Judges chapters 6 through 8
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God wants to use us to bring a great deliverance (like Gideon). He starts at home, with a simple thing.
What steps does God lead Gideon through:
1. Destroy the alters and idols (anything above God, or even concepts of God that are not true, or fear).
2. Reconciliation
Reconciliation:
Reconciliation means: Repentance, humility, forgiveness, confession, admitting what we did wrong, making right, mending together.
Colossians 1:20- "...and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross."
2 Corinthians 5:19- "...that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation."
Romans 2:15- "They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)"
When God wanted to reconcile Himself to us He: died on the cross and forgave our sins.
Fear of Man:
Proverbs 29:25- "Fear of man will be like a trap, and God wants to bring freedom."
How do you get rid of fear of man?
It starts with a correct view of who God is, because sometimes unintentionally we see people as bigger than Him. We care more about what they think than what God thinks. We have to start caring more about God's approval than man's approval.
Psalm 8
Fear of man leaves when you realize who God is and who you are in Him.
Love displaces fear. Perfect love casts out fear.
1 John 4:18- "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
God, I want your smile to be the most important in my life.
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