Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, Paul gives us a biblical perspective on fear and how we should respond

to the current events surrounding the coronavirus. While a healthy

measure of fear is not a bad thing, we should never give way to fear. Now here's Paul on the subject

of the coronavirus and the fear surrounding it. We find ourselves in a time of trouble.

This is Paul Tripp and I thought it would be worth talking about fear.

And I just I want to say to you as the world has been cast into all levels of concern and panic about the pandemic that is spreading

around the world.

Here's, I think, some biblical advice for you.

Be afraid, but don't give way to fear. Now that may seem contradictory to you, or let me explain.

It's not unbiblical. It's not a lack of faith to be afraid.

Fear is one of God's good gifts to us let me just talk about three appropriate

healthy spiritually appropriate kinds of fear first is the fear of God that's a fear that's

a fear that I would call holy reverence it's being in

all of God his glory his presence his power his sovereignty his commands that

causes us to submit our lives to him, to joyfully worship him, to with disciplined, keep his commands,

to run to his glorious grace.

That fear of holy reverence is something that should be in the heart of every human being.

There's the fear of what I would call, that's, there's a fear that I would call rapid response.

It's a kind of fear a mom would have when she finds her child falling down the

step and she runs to grab him before he's injured. It's that spontaneous ability to respond.

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