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INTRO
Say something here......We are living in an increasingly anxious culture.
With the ability to have all of the world’s news sent right to our phones and our computers, many of us are worried about situations that do not even affect us directly!
Our minds and our hearts are filled with anxious thoughts and worries.
Amazon follows the most highlights verses that are made on the bible app.
The most highlighted verse is Philippians 4:6 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
As humans we are prone to worry.
There could be countless reasons for our worry and our anxiety.
Jesus comes to us today with an important message:
Here is the main point of the sermon: Jesus commands worry-filled disciples to trust in the sufficient care of their heavenly Father.
This is the main point.
SUB INTRO
Before we get into the text I want to make some clarifying statements.
Anytime we talk about anxiety and worry, especially in todays world, it is always a part of a larger conversation.
What we want to do is to make sure we are applying Jesus’ teaching to the context He intended.
Today there could be 3 different types of people who all need to hear something different:
PERSON 1
This is someone who instead of worrying about things in their life they have chosen to not care about anything!
Their life phrase is “don’t worry and be happy”.
They believe that the right response to worry and fear is to simply not care.
Today what you need to hear and what Jesus will say to you is that the response to worry is not caring about nothing, but actually having a great care about the right thing.
PERSON 2
This could be someone who has just found out they have a cancer diagnosis.
Or maybe their spouse.
And test after test has come back only to get a worse response.
They have recieved the news that life will only get harder and more difficult until they finally pass away.
Today what I do not want you to hear is that if you only had more faith then you wouldn’t worry about the cancer.
We see in the bible that Paul had anxiety over the churches, he even feared for his own life.
Today what you need to hear is that there is a Father who cares for you or your spouse even more than you do.
PERSON 3
The final person is someone who can not stop worrying about if they will have enough, either health or money.
This is a person who is constantly watching the stock market, over-working, going to the doctor every day, because they have this worry that they will not be taken care of.
They aren’t just worried about tomorrow but they are filled with anxiety if they will be able to retire at 62, have enough money to put their kids through college.
This person.
Person 3 is the person that Jesus is speaking most directly to.
Free From Worry in the Father’s Care
INTRO
What worry is: context
THE PROBLEM WITH WORRY擔憂 的問題
Consider the birds
Notice the birds, and see how they live I have birds in my house in the morning
Jesus says they don’t “sew, reap, or gather into barns”
What HE means is that don’t run around worrying about where their food will come tomorrow.
They focus on the food that is given to them today.
However, the birds don’t just sit there and open their beaks and wait for God to drop food in their mouths do they?
No Jesus’ warning here is not against work, but it is against worry!
What happens when we do not trust that God will provide for us through the means and avenues HE has given us?
We store up, we hoard up, we worry, and so we attempt to control.
Do any of you remember almost 2 years ago when Covid 19 hit the US and people were making a mad dash to buy toilet paper?
Even in Taiwan they had to stop people from buying too much toilet paper.
Why?
Because when people are worried, we seek to control.
We store up as much as we can, not trusting that our God will provide.
Wisdom is okay, unbelief is not.
Consider the flowers
But then Jesus moves to the flowers.
What is his point here?
Jesus mentions Solomon.
Why do you think He mentions Solomon?
Solomon was the wealthiest king in Israel’s history.
Solomon had every resource at his disposal, and yet, Jesus says, Solomon’s ability to clothe himself, doesn’t even come close to the way our Father clothes and dresses the lilies.
What is his point?
Many times when we worry, we don’t just seek to control, but we seek to become more self-sufficient.
We imagine to ourselves, that if just had this certain number in the bank account, if we had just more money in our retirement, or if we just made more salary, then we would cease to worry and be able to care for ourselves.
But Jesus’ point is clear: even if you had all of the resources that Solomon had, your ability to care for yourselves does not come close to the ability of our Heavenly Father!
Jesus begins to show us that creation itself testifies to the care of our Heavenly Father.
So we see there is a problem with our worry.
It pushes is into control, it pushes us towards self-sufficiency and away from the care of our Heavenly Father
What worry ultimately does,
The answer is nothing!
Jesus brings worry to its ultimate end.What can worry do?
It accomplishes nothing.
Who of you can add an hour to his life?
IF we can’t do this small thing, then why do we believe that worrying will add anything to our lives?
Friend of Taiwan, not just a Taiwanese thing, but a western thing.
It’s a human thing to try and evade the reality of death.
I want you to think about something: in 100 years none of us will be here.
the Bible tells us that life is a vapor.
Here today and gone tomorrow.
And worrying about that can not add anything to your life.
In fact doctors show that worry about anxiety actually steals life from us!
The root of worry: Lack of faith
Remember 3 people?
ContextL those of use who are have chronic worry about God’s ability to care for us.
Either financially, career wise, health wise, because of that we live our lives under the tyranny of worry.
Jesus gives us the root of our worry.
He tells us that our worry is not because we have a lack of money, a lack of food, or a lack of possessions, He says it is a lack of faith.
A lack of trust.
I know this may not be encouraging, but I promise you, Jesus is telling you this because HE CARES FOR YOU!
Jesus calls us “little faith”.
This is a rebuke from the Lord Jesus.
Jesus says that our worry, and lack of trust is declaring this: that our God, the Christian God, is a God who will feed the birds and clothe the flowers, but leave His children naked and starving.
Our turtles, Taiwan loves their animals.
I lived in a town in the States where animals were treated better than kids.
Do you see the reason why Jesus calls us to repent of this?
“ worry is the belief that God will NOT get things right.
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THE SOLUTION TO OUR WORRY擔憂 的解決
Yet what does Jesus do to those of us who are guilty?
Who are sleepless because we are filled with worry?
Who can’t function during the way because we are constantly worried something will happen?
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