Why do you worry? 25 June 2017

Why do you worry? Matthew 6:25-34

World health organization What country in the world is the most anxious?

Matthew 6:28 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin

why do YOU worry?

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear…

Matthew 6:31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

worry What is worry?

The characteristic of worry is a constant sense of gnawing distraction

How do you feel when someone says: “Don’t worry!”

worrying works 90% of the things I worry about never happen ~unknown

Helmut Thielicke These words “don’t worry” were spoken to us by a person who looked into the future and could see the darkness coming. The person who said “don’t worry” was someone whose life on earth was anything but bird-like and lily-like.

Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Jesus in a boat on the sea of galilee

questions think Here we come back to the issue of questions.

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones Most of our emotional problems are rooted in our failure to think and especially our failure to think deeply about the truth.

Who is God?

Matthew 6:25-29

Is there a God?

If there is a God, what is God like?

Jesus is… …saying we can be free from worry …NOT saying we can be free from trouble

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.

Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace  In this world you will have trouble  But take heart! I have overcome the world.

Joseph Genesis 37-50

Genesis 50:19-20 But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

2 Corinthians 11:24-27 I was lashed, beaten with rods, stoned, shipwrecked, adrift at sea. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from Jews and Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.

Amazing Grace Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. It’s grace that’s brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

Who am I in relationship to God?

Matthew 6:26 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?

Child of God not everyone in the world gets to have the title “Child of God.”

1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

What do you want?

Matthew 6:31-33 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33 seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well