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[3195.52 --> 3199.00] And he doesn't hide that fear from God.
[3200.66 --> 3203.92] Let's not miss the truth here,
[3204.02 --> 3206.80] The deeper and more comprehensive truth.
[3206.94 --> 3210.00] Because death is a physical reality,
[3210.26 --> 3212.16] But it also is symbolic,
[3212.48 --> 3214.70] And it is present in so much more.
[3214.92 --> 3216.68] We feel death,
[3216.78 --> 3217.64] And we fear it,
[3217.86 --> 3218.94] When the things,
[3219.08 --> 3219.78] Or the dreams,
[3219.90 --> 3220.48] Or the people,
[3220.66 --> 3221.64] Or the ideas,
[3221.64 --> 3225.22] That have been core to our identity,
[3225.72 --> 3226.54] Are taken away.
[3227.44 --> 3228.16] Are threatened.
[3229.84 --> 3229.98] Right?
[3230.24 --> 3231.74] To take that away,
[3231.88 --> 3234.00] Is a euphemism that we use for death,
[3234.12 --> 3235.04] All the time.
[3236.12 --> 3236.28] Right?
[3236.36 --> 3238.50] Oma was taken from us.
[3239.92 --> 3240.14] Right?
[3240.18 --> 3243.10] My job was taken from me.
[3244.98 --> 3248.20] These little experiences of death,
[3248.82 --> 3250.80] Bring fear.
[3252.46 --> 3252.76] Again,
[3253.70 --> 3254.98] Allender and Longman,
[3255.04 --> 3255.92] They summarize it,
[3256.28 --> 3256.86] And they say,
[3257.64 --> 3258.82] We want control,
[3259.56 --> 3260.68] We hate failure.
[3261.74 --> 3265.28] And the more we sense the possibility of personal or physical death,
[3265.38 --> 3266.86] The greater our helplessness.
[3267.28 --> 3267.52] Therefore,
[3267.68 --> 3270.00] The more impotent we see ourselves,
[3270.36 --> 3272.60] The greater our fear.
[3272.60 --> 3276.12] And so,
[3276.20 --> 3277.26] What are we supposed to do with that?
[3278.30 --> 3282.44] What do we do with these kinds of fears?
[3283.66 --> 3283.78] Right?
[3283.82 --> 3284.00] And so,
[3284.06 --> 3284.24] Again,
[3284.30 --> 3284.70] I'll say it,
[3284.72 --> 3286.98] In a sort of basic biological sense,
[3287.40 --> 3289.24] Fear can be helpful.
[3289.50 --> 3296.58] Fear is the trigger that causes you to run from the rock slide that's coming down the mountain that you're sleeping at the base of.
[3296.58 --> 3298.02] That's good.
[3299.48 --> 3299.96] Right?
[3300.10 --> 3307.18] Fear is the trigger that causes you to jump in and fight when your child is being attacked by a dog.
[3307.60 --> 3308.20] That's good.
[3309.82 --> 3317.10] Fear is even the trigger, right, when you nest, right, to get all those things in order in your home before the baby comes.
[3317.10 --> 3317.54] Right?
[3318.54 --> 3321.72] That's a trigger of fear and a response of caretaking.
[3323.50 --> 3330.76] But there's also the kinds of fear that keep you stuck in your comfort zones.
[3333.08 --> 3333.24] Yep.
[3333.70 --> 3344.34] Almost everything that we do in this life is to increase our security and our safety and to increase our comfort.
[3344.34 --> 3355.08] The entire Western social worldview is built on this value, to increase our security and to increase our comfort.
[3355.24 --> 3363.90] And we manage our anxiety and our fears by knowing the limits of our comfort zone and then not going past them.
[3366.08 --> 3372.02] And again, to be clear, a comfort zone in many cases is good for us and is beneficial for a time.
[3372.02 --> 3373.02] Right?
[3373.02 --> 3377.52] Our comfort zones can stop us from doing stupid and unwise things.
[3378.76 --> 3391.04] However, getting stuck in our comfort zones can also have the impact of keeping us trapped in certain parts of life or in certain experiences of life.
[3392.22 --> 3392.32] Right?
[3392.40 --> 3401.02] Comfort zones, properly understood, are meant to be a sort of like porous bubble that can expand and contract as required.
[3402.02 --> 3411.12] But when they become solid, they trap us in that place.
[3412.74 --> 3417.44] Comfort zones can easily become walls that keep us locked in.
[3418.82 --> 3427.84] Now, I've said this before, but God doesn't live in your comfort zone.
[3427.84 --> 3428.84] Right?
[3428.84 --> 3431.64] It's because you don't need him there.
[3432.80 --> 3433.30] Right?
[3433.32 --> 3436.32] When we're in our comfort zones, we've got it all figured out.
[3436.84 --> 3442.08] We've set everything up perfectly to keep us secure and to keep us comfortable.
[3442.76 --> 3444.02] And so we don't need God.
[3445.56 --> 3445.76] Right?
[3445.76 --> 3450.14] But God wants us to see that he is our security.
[3450.60 --> 3452.74] That he is our comfort.
[3453.28 --> 3455.46] Not the zone that you've created.
[3455.56 --> 3459.08] Not the bubble of your life and experience of life.
[3459.58 --> 3467.34] And so part of a life of faith, right, is walking up to the edge of your comfort zone and then seeing what happens when you take the next step.
[3467.34 --> 3469.82] Because that's where God is.
[3470.90 --> 3472.24] That's where you need him.
[3473.04 --> 3477.30] And where you see that need and can live into that need.
[3478.98 --> 3479.30] Right?
[3479.34 --> 3491.28] In the case of our comfort zones, the fear that was the reason for creating it is no longer there to protect us.
[3491.28 --> 3493.80] The comfort zone no longer protects us.
[3494.12 --> 3496.06] It ends up imprisoning us.
[3501.68 --> 3509.28] Fear also has a tendency to change the way you see the world.
[3510.44 --> 3512.68] And to change the way we see ourselves in the world.
[3514.04 --> 3515.36] We looked at anger previously.
[3515.82 --> 3517.86] Anger makes us blame others.
[3518.48 --> 3520.36] Fear makes us blame ourselves.
[3521.28 --> 3532.40] And we blame ourselves, right, because even a perceived failure of ourselves is an attempt to see the world through that lens of control.
[3533.76 --> 3534.24] Right?
[3534.26 --> 3536.40] Because, well, I made the mistake.
[3536.76 --> 3537.68] So I can fix it.
[3538.20 --> 3538.40] Right?
[3538.42 --> 3540.20] I can manage my fear.
[3540.58 --> 3540.72] Right?
[3540.72 --> 3547.34] But fear distorts our perception of the nature of the dangers that are facing us.
[3547.42 --> 3549.76] It distorts our sense of reality.