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Fearless Campaign Week 3 Series
Contributed by Brian Harrell on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: This is based on Max Lucado’s Fearless campaign week 3. The fear of disappointing God, being unforgiven, God remembering your sins. We are fully and freely forgiven, adopted, and can silence the voice of condemnation.
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I think that most of us have this little inner voice that announces to us
- Look at what you did
- You’re a loser
- You’re worth nothing
- You’ve send too much, gone too far, made too many mistakes for God to love you
We call that condemnation. Condemnation is that nagging feeling that we have been judged unworthy and that we have been locked out of God’s promises, God’s blessings, God’s favor, God’s love. And it means that we’re looking at everybody else in the fence while we’re on the other side of the fence.
I believe the most of us have a problem with this, with this voice it just whispers, or shouts, or nags at us that we…
- Aren’t good enough
- Can’t possibly be loved in use by God
- That our past proves us as unreliable
- The God blesses everyone except me
- That God really does a one to help me
- That my failures and sends prove that I’m unfit
Well, I’m going after that stuff today. I want to silence that voice forever…
Rom. 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 3 The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied…
The story ends….
3And some of the scribes said to themselves, "This fellow blasphemes."
4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?
5"Which is easier, to say, ’Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ’Get up, and walk’?
6"But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--then He said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and go home."
7And he got up and went home.
8But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
