Fear, Worry, and Anxiety Session 6

Steps to developing your battle plan:

Identify the worry—and the family of worry.

Floating worry or solvable worry

Consider circle of concern vs. circle of responsibility.

Solvable worry

—do hard things. Trust God’s goodness.

—Facing things b/c you know Christ is there and everywhere that you are. God gives you the strength to obey Him.

2. Floating worry

—Breathing exercises

---Sleep

---Consider your media intake

---Taking this to God’s character

---Taking this to God’s character

---Dig into community

What does victory look like?

What does victory look like?

Consider Jesus in

Read . Read .

Set up the story. Greeks seek Jesus. Something in this triggers—the hour has come. Gentile inclusion. He knows the hour has come. He is now feeling the weight of this. That’s why we read what we do in verse 27 that his soul is greatly troubled.

He is looking at the anguish of the Cross.

So two things I want us to see this morning. I want us to see the emotion of Jesus and I want us to take comfort in that. He isn’t a stoic. He isn’t emotionless. It can be tough “Jesus calls a man he bids him come and die”. Well that hurts. And Jesus gets that.

But secondly I want to answer the question what do we do with that. Are we controlled by our emotions and they rule the day? I think Jesus has much to teach us here. Emotions are real. We experience them. We don’t just dismiss them or rebuke ourselves for feeling a certain way. But they also aren’t sovereign. They matter but they don’t rule.

So you have these Greeks here who want to see Jesus. Sir, let us see Jesus. Strange response. But this is how. You will see Jesus. Let’s dig in here. Look at the dark side of this first.

1) Grain of wheat must die

Fear in death. Death is the enemy. The call to die to ourself. That’s painful isn’t it.

2) Hate our lives in this world.

Jesus had relationships. Aspirations. Very much human. This isn’t THE driving thing in his life. What really has him in anguish we will see in a moment. But certainly and you see this in the narrative in John that he truly did love these people. Tough stuff

3) Follow Christ on this road. Spit upon. Mocked. Pain. Misunderstood. Persecuted.

4) Serve him. A waiter w/o pay. Nobody likes being a servant.

What Christ is suffering is unique and this is really good news for us.

.

So how did he do this?

Now what shall I say….glorify your name! That was the driving force. That meant more to him than how he was feeling. Doesn’t dismiss it. He deals with those emotions. Takes them to the Lord. They are subservient.

And emotions might come. They might follow and get back in order. But we act upon what we know to be true.

Death—fruit

Losing life—eternity “You can’t out-sacrifice His resurrection generosity”

Follow Christ—path to glory

Serve him—path to honored by God

The glory of God is greater than our fear. There is no place where he isn’t. MY ESCAPISM?

Jesus gets it. It’s okay to be overwhelmed. It’s okay to be undone. It’s okay to feel all the feels. But we aren’t goverened by them.

But we blow this. Thankfully Jesus didn’t.