The Road Out of Fear

SPEAKER: Josh Taylor

PASSAGE: Exodus 1-4

Fear shapes stories—personal and societal—but it never gets the final word. In this opening teaching of our Exodus series, we step into a world driven by fear and control and discover how God begins writing a new story of freedom and formation. From Pharaoh’s Egypt to Moses’ hesitant heart, Exodus shows how fear distorts who belongs, exaggerates threats, dehumanizes people, and keeps us from becoming who God created us to be.

But God doesn’t stand at a distance. He enters the fear. As Moses encounters the “I AM,” we see how God meets our deepest insecurities—I’m not good enough, I don’t know enough, I don’t have influence, I’m not good with words—with His steady promise: “I will be with you.” This teaching traces how fear shapes societies, how it shapes our souls, and how the gospel ultimately frees us—through Jesus, who steps into our Egypt and leads us out.

Where fear shapes a story, God writes a new one.