Living in a Fearful Society.

[Rev.Anthony Ray Smith]

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

What's it like Living in a Fearful Society?
The answer to that is easy if you are an ardent reader of the news. Teachers and school boards are afraid of drawings, photos or even young children playing cowboys and indians or anything else that may resemble the use of a gun, knife, and lately even home tools have become a target of fear. Our politicians are in fear of loosing their jobs for standing up for righteousness.

When you teach fear you are giving Satan what he desires most, control over the lives of millions.
Our society today lives in fear over every aspect of their lives. Heart attacks often come from uncontrolled fear. This is the way it will be in these end days, just as the Lord prophesied. But the greatest cause of mans hearts failing is what the Lord stated, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

The Bible states that non righteous fear is the spirit of bondage to fear. The fear of the Lord, is a righteous fear and we are told to fear God for He, and only He, has the control of the body and soul.
Fear is not all bad, for instance, we see a snake, fire, high voltage, bad storms or any other dangerous situations, we can avoid them by taking precautions.
What we must speak of is unnatural fear, some call a phobia.

With political correctness this fear or phobia has become rampant to the point that many are calling for the elimination of most all every day items, even free speech concerning the truth of Gods word is being called dangerous.
Prayer, the Bible and even the mention of God and Christ are being called out by many who fear the truth.

Fear is an uneasiness of mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.
The mind controls our actions and the spirit of fear wants to control the mind.
The Bible states; This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

When the Lord tells us not to walk as other gentiles walk, He is indicating that we are to walk after Him and not after idolatry, the pleasure of sin and sinful acts, paganism or the worship of false Gods.
When our understanding is darkened, our mind is polluted with things that are of Satan and all unrighteousness, not being able to see the truth of events that surround us, the Lord calls this mans ignorance.
Many times these things come from false preachers and teachers, using the scripture to their advantage, misinterpreting scripture to deceive the unlearned.

In the vanity of their mind denotes the foolishness of their mind; want of genuine wisdom, filling the body with empty pleasure that is unsustainable.
Vanity has no room for fear of judgment, fear of God, nor the fear of eternity. Reason and right and wrong are milled together with pride making all useless. Vanity causes men to seek out pleasures that are against God and nature and will take away their desire for repentance.

When ministers condone and even promote sinful acts, which the Lord has called an abomination, these men have deceived themselves and are deceiving others. They have confused Gods love with political correctness. When those who know Gods word stand up against these men they are ridiculed, hated and marked as bigots. Not standing up for the true Gospel they have shamed themselves and the Lord states of these men; Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.

He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Who then are we to fear, God or man?
Is it love if we fail to warn those that are in sin, but support their agenda, the answer is no. For if they do not know about sin, judgment and eternity, then we fail to love them.

What's it like Living in a Fearful Society?
From the top of government to the man on the street we see the biggest fear is of Gods word.
This fear comes from verses as this; Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
When men hear the truth from the Lord they are no longer blind to the truth. They have become accountable for their actions and will be judged upon them.

Jesus stated of mans fear; But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Why do men fear Gods word to the point that they attack the messengers, the preachers, teachers and even the laymen of the Church? For Gods word takes away their cloche of deceitfulness, takes away the darkness that they have surrounded themselves with and shines light upon their evil ways. Men have started to make laws pertaining to the Christian message of repentance, stating that these people are guilty of so called hate speech. Jesus warned us on the penalty for sin, the worship of false Gods, doctrines and idol worship and this is the reason men today fear Gods word. This is the reason that we, who believe must continue to warn mankind on the coming judgment.

There is no room for compromise, no room for evolution, for the Lord does not evolve on sin, doesn’t compromise on sin entering into His kingdom. There is no scripture in the Bible that authorizes, justifies or condones sin.
We can choose to live in fear or we can cast all our fear to Christ, who died for our sins.

Luke 21:26, Eph 4:17-19