Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Sermon Podcast Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church Sermon Podcast

Even when we walk by faith, there are always seeds of doubt that remain in our minds. The real challenge is what do we do with that doubt? If doubt is allowed to grow, doubt will create fear, and fear will diminish our faith, leading to little faith or maybe even no faith in our walk of discipleship. What is the remedy for fear? To simply trust God, believe God’s word and his promises, and to walk by faith.

Arguably Satan’s greatest battleground is our mind, to blind and deceive our minds and lead us to fear. Therefore, we have to display self-control over our thoughts to not let Satan deceive our minds that leads us to sin in our actions. Instead of us being captive to our fleshly minds, we must bring our thoughts into captivity unto the obedience of Christ.

Jesus Christ points the scoffing Jews back to their supposed father, Abraham, who saw the day of Christ and rejoiced in it. In a special way, Abraham was able to see a prefigure of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, upon Mount Moriah as the ram took the place of his son, Isaac, on the alter. In a similar way to Abraham and Moses, we can see Jesus Christ by faith in our lives today as well.

All of God’s children struggle with the warfare between the flesh and the Spirit that we have described to us in depth in Romans 7. Many days we feel like we are losing the daily battles in that warfare and might be prone to feel condemned. God gives us beautiful truths in Romans 8 that we should reach the same conclusion in our conscience as the Lord – that there is no condemnation to those that are in Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the perfect expression of love, and our greatest remedy to conquer fear is likely the perfect love of Christ that drives out fear. If we are in the torment of fear, we are not made perfect in love. We need to strive to obey better the greatest commandment to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. If we are fearful, we need to pray for others and help others to show love to others and thus show greater love to Jesus Christ.

We many times don’t understand or forget the true power that resides inside of every child of God. The power of Christ resides in our soul, Christ in you the hope of glory. The perfect faith and perfect love of Christ resides inside of us, and our calling is to work out that perfect faith that God has worked in our soul in the new birth. Our challenge is to get ourselves out of the way and allow the power of Christ to shine through our weakness.