do not be afraid why jesus because fear paralyzes the witness of the church because fear restricts kingdom advance humanly speaking because fear is indicative of the sons of adam and the sons of satan because fear is not what is consistent with those who fear god most high see when we fear god most high it's supposed to displace the fear of man the fear of other things that we possess remember in revelation 21 at verse 8 one of the groups of people that are in the lake of fire are the cowardly and the cowardly there aren't afraid of lions and bears and bugs and and all those sorts of things they're those who did not overcome