LOVE WITHOUT FEAR, PART 1

Matthew 14:28-31
28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.

29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

Intrepid fear can dampen, not destroy, the courage in a seasoned warrior or hinder the faith in a faithful servant like Peter. Yahusha doesn't find fault in those who fail, but in those who don't try. Even then His grace and mercy are ever present. When Yahusha said, Forgive your brethren 7 times 70 times, He wasn't insisting on that as a specific limit or cap. He used it to illustrate His insistence on forgiving those who sin against us without limit. Fear does not keep us from forgiving those who violate our peace; bitterness, dread, and insecurity do. When Peter asked his Rabbi if he could come to Him on the water, his faith would be tested, but not the only time. Each time Yahusha tested Peter, not only did He forgive him, but He also blessed him. Falling into the water was a small test of faith that would lead to bigger tests that would beset Peter’s soul with grief. But Peter didn’t fear what the world would do to him in the end as he was crucified upside down out of reverence to Yahusha. He didn’t feel worthy to suffer in the same manner as his Messiah did, so he asked his executors to crucify him with his head towards the earth. Each time Peter failed himself, not Yahusha, his Rabbi gave him the strength to overcome. I'm going to skip to a little-known fact that may be proof of Yahusha’s love for Peter or a half-baked tale based on partial facts or none written by those who were encouraged as unauthorized writers with loosely detailed information on the lives of Yahusha, His apostles, and other people in the scriptures and some that aren't. They were centered on undetermined facts. It is said that Yahusha met Peter on a path as he walked away from the finality of his life’s mission after his apostolic mission, death. He reprimanded Peter and told him, You must do this to fulfill what was promised to you: the keys to the Kingdom and the power to bind whatever he wanted on earth that will be bound in heaven, and whatever he loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Peter wasn't a man of vanity or vain living. He loved Yahusha, and Yahusha loved him even more. Yahusha convinced Peter to fulfill his fate and face death. In doing this, he became Yahusha’s most beloved apostle. Fear is a faith killer, and faith is a fear killer. Yahusha had a flesh moment in the Garden of Gethsemane that made His sweat drip like blood from His face. When the Son of the Most High endured His most horrific moment on earth after feeding 4 and 5 thousand men, which didn’t include the women and children who outnumbered the men by a ratio of approximately 7 to 1 or more, He healed their lame who had no legs or arms, He gave sight to the blind, and raised their dead back to the land of the living. After doing all of this, they wanted Him dead for declaring Himself as the Son of Yahuah when the prophet Isaiah in the scrolls told them of His coming and His death, yet they refused to use any semblance of common sense that says this is the Son of Yahuah. Ignorance will frustrate a debate based on facts until the idiot fails to convince the bewildered that he's not Carnac the Magnificent. As Yahusha overcame His fear, the Father saw the great pangs He felt and experienced while in the Garden. He sent Him an angel, a comforter who blessed Him before He was captured by the centurions in the garden. He boldly faced them with these words.

Matthew 26:51-56
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.

52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. Continue—