Part 1 | The Fear that Fuels Your Future
From Luke 12
is the opposing force of your .
📖 Luke 12:1 ESV In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another,…
In every stage of my life, there will be a trying to me.
📖 Luke 12:1 ESV …He began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Four questions to fuel our future:
1. Do I His ?
📖 Luke 12:4 ESV “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
📖 John 15:13-15 ESV Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
📖 Psalm 82:5-7 ESV They (the gods) have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; 7 nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”
Four questions to fuel our future:
2. Do I God’s ?
📖 Luke 12:4-5 ESV do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
📖 Proverbs 29:25 ESV The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.
📖 Proverbs 29:25 MSG The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in GOD protects you from that.
📖 Proverbs 29:25 NCV Being afraid of people can get you into trouble, but if you trust the LORD, you will be safe.
📖 Jeremiah 17:5-7 ESV Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
Four questions to fuel our future:
3. Do I God’s for me?
📖 Luke 12:6 ESV Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
📖 Luke 12:7 ESV Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
God knows of my LIFE.
📖 Psalm 46:1-3 ESV God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
Four questions to fuel our future:
4. Do I the ?
📖 Luke 12:8-9 “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, 9 but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
📖 Luke 12:10 ESV And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
📖 John 15:26 ESV “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about me.
📖 Acts 2:41 ESV So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
If the Holy Spirit in me to , He is in me to like .
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