This Week With Jesus

Fear can overtake every human being - Satan ensured that. But the difference between a believer and others is what happens after that. The response to fear. The believer falls back on the Word of God, prayer and sharing with the Lord, and then experiences a calmness and peace of God.  On the other hand, a non-believer gets into a frenzy, panics, gets into fits of rage, reacts, may scream, may abuse etc., finally succumb to it and lose their self-control. This peace that true believers experience is beyond our understanding as the word says. It can only be experienced. This peace is not a delirium. It does not ignore the reality of danger but believes that he will overcome - because he has God on his side. Fear entered the human existence after Adam and Eve disobey God in the Garden of Eden, as described in Genesis 3:10. They likely feared Gods reaction to their disobedience. But today, we have the peace of God available to us - a divine assurance of His presence through it all. Go...

                                              Read Genesis Chapter 3 “Sin always produces the same result - separation from God” . - David Jeremiah That Adam sinned (as did his wife) is a given. Let's think about what was Adam’s Sin? Disobeying God. What caused it? Symbolically speaking it was Gluttony (wanting/eating what you shouldn't) and avarice, or greed, in desiring wisdom and power (ambition). Adam's sin has been inherited in us as well. In our greed, sometimes do we not overlook God and what He has said and advised? They had the best of the best in every way, but their ambition to become what they were not meant to be brought about their downfall. How did it happen? Presenting of Deception and half-truths by Satan (which he still does); rationalization by Eve, of what God said to suit her, thereby twisting and finally rejecting what God actually said. We do the sa...