Today on Summit Life, JD Greer talks about the true purpose of fear.

Fear is a reality. It's given to you as a gift because you have a sense that you need to run away from something.

But you need to know what to run, too. You need to run to the perfect love of God.

You've got a sense of punishment. That's right! As God gave you that, the Christ has absorbed that punishment.

And so there's nothing to fear.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Bitovich.

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever felt like a deer in the headlights, you know, paralyzed by fear?

Anxiety has an unbelievable power over us, emotionally and physically. It can trigger heart palpitations. Panic attacks are even asthma.

But worse than its physical effects, fear can actually paralyze us spiritually.

Today Pastor JD explains that the cure for this kind of fear is learning to fear the right things.

To help him in this discussion, he's invited his wife Veronica to join him.

If you missed the beginning of their joint teaching, catch up at JD Greer.com free of charge.

But right now, let's join them in the book of First John.

First John 4-18, listen, there is no fear in love, but perfect love cast out fear.

For fear has to do with punishment. Whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

There's two things are going to make this talk this weekend, unusual.

The first is that I'm going to teach you a few truths from this verse.

And then I'm going to spend the majority of our time applying it specifically to marriage and singleness.

The second reason this is a very unusual time this weekend is because I'm going to have my wife help me do this.

Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try to help you define fear for a few minutes.

That's what we'll do. And then I'm going to show you two ways that we fear in marriage.

And on the second of those ways is when my wife is going to help me out.

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