July 31, 2025 • 33 mins
Guest Speaker Roger Flores teaches on chapter 6 of Matthew, verses 25 through 34 about Knowing Our God. He explains the Sovereignty of God, the Goodness of God, the Faithfulness of God, and exhorts us in our Response to Seeing God.
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Let's go ahead and the time we have now to be able to get into
God's word. I think you had your notes there
before you. If not, we'll, I don't mind if
you walk back and get a new copyback there, but you can see your
notes there Tonight. I'm going to talk about knowing
our God, knowing our God. This, this is a lifetime study.
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And the verse that we had beforeyou can see is Matthew 625
through 34. But these were actually the
first verses that I ever learnedfrom Scripture when I was a kid.
And I, I didn't know they're in Matthew chapter 6.
But my mom didn't know many verses, but she knew this
section of Scripture somehow. And she always taught these
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verses to me. And so that's the first part I
ever learned about God's word. My mom, she lived to be 93 years
old and yesterday we had a funeral.
She passed away on July 6th. And I spoke at the grave site to
the people yesterday in attendance about this verse.
And yes, pastor, I started the Ecclesiastes 72 which says what
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is better go to the House of mourning than to go to a House
of feasting because as the end of every man and the living
takes it to heart. And we had opportunity to share
the gospel with the people there.
And I trust that the Lord would use that to change people's
hearts. But at the gravesite I spoke by
my mom and the impact of Matthew625 on my life and the lives of
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her children. And let me go ahead and read a
text to you. Matthew 6, 2534 says For this
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reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life so as
what you would eat or what you would drink, nor for your body
as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food and
the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air,
that they do not sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet
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your heavenly Father feeds them.Are you not worth much more than
they? And who have you bought by being
worried can add a single cubit to his lifespan?
And why are you worried about clothing?
Observe how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not toil, nor do they spin.
Did I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed
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himself like one of these? But if God so clothes the grass
of the field, which is the lighttoday, and tomorrow is going to
the furnace, will he not much more clothe you?
You have little faith. Do not worry then, saying, what
will we eat, or what will we drink, or what will we wear for
clothing? For all these things the
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Gentiles eagerly seek, but 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.
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of
its own. My mom would knew this text.
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We were poor as a family and often my mom was concerned about
how how his kids would would they be fed and how we even get
through through difficult times.And she she didn't know much
about the Bible, but but this area of the birds of the field,
she would, she would quote to meand she would say, Roger, God
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takes care of the birds in the air.
He takes care of the lives of the field.
He'll take care of us also. He'll provide for us as he
always has. And, and I would look up at her
and, and see the face. She had a faith upon our Lord
and she would trust our Lord. And I saw what faith looked like
in a person when I was growing up.
And I, I got that, that God did provide for his world.
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He did provide for the birds. And my mom went to God first in
prayer and she did that. And I, I saw that that
demonstration of her faith through to the scriptures in
Matthew chapter chapter 6. But we didn't have much money
whatsoever. But my mom did shape my views as
to God's word at a very age. And she helped me to see the
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very character and nature of God, which is what we look at
tonight. She appoints in your lesson
there God is as a God who, who is sovereign.
He is a God who, who is a good God and he is a God who is
faithful. And that's all what Matthew
chapter 6 is all about. So we didn't have a lot of
money, but there there is no greater greater study that that
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we can anybody can do than to study the character and the
nature of God to to know our Godat the very heart of our
Christian faith that that that'swhat we need to be focused upon
in our hearts and mind to know where God and to see who he is
should be where our hearts always let always lay.
And pastor has a great series. If you haven't had opportunity
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to go to the the Tate ministry or just on on on the Internet.
It's called God exploring his essence.
And there is no greater study that a pastor can give to their
people than to stay the character and nature and
attributes of God. Why?
Because that affects every aspect of our Christian faith to
see he's a God of goodness, a God of mercy, a God of kindness,
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a God of forgiveness effects ourhearts and life.
It affects our worship. It affects how we share Christ.
It affects how how we lead our families to say he's sovereign.
He's over all our lives, affectsus every single day of our
lives. There is no greater study to
have than to see that God is your Savior.
We must see him as his creator. We must see him as holy and
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sovereign over all aspects of our lives in order to be saved.
Certainly how you see God determines how you see Christ
his Son. How you see God determines your
sanctification and your holinessand how you how how well you
worship him. How you see God determines how
you show your faith, how you seehim as judge and how you see him
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as being a loving God. How you see God determines every
part of of your Christian faith and whether he's coming back or
not. AW told us that his book about
knowing God, the book, the book called the knowledge of the
sorry, the knowledge of the holy.
Excuse me, he says. The history of mankind will
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probably show that no people hasever risen above its religion,
and man's spiritual history willpositively demonstrate that no
religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
Worship is pure or base as a worshipper entertains high or
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low thoughts of God. For this reason the the gravest
question before the church is always God himself.
And the most pretentious fact about any man is not what he at
a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart
conceives God to be like. How do you see your God?
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How do you see Him as He rules and reigns over your life?
How do you see Him as he reigns over your family?
How does your wife and your kidssee see our Lord, It's our
response to make sure that our family members see God the
proper way, that they worship and praise him correctly, that
there is no greater stood than state of character and nature of
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God. And that's what I hope we're
going to do tonight. So as you look your notes that
you can see, we're going to talkabout the nature of God in
Matthew chapter 6. We spoke about it a little
earlier, but the first point that I want you to see is to
talk about not worrying the texthere and about the birds of the
air and the layers of the field and about when, about tomorrow
and so on. You got to see that God is a
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sovereign God. He's a sovereign God.
And that's that's in verse #25 if you look back over there, our
Lord says for this way, I say toyou, do not be worried about
your life. I'm sovereign as to what you eat
or what you would drink, nor foryour body as to what you would
put on. It's not like more than food in
the body, more than clothing. Now Lord gives us this beautiful
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illustration using the birds to help us to see.
Look at the birds of the air. Do they not sow, nor reap, nor
get into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more than they God?
God is sovereign over the birds in the air, and He used the
illustration, I think, to help us to see something that we can
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see. Every single day we see the
birds flying around in our house.
We have a lot of crows that fly in our house all over the place
and more crows you possibly but like the birds the movie, right?
But God did put those crows in our neighborhood for a reason,
babe. And we have to kind of hear them
crowing and crowing and crowing.But this is a good thing to have
birds in the air. And God is sovereign over over
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the over those birds and he controls them.
He controls their life. He controls the life of the
birds and he feeds them and he provides for them.
He takes care of them and the birds don't worry about food.
They don't worry about their nest and what where they're
going to go to fly to for a given day.
They're not flying around worrying.
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They just know that they will have food, the text said.
They don't sow, they don't gather, they they don't reap
things for themselves. They don't store their food.
They just trust in the sovereignty of God.
Birds, without knowing it, trustin sovereignty of God that God
will take care of them as he takes care of all animals in the
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world. It takes care of us, but our
Lord uses the example of of the birds that help us to see God's
a sovereign God who controls every aspect of of our lives.
Then our Lord goes on and say, what about the lives of the
field and why are you worried about clothing?
Observe how lives of the field grow.
They do not toil nor do they spin.
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The ladies in the field aren't worried.
They don't toil to they don't try to to grow upwards.
They they just grow and God is solvent.
He makes them grow. God waters little fields, he
gives them sunlight, he gives them nutrients from the soil.
He solved and controls every aspect and part of their lives.
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And Lily's just without knowingly trust upon God's
sovereignty, how much more that should we do so is the point
that glory is making to us, and not to worry about whatever
might come before us. The problem with worrying,
though, is that it is sinful that it is not trusting
ultimately in God's sovereignty.Philippians 46 says be anxious
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for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving that you request being being be made known to
God. Whenever we don't trust in God's
sovereignty over our lives, we we start to trust and own
abilities and start to see ourselves as being the one who
who rules and reigns over over our own life.
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And the question in sovereignty ultimately is who's in control?
Who's in control of our lives? Who's directing the birds or the
lilies? Who's controlling and directing
our own personal lives as humans?
Certainly people by the very nature want to be in control
over their own lives. We want to be from, from our
perspective, the rulers of our own own lives.
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We often think that we're in control as we make the choice
that we do upon upon this world.And we think that as as as we
work hard to feed our families and achieve the goals what you
have before us, that's us that the animals have been able to do
so. But ultimately, although our
perspective is we're in control,God ultimately is control of
every aspect of our lives. He always has been.
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He controls every single breath that we have.
He controls our birthday and ourdeath date.
He controls everything that happens upon until to our world.
And so while men might think they're in control of many
aspects, and certainly men have a responsibility to lead their
families while we get that, but God ultimately is control of all
things. He, he is sovereign over all
things that happened to us. The word sovereign means to be
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over or above. First Timothy 615 says God the
blessed and only sovereign, Kingof kings and Lord of Lords.
He sovereign over the universe he created.
He's solving over all aspects ofhis children's lives.
He does what he wants. Isaiah 4610 says my counsel
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should not shall stand. I will do all my pleasure.
Ephesians 111 He works all things according to the counsel
of of his will and he controls this world.
He's above all things in a loving and compassionate way.
He chooses to be merciful and loving to to his creatures.
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While he could be cruel and merciless, He chooses to be kind
and compassion and loving and graceful and merciful toward us.
Now Lords, Lords want to help usto see that within the text here
of Matthew 6, He's a sovereign God.
He rules and reigns over over all all things, certainly the
birds of the field, certainly and the lilies, but also over
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over our lives and as you walk our Christian life as as we as
you go through the difficulties that we come upon.
We need to see that God certainly is solvent over all
aspects of our lives. Romans 828 to say we know that
God works all things according to the goodness of all the work.
God works all things according to his plan, all things
according to the plan, right? She called us there's nothing
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bad which happens to a Christian.
All things we're together for good in his ultimate plan.
Even that happens to us is a good thing unless we sin, that's
a bad thing. But everything happens to a
Christian. Whether we perceive it as good
or bad is irrelevant is a good thing in God's ultimate plan.
And that's the respect means to have all things were to get to
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good for good. It was for those who are called
according to his his purposes. He saw of our lives or over our
church. He controls every aspect that
happens at church and he feeds the birds and he guides the
directs their path and the same way he guides and directs us
within within our church. In Matthew 6, he says the birds
of the air that lives the field applied just as well to his
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church. And we are called not not to
worry about anything in the process.
But worrying is not trusting upon our Lord.
Worrying is a saying that you'rekind of sobbing, but you're not
really sobbing when you worry. You're saying you're God, but
you're really not God, right? Because I don't trust you to do
this or that you, you are lowering God to something less
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than He is, which is sent for and wrong and being the creator
and the maker of the universe. God will not say that that is
acceptable. He is solving of every molecule
within His universe and He does not like it when His children
doubt Him and question who He is.
We need to see He sees a holy, wonderful, sovereign God over
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all things and live our lives inthe same manner, thinking that
way, no matter what happens to us good or we might say
difficult and challenging. God is sovereign.
We trust upon him. We trust that God will somehow
and his ultimate plan work out this to be a good thing.
And Matthew, Matthew talks aboutthat.
He takes care of the birds, He takes care of their lilies.
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Point #2 it also talks about thegoodness of God, says he clothes
the grass to the field. He provides for them whether
whether whatever they eat, he takes care of the birds,
whatever they drink, whether thelilies are clothed for our God
is a good God. He feeds and takes care of his
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creation. He clothes and provides with his
goodness for all of our needs. He meets all that the material
needs of his creation. He meets all all our spiritual
needs. He takes care of all we might
have for provisions. What he takes care of us at all
times because he soon is is a good God.
And the word goodness means he's, he's one who is
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benevolent. The word goodness means he's a
God who is loving and mercy and speaks about his grace as all
parts of God's goodness. He doesn't do good occasionally
to us in our lives. We can't say, oh, God's been
good to me today. God's been good to you every
single day. And if something good happens to
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your life, you might say he's a good God.
Thank you, God, yes, that's a good thing to do so.
But he's a good God when we perceived as being a bad thing.
He's a good God when we see the difficulty come to our lives as
being difficult and challenging our perception of the events
that happened to our lives. And it's not based upon reality.
It's based upon what we perceiveGod is a good, wonderful, giving
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God to us, whether we see that or we don't see it.
So he wants us to to give him thanks.
So he wants us to give him praise and and to appreciate him
for what he's done for us. And hopefully our hearts are
always directed in that manner to see his characters to see his
nature. Psalm 1/19/68 says you are good
and you do good. Teach me your statues that he's
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a good God. He does good.
When my father passed away, unbeliever, I got my family
against. You know what Psalm 1/19/68
says? You are good and do good.
Teach me your statues. So yes, even when the unbeliever
goes to hell, God is good. He does good.
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Christ, he's eternally good. Before there was anyone to be
good about, God was good. We usually need someone to be
good towards, right? You give something towards them.
Before there was even a human being to be around this world to
act upon, God was good. It's his character, it's his
nature, it's who he is. God cannot be bad.
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God cannot be merciless. You cannot be one who is cruel
to His creation. His first very act of creation
was after every every single dayHe created something.
It always sent in a text, and God saw that it was good.
After every day of creation. You can't do it ever do anything
that that is not good. You can't act bad.
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You can't and won't do anything bad to His creation or to His
people. And all that happened in this
world is therefore sovereignly good.
And our Lord knows all our needs.
He knows where we where our hearts are.
He knows what he has provided for us.
He knows his birds here in the text here.
He knows his lilies, He knows his rulers.
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He knows our church, He knows our family.
He knows every aspect of our hearts and our lives.
And that's where our hearts needneed to start.
He's a good God. He's always taken care of me
before. He will always provide for me in
the future, and He gives to His children abundantly beyond you
could possibly imagine. You can't even see the blessing
our Lord Sonia has given to us, but He's given to us.
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James 1, James 117. Every good thing given and every
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
He's a crate of the moon and theplanets.
God isn't changed like the shadows on the moon and the
planets. He is is unchangeable.
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His goodness did not change. He's not He's not more good to
us because we're good at him. He's not more good to us if we
do, if we if we act as good Christians.
He gives equally to the the believer and to unbeliever and
it gives many promises with his word.
If we follow his word, you'd be blessed by many blessings
afterward. He's he's a good guy.
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He knows the gifts he gives to us.
We we give Christmas gifts that that might change or based upon
our yearly finances, you might have more presents or less
presents on the Christmas tree. God's gifts never change.
There was. There's no other text says
there's no variation and. Or shifting shadow in God's gift
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goodness, he doesn't change. There is no changing shadow.
All that we are given by God is good for us and must be seen as
good. And my mom, when she, when she
told us about the birds of the air, she wanted me to see God's
goodness. She wanted me to see God's
sovereignty of our lives. And she would use illustration.
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She would say, doesn't doesn't God provide for the birds in the
air? I say yes, then he'd take care
of Lily's little field. Yes, he does.
Well, don't want you to take care of us.
Yes, I do, mom. And then she would make me pray
next to her. She made me pray next to her and
that that was a good thing. She always, she always wanted me
to have the right perspective and seeing who God is.
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He's also a God who is a faithful God.
The faithfulness of God is seen in 633, which is my second
favorite verse in the Bible. But seek first his Kingdom and
his righteousness and all these things we added to you.
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for
itself. Each day has enough trouble of
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its own. God asked us to to trust in His
faithfulness and He'll provide for all His creation.
We're not to worry about tomorrow and how we'll get our
daily food. God says all these things will
be added to you. All of you are in needs provided
is trusting God's Word, trustingGod to be faithful to His word,
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and He will be faithful to provide for us as He as He
always has. Faithfulness is part of of who
God is part of His character is part of His nature.
Revelation 3 says that God is faithful and true, and the word
faithful means to have firmness.He's a firm God.
He's a it means stability. He's a steady God.
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He's a stable God. He's a dependable God.
He never changes. He's reliable.
You can count upon him. This is the great text of
Scripture. Matthew 633 is the verse you
want to underline your Bible. It's the verse you want to
highlight in your Bible. It's a life verse that I've
always lived my life by. We are called to to seek His
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Kingdom and His righteousness and to know that all these
things that will be added to us.We don't worry about the things
that we have within our homes and how would God provide for
our families. We don't worry about our
finances or the direction our church would go.
We don't worry about anything Queen of God, it says we'll be
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at all. These will be added to you.
God is faithful. He's forgiving in our salvation.
First John 19 his faith forgive us.
His problems are always true. God is faithful in protecting
us. Psalm 8411 for the Lord God is a
son and his shield. The Lord give grace and glory.
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No good thing does he behold from those who walk uprights.
There's not anything that God withhold from us if you walk in
his righteousness. God is faithful and helping us
to resist temptation. First Corinthians 10/13 no
temptation. This has overtaken you.
God is faithful when our lie be tempted beyond what you are
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able. God is faithful in keeping us.
Second Timothy 112 I'm convincedthat he is able to guard
whatever entrust to you until that day and the text he said so
do not worry about tomorrow, fortomorrow will take care of
itself. God is faithful in our
glorification. First Thessalonians 523
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faithfully is he who calls you and he will bring it to pass.
That's our God, a faithful God. God it God is truly faithful.
Psalm 36 five, your loving kind of soul Lord extends to the
heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the
skies. That's pretty good.
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Your faithfulness reaches to theskies as far as you could
possibly imagine. He's he's a good God.
He's a sovereign God. And Matthew 6 talks about that
last point. Our notes what what should our
response be to seeing our God, to seeing who he is in his
character? The verse clearly says we are
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called to seek his Kingdom and his righteousness and know that
God provides for us. We understand he's he's a
sovereign God over the birds in the air and sovereign over the
lilies of the field. And you tell us our response
should be to seek first his Kingdom.
That's what we're called to do that that should be our response
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to seeing who who God is, but not to focus on what we have or
what we what we don't have. We are called to to trust God to
add to our lives according to his all knowing polyphone
knowledge of our lives. He knows it all.
But what does it mean to first of all, to seek his Kingdom,
right? But that is to to focus our
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hearts and our minds of that which is is eternal, his
Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. There is no great expression
that we that the text has and all the Scripture has when our
Lord said the Kingdom of God. And I think that's forgotten in
our in our Christian communities, that expression,
the Kingdom of God. Christ uses us all the time
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throughout the New Testament. He wants to see he's king as we
share Christ. He's saying, oh, he has a
Kingdom, he is a king. And we are far away from from
thinking that way and our society to say that the Kingdom
of God sounds kind of foreign tous, right?
He brings out images of some kings that are rulers in the
wrong way. Latex say he's a king of all
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kings, the king of kings and theLord of Lords.
It's called the Kingdom of God, that which is eternal, that
which is heaven afterwards, and we need to be able to share
that. Christ says this is his Kingdom.
He is the great king. He shall come back someday.
Early in chapter 6, we look backin 610, Jesus Christ models to
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his disciples how to pray, and he told them in Matthew 6, your
Kingdom come and you will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. He wants, He wants us to see
that his Father's Kingdom to come to this earth, to exist on
this earth as it currently does in heaven right now.
And we want Christ to rule and reign upon this world as it as
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it this right now. As believers in Christ, we trust
in Christ, take care of us and provide for us as he provides
for the birds in the air. Certainly.
But what our response is Colossians 3/2 an eternal
perspective. Colossians 32 Set your minds of
things above none of the things that on earth.
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Our focus is on being citizens of heaven.
Our citizenship is with heaven. Our focus is on doing works that
have eternal consequence. Paul talks about that in First
Corinthians, how we are called to to build upon the foundation
of Christ, to live our lives anddo works which have eternal
consequence. To build upon that with gold and
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silver and precious stones, the building, so to speak, and not
with wood, hay and stubble whichare building material, which are
inferior and which are burn it, burn it up eventually upon the
temporary things, this world, that which is gold, silver and
precious stones, that which works, which have eternal
consequence. And we're to build upon the
foundation and make the buildingof our lives.
But upon works which are good, gold, silver, precious stones,
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we're to make sure the things wedo in our life have eternal
consequences and not things which only have temporary
consequent in this world. It speaks about whether you help
your neighbor to move or you share the gospel with somebody,
right? Whether you have a delicious
meal somewhere which I'll burn up someday, or whether you're
worshiping Christ, right. How do you spend your days?
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Are you doing things which have temporary consequences, which
are good woods double hey, but those things ultimately shall
burn up someday when this world goes away.
We need to make sure that we do think we have eternal
consequence. And my Lord says to us, seek
first his Kingdom. He's saying have an eternal
perspective, see that which is larger, share the gospel,
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worship Christ well, make sure your kids see Christ, make them,
make them your priorities. We want Christ to return to this
world to be with us. So that's where our hearts lay.
And Titus 213 tell us where our hearts need to be.
It says looking for the blessed hope and the parent of the glory
of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus who gave himself
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for us to redeem us from every lawless deed and to purify for
himself people for his own possession, zealous for for good
works. Our hearts desires that we want
to be with him for heaven, heaven.
We want to be with our Lord for heaven, heaven.
We want his Kingdom to come. We want heaven to begin the
things of this world to to fade away.
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We're called to to seek his Kingdom and also his
righteousness. That's what we're called to do.
That should be our response to seek his righteousness and to
trust our Lord, provide for us as he does what lives the field.
We are to seek his righteousness.
What does that mean to to seek God's righteousness?
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The Strong's Concordance describes this verse
righteousness as integrity, virtue, purity of life.
We're to seek rightness and correctness in in the world.
Would it seek correct thinking and correct feelings?
Would it seek right and correct acting in our hearts and our
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lives? God says to seek his seek his
righteousness, to seek to seek God's, to desire holiness, to
desire purity upon our lives. We are to live pure and holy
lives before our Lord, that that's where our hearts lay.
We would have a desire for justice upon this world, that
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which is good to take place uponthis world.
To seek His righteousness is to seek to be pure and holy and to
confess our sins and to live lives of purity.
We want, we want to be more likeChrist is where hearts lay.
We want to obey the leading the Holy Spirit within our lives and
we trust that He will take care of us.
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He'll provide for us and all thedetails that might come our way.
We don't worry about the things that happened to us in our life.
It's not what happened to us. It's important.
It's how we respond to those things.
How do you respond to good things we perceive or poor
things? How does your your kids see your
response? How does your wife and husband
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see your response? They're looking to us to see,
you know, how do you respond when things go poor and well?
And my mom wasn't a a great scholar of the Bible, but she
she gave that to me. You need to trust our Lord.
You need to see he's over all think, control all the things
and he takes care of the birds and they lose the field.
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Roger, he'll take care of you and I, I, I've lived my life
that way. He always had taken care of me
and my wife and our family. We certainly have been so
blessed. He takes care of us, our job to
seek his Kingdom and his righteousness.
Let's go ahead and pray HeavenlyFather, so much for God for a
time to give to us Father to focus upon your word Father and
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truly who you are. Father, truly you're a great
and, and sovereign God over all aspects of our lives that we we
know that Lord forgive us the times in which we didn't act
that way, Father. So you're a God who who's given
us so many wonderful things in our life, Father, And we're
thankful, Father. Thank you for our our wives and
for our husbands and for our children.
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Thank you for the homes which you have provided for us and for
this wonderful church. And thank you for our pastor and
for his faithfulness and leadingus, Father, and for the
children's ministry and for the men's ministry and so many
things that you have given. But truly you're a great God who
gives, gives, gives a Bunny to us, Father, and we'll thank you
for that, Father. Help us to see our
responsibility afterwards, Father, to communicate your
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great gospel to those that know your Father.
Help us, Lord, to always seek your Kingdom, Father.
And how about help that to be first and foremost in our minds,
Father? Help us to have a more eternal
perspective than we have, Father, and help us to seek
lives of holiness and purity before you.
Father, we pray these things in Jesus name, Amen.
Let's go ahead and the time we have now to be able to get into
God's word. I think you had your notes there
before you. If not, we'll, I don't mind if
you walk back and get a new copyback there, but you can see your
notes there Tonight. I'm going to talk about knowing
our God, knowing our God. This, this is a lifetime study.
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And the verse that we had beforeyou can see is Matthew 625
through 34. But these were actually the
first verses that I ever learnedfrom Scripture when I was a kid.
And I, I didn't know they're in Matthew chapter 6.
But my mom didn't know many verses, but she knew this
section of Scripture somehow. And she always taught these
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verses to me. And so that's the first part I
ever learned about God's word. My mom, she lived to be 93 years
old and yesterday we had a funeral.
She passed away on July 6th. And I spoke at the grave site to
the people yesterday in attendance about this verse.
And yes, pastor, I started the Ecclesiastes 72 which says what
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is better go to the House of mourning than to go to a House
of feasting because as the end of every man and the living
takes it to heart. And we had opportunity to share
the gospel with the people there.
And I trust that the Lord would use that to change people's
hearts. But at the gravesite I spoke by
my mom and the impact of Matthew625 on my life and the lives of
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her children. And let me go ahead and read a
text to you. Matthew 6, 2534 says For this
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reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life so as
what you would eat or what you would drink, nor for your body
as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food and
the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air,
that they do not sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet
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your heavenly Father feeds them.Are you not worth much more than
they? And who have you bought by being
worried can add a single cubit to his lifespan?
And why are you worried about clothing?
Observe how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not toil, nor do they spin.
Did I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed
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himself like one of these? But if God so clothes the grass
of the field, which is the lighttoday, and tomorrow is going to
the furnace, will he not much more clothe you?
You have little faith. Do not worry then, saying, what
will we eat, or what will we drink, or what will we wear for
clothing? For all these things the
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Gentiles eagerly seek, but 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.
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of
its own. My mom would knew this text.
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We were poor as a family and often my mom was concerned about
how how his kids would would they be fed and how we even get
through through difficult times.And she she didn't know much
about the Bible, but but this area of the birds of the field,
she would, she would quote to meand she would say, Roger, God
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takes care of the birds in the air.
He takes care of the lives of the field.
He'll take care of us also. He'll provide for us as he
always has. And, and I would look up at her
and, and see the face. She had a faith upon our Lord
and she would trust our Lord. And I saw what faith looked like
in a person when I was growing up.
And I, I got that, that God did provide for his world.
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He did provide for the birds. And my mom went to God first in
prayer and she did that. And I, I saw that that
demonstration of her faith through to the scriptures in
Matthew chapter chapter 6. But we didn't have much money
whatsoever. But my mom did shape my views as
to God's word at a very age. And she helped me to see the
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very character and nature of God, which is what we look at
tonight. She appoints in your lesson
there God is as a God who, who is sovereign.
He is a God who, who is a good God and he is a God who is
faithful. And that's all what Matthew
chapter 6 is all about. So we didn't have a lot of
money, but there there is no greater greater study that that
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we can anybody can do than to study the character and the
nature of God to to know our Godat the very heart of our
Christian faith that that that'swhat we need to be focused upon
in our hearts and mind to know where God and to see who he is
should be where our hearts always let always lay.
And pastor has a great series. If you haven't had opportunity
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to go to the the Tate ministry or just on on on the Internet.
It's called God exploring his essence.
And there is no greater study that a pastor can give to their
people than to stay the character and nature and
attributes of God. Why?
Because that affects every aspect of our Christian faith to
see he's a God of goodness, a God of mercy, a God of kindness,
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a God of forgiveness effects ourhearts and life.
It affects our worship. It affects how we share Christ.
It affects how how we lead our families to say he's sovereign.
He's over all our lives, affectsus every single day of our
lives. There is no greater study to
have than to see that God is your Savior.
We must see him as his creator. We must see him as holy and
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sovereign over all aspects of our lives in order to be saved.
Certainly how you see God determines how you see Christ
his Son. How you see God determines your
sanctification and your holinessand how you how how well you
worship him. How you see God determines how
you show your faith, how you seehim as judge and how you see him
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as being a loving God. How you see God determines every
part of of your Christian faith and whether he's coming back or
not. AW told us that his book about
knowing God, the book, the book called the knowledge of the
sorry, the knowledge of the holy.
Excuse me, he says. The history of mankind will
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probably show that no people hasever risen above its religion,
and man's spiritual history willpositively demonstrate that no
religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
Worship is pure or base as a worshipper entertains high or
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low thoughts of God. For this reason the the gravest
question before the church is always God himself.
And the most pretentious fact about any man is not what he at
a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart
conceives God to be like. How do you see your God?
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How do you see Him as He rules and reigns over your life?
How do you see Him as he reigns over your family?
How does your wife and your kidssee see our Lord, It's our
response to make sure that our family members see God the
proper way, that they worship and praise him correctly, that
there is no greater stood than state of character and nature of
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God. And that's what I hope we're
going to do tonight. So as you look your notes that
you can see, we're going to talkabout the nature of God in
Matthew chapter 6. We spoke about it a little
earlier, but the first point that I want you to see is to
talk about not worrying the texthere and about the birds of the
air and the layers of the field and about when, about tomorrow
and so on. You got to see that God is a
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sovereign God. He's a sovereign God.
And that's that's in verse #25 if you look back over there, our
Lord says for this way, I say toyou, do not be worried about
your life. I'm sovereign as to what you eat
or what you would drink, nor foryour body as to what you would
put on. It's not like more than food in
the body, more than clothing. Now Lord gives us this beautiful
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illustration using the birds to help us to see.
Look at the birds of the air. Do they not sow, nor reap, nor
get into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more than they God?
God is sovereign over the birds in the air, and He used the
illustration, I think, to help us to see something that we can
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see. Every single day we see the
birds flying around in our house.
We have a lot of crows that fly in our house all over the place
and more crows you possibly but like the birds the movie, right?
But God did put those crows in our neighborhood for a reason,
babe. And we have to kind of hear them
crowing and crowing and crowing.But this is a good thing to have
birds in the air. And God is sovereign over over
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the over those birds and he controls them.
He controls their life. He controls the life of the
birds and he feeds them and he provides for them.
He takes care of them and the birds don't worry about food.
They don't worry about their nest and what where they're
going to go to fly to for a given day.
They're not flying around worrying.
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They just know that they will have food, the text said.
They don't sow, they don't gather, they they don't reap
things for themselves. They don't store their food.
They just trust in the sovereignty of God.
Birds, without knowing it, trustin sovereignty of God that God
will take care of them as he takes care of all animals in the
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world. It takes care of us, but our
Lord uses the example of of the birds that help us to see God's
a sovereign God who controls every aspect of of our lives.
Then our Lord goes on and say, what about the lives of the
field and why are you worried about clothing?
Observe how lives of the field grow.
They do not toil nor do they spin.
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The ladies in the field aren't worried.
They don't toil to they don't try to to grow upwards.
They they just grow and God is solvent.
He makes them grow. God waters little fields, he
gives them sunlight, he gives them nutrients from the soil.
He solved and controls every aspect and part of their lives.
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And Lily's just without knowingly trust upon God's
sovereignty, how much more that should we do so is the point
that glory is making to us, and not to worry about whatever
might come before us. The problem with worrying,
though, is that it is sinful that it is not trusting
ultimately in God's sovereignty.Philippians 46 says be anxious
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for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving that you request being being be made known to
God. Whenever we don't trust in God's
sovereignty over our lives, we we start to trust and own
abilities and start to see ourselves as being the one who
who rules and reigns over over our own life.
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And the question in sovereignty ultimately is who's in control?
Who's in control of our lives? Who's directing the birds or the
lilies? Who's controlling and directing
our own personal lives as humans?
Certainly people by the very nature want to be in control
over their own lives. We want to be from, from our
perspective, the rulers of our own own lives.
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We often think that we're in control as we make the choice
that we do upon upon this world.And we think that as as as we
work hard to feed our families and achieve the goals what you
have before us, that's us that the animals have been able to do
so. But ultimately, although our
perspective is we're in control,God ultimately is control of
every aspect of our lives. He always has been.
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He controls every single breath that we have.
He controls our birthday and ourdeath date.
He controls everything that happens upon until to our world.
And so while men might think they're in control of many
aspects, and certainly men have a responsibility to lead their
families while we get that, but God ultimately is control of all
things. He, he is sovereign over all
things that happened to us. The word sovereign means to be
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over or above. First Timothy 615 says God the
blessed and only sovereign, Kingof kings and Lord of Lords.
He sovereign over the universe he created.
He's solving over all aspects ofhis children's lives.
He does what he wants. Isaiah 4610 says my counsel
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should not shall stand. I will do all my pleasure.
Ephesians 111 He works all things according to the counsel
of of his will and he controls this world.
He's above all things in a loving and compassionate way.
He chooses to be merciful and loving to to his creatures.
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While he could be cruel and merciless, He chooses to be kind
and compassion and loving and graceful and merciful toward us.
Now Lords, Lords want to help usto see that within the text here
of Matthew 6, He's a sovereign God.
He rules and reigns over over all all things, certainly the
birds of the field, certainly and the lilies, but also over
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over our lives and as you walk our Christian life as as we as
you go through the difficulties that we come upon.
We need to see that God certainly is solvent over all
aspects of our lives. Romans 828 to say we know that
God works all things according to the goodness of all the work.
God works all things according to his plan, all things
according to the plan, right? She called us there's nothing
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bad which happens to a Christian.
All things we're together for good in his ultimate plan.
Even that happens to us is a good thing unless we sin, that's
a bad thing. But everything happens to a
Christian. Whether we perceive it as good
or bad is irrelevant is a good thing in God's ultimate plan.
And that's the respect means to have all things were to get to
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good for good. It was for those who are called
according to his his purposes. He saw of our lives or over our
church. He controls every aspect that
happens at church and he feeds the birds and he guides the
directs their path and the same way he guides and directs us
within within our church. In Matthew 6, he says the birds
of the air that lives the field applied just as well to his
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church. And we are called not not to
worry about anything in the process.
But worrying is not trusting upon our Lord.
Worrying is a saying that you'rekind of sobbing, but you're not
really sobbing when you worry. You're saying you're God, but
you're really not God, right? Because I don't trust you to do
this or that you, you are lowering God to something less
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than He is, which is sent for and wrong and being the creator
and the maker of the universe. God will not say that that is
acceptable. He is solving of every molecule
within His universe and He does not like it when His children
doubt Him and question who He is.
We need to see He sees a holy, wonderful, sovereign God over
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all things and live our lives inthe same manner, thinking that
way, no matter what happens to us good or we might say
difficult and challenging. God is sovereign.
We trust upon him. We trust that God will somehow
and his ultimate plan work out this to be a good thing.
And Matthew, Matthew talks aboutthat.
He takes care of the birds, He takes care of their lilies.
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Point #2 it also talks about thegoodness of God, says he clothes
the grass to the field. He provides for them whether
whether whatever they eat, he takes care of the birds,
whatever they drink, whether thelilies are clothed for our God
is a good God. He feeds and takes care of his
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creation. He clothes and provides with his
goodness for all of our needs. He meets all that the material
needs of his creation. He meets all all our spiritual
needs. He takes care of all we might
have for provisions. What he takes care of us at all
times because he soon is is a good God.
And the word goodness means he's, he's one who is
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benevolent. The word goodness means he's a
God who is loving and mercy and speaks about his grace as all
parts of God's goodness. He doesn't do good occasionally
to us in our lives. We can't say, oh, God's been
good to me today. God's been good to you every
single day. And if something good happens to
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your life, you might say he's a good God.
Thank you, God, yes, that's a good thing to do so.
But he's a good God when we perceived as being a bad thing.
He's a good God when we see the difficulty come to our lives as
being difficult and challenging our perception of the events
that happened to our lives. And it's not based upon reality.
It's based upon what we perceiveGod is a good, wonderful, giving
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God to us, whether we see that or we don't see it.
So he wants us to to give him thanks.
So he wants us to give him praise and and to appreciate him
for what he's done for us. And hopefully our hearts are
always directed in that manner to see his characters to see his
nature. Psalm 1/19/68 says you are good
and you do good. Teach me your statues that he's
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a good God. He does good.
When my father passed away, unbeliever, I got my family
against. You know what Psalm 1/19/68
says? You are good and do good.
Teach me your statues. So yes, even when the unbeliever
goes to hell, God is good. He does good.
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Christ, he's eternally good. Before there was anyone to be
good about, God was good. We usually need someone to be
good towards, right? You give something towards them.
Before there was even a human being to be around this world to
act upon, God was good. It's his character, it's his
nature, it's who he is. God cannot be bad.
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God cannot be merciless. You cannot be one who is cruel
to His creation. His first very act of creation
was after every every single dayHe created something.
It always sent in a text, and God saw that it was good.
After every day of creation. You can't do it ever do anything
that that is not good. You can't act bad.
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You can't and won't do anything bad to His creation or to His
people. And all that happened in this
world is therefore sovereignly good.
And our Lord knows all our needs.
He knows where we where our hearts are.
He knows what he has provided for us.
He knows his birds here in the text here.
He knows his lilies, He knows his rulers.
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He knows our church, He knows our family.
He knows every aspect of our hearts and our lives.
And that's where our hearts needneed to start.
He's a good God. He's always taken care of me
before. He will always provide for me in
the future, and He gives to His children abundantly beyond you
could possibly imagine. You can't even see the blessing
our Lord Sonia has given to us, but He's given to us.
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James 1, James 117. Every good thing given and every
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
He's a crate of the moon and theplanets.
God isn't changed like the shadows on the moon and the
planets. He is is unchangeable.
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His goodness did not change. He's not He's not more good to
us because we're good at him. He's not more good to us if we
do, if we if we act as good Christians.
He gives equally to the the believer and to unbeliever and
it gives many promises with his word.
If we follow his word, you'd be blessed by many blessings
afterward. He's he's a good guy.
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He knows the gifts he gives to us.
We we give Christmas gifts that that might change or based upon
our yearly finances, you might have more presents or less
presents on the Christmas tree. God's gifts never change.
There was. There's no other text says
there's no variation and. Or shifting shadow in God's gift
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goodness, he doesn't change. There is no changing shadow.
All that we are given by God is good for us and must be seen as
good. And my mom, when she, when she
told us about the birds of the air, she wanted me to see God's
goodness. She wanted me to see God's
sovereignty of our lives. And she would use illustration.
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She would say, doesn't doesn't God provide for the birds in the
air? I say yes, then he'd take care
of Lily's little field. Yes, he does.
Well, don't want you to take care of us.
Yes, I do, mom. And then she would make me pray
next to her. She made me pray next to her and
that that was a good thing. She always, she always wanted me
to have the right perspective and seeing who God is.
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He's also a God who is a faithful God.
The faithfulness of God is seen in 633, which is my second
favorite verse in the Bible. But seek first his Kingdom and
his righteousness and all these things we added to you.
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will care for
itself. Each day has enough trouble of
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its own. God asked us to to trust in His
faithfulness and He'll provide for all His creation.
We're not to worry about tomorrow and how we'll get our
daily food. God says all these things will
be added to you. All of you are in needs provided
is trusting God's Word, trustingGod to be faithful to His word,
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and He will be faithful to provide for us as He as He
always has. Faithfulness is part of of who
God is part of His character is part of His nature.
Revelation 3 says that God is faithful and true, and the word
faithful means to have firmness.He's a firm God.
He's a it means stability. He's a steady God.
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He's a stable God. He's a dependable God.
He never changes. He's reliable.
You can count upon him. This is the great text of
Scripture. Matthew 633 is the verse you
want to underline your Bible. It's the verse you want to
highlight in your Bible. It's a life verse that I've
always lived my life by. We are called to to seek His
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Kingdom and His righteousness and to know that all these
things that will be added to us.We don't worry about the things
that we have within our homes and how would God provide for
our families. We don't worry about our
finances or the direction our church would go.
We don't worry about anything Queen of God, it says we'll be
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at all. These will be added to you.
God is faithful. He's forgiving in our salvation.
First John 19 his faith forgive us.
His problems are always true. God is faithful in protecting
us. Psalm 8411 for the Lord God is a
son and his shield. The Lord give grace and glory.
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No good thing does he behold from those who walk uprights.
There's not anything that God withhold from us if you walk in
his righteousness. God is faithful and helping us
to resist temptation. First Corinthians 10/13 no
temptation. This has overtaken you.
God is faithful when our lie be tempted beyond what you are
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able. God is faithful in keeping us.
Second Timothy 112 I'm convincedthat he is able to guard
whatever entrust to you until that day and the text he said so
do not worry about tomorrow, fortomorrow will take care of
itself. God is faithful in our
glorification. First Thessalonians 523
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faithfully is he who calls you and he will bring it to pass.
That's our God, a faithful God. God it God is truly faithful.
Psalm 36 five, your loving kind of soul Lord extends to the
heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the
skies. That's pretty good.
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Your faithfulness reaches to theskies as far as you could
possibly imagine. He's he's a good God.
He's a sovereign God. And Matthew 6 talks about that
last point. Our notes what what should our
response be to seeing our God, to seeing who he is in his
character? The verse clearly says we are
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called to seek his Kingdom and his righteousness and know that
God provides for us. We understand he's he's a
sovereign God over the birds in the air and sovereign over the
lilies of the field. And you tell us our response
should be to seek first his Kingdom.
That's what we're called to do that that should be our response
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to seeing who who God is, but not to focus on what we have or
what we what we don't have. We are called to to trust God to
add to our lives according to his all knowing polyphone
knowledge of our lives. He knows it all.
But what does it mean to first of all, to seek his Kingdom,
right? But that is to to focus our
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hearts and our minds of that which is is eternal, his
Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. There is no great expression
that we that the text has and all the Scripture has when our
Lord said the Kingdom of God. And I think that's forgotten in
our in our Christian communities, that expression,
the Kingdom of God. Christ uses us all the time
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throughout the New Testament. He wants to see he's king as we
share Christ. He's saying, oh, he has a
Kingdom, he is a king. And we are far away from from
thinking that way and our society to say that the Kingdom
of God sounds kind of foreign tous, right?
He brings out images of some kings that are rulers in the
wrong way. Latex say he's a king of all
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kings, the king of kings and theLord of Lords.
It's called the Kingdom of God, that which is eternal, that
which is heaven afterwards, and we need to be able to share
that. Christ says this is his Kingdom.
He is the great king. He shall come back someday.
Early in chapter 6, we look backin 610, Jesus Christ models to
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his disciples how to pray, and he told them in Matthew 6, your
Kingdom come and you will be done on earth as it is in
heaven. He wants, He wants us to see
that his Father's Kingdom to come to this earth, to exist on
this earth as it currently does in heaven right now.
And we want Christ to rule and reign upon this world as it as
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it this right now. As believers in Christ, we trust
in Christ, take care of us and provide for us as he provides
for the birds in the air. Certainly.
But what our response is Colossians 3/2 an eternal
perspective. Colossians 32 Set your minds of
things above none of the things that on earth.
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Our focus is on being citizens of heaven.
Our citizenship is with heaven. Our focus is on doing works that
have eternal consequence. Paul talks about that in First
Corinthians, how we are called to to build upon the foundation
of Christ, to live our lives anddo works which have eternal
consequence. To build upon that with gold and
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silver and precious stones, the building, so to speak, and not
with wood, hay and stubble whichare building material, which are
inferior and which are burn it, burn it up eventually upon the
temporary things, this world, that which is gold, silver and
precious stones, that which works, which have eternal
consequence. And we're to build upon the
foundation and make the buildingof our lives.
But upon works which are good, gold, silver, precious stones,
(27:59):
we're to make sure the things wedo in our life have eternal
consequences and not things which only have temporary
consequent in this world. It speaks about whether you help
your neighbor to move or you share the gospel with somebody,
right? Whether you have a delicious
meal somewhere which I'll burn up someday, or whether you're
worshiping Christ, right. How do you spend your days?
(28:20):
Are you doing things which have temporary consequences, which
are good woods double hey, but those things ultimately shall
burn up someday when this world goes away.
We need to make sure that we do think we have eternal
consequence. And my Lord says to us, seek
first his Kingdom. He's saying have an eternal
perspective, see that which is larger, share the gospel,
(28:42):
worship Christ well, make sure your kids see Christ, make them,
make them your priorities. We want Christ to return to this
world to be with us. So that's where our hearts lay.
And Titus 213 tell us where our hearts need to be.
It says looking for the blessed hope and the parent of the glory
of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus who gave himself
(29:06):
for us to redeem us from every lawless deed and to purify for
himself people for his own possession, zealous for for good
works. Our hearts desires that we want
to be with him for heaven, heaven.
We want to be with our Lord for heaven, heaven.
We want his Kingdom to come. We want heaven to begin the
things of this world to to fade away.
(29:26):
We're called to to seek his Kingdom and also his
righteousness. That's what we're called to do.
That should be our response to seek his righteousness and to
trust our Lord, provide for us as he does what lives the field.
We are to seek his righteousness.
What does that mean to to seek God's righteousness?
(29:48):
The Strong's Concordance describes this verse
righteousness as integrity, virtue, purity of life.
We're to seek rightness and correctness in in the world.
Would it seek correct thinking and correct feelings?
Would it seek right and correct acting in our hearts and our
(30:10):
lives? God says to seek his seek his
righteousness, to seek to seek God's, to desire holiness, to
desire purity upon our lives. We are to live pure and holy
lives before our Lord, that that's where our hearts lay.
We would have a desire for justice upon this world, that
(30:30):
which is good to take place uponthis world.
To seek His righteousness is to seek to be pure and holy and to
confess our sins and to live lives of purity.
We want, we want to be more likeChrist is where hearts lay.
We want to obey the leading the Holy Spirit within our lives and
we trust that He will take care of us.
(30:52):
He'll provide for us and all thedetails that might come our way.
We don't worry about the things that happened to us in our life.
It's not what happened to us. It's important.
It's how we respond to those things.
How do you respond to good things we perceive or poor
things? How does your your kids see your
response? How does your wife and husband
(31:14):
see your response? They're looking to us to see,
you know, how do you respond when things go poor and well?
And my mom wasn't a a great scholar of the Bible, but she
she gave that to me. You need to trust our Lord.
You need to see he's over all think, control all the things
and he takes care of the birds and they lose the field.
(31:34):
Roger, he'll take care of you and I, I, I've lived my life
that way. He always had taken care of me
and my wife and our family. We certainly have been so
blessed. He takes care of us, our job to
seek his Kingdom and his righteousness.
Let's go ahead and pray HeavenlyFather, so much for God for a
time to give to us Father to focus upon your word Father and
(31:57):
truly who you are. Father, truly you're a great
and, and sovereign God over all aspects of our lives that we we
know that Lord forgive us the times in which we didn't act
that way, Father. So you're a God who who's given
us so many wonderful things in our life, Father, And we're
thankful, Father. Thank you for our our wives and
for our husbands and for our children.
(32:19):
Thank you for the homes which you have provided for us and for
this wonderful church. And thank you for our pastor and
for his faithfulness and leadingus, Father, and for the
children's ministry and for the men's ministry and so many
things that you have given. But truly you're a great God who
gives, gives, gives a Bunny to us, Father, and we'll thank you
for that, Father. Help us to see our
responsibility afterwards, Father, to communicate your
(32:41):
great gospel to those that know your Father.
Help us, Lord, to always seek your Kingdom, Father.
And how about help that to be first and foremost in our minds,
Father? Help us to have a more eternal
perspective than we have, Father, and help us to seek
lives of holiness and purity before you.
Father, we pray these things in Jesus name, Amen.
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