Fear —> from knowledge of good and evil and humans not having the ability in their clay flesh to do that which is good or have the ability to provide life for themselves. Fear is result from not focusing on the Word of Life and “falling under temptation and falling into death”, just as Peter was walking on water with Jesus and took his eyes off of Jesus and began to sink. But remember Jesus still caught him..
Matthew 14:29-33 AMPC
[29] He said, Come! So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water, and he came toward Jesus. [30] But when he perceived and felt the strong wind, he was frightened, and as he began to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me from death! [31] Instantly Jesus reached out His hand and caught and held him, saying to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt? [32] And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. [33] And those in the boat knelt and worshiped Him, saying, Truly You are the Son of God!
Fear is something that happens to us when we partake in Satan's belief system (effortlessly enslaved) and become conscience and ashamed of our own nakedness. Whether we are fully aware of it or not we come to a conclusion regarding our identity. Our hearts can condemn us and expect/ project outward judgement and punishment into our reality. Whatever that judgement entails that is what we are fearful of. Yet love, is stronger than our fear. Just think of all the countless stories of people fueled by love and faith and how they’ve overcome. In the Bible and even in the news:
Man lifts car to save 3 yr old daughter.
1 John 4:18-19 AMPC
[18] There is no fear in love dread does not exist, but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment
Genesis 3:10-11 AMPC
[10] He said, I heard the sound of You walking 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 of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?
Genesis 3:22-24 AMPC
[22] And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to know how to distinguish between good and evil and blessing and calamity; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever-- [23] Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. [24] So God drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.
Revelation 2:7 AMPC
[7] He who is able to hear, let him listen to and give heed to what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). To him who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
What Paul preaches:
1 Corinthians 4:3-5 AMPC
[3] But as for me personally it matters very little to me that I should be put on trial by you on this point, and that you or any other human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me. I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. [4] I am not conscious of anything against myself, and I feel blameless; but I am not vindicated and acquitted before God on that account. It is the Lord Himself Who examines and judges me. [5] So do not make any hasty or premature judgments before the time when the Lord comes again, for He will both bring to light the secret things that are now hidden in darkness and disclose and expose the secret aims (motives and purposes) of hearts. Then every man will receive his due commendation from God.
Romans 7:23-25 AMPC
[23] But I discern in my bodily members in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh. [24] O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from the shackles of this body of death? [25] O thank God! He will! through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8:1-7 AMPC
[1] THEREFORE, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus the law of our new being has freed me from the law of sin and of death. [3] For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice, [4] So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit. [5] For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Spirit. [6] Now the mind of the flesh which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter. But the mind of the Holy Spirit is life and soul peace both now and forever. [7] That is because the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.
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