Fear
The
number Of people who suffer from fear
are on the rise. We can say that fear
is the problem of our time. Fear is
against faith. If we have faith we
will have not fear. Faith comes by
reading the Bible daily. Most of us
neglect reading the Bible with the
excuse that they do not have time. We
worry too much about little things in
life.
Fear has
three sources
1- Fear of God
There is bad kind of fears, but the fear of
God is a good thing to have because.
He is an awesome God and we ought to
fear Him.
A- We fear God because when we sin
against Him
This is the worst kind of fear because we
feel that God is always monitoring
every move to punish us if we do
anything wrong. This may or may not be
the case. Sometimes the fear can be
caused when God’s Hand is lifted up of
us and the hand of Satan interferes to
harm us.
The
solution to this problem
The solution to this problem is when we
reject totally our sins because there
is punishment for every sin “whatever
you spread you will reap” and the
Bible say “When a man’s ways please
the LORD, He makes even his enemies to
be at peace with him.” {Pr16 :7}
B- Fear of God for He is great and
worthy of our reverence and we should
follow all His ways
This is favored fear for we ought to know
who is this God. He is great and
mighty one. We have to know the extend
of His greatness for if we know that
we will know who He is. He is the God
who fills this earth with His
greatness. He is the one who was
incarnate and crucified for my sake
and your sake. He loved us very much.
He made every thing for our sake. But
we are to obey him not because we fear
Him but because we are redeemed by His
precious blood. We have to obey Him
because we love Him and we want to
honor Him.
The
solution to this problem
We have to know that this awesome God was
incarnate to redeem everyone of us.
Paul said ‘He loved me and died for my
sake”. The Bible said “When a man’s
ways please the LORD, He makes even
his enemies to be at peace with him.”
{Jo 1: 12}. As a general rule: you
will see your heavenly father as you
see your earthly father. If your
earthly father was kind to you, you
will see your heavenly father as
loving and kind to you. And the
opposite is true. You have to trust
God. Do not save and deprive your self
and your family from any thing. The
Bible says “Command those who are rich
in this present age not to be haughty,
nor to trust in uncertain riches but
in the living God, who gives us richly
all things to enjoy.” {1Te 6: 17}
C- Because of our ultimate love we fear
to upset Him or be separated from Him
The true
children lf God fear to upset Him very
much. They watch every thing they say
or do fearing they may upset him and
be separated from His presence.
2-Fear
of man
A- Fear
of man if he is an evil person
Many of us fear the wicked people and this
is wrong because we are in the hand of
a mighty God. The Bible say “"Listen
to Me, you who know righteousness, You
people in whose heart is My law: Do
not fear the reproach of men, Nor be
afraid of their insults. For the moth
will eat them up like a garment, And
the worm will eat them like wool; But
My righteousness will be forever, And
My salvation from generation to
generation." {Is51:7,8} if the law of
the Lord in your heart do not be
afraid of the reproach of men or their
insult. God Himself is saying
“"I,
even I, am He who comforts you. Who
are you that you should be afraid Of a
man who will die, And of the son of a
man who will be made like grass? And
you forget the LORD your Maker, Who
stretched out the heavens And laid the
foundations of the earth; You have
feared continually every day Because
of the fury of the oppressor, When he
has prepared to destroy. And where is
the fury of the oppressor?” {Is51:
12,13} just fear God and every one
will fear harming you.
B- The
fear of man if he is a godly person
Over the ages we see that people feat the
man who fear God and walk blameless
with the Lord. We see that with the
great prophets like Moses, Elijah and
Elisa. And in the book of acts we read
“Yet none of the rest dared join them,
but the people esteemed them highly.”
{Ac 5:13} the apostles and the people
with them, they were esteem highly. If
you have a good relationship with the
Lord people will revere you. Remember
pop Kyrolos the sixth everyone revered
him greatly.
C- The
fear of a man that has a high place in
the world and in the church
We respect a person if he has a high place
in the society. Also we respect the
person who has high place in the
church, we have to respect him and he
also has to love and respect those
whom he serves. One word I refuse to
say is “my master” or “sayadna” it is
not biblical for Jesus forbid us to
say it. The root of this word is in
Islam and not Christianity. I urge
every bishop to refuse to be called
with this word because we are member
of one body and that is the body of
Jesus Christ.
3-
Fear caused by evil spirits
This is the most important issue because I
think it is new concept to the readers
that is some fear is caused by evil
spirits. The Bible mention that “For
you did not receive the spirit of
bondage again to fear, but you
received the Spirit of adoption by
whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
{Ro8:15} the Bible mention here that
fear is caused by evil spirit. If you
feel suddenly afraid or you feel
afraid with no reason then this may be
caused by evil spirit. The Bible also
say “For God has not given us a spirit
of fear, but of power and of love and
of a sound mind.” {2Ti 1:7}
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love
casts out fear, because fear involves
torment. But he who fears has not been
made perfect in love.” {1Jo4:18} I
want to study the words “fear involves
torment”. The Greek words for torment
means eternal torment and it mentioned
only twice in this last verse and in
Mathew 25 “Then He will also say to
those on the left hand, ‘Depart from
Me, you cursed, into the everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his
angels……..
"And these will go away into
everlasting punishment, but the
righteous into eternal life."” [Mt25:
41,46} the word fear involves torment
it is the same word everlasting
punishment. Comparing the two words we
see that fear has the same effect as
the punishment for Satan and his
angels.
I will mention a true story and after that
I will explain how to deal with the
spirit of fear.
True
story
I met her in one of the places we lived in.
she was close to me and she use to ask
me to pray for her because she can not
sleep until she puts the light on in
the whole house. She was always
fearful. I use to tell her you are a
believer in Jesus Christ. One day she
said you have to pray for me. I prayed
and I felt that when she was a
teenager something happened to her, so
she told me the story: she got married
when she was teenager and she lived
with her in-laws. Her in laws
practiced witchcraft and after six
months she felt a demon stood on the
top of the bed and held her both legs
and shook them very hard. From that
day she could not leave the bed for
six months until her father came and
took her with him. She gradually
started to walk again until she became
well. Form that day on she was always
fearful.
I knew
that fear spirit entered her and I had
to pray for the evil spirit to leave
her.
How to pray against the evil spirit?
Any person who lives a godly life, true
godly life which means he does not sin
purposely and intentionally. He may
sin unintentionally but he repents
immediately as the Holy Spirit
convicts him. He also has to stand
before the throne of God blameless.
Any one live that godly life can cast
out evil spirits. This is what Jesus
said to his disciples “He who believes
and is baptized will be saved; but he
who does not believe will be
condemned. And these signs will follow
those who believe: In My name they
will cast out demons; they will speak
with new tongues; they will take up
serpents; and if they drink anything
deadly, it will by no means hurt them;
they will lay hands on the sick, and
they will recover.” {Mr16:16-18} do
you believe in Jesus christ. Do you
practice your baptism. The meaning of
baptism is to live totally for Jesus
Christ. These signs will follow you
and the first one is you shall cast
out demons in Jesus name. you will
never be able to cast out demons
without the power of Jesus name.
it is the desire of God’s heart to give us
victory over all demons in His name.
