FEAR OR FAMILIAR?
by Jeff Ecklund
Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:7, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 1:7, Psalms 25:14, Deuteronomy 6:1-2, Psalm 31:19, Acts 9:31, Isaiah 11:2, 1 Peter 2:17, Ecclesiastes 12:13
Fear or Familiar?
Jeff Ecklund
This message is about the healthy fear of the Lord. Have we become familiar with Jesus and lost the reverence, honor and the little bit of "trembling" we need?
2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV)
7for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Too many people walk in fear today
Fear of the future
Fear of rejection
Fear of failure
Fear of man
Fear of loss
There are fears/phobias that will hinder you, subjugate you, harass you and you don't have to tolerate them.
400 identified phobias...I read where Alfred Hitchcock had a fear of eggs..said the sight and sound of an egg being cracked was revolting/terrifying..
There is a new phobia recently. Nomophobia.... Fear of not having your phone. Or your battery being low. Recent survey showed most people under 30 check their phone every 10 minutes...96 times a day on average.
There is a difference between a "spirit of fear" and a healthy biblical fear of the Lord.
And many times we can find ourselves so familiar with the things of God that we lose that "fear of the Lord"...
In the "Key to God's Storehouse", John Bevere relates this testimony of meeting Jim Bakker as he was in prison for swindling thousands of people and having an affair.
After he had talked for a while, I felt like I wanted to ask him some questions. The first question I asked was, "Jim, when did you fall out of love with Jesus? When did you stop loving Jesus? Was it when you committed adultery with______ seven years before you got thrown into prison? Was it the fraud? When did it really happen?" Because I remember he was so on fire for God in the earlier years. He looked at me and said, "John, I didn't." I said, "What do you mean, you didn't?" He said, "I didn't fall out of love with Jesus; I loved Him all the way through it." And then he saw total bewilderment on my face. I said, "What do you mean?!" He said, "John, I loved Jesus, but I didn't fear God." There are mill ...
Jeff Ecklund
This message is about the healthy fear of the Lord. Have we become familiar with Jesus and lost the reverence, honor and the little bit of "trembling" we need?
2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV)
7for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Too many people walk in fear today
Fear of the future
Fear of rejection
Fear of failure
Fear of man
Fear of loss
There are fears/phobias that will hinder you, subjugate you, harass you and you don't have to tolerate them.
400 identified phobias...I read where Alfred Hitchcock had a fear of eggs..said the sight and sound of an egg being cracked was revolting/terrifying..
There is a new phobia recently. Nomophobia.... Fear of not having your phone. Or your battery being low. Recent survey showed most people under 30 check their phone every 10 minutes...96 times a day on average.
There is a difference between a "spirit of fear" and a healthy biblical fear of the Lord.
And many times we can find ourselves so familiar with the things of God that we lose that "fear of the Lord"...
In the "Key to God's Storehouse", John Bevere relates this testimony of meeting Jim Bakker as he was in prison for swindling thousands of people and having an affair.
After he had talked for a while, I felt like I wanted to ask him some questions. The first question I asked was, "Jim, when did you fall out of love with Jesus? When did you stop loving Jesus? Was it when you committed adultery with______ seven years before you got thrown into prison? Was it the fraud? When did it really happen?" Because I remember he was so on fire for God in the earlier years. He looked at me and said, "John, I didn't." I said, "What do you mean, you didn't?" He said, "I didn't fall out of love with Jesus; I loved Him all the way through it." And then he saw total bewilderment on my face. I said, "What do you mean?!" He said, "John, I loved Jesus, but I didn't fear God." There are mill ...
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