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NAKED AND AFRAID (1 OF 3)

by Jeff Schreve

Scripture: Genesis 3:1-24
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Naked and Afraid (1 of 3)
Series: Fear No Evil
Jeff Schreve
Genesis 3: 1-24


If you have your Bible, please turn to Genesis chapter 3. I encourage you to follow along in your the Bible because Genesis 3 is one of the greatest chapters, one of the most key chapters, in all of the Bible; a chapter concerning the fall of man.

Now we are starting a new series today on the subject of fear. I believe it was the year 1989 that a company began selling clothing, and the company their motto was ''No Fear, No Fear.'' And boy, they became popular really among athletes and things. They would wear these T-shirts and jerseys and things that said, ''No Fear.'' Well, that sounds pretty good, but the truth of the matter is you struggle with fear, and I struggle with fear, and we struggle with fear. And as much as we want to say, ''Well, I don't have any fear,'' we do. Now some people have a tremendous amount of fear. It's a fear that is on steroids, and extreme fear and a logical fear, and we call that kind of fear, fear of steroids, we call that a phobia. Did you know that social scientists have identified literally scores and scores and scores of phobias? And, no doubt, us in this room under the sound of my voice, we struggle with some of these phobias. Let me mention a few of them to you.

How about this one, very common, claustrophobia? Claustrophobia, claustrophobia. Many people have claustrophobia. Claustrophobia is a fear of confined spaces. Who has a fear of confined spaces? Lots of you, claustrophobics.

How about this one: I have this one - arachnophobia, arachnophobia? Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia, they made a movie out of it. It's a fear of spiders. I don't like spiders.

And I don't like this one either - ophidiophobia. That's a fear of snakes. I'm like Jim Stafford. I don't like spiders and snakes, neither one of those.

Many people have this phobia - it's called glossophobia. You say, ''What is glossophobia?'' Glossophobia is a fear of public speak ...

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