If you're like most people, chances are pretty good that you've battled one or many

different fears throughout your life. So many of us, we are living in fear. What's

interesting when we're growing up, studies show that as babies, we're really only

afraid of two things. Naturally, we just have two fears. We have the fear of falling

and we have the fear of loud noises. Those are the only two fears that we're

born with. But when we grow, we accumulate all sorts of different learned

fears. In fact, I'm guessing most of you realize in the early years of life, you

probably started to become afraid of some new things. For example, at all of our

churches, all of our network churches, how many of you would say when you were a

child, maybe you were afraid of the dark? How many of you say, yeah, boogie man in

the dark? I didn't like that. Anybody afraid of spiders? Spiders? As a kid,

still afraid of spiders. Yes, I see those hands. God bless you. How about

thunderstorms? Anybody afraid of thunderstorms as a kid? Come and sleep with

mommy and daddy whenever you hear the thunderstorm. As a child, it's

interesting. My sister had the most irrational fear. In fact, in this service,

Jonathan, my brother-in-law, is here married to my little sister, Lisa. And Lisa, at

bedtime, was always afraid whenever the closet door wasn't shut all the way.

Why? Because if the closet door wasn't shut all the way, whatever's on the

other side could get her, but if the door was shut, she was totally safe,

completely irrational fear. Unlike my very rational fear as a child, when in bed,

if you ever leave a hand or a foot over the edge, how many of you know you're

in danger of the guy underneath the bed who could come out and get you very

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