When Fear Controls You, God Can Free You

• He has everything, all these possessions. And the text said that his bed is surrounded with 60 personal bodyguards, warriors, the elite in warfare. We’re talking about trained. Think of the movie 300. these kinds of warriors, 60 of them. It would have had to be six shoulder after shoulder after shoulder, layer after layer after layer completely surrounding his bed in his bedroom.
• One group of 10, another group of 10, another group of 10, layer after layer with their swords on their thigh, ready to kill, to fight to the death, trained all of their life like the Greek warriors used to be. They came up as a little child being taken and trained to fight and defend. And he’s so tormented. Why? Why does he have to have that kind of security? He’s so tormented.
• He’s so turned himself over that the enemy has released a spirit of fear. As a matter of fact, I got to read this verse. First Kings 11 and verse 14. because he did this thing, because he married outside of the faith and began to be pulled into idolatry and witchcraft, which is rebellion, the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon.
• And that was a tormenting spirit that took all of his rest, that took all of his peace. He was terrified that that he that he needed more and more and more security from man. There’s no security in material things. I don’t care how much you have. There’s no security. There’s no peace. There’s no real rest.
• Oh, if I could just get that house, if I could just get that car, and there’s nothing wrong. The Bible said God loves to bless us and he he joys in the prosperity of his children. But if it ever becomes about other gods and not the one God, Jesus Christ, then you you don’t understand what you’re playing with. It’s dangerous.
• For a man’s life, Jesus said, does not consist of the abundance of things. You will not find life in material things. You can have it temporarily and it’ll have a little bit of pleasure, but it will leave you empty. As his words said, vanity. I have had it all and I’m telling you, Solomon said, without the God, it’s vanity. Some of you are thinking, “What I need is possessions.
• ” And the Bible said, “Behold, consider, closely, inspect, look at it, walk around it, and in your imagination, see this bed. 600 valid men, valiant men standing around it, armed with weapons, bodyguards around it. As soon as the nightfall came, the spirit of just like Saul, an evil spirit of fear, for God has not 1 Timothy 1, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
• And when you give yourself over to witchcraft and all of those kinds of things and even idols of this world, you lose your peace and you lose your rest. You lose your security. I don’t talk I’m not talking about just physical security. I have spiritual security. I know who I am in Jesus Christ. I know where I’m going. I’m not insecure. I am eternally secure.
• I’m not eternally insecure. I am secure. I know that I have my past forgiven. I have a reason for living. And I have a future in heaven. And I’m secure in that. I lay down my head and I know if I take my last breath while I lay on this pillar, I it is well. It is well. It is well with my soul.
• You know, you ought to shout over that. The Bible didn’t say rejoice if you can cast out demons. It said rejoice if your name is written in the book of life. So, we’re going to take a break and we’re not going another step forward till we just shout over the fact that you’ve got more security than 60 bodyguards.
• He’s got you and your family in his hand. And he said, “No demon can pluck you out.” Thank you, Lord. There’s no peace in possessions without Jesus Christ. Here’s the man who has everything. And this is the man with fleets and gardens and pools and pets worth $2 trillion. And his bed had to be guarded every night with 60 elite soldiers armed for him to even have a hope of getting sleep because he is so tormented.
• And the problem was not a monster under the bed. The problem was the monster in the bed who was running from God. This is so interesting. The bed was not the one in the palace. The bed, according to the scholars, the bed they’re referring to is the one that he used to travel with. He had an entourage and they would go before him and all the stuff, his food, his clothes, his wardrobes, they would all go in an entourage of guards and and and and elite group of soldiers.