Feb. 16, 2025

Matthew 6:25-34

Matthew 6:25-34

A discussion about worry and anxiety

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A discussion about worry and anxiety

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central Good evening everyone.

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It is Saturday, February fifteenth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently eight forty seven pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas.

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Well.

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I found out a little while ago that tomorrow is

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not going to go quite as planned. It's it's not

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going to go the way I thought it was going

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to go. So a lot of times when plans kind

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of fall apart or things are not going to go

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the way I plan them to go, or maybe even

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want them to go, the one thing I know I

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can always do, no matter what the situation is, I

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can always turn on a microphone and go live and

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well hopefully produce content that will be benefit and helpful,

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and then it will be available whenever people may be

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able to tune in. So that's what we're doing. It's

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kind of an end prop to go live situation. But

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even though it's kind of end propt to, I've always

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got something to talk about and always something to discuss.

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So the first thing I want to do before we

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get to the real topic at hand, because I think

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I may I think there may be a connection here.

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We did a sermon review earlier today on Isaiah forty three.

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It was a train wreck of epic proportions and once

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again another sermon not handling not handling Isaiah an anything

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between Isaiah chapter forty and Isaiah chapter fifty five anywhere correctly,

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and I mean nowhere correctly. I mean even AI when

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it reviewed, it was like, well, this is just what

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is this? It was funny because I have been discussing

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Isaiah chapter forty to Isaiah chapter fifty five, and I

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have been reviewing sermon after sermon after sermon, listening to

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sermon after sermon on that subject, and been discussing at

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all with AI over and over and over since October

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of twenty twenty four. And AI today basically was like, look,

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this is the problem with sermons, this is the problem

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with preaching, and it went through all the problems. It

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was just it was kind of funny because almost it

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felt like AI was like, look, I'm tired of dealing

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with it. I'm frustrated with this. It's a mess, so

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move on. Okay. It wasn't quite that bad. But it

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was funny that AI basically broke down, like, look, what

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you're seeing is just a problem. It's everywhere, It's everywhere,

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and I'm like, well, and so then basically AI was like,

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what you need to do is you need to produce

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more content and more clear teaching. And I'm like, well,

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how about you produce it and I'll sit back and relax.

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I mean, it's easy to tell me I need to

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produce more, But I don't think for the majority of

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people it really matters. Most people are going to continue

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to go to churches that do that to not just

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Isaiah forty through fifty five, through all the other chapters,

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and nobody really seems to care. But you know, I

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don't know. But in that sermon review, even though it

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was frustrating and even though it was irritating, we did

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get kind of a very important question. If you didn't

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write this down earlier, you need to write it down

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this evening or in the morning, whenever you may hear this.

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The question is this, what is the evidence of God's

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presence in your life? What is the evidence of God's

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presence in your life? That God is present in your life?

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What is the evidence that proves it that can be

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used as some type of proof. What is the evidence

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of God's presence in your life? Keep that in mind

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because one of the things said was this idea of peace,

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this idea of joy. See, if God is present in

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your life, then you're just going to experience peace, You're

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just going to experience joy. So the lack of peace

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or the lack of joy means God is not present

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in your life. So does that mean I'm not saved?

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Does that mean God just has withdrawn his presence from me?

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But does he withdraw his presence from a Christian whom

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he said, whom he said he would never leave nor forsake? Like, like,

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how do we understand that? So that that's that's a

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very so it's a very important question that we will

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have to discuss and great and great detail. But I

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just want you to keep that in mind. What is

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the evidence of God's presence in your life? And and

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they said in the sermon joy peace. I think there

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were some other things, but it's the idea that Hey, basically,

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you're gonna be a joy, you're gonna have peace if

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God is present in your life. And again, so this

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means if you don't if you're not experiencing this, it's

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a feeling. They went on to basically say, it's a feeling.

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You just feel it. It's a feeling, it's joy, it's peace.

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So if you don't have the feeling, you don't have joy,

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you don't have peace. God is not present. I know

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I'm repeating myself, but it's very important to re establish

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this so that either means you're never saved, you're not saved,

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you lost your salvation, or you're a Christian but God

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has withdrawn his presence. But if he's withdrawn his presence,

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I thought he said it would never leave us, leave us,

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nor forsake us. Or is that promised not for us? Now?

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Just you just unravel. Well really, you just kind of

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open up a can to a million questions. So keep

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that in mind. Now I mentioned all of that, But

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here's what we're gonna do this evening. Remember I've been

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asking you all week, how is chapel service? How is

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chapel service? Did you attend chapel service?

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Right?

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Because I keep opening up the sermon's two point oh

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app in the mornings and sometimes it's you know, Ambassador

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Baptist College. Sometimes it's Bob Jones. Sometimes it's Pensacola. There's

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all these different Christian colleges that air their chapel services,

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and I've been telling everyone, hey, go listen, Go listen

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to the chapel services. Go listen to the chapel services.

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So I've been trying to keep up with them this week.

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And what are the chapel services from Ambassador Baptist College. Again,

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these all air live for free on the sermon's two

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point oh app I keep telling everyone to have it.

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I was watching listening to Ambassador Baptist College, and the

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chapel service was on a section of Matthew chapter six,

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specifically dealing with worry and anxiety. Worry and anxiety. In fact,

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the name of the sermon was overcoming worry and anxiety. Now,

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the fact that it's on Matthew six, so let me

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just go ahead and get this out of the way.

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Matthew Chapter six is a part of the Sermon on

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the Mount. If I am frustrated, discouraged, pressed and want

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to just give up. Based on how pastors preach Isaiah

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chapter forty to Isaiah chapter fifty five, I can't even

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tell you what when I listen to sermons on the

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sermon about the Sermon on the Mount, On the Sermon

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on the Mount, going from Matthew five to Matthew seven,

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what those sermons do to me. Forget discouragement, forget depression,

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forget frustration. I just want to completely just give up

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because it is maddening how these sermons are constantly preached.

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They completely miss the point. So I'm just gonna go

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ahead and clarify this. Just get this out of the

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way now. Matthew five, six and seven is the Sermon

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on the Mount where Jesus is expounding. He's expanding our

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understanding of the law. So Matthew five six and seven is.

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Law law, law, law, law law.

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The purpose of the Sermon on the Mount is to

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show us our sin and our inability to keep the

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commands that are in the Sermon on the Mount, because

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no one can keep them. Now, people will try to

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preach them somehow as if we can. They'll try to

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water them down. Sometimes they'll throw in, well you won't

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do it perfectly. But then most of the sermon will

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be preached as if you can do it, or you

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can't do it, but God will help you do it.

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But if God is helping us do it, then everyone

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should be perfectly obedient to the law of God. But

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nobody is so, then okay, then it just becomes this

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convoluted mess, and it drives me crazy the way Christians

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handle this. But if you go back from a historical perspective,

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a proper law gospel distinction, you would say, Matthew five

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through seven is law. It shows me, it shows me

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my sin, shows me my inability to keep the law.

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Then it drives me to Christ. And Christ, who preach

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the sermon, is the only one who ever obeyed the sermon.

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And it's by putting my faith in him that his

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obedience to the sermon is imputed to my account. So

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in my position, I keep the law of God perfectly.

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I obey the Sermon on the Mount, but in practice

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I fall short of it day in day out, day

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in day out. Because it was in the Sermon on

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the Mount itself where Jesus said, be perfect as your

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heavenly Father is perfect. Well, you'll never be perfect as

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your heavenly Father is perfect. So anyone who preaches the

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Sermon on the Mount as some type of achievable, achievable

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morality does not understand the Sermon on the Mount, So

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already I know going in. I bet you this is

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going to go wrong. But we're gonna find out. We're

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gonna find out because, like I said, this is it

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was chapel service. All week. I've been giving you a

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hard time about attending chapel service. So let's see what

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happened this past this week chapel service, Ambassador Baptist College.

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Let's see what happened. What? What did we hear? What

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did we learn about overcoming worry and anxiety? Will listen

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to the way they interpret it, and then I'm gonna

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go with again. I challenge the way everyone interprets the

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Sermon on the Mount. I think it's one of the

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most mishandled, misapplied, misinterpreted sections of scripture in the entire Bible.

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It's just one of an all right, and yeah, we'll

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talk about a correct way to interpret it. But are

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you ready? Let's see how this begins. Here we go, Matthew,

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chapter six.

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If you would please before we jump into the message,

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how did the fuss in go Tuesday night? You go, well, okay, good.

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I was planning to come, but doctor Luken forbid me

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to come. He said, you are not allowed to be there.

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So I'm gonna preach on standards this morning. I'm kidding,

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I'm not doing that. I think we are to correct

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our announcements. If mister Hankey says everybody can come, and

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doctor Lucan won't let me come, something's wrong with a picture.

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I'm just saying. But he does get more pulpit time

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than me, so I'll stop right there. Okay, So Matthew,

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chapter number six. This is a familiar passage of scripture,

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and this is gonna kind of be our jumping off point.

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We're gonna look at a number of places in scripture

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that th chapter six and verse twenty five. Therefore, I say,

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unto you, take no thought for your life what you

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shall eat, or what you shall drink, Nor yet for

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your body what you shall put on is not the

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life more than meat, and the body than raiment. Build

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the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither

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do they reap nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly

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Father feedeth them. Are ye not much more? Are you

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not much better than they? Which of you, by taking

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thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why

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take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field,

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how they grow, they toil, not neither do they spin. Yet,

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I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory,

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was not a rayed like one of these. Wherefore, if

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God so clothed the grass of the field, which today

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is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he

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not much more clothe ye you, oh ye of little faith.

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Therefore take no thought saying what shall we eat, or

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what shall we drink? Or wherewithal shall we be clothed?

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For after all these things do the gentile seek for

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your heavenly father, knoweth that you have need of all

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these things. But SEEKI first the Kingdom of God and

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his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

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Take therefore no thought for tomorrow. For tomorrow shall take

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thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day

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is the evil thereof. I want to speak to you

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this morning about overcoming worry, or you could say overcoming anxiousness.

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They're really one and the same. As you think through

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that one person said, if you have time to worry,

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you have time to pray. That's a great statement, and

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I love it, but it brings some questions to our mind.

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Can't I be concerned over something without being called worry? Well,

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concern allows me to still function in normal life, while

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worry is crippling. It keeps me from doing my normal responsibilities.

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Among other things, concern motivates me to pray, while worry

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can cause me to think I may have the solution

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to the rh Helm and his meditation book called Stress

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Less Trust More says stress, anxiety, and worry are all

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tyrants seeking to control our lives. Americans will spend two

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hundred and eighty to three hundred and ninety million dollars

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on mental health issues this year. Forty four percent of

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the US population experiences anxiety symptoms of some kind.

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Okay, now, before we go and see where they even

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lead this, clearly they're demonstrating that this is a massive problem. Everywhere.

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People worry, people have anxiety, They spend billions of dollars,

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millions of dollars, they seek professional help. People have all

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kinds of worry and anxiety. So we're going to supposedly

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learn how to overcome it. Now, he tried to draw

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a distinction where you can care about something, you can

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have concern, and that's not worry. Trying to draw that distinction.

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But here's what I would ask you. All right, here's

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what I would ask you before we even get started.

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Now again, my approach to the Sermon on the Mount

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is historical, even though modern Christianity loathes my interpretation of it.

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Mine is consistent with a orthodox, historical Biblical Christianity, even

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though it's been forgotten by modern Christianity. Matthew the Sermon

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on the Mount Matthew five to Matthew seven. The Sermon

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on the Mount is an It's a how would we

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say it, It's an explanation. It's an expansion of our

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understanding of the law of God. It is classified if

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we want to do it this way, it is classified

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as law. It is law, law, law, law law. Anytime

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you read any Biblical passage that says do this, don't

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do this, do this, don't do this, that is classified

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as law. Philologically, it is a law passage. What does

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a law do. It shows you your sin, and it

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shows your inability to keep it, and then it's to

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drive you to Christ. Because Christ is the fulfillment of

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the law. He obeyed it perfectly, and his passive and

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active obedience is imputed accredited to my account by faith.

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It declares that I have kept the law positionally, practically

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I have not. So when I come to the Sermon

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on the Mount, Jesus is going to be expanding. He's

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going to be explaining the law. That means, as I

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read this, I'm going to be condemned by it over

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and over and over and over and over again. So

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I need you to be brutally honest with yourself when

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we read. Therefore, I say unto you, take no thought

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for your life. Take no thought for your life what

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you shall eat, what you shall drink, Nor yet for

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your body what you shall put on. Is not the

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life more than meat, and the body than raiment. Behold

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the fouls of the air, for they so not neither

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do they read, nor gather into barns. Yeah, your heavenly Father,

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feet at them. Are you not much better than they?

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Take no thought? Don't worry about it. Don't have any

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anxiety about it.

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you can be concerned about We try to follow this distinction. Right.

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But is it possible that the standard which Jesus is

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putting forth there is supposed to be, not one that

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we take and say, okay, well that doesn't really make sense.

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That doesn't really make sense. Let me explain this in

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a way that is achievable. Maybe the point is he's

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putting forth a standard where we're gonna be like, I

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am never going to pull this off. And that's the

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whole point. Why take you thought for raiment? So you know,

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take no thought for your life, Take no thought about food,

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take no thought about clothing, take no thought about sho

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don't worry about any of that stuff. Don't worry about

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any of that stuff. It's funny how Christians preach this,

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but then when it comes to election time, Oh, we've

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got to vote for someone who's gonna do this for

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the economy or do it? Wait, I thought, why take

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no thought for it, don't be worried about it, don't

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be concerned about it. God's going to provide, right, you

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don't need to be worried about it. So but then

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we say, well, I'm not worried about it. I'm just

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concerned about it. And concern is different than worry because

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worry is this and that we try to draw this

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distinction because we got to convince ourselves that somehow we

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are fulfilling it. And then we have a passage like this. Therefore,

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take no thought saying what shall we eat? Or what

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shall we drink? Or weather? While with where withal shall

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we be clothed? For all these things do the gentile seek?

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Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of these things.

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God knows everything you need. You don't need to worry

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about it. You don't even need to ask hey, saying

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what shall we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or

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where with all shall we be clothed? You don't need

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to even need to worry about your daily necessities because

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God's gonna provide all of them. Right, seek ye first

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the Kingdom of God? Do you come on, Let's be honest.

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Are we not worried and concern about a million things

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pertained to our physical material existence? Money, food, shelter, employment, cars,

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you name it? Yes? Are we not concerned and worried

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about so many things? Do we truly seek first the

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Kingdom of God? Now? I think we love to to

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we love to preach this, but then we like to

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to minimize this so that it's somehow achievable. But if

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it's truly law. It's not achievable what we are supposed

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to look at and go I can't. I never will

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be holy as He is holy. That's not like, oh

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I can't, No, you can't. You'll be holy as God

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is so. Be ye perfect, Tess, your heavenly Father is perfect.

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You can't. You can't love God with all your heart, mind,

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body and soul. You never will love your neighbors yourself.

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all things without complaining and grumbling to scripture after scripture

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after scripture, command after command after command. Don't do this,

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do this, don't do this, don't do this, do this,

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love your enemy, turn the other cheek. I think maybe

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when it comes to this passage, it's almost always preached

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and they try to give you a four step five

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step program, a five step method so that you'll stop,

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and it'll typically typically go something like this, pray more,

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read your Bible, more, memorize scripture, more, go to church, more,

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join a small group. Okay, pray more, read your Bible. More,

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go to a small group, join a church. It's always

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the same steps, over and over and over and over

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and over, and it's always implied that this will help

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you overcome yet have you been around Christians. I've been

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around Christians and in churches since I was a teenager.

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worry and anxiety and marriages fall apart and this problem.

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Church is split. This happens, This happens, This happens, worry, anxiety, concerned.

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Both church is worried and concerned about money. How are

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we going to earn? Come up with money? Coming up?

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Ways to raise money? This come on? The church is

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filled with it, just like every other segment of life is.

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You can't deny that. They said, well, we worry differently. Okay,

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let's see. Let's see where they go.

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prioritize your mental health. You deserve to be happy. That's

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not a biblical philosophy, by the way. I think, if

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you serve God, you're going to have happiness. But God

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doesn't necessarily promise us that we're going to be happy

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all the time. Right. The chances are in this room

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there are people that struggle with worry and anxiety.

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Lee, are you telling me at a Bible college there's

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people there who worry with who struggle with worry and anxiety.

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You know you could preach this sermon in every church,

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and you know that there's people in the sitting in

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the pew who struggle with worry and anxiety. I wonder why,

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I wonder why. I wonder why you can preach on

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any sin in the Bible and they struggle. I wonder why.

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Oh I know why. Because nobody can keep the law

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perfectly and we all fall short. You ever think that's

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the reason you can always preach these sermons. But is

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the answer going to be Christ or is the answer

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going to be try harder, strive harder, do this, do that.

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Let's see. Let's see some of.

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You to a crippling point. Some of you struggle with it.

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you struggle with it because it comes in different forms.

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to see this simple thought, we must understand that worry

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or anxiety reveals a heart that is seeking something other

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than God.

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Okay, so basically he put everyone in a category where

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somebody is worrying. You may be worrying and not knowing

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that you're worrying. You may worry not no admit it.

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You may be worrying. It may cripple you. Everyone's been

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placed in a category where worry. So worry, though, reveals

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that you're seeking something other than God. If you have worry,

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it's because you're seeking something other than God. That's a

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very assertive and dogmatic assertion. That's very dogmatic assertion. If

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you worry, it's because you're seeking something other than God.

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Now that sounds good, That preaches good. Are we sure

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about that? Are we sure about that? See many preachers argue,

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I'm not saying they do, but I'm saying many that

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worry itself is a sin. If you worry at all,

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it's a sin. And it would make sense because Jesus says,

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do not be anxious, take no thought Matthew six twenty five,

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Matthew six thirty one, Our Matthew six twenty five, six

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point thirty one, and six thirty four. So the logic

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would follow something like this. If Jesus commands something and

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we do the opposite, we are in sin. However, the

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problem is that there is a problem here is because

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it assumes that worry, ending and anxiety are entirely volitional.

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Is worry and anxiety totally volitional? Means you choose. You

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either choose worry anxiety, or you choose the opposite. Is

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that always the case that it's volitional, because some would argue,

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and I think there would be evidence to support this,

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that anxiety often has a physiological and a psychological dimension

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beyond mere disobedience. And if it has a physiological and

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a psychological component, then you can't say it simply there.

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it may require a little bit more nuance. Now I

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know many are gonna hate that and go no, no, no, no, no,

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because I don't want to even consider a physiological or

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psychological possibly. No, no, it's not that way. It's not

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that way, And I think in many cases that does

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great damage to people. Don't worry. Don't you choose worry?

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God above anything else, you wouldn't have it. That's the implication.

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Why does worry exists. Worry reveals a heart that is

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seeking something else other than God. So if you would

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just seek God, you wouldn't have any worry or anxiety.

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So if you have worry in anxiety. Not only do

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you have to feel bad that you have worry in anxiety,

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now you have to feel bad that you're seeking something

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other than God. And that just compounds guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt.

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worry in anxiety about the fact that you keep sitting

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and so oh now it just see. Yeah, sometimes Christianity

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can almost be mental torture. But let's see if they

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acknowledge any of this and how they handle it. I'm

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seeing when I said many preachers, I'm not referring to them.

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Many preachers approach this. Let's see how they approach it.

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That's really what it's about. So let us just start

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off here number one, with the complexities of worry or anxiety.

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to see that worry or anxiety is a problem of

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the mind. It's a problem of the inner man. If

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you will, most sin is remember that these words are

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interchangeable as we work through this to worry or anxiety

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is defined as a state of intense apprehension, uncertainty, and

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fear resulting from the anticipation of a threatening event or

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situation like a test, often to a degree that normal

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physical and psychological function is disrupted. Proverbs twelve and verse

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twenty five says, heaviness in the heart of man maketh

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it stoop, But a good word maketh it glad. Heaviness

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there is anxiety or anxious care stupe literally means to

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depress it. But a good word, a pleasant, a desirable,

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a kind of friendly word gladdens the heart. God understands

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that anxiety will come, but he offers a solution. And

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we're going to see this later in the message.

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he offers a solution. I'm going to be curious to

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know what solution they point us to. Also, I'd like

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to indicate if worry in anxiety arises from the inner man.

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Let's make sure we understand this. What is inside of

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us a corrupt did sinful nature. So if worry and

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anxiety is sin and we have a sinful nature, then

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the issue arises. We have a sinful nature. And guess

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what that means. We're going to worry, have worrying. If

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worrying anxiety is the product of the sinful nature. Because

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it's a product of the inner man, and the inner

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man is corrupt, then worrying anxiety is going to occur.

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And guess what, that's it's going to happen. It's just

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good if it happened. Unless you get rid of the

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uh if, unless you get rid of the sinful nature,

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worrying anxiety is going to be there. It's this is

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the thing. Modern Christianity constantly does this. If the problem

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is our internal pravity, which we have at conception, through

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our entire life, we are born to prave, we have

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a sinful nature. We have it even after salvation. We

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have a corrupted nature. We have a sinful nature. Christianity

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loves to try to point out everything our problems are

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all external. No, the problem is internal. We are corrupted

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on the inside. Because we're corrupted on the inside. Your life,

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my life will constantly produce sin, constantly, sin will manifest

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itself because we can and it's going to demonstrate that

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we never can keep the law. And we're in a

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perpetual state of disobedience. How do we know in a

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perpetual state of disobedience? Because the standard is be holy

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as God is holy. You've never been that, you never

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will be that. You've not been that for one second

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of one minute, of one hour of one day ever,

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nor will you ever be. So you're in a perpetual

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status sin. So can I overcome if I if it's

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a product of the corrupted man? If it is, can

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I overcome my sinful nature? You can't overcome your sinful nature.

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I can't overcome my sinful nature. Then how do we

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overcome sin? We overcome sin by putting our faith in Christ,

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because His perfect righteous and obedience is imputed in my account.

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And then I'm declared to be perfect and righteous even

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though I am not. Then I will sin, sin continue

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to send my entire life until glorification. When then I

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am this sinful flesh is glor glorified, and the sinful

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nature is gone. But that's not the way it's typically handled.

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Let's see where they go.

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I believe that all of you, in some form or another,

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will deal with worry and anxiety. That may not be

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your natural propensity, but I think you're going to go

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to it eventually. And God's been teaching me some things

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about this over the last years. Mine shows up a

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lot of times in the fact that I want to

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be in control, and so I'm anxious about an event

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that I can't exactly control. One time, we had a

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deadline and the more we went on the trip and

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the traffic, and I got a little more anxious about it,

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and the Holy Spirit just said, are you in control

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of this trip?

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Oh? No? Okay, Well he's acknowledging basically everyone's gonna deal

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with it. So already we already know that not everyone's

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going to be perfect. So but now we have God

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speaking to people directly outside of scripture. So now the

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Holy Spirit, So the Holy Spirit. So okay, I don't understand.

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I don't understand this. It's so weird because a good

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portion of my Christian life, when I hear people say

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God spoke to me, God told me, God spoke to me,

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I would always say, Okay, that's the charismatic movement, right,

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that's the charismatic movement. They believe in continued revelation outside

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of scripture, that don't believe in soul the scripture, that

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don't believe in scripture alone, even though they try to

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claim they don't. If God is speaking outside of the Bible,

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then the Bible's not the final authority. And if God

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spoke to you directly, is that are you in control

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of this trip? If you were writing that out in

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a story, then guess what would be in quotes are

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you in control of this trip? And it would be

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a quote directly from God, meaning you have been given

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the direct words of God, which you need to then

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put in your Bible because you have the inerrant inspired

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word of God that was spoken directly to you. So

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then the Bible is not the final authority. And if

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God is going to say are you are you in

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control of this trip? If He's going to speak directly

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asking you a direct question, then I wish God would

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speak directly and then solve all of our doctrinal problems

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and all of our theological problems, so Christianity would not

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be a divided mess where nobody can agree on anything.

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We can't agree on repentance, can't agree on baptism, cantagrae

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on the Lord's Supper. Oh, my goodness, gracious, it's God

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always speaks directly, but he never speaks directly to fix

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the problems that are clearly present around us. And if

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God can speak directly and go well, well, Wait a minute,

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Wait a minut are you in control of this trip?

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Couldn't God then speak directly to all of us anytime

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we're getting ready to send and say, what are you doing?

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Stop doing it?

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Oh?

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Okay? And because God is speaking directly to you, I

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think that would probably do a pretty good job of

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getting your attention. So now God speaks directly to us

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outside of the Bible, and he speaks so directly you

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can directly quote him.

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Like nope, I'm not guess who is God is? And

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he can clear the traffic or he can do whatever

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he wants to do. And so really the point was

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I wanted to be in control. As is well known

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today in the fields of medicine and psychology, anxiety can

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weigh a man down, literally calls a man to bow down,

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or depress him. An emphatic kind of word. However, can

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give an anxious or depressed person support and can cheer

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him up. Now, I'm not going to get into the

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clinical aspects of depression. That's not what I'm talking about today,

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but I can tell you that when you're anxious or worry,

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it leads to other things. Matthew six, particularly as he

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deals with this idea of take no thought. In other words,

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don't worry, don't be anxious, And he uses that over

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and over and over again in our passage. If you

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look at Matthew six in the context, suggests that we've

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made too much of this world. This world has become

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what's important to us when we begin to worry or

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be anxious. We don't often quote Freud from this pulpit

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because we blatantly disagree with him. Right, doctor love in

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lots of ways. But I thought this was an interesting

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statement by him and his introduction lectures on psychoanalysis, he

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says this, and I quote, there is no question that

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the problem of anxiety is a riddle whose solutions would

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be bound to throw a flood of light on our

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whole mental existence. Powerful statement coming from a man believing

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what he believed. Another author says, take worry, for example,

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it's typical described as overthinking something, feeling uneasy, or as

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being concerned. Think about that devoted mother with her constant

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late night watches at the window until her child arrives home,

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or the concerned husband fearing a potential job loss. Who

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of us haven't dealt with some kind of similar feelings

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problems arise. When worries some thoughts become all consuming and

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therefore call sinful responses. So it's important that we think

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first off that this is a mind problem. It's how

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we're thinking, and we've got to align our thinking about

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God's words. So what are we So?

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What we would really need to determine here is when

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does worry become a sin? Can you worry and not sin?

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Or does it only become a sin when the worry

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leads to sinful thoughts or sinful actions? But it says

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but some would say worry is a sin because Jesus

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commands you not to do it. So the minute you worry,

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you've committed a sin. Now, I think if we maintain

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that standard, which is what the law, the law always

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has a standard that we cannot achieve, then this will

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demonstrate we're constantly in sin. In fact, as I think,

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if we consider it this way, the claim that we

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can simply choose to obey and not worry or be

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anxious not only does it, it seems to completely contradict reality.

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If Christians can truly stop worrying simply by choosing to

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do so, why do then even most faithful believers struggle

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with it and everyone does right, But scripture acknowledges that

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human weakness persist. If worry is a sin, then every

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single Christian continually sins in this way, making any teaching

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that would even hint at not being able to do

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it and obeying it or being obedient would be completely fraudulent.

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So if we if we worry is sin, If just

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to worry a sin, everyone does it to some level

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where all then are in perpetual state of sin. Therefore,

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then that would be this is law, And then we

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need Christ because Christ then is the one who did

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this perfectly right. He obeyed it perfectly. So either you've

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got to change this so that we'll worry is not

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a sin, it's what you do with it, or well, no,

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Jesus says, don't worry, so then this is what. Well,

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then you have to go back to a law interpretation.

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Let's see which way they go.

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On. What are we concentrating? But number two, worry is sin.

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God makes it very clear verse thirty four of our text.

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Take therefore no thought for tomorrow. God says you're not

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to do this. We can go to Philippians chapter four,

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turn with me there, because this is an excellent verse.

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Okay, well there you have it. You worry, U sin.

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So if you worry, you're in sin. Okay, well, at

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least that's maintaining the right standard. So then what's now,

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What is the solution going to be? Is the solution

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going to be? Hey, worry us in and we we

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can all avoid it. We can all we can, we

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can all reach a point where we don't do it.

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I will argue we're never going to get there. And

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all this is going to do is lead to this

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performance legalistic. Oh I'm gonna try harder. I'm gonna try harder.

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I'm gonna try harder. You better look for something else

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for hope. You better look for something else for peace.

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You better look for something else for a solution. And

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the solution is Christ keeps the law for you. It's

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only in Christ who fulfills all righteousness. He fulfills the

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law for you. It's if this is law, then the

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only solution is gospel. And the gospel doesn't tell you

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what to do. The Gospel shows you what Christ has

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done for you. So I think the way this passage,

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this passage is almost always preached this way. Hey, this

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is worry. And then gives all kinds quotes about worry

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and then shows you that we all worry, and then

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shows us that this is sin, and then we'll find

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out what the solution is going to be. Now I'm

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most likely this. Solutions always become do this, do this,

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do this, do this, do this? Hey, do you don't

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want to worry? Well, then you care more about the

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Kingdom of God than you care about anything else. If

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you can make yourself seek first the Kingdom of God,

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then you won't worry. Well if then that just gives

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you something else to do. So the solution always is

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in works. The solution is always in what we do,

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instead of finding the solution in Christ.

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Of Scripture as well Philippians chapter number four. You're familiar

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with this for sure, But what does he say in

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verses six and seven? There be careful, don't be apprehensive,

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don't have anxiety, don't be anxious, don't be unduly concerned,

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be careful for nothing. That's pretty all inclusive, isn't it?

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Would that include a school bill? Would it include a

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trip that you're going to take? Would it includes your

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future after graduation? Would it include fill in the blanket?

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Really includes everything? But in everything by prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving. Let your request be made known unto God.

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And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall

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keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. See, worry

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is a robber of peace. We don't have peace when

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we're worrying, when we're anxious, we're commanded not to do so.

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Paul exhorted the Philippians to pray instead of anxiety. Praying

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with thanksgiving involves trusting God. I'm going to take this

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to God and let him ultimately decide. Take no thought.

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Is this same idea? Don't be worrying, don't be anxious

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about that. We're going to come back later to this

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idea of peace, Lord willing. So do we excuse our sin? Well,

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I'm just worrying a lo God says, don't do it.

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Number three. Worry is rooted in unbelief or belief in

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the wrong thing, as are mini sins again Matthew six

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and verse thirty. Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass

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of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast

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in the oven, shall he not much more clothe you are,

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your little faith? What's this really about? Well, it's rooted

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to unbelief. I don't believe that God is going to

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provide what I need. Well, you don't believe what God said,

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then it's a matter of okay, well I don't believe this,

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or I believe in something wrong, which is well, I

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believe if God loved me, he would do but that's

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not necessarily true either. The fact is, sometimes God treats

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one person this way and another person this way. Sometimes

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somebody's head gets cut off and another one gets released

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00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:09.119
from prison. Can we always understand all those things? No?

699
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:13.400
Now, I do love the fact that he's acknowledging this. Hey,

700
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:16.360
we're supposed to trust in God. We're supposed to believe

701
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:18.280
in God, and that's supposed to take care of our

702
00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:21.320
worry and anxiety. But be but read the small print.

703
00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:23.480
You can trust in God. It doesn't mean he's getting

704
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:25.079
you out of prison, doesn't mean you're not going to

705
00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:27.000
get your head cut off, doesn't mean he's going to

706
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:29.800
help you, doesn't mean he's going to do anything. But hey,

707
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.239
but you trust in God, so don't worry, don't have

708
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:35.440
any anxiety because God's in control. But God may not

709
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:36.880
get you out of prison, and you may get your

710
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:43.440
head chopped off, but don't worry. But don't worry.

711
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:45.000
How do.

712
00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:49.519
That's your leg? Okay, I'm really worried about this. Well,

713
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.280
just trust God. God's going to take care of it.

714
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.199
Oh what does that mean? Well, I don't really know,

715
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:56.199
because you may get your head chopped off and you

716
00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:58.880
he may not even come visit you while you're in prison,

717
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:00.760
and you just may die. Now, he may show up

718
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:02.639
somewhere else and raise another person from the dead, but

719
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:05.440
he may just leave you to rot. So God, So

720
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:07.840
you're telling me to trust God, but I can't be

721
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:10.199
certain that God's going to actually help in my situation. No,

722
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:12.760
I can't promise you that. But don't worry. Don't have

723
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.000
any anxiety, because that's it. But not to have any

724
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.480
worried anxiety means I trust God? Right, trust God? But

725
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.360
what am I trusting God for? Well, I don't really

726
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:29.559
know because I can't guarantee you that. God I don't

727
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:34.039
like if you think about that logically, I don't know

728
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.119
how that is supposed to take care of all of

729
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:40.800
your worried anxiety.

730
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:44.719
That's up to God. But you know what, it's great

731
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:49.199
to let God be God because we make a poor God.

732
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.960
That's what it really roots to. Jesus uses this phrase

733
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:57.760
when the disciples doubt God's ability to take care of them.

734
00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:59.760
God can take care of you. So what do we

735
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:03.559
really believed? Number four, When we worry we desire something

736
00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:07.159
in the place of God, give verse thirty two. For

737
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.360
after all these things, do the gentile seek for? Your

738
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:12.480
heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things?

739
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:16.840
If God knows that you need them, is he going

740
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:21.599
to provide them? Yes? He is. So if he's not

741
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:28.639
providing them, guess what that means, we don't need them?

742
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:29.400
WHOA Okay?

743
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:31.000
God?

744
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:34.440
So if you need something, God's going to provide it.

745
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.159
But if God doesn't provide it, then you don't need it.

746
00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:41.920
So if you're in prison, you're about to get your

747
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.679
head chopped off, and God doesn't provide you release, well

748
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:48.480
you don't need release. If your mother is laying in

749
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:51.719
the hospital dying and you're a teenager and you've been

750
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:54.639
separated from your mother because of abuse and the home,

751
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:56.679
and you've been and you've been pulled out of that home,

752
00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:58.719
and now you're pleading with God to give you one

753
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:01.199
possible chance to talk to her before you die, and

754
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:03.400
instead of healing her or even giving her the ability

755
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:05.800
to regain any consciousness so that you could talk to her.

756
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.239
You don't really need that, So God's not going to

757
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:10.639
provide it. So you die. If your father has cancer

758
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:13.280
and you've spent a life of problems with your father

759
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:15.280
and all the things that happened as a result of

760
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.320
the death of your mother, and you pray that God

761
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:20.000
would heal him from cancer, and well, you don't need that.

762
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:25.440
And I'm talking about real life experiences for me. If

763
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:28.280
you are living in an abusive home and you're getting

764
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:30.679
beat and you're getting beat and you're getting beat and

765
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:33.480
you're getting abused, and you're getting abused, and you plead

766
00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:35.880
with God to stop it, and God doesn't do it,

767
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:41.960
it's because you don't need it. If you're a young

768
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:44.519
person being molested and you cry out to God for

769
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:46.679
God to do because you have a need to stop

770
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:49.840
the abuse, but God doesn't provide it, well you don't

771
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:51.920
need it. Is that the way we're going to handle that.

772
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:02.079
God will give you what you need and if you don't,

773
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:13.400
if he doesn't, it's because you don't need it. See,

774
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.480
when you we as Christians, we say lots of things.

775
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:18.760
Sometimes I don't think we take things to a logical

776
00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:22.239
conclusion in any way, shape or form. Now, now what

777
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:26.199
we typically it'll be younger Christian typically mentor well that's right,

778
00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:28.440
God is sovereign. If he doesn't want you to have it,

779
00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:29.920
you don't have to have it. And they'll talk a

780
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:32.599
big game, you know, they'll they'll puff out their chest

781
00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:36.159
and all, yeah, sovereignty of God and talk all such

782
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:38.079
a big game. Yeah, talk a big game until I

783
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:41.400
don't know's you it's your eight year old daughter lying

784
00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:44.639
in the hospital dying, and then you know, well, hey,

785
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:46.760
if it doesn't heal your child, you don't really need it.

786
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:48.719
Oh I neither did your child. A child didn't need

787
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:53.119
to be healed. But anyway, see, it's a big game

788
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.239
to talk until we turn on the news and people

789
00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:59.559
are suffering or dying in Ukraine, or they're suffering and

790
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:03.199
dying Gaza, or children were slaughtered in a school shooting,

791
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:06.199
or people are dying of this disease or suffering from

792
00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:09.719
this disease, or go visit a children's hospital, or children

793
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:15.760
are suffering from terminal diseases. Hey, God knows your need

794
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:19.519
and if he and he'll will provide your need. But

795
00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:21.800
if he doesn't provide. It's because you don't need it.

796
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:35.400
When we say things, we gotta understand how that can

797
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:40.519
be heard, right, that can be heard in a lot

798
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:41.679
of messed up ways.

799
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:47.880
And you're like, well, I think I do. Well, that's

800
00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:50.519
because you're putting your place, yourself in the place of God.

801
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.679
I remember one time years ago, college bills and all

802
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:57.760
that kind of stuff, and I was down to about

803
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.039
a half a tank of gas in the car and

804
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:01.920
we had no money, and I was like, Lord, I

805
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:03.639
need gas because I got to do this and I

806
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:05.159
got to do that. And the Holy Spirit said, well,

807
00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:06.840
how much guess you have in your car? And I'm like, well,

808
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:08.199
I have a a tank. He said that you don't

809
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:11.039
need it yet. Oh.

810
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.599
God just speaks directly to him, just speaks directly to

811
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:19.119
him about God just speaks directly to him about how

812
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:23.480
much gas he has in his gas tank. God just

813
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:28.559
speaks directly. That must be awesome. Man, God just speaks

814
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:33.280
directly to you. That's got to be great. I wish

815
00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:36.719
you would speak directly to if he speaks directly to you,

816
00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:38.320
I mean, I wish you he would just go ahead

817
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:40.320
and help you write a commentary, and then it could

818
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:45.239
just be an infallible magisterial authority commentary. It could be

819
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:48.519
like God speaks directly to me, not only about how

820
00:47:48.599 --> 00:47:51.679
much gas is in my car, okay, but he speaks

821
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:58.800
directly to me. I don't know about baptism, Lord's Supper, salvation, repentance, ecclesiology, eschatology,

822
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.119
on and on and on and on, and I haven't

823
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:02.880
all written down. I mean, if God is talking to me,

824
00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:05.079
it sounds like God just talks to him directly, and

825
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:07.760
numerous times. This is the second story where God speaks

826
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:24.840
directly to him, direct words that he is quoting verbatim.

827
00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:21.039
And I'm like, Lord, I don't like to live on

828
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:24.440
the last minute. I'd like to have it. Now. He

829
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:26.440
didn't give it to me. Now why because I didn't

830
00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:30.960
need it. Now, obviously I didn't run out of gas, right.

831
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.559
So if I ever run out of gas, it's because

832
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.039
I didn't need it. So you didn't run out of gas,

833
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.239
so obviously you didn't need it. But if you would

834
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:48.679
have ran out of gas, because I've ran out of

835
00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:50.880
gas before, have you ever ran out of gas before?

836
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:01.880
I can remember a night coming home. Well, I won't

837
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:08.639
go into horrible stories of my past Okay, all right,

838
00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:09.800
let's just keep going.

839
00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:15.960
So what little God are we seeking? We've got to

840
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:20.039
be careful. It's a place of God. Number five. Worry

841
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:23.400
can be life dominating. In other words, for some of you,

842
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.719
worry is your idol. It's what you go to. Proverbs

843
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:30.280
twelve and verse twenty five. We're gonna do a little

844
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:32.679
bit of turning this morning Proverbs twelve and verse twenty five.

845
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:38.679
We've already read this a little bit. But heaviness in

846
00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:42.840
the heart of man maketh it stoop, But a good

847
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:47.840
word maketh it glad. So worry can be life dominating.

848
00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:51.840
It can lead to depression. One person says, with depression,

849
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:56.159
I sometimes find myself sinking too quickly sink set my

850
00:49:56.280 --> 00:49:59.400
hope in God. Other times I'm too distracted by whatever

851
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.079
I'm depressed about to even set my hope in God.

852
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:05.039
In other words, I'm so spinning out of control that

853
00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.719
I'm not thinking about my God. He continues. One author

854
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:11.280
has said that anxiety steals mental real estate and emotional energy,

855
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:17.320
and I agree, worry can't affect you physically.

856
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.639
Now, we're not going to get anywhere close to the

857
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:26.199
end of this, and maybe we will return to this

858
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:28.519
because this has brought up some serious questions. Right, this

859
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:31.239
is brought up some serious questions, and it connects back

860
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:33.440
to the earlier question that we started with, what is

861
00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:35.480
the evidence of God's presence in your life? Some people

862
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:37.159
believe the evidence of God's presence here in your life

863
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.119
is peace, joy, meaning the absence of worry and anxiety.

864
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:42.760
So if God is present, you won't have worry in anxiety.

865
00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:45.559
This says, if you have worry in anxiety, you've sinned.

866
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:50.159
And but you're supposed to trust God because God will

867
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.599
give you whatever you need, but you may not get

868
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:54.960
what you need because God decides you don't need it.

869
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:57.400
So that means you can't really trust that God's going

870
00:50:57.480 --> 00:50:59.559
to give you what you need because God may say

871
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:01.480
you don't need it, so you may not actually get it.

872
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:03.920
So it means you never really know if God's gonna

873
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:05.639
do what you need to do because you don't get

874
00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:07.719
to So what you have to just do is whatever

875
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:10.519
happens to you. Well, this is what God wants to

876
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:12.280
happen to me. He wants me to be beaten, he

877
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:14.599
wants me to be abused, he wants me to suffer.

878
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:16.320
He doesn't want me to have this. He doesn't want

879
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:18.920
He doesn't want my family member to be healed. He

880
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:24.440
doesn't want this. He wants me to die. Okay, I mean,

881
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:26.719
I don't know how this just just just creates this

882
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.519
actually creates an environment where I think you may worry

883
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:34.199
or he have anxiety. More So, I again believe that

884
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.719
the whole problem here begins first and foremost by mishandling.

885
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:42.880
This text Matthew six twenty five through thirty four is law.

886
00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:46.559
It's saying, don't do this, don't do this, do this,

887
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:51.639
that's law. Law shows me my sin, shows my inability,

888
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:54.719
drives me to Christ, and in Christ he obeys it.

889
00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.679
So in Christ, in my position, I don't worry. Therefore

890
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.440
I obey the law. Practically, I'm still going to worry

891
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.960
and struggle. But if we approach it that way, if

892
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:08.000
we understand the Sermon on the Mount as law that

893
00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:10.559
is designed to reveal our sin and drive us to Christ,

894
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:13.840
then the passage on worrying anxiety in Matthew six would

895
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:18.079
take on a completely different meaning than what is typically

896
00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:21.239
presented in sermon after sermon after sermon, and in the

897
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:25.599
sermon that we're currently listening to. Instead of simply being

898
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.280
a command to stop worrying, as if we could perfectly

899
00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:33.119
obey it. The passage would serve as yet another example

900
00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:37.400
of our inability to live up to God's perfect standard.

901
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.440
This this would if we go with the law based approach.

902
00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.039
This is how it would change our entire interpretation. Right

903
00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:50.360
Number one, it would reveal our sinfulness. If Jesus words

904
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:53.960
about worrying, anxiety, or law, then rather than merely instruction

905
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:57.079
on how to live, then they expose how far short

906
00:52:57.119 --> 00:52:59.719
we fall. The reality is is that even the most

907
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:03.920
faith full Christian experiences worry. If the standard is to

908
00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:08.679
never be anxious, to never worry, then who can claim obedience?

909
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:12.639
This should lead us to conviction, not a self help

910
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:17.599
approach where we try to do better. It should drive

911
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:21.400
us to Christ. The proper response is not to know

912
00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:25.119
gret our teeth and force ourselves to stop worrying, but

913
00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:28.599
to recognize that we need Christ's righteousness. Just as the

914
00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:33.400
commands against anger and lust reveal our inner corruption, so

915
00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:36.559
too does this command. It exposes our lack of trust

916
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:38.800
in God. It should humble us and make us cry

917
00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:43.840
out for the righteousness that only comes by faith. So

918
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:47.119
number one, it should reveal your sinfulness. You should not

919
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.880
water down the command. You should accept the how how

920
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:55.440
strong this command is, how perfect it is, and how

921
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.159
far you're going to fall short. It should drive you

922
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:01.960
to Christ. Number three, what does SHO do is you

923
00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:05.280
should see Christ as the fulfillment. If the Sermon on

924
00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:08.239
the Mount is law, then Christ is the only one

925
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:10.960
who has perfectly ever fulfilled it. He is the one

926
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:14.119
who fully trusted the Father even in the face of suffering.

927
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.800
When he tells us not to worry, it is not

928
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:21.320
just a command. It is an invitation to rest in

929
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:25.280
his finished work, knowing that He has already accomplished what

930
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:30.079
you never can nor you ever will. So then we

931
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:34.480
need a gospel centered approach to anxiety instead of saying

932
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:39.559
stop worrying because it's a sin. You just need to obey.

933
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:41.920
You just need to read your Bible more, you need

934
00:54:41.960 --> 00:54:44.360
to pray more, you need to do this, hey, seek

935
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.639
the Kingdom of God first, instead of just saying stop, stop,

936
00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:49.719
do this, don't do this, don't do this. What you

937
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:52.199
need is a gospel centered approach, and it would go

938
00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:56.960
something like this, worry reveals my lack of trust in God.

939
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.320
This is a failure to meet Godd's perfect standard. But

940
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:06.559
what that is precisely why we need Christ. So through

941
00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:11.039
him I am forgiven, and through him I can grow

942
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:16.039
in trusting the Father more so a gospel centered approaches. Yes,

943
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:20.480
worry reveals my lack of trust in God. Yes, worry

944
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:22.920
reveals I may be seeking other things more than the

945
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:24.760
Kingdom of God. Yes, it shows all of it. It

946
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:29.280
shows my sinfulness. Yes, and I don't water down the standard.

947
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:32.079
I fully admit this is a failure to meet God's

948
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:36.400
perfect standard. And then I can acknowledge this is why

949
00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:39.480
I need Christ. And then I go to Christ. And

950
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:42.320
it's through him that he is forgiven. His perfection is

951
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:46.360
imputed to my account, and it's in him. Hopefully then

952
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:50.400
there can be growth and trying to learn to trust

953
00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:53.880
a little bit. More so, if we understand the Sermon

954
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:56.800
on the Mount as a law, this radically shifts our

955
00:55:56.840 --> 00:55:59.760
focus instead of turning to Matthew six into a burdensome

956
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:02.559
come man that we must obey to prove our faithfulness.

957
00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:05.039
We see it then as another example of why we

958
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:08.199
need Christ. This doesn't mean we embrace worry, but it

959
00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:12.280
means our response isn't legalistic self effort. It's repentance. It

960
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:25.960
is faith and it is resting in the righteousness of Christ.

961
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:30.159
Now I can say more, but you get the idea.

962
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:33.800
You see the direction this is going. That we'll listen

963
00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:35.599
to just a little bit more. But I think we've already.

964
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:39.000
Now I'm trying to give you a completely radically different approach.

965
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:41.679
You've got to learn to see any passage that says,

966
00:56:41.679 --> 00:56:43.320
do this, don't do this, do this, don't do this,

967
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:46.119
do this, don't do this, it is law. And what

968
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:48.679
it's going to constantly show you is I'm never gonna

969
00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:52.119
do this clause I've never. I'm never. I'm gonna. I'm never,

970
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:56.239
And that's the point. You are never, but Christ has

971
00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:57.960
Let's listen to just a little bit more.

972
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:03.519
The Bible says that the Holy Spirit owns our body

973
00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:06.880
for strength in six nineteen twenty. So therefore we should

974
00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:10.639
honor it, and I can give myself over to wickedness.

975
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:13.960
First Romans, chapter six and verse nineteen says, yield you

976
00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:16.760
your members, and if I am anxious, if I'm worried

977
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:22.159
that I'm yielding them to something that is unrighteous. Another author,

978
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:23.760
and I'm gonna quote quite a bit of wrong, stop

979
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:25.880
to tell you every time, but suffering from anxiety can

980
00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:29.559
feel incapacitating. The emotions of fear and panic are so real,

981
00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:34.119
so strong, and seemingly so impossible to resolve. Is it

982
00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:37.880
possible to worry yourself sick? According to the Mayo Clinic,

983
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:41.679
it is. Your body has a hard wired self defense system,

984
00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:45.920
commonly known as the flight or fight response. The response

985
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.400
is supposed to kick in when you encounter an immediate

986
00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:51.639
physical threat and turn off when the threat passes. However,

987
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:55.360
your body can get stuck in that mode because of stress.

988
00:57:56.800 --> 00:58:00.519
It's like running your engine at seven thousand RPMs. You

989
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:02.679
can do that to pass somebody, but you do that

990
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:06.159
all day long, your engine will not last. It's not

991
00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:15.000
gonna happen. So is worry and impacting your health. Worry, stress,

992
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.119
and fear are closely related, and we don't have time

993
00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:21.199
to even delve into the fear aspect, but there most

994
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.880
of the time fear is coming into this process of

995
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:28.639
worry and stress. Another truth that we can see is

996
00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:30.920
we can add sin to sin when we deal with

997
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.320
worry sinfully, like we can be controlling or manipulative when

998
00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:39.800
we think that we're in control. We cannot trust God. Right.

999
00:58:41.039 --> 00:58:43.559
The horse is prepared against the day of battle. But ultimately,

1000
00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:47.559
safety is who it's of the Lord. Listen, I'm not

1001
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:51.480
saying that I don't lock my doors at night, but ultimately,

1002
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:53.679
if someone wants in my house, they're gonna get in

1003
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:56.920
my house. You can have every alarm system you want

1004
00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:58.880
and every camera you want. If they want in, they

1005
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:04.000
can get in. I trust the Lord with that. We

1006
00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:08.440
can do it by misusing drugs, alcohol, shopping something else

1007
00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:12.000
to medicate the problem. We can do it by not

1008
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:17.239
fulfilling responsibilities that others expected us to do. So is

1009
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:20.840
our worry causing us to sin in other areas? It

1010
00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:26.559
almost always does. So again, we can plan, but we

1011
00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:31.159
must trust again Matthew six and verse thirty four. Take

1012
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:34.480
therefore no thought for tomorrow. For tomorrow shall take thought

1013
00:59:34.599 --> 00:59:37.840
for the things of itself sufficient unto the day. Is

1014
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:42.519
the evil thereof we so much think about what might

1015
00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:47.519
happen tomorrow. We can plan. You should plan. You should

1016
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:50.760
not wait till today to do a project that's due tomorrow.

1017
00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:54.639
You shouldn't do that. Okay, So it's not wrong to plan.

1018
00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:58.639
But ultimately we trust God because the truth is, there

1019
00:59:58.679 --> 01:00:02.000
is not one person in this room that actually knows

1020
01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:06.880
what's going to happen in the next five minutes. We

1021
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:09.639
don't know, and there's not a single person in this

1022
01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:16.679
room can control it either. That is totally up to God.

1023
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:20.880
All Right, I guess we will stop there because we're

1024
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:24.440
at sixty minutes. So basically what we've been given is

1025
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:31.239
worries a sin. Don't do it. Trust God because he

1026
01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:33.679
knows what you need and he'll give you what you need,

1027
01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:37.039
well unless he doesn't think you need it. So you

1028
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:39.320
can't really trust that God will give you what you need.

1029
01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:41.719
And if you don't get it, it's because you don't

1030
01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:45.239
need it, no matter how horrible bad the situation is.

1031
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:48.159
So you can't really trust that God will provide. I

1032
01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:50.119
guess you can trust that God will provide if you

1033
01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:52.960
need it, but God is the one who determines if

1034
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:55.119
you need it, not you. And because we can look

1035
01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:57.360
through life and see people not being given this or

1036
01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:59.360
this or this or this or this or this or this,

1037
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:04.480
God didn't feel like that you needed it, So then

1038
01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:07.719
can you really trust. Hey, God knows what I need,

1039
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:09.639
so I can trust God. But I but I mean,

1040
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:10.800
I get what I need, so I don't know if

1041
01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:12.880
I can really trust God. If God's going to do

1042
01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:15.320
something or not do something, I have no way of knowing,

1043
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:17.639
because they made it very clear that God doesn't always

1044
01:01:17.639 --> 01:01:22.840
do these things. So hey, don't worry. Trust God. But

1045
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:24.920
I mean, you can't really trust God that God's going

1046
01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:26.239
to do it this way this way or this way

1047
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:29.159
this way. God may not do anything, as he gave

1048
01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:33.320
the illustration. For some you may lose your head. Others

1049
01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:39.320
God may release from prison. But hey, trust God, but

1050
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:41.440
you still may get your head chopped off and have

1051
01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:42.719
not released out of prison.

1052
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:43.320
Like, I.

1053
01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:48.360
Don't know exactly what that means. That that's basically is, Hey,

1054
01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:51.159
trust that the situation is gonna work out. It may

1055
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:52.960
not work out, but I mean trust that it will.

1056
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:55.039
I mean, but I mean, don't worry about it. But

1057
01:01:55.119 --> 01:01:56.679
I mean I can't say that it's gonna work out.

1058
01:01:56.679 --> 01:02:05.519
I mean, who knows. See, if we go from a

1059
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.320
law gospel, then it's more like, yem, this is a

1060
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:11.000
high standard. I'm never gonna pull this off. I'm never

1061
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:14.320
gonna pull this off. All right, who has ever obeyed

1062
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:22.920
these words? Jesus Christ? He was able to express his will,

1063
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:24.599
but he's like, Lord, not my will, Your will be

1064
01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:30.280
done into your hands. I commend my spirit. He trusted

1065
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:37.519
the Father completely implicitly. Okay, I won't. But when I

1066
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:40.599
put my faith in him, his obedience to not worrying

1067
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:43.360
and not having anxiety is imputed to my account. So

1068
01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:45.880
then what do I do? I know I'm not supposed

1069
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:49.239
to worry. It reveals my heart of unbelief. It reveals

1070
01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:51.519
my lack of faith, It reveals my sinful nature, It

1071
01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:54.920
reveals my selfishness. It reveals me seeking first things other

1072
01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:57.559
than the kingdom of God. Okay, I can acknowledge that

1073
01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:00.320
I'm a sinner. I turned to Christ. Christ obey all

1074
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:02.519
of this. I put my faith in him. Then this

1075
01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:07.159
is mine by an imputed righteousness. And then hopefully in

1076
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:12.480
practice I can learn some concepts about trying to trust.

1077
01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:15.639
Now I can trust that my sins have been forgiven.

1078
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:18.039
I can trust that christ obedience has been imputed in

1079
01:03:18.079 --> 01:03:21.400
my account. That's guaranteed. But then I have to deal

1080
01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:30.639
with the reality that in this life we don't know anything. Right.

1081
01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:33.119
He says that, hey, if you need it, God will

1082
01:03:33.119 --> 01:03:36.400
give it to you. But then, but if it doesn't,

1083
01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:38.400
he had already gave himself a way out, Well, then

1084
01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:43.320
you just don't need it. And then the best illustration

1085
01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:46.960
he'd come up with is, I my gas tank was

1086
01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:49.400
at half a tank. And then Jesus God, the Holy

1087
01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:52.199
Spirit just starts talking directly to him. And the reason

1088
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:54.280
the Holy Spirit did not let him get gas or

1089
01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:56.360
get money for gasoline is because he didn't need it,

1090
01:03:56.559 --> 01:03:58.719
and how he and well, because he didn't run out

1091
01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:01.320
of gas. But that does and explain. So wait a minute,

1092
01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:04.679
So if I don't need it, then the situation is

1093
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:07.960
always going to be positive, right, not that, because there's

1094
01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.559
situations that go bad. So does that mean I didn't

1095
01:04:10.599 --> 01:04:13.840
need it? Like I just the whole thing. I don't

1096
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:15.760
even know what I'm supposed to do with any of this.

1097
01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:21.559
So we need a new way of interpreting these passages.

1098
01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:24.320
And that's why I keep constantly harping on the law

1099
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:37.400
gospel distinction. So I don't know. I want, Well, we'll

1100
01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:39.159
have to listen. I will have to listen to the

1101
01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:42.239
end of this and see what the solution is and

1102
01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.159
then maybe we can do some breakdown of the solution.

1103
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:48.519
But I mean the solution. I have a feeling it's

1104
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:50.800
going to be, like, what's the solution? Seek first the

1105
01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:52.599
Kingdom of God? How do you seek first the Kingdom

1106
01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:55.320
of God, You pray, you read your Bible, you go

1107
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.320
to church, you join a small group. I mean, it's

1108
01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:04.360
it's the same standard approach to every problem. All right,

1109
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:08.679
we'll stop there. Thanks for listening. Hope this a little impromptu,

1110
01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:13.320
was somewhat helpful. But because tomorrow things are not going

1111
01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:16.679
as planned, then this is already done and it'll be

1112
01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:19.559
waiting for everyone in the morning, except for those who

1113
01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:21.920
already listen tonight, and then tomorrow we'll see what else

1114
01:05:21.960 --> 01:05:23.840
we can do. All right, Thanks for listening everyone, of

1115
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:24.519
a great night.

1116
01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:24.679
And.

1117
01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:31.199
Well, trust what that Christ has obeyed these commands for

1118
01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:35.159
you and in him, that obedience is imputed to your account.

1119
01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:36.800
All right, God bless