424: The Source of All Fear

The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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Talk Radio, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hello, my friend. Thanks for joining me today. You’re likely familiar with the story of the first sin. The moment in the Garden of Eden when Eve defied God’s instruction to not eat the fruit from one specific tree. But have you ever considered what was at war in Eve’s mind and heart? Maybe she wasn’t simply prideful, or disobedient, but perhaps she was first afraid?

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0:00.0	Access More
0:03.5	Hello, friend.
0:08.4	This is Max Lakato.
0:10.2	Thanks for tuning in.
0:11.9	It's an honor to be with you.
0:14.2	As we study God's word together,
0:16.5	may our time uplift and encourage you.
0:20.4	If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today. Ernest Zabrowski wonders if a butterfly can trigger a hurricane.
0:39.0	This meteorologist writes,
0:40.8	Suppose that a tropical storm develops and that we play back the data record of the previous few days.
0:46.8	What do we find as we go back in time?
0:49.0	A smaller storm and yet a smaller disturbance and then a windy spot, and then a set of atmospheric conditions
0:56.5	that look no different than that of any other locations in the tropics. Trace the storm back to its
1:01.8	beginning. In other words, he says, and you find calm surroundings. Something has to stir them.
1:07.6	A hurricane begins as all things must with an awakening of molecules.
1:12.7	He writes, could a butterfly in a West African rainforest by flitting to the left of a tree rather
1:18.5	than to the right possibly set in motion a chain of events that escalates into a hurricane
1:23.9	striking coastal South Carolina a few weeks later?
1:29.1	Fanciful thought?
1:31.1	Well, I don't know.
1:32.1	It seems possible.
1:33.1	Everything has to start somewhere.
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