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Week 4: Love Reigns Over Our Future
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34
For Mother's Day- One Time A Little Boy Was
Tags: Mother's Day
For Mother’s Day- One time a little boy was called up front to solve a math problem.
The teacher asked him, “You have a pie with 6 pieces.
There are 5 in your family: your brother, your sister, your mother and father and you.
Each one gets one piece of the pie.
Now you only have one piece left.
We don’t want to cause any disagreements so it is decided to divide that last piece of pie evenly among your family.
Tell me with a fraction how it will be divided up.”
The little boy said, “1/4th.”
The teacher said, “No, it would be 1/5th because there are 5 in your family and it will be divided evenly.”
The little boy said, “No, teacher, it will be 1/4th.
This happens all of the time in my family and my mother divides up the piece of pie but she never gives any to herself.”
WE should be like that mother.
Who comes first?
Write Up: Too many people are consumed with worry and anxiety about what tomorrow might hold.
This fear can be paralyzing.
As Christians we believe that our loving heavenly Father is always looking out for us.
He takes care of the birds of the air and the flowers of the field and that gives us confidence that he will take care of us too.
There is no benefit from worry, in fact, anxiety only hurts us.
We should trust God and allow him to guide our steps.
Think: I do not have control of the future.
Feel: My heavenly Father is looking out for me and will provide for my needs.
Do: Turn your worries into prayers and trust in God’s plan for your life.
Sermon:
Today is the final day of our sermon series Love Reigns.
We have been challenging ourselves to allow the love of God to reign in every area of our lives.
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The first week, we celebrated the life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter.
We celebrate because the resurrection is the proof that Jesus is the true King of the world who has authority over all things.
When we obey Jesus, we experience the life he has for us.
2. The second week, we looked at how God’s love reigns over our past.
Though our mistakes and sins can be a heavy burden on us, we embrace the love of God that forgives us our past and offers us a fresh start.
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Last week we discovered that God’s love gives us promise for our present.
We can make choices that create healthier patterns in our lives and renew our minds to live in obedience to God.
4. This final week of our series I want to speak about allowing the love of God to reign over our future.
Story: I remember as a kid having a little toy that was supposed to help us know what the future held.
It was a Magic 8 Ball.
(Consider having one on stage.)
I used it for all kinds of questions I had about the future.
You would shake up that mysterious little triangle floating in the blue liquid inside.
I’d ask it about whether Evie will say yes to being my girlfriend.
Oddly enough, it always gave me the answer “Don’t Count on It”.
I’d ask about how my grades would turn out and the answer would be “Better Not Tell You Now”.
I’d ask about my future career to which it would respond “Ask Again Later”.
This little toy that came out in 1950, is a tell-tale sign that our culture has a keen interest in the future.
We all have wondered from time to time about what the future might hold for us.
Sometimes we wonder because our current situation is painful, and we want to get on the other side of the difficulty.
Sometimes we wonder because we are excited about the possibilities before us.
Either way, our curiosity about the future can sometimes slip into an unhealthy obsession with what is to come that is commonly called worry.
Illustration: I want you to take the piece of paper and pencil you were given on the way in the room today and I want you to take a moment to write down one worry in your life about the future right now.
Once you write it down, keep it near you until the end of the message today.
Worry is an all-consuming use of our time, energy, and attention on things that we cannot control.
1.
We worry about our finances,
2. we worry about our family,
3. we worry about our job,
4. we worry about getting sick,
5. we worry about everything.
The problem is that our worrying does not improve our situation at all.
The only true way to cure this sickness of worry is to trust in the love of God and let is rule in our lives.
Jesus spoke to this struggle with the future in Matthew 6.
READ Matthew 6:25-27
Matthew 6:25-27
New International Version
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
Even though this passage of scripture was written nearly two thousand years ago, it is so applicable to us today.
It also shows me that human nature is to sense anxiety about our future.
POINT #1 – GOD SEES YOU
Jesus tells us not to worry about our life.
Don’t worry about your daily needs.
Don’t worry about your daily wants.
The reason he gives is because our lives are made up of more than just our physical desires.
God offers proof for his ability to provide for us.
He points to the birds of the air.
These tiny, winged animals are not anxious about their needs for tomorrow, but God still provides their needs for today.
If God takes care of the sparrows of the world, surely, he can take care of you.
Jesus reminds us of our incredible worth.
He sees us.
We are loved by God and therefore he will provide for us today.
Our future is in good hands when our future is under God’s control.
We must allow ourselves to trade what we don’t know about the future for what we do know about the love of God for us.
Worry is not worth it because it does not add any hours to your life, if anything, it takes hours away.
It reminds me of the line in the Lord’s Prayer that is prayed in churches all around the world each week.
We pray, “Give us this day our daily bread”.
Give us what today we need God.
Not too much so that we might forget about trusting you for our future.
Not too little that we are tempted to take matters into our own hands.
Just enough for today.
It is how we learn to trust God, even when we do not know what is around the corner.
Trusting God for the future instills deep hope that He is there before we ever get there.
Story: A Few years ago, I found myself listening to talk radio on the way to work each day.
I had a 20-minute drive one-way and so it made for almost an hour of radio time a day.
At first it was no big deal, but eventually I noticed myself feeling anxious about the things that had just been discussed.
The radio station would talk about political divisiveness, the struggling economy, and potential wars.
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