Free My Soul!: From Fear
Lead Pastor: Rollan Fisher
Focus: We will be freed from our fears when we look to Jesus and His promises.
Kingly Fear
Common Fears
No Fear
Kingly Fear
We learn to overcome fear by looking to God and his promises.
You can have great success and still battle fears.
Fear of missing out
Fear of not reaching your potential
Fear of the judgment of others
Fear of not having what others have
Fear of suffering, illness, harm or death
Is Jesus the center of your home and decision-making?
It comes down to how you handle your fears.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-12
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
If you are making life decisions without FIRST referencing the Word of God, prayer and godly counsel, you are off.
Seeking God first in all things is the cost of discipleship.
Psalm 34:1-18
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
The nature of the battle is not always natural, but also spiritual.
We learn to overcome our fears by looking to God’s promises in the midst of warfare.
Common Fears
God delivers us from fears as he is Lord of our present and future.
Fear can often be irrational because it is dependent on things that might be rather than what is.
Faith is a confident trust in the God who was, is and forever will be able to intervene in any situation to work for the good of those who love him.
With this in mind, ANY circumstance that you experience, whether through ease, struggle or pain, is being utilized by your benevolent Heavenly Father to release you from bondage to decay.
Romans 8:18,20-30
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The love of God is what draws us, keeps us and gives us victory over all fear.
No Fear
Jesus frees us from all fear as we fix the hope of the gospel in our hearts.
Hebrews 2:14-15
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Eternity being continually in our sights is what frees us from fear.
This is why Jesus spoke continually of the gift of eternal life that he purchased for us.
It enables us to put all that we experience into right perspective, and like Paul, call them light and momentary troubles.
It is not escapism to have your eyes fixed on eternity, it is empowerment from God to put your daily decisions, trials and ambitions in their right place and order so that they command no more from you than is warranted by God.
Let the love of Christ draw you to repentance from sin and faith in his finished work at the cross that you might truly be delivered from all fear.
Second City Church - Pastor Rollan Fisher 2021