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| The Doctrine of Fear |
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6 Fear Generates Sins of Arrogance If your fear is not corrected with Bible doctrine, it will generate a chain of arrogance sins that flow one into the other. For example, if you're afraid of losing someone, you become jealous. If they show any favoritism toward anyone else you become bitter toward them. Next you develop a strong antagonism toward the person as you become self-righteousabout their unjust treatment of you. Now you are implacable, you can no longer be consoled as you become a hurt little child in your thinking. The final step is to plot your revenge while remaining numb to the hurt that you inflict. Jealousy, bitterness, antagonism, self-righteousness, implacability, and vindictiveness destroy any capacity for life, and make you indistinguishable from the unbeliever, sadly, all too often they make you far worse. Fear and the function of your spiritual life are mutually exclusive. Living in fear causes it to grow like a cancer, swelling and metastasizing into different areas until the individual is afraid of so many things he is completely intimidated by life. Only the consistent, daily intake of Bible doctrine will overcome the problem of fear, and in so doing release one’s ability to go into action, like David did when he faced Goliath. While fear of death will hinder your living, it will never prevent your dying. You have no control over the time or manner of your death, and it is arrogant to think otherwise. Those details are totally in God’s hands, chosen by Him in eternity past as a part of His perfect plan for each of us; it is part of our personal sense of destiny. Fear eliminates the humility needed to understand and embrace that destiny, leaving us at the mercy of emotional sins like worry, anxiety, guilt, denial, projection, and of course ever increasing fear. We are overcome by our problems, slaves to the disasters that befall us rather than meeting them head on with the promises of God. Succumbing to disaster destroys the spiritual life, while application of your personal sense of destiny, gained through the persistent intake of Bible doctrine, advances the spiritual life as designed by God: "When I am afraid, I will put my trust in Thee. In God, whose word I praise, In God I have put my trust; I shall not be afraid. What can {mere} man do to me?" "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind." (2TI 1:7) Arrogance causes loss of personality. Because of arrogance, you do not know who or what you are, for you cannot see your soul in the mirror of the word of God. You form your views of life, and yourself, by what other people tell you. Desiring to feel wanted and loved, you do what others want rather than what God wants. Arrogance deceives you into thinking they really do love and want you, when they only want to use you to fulfill their own desires. People, who live in bondage to their own desires to be loved and wanted by others, develop a great capacity for unhappiness, constantly complaining and grumbling about life. As with fear, the more you develop your capacity for unhappiness, the more things make you unhappy, and the smaller grow your chances of having any happiness in this life. With increasing capacity for fear and unhappiness, you eventually retreat from any form of reality, becoming psychopathic or neurotic. The only hope of escape is for you to function under the perception, metabolization and application of Bible doctrine while you're still partially normal and able to think rationally. Cognition of Bible doctrine inside the PPOG can remove the fear, arrogance, self‑deception, and retreat from reality. Ignorance of doctrine makes it impossible for God's grace to be utilized in your life. With no understanding of God's grace, you will be totally miserable, burdened by fear, arrogance and other mental attitude sins, unable to escape them. The saddest part is that you do it to yourself. |
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