To have a fearless faith, you have to begin with fear.

Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.

Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith

in a compromising culture. Glad you could join me on another episode of Fearless today. Welcome back.

It was kind of an unplanned family affair on these last three weeks of Fearless, but I'm so thankful for my dad and my brother Edward to join me Fearless, and it was especially fun to finally get my mom on fearless and I have had so much

positive feedback about my mom's episode. Everybody has loved it. I have sent her many of y'all's messages. She was so embarrassed by it. I

didn't even tell her that the episode went live and I told her people are

already want her back. So I am planning on that. Hopefully we will get her back on some

episodes like parenting and more focus on marriage and ministry. So thank you for

all your support. I just feel humbled that you would want to spend a little bit of

your day listening to me and the guests that I love and look up to and so thank you.

Thank you for all your support. But today I don't have another

family member. It is just me, me in the microphone and I've had a message just on my heart that I've

wanted to share with you. But over the last few months, I've

realized to have a fearless faith. It begins with fear. That I believe that you cannot have a sustaining fearless faith without fear.

And you're probably like, what do you mean by that?

Before we can face this world, I believe we have to have a fear of God.

I don't think we live, of course, in a generation and even inside the church that we truly fear God that we might not see him as a holy God.

In Proverbs 1-7 declares that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. And we see this

see this phrase throughout scripture. But what does it mean to fear God? And for a

non-believer, somebody that doesn't believe in Jesus Christ,

they could see the fear of God as maybe like they're shrinking back and terror,

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