Amen. Amen. Would you please stand for the reading of God's word?

I don't know. Somebody were like, hey, what's with the stand? Sit down? We're trying to make all

our Catholics feel at home. Okay? That's what that's all about. Hey, welcome. All right.

The Bible says in 1 John chapter 4, verse 13, and following, by this, we know that we abide in him and he and us, because he

has given us of his spirit. And we have seen and testify that the father has sent his son to be

the savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love. And whoever abides in Him and He in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love.

And whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in Him.

By this is love perfected with us so that we may have confidence before the day of judgment

because as He is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.

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

We love because he first loved us.

And if anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.

For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And this commandment we have from him, whoever loves God must also love his brother.

May God have blessing to the reading and to the hearing of his word. Amen. You can be seated.

If you've got your Bible, I hope you do.

That's where we are today. First John, chapter four, verses 13 through 21. You see this section

in there on fear. It'll take me a little while to get to that part, but we're going to talk about

fear and how to be fearless. And so I decided to just Google some of the, well, the top 10 fears that most of us deal with. And I thought about asking you, but I know you guys would lie.

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