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What problems do you fear?
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1. The internal challenge: sin
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God will not be used
God will not be used
This is His church. Don't test Him.
2. The external challenge: persecution
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The command to keep preaching
The command to keep preaching
The question of opposing God
The question of opposing God
Rejoicing over being counted worthy
Rejoicing over being counted worthy
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3. The growth challenge: organization and priorities
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4. The basic challenge: fear of man
The key to challenges is not avoiding them but responding correctly to them. God brings ...
The key to challenges is not avoiding them but responding correctly to them. God brings us challenges so we can see Him at work.
We instinctively know we need something outside of ourselves.
We instinctively know we need something outside of ourselves.
Proverbs 29:25 (ESV)
25 The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.
John 12:42–43 (ESV)
42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Isaiah 51:12–13 (ESV)
12 “I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, 13 and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
1 Corinthians 4:3–4 (ESV)
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Hebrews 13:6 (ESV)
6 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
1 Corinthians 10:31–33 (ESV)
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
We have the opportunity in ABFs and small groups ...
We have the opportunity in ABFs and small groups to encourage one another to fear God and not man.
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My next step today is…
I will fear God not people.
I will believe God uses challenges to grow His church and spread His Word.
I will _______________________