Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Last week [dig.]

- Cast your Life! (“Get out of the way!”; own, others’, God’s)

Nxt: Cast Distractions (Spiritual battle); TODAY: Cast your cares… 1 PETER 5

Remember, Peter is writing to Christians around the world in the middle of intense persecution.

He wants them to live upright lives by trusting GOD & by loving their fellow humans like X - in submission to one another.

Humility his big push!

“Humble yourself” is really the only command in our passage!

Peter then goes on to clarify HOW believers are

1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.

7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

“humble yourself by casting" -- https://netbible.org/bible/1+Peter+5#,

footnote 12

NET: And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand 7 by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.

Cast Your Cares!

First: Define CAREs?

Disclaimer — NOT disorder, imbalance, mental health; CAN be overwhelming

NIV: “anxiety”; OTHER: “cares”, or “troubles”

Gk: “Merimna” = worry/anxiety, as when one does not know whether to do this or to do that

from merizo, lit.

"pulled in different directions”.

When you have a divided state of mind, can’t concentrate on what you need to.

Relatable?

Certain headspace where u are in the middle of some task & mind keeps drifting to a certain topic...

convo.

needs happen; argument; failure; diagnosis; loss; disagreem’t;

Can’t let it go, try as you might.

Won’t seem to lie down and go quietly.

One way we live in humilty is by CASTing these cares on/to Christ.

What it DOESN’T mean to “Cast” your cares.

Pray about them, then continue to worry about them.

Not do anything about it.

Sit and wait for your victory.

~1,050 cmds in NT.

NOT saying follow each…

The apostles/Jesus MUST have u’stood that a person’s will was integral part of following X.

90% cmds: a person to make choice, seek change in behavior.

There may be waiting involved, but that doesn’t mean to sit idly by and do nothing.

Believe your anxiety is sinful.

CAN be sinful or a hindrance; 1) when we have a choice and 2) we choose to wallow [camp] there!

Your anxiety doesn’t matter.

Ignore it & maybe it’ll go away.

Minimize.

Pretend it’s not there.

Fake it ‘til u make it.

What it DOES mean to “Cast” your cares.

Act, & trust Jesus to vindicate you.

Petra, “Good things come to them that wait, not to those who hesitate.

So hurry up & wait upon the LORD.”

Paul? 10 years btwn Damascus rd & 1st miss.

journey!

Cloister up?

Monestery?

Hide away?

NO! (little we know)

Made tents.

Learned & studied.

Prayed.

Preached & debated.

Grew!

Galatians 1:15-17 NET But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

Jesus called him, appeared to him (dramatic), and he obeyed LONG before the plan was laid out.

HE acted!

Partnership with U and Spirit of Christ.

X isn’t always going to deflate hostilities or make amends - he asks us to trust him for the wisdom and the time to make things right, or even stand up for self.

Wade into convo w/ conf.; stand up for self; apologize; admit your emotional state… in a way that honors Jesus and considers others also.

Take care of yourself, and trust Jesus to heal you.

Take your medicine, eat your veggies/mulitiV!

Get a Dr.s opinion, schedule surgery, but don’t completely surrender yourself to their mercy.

Accept prognosis.

plan for worst, but trust that Jesus can bring an amazing healing!!

Is NOT doubting - facing reality with a worldview that MY God is bigger than it!

Should NOT require ignoring your situation…

1 Peter 1:3-4a NET “By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.”

We trust in a LIVING hope - we can live ea.

day with that same HOPE!

Resurrection life flows thru our veins!

Something that’s not fully realized yet.

Live in tension!

And we know that - even when this world, our gov’t, my body, fails me - GOD will sustain me and I have a greater reward waiting for me with Jesus!

Regularly leave your anxiety at the cross.

Remember: Inherently, your anxiety is NOT sinful.

Not good or healthy…

Some argue that you CARING about that event is a good thing, can move you in a better trajectory because of it.

However,

BUT… can be sinful or a hindrance when we choose to wallow [camp] there!

(sometimes, can’t help/explain feeling!)

Jesus had anxiety in Gethsemane.

But he overcame by accepting Father’s will and submitting to him in obedience.

CRY OUT.

PRAY (with others)!

Hope, unwavering trust, & an expectation for victory!

Philippians 4:6 NET Do not be anxious about anything.

Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

<3 of Thank'ess… come before him again and again; tell him all about it!

ONE.

Theraputic for you; TWO.

Chance to hear from Him/change outlook.

Get it off your chest!

Just speaking it out loud is helpful.