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Welcome
Special called business meeting right after service today
We are also going out witnessing at 2:00 this afternoon
And a rep from the KBC is going out with us
Pastoral prayer
God’s will in this building
Souls to be saved
Let Your Word transform our lives
INTRODUCTION
Has anyone ever said this to you: “You’re going to worry yourself to death”?
We hear this all the time, but do we truly grasp the truth that it carries?
Worry or stress causes more problems than the actual things we are worried about:
3 out of 4 doctors visits are for stress related illness
Stress increases heart disease by 40% heart attack by 25% stroke by 50%
In 2020 a poll was taken by the American Psychological Association from 3,013 adults.
41% of these gained on average of 30 lbs over the course of 1 year due to STRESS!!
The connection between stress and health is amazing.
Doctors claim the more someone worries they may get sick, the more likely they are to contract an illness.
The more you worry about the health of your heart, the more damage you will do to your heart.
The more you worry you will get a cold, it becomes more likely that you will catch the cold.
BUT Worry is not only bad for our physical health, its also bad for our spiritual health!
Matthew 6:25 (NASB95)
“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Jesus commands us to not worry about our lives!
The Christian life is NOT to be centered upon fear of what tomorrow will bring BUT TO LIVE in the knowledge that it is God is GOD ALMIGHTY who holds tomorrow and it is God ALMIGHTY who takes care of His children
But how do I know that God is going to take care of me?
God has proven Himself faithful by the way he takes care of His Creation
1st Example: Have you ever noticed that the birds are always fed?
How many of you have ever seen a bird pulling a plow?
How about a bird that owned a barn?
How about a bird that planted its own bird seed to grow more bird seed to get him through the winter?
Birds do not have to sow, reap, or store, because God always feeds them
They do not have to worry about how they will feed their young, or have a place for shelter, or make it through harsh winters.
Heres the question God is asking us?
“Are you not worth much more than they?”
You are so valuable to God, that He made you in His image!
You were made in His likeness, adopted as His own, and will be cared for like a good Father takes care of His own child.
In fact, God will take better care of you than your own earthly parents ever could
2nd Example: How about the Lillies of the field
Here is what He is saying: God can create greater beauty with the flowers in a field than the wealthiest man who ever lived with an endless amount of money!
How many of you love the buttercups that come up all on their own?
They may even come up this week as the weather gets up around 70*
How many of you have seen a pair of blue jeans or a lady’s dress that can match the beauty of God’s Creation?
There is no comparison!
If God can make these flowers in the fields so beautiful, that will only be here for about a week, then shouldn’t we trust Him to cloth us as well?
Does God care more about a flower than he does about His own children?
Of coarse not!
Jesus Christ did not die for the flowers of field, BUT He did die for you and I?
There are two problems with Worry:
Worry is it is pointless!
(v 27) “And who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
There is absolutely no benefit in worrying!
It does not change the outcome of our circumstances!
It does not meet our needs!
It does not fix the problem that we are worried about!
It adds no value to our life at all!
In fact, it robs us of the good things in life!
This is why Jesus says, “Do not worry about your life!”
Worry steals our peace!
Worry damages our health!
Persistent worrying for more than two weeks, according to psychology today, can be destructive to your health.
Worrying causes hypertension: increases risk of cardiovascular disease Depresses the immune system Causes ulcers in your digestive system Raises the risk of diabetes Can cause depression Causes you to go bald.
(we have some worriers here today) Accounts for memory loss Worry has no value to us
Worry replaces faith!
(v 30) “You of little faith”
It diverts our attention away from God and onto our problems!
In other words we begin to live like the world as if there is no God
Worry means we have stopped trusting Jesus to meet our needs
Because we forget that God takes care of the birds of the air
And we forget that God dresses the lilies with more beauty than money can buy
And what worry says is God I do not think you can handle this OR I do not think you really love me!
Why did God send Jesus to die a terrible death on the cross?
What motivated Him to do that?
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
If God loves us that much, then shouldn’t we think that he is going to meet our needs as well?
Three important things I need to address:
There is a difference between needs and wants
Jesus does not promise to give us everything that we want
Notice He speaks about food and clothing (basic human needs)
We cant plug in a bigger house or a new car or whatever other thing we may want
God is not our magic genie who has come to give us whatever we want to make us happy
Jesus is also not saying that we no longer have to work
This does not exempt us from the responsibility of earning a living
We cannot sit back on the sofa and say God is going to provide for me I have nothing to worry about
You’re going to be selling that sofa to buy dinner next month
1 Tim 5:8 “But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
It also does not exempt us from taking care of our health
It is wrong to assume we should never go to the doctor because God is going to take care of us
Many people have died by thinking this
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pray or ask God to heal us
But God’s way of healing may very well be through the hands of a physician
God created medicine, he created the knowledge to treat illnesses
MOST IMPORTANT: This promise only applies to people who allow God to rule their lives!
Matthew 6:31–33 (NASB95)
“Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’
“For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Seek first God’s Kingdom and God’s righteousness
I want you to think about a Kingdom
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