God Is Not The Author Of Confusion Or Fear by Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.

most of you know enough Greek basic Greek words to know that the word for fear the usually word for fear is the Greek word phobia but there's another Greek word sometimes translating being translated as fear fearful and you'll find that word if you'll turn first to Matthew 8 in the familiar passage when in verse 23 it says he was entered into a ship his disciples followed him and behold there arose a great tempest in the sea in so much that the ship was covered with the waves but he was asleep and his disciples came to him and awoke him saying lord save us we perish and he said unto them why are you fearful and that word is not Phobos so phobia that is from a word in the Greek I can find that a dictionary sitting on my lap here from the word bellows or de los which is cowardly timidly lacking confidence and if you read it in the 26 translation one of the translators translates it why you such cowards now I'm not saying that we as Christians should be stoic and we should Forge forward and there are certain things that are natural the natural man will and you fill in the blanks but the spirit person and we have this as an example no storms of the sea the tempest of the sea or the storms of your life I really believe that we read this passage and we do not necessarily see the real response of Jesus King James translators why you fearful oh ye of little faith but rather I agree with this translator who says why are you such cowards I agree with that you know if you've walked with the Lord and these people won't walk with the Lord in the flesh hello but if you've walked with the Lord any amount of time you who say you are fading and believing at some point there's got to come some switch in your brain that says God does hate cowards now I'm not saying you'll never be afraid but God is not the author of confusion or fear I was reading somebody else's message that said they're so full of doubt these last few weeks it's been hard for them to function doubt sometimes believe it or not is a good thing if it produces more faith but doubt can also be devastating if you're listening to the voice of the one who is persuading you to go the other way then fear real phobia overtakes and cowardice kicks in and the impossibility to function in pistas when he says o you of little faith it's a compound I think it's an Olli gone word compound for small faith or little faith or legal peace toy now you know this is not just to say this for what I'm talking about now but anything we're facing whether it's attacks on our soil or freedom whatever enemy is coming at us we don't have what the disciples had in the understanding they may have been with the Lord but they didn't have the whole tapestry that we have to take from to have a more certain confidence you know when fear comes I'll tell you what the first first things that what what if what if and we often laugh because we talked about Gideon and the vocabulary of doubt that's the first thing that happens you begin to question every single thing around you and what if this and you have only people like that there what if what happens if this happens and what happens if that happens sometimes I feel like that remember that big rooster cartoon I feel like telling some of those people around me shut up cuz at some point I don't know why you call yourself a Christian if you can't say Lord I'm scared but you're with me so I'm not going to be any more doubt comes in and you know it's doubt begin to pray just like these records we have Lord help mine unbelief help my wavering help me to get stable because you are my anchor therefore but this is what drives me absolutely baddies we say Christ the anchor of our soul well what are you hanging on to then it doesn't mean you're not going to be moving around while you're attached to the anchor you'll move a little bit but if you're anchored you're anchored now I'm not saying once saved always saved I'm don't don't get confused what I'm saying you're talking about those people who have said this is the anchor of my soul you may move around a little bit with the wind and some of the pressure may move you around a little bit but you're anchored there you got to think of that when fear and doubt begin to set in

Channel: Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.

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Length: 7min 41sec (461 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2013