ArticleBlog | Sermon of the Year Be Set Free: Why are you afraid?
Sermon of the Year Be Set Free: Why are you afraid?
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 26.09.18
MATTHEW 8:23-27 I’m yet to meet a person who has never felt even the smallest momentary flicker of fear in their life. Everyone has a fear of something. It could be spiders, small spaces, public speaking – any fear is possible. It’s normal to feel fear from time to time and sometimes it’s prety useful to feel afraid – your body prepares you to either fight or leg it. But what about when, instead of fear lasting a few moments, it unpacks its bags and setles in for the long haul? What about when it starts to dictate how you live your life? Fear has the potential to hold us captive and stop us living in the fullness of life that Christ called us to. Fear came straight in after the fall – Adam told God he was afraid because he was naked. Yet the Bible is constantly telling us not to be afraid – 365 times to be exact. God doesn’t want us to live a life of fear – he wants us to be set free.
I want to look at how we can be set free from living a life of fear and live a life of fullness. This has been a journey I’ve been on (and still am on) and I’m going to share some of my own story and look at a story in the Bible to help us unpack what we should do in the face of fear so that we might be set free.
