“The Way Out of Worry”
From Matthew 6
Worry has the power to your life:
- It’s UNIVERSAL
- It’s UNAVOIDABLE
- It’s UNHEALTHY
📖 Proverbs 12:25 (ESV) Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
📖 Matthew 6:25 (ESV) “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. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
The two great concerns of life :
- : Do I matter?
- : Will I have enough?
FINDING our WAY out of WORRY:
1. God my life.
📖 Matthew 6:26-30 (ESV) Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? … 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
📖 Psalm 139:17 (NLT) How precious are Your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
📖 Psalm 121:2-3 (ESV) My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
📖 Matthew 10:30-31 (ESV) But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
📖 1 Peter 5:7 (NLT) Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
I have a : I can fill my life with or I can my life in God’s .
FINDING our WAY out of WORRY:
2. Worry my life.
📖 Matthew 6:27 (ESV) And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
Worry is the of into .
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie Ten Boom
FINDING our WAY out of WORRY:
3. Jesus my life.
📖 Matthew 6:31-33 (ESV) Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
📖 Matthew 5:20 (ESV) For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
📖 Philippians 3:9 (ESV) to found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
📖 2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
📖 2 Corinthians 8:9 (ESV) For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
Sermon in a sentence:
The Gospel declares: At the Cross, Jesus surrendered His SIGNIFICANCE and SUSTENANCE so that we could have them.
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