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Isaiah chapter 8, verse 13,

but the Lord of hosts, Him you shall honor as holy.

Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

This prophecy from Isaiah was directed to a people who were tempted

to be afraid of nations, of what men might do to them, and God, through the prophet Isaiah,

says, you don't need to be afraid of men. You don't need to be afraid of what other nations can do to you.'t need to be afraid of men you don't need to be afraid of what other nations

can do to you you need to be afraid instead of God let him be your fear let him be your dread I think

about fear and what we're tempted to fear in each of our lives. I think about my four-year-old

coming to me at night and tears just saying, Daddy, I'm afraid of the dark. And so I hug him,

I carry him back to bed and say, buddy, you don't have to be afraid of the dark. And why? I say, because God is with you.

And God is greater than anything that can get you in the dark. So you can trust in God.

And that's obviously a picture with a four-year-old who's afraid of the dark, but I think it

applies to so many things in our lives. Like we are tempted to be afraid of all kinds of things.

Well, what might happen to us in this way or that way? What might this person do to us?

But when we realize who God is and the fact that God is with us, then we realize we have nothing to fear in any man or anything in this world for that matter.

We know our God is greater than any man and greater than everything in this world and we can trust in him.

So if we're going to fear anything, then scripture says fear God, honor. God is holy.

This text says, look to God as the one who has all power, who has all wisdom, who has all authority, he's the one we

should be in a very real sense afraid of. He is the one who has all power to do anything to us.

And yet this God, in his mercy mercy has promised to protect his people,

promise to provide for his people, promise to help his people, promise to be with his people,

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