Doubt, Distrust and Fear

 

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Which came first the chicken or the egg… Not sure, don’t care… but what I really want to know is, what came first fear or sin? Now thats a stop you in your tracks question… and thats where we are going today. 

 

 

Gen.3  Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

 

THIS CONVERSATION IS PRE- FEAR

BUT DOUBT… CREATES ROOM FOR FEAR….

 

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, 

 

*STOP - is this statement true? Yes. 

but it was not what God wanted - it was not what was best.

 

she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

 

They knew good and evil… what happens if you know good and evil…

 

What happens when you know right from wrong and you are separated from God? Fear!

What happens if you do know God? No fear, 

*Did you know you don’t have to have strength or power to fight fear… just trust.

 

TRUST FALL

 

strength and because of trust… and you don’t have to have strength first to fight fear, you just need trust. 

 

 

 

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

 

 

SO satan is looking for areas in our life to disrupt our faith and cause spiritual trauma

and it starts with doubt…

but we also don’t need strength to overcome as much as we need trust or I should say faith.

Faith comes by hearing the word of God… from the bible and from hearing his voice speak to you.

Now that is something worth working on… listening and obeying.