So many of our emails are asking about how to overcome the fears of life and how to overcome

personal insecurities as well.

We all want to live with a fearless confidence in God.

And for many of us, that fearless confidence is hard to find.

On this theme, I found the following sermon clip from Pastor John back in 1983 looking

at the ministry of the Apostle Peter and his fears and his insecurities as they are recorded

in Scripture.

The Apostle Peter was Jewish, of course, and Christ changed his life.

Peter experienced a radical transformation as it is thinking about God's plan.

He came to discover that the Messiah had not just come for Israel, but for all the people's,

all the nations.

That's basically the point of his vision in which a tablecloth full of unclean animals

that descends from the heavens in Acts 10.

The Gospel was for the Gentiles too.

That was the point of the vision.

So Peter should have known better than to fall into a fearful insecurity when he met

others who contradicted this point.

Galatians 212 explains what happened in his life where we read this, that quote,

or before certain men came from James, he Peter was eating with the Gentiles, the non-Jews.

But when they came, he drew back and separated himself fearing the circumcision party, the

Jews.

That's Galatians 212.

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