Fear Not | Jentezen Franklin & Jason Crabb

let's praise him let's praise Jesus that's what it's all about Jesus he deserves the glory and the honor and the praise from his church from his people we praise you Jesus would you stand to your feet all over the room at every campus Jason would you come back just a moment can we sing about Jesus just another moment Jesus Jesus Jesus [Music] that's just something [Music] my Savior Jesus lack of fragrance after the rain oh Jesus we love him [Music] let all heaven and earth properly [Music] and kingdoms they shall all pass away but there are something Alleluia that [Music] amen his name is cold ears cold [Music] Withey his name is car when my savior reach down [Music] he had to eat for me [Music] you know [Music] [Music] boy [Applause] lost [Applause] but he reached down instead boy you know what we're singing about the Chan and sing it one more time with my Savior he had to reach I was way down [Music] [Applause] for me Oh without God now his head [Music] [Music] let's give the Lord a great praise come on you love him crazy Alleluia wonderful god bless you god bless you I'm gonna try to preach Jason will you come back not now but will you come but will you come back and close it with a song I think he's gonna do through the fire I heard a rumor so let's see you will see you may be seated praise God amen my mascaras running this morning Jason has it our campus here an amazing CD that will tremendously bless you and you need to get it it's available in our lobbies in the back and you can have a Merry Christmas for sure listening to this kind of anointed music I love the fact that he's more than a performer he is truly an anointed vessel of God and we honor that so precious the gift alright let's go real quick to Matthew chapter 1 delighted to have Caroline my daughter with me all the way from California good to have her here good to have Drake here Drake his in about to go out again but he's in and thank God great to have a dear friend Tyrone from our Orange County and his friend that is with him we're so delighted to have you guys with us thank you for being with us all the way from Orange County a tremendous friend of ministry love you guys Kim all right Matthew chapter 1 in verse 18 now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows after his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit then Joseph her husband being a just man not wanting to make her a public example was minded to put her away secretly but while he thought about these things behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not be afraid would you say those words with me do not be fraid to take your your umeri for your wife for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit and it will bring forth she will bring forth a son and you shall call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins so all of this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the Prophet saying behold the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which is translated God with us I want to talk for just a few moments today on the subject of the true message of Christmas the true message of Christmas because it can be summed up it's found the same thing is found in every version of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ for example the message of Christmas is found in Luke 1 in verse 13 the angel said to Zacharias fear not in Luke chapter 1 in verse 30 the angel said to Mary fear not in Luke chapter 2 in verse 10 the angel said to the shepherds fear not in Matthew chapter 1 in verse 20 the angel said to Joseph fear not in a messy age we have a message for this messy age and it is the message of Christmas which is fear not the real message of Christmas is because Jesus is here we do not have to fear because when God is near we don't have to live a life tormented with fear the message of Christmas is fear not to Zachariah the message was fear not your prayers have been heard to Mary the message was fear not Mary don't be afraid because you have found divine favor with God to the shepherds the message was fear not exceeding great joy is coming in your future and to the message to Joseph was fear not what is happening in your life is being birth by the Holy Spirit himself and so I've just come today to speak into the life of every person under the sound of my voice these words fear not and I'm going to tell you why fear not because your prayers have been heard fear not because you have obtained the divine favor of God upon your life fear not because exceeding joy is coming in your future and fear not because what God is doing is supernaturally birthing something in and through you by the power of the Holy Spirit great joy is coming fear not say man somebody fear not no matter what you're facing don't be afraid I want you to look at somebody beside you and say don't you know that God's greater than that come on just do it look at them and say don't you know that God's greater than that God's greater than the disease God's greater than cancer God's greater than a financial problem God's greater than worry and stress that you're all excited about God's greater than that I want to give you three reasons why you don't need to fear this Christmas fear not your pass is pardoned all right i'ma try it again fear not because your past is pardoned [Applause] don't rejoice about just what you've got rejoice about what you got rid of and I'm here today to tell you you don't have to be afraid because your past is pardoned if you believe it thank God for it right now and I'll keep moving secondly don't just fear not because your past is pardoned but secondly fear not because your present is powerful but don't stop there fear not because your future is promised you see when you were young he was the god of your youth but as you began to grow and he began to move in your life he's moved you from a place of youth to maturity and if you've moved into seniority now your senior years he's still the same God and his message is the same Jesus Christ the same Hebrew said yesterday today and forever and he saying to those of you who are worried about this and worried about that at whatever season if you're just starting out if you're middle-aged or if you're in the senior years of your life the message of Christmas to you is fear not I've got you I'm the same yesterday today and forever somebody give him praise and I'll keep moving hallelujah I'm preaching to you that your future is promised have you forgotten that we're headed to a city where the lamb is the light and there is no sorrow there is no tears there is no sickness death or dying fear not death fear not Devils fear not disease fear not calamity why because he is Emmanuel Emmanuel means three things he's God in us he's God with us but many of you forgotten the third thing he's God who is for us God is not just with you and in you but somebody needs to hear this today God is for you he knows what you've done he knows who you are and he still wants you to know I'm not against you I'm with you I'm in you and I am for you stop thinking I'm trying to get you back I'm for you I'm for you the message of Christmas is fear not God is for you and if God is for you who cares who's against you if you're under the divine favor of God how can man stop you God can do more than I can say God can do more than I can believe God can do more than I can imagine but it has to come in my life there has to come something where the spirit of fear gets broken off and I've come today with a simple message and I'm here to rebuke fear to rebuke fear live without fear is the message of Christmas 365 times the Bible says fear not that's a fear not for every day of the year fear paralyzes it makes you spiritually immobile fear produces pain when there is no hurt fear binds without chords fear hinders what hell can't halt fear fear binds your friend and looses your enemy what faith does to God fear does to the devil fear seized obstacles not opportunities fear is a magnet to call in everything opposite of what God wants to do in your life that's why job said the thing that I feared the most has come upon me when you enter into a life of fear you attract the thing that you hate and the Christmas message is one that says it over and over fear not fear not that you're gonna go back to what God brought you out on fear not that you're gonna get cancer or the cancers coming back fear not that bad things are going to happen to you that's not the voice of the Holy Spirit fear not that your children are going to be harmed in some horrible accident here's what I feel like saying today you will have that baby you will live and not die you you are going to get married if you will wait on the Lord in the timing of the Lord and it will be blessed don't let fear dominate your life I rebuke fear fear not it's going to be alright because the message of Christmas is he has not given you the spirit of fear that attacks your mind and your body and you leave wondering what's gonna happen today he's not giving you a spirit of fear but as a power and of love and of a sound mind I guess what I'm saying is don't go to the funeral until something's dead we're burying stuff that's not dead some of you buried your vision and your dreams and your call and it's not even dead quit trying to bury things that are still alive brother TF 10a Bishop T of 10 a dear friend he's been having tremendous physical attacks and been in and out of the hospital a lot this year with very very life-threatening situations and and I sent a text to my assistant Natasha and I said I want you because he just got out of the hospital last week and I said I want you to send an invite to Bishop Tenny I want to try to get him to come preach either in December or January whatever he can work out I want him back in our pulpit and then I put this on the text I said because he's really having physical challenges and I don't know how much longer he's going to be with us and I hit Send and I didn't send it to Natasha I sent it to be Bishop TF Tenny to which he responded immediately and he said I'll have you know you're not gonna bury me I am not dead and I'm not going to which I told Natasha send him invites for the next five years just going and get the dates and he's laughing about it now but he was a little bit sour at first about it but but but but I guess I learned a big lesson don't bury something if it's not in the box yet fear not I said fear not man enjoy your life why are you here you're always worried I'm gonna get something better I probably won't be here this time next year why don't you enjoy just right now I'll tell you I sitting there the other day it by the fireplace had a cup of coffee watching Charisse put up decorations it's just wonderful I was just enjoying myself she was wearing me out she is moving all over not just watching her but I made up my mind you know I don't know if I'll be here next year or not but I'm gonna enjoy right here right now and I'm not gonna live in fear come on shout fear not is one of the families that I heard about and I can't remember who it was but there's a family that they had a sick relative in the hospital intensive care and the person had been in in a coma for a long time and so the doctors just assumed that they weren't going to pull out of it true and they brought they brought their their their family in to say their last goodbyes and one by one the sisters and the kids and the loved ones would go up and kiss the person on the cheek and tell them goodbye and love you and you mean so much to me and all that and they they hadn't responded in days and days and days finally when when their back got through all of a sudden they said all of a sudden he popped open his eyes opened up his mouth and he said I'm not gonna die tonight y'all might as well go home I love that a man fear not I don't know who I'm preaching to but if you don't watch it fear will get a hold of you and defeat you when Haman wanted to kill all the Jews and he didn't succeed at it they decided to have a party and a festival called the feast of Purim the feast of Purim is not about what God did but it's this festival that celebrates what didn't happen and it's the most like Christmas of any Jewish holiday when the Jews to this day celebrate the feast of Purim they bring gifts one to another they eat a lot of food and they sing joyful songs and it's all about celebrating what what almost happened but didn't happen and I tell you I think that it's time to celebrate what didn't happen a lot of things could have happened and a lot of things should have happened but here you sit this morning by the goodness of God and I know you're thankful for all that God has done but I think when we get to heaven we're gonna shout over more what what didn't happen then what did happen when we get to see the full picture of how God held back the enemy and protected and didn't let us get things that we thought we had to have but God said I won't let it happen because that's not my best for you we ought to have a feast of Purim right around here on a Sunday morning and look back over 2017 and say God thank you for what didn't happen come on lift your voice and give God a mighty praise yeah you should have had the disease but you don't have it you should have cancer but the report came back different you should not have made it through the car wreck but God wouldn't let it happen you [Applause] say thank you for what didn't happen you almost married that girl but God didn't let it happen you almost married that nut but now you they're not you were blinded with love but now you know there are Nutt and God didn't let it happen come on somebody needs a shout on that the mayor of New York City LaGuardia who the airport is named after in New York he was he was a big-shot mayor true story and he was in his car back in the days when they did not you didn't have to pump your own gas they had gas attendants now I know this sounds strange to the younger people but there was a day when you would pull up to a gas station and there was a gas attendant who would come put the gas in your car they would wash your windshield and then they would lift the hood on your car and check and check the old can you believe that they actually did that anybody a witness you remember those days I'm not making that up how many of you have never seen anything like what I'm just describing let me see your hand because your your child and you don't know nothing you're very very very pitiful we actually used not to have telephones on us all the time they used to have something called payphones I know this is strange you they actually put them up by the road and if you had to put a quarter in it all right let's keep moving but listen to me true true story mayor of New York City pulls up to a gas station his bride as the wife is with him she's in a mink coat they're very famous wealthy powerful people he gets out to go in and get a drink or something in the store and the attendant comes and puts the gas in and when when the mayor walks outside he sees his wife standing outside the car talking laughing frolicking with this gas attendant and when he gets near the car she grabs him and puts her arms around him and hugs him real good and gets in the car with a smile on her face and he turns to her and he says we sure were friendly with that guy you act like you knew and she said I didn't know him and he said well how did you know him she said I used to date him and she says as a matter of fact I almost married him to which the mayor got all puffed up in pride and he said well just imagine that what if you two married him my goodness instead of being known as the wife of the mayor of New York City you would be known as the wife of the gas attendant and she said no not really if I two married him he would have become the mayor of New York City and I think the mayor probably began to thank God for what didn't happen or he wouldn't be where he is right I guess what I'm trying to say to you is this Christmas God wants to shatter fear off of our lives God wants us to become so grateful for what he has done in what he didn't let happen because the real antidote to panic is praise the antidote to to worry is worship and that's why every one of those people that had a fear and the angel came and said fear not because your prayers have been answered fear not because there's great joy coming in your life fear not because you're under the divine favor of God fear not because the Holy Spirit is moving in your life to bring to pass the thing God wants to birth through you fear not because the Emmanuel is in you with you and for you and the reason that you read in the Bible that they started singing this really caught my attention that every time somebody had fear Mary had fear and the angel said fear not and she broke out into a song and started singing because the way to defeat fear is to begin to magnify God magnify means you make him bigger than your fear you make him bigger than your cancer you make him bigger than your troubles you make him bigger than your challenges and they begin to say is it any wonder that Christmas is a season more than any other holiday of songs could it be that God is saying the message of Christmas is fear not and I want you to fill your life with song to praise and exaltation because I don't want you afraid of death I don't want you afraid of judgement I don't want you afraid of tomorrow I don't want you afraid of 2018 I want you to lift up your head and I want you to walk in confidence knowing that your prayers have been heard knowing fear not the divine favor of God is on you fear not why why should I not fear because exceeding joy is coming your way weeping has endured for the night but joy is coming he said to the Shepherd's and fear not it is the Holy Spirit working in your life can you throw your hands up and just have a little have a little Purim festival right where you are and thank him for what didn't happen and what did happen give him all the glory this morning give him all the honor give him all the praise give him all the worship let's stand to our feet all over this room that every campus just and every head bowed Jason's gonna come he's gonna sing this song the boy I felt it night I was amazed in the first service a bunch of hands went up a bunch I'm believing it every campus that fear is gonna be broken off of people panic panic I heard the Lord this morning say they've had a secret fear that's tormented them secret fears of torment God knows all about it and he brought this simple little message to you this Christmas to say fear not I'm with you I want to close with that scripture in Isaiah I think I gave it to him Isaiah 43 I believe if you got it guys listen to this verse this so spoke to my heart this week for I am the Lord your God I will hold your right hand everybody fill you right hand say hold my hand Jesus fear not listen to that fear not I will help you you may be facing chemo this week for I the Lord your God will hold your right hand saying to you fear not I will help you you may be laid off you may not know where your next paycheck is gonna come from the Lord your God will hold your right hand saying to you fear not I will help you come on let's confess that fear not say he's holding my right hand fear not will help you what I can't do on my own I don't have to fear and worry and panic about he will help me if I won't fear and I'm not gonna fear that's the message of Christmas Emanuel my past is pardon my present is powerful my future is promise I will not fear I got to get this in somebody today I can't just preach another I gotta get it in your spirit you've been paralyzed by fear panic worry fear not fear not trust God unconditionally every head bowed every eye closed at every campus pastor Jensen I don't know that I'm right with God I would love to have that kind of confidence in faith it overrides my tormenting fear secret fears you know as men sometimes we we feel like we have to be strong for everybody and so we don't ever ever tell any of our worries you know but the truth is their secret fears that can torment our life I want to say to all you men out there you know if you've got health issues the number one killer of men is stubbornness we do not want to go to the doctor we'd almost rather die than go to the doctor but you know something's wrong just go you sit there all day wonder Oh God mm oh God just go turn to somebody especially a man say don't be so stubborn bill head you cut them out right here in church spiritually come on it's killing men stubbornness it's killing men I don't know why I said that I didn't say that in the other service it was for somebody who needs to just quit being afraid of what the doctors going to just go save your life we need you around here save your life go check it out why are you what are you afraid of God will give you grace to walk through anything having chest pains chest pain I'm not having any of these by the way but I'm just telling you oh god oh god my arms going numb I'm just gonna wait and see what are you waiting on now this is a word from the Lord for somebody fear not and go go face what you got to face God will give you the grace every head bowed every eye closed I'm telling you there's a mighty harvest under the sound of my voice at every campus it's Christmas time fear not you don't have to fear eternity you don't have to fear waking up inhale one day that can completely be taken from your life today because of the cross of Jesus Christ and what he did on it pastor pray for me I need to get right with God today I know I'm not right I know I'm far from God but I'd love for the fear to go in the faith to come and the peace to come I need him to hold my right hand I need the Lord to say to me fear not I will help you please pray for me that's me if that's you without hesitation he never comes where he's not invited lift your hand up shame will break off the addiction will break off fear will break off just raise it high if the Lord speaking to you raise it high and unashamed at every campus raise it as high as you can get a hands are going up all over this room and I'm by faith speaking in every campus you your hand matters too I may not see it but God can see it just throw it up after God say he said I'll take you by the right hand if you'll offer me that hand here it is give him that hand right where you're standing here it is Lord help me I don't want to fear I need your help and I'll grab you by the right hand Jesus said throw that hand up all over this room every campus let's pray this prayer so many hands wow that's amazing if I called these people forward this whole altar would be filled but Jesus can save you right there everybody pray this prayer if you see someone with her hand raised around you gently put your hand on their shoulder at every campus just just just be just be a prayer partner for somebody right now pray this prayer out loud everybody at every at every campus say Lord Jesus I thank you for the blood that you shed that sets me free and delivers me from all of my fears the bottom line is the enemy makes me afraid but you make me faith filled you make me confident you give me joy and I know you hear my prayer and I know you're giving me the favor of God and I know great joys coming down the road and I know oh god this is being done by the Holy Spirit come on say it you are my Emmanuel say this your God in me your God with me and you are God for me say this my pastors pardon my present is powerful and my future is promised I am forgiven I am free in Jesus mighty name give the Lord the biggest praise as Jason comes and sings this powerful song let's worship so many times of question certain circumstances things I could not understand don't you love your pastor minute times weakness flares my vision swing my frustration get so out of hand oh but it's my alma mater I have never been forsaken I had to stay so lord sware and I look at all the victories [Applause] [Music] so wrong the piranhas that the cross with the Oh just from man so I feel shy Oh customer ha [Applause] [Applause] Oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] always just up there what [Music] [Applause] [Music] can we put our hands together for Jason Crabb Jason will be signing CDs in the connections lounge make sure you go out and get those how many of you really love Jason Crabb he is amazing listen don't forget about our candlelight service this Sunday coming up is one of the most amazing times that we have around here make sure you invite someone be nice in the parking lot we love you we'll see you next Sunday be blessed [Music] [Music]

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Length: 42min 22sec (2542 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 21 2017