FEAR RELIEVED BY GRACE (10 OF 13)
Scripture: Genesis 43:9, Genesis 43:16-34
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Fear Relieved by Grace (10 of 13)
Series: Integrity of Joseph
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 43:16-34
Greek philosopher Aristotle (d. 322 BC) said: ''Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.''
Fear is an emotion we feel because we expect something bad to happen to us which we cannot control or prevent from happening. Fear is the opposite of having peace in your heart and mind.
Our English word fear comes from the Latin which means danger. The old Anglo Saxton word for fear was peril meaning hazardous.
Someone has come up an acronym of the word fear: False Expectations Appearing Real.
There are two basic reasons we become afraid:
1. Fear can be the result of not trusting God. Psalm 56:3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
2. Fear can be the consequence of sin against God. Psalm 32:3-4 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
FEAR EXPRESSED :16-18
When Joseph saw that his step-brothers had brought his younger brother Benjamin with them as he had demanded he invited them to his house for lunch. Being invited to the house of the Prime Minister was considered a gesture of hospitality.
:18 The brothers are afraid because they think he will charge them with stealing the money which was put back into their sacks the last time they came to Egypt to buy grain (42:28).
They do not know what will happen to them. They fear the unknown because they don't know what the ruler will do to them.
Last time he had charged them with being spies and put them in
custody for three days (42:17).
They feared that they will be arrested, imprisoned and their donkeys taken from them so they will not be able to escape.
William Shakespeare, in the play King Henry VI wrote,
''Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.''
Gary Inrig - ''Their fear corresponded precisely to what they
had done so long ago to Jo ...
Series: Integrity of Joseph
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 43:16-34
Greek philosopher Aristotle (d. 322 BC) said: ''Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.''
Fear is an emotion we feel because we expect something bad to happen to us which we cannot control or prevent from happening. Fear is the opposite of having peace in your heart and mind.
Our English word fear comes from the Latin which means danger. The old Anglo Saxton word for fear was peril meaning hazardous.
Someone has come up an acronym of the word fear: False Expectations Appearing Real.
There are two basic reasons we become afraid:
1. Fear can be the result of not trusting God. Psalm 56:3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
2. Fear can be the consequence of sin against God. Psalm 32:3-4 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
FEAR EXPRESSED :16-18
When Joseph saw that his step-brothers had brought his younger brother Benjamin with them as he had demanded he invited them to his house for lunch. Being invited to the house of the Prime Minister was considered a gesture of hospitality.
:18 The brothers are afraid because they think he will charge them with stealing the money which was put back into their sacks the last time they came to Egypt to buy grain (42:28).
They do not know what will happen to them. They fear the unknown because they don't know what the ruler will do to them.
Last time he had charged them with being spies and put them in
custody for three days (42:17).
They feared that they will be arrested, imprisoned and their donkeys taken from them so they will not be able to escape.
William Shakespeare, in the play King Henry VI wrote,
''Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.''
Gary Inrig - ''Their fear corresponded precisely to what they
had done so long ago to Jo ...
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