Welcome back my friends. It is time for you and for me to get our minds aligned with the

truth of God for today and I have a question for you this morning. Have you ever felt

intimidated by someone else? Have you ever had someone say to you that they were

intimidated by you.

The reason I'm asking about intimidation

is because I think there are one of two things going on

when we feel a sense of intimidation in relationship to another person.

You see there is what I believe would be an actual sin of intimidation

where someone is intentionally coming across in an overbearing demeaning

intimidating, truly intimidating kind of way where they're trying to subject you to

their will through whatever kind of demeanor they're presenting to you.

It could be threatening, it could just be overly strong, it could be loud, but it's done intentionally, and that's the

key word here, intentionally to intimidate you.

Now I believe that would be a sin and that that would be wrong. But when we say

we feel intimidated by someone else, that's not typically what we're meaning, is it?

We mean that the other person seems to have it altogether.

And therefore we look at ourselves

and we feel a little insecure or incapable ourselves.

Right? That's usually how we use the word intimidating.

Or if we say that person makes me feel intimidated.

That's what we're referring to is the feelings we have

being around that person. The person we're describing

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