{"id":649,"date":"2015-09-28T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=649"},"modified":"2015-09-28T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:40:04","slug":"living-with-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Living With Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here are the completed notes from the Sunday Morning Service September 27, 2015:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scripture: \u00a0Luke 12:1-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>When is Fear Good?<\/h3>\n<h4><strong>\u00a01. \u00a0The fear of God<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>I Peter 2:17 &#8220;Fear God&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Acts 9:31 &#8211; The early church walked in the fear of the Lord<\/li>\n<li>II Corinthians 7:1 &#8211; &#8220;Perfecting holiness in the fear of God&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Over 150+ references in Scripture to the Fear of God<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fear Defined: \u00a0Fearing God is having a sense of awe or reverence toward Him. \u00a0The person that fears God becomes so acutely aware of His moral purity and power that one is genuinely afraid to disobey Him. \u00a0It also includes responding to Him in worship, service, trust, obedience, and commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The Benefits that come from Fearing God:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blessed \/ Happy is the man who fears the Lord &#8211; Psalm 112:1, 115:13<\/li>\n<li>Fearing God leads to wisdom &#8211; Proverbs 9:10<\/li>\n<li>Fearing God is a deterrent to sin &#8211; Exodus 20:20, Proverbs 3:7; 8:13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Anytime we sin with the thought lurking in the back of our minds that God will forgive us, we aren&#8217;t living in the fear of God.&#8221; \u00a0-Jerry Bridges<\/p>\n<p>Revelation 20:10<\/p>\n<h4>2. \u00a0The fear of eternity when you are not ready<\/h4>\n<h4>3. \u00a0The fear of the consequences from wrong choices and of living in sin<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Proverbs 1:20-33<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>4. \u00a0The fear that motivates us to pray<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Psalm 34<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>When is Fear an Intruder?<\/h3>\n<h4>\u00a01. When you are an authentic Christian loving and living for Christ.<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Romans 8:28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2. When you are fearful about the future (the unknown).<\/h4>\n<h4>3. When you are going through physical adversity<\/h4>\n<h4>4. The fear that paralyzes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fear of witnessing<\/li>\n<li>Fear of taking a stand for Biblical truth (what is right)<\/li>\n<li>Fear of serving<\/li>\n<li>Fear of Serving and Stepping out in faith and reliance upon God<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the completed notes from the Sunday Morning Service September 27, 2015: Scripture: \u00a0Luke 12:1-7 When is Fear Good? \u00a01. \u00a0The fear of God I Peter 2:17 &#8220;Fear God&#8221;<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=649\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunmorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}