Our Intimate love affair with Fear

2017 Mar 12th Streaming

First, I want to thank each of you who responded to the email sent out this week concerning the message for fellowship. We were blessed and encouraged with all of your replies and will be doing both messages. The question was which one would we do in this Sunday’s fellowship?   I’ve been working on two message thoughts.  One is entitled, “The Reprobate Mind”  and the other is “Our intimate love affair with Fear”.  At the time of this email tonight, 77% said they would like to hear “Our intimate love affair with Fear”.  There were some interesting comments on why this message will be discussed first.  I trust the Father to follow this message with “The Reprobate Mind” next week. Both messages carry a strong and powerful Word concerning who we are In Christ as Sons of God the Father!  So many today advocate having an intimate love affair with the Lord, or with Jesus, or with God or with Christ.  Have you taken a close look at the landscape lately?  It’s littered with multitudes of different institutional doctrines, denominational beliefs, non-denominational beliefs systems, and organizational theologies. Some of these things are just really unbelievable, all using the Bible and declaring they love God and His Word! Oh, and they are right and everyone else is wrong.  There might be some truth in those words.  You see, because of the “desensitization to the person of Christ” and not Jesus of Nazareth, the gospel many preach, teach and proclaim cannot and will never produce an intimate love affair with the Lord, or with Jesus, or with God or with Christ. I know that’s a pretty strong statement.  But there is an intimate love affair. And that love affair is with Fear.  What is “an intimate love affair” anyway?  And who gets to decide when it becomes intimate? So, let’s talk about it….