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March 16, 2020 1:00 am
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Jesus loves Jesus, the father loves the son perfectly and he loves you perfectly.
It means believing on father God loves you every bit as much as he loves his only begotten son into sharing the said to hear Allen's message from an old church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in a series called no worries, you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource available to you right now for your donation this month to sharing the light as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us in sharing the.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on this later in the program now let's get started with today's teaching years Alan Wright love only sure you will not find it. When we experience imperfect.
What would have as our souls are wounded.
Sometimes it is minor is healed by the love that we receive after that sometimes is major, but in any event, when everyone goes, I heal all kinds of ungodly beliefs. They get attached to it. We start assuming things.
We start imagining things. We start believing things that are contrary to God's work is a fear's exact perversion of faith because fear and faith are both forms of belief, but faith believes God's word and fear believes all this, not God's word you want how faith comes and Paul makes it absolutely plain. In Romans 1017 so faith comes from hearing, and hearing the word of Christ.
How do you get faith by the word of Christ, so faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of Christ. How does fear, I suggested comes from hearing, and hearing the word of all that is anti-Christ.
You hear the word of antichrist and fear is introduced and underneath. Therefore, every fear I believe is something that is ungodly in his belief something that is apart from God's revelation, something that is a deception sums is a false belief ally under every fear anything about it. You think about your fears and you think about what's really at its road, I would say go go deep. Would God talk to others about and see if you find what is the was the lie beneath all of one time years ago and our Saturday night ministry we had in that day for young adults convert and is in full time course of the young adults will, and so on.
This trick and I was talking about this very thing is that I think there's a lie that's underneath every fear and eyes� Can we talk about this everybody take this paper right now several your fears would put them in Anna a basket of start pulling out with went through and and a lot of themes that you can imagine emerge there and some of the fears and one of them you would be surprised to see that immerses a number of times as fear public speaking circuit was talk about fear public speaking.
If there's a lie underneath the fear. What is that lie what is the wrong belief was that was that was a false belief is my razor has a well the lie is that if you speak, people are gonna laugh at you as well. The other probably will laugh at you, but they my right and yeah that's true in my office or you can say that's it.
So what else might it be as a lesson well they did to get there and you don't you don't sound articulate the people will respect you as much of think less of you as well, but I might happen a minute could write me a good probable but a good going through these possible answers lie what was the lie that's underneath the fear public speaking as somebody is somebody so will people like you as much. People reject is a well know there's things is possible that could happen.
It could happen if I'm going to try to dig digging through this and finally one young man raising is that I think this is a lie is and what it is I think a lie is it even if I follow my face thereby laughs at me and rejects me that I can still be okay exhibit I can still be okay because God loves me infinitely and I am his child and I'll be okay. No matter what I said there we go see you get down deep enough to wear the perfect love of God in Jesus Christ can address every false belief is been attached to the places we been wounded. Our lives is love can heal anything is love can heal anything to build security. Love builds security until the mid-20th century that prevailing wisdom was for parents to not overly caudal. There babies their little ones for fear of spoiling them. Mouse prevailing wisdom of Matilda 1950s and it was all corrected by the groundbreaking research of Harry Harlow, psychologist who got his Reese's babies monkey rhesus monkeys and he put some of them into a cage where they had nothing but a wire surrogate mother that had a bottle attached with milk, some sorry substitute for a real mother but others got a call surrogate mother so it was soft and will obviously the babies that had a choice for further golf month, but what they found was a given a choice, babies were have a cough, mother would know know that a wire mother with milk.
But the real thing they found out was they took these baby monkeys and it had nothing but a cloth mother so only comfort they had with the feeling of softness and they separated them from the call surrogate mother for three days because again the prevailing thought was that you know if you want to toughen up your kids, you know you need to let them gather on their own, they got quit being so reliably coddled so much what they found course exactly the opposite, that after three days goes monkeys that have been separated from the cloth mother have become extremely insecure and they would now just clean again near the cloth mother and they would even venture out very far away. They lost all their sense of security. So the study began to rattle all the silly ideologies. That said, you can love your child too much and it forces quite unpopular, but is been proven over and over to be true that the greatest thing of course they can happen for a child is just having loads and loads and loads and loads of unconditional love because a more lively goes in the more security is built.
Love goes in fear goes out.
Love comes insecurity is built perfect love casts out fear which makes our job really a lot simpler doesn't when you don't know what to do.
Love somebody because we know that what we tend to do is take our anxiety and shifted toward somebody else. When anxiety feels terrible and we just tend to try to shifted toward somebody else yellow eyes to my buzzing. What was I just lays over to the parent was sitting in the passenger seat with a 15-year-old driving 65 miles an hour on the highway was nerve-racking. Then you how I was and convince me that was my job to do it all nerve-racking. You got to sit over here in this scene with no break and no steering will and try not to make your kid freak out because you're so nervous.
Know your strategies have been parents, but mine was not found that, place on the handle of the door that I couldn't grip as hard as I want. Well written anything and I take my right hand grip that door is tight as I could possibly and then my voice would say okay now we're going to merge onto the interstate highway. Okay, let's get our speed up a little bit.
We probably need to be going more than 30 when we get in front was that the truck go by, you realize want to take their anxiety and put it into a job ago the child see is going to pick up all their anxiety and then drive worse so you find a way as you want, instead, to show acceptance as soon as we feel like that we might not be accepted.
Then we become more afraid. Perfect love casts out fear.
How can you know perfectly. This is the key verse 17. By this is love perfected with us so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world. Isn't that a strange statement is Jesus is. So we are in this world. Strange statement because Jesus is resurrected and glorified in the Lord of the universe.
How can we be as he is. The key is to look at everything else. John says about how perfect love assures us over and over through first John, be assured, be confident. Be assured, be confident that Talon right you are listening to sharing the light will have more teaching in a moment from today's important series ever wish you could be a child again ever long for the simpler days when your biggest financial worry was counting the money in the shoebox eliminates the end ever long for the more carefree times when you wish to long summer days would never end.
If you've ever long to be like a child again.
Author Alan Wright has some good news. You can Jesus invitation to become like a little child means it's possible when you make a gift to sharing the like today will send you a special bundled gift that includes two audio messages that will help you banish worry and a copy of Alan Wright's book, childlike cards that will lead you into the freedom and wonder of childlike faith. Most of all, when you make a gift of sharing the like today will help us broadcast the love of God to tens of thousands of people every day. The gospel is shared when you get to sharing this practice is only possible because of recent financial support. When you get to the wall, we will send you today's special affect happiness in this tier as I banks from sharing the right ministries, 877-544-4860 or come to my website sharing the right leg sharing the lighting teaching now continue you once again is Alan Wright what John is saying is I've seen in the gospel and the love of God that this is the key, not you. Trying harder to send less, not even you, trying harder to be less worried and afraid, but you being filled with more confidence.
Which is why I can't imagine in a million years anybody that would want to proclaim the gospel in such a way that would leave you wondering if you're Christian about whether you are saved and God's child forever because the whole thrust of the scripture is give you assurance that when you're Christian something amazing has taken place that is mindbending.
This when you accept Christ, a miracle takes place as God's plan is his provision so you can count on it. When you feel it or not, when you accept Christ. Here's what happens. Christ takes all of your sin. Every bit of your sin.
He takes it to the cross and there you wonder why it was that he was crying out Ellie Ellie Lammas about my God my God why you forsaken me you wonder why it is that he is there bleeding on that cross and suffocating so it is for this express purpose.
He came to take your sin, so much so that you can count on this when God is your father and you are his child. There is no sin whatsoever that God remembers about your life is been thrown into the sea of forgetfulness casts as far as the east is from the west, which is infinite distance right and ever increasing distance. That's how far your sin is away from you. You have been thoroughly wash your Clinton said the conscience has been cleansed years all has been set free and you and God's eyes are no longer a sinner, your whole Jesus is holy in your holy you say, but I still sanity was never to understand that, but positionally in the eyes of God. He looks upon you Christians as if you've never sent not have a hard time wrapping my mind around that. But that is exactly what the gospel teaches nothing less than that you come before God in judgment. A Christian is not going to be in a big screen playing back all the mistakes in your life or your grandmother, and Gabriel Angel to see how good everyone God's heart really thrown into the sea of forgetfulness.
As far as easily from the last, it doesn't even is not. There is not in the mind of God anymore.
And until you can see that is just as if I'd never send to him and really grasp what it means to be justified.
But when you see it in the more that you see. Can't you start believing more in the perfect love of God for you and there's more because when you're Christian you not only are so fully forgiven that God doesn't even see your sense, we can't hold it against you. But you by God's own miraculous plan are credited with the life that Jesus lived.
You have become rich in Christ close in Christ, hidden in Christ you were chosen in Christ redeemed in Christ you have taken Christ into your being you have been made one with Christ. You are now a co-heir with Christ. And when God looks at you. He not only doesn't see your sin, but he looks at you and he sees the clothing of Jesus himself, and he says that smells like my son or my daughter that you look like Jesus, God the father you smell like Jesus.
You are like Jesus.
To him that the only way Paul can say you are a co-with Christ's get a dribble down inheritance at this a little portion of what Christ had you get what Christ had Christ is now so wow that bends my mind to think of it, but it is surely the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It means that you can experience the perfect love of God through the revelation of what is done for you in Jesus and that's my prayer. Ask him to just baptize you in half quit struggling so much to try to rebuke your fear. You don't casts out fear as much as you displace it with the love I wish I could tell you more about the love of God I wish I could tell you how wide and long and high and deep is the love of God.
God's love is why why you can't go around.
You can find someone that God doesn't want to reach God loves everyone. God loves people lost in religion. He loves people often rebellion a loves old people and young people he loves black people and white people, brown people, and 10 people he loves people in North Carolina and South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, North Korea, South Korea is love goes to the Far East in the Mideast and down on very loves Papua New Guinea and's and Nigerians and Colombians.
He loves everybody he loves little people and big people he loves rich people and poor people.
I wish I could tell you how wide is the love of God. He loves educated people and illiterate people he loves the people who love him and he loves the people who made him a loves of the blue norm and the people who don't know them yet all the love of God is so why was I can tell you how high is the love of God, how long the love of God is the love of God is so long it is longer than any place you could ever get in front you can't get around that you can't get behind and you can out run it. You can install it, you can't stop at the love of God is from everlasting to everlasting's love is pure and perfect love is long enough to be in your past long enough to be in your future is love. Is there is longer than the circumference of the whole world is love doesn't give up doesn't quit.
It doesn't stop you can't truncated you can translate if you can't abbreviated you can interrupted his love was there when you were born. His love was there when your father was born. His love was there when your father's father was born. His love was that when Adam was born. His love was there when the Angels were created as love was there before he spoke. I wish I could tell you about the length of the love of God love Sophia is higher than the highest building taller than the tallest mountain. It is transcendent. It is resplendent.
It is heavenly. It is taller than the tallest Goliath is higher than the greatest intellect is higher than the father.*It is higher than your highest thought taller than your grade is dream. I wish I could tell you how high is the love of God love of God runs deeper than we could ever fathom his love is deeper than your darkest thought is love is deeper than your blackest our use. Love is deeper than your deepest pit's love is deeper than any philosophers. Wisdom is love is deeper than the deepest well and never ever runs dry.
I wish I could tell you how wide, how long, how high, how deep is the love of God, but it cannot be told, it must be revealed. It must be experienced the love of God can be set upon your heart and set you free. I love them so much. I think we just get to spend all eternity. Just discovering more more the depth of his love. It's perfect, here's how you like Jesus. He loves Jesus, the father loves the son perfectly and he loves you perfectly.
It means. Believe it or not. Father God loves you every bit as much as he loves his only begotten Abigail arrived became a lover of dogs and I don't really know how, except she grew up in love and I believe that you can grow up in love and as much as I can add me had forgotten that she ever even did have a fear of dogs. I believe the love of God and so set you free.
That one day you look back and go.
I forgot I even used to have that worry I don't hang only remember having that fear so great can be the healing mercies of God, perfect love comes in and fear must be flung out of doors and that the gospel ceiling like today's teaching is part of our greater. She recently titled, no worries, and I encourage you to stay with us.
Al is back in the studio to wrap this up with the parting didn't stop for the day here in just a moment. Watch the way a one-year-old sleeps, not a care in the world or listen to the belly laugh of a toddler finding joy in the simplest things little children don't know the meaning of dread, freedom, wonder, and trust come naturally to little children. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be like a child again. Here's the good news you can. Jesus invitation to become like a little child means it's possible when you make your generous donation ensuring like today will send you a special bundled gift that includes a two message audio CD that will help you manage worry and a copy of Alan Wright's book a childlike heart that will lead you into the freedom and wonder of childlike faith. When you partner with shearing the you enable us to share the grace of God. People everywhere to make your gift today and rediscover the piece of a childlike heart shared when you get to Shanghai right this is only possible because of recent financial support. When you get to the wall, we will send you today's special affect happiness in this tier as I banks from sharing the right ministries, 877-544-4860 or come to my website sharing the right leg, Alan. A common phrase for Christians is love wins and then would also count worry and that is one of those phrases that is deeper than deeper. I'm there, it wins out over worry as we've seen today because perfect love and fear do not go together and wherever there is fear. Donna said there's not perfect love. So I think the focus of her learning is yes, there may be strategies for our listeners that are dealing with specific fears may be a variety of strategies for dealing with that. Certainly recommend a counseling medical help, and there are different strategies for managing our fears, but ultimately what God's answer is his love the assurance of God's will draw near to God and his perfect love. I think it will fling fear out of always encouraged to hear from you whether you visit online sharing the.war or call 877 like 60 again shearing the.OR G or call 8770 IG HT 60 get Alan Wright's daily shearing the devotional in your inbox each morning when you sign up shearing the who Archie this is been sharing the light Helen right listener supported production of shearing the ministry