So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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… of authority no matter how big or small. In fact, Jesus said this, Matthew chapter 10, verses 29 through 31. He said, are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin and not one of them falls to the ground apart from your father's will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore. See the sovereignty and providence of God causes the believer to have no fear. You are more value than many sparrows. I'm here to tell you tonight that there is no such thing as fate as the world thinks of it. There's no luck. There's no chance. Nothing happens haphazardly or random. God is the one according to his scriptures that governs over times and seasons and events. I'm so thankful that my dad taught me growing up never to say good luck to someone. He said there's no such thing. And he was very sarcastic and tongue in cheek with us. And he would say, I don't believe in luck. …
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. May you have a seat. So I was thinking about fear recently. I think fear is funny. Fear isn't funny. I think what we are afraid of is sometimes funny. Because if you ask someone, like, okay, what are some of your fears? The list is quite diverse. The list goes from like spiders to dying alone. And that sense of being able to say like, the list can be something like answering the phone when I don't know the number or making a call to running into combat or going into battle. like putting your life on the line, the span of things that we can be afraid of, things like abandonment or rejection or famine, snakes, like just like the vast amount of things that we can be afraid of are remarkable. In fact, there was, they did a study and then someone, Jerry Seinfeld made a joke about it that he said that they came out with this survey and they said that the top two fears people have are public speaking, number one, and dying number two. …
… Hey, if you could fast forward in the gospel of Matthew, you'd come to Matthew chapter 10 and verses 29 through 31. Our Lord again is on this same subject. He says, are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your father. He doesn't say that a sparrow won't fall. He doesn't say you're not going to have trouble. But he says God is right there. He attends the funeral of every sparrow. And then he says, but the very hairs of your head are numbered. Friend, he knows things about you that you don't know about you. You think he doesn't understand. You don't understand how much he does understand. Not a person here knows how many hairs you have on your head EXCEPT A FEW GUYS THAT I'M LOOKING AT, RIGHT? HA, HA, HA. THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE NUMBERED. AND THEN OUR LORD SAYS, FEAR NOT, THEREFORE ARE YE NOT WORTH MORE? ARE YE NOT OF MORE VALUE THAN MANY SPARRERS? …