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4-9-19 4 fear factors that fight faith

Fighting for something that is not worth the effort. 

 

Sometimes we fight over our excuses to not have any faith. Here are 4 excuses we use to honor fear over faith. 

 

Looks - The red Sea

 

Ever see a woman from the back… and its a guy?

one time I was told to go into the woman restroom because someone saw a guy go in there (it was my sister) 

Looks are deceiving. 

Slavery

Plagues and now… 

Exodus 14: Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. 3 Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.

4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this.

 

Logic - Catch a fish

Matthew 17:27 "But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

 

When you look at the stories of the bible, you have to hand it to God… he does not go in a linear manner. For someone who has all power and authority he still seems to go the long way… there seems to be no logic to it. 

 

What does logic say in this situation: You need money for taxes so get a job, or sell something.

Jesus says go fishing… Peter was used to fishing for mass amounts of fish… so just one fish didn’t even make sense to Peter. 

Understand all the thinking and planning that Peter would have had to put into this if he had followed logic. Jesus says don’t follow logic- that’s the hard and detailed way. Just do what I say.

 

Likes/feelings - Safety 

Prov. 28:26

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

 

Love - Abraham sacrifice Issac 

 

Abe leaves the God he knew, Leaves his family, leaves his home land, Gets to old to have kids, told he will be a great nation etc… the build up- then he has the kid! YES!!! and now you want me to kill him? 

 

Gen.22 15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.”

 

Looks logic likes and love = stay focused on Gods word and not on these. Trust him!