Peter Barnes | Matthew 10:27-31
SERMON NOTES
ONE FEAR OVERCOMES ANOTHER
Psalm 94; Matthew 10:27-31
– do not fear persecutors (10:26, 28, 31)
1. Be bold before the world.
– 10:27; Jer.1:8; Acts 4:29
2. Fear the God who judges all.
– 10:28; emphatic in Luke 12:5
– Prov.29:25; Spurgeon: ‘There is no cure for the fear of man like the fear of God.’
– hell or martyrdom?
3. Be assured of His sovereign care.
– 10:29-31; sovereign over great things e.g. John 19:11, but sovereign over everything, even the dead sparrow and the hairs on our head.
– 10:31 shows the difference between the animals and us, contrary to Peter Singer and Richard Dawkins