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Set Free Forever The fear of death is the master fear. Either directly or indirectly, it’s the source of it all. So, when Jesus conquered death for us, He set us free from fear forever. When He tasted death in our place, He delivered us from ever having to taste it ourselves. If you know Jesus as your LORD and Savior, you won’t have any sensation of death when your spirit leaves your body and goes to heaven. You won’t have the sensation of distress that unbelievers do. When they die, they can feel it. They can tell that something has gone badly wrong. For you, there won’t be anything bad about it. You’ll just think, Man, I feel good! I’ve talked to several believers who died and came back to life, and they all had that experience. One of them, Bob DeWeese, used to be my boss when I was a student at Oral Roberts University. He died of a heart attack on a handball court and, as he described it, just suddenly found himself in heaven. “I had no memory of the heart attack,” he told me, “so at first I couldn’t figure out where I was. But then I saw the Holy City and I started running toward that city! I’d never had such strength in all my life!” Before Bob could get where he was going, however, his wife, Charlotte, and the emergency room doctor started calling him back to earth in the Name of Jesus. “I started slowing down, and the next thing I knew I was back in my body, staring up at them.” “Kenneth,” Charlotte said to me when they told me about it, “do you know what Bob’s first words were when he opened his eyes? He didn’t say, ‘Oh, sweetheart, thank you for saving my life.’ He said, ‘Charlotte, what did you do that for?’” That’s always the attitude believers have in that situation. Once they’ve died and gone to heaven they don’t want to come back! If they have to for some reason though, one thing is sure: They’re forever afterward completely unafraid of death. Really, that’s how all of us as Christians ought to be! We ought to be completely unafraid of anything, not because we’ve had some out-of-body experience but because we know that death has been defeated. Jesus has totally whipped it, once and for all. The devil doesn’t have the power to keep us in bondage to the fear of death or anything else anymore! Jesus stripped him of that power on the cross. He delivered us from fear when, as Isaiah 53:5 says, “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we [were] healed.” This is why you can fear not! Jesus dealt with the master spirit behind every fear on Calvary. He secured your deliverance from the worrywart devil and purchased your peace so that, no matter what happens in this life, you can cast all your care over on Jesus, put a smile on your face, and go on! I’m not saying you can just manage fear, or that you can control it somehow. That’s what people in the world do. They handle fear like the cowboy who, apart from any dependence on God, deals with the fear of getting hurt in a rodeo. By sheer force of will, and through natural training, he can get to where he can ride an angry 2,000-pound bull without even worrying about his body getting broken up. ***** article continues on next page **** ********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** In "Releasing God’s Love in You," Kenneth Copeland shows you how to put the law of God’s love to work in every circumstance of life. Using words of faith, love, joy and hope as your building blocks, you can build a new future free from every fear and bondage. With God’s love operating in you, your circumstances must line up with His promises of love for you. "Releasing God’s Love in You" by Kenneth Copeland 5 CDs $12.99 reg $25 #B181201 FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until Dec. 31, 2018 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) +1-817-852-6000 ********************************************* 6 : BVOV

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