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Look at Psalm 27 verse 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Psalm 3, you don't have to turn there, but verse 5 says this, I laid me down and slept, I awaked for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about. It's pretty easy to say that, but just picture yourself, you're in your house and ten thousand people have surrounded the house, and they're all coming to get you. Could you say, well I'm not afraid of any of this, I'm in God's hands, I know that I've done right. I laid me down and slept. You know what, when you can go to bed at night and put your head on your pillow and fall asleep and sleep like a baby, not because your life's perfect, not because government agencies aren't on your back, not because everybody loves you, not because you haven't been hated and threatened and are in peril every hour. You know why? You go to bed and put your head on the pillow and lay you down and sleep like David said and with no fear. You know why? Because you know, I did what was right. And God promised to take care of me if I did what's right. And so everything's going to be great. And let the chips fall where they may because you know what, it's up to the Lord what happens to me. And He's going to protect me and preserve me under His heavenly kingdom. When you go to bed, look, your whole life might be falling apart. But when you do what's right, you can go to bed at night, put your head on the pillow and sleep like a baby and say, you know what, I'm doing what I can, I'm trying to serve the Lord, I love God, I did what was right. You go to bed and you sleep peacefully. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. You know, you just pray to the Lord and say, Lord, here's what I'm going through, here's what's going on. We'll close with Psalm 56, we'll close with Psalm 56. I've done what I can, Lord, it's up to you now to protect me and you can have peace in your life and not live a life of fear. How do I overcome fear? Well, first of all, you just overcome fear in the sense that even if you're afraid, you do what's right anyway, even if you're afraid, you do it anyway. And as you develop a pattern of doing what's right in spite of fear, you'll start to realize, hey, a lot of the stuff I was afraid of didn't even happen. Hey, I thought I went out solo, I think it was going to be embarrassing, it actually was totally normal and it went well. Hey, I was afraid to get up and preach a 10-minute sermon, I actually did okay, you know, I mean. And you start developing that pattern. Secondly, you pray for boldness. You pray for boldness. And the Bible says, in everything by prayer and supplication, let your requests be made known unto God and the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Look at Psalm 56 verse 2, mine enemies would daily swallow me up. And try to put yourself in the scripture. Just think about this is your life. Take it literally, you're David. You have enemies that just daily want to swallow you up. You'd be afraid, humanly speaking, without the Lord and His Holy Spirit giving you boldness. It says, mine enemies would daily swallow me up. For they be many that fight against me, O thou most high. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God, I will praise His word. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Every day they rest my words, and they're twisting my words. I say one thing, they twist it like I said something else. All their thoughts against me are against me for evil. They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps when they wait for my soul. I mean just imagine, people are just lying in wait. They're conspiring against you. They're laying traps for you. They hate you. Everything you say, they're listening so they can twist it. Shall they escape by iniquity? In thine anger, cast down the people, O God. Thou tellest my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle, are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back. This I know, for God is for me. In God will I praise His word. In the Lord will I praise His word. In God have I put my trust. I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. This is the message tonight. We started out with a man Zedekiah who said, I'm afraid. Zedekiah, obey the Lord. You're going to be fine. Your family is going to be fine. Your friends are going to be fine. Your city is going to be fine. But if you disobey, it's all going to be burned. Everybody's going to be killed. Everybody's going to be suffer. I beseech you, obey the Lord. I'm afraid. Here we end on the man David who said, you know what? I will not be afraid. And that's where we need to be tonight. I will not be afraid. We started out with a sermon talking about the wrong guy that said, I'm afraid, I'm afraid. You need to walk out of here tonight and this is the, you know, I mean, memorize the whole chapter for crying out loud, but at least just memorize that one, that one phrase, let that one phrase sink into your ears. I will not be afraid. I remember when I was much younger being in a really dangerous part of town at night by myself working, you know, my job had sent me into a real dangerous part of town at night and I'm by myself. I'm working. What's the natural reaction? Fear. Fear is real because you're in a really bad area. It's at night. You're by yourself. There's a lot of crime. And, you know, I used to quote Psalm 23 to myself and I would quote, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. And when I read this passage where he keeps saying over and over again, I will not be afraid, I will not be, it's, I almost get the feeling that he's trying to convince himself a little bit. When you read this passage, right, he's saying, you know what? He's reminding himself with this song. He's, you know what? God's for me. He's reminding himself. He's asking the Lord, but he's also saying, you know what? The Lord's for me. I know God's with me. I'm not going to be afraid. I'm not going to be afraid. I'm not going to be afraid. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Look, you're going to have decisions that come in your life and you're going to be like, you know what? I know I need to, I know I need to start going to church or I know I need to start soul winning or you know what? I know God wants me to preach or you know what? I know that as a pastor, I need to preach the whole word and I've been holding back a little. I've kept back some things. Or you know what? I know I need to submit it to my husband or you know what? I need to start tithing or whatever. I know I need to start spanking my children and you know what? The bottom line is that the thing that's going to come in is this fear is going to creep in and you have to just remember this sermon and just remember all these scriptures and just say, you know what? I will not be afraid. Whatever decision I make in my life, it's not going to be based on fear. It's never going to be based on fear because it's never of God. It's never, look, how many, we could go to all seven, we could turn to all 727 mentions if you want of fear, afraid and frightened and we could go through all of them and you know what you're going to find? Whenever people fear, it's wrong. I don't care what you're fearing or why. It's wrong unless it's the Lord. The Lord is the one that we fear and him alone. Let's PowerEyes Network.