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Introduction

Good morning church!

What a beautiful week!

Here at FCC we just simply teach the Bible simply by going through the Bible one verse at a time, on Book at a time.

We have come as far as verse 25 in Matthew 6, so let us open our Bibles there.

Read Matthew 6:25-34

Prayer

Lord Heavenly Father, we thank you that we can gather together to hear your Word and that you have given us your Holy Spirit.

Please Lord do a work in our hearts today, transform our lives, and make us like you! Lord we all fell short this week, some here today have come with heavy burdens, burdens that only you can bear, so we cast all our cares upon you for your yoke is easy and your burden is light.

Please heal the broken hearted and teach us how to walk circumspectly redeeming the time because the days are evil.

Father please touch our online listeners and us all.

Fill us with your Spirit and remove all distractions that could prevent us from receiving with meekness your implanted Word that is able to save our souls.

In Jesus Name, We Love You! Amen

Review

In looking back to last week, we learned three things:

That Jesus taught us to store our treasures In heaven and not on earth.

Jesus is not teaching that we cannot save, but that we need to have the right perspective which is heaven with regards to the treasures that God has given us.

Everything that God has given us should be used for his glory and service church.

Money is a wonderful servant, but a cruel master.

2.

Where we store our treasures will determine if our eye is full of light or darkness.

It’s not wrong to have things, but if you live for things, your eye is evil, and your life will be dark.

3. We cannot serve God and mammon, materialism or money.

It is not possible to serve tow masters church, for we will love the one and hate the other.

Everyone serves someone.

It either God himself, or the gods of this world that come in all shapes and sizes.

It is important for us to remember here that many of the Pharisee’s taught that devotion to God and money were perfectly compatible.

They believed that earthly riches signified Divine blessing, therefore rich people were regarded as God’s favorites.

So the bottom line is this church, is what we believe about our possessions, where we store our possessions is an indicator of our spiritual condition.

I think the first question we must ask ourselves is why this therefore, therefore?

It is there because of what we covered last week.

Jesus continues in his sermon discussing the impact our focus will have in our lives.

Now I think it is safe to say that we spend a tremendous amount of time worrying church and the Lord addresses it over and over in his Word.

Worry is an indication that we think God cannot look after us.

Oswald Chambers

In the Greek, the command do not worry includes the idea of stopping what is already being done.

In other words, we are to stop worrying and never start it again.

Life Psuchē (life) is a comprehensive term that encompasses all of a person’s being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

Absolutely nothing in any aspect of our lives, internal or external, justifies our being anxious when we have the Master we do.

Worry is the sin of distrusting the promise and providence of God, and yet it is a sin that Christians commit perhaps more frequently than any other.

The English term worry comes from an old German word meaning to strangle, or choke.

That is exactly what worry does; it is a kind of mental and emotional strangulation, which probably causes more mental and physical afflictions than any other single cause.

Worry- merimnaō-(mer-im-nah'-o)- to have anxiety, to be anxious, to be distracted.

Here are some synonyms for worry:

anxious or anxiety

trouble or distress

uneasiness or disquiet

discontentment

agonize or brood upon

get worked up or lose sleep

What are your worrying about today?

How is that going?

Worry is an indication that we think God cannot look after us.

Oswald Chambers

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

D. A. Carson

Jesus is speaking to a culture that did not have refrigerators church, nor did they have an abundance or food, water, or clothing.

Many if not most did not know where their next meal was going to come from.

Most only had a change of clothes and the water was often contaminated and needed to be cut with wine.

Therefore, you would think that they would worry more than us, but that is simply not true.

Think about the amount of time we spend worrying about these things.

SAD...

Said the robin to the sparrow:

“I should really like to know

Why these anxious human beings

Rush about and worry so.”

Said the sparrow to the robin:

“Friend, I think that it must be

That they have no heavenly Father,

Such as cares for you and me.”

Here we see Jesus point his readers to God’s second book which is creation:

God uses his creation to speak to us.

Jesus is on the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee near Capernaum, on a mount, its not a big mount, but there are a lot of birds around that area.

I can see him preaching on worry and then all the sudden a bird flys by and he says this here is verse 26 -27.

Have you ever seen a bird worry?

NO

But what we have seen is that birds and all of God’s creation is persistent in going after the food that God has supplied.

They are not motivated by fear, worry, or stress, they are motivated to eat what the Lord has supplied them.

Yes, this includes are bird feeders church, or the bread we give to the ducks.

Birds are not idle, they are always on the move, for if not they will suffer hunger and die.

We are the same church!!!

Not just physically, but spiritually...

We must go after the food, the Bread of Life so we can thrive spiritually.

This means that no matter how much we worry, it will not make us taller church or the ESV says that worrying cannot add a single hour to our life span.

All the water in the world

However hard it tried,

Could never, never sink a ship

Unless it got inside.

All the hardships of this world,

Might wear you pretty thin,

But they won’t hurt you, one least bit

Unless you let them in.

Worrying causes us to kick God out of our thinking church...

And the root cause of worry is unbelief.

It is a trust issue!!!

The answer to Jesus’s question is we cannot add to our life church anything by worrying, but we can certainly take away from it.

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress.