Religion & Spirituality
FOLLOW OUR PODCAST ON (search opentheword): Itunes Stitcher Spotify Google Play IHeartRadio TuneIn Podchaser PODCAST NOTES: There is a small group in Britain that goes by the acronym SPI-B. It sounds like some rogue government agency from a Mission Impossible movie and even fits this profile as some allege SPI-B helped the British government implement covert strategies that would deliberately manipulate and magnify people’s fear of COVID. Hi my name is Dean Smith and before I talk about SPI-B, I want to first discuss Romans 8:15, where the Apostle Paul makes a curious statement about fear, when he writes: ‘Do not receive a spirit, that makes us a slave again to fear, but you received the spirit of sonship.’ The Greek word for fear in this verse is ‘phobos’, from which we get our English word phobia and describes a ‘terror or dread at the anticipation of harm.’ This word is describing an emotional state far beyond worry or anxiety. And in the initial part of this verse, Paul makes two important points. First he …