28 that we're going to go whether we are
09:30 going to go into fear or whether we're
09:33 going to go into that place of God's
09:35 love when we look at King David's life
09:39 it's like how did he stay in that place
09:42 where he chose not to go into fear but
09:46 into God's love and Psalm 27 we
09:49 understand that it was because he found
09:52 that secret place in God the place of
09:55 God's presence he said I'm going to
09:57 dwell in the house of the Lord the house
09:59 referred to the presence of God so I'm
10:02 going to do that all the days of my life
10:05 and in his presence I'm going to
10:09 continually offer up the sacrifice of
10:11 joy and I'm going to making that quality
10:15 decision I'm going to sing praises to
10:17 God and we see that throughout King
10:19 David's life when he was a young boy out
10:22 in the field tending the Sheep there he
10:25 was playing on his harp singing praises
10:28 to God and what did he end up doing he
10:31 ended up killing you know it was like
10:34 the lion and the bear type of thing you
10:36 know and so therefore when he got to
10:40 that place where he sees this Goliath
10:43 and all the Israelites are going on we
10:46 can't you know cross over those white
10:49 painted consecutive lines we can't face
10:52 this Goliath you know he's too big he's
10:55 too huge did you hear what he said he's
10:57 shouting us out us night and day there's
10:59 we aren't strong enough to overtake him
11:02 and King David's going man I have a
11:06 history in God I remember when I was a
11:11 young boy and I was facing that lion I
11:14 remember when I was facing that bear and
11:17 you know what I remember when my enemy
11:22 this is in Psalm 27 when my enemy they
11:26 were coming against me to eat up my fall
11:29 and I remember that God cost them to be
11:34 utterly deleted God devoured my enemies
11:38 and he goes so when I look into my
11:40 future you know what I'm gonna see I'm
11:43 gonna see my God who is bigger than any
11:48 giant any problem that I face so he
11:52 never allowed King David never allowed
11:55 God's presence to become bigger than
11:58 anything he faced and how he got into
12:01 God's presence was through worshiping
12:05 God glorifying God for who he was he
12:10 said the Lord is my light the Lord is my
12:14 salvation and my strength and how did he
12:17 discover this about God it was because
12:20 he was able to see God face to face so
12:27 there's a very interesting verse in acts
12:30 2:25 and I know it just like really
12:32 jumped out at me went in a time of great
12:35 need in my own life and I'm just gonna
12:37 read you the very first verse but he's
12:40 actually quoting acts 2 starting with
12:43 verse 25 is actually quoting from Psalm
12:45 16 he said I foresaw the Lord all of us
12:50 this is King David I foresaw the Lord
12:53 always before my face and therefore I
12:58 was not shaken and then he goes on and
13:01 says therefore my heart rejoice of my
13:03 tongue was glad and moreover I'm in a
13:05 rest in hope and so he's saying you know
13:10 what because I see God before my face
13:15 I'm having this face-to-face encounter
13:17 when I go into worship I'm seeing him so
13:22 when I go out into the world and face
13:25 enemies I could continue to set the Lord
13:29 before my face and so wherever I go I'm
13:32 going to see God over and above what I
13:37 see in the natural realm and that is
13:39 what Psalm 27 really
13:41 presents it presents to us two worlds
13:44 David saying there's the world of God's
13:47 presence
13:48 that's the heavenly kingdom and he says
13:51 there's a world in the natural realm
13:54 where these life-threatening
13:57 things are happening that are provoking
13:59 everybody else to fear he goes but
14:02 because I've lived in this reality with
14:04 God long enough I'm not gonna give my
14:07 heart over to fear and the Holy Spirit
14:10 is speaking to us through the psalm and
14:12 saying I want you to follow in David's
14:16 footsteps were which really King David
14:20 he's pointing you to Jesus Christ
14:22 himself
14:23 who perfectly walked this out David had
14:26 some pitfalls in his life but Jesus
14:28 walked this perfectly out of setting
14:31 father God before his face so that even
14:36 when Jesus went to the cross it was like
14:39 Jesus was able to say hey the joy that
14:43 set before me I'm gonna do what's down
14:47 here and I'm gonna come through it
14:49 victorious so I love King David's
14:55 response to saw when Saul told him that
14:58 basically you know when he was going to
15:00 go fight Goliath
15:01 King Saul says and they're so young so
15:05 scrawny
15:07 you're no match for Goliath and how
15:10 often do we hear that in our lives
15:12 you do this you're to that and you hear
15:15 your own you know in ourselves sometimes
15:18 talking like nananana now you're never
15:21 gonna make it in this world you're never
15:25 gonna get that job that you want you're
15:27 never gonna get well all those voices
15:30 speaking against you but listen to what
15:33 David says to soul 1st Samuel 17 33
15:38 through 36 but David said to Saul your
15:41 servant used to keep his father's sheep
15:44 and when a lion or bear came and took a
15:48 lamb out of the flock I went out after
15:51 it and struck it and delivered the lamb
15:54 from its mouth
15:55 and when it arose against me I caught it
15:58 by its pier and struck it and killed it
16:01 your servant has killed both the lion
16:03 and the bear and this uncircumcised
16:07 Philistine that means this person that
16:10 doesn't have a relationship with God
16:12 he's gonna be just like flying in there
16:15 he's gonna be like one of them seeing he
16:18 has defied the armies of the Living God
16:20 so what do we see we see David once
16:23 again he has set the Lord before his
16:25 face he's looking at his past and he's
16:28 saying that's which I'm facing right now
16:32 hey I'm seeing it from the reality of
16:35 the perception of what God has said and
16:39 what God will do in me and through me so
16:44 remember those white painted consecutive
16:48 lines the virtual perception he was
16:50 seeing past what the natural realm would
16:54 provoke him to feel about Goliath and
16:57 he's saying I'm gonna guard my heart I'm
17:01 not going to give my heart to fear but
17:04 rather I'm gonna give it to God I'm
17:07 gonna stay in love I'm gonna stay
17:10 connected to father God who loves me and
17:13 has great plans for my life back he told
17:16 me I'm gonna be king over Israel so if I
17:18 get killed by this Goliath hey I'm not
17:22 gonna walk out those plans that he has
17:25 for me in Psalm 27 - we saw that when
17:29 the wicked came against me to eat up my
17:31 flash my enemies they stumbled and fell
17:34 and then we saw that in verse 3 before I
17:38 began the Healing Rooms I remember and
17:41 you guys have heard this before that I
17:42 was afraid of speaking in front of an
17:45 audience and how I just shook and
17:48 trembled and I had to cross over those
17:51 apparent white consecutive virtual lines
17:54 that were causing my heart to palpate
17:57 and sometimes when you're facing stuff
18:00 you want to go like King David did in
18:04 Psalm 7 verse 1 I will not be afraid so
18:07 you're telling yourself I
18:09 will not be afraid with you I will not
18:11 be afraid and you're going like and then
18:13 you're going when I am afraid I will
18:16 continue to trust in years so sometimes
18:19 even though your emotions are telling
18:22 you to be fearful you're not going to
18:24 give in to the flash but rather you're
18:27 gonna follow the Living God who's living
18:30 inside of you who will empower you and
18:32 enable you not only to cross over those
18:35 white consecutive lines of virtual or
18:38 real threats in your life but actually
18:40 to leap over it and be to become
18:43 victorious so you can become all that
18:45 you can be and then the same thing again
18:48 when I had those undiagnosed symptoms in
18:51 my body you know and I got that dream
18:54 about Jehoshaphat and I understood I was
18:58 to worship God I didn't understand the
19:01 Lord was basically telling me the
19:04 importance of Psalm 27 that as I worship
19:09 Him I experience his presence he gets
19:13 enthroned in my praises and therefore he
19:17 defeats my enemies on my behalf so what
19:22 I feared gets demolished so that's the
19:26 importance of seeking and finding his
19:29 presence and we do that primarily
19:31 through worship and through prayer when
19:35 we come in agreement with the Lord
19:45 so let's look at false evidence
19:50 appearing real
19:53 the acronym for fear that I learned long
19:56 time ago f.e.a.r false evidence
20:01 appearing real in life you have one of
20:06 two realities you can live from one
20:09 reality its earthbound that this reality
20:12 limits you to your natural senses and
20:15 reasoning of what you can see here touch
20:18 and therefore experience the other
20:22 reality is from God's limitless place of
20:26 love it exists in the unseen realm it
20:30 exists in God and in his kingdom
20:33 so David in Psalm 22 7 is telling us
20:37 about these two realities he's saying
20:42 okay there's this reality in the world
20:47 that there's two realities you have the
20:51 reality of the world and then you have
20:54 the reality of God the reality in this
20:56 world will often provoke you to have
21:00 false evidence that appears to be real
21:03 compared to the truth of who God is and
21:08 you get to choose which reality you want
21:11 to live in Romans the way that you
21:16 access coming in to the reality of God's
21:21 kingdom and into his presence is by
21:23 faith and that's what Romans 5:1 through
21:26 2 says it's through to our Lord Jesus
21:28 Christ through whom also we have access
21:30 by faith into this grace and rejoice so
21:34 that we can stand and rejoice in the
21:36 hope of the glory of God
21:40 so God wants each one of us he wants us
21:46 to know that we can access the reality
21:49 of who he is and his kingdom at any time
21:52 he tells us to come boldly before his
21:55 throne of grace to his throne his throne
22:03 in heaven
22:04 he says come boldly so you can receive
22:06 mercy and help in the time of need he
22:10 wants us to come boldly there to his
22:13 throne and he wants us to sit ourselves
22:17 down right next to him inside of Jesus
22:20 Christ and to live our life on earth
22:24 from the reality of being in Christ
22:29 seated in the heavenly places far above
22:32 all these things that are happening in
22:35 this world that are creating false
22:38 evidence that appears real so when I
22:43 talk about false evidence appearing real
22:46 what do I mean about that in regards to
22:49 how you would look at it from a biblical
22:53 perspective false evidence appearing
22:56 real when I realize this it really set
23:00 me free it's basically anything that
23:04 contradicts the Word of God so that was
23:09 for King David anything that
23:11 contradicted the Word of God and who God
23:12 was but I see it as in the New Covenant
23:16 is anything that contradicts with the
23:19 blood of Jesus Christ has done for us
23:24 the greatest evidence we have in our
23:28 life for victory is the blood of Jesus
23:30 Christ and we need to view every
23:33 situation and everything that we face
23:35 through his blood and therefore all
23:40 these other things we can't give our
23:44 heart away to becoming afraid David knew
23:49 that he couldn't give his heart to the
23:51 lesser things in life
23:53 I like in Hebrews 11 27 Moses it talks
24:00 about Moses and Moses had we know those
24:03 mountaintop experiences where he had
24:05 those face-to-face encounters with God
24:08 and God was giving him a big assignment
24:11 and God is giving each one of us a big
24:13 assignment in life and it was only from
24:17 those face-to-face encounters that Moses
24:20 was able to say this which was recorded
24:23 in the book of faith or the chapter of
24:26 faith in Hebrews 11 27 where it says by
24:30 faith Moses were souq Egypt not fearing
24:35 the wrath of a king we're talking about
24:39 one of the most prestigious most fierce
24:43 Kings on planet Earth at that time and
24:45 that was the Egyptian King Pharaoh he
24:49 says he didn't fear the wrath of the
24:51 King for he endured seeing him who is
24:57 invisible so he is basically saying the
25:01 same thing but that we here in Psalm 27
25:04 but David says I'm able do not get
25:09 afraid that's what Moses of the Egyptian
25:14 King Pharaoh and his entire army the
25:17 largest army on earth I'm not afraid of
25:20 and killing me because I have a destiny
25:23 in God he says I endured because I saw
25:28 him who is invisible through our
25:34 face-to-face encounters with God in our
25:38 quiet time in our personal relationship
25:41 with God we have to
25:43 so rooted and ground ourselves in his
25:47 love in who he is that anything that we
25:52 face will not hold a candle stick to our
25:56 God so God invited King David as he does
26:01 each one of us to seek my face he says
26:05 this in Psalm 27 verse 8
26:07 he said to David seek my face and King
26:11 David's response was hard your face I
26:16 will seek so my question to you tonight
26:20 is the Lord is asking you seek my face
26:26 and what is your response when you are
26:31 in facing real or imaginary threats near
26:35 live will you return your attention to
26:39 God and seek his face or will you turn
26:44 your attention to this stuff and
26:48 allowing it to trouble your heart Jesus
26:52 said he says don't let your heart be
26:55 troubled neither let it be afraid he
26:58 wants us to live in the peace and the
27:01 joy of his presence and we all know the
27:05 story when Peter was walking on the
27:07 water as long as he kept his attention
27:11 and focused on the Lord he was able to
27:15 do the impossible but as soon as he took
27:18 away his attention and looked on the
27:21 earthly realm in what could possibly
27:24 happen and put his eyes on the storm he
27:30 sank and in our life we really need to
27:34 take heed that it's so crucial for us to
27:38 have one thing become a priority in our
27:42 life and that is to seek God's presence
27:47 and to dwell there 24/7 moment by moment
27:51 so that God's presence is bigger than
27:56 anything we face and that we don't allow
27:59 anything on earth to become bigger than
28:02 the presence of God and we do this
28:04 primarily through worship and through
28:09 prayer making those heart-to-heart
28:11 connections with God
28:17 in 2nd Corinthians 4:18 the Holy Spirit
28:23 speaks to us and he says well we do not
28:25 look at the things which are seen but
28:27 the things that are not seen for the
28:30 things that are seen down here are
28:33 temporary but the things that are not
28:36 seen are eternal and we need to set our
28:40 eyes on the internal reality of who God
28:43 is and what Jesus Christ has already
28:45 accomplished for us on the cross and
28:47 then in Colossians 3 if you were raised
28:51 with Christ seek those things which are
28:54 above where Christ is seated at the
28:56 right hand of God once again set your
29:00 mind on what the things above that's God
29:03 the heavenly realm and not on the things
29:07 below it's so hard when we are facing
29:12 things that are real or virtual in our
29:14 life that seem to be threatening what we
29:18 want in one way or the other to take our
29:21 eyes off of the eternal off of who God
29:25 is and look and then we get tripped up
29:29 and fall and start to sink so you know
29:37 know about the rose-colored glasses
29:39 where I talk about put the rose-colored
29:42 glasses on so you can see what the blood
29:45 of Jesus Christ has done for you it was
29:50 so interesting when Jesus was on the
29:52 earth here he is Jesus the face of God
29:57 walking on planet Earth but the gods of
30:02 this age had so blinded the Pharisees
30:06 and the Sadducees and the religious
30:08 leaders because they were walking in
30:10 fear Oh am I gonna do everything right
30:13 so that I can be accepted by God that
30:17 they didn't see Jesus they could not
30:21 hear Jesus and therefore they could not
30:25 experience Jesus
30:27 so Jesus says about them he says hey you
30:32 to a Pharisees and Sadducees you're
30:35 fulfilling the prophetic word in Isaiah
30:37 which says hearing you will hear and
30:41 shall not understand and seeing you'll
30:44 see but not perceive for the hearts of
30:47 this people have groaned all their ears
30:50 are hard of hearing their eyes have
30:52 closed let's say should see with their
30:54 eyes and hear with their ears lest they
30:58 should understand with their hearts and
31:00 turn so that I could heal them Wow
31:05 do you believe that Jesus is here among
31:08 us right now he says he is where two or
31:12 three are gathered are we seeing his
31:15 face are we setting his face before our
31:19 face so that we are not shaken like acts
31:22 2:25 speak of as it quotes Psalm 16
31:25 talking about King David the writer of
31:27 Psalm 27 or are we keeping our focus on
31:31 the Lord once you understand that every
31:39 fear is caused by a lie a lie that comes
31:45 from Satan then you're able to apply the
31:50 antidote to every fear what's the
31:56 antidote it's God's truth and the
32:00 primary truth that God wants to settle
32:03 your art heart in is how much he loves
32:08 you that God is with you that he is for
32:11 you that he's on your side that he will
32:14 fight your battles and with him there's
32:19 everything isn't possible
32:23 I gave you the first definition of fear
32:31 the noun version a distressing emotion
32:35 aroused by impending danger or evil
32:37 whether the threat is real or imagined
32:42 the feeling or condition of being afraid
32:44 the verb definition is to regard to
32:49 regard with fear to be afraid of or to
32:53 have reverential awe and we really need
32:58 to take a close look at this David chose
33:02 to live a life in reverential awe of God
33:06 the fear the Lord rather than the place
33:09 of fear regarding the circumstantial
33:12 evidence and like I said and I'm just
33:15 saying this over and over again tonight
33:17 so that you might consider living alive
33:20 in the presence of God through worship
33:22 in prayer so how did David live in
33:25 reverential awe of God it was through
33:27 worship and through that heart-to-heart
33:30 connection in prayer coming in agreement
33:32 with who God is and what the Word of God
33:35 says in Psalm 27 verse 6 he says
33:39 therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy
33:43 in his tabernacle I will sing yes I will
33:46 sing praises to God and it was through
33:50 worship that David set the Lord
33:53 continually before his face and
33:56 therefore he encountered gods and
33:59 supernatural protection he found that
34:02 secret place where he was supernaturally
34:06 protected under the shadow of God's
34:09 wings and then we saw that and I've
34:12 quoted that before tonight in Psalm 27 2
34:15 & 3 even though I know he isn't camping
34:19 all around me and war is rising up on
34:22 every side against me my heart's not
34:25 going to fear I'm going to be confident
34:26 in God
34:29 so Malachi 4:2 through three when it
34:33 come to healing this is one of my
34:35 scriptures that I kind of hid away and
34:37 in that secret place in the word but do
34:41 you fear my name the Sun of
34:42 righteousness shall arise with healing
34:44 in his wings you shall trample the
34:47 wicked for they shall be ashes under the
34:50 sole of your feet so God has given us a
34:53 place under the shadow of its wings and
34:56 then Luke 10:19 it kind of goes ahead
35:00 and says the same thing as this Malachi
35:02 4:2 that things are doing the ashes
35:05 under the sole of our feet he says I've
35:07 given you authority
35:08 remember those consecutive white virtual
35:11 lines I've given you authority to
35:14 trample on them and over all the power
35:19 of the enemy and nothing by any means
35:24 shall hurt you to fear the Lord means
35:27 that you're trusting in the Lord and
35:29 you're trusting in his salvation and
35:32 when you place your trust in his name
35:34 and his word you access his protection
35:38 his provision and his power David said
35:44 what in Psalm 27 the Lord is my light
35:47 and my salvation whom shall I fear the
35:51 Lord is the strength of my life of whom
35:53 shall I be afraid and then verse 9 you
35:57 have been my help
35:58 verse 10 the Lord he's going to take
36:02 care of me fearing the Lord involves
36:06 following his commandments the more you
36:10 persevere the more you perceive who God
36:14 is being able to behold his face the
36:17 more you'll be able to desire to yield
36:21 to God's Way through the power of the
36:24 Holy Spirit and Psalm 27 verse 11 david
36:28 says this teach me your way O Lord and
36:33 lead me in a smooth path because of my
36:36 enemies all of us need to be asking God
36:39 teach us your way we need to go
36:42 in the way of the Lord in the way of the
36:44 Lord is the way of his love rather than
36:47 in the way of fear God's Ten
36:51 Commandments are all based on love which
36:54 is his nature and the very first five of
36:57 the Ten Commandments all talk about this
36:59 reverential awe of God worshiping him
37:04 above all else and Jesus taught the same
37:08 thing when he came on earth he says this
37:10 is the first and greatest commandment
37:12 that you shall love the Lord your God
37:14 with all your heart with all your soul
37:17 and with all your mind now his God's
37:24 arch enemy was Satan and he was created
37:30 to worship God but he rebelled against
37:36 God he didn't want to go God's way and
37:40 it actually talks about five things that
37:43 he wanted I will I will I will in Isaiah
37:47 14 the basis of his rebellion was that
37:51 he wanted to be worshipped rather than
37:54 God being worshipped so he took one
37:59 third of the Angels he deceived them
38:02 into following him into obeying and
38:05 worshiping him and their decision that
38:07 they made those ones through the Angels
38:09 was irreversible the Angels fell and
38:14 then when God created Adam and Eve the
38:18 first of the human race and Satan saw
38:22 that they were created in the very
38:24 likeness and image of God and they were
38:26 created to worship Him what did Satan
38:30 desire he decided desired to gain their
38:35 worship so he did that through lies and
38:39 he did it through fear provoking
38:42 suggestions to make them believe what he
38:47 said over and above what God said and
38:51 when we choose to believe what the
38:55 enemy says the lie over the truth at
38:59 that moment we have just begun to
39:01 worship Satan did you hear what I said
39:09 when we come in agreement with the lie
39:12 it's a form of worship
39:17 we're fearing something rather than
39:24 stain in reverential awe of God so when
39:27 God commands us do not fear do not be
39:29 afraid of anything just worship me he's
39:34 doing it for a purpose because he wants
39:39 to guard our hearts and he's telling us
39:43 to worship Him because he knows that we
39:47 will be most happy most delighted in our
39:50 lives through worshipping Him he knows
39:53 that as we worship Him we are
39:57 transformed into his very likeness and
40:02 image like second Corinthians 3:18 says
40:05 from glory to glory to glory so he's not
40:09 doing it for any selfish reasons he's
40:12 doing because he wants us to experience
40:14 the fullness of his love and he has
40:17 wants us to have nothing to do with fear
40:21 which comes from Satan's Kingdom
40:26 when Adam and Eve sinned their core
40:31 identity was marred instead of the
40:34 Spirit of God the spirit of love ruling
40:36 over their life the spirit of fear and
40:39 death entered in and it began to
40:41 dominate their thoughts and actions and
40:44 mankind was held in this bondage under
40:47 the kingdom of darkness yet through the
40:54 blood of Jesus he has made a way for us
40:57 out of the kingdom of darkness and into
41:00 his kingdom of love so that we could
41:02 experience what he had intended for
41:05 mankind from the very beginning of time
41:08 and that was to encounter him and the
41:11 fullness of who God was he created each
41:13 one of us Adam and Eve did had that
41:15 intimate one-on-one face-to-face
41:17 encounter and that's God's quest he's
41:21 after you he's after me to have that
41:26 face-to-face encounter and when we turn
41:30 our face to cop there are natural
41:32 responses to worship Him to see him and
41:38 go oh my god you're so beautiful and
41:42 just to like just to soak in that and
41:46 then it's him he's the one that does
41:50 that transformation within us so that we
41:54 become satisfied in him and that we
41:58 become loved itself we become just like
42:01 him now this picture of a heart if you
42:07 could show that with the Holy Spirit
42:08 dove this is something that I received
42:11 as a wedding gift and it talks it's
42:14 basically the Holy Spirit the love of
42:16 God being poured out into our hearts by
42:20 the Holy Spirit who was given to us I
42:23 like that last part of Romans 5:5 the
42:28 love of God has been poured out into our
42:31 hearts through the Holy Spirit who was
42:36 given to us the Holy Spirit has
42:40 and given to you and I and so when we
42:43 took take a look at love versus fear
42:47 second Timothy 1:7 says God has not
42:50 given you the spirit of fear why because
42:55 he's giving us the Holy Spirit who has
42:59 poured out love into our heart so 2nd
43:03 Timothy 1:7 says God is not giving you a
43:06 spirit of fear he's giving you the
43:10 Spirit of God himself
43:13 the spirit of power and love and a sound
43:17 mind and it's for His perfect love just
43:23 saturating everything about us every
43:26 like thought every action that cast out
43:29 our arch enemy of fear when we receive
43:36 the Spirit of God Jesus Christ into our
43:38 heart and the very Spirit of God we are
43:41 united in 1st Corinthians 6:17 says we
43:44 become one with his spirit that's the
43:47 spirit of love so
43:55 now that the Spirit of God is dwelling
43:58 in us as born-again believers Galatians
44:02 5:25 says if we live in the spirit now
44:06 walk in the spirit
44:09 that means we're so used to just like
44:12 when something looks like the virtual
44:14 reality like those consecutive white
44:16 lines you know that false cattle grid we
44:19 go but we have to say to our flesh flesh
44:23 calm down
44:25 turn your eyes on God receive his love
44:29 his joy his peace
44:33 so James 4:7 says submit to God resist
44:38 the devil and he will flee from you face
44:41 the evil and resist the yield sign is
44:48 another word for submit it says submit
44:51 to God resist the devil and he will flee
44:54 from you I saw this yield sign on the
44:58 side of a building in camerayou this
45:00 past week God calls us to yield to his
45:05 love make a quality decision today and
45:10 this week to yield to God's love and not
45:13 to fear when you feel yourself being
45:16 driven by fear and fear provoking
45:18 situations yield slow down stop submit
45:23 yourself to the Spirit of God living in
45:25 you your spirit allowing God's goodness
45:28 and his love to saturate your thoughts
45:32 and your actions and then connect to God
45:37 through worship and prayer and I told
45:40 you that David did this over and over
45:43 again when we connect to God we become a
45:49 person after God's own heart God said
45:53 about King David I have found David the
45:56 son of Jesse a man after my own heart
45:59 who would do all my will put your name
46:03 in that plank
46:05 I am su and I'm a person after God's own
46:11 heart and I will do all the will of God
46:14 I will worship Him I will not be afraid
46:19 in Psalm 27 we're going to end with this
46:23 David made some quality decisions he
46:27 says I will not fear I will trust in God
46:33 I will seek his face and dwell in his
46:36 presence I will offer the sacrifices of
46:41 joy and his tabernacle and I will sing
46:44 praises to the Lord when you do this
46:47 you'll be able to say no to fear and yes
46:52 to God you'll be able to live your life
46:55 loved rather than living a life from a
46:58 place of fear father I thank you and I
47:01 praise You Lord God for leading our
47:03 hearts for directing our hearts into
47:06 your love as we go out into life this
47:09 week father wash over us with your love
47:15 strengthen us to seek your face to dwell
47:18 in your presence strengthen us by the
47:21 power of your spirit and the inner man
47:23 to say no to fear and yes to your love
47:27 and Jesus's name Amen