Fear and anxiety are common to all of us. As we face COVID-19 how does the resurrection of Christ comfort us, give direction, peace and hope?

3. COVID-19: U.S. at a Glance
• Total cases: 492,416
• Total deaths: 18,559
• Jurisdictions reporting cases: 55 (50 states,
District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern
Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands)
www.Covid-19.gov accessed: 11 April 2020

5. Matthew 24:5–7 For many will come in My
name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will
deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars
and rumors of wars. See that you are not
troubled (throeomai); for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7
For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom. And there will be
famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in
various places.

6. Two disciples on the Emmaus Road
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets,
He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things
concerning Himself.

7. Luke 24:30–32 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table
with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and
gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they
knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. 32 And they
said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us
while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened
the Scriptures to us?”

8. So they rose up that very hour and returned
to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and
those who were with them gathered
together, 34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed,
and has appeared to Simon!” 35 And they told
about the things that had happened on the
road, and how He was known to them in the
breaking of bread. 36 Now as they said these
things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of
them, and said to them, “Peace to you.”

9. 37 But they were terrified and frightened,
and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And
He said to them, “Why are you troubled?
And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39
Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I
Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does
not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”
40 When He had said this, He showed them
His hands and His feet.

10. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy,
and marveled, He said to them, “Have you
any food here?” 42 So they gave Him a piece
of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43
And He took it and ate in their presence.

11. WORRY

12. The words, worries, cares, concerns,
anxieties, or fears are found more than
1600 times in the Bible.

13. The words, worries, cares, concerns,
anxieties, or fears are found more than
1600 times in the Bible.
are found 365 times in the Bible.
The words

14. derived from the Old English
term wyrgan, which means
“to choke” or strangle”
Worry:
Worry

15. derived from the Old English
term wyrgan, which means
“to choke” or strangle”
Worry:
Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not
worry about your life, what you will eat or
what you will drink; nor about your body,
what you will put on. Is not life (psuche) more
than food and the body more than clothing?”
Worry

16. Worry
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts
whirling around a center of fear.”
~ Corrie Ten Boom

17. Derived from Latin anxietatem
(nominative anxietas) "anguish,
anxiety, angst”
Anxiety:

18. Derived from Latin anxietatem
(nominative anxietas) "anguish,
anxiety, angst”
Anxiety:
Deuteronomy 28:66–67
Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you
shall fear day and night and have no assurance
of life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that
it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say,
‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear
which terrifies your heart, and because of the
sight which your eyes see.

19. “Anxiety is the natural result
when our hopes are centered
in anything short of God and
His will for us.”
Billy Graham

20. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,
let your requests be made known to God; 7
and the peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and
minds through Christ Jesus.

21. 13 I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.

22. A natural response to a
perceived threat
Fear:

23. A natural response to a
perceived threat
Fear:
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of knowledge, But fools despise
wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man who fears the
LORD
Matthew 10:28 do not fear those who kill the
body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear
Him who is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell.

24. Genesis 3:8–10 And they heard the sound of
the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool
of the day, and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God
among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the
LORD God called to Adam and said to him,
“Where are you?” 10 So he said, “I heard Your
voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I
was naked; and I hid myself.”

26. 33 So they rose up that very hour and returned
to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those
Two disciples from Emmaus return to
Jerusalem
who were with
them gathered
together

27. 33 So they rose up that very hour and returned
to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those
7½ miles from
Jerusalem
Two disciples from Emmaus return to
Jerusalem
who were with
them gathered
together

28. 34 saying, “The Lord is
risen indeed, and has
appeared to Simon!”
35 And they told
about the things that
had happened on the
Two disciples from Emmaus report to
Jesus’ other disciples
road, and how He was known to them in the
breaking of bread.

29. Then Jesus
appeared
36 Now as they said
these things, Jesus
Himself stood in the
midst of them, and said
to them, “Peace to you.”

30. What was the Disciples’ Reaction?

31. The Disciples’ Reaction
37 But they were terrified and frightened, and
supposed they had seen a spirit.
πτοέομαι (ptoeomai) = be terrified; alarmed;
frightened (NIV), panicked
ἔμφοβος (emphobos) = frightened; trembled

32. Jesus Questioned the Cause of their Fear
38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled?
ταράσσω (tarassō) cause great distress,
trouble, disturbance, afflication

33. “New Research Says Worry And Anxiety Are Linked To High IQ”
Higher Perspective Nov. 15, 2015
"This could mean that
for specific neural
reasons, high scorers
on neuroticism have a
highly active
imagination, which
acts as a built-in
threat generator,"
Dr. Adam Perkins, an expert in neurobiology of personality
at King's College in London.

34. “New Research Says Worry And Anxiety Are Linked To High IQ”
Higher Perspective Nov. 15, 2015
"Although we tend to view
anxiety as not being good for
us, it is linked with intelligence
— a highly adaptive trait
…High levels of anxiety can be
disabling, and patients'
worries are often irrational.”
Dr. Jeremy Coplan, a researcher & professor of psychiatry at
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center,
“Genius is pain."

35. “We imagine that a little anxiety and worry are
an indication of how really wise we are; it is
much more an indication of how really wicked
we are. Fretting springs from a determination
to get our own way. Our Lord never worried
and He was never anxious, because He was not
‘out’ to realize His own ideas; He was ‘out’ to
realize God's ideas. Fretting is wicked if you are
a child of God. Have you been bolstering up
that stupid soul of yours with the idea that your
circumstances are too much for God?
A Little Anxiety & Worry

36. “Put all ‘supposing’ on one side and dwell in
the shadow of the Almighty. Deliberately tell
God that you will not fret about that thing. All
our fret and worry is caused by calculating
without God.”
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest,
Devotion for July 4.
A Little Anxiety & Worry

37. 38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled?
And why do doubts arise in your hearts?
διαλογισμός (dialogismos) = inward questioning,
disputing, arguing, debating

38. Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of
man causes depression, But a good word
makes it glad.

39. Decreased Frontal Lobe activity
Increased brain activity in the
Thalamus indicating sensory
overload resulting in unusual
perceptions.
Decreased Frontal Lobes causing
confusion, disorientation, and the
potential for impulsive behavior.
Panic Attack

40. “When we have overcome absence with
phone calls, winglessness with airplanes,
summer heat with air-conditioning—when
we have overcome all these and much more
besides, then there will abide two things with
which we must cope: the evil in our hearts
and death.”
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Professor Emeritus of Philosophical
Theology at Yale University after lost his son in a climbing
accident,

42. 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I
Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does
not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”
40 When He had said this, He showed them
His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still
did not believe for joy, and marveled, He
said to them, “Have you any food here?” 42
So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish
and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it
and ate in their presence.

43. John 14:1–6 “Let not your heart be troubled;
(tarassō) you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare
a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you to
Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me.

44. Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your
staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 56:3–4 Whenever I am afraid, I will
trust in You. 4 In God (I will praise His word),
In God I have put my trust; I will not fear.
What can flesh do to me?

45. John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you,
that in Me you may have peace. In the world
you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer,
I have overcome the world.”
Isaiah 43:1 But now, thus says the LORD, who
created you, O Jacob, and He who formed
you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed
you; I have called you by your name; You are
Mine.

46. “God incarnate is the end of fear; and the
heart that realizes that He is in the midst…
will be quiet in the middle of alarm.”
~ F.B. Meyer
“How strange this fear of death is! We are
never frightened at a sunset.”
~ George Macdonald

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