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God Is For Us
Welcome (Jason Wells)
Scripture Reading (Matthew 6:25-34)
Prayer of Praise (God is merciful), Susan Thomas
Defender (Call Upon the Name)
Afflicted Saint, to Christ Draw Near
Prayer of Confession (Gossip), Jake Rogier
Come As You Are
PBC Catechism #22
Who can be saved by the work of Jesus?
We believe salvation is available to all who repent and believe in Christ.
Although sin condemns a person to eternal punishment, the power of the Gospel is sufficient to save even the greatest sinner.
Pastoral Prayer (Mike Lindell)
SERMON
Anxiety-filled week (SBC report, Uvalde)
Turn to Matthew 6:25
Teaching His disciples about how to live in the kingdom
Learning how to cope with anxiety
Jesus cares about His anxious people
Two steps to receiving His care:
1) ADMIT Your Struggle With Sinful ANXIETY
The doctor’s comments about my throat when I was 18.
It wasn’t until I admitted the problem that I was able to get the help I’m getting now.
There’s two groups of Christians in this room that won’t receive the Great Physician’s help in their anxiety until they admit their struggle with sinful anxiety...
A) Some of you don’t think you struggle with anxiety at all.
You say, “I’m not worried, I’m just concerned.”
I’m not anxious, I’m just bothered.”
The longer it takes you to admit your struggle with sinful anxiety, the longer it will take you to get help from the Great Physician.
I am convinced that sinful anxiety is not something some sinners struggle with, it’s something all sinners struggle with.
Some of us struggle more than others, but every sinner living in a fallen world in sometimes sinfully anxious.
I believe that’s implied in Jesus’ teaching here...
v. 25—“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life...”
Word “therefore” invites us to look back to what’s come before
Last week Eli taught us about the two ways to live.
You can live for kingdom treasure that lasts, or earthly treasure that doesn’t.
You can look to Jesus and see the light, or you can look to your earthly treasures and be filled with darkness.
You can serve your pile of stuff, or you can use your pile of stuff to serve Jesus.
“Are you on top of [your pile], handing it out for the kingdom, or are you underneath it frantically trying to serve it to make it bigger?”
If you’re a follower of Jesus, you are striving to live for the King and His Kingdom.
You would think that people living that way don’t need to be anxious.
You’re living for heaven, your eyes are on Jesus, you’re using your stuff to advance the Kingdom!!!
But the next words out of Jesus’ mouth are astonishing.
He doesn’t say, “if you do this, you won’t be anxious.”
He says,“because you’re doing this, don’t be anxious.”
Do you see the significance of this?
Anxiety isn’t only a problem for unbelievers.
It’s a problem for followers of Jesus too!
If you think that following Jesus means the elimination of anxiety, you’re completely wrong!
If anything, the Christian has more of a temptation towards anxiety because we are trusting our pile in the hands of someone we cannot see.
Now before we go any further, let’s agree on what we mean by anxiety.
I don’t want you to think this text isn’t relevant to you because you don’t struggle with anxiety like somebody else in your life.
Anxiety is a universal human condition.
What is anxiety?
There are likely countless definitions, but let me offer one that I think captures what the Bible says about anxiety...
Anxiety is an emotional preoccupation with an uncertain situation.
v. 25—“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on...”
Jesus’ followers will often be confronted with uncertain situations, like “what are we going to eat or drink or wear?”
Jesus says, don’t be emotionally preoccupied with that.
Don’t ask yourself: am I anxious?
Ask yourself what makes me anxious?, when am I anxious?, and how do I handle my anxiety?
Anxious about your health
Will the cancer return?
Will I have a heart attack?
What if the doctor can’t treat me?
Anxious about your safety
What if I die in car crash?
What if Christians are physically persecuted in America?
Anxious about your relationships
Will I ever find my soulmate?
Will she still love me if I tell her the truth?
Will God give me children?
What if I lose someone I love?
Can I trust this person enough to keep me accountable?
Will he stop being my friend if I tell him about Jesus?
Anxious about your finances
What if inflation gets worse?
What if my retirement isn’t enough?
What if my husband dies and I can’t provide for my kids?
What if the insurance company doesn’t cover the procedure?
Anxious about your career
What if I don’t get that promotion?
What if I don’t get along with my new supervisor?
Anxious about your comfort
Who is going to be in my fellowship group?
What if I don’t connect with anybody?
What if following Jesus means doing something hard?
Anxious about what people think about you
What am I going to say when I feel awkward in this conversation?
Will the elders believe me if I open up about the abuse I’ve encountered?
Anxious about a place
What if we don’t like the place where the Air Force is sending us?
What if we have to leave our church?
Maybe you’re even anxious about going to heaven.
What if it’s boring?
Or scary?
Ed Welch—“Rather than minimize your fears, find more of them.
Expose them to the light of day because the more you find, the more blessed you will be when you hear words of peace and comfort.”
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Christian, what makes you anxious?
“This sermon!” . . .
Don’t worry, only 40 more minutes.
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