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TITLE: Are you afraid?
TEXT: Mark 4:37-41
PROPOSITION: Fear takes several forms. We must have the right kind of fear.
QUESTION: Which?
KEY WORD: Forms
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:

1. We all have fears - storms, bugs, mice, etc.
   
2. The Bible talks about fear.
   
3. Several different forms.
   

NOT GOOD KINDS OF FEAR
Fear = Phobia

1. Fear of storms, bugs, mice, snakes, high places, death, spiders
   
2. Unfounded - paranoid (out to get me)
   
3. Study Psalm 91:1-3; 5-7 (Describes the terrorists of today.)
   

Fear = Lack of courage (coward)

1. Kids challenge each other to jump. Are you afraid? Scardy cat!
   
2. Ride roller coaster; go in haunted house, etc.
   
3. Revelation 21:8 - Fearful in lake of fire
   

Fear = Fright (loss of life, harm, danger)

1. Matthew 10:28 - Can kill your body
   
2. Mark 4:40
   
3. This fear is the opposite of faith.
   

GOOD KINDS OF FEAR
Fear = Reverence, respect

1. Mark 4:41 - Saw Jesus with a new respect for his power
   
2. Ephesians 5:21 - Submit to one another out of fear of God
   
3. Ecclesiastes 12:13 - Whole duty of man - fear God
   

Fear = Concern

1. Galatians 4:11 - Fear lest I labored in vain
   
2. Not worry - Moved to act, do something to help
   

Conclusion:

1. Are you afraid?
   
2. Doe you have trust and confidence in God?
   
3. Psalm 27:1 - Lord is my salvation: whom shall I fear?
   

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