Is that a suggestion, or is that a command? Don't be afraid.' The same God who said 'don't kill' said 'don't be afraid'. The same Jesus who told people, 'Do not sin again,' also said so many times to people, 'Fear not.
And if you think fear is something you have to live with, you live with fear. There are lots of other believers who think that sin is something they've got to live with, and so they live with sin. That's because they think of sin as bad, but fear as a weakness or something we have to live with. A lot of believers who are determined to root out sin from their life are not as equally determined to root out fear. I don't know how many of you realize that Jesus was as much against fear as He was against sin. And since that day, all of these six thousand years of man's history, man has been living with fear so often afraid even to acknowledge Him (God), even believers. And he said, 'I was afraid,' and ever since that day sin and separation from God brought fear. When God came to him and He asked where he was hiding among the trees. It's the first time that fear is mentioned in the Bible. One of the first things we read that happened to Adam as soon as he sinned, and when God came and spoke to him, was that he got afraid.
