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What are you most afraid of? Spiders? Public speaking… people with lisps? Thats where were going today.
3. Xenophobia
Unfortunately, the fear of foreign people or backgrounds to one's self, community or citizenship actually made the list. Xenophobia can often result in aggression toward people of different races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientatio...
www.TheDavidAlliance.com
TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com
webstix.com Tony Herman - the coolest cat on the net
What are you most afraid of? Spiders? Public speaking… people with lisps? Thats where were going today.
3. Xenophobia
Unfortunately, the fear of foreign people or backgrounds to one's self, community or citizenship actually made the list. Xenophobia can often result in aggression toward people of different races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and more.
We really wish this wasn’t on the list.
2. Trypophobia
Defined as a pathological fear of objects with irregular patterns of holes, such as beehives, ant hills and lotus seed heads, trypophobia is a real thing. So real in fact, that 16% of people experience an uneasiness around hole patterns according to the Journal of Psychological Science.
Swiftly moving on to the number one fear…
1.Agoraphobia
Probably the most crippling of all phobias listed is a fear of wide, open spaces. People with agoraphobia often have a hard time feeling safe in any public place due to a lack of control.
What if you had Agrophobia and claustrophobia… your screwed.
Antinome - Definition: seemingly two opposing truths.
Luke 12:4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. 7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
You can just see the disciples… antsy… well do we fear you or not fear you?
What is Jesus trying to say here? Its honestly pretty simple. If you are right with God in your relationship with him - you have nothing to fear. If you are not in right standing in your relationship with God, then make it happen because until you do you are walking on spiritual landmines.
V.4 says some may come and kill you- don’t fear them. Fear the one who has a say after you are killed. Who is that? God the Father.
But its more than that. God has such incredible love for you right down to the numbered hairs on your head… he has such detail rich experiences in store for you if you are right with him… and why would he have it any other way… that if you are in right standing with him you need not fear anyone.
So the option is:
Don’t fear him and then fear everything… OR
Fear him and don’t fear anything.
