Well today we're concluding a message series on fear because there's a lot of things

to be afraid of in the world today and we've been looking at the story of the

birth of Jesus and amazingly three different times an

angel of the Lord appears during the story of the birth of Jesus and each time the angel appears he starts his

message with the same thing. Do you remember what he says? The angel says do not

be afraid. That's the NIV angel, but the King James version, Angel, says,

Fear not.

Which is really, really comforting

that an angel would appear and tell us to fear not because there are

so many things that are unsettling in the world today. How many would you agree?

Type in the comments section, I agree.

I mean, there's like economic fears, and there's relational fears.

Is my marriage going to work out?

There's the direction of the country fears. There's direction of our kids fears.

There's worries about our health

or the health of someone we love.

In fact, let's just do a little Christmas survey. I'll ask a question and you can raise your hand. How many

of you are a little bit of afraid of your January credit card bill? Raise your hand. You can type in the

comment section I'm terrified right? On a more serious note how many of you are

afraid ever of losing a loved one. I've been afraid of that every time Amy's

running late which is every time she's coming anywhere. I always get afraid of

something did something happen to her and then I get more afraid because I think

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