Amen and amen. How we doing church? Everybody good? You look good. If you got your Bibles, I hope you do, grab them.

Although we're finishing up this series in 2 Timothy chapter 1, verse 7, I want you to go to Genesis chapter 25.

That is where we are going to be for the majority of our time. If you've been around the last three weeks, you know we're doing a a three week series about this one verse, this kind of a throwback from the way we began the year

on this series called Second Timothy out of the book of Second Timothy, where the apostle Paul

lays his hands on young Timothy and he's trying to prepare him for the call of God in his life.

And I think the words that Paul gives to Timothy are not only applicable to this young man as he is about to pastor this church

in Ephesus, but it's also applicable to every single one of us. And he says this to young Timothy.

For God has not given you a spirit of fear.

We talk about this. We talk about fear around here a lot. And the reason we do is because the most commanded thing in all of the scriptures is this, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. At least

366 times in the King James version of the Bible, there is a command to not be afraid.

Do you know why? Because I don't know about you, but every single day of my life, including

leapier, I need to hear those words, do not be afraid. Because fear is when we take our trust

and we put it in our circumstances instead of putting our trust in the sovereign king of the

universe.

And Paul knows that Timothy is going to find himself in places where fear is going to try to overtake him and fear is going to try to paralyze him.

And this is big, man.

And that fear is not a feeling, fear is not a personality type.

That fear is a a feeling, fear is not a personality type, that fear is a spirit.

That has not been given by God, but what God has given us is a spirit of power.

And that is not power to lord over people so that they may serve us, but when God gives us power, it's that we may humble ourselves and serve one another,

just as Christ served us.

And he has given us this spirit of love and perfect love cast out fear.

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