Overcoming Fear (Psalm 49:5)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | Psalm chapter 49 verse 5. Why should I fear in times of trouble when the |
| 0:10.6 | iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me? I love the way the Psalmist here is asking |
| 0:16.0 | questions of himself, looking within and saying to himself, why are you thinking this way? |
| 0:22.3 | Why are you desiring this way? Why are you acting this way specifically? Why are you afraid in times |
| 0:28.3 | of trouble? And I just want to encourage you to stop today and ask a similar question in your |
| 0:34.0 | life. What do you fear in your life? I did an exercise recently with a group of people and we just |
| 0:39.5 | stopped and said how many of us struggle with fear and so many people admitted to struggling |
| 0:45.2 | persistently with fear of a variety of different things. And whether we would say we struggle with fear |
| 0:51.3 | or not, the reality is we're all prone to fear certain things. So I would just ask you to consider |
| 0:57.6 | today, what do you fear? If you add to identify things you either struggle with fear over or |
| 1:04.8 | things you are prone to fear. What comes to your mind? And for the Psalmist here in Psalm 49, |
| 1:10.0 | the picture is fear in times of trouble. Fear over what's going to happen. Fear specifically |
| 1:15.8 | over what others might do to him or threaten to do to him. We see this at different places |
| 1:21.2 | in the Psalms. People fearing as they consider what others might do to them because others can |
| 1:26.8 | do a lot of harm to us. The picture of Psalm 49 verse 5 is they can cheat you, they can surround |
| 1:32.9 | you, they can accuse you, they can attack you, they can slander you, they can work for your ruin. |
| 1:38.8 | There's all kinds of things that people can do to you. But the Psalmist continually comes back to |
| 1:44.4 | the truth that Romans 8 makes most clear. If God is for me and I don't have to be afraid, |
| 1:51.1 | who can stand against me if God is for me. Earlier in Romans 8, we read that we have not received a |
| 1:58.4 | spirit that makes us a slave to fear. But we've received the spirit of sonship by whom we call |
| 2:05.7 | Abba Father. The spirit in himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. And if |
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