{"id":42,"date":"2019-02-20T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-02-20T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:11:04","slug":"the-unstoppable-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"The Unstoppable Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Romans 8:31-
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear\nis the worst emotion for a Christian to have. Because of fear, we\neither do those things we should not or fail to do what we must. A\nfearful man becomes angry, a fearful man kills needlessly, a fearful\nman runs from responsibility and is a reproach upon himself. \nHowever, many will overlook the sin of cowardice. We justify it\nwithin ourselves and often \u201ccoddle\u201d others who struggle with it. \nWhat the Christian forgets in these instances is what God truly\nthinks of the coward. In Revelation 21:8, what is the very first sin\nmentioned in the list? It is cowardice. God has no use for a coward\nin His kingdom. Those who shirk from duty and hide from the world\ninstead of standing for what is right will be cast into hell with the\nliars, murderers and sexually immoral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThis\ndoes not mean that fear does not have its proper place. There are\nthings we should fear, such as sin and the spiritual harm of others. \nIn fact, it is perfectly natural to have the fear of facing death,\neven if it is for God. However, it is when we allow that fear to\ncontrol us that we fail to do what we must is when it becomes sinful.\n We must take courage and face whatever we fear with complete\nconfidence in God. However, we do not do this without any assurance.\n God has given us many reasons to take courage and do the work He has\ncalled us to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. God\n\tis for us: <\/strong>If we stay true to\n\tGod and fully submit ourselves to Him, He will stand with us. Our\n\tintroductory passage in Romans reminds us that if God is for us,\n\tnothing can stand against us. The greatest proof of that is found\n\tin the book of Joshua. As the children of Israel conquered the\n\tland, they faced many people mightier than they. However, we see\n\tthat they defeated everyone that they faced. The only time they lost\n\twas because they had sinned and God had left them. We can have this\n\tsame confidence today. God is truly all powerful and the devices of\n\tman and Satan can do nothing to permanently harm the child of God.\n\t<\/li>
  2. They\n\tcan only kill the body: <\/strong>Jesus\n\taddressed this very thing during His ministry. In Matthew 10:28, he\n\ttells us to not fear the one who can kill the body but not the soul.\n\t What we must take from this is that even if death is our earthly\n\treward for serving Christ, our soul will be taken care of. The\n\tChristians of the 1st<\/sup>\n\tcentury realized this. Stephan when he was stoned with his dying\n\tbreath asked God to forgive his murderers (Acts 7:60). Paul at the\n\tend of his life faced death courageously (2 Timothy 4:6-8). A\n\tChristian has nothing to fear from death.\n\t<\/li>
  3. The\n\treward is great: <\/strong>In Matthew 5,\n\tJesus again encourages His listeners by promising a reward to those\n\twho suffer. Again in 2 Timothy 4, Paul was looking to the reward\n\tthat comes after death. Peter and James each made remarks in this\n\tregard as well (1 Peter 4:12-19; James 1:12). The Bible permeates\n\twith the promise of a reward for the faithful. However, the only\n\tway to achieve it is to live a life faithful to Him and to leave the\n\tphysical world. We must remember that the reward is not physical\n\tbut spiritual and worth more than anything this world has to offer.\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \tSo\nwe see that the Christian has nothing to fear. For these three\nreasons alone we should stand firm in our faith. With God on our\nside we can do anything, as long as it is in accordance with His\nwill. We are truly unstoppable and nothing but our own fear and\nselfishness can change that. Let all Christians who read this gain\nthe strength and courage to do as God would have them to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Romans 8:31- What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Fear is the worst emotion for a Christian to have. Because of fear, we either do those things we should not or fail to do what we must. A fearful man becomes angry, a fearful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmadisonchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}