Power for Abundant Living

Believing:Faithand Fearunbelief.Hebrews 4:6:Seeing therefore it remaineth that some mustenter therein, and they to whom it was firstpreached entered not in because of unbelief[apeitheia].It was first preached to them. They heard enoughto believe but they refused to believe.Fear which culminates in unbelief is due either towrong teaching or ignorance. Wrong teaching may becorrected or overcome by right teaching; while ignorancemay be corrected or overcome by instruction.If a person is full of fear because he is ignorantregarding a particular subject he may overcome thisignorance which causes fear by right teaching or rightinstruction. For instance, a child who is afraid tosleep in the dark is full of fear and wakes up screamingin the middle of the night. Why is that child fearful?Maybe because he has been wrongly taught. Perhapsthe child was frightened by someone's sayingthat if the child was not a good boy, he would be putin the closet and the boogie man would get him. Thatchild is full of fear because of wrong teaching.On the other hand, suppose an adult is afraid of59