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<div class="SSN_title">"FEAR NOT"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. Note the two names used in these verses. "And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and God spoke to Israel in the night saying, Jacob, Jacob." His given name was Jacob, a name that described his old nature, schemer, surplanter. God had given to him a new name Israel, (Ruled by God). Sometimes he is still Jacob, sometimes he is Israel. We also have two natures, the old nature of the flesh and the new nature of the Spirit. Sometimes we react after the old nature and sometimes after the new. Jacob was the name of his weakness and Israel was the name of his strength. Israel had begun his journey to Egypt with all that he had.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY HE WAS ENERGIZED AND EXCITED.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He was going to see his beloved son Joseph.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He had thought that his son was dead, now he discovers that he is not only alive, but he is ruling over Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Excitement and eager anticipation often help us to get up strength for a new venture.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. He has come to Beersheba, perhaps now as they have come to the border of the promised land and must face the arduous part of the journey the Negev wilderness that they must pass through to get to Egypt, that Jacob begins to have apprehensions. This can not be an easy trip for a man 130 years old. Fear begins to take hold and he hesitates, and builds an altar to sacrifice to the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Beersheba has a lot of memories. It was here that his grandfather Abraham had dug a well, perhaps he has stopped by that well to store up water for the journey through the barren desert that was ahead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. As a young boy he lived around Beersheba, and when he had to flee from his brother's wrath, it was from Beersheba that he began his journey to Haran.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He was leaving the security of the familiar places that often afford a certain amount of security to journey to a foreign land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. They were simple folk, Bedouins, who dwelt in tents, living close to nature. They are headed toward Egypt, a land of culture and sophistication, where shepherds were considered an abomination.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. It is quite possible that fear began to grip his heart, he is leaving a place of security to journey to an unknown and uncertain future.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He decides to build an altar and offer sacrifices to the Lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is here in a night vision that the Lord speaks to him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "JACOB, JACOB, FEAR NOT"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God calls him by his name of weakness, Jacob. God is meeting him in his weakness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God is so good to meet us in our place of weakness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Paul said that he gloried in his weakness for when he was weak, then he was he strong, for God's strength was made perfect in his weakness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God said to him "Fear not" you only say "fear not" to a person who is afraid.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. He had good reason to be afraid.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He was an old man, and he was venturing out into unfamiliar territory.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. For young people that is no problem, they are adventurous they want to see the world,</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. But as you get older you want the comforts of the family home, the memories of the experiences of watching your children grow up are in every corner of the rooms of the house.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. You like sitting on that rocking chair on the front porch.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He was going to an idolatrous country.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Egyptians had deified almost everything, they worshipped everything from cats to crocodiles, they were pantheists.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Jacob had lived close to nature, and close to God. They had a simple relationship with the one true God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There were intimations that this could have adverse effects on the future of his descendants.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. His grandfather Abraham had a night vision that terrified him and the Lord told him that his descendants would be strangers in a land for four hundred years, but afterward the Lord would deliver them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Could this possibly be the beginning of that 400 years out of the land of promise?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. This new land would bring his family into new temptations.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. His sons were not the most honorable, they had shown their penchant toward evil many times.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. What will happen to them when they are faced with the added temptations and allurements of cultural Egypt?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Sort of like the old song, "How you going to keep them down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. I sort of cringe when someone says that they are going to move to Hollywood.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. GOD WANTED TO REMOVE HIS FEAR.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. God does not want his children to fear,</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The Bible tells us that fear has torment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God does not want to see you tormented by fear.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Fear makes you unhappy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God wants His children to have fullness of joy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Fear has a way enervating you, it is very debilitating.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It can keep you from moving out into new ventures.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. As a father, you do not want to come home and find your children filled with such fear that they are afraid to go out and play in the yard.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. How the Lord removed his fears.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He called him by his name. "Jacob, Jacob."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is comforting to know that God knows my name.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We sing, "He knows my name."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Sometimes because of our circumstances we think that God has forgotten us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Fear belongs to the old nature, so as Jacob feared, God called him by his old name. God knows us by the new name also. There were times when God called him Israel.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. He was on good terms with God. When God called him by name he answered, "Here I am."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is good to have a close relationship with God, to be on speaking terms with Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The proverb said, When a man's ways please the Lord he causes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 16:7</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. He assured him of who He was. "I am God, the God of your fathers."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Jeremiah was facing overwhelming circumstances God said to him, "Behold I am God, is there anything too hard for me?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Paul said, "If God be for us, who can be against us?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David said, "The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. God gave him wonderful promises of the future.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is the unknown future that so often causes our fears.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God is promising that he will make of Jacob a great nation in Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Then God promised to go with him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The consciousness of God's presence should always dispel fear.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When I was a child, I can remember my dad asking me to go out to the garage to get something for him at night. I would protest because of my fears. He then would say, "I will go with you." When my dad was holding my hand, I wasn't afraid of anything.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',41,10);">ISA 41:10</a> Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David said: Ye, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. The promise to bring him back again. "I will surely bring you back again."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You will not forfeit My promise of this land by going to Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The promise that this land will be given to your descendants still holds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The promises of God are certain, they shall not fail.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">G. Joseph shall close your eyes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You will survive the journey.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You will soon be seeing your son that you loved and grieved over for so many years.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He will put his hands on your eyes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">4. This is a reference to his being with Joseph when he dies. He will put his hand upon your eyes. When a person dies, their eyes are often open and you have to pull their eyelids shut. This is what the Lord was referring to when He said, He will put his hands on your eyes."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. ARE YOU TODAY STANDING AT A CROSSROADS IN YOUR LIFE?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Are you paralyzed by fear?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Your Father in heaven does not want you to fear. If you can hear His voice, He is calling you by name.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He is promising to go with you and be with you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This is one of the great benefits of being a child of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We can face life with confidence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We can have that assurance that wherever we go, God will be with us, helping us, and He will work out his perfect plan in our lives.</div>
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