God's view:
1 John 1:7
; 1 John 4:16-19
- Healing of our total person comes
about by the perfect love that casts out fear. Perfect love heals
all the phobias of life in our mind, body and soul. This love,
this unconditional agape, is the very nature of God Himself. As
we perfectly grasp and take hold of this perfect love , we will
realize total healing. The blood of Jesus covers us now and in
eternity. By faith, visualize self in the Presence of Our Lord
, in this perfect love, cleansed of all unrighteouness, clothed
by this perfect love, fear has to go.
Hope:
Gen. 1:26
; Gen. 3
; Heb. 2:14-15
- Fear of death and judgment
is the basic fear of man. Fear is the first emotion man uttered
after the fall. Before the fall, man was birthed from the womb
of the love of God and unto the love of God, created a creature
in God's own class. Man did not earn or merit this love. This
love just 'is'. In consequence Adam had no consciousness whatsoever
of not being loved. Only other person around at this time is God.
Here was Adam, raw humanity and unashamed, not self conscious
but God conscious, sees himself in the eyes of God being loved
and accepted.
John 3:16 ; Lu. 9:23-25 ; Rom. 5:5 - How can man place himself into this divine love? By rejecting the right to himself. It is just a question of simply believing God loves you regardless of what you think of yourself.
What is the christian life? It is love, and this love is the divine nature , and this nature is placed within me to respond to the needs of others. No longer trying to please people, the world, and God. The sanctification process is a process of getting the true self out of the false self: no longer seeking to be accepted and approved by people and God. See the true self in union with the Holy Spirit guided and directed by the word of God.
It is no longer my performance for God, but my surrender to Him Who loves me just as I am. Even when I fail He still loves me regardless. All my faults, all my past, Jesus took on the Cross. All the guilt and shame is buried in the grave, and so goes fear. Now I am no longer afraid of God.
The true God is now in the face of Jesus Christ. Jesus took my judgments, my judgment is over. Jesus is for us who can be against us. There is no fear in death, we fall into the arms of Jesus at death. I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me. I find my value in Him and through Him I serve others needs. The Lord provides for my needs as a by-product.
Change:
Gen. 3
- After the fall, man was blinded, could not conceive
of himself as being loved by God. Now he turns inward into himself,
self becomes his focus. Self consciousness forms and man looks
at himself over and against God. Compares self to God and sees
and judges self by himself and sees an inferior, worthless, no
good, and disgusted individual. Being repulsed by his guilt, he
creates a god who rejects him, a god who hates all guilty and
bad people.
When God entered the garden, Adam sees God through his distorted ideas in his mind and begins to be afraid: "You are out to get me, You know I am bad and guilty, worthless". At this point, religion was created. God created man in His own Image. When man fell, he created a god in his own image: unworthy and unlovable. Accordingly, man sees others as bad as himself and begins to hate people.
Now man must work to make himself acceptable to God, to make Him love him by self-effort , self will. Man wanders the earth seeking someone to love him, the fear of rejection is overwhelming. He will be whatever people want him to be , do anything to make himself feel important.
Man looks for people to need him. If they need me and I help them, then they will not reject me. Man will love others, just so they will love him, can't bear to be rejected. Wife will cover up a failure of a spouse, for fear she may be rejected. A mother will give money to her drug addicted son in order to feel needed and not be rejected, etc.
Lu. 9:23-25 - In summary, people who are compelled to be needed, accepted and approved are too busy seeking their own needs which becomes insatiable. Therefore, they have no capacity or room to love others