December 24, 2025 • 31 mins
We decided to air an episode from the archives this week. If there’s one thing everybody wrestles with, it’s anxiety. Holidays are wonderful—at least they should be. But the real world is full of heartaches and trials, and they hit at the worst possible time. In this episode you’ll hear from generations who lived through the struggles of life and made it through them. More importantly, you’ll hear from the Master on this subject.
One of the most common problems anywhere in the world is worry. Some have a harder time dealing with it than others. But at different stages of life, and in certain circumstances, we all wrestle with this challenge. Anxiety is not a problem that is unique to our modern age. Some stress may be due to advances we have made in communication and travel, but the human race has always dealt with worry.
In this section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us a lesson about worry that is far more profound than any motivational or self-help book will give you today. His teaching is the only instruction that will truly help us. In this episode, you will be reminded not only to listen to what the Bible says about this problem but also to learn from nature not to be anxious.
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Hi, I'm Kerry Duke, host of My Godand My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee
Bible College, where we see the Bibleas not just another book, but the Book.
Join us in a study of the inspiredWord to strengthen your faith and to
share what you've learned with others.
We hope you’re enjoying the holidays.
It’s good to slow down and giveyour mind and your body a break.
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I know that most podcasts are probablytalking about the happy part of this
time of the year, and that’s good.
But the longer we live, the morewe learn that life doesn’t always
cooperate with the expectations we have.
Reality is that accidents,sickness, death, loneliness and
families not getting along canmake it hard to enjoy the holidays.
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That’s why we pulled an episodefrom the archives on a topic
we all struggle with—worry.
Some of you need this more than others do.
If everything is going well, Ibelieve this lesson from the Sermon
on the Mount will help you toappreciate your blessings even more.
And, if you know someone whois going through a hard time,
you can send this link to them.
But if the heartaches of life are weighingyou down with fear and grief, just open
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your Bible to the Sermon on the Mount inMatthew chapter 6, and let Jesus teach
you about this old foe called worry.
Are you worried about something today?
Worry is one of the biggestchallenges, it's one of the hardest
problems that we as Christians face.
And Jesus talks about thisproblem of worry in Matthew
chapter 6 verses 25 through 34.
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This is one of the longest sectionsin the Bible on this subject.
Remember what Jesus has just talked aboutbefore you start reading verse 25, though.
In verses 19 through 24, Jesushas taught us how to have the
right attitude about money.
He says don't lay up treasures onearth, but lay up treasures in heaven.
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That's verse 19 and 20.
And then, in verse 24, he said you can'tserve God and money at the same time.
The first word in verse 25 in this sectionabout worry is the word “therefore.”
“Therefore” tells us to look before thisand remember what he's just talked about.
So Jesus is saying in light of whatI've just said to you about having the
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right kind of attitude toward money,I want to talk to you now about worry.
So I'm going to read verses 25through 34 to get started today.
And I'll be reading fromthe New King James Version.
You'll find in the King James Versionthat the wording is different.
There, Jesus says, “Take no thought” foryour life or for your body and so forth.
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And the expression “take no thought” isa little bit unfamiliar for us today.
It's a little bit harder for usto relate to because we think to
ourselves when we hear those words,“Well, I HAVE to think about it.”
And in that sense, you'd be right.
But when the King James version usesthose words “take no thought,” it means
not to be preoccupied with this, whichwould be to worry. The American Standard
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Version says, “Do not be anxious”for your life and these things for
your physical life, which is probablya more understandable translation.
But I'm going to go with theNew King James version because
the word worry is the word thatwe most oftentimes relate to.
So let's read Matthew chaptersix, verse 25 through 34.
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“Therefore, I say to you, do notworry about your life, what you will
eat or what you will drink; nor aboutyour body, what you will put on.
Is not life more than food andthe body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the air,for they neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns, yet yourHeavenly Father feeds them.
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Are you not of more value than they?
Which of you, by worrying, canadd one cubit to his stature?
So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how theygrow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet
I say to you, that even Solomon in all hisglory was not arrayed like one of these.
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Now if God so clothes the grass of thefield, which today is and tomorrow is
thrown into the oven, will he not muchmore clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore do not worry,saying, What shall we eat?
Or what shall we drink?
Or, what shall we wear?
For after all thesethings the Gentiles seek.
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For your heavenly Father knowsthat you need all these things.
But seek first the kingdom of Godand His righteousness, and all
these things shall be added to you.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, fortomorrow will worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the dayis its own trouble.”
So as we start here in verse25, Jesus tells us not to worry
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about the things of this life.
And He's talking aboutthe needs of this life.
Don't worry about whatyou're going to eat or drink.
Don't worry about your clothes.
And this reminds us of what Paul said infirst Timothy six, verse seven and eight.
He said we brought nothing into thisworld and it is certain that we can carry
nothing out, and having food and clothing,let us be with these things content.
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Let's be content with what we have.
Let's be content with the fact thatwe have a roof over our heads, that we
have food on the table to eat today, andthat we have enough clothing to wear.
These people that Jesus was talkingabout were worried about things that
they needed but didn't necessarily have.
It's a shame sometimes todaythat we worry about things we
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have but we don't even need.
And it's interesting thatJesus points us to the creation
to teach us about worrying.
The first lesson that He givesus is really an object lesson.
He says, in order to keep fromworrying, you need to look at the
simple things of nature itself.
And the first illustrationthat he uses is in verse 26.
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He says, look at the birds of the air.
The King James says to consider them.
You need to think about this.
You need to watch them, and youneed to give that some thought.
You know, one of the problems that wehave in our modern society is that people
are so busy looking at screens, they'reso busy with their life looking at
their house or their place of work thatthey don't really think about nature.
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They don't really learn fromthe fact that God made all of
this and He sustains all this.
So whether you're talking about thesun, the moon, the stars, or the
animals, or the seasons of the year,or our bodies themselves, God made
and He sustains all these things.
So Jesus is saying in verse 26, youneed to look at something as simple
as the birds of the air because theydon't sow, they don't reap, they
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don't gather into barns, and yetyour heavenly Father feeds them.
God takes care of those birds.
Now, later in Matthew chapter10, when Jesus is sending out the
disciples on what we call the limitedcommission, listen to what he says.
After He told them not to fear those whokill the body but can't kill the soul, he
says in Matthew chapter 10 verse 29, “Arenot two sparrows sold for a copper coin?
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And not one of them falls to theground apart from your father's will.
But the very hairs of yourhead are all numbered.
Do not fear therefore.
You are of more value than many sparrows.”Jesus says something similar to that here.
He says, Yet your heavenly Fatherfeeds them—Matthew chapter 6, verse 26.
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Are you not of more value than they?
We're living in a time where people almostlook at animals as being on the same level
of importance and value as human beings.
As a matter of fact, some do.
Some see no differencebetween animals and humans.
Some people place more of apriority on animal life, especially
dogs, than they do human life.
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The Bible says we are above those things.
We are above the rest of the creation.
The Bible teaches that in Genesischapter 1 verse 28, where the Bible
says that we have dominion over allthe earth, including the animals,
all of God's creation in that sense.
Psalm 8 and many otherpassages teach that.
And in Matthew, chapter 12,verse 12, Jesus said, you are
much better than the sheep.
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So the point here is in Matthew,chapter 6, verse 26, that if God feeds
the birds, He will certainly feed you.
He will certainly provide for you.
There's an Old Testament passagethat's very interesting here found
in Psalm 37, verse 24 and 25.
David said, “I have been young andnow I am old. Yet I have not seen
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the righteous forsaken nor his seedbegging bread.” So we ought to learn
from nature and we ought to learn fromScripture that God will take care of us.
The second example that He gives fromnature is in verses 28 through 30.
Here Jesus said, “So why do youworry about clothes? Consider
the lilies of the field, how theygrow: they neither toil nor spin.”
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The word “spin” thereis an interesting word.
The Jews in the Old Testament and inthe New Testament used what was once
used here in this country, a spindle.
They weaved the fabric.
Now that could have been wool, orlinen, or silk, or goat's hair.
Proverbs chapter 31 verse 19talks about the virtuous woman
taking hold of the spindle.
And the comparison here is betweenthe clothes that Solomon wore
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and the lilies of the field.
We need to remember thatSolomon in the Old Testament
was the richest man in history.
And yet, with all of his highly expensivecustom-made clothes, with all of his
gold, he was never decked out likeeven one of these flowers of the field.
Jesus said you need to think about that.
If you're worried about havingenough money to buy your clothes,
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if you're worried about beingable to buy clothes for your
children, you need to consider that.
If God takes care of the smallparts of His creation, then He's
certainly going to take care of you.
That's what He goes on to say in verse 30.
“If God so clothes,”—in other words,if he clothes the grass of the field in
this elaborate way, which “today is andtomorrow is thrown into the oven”—“shall
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He not much more clothe you, O ye oflittle faith?” The oven that's talked
about here is different from the kind ofoven that we run off of electricity today.
These ovens were usually outside.
They were oftentimesmade of clay and stones.
And those Jews had to heat that oven up.
How did they do that?
Well, they would have to build afire in there, which would require
wood and also some dead grassas kindling to get that started.
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So they would heat that oven up, and thenwhen it was hot enough, they'd put their
dough in there to make bread and so forth.
So this is what Jesus meansabout the grass of the field.
Today it is, tomorrowit's thrown into the oven.
It doesn't last very long.
And yet look at all the carethat God gives to that very
temporary part of His creation.
It's small, it's temporary, but lookat the care that God has for that.
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And Jesus says, if God takes careof the grass of the field to that
extent, if He puts that much timeand gives that much attention to
this small part of His creation,will He not much more clothe you?
That's Matthew chapter six, verse 30.
So if you look at the creation and youreally think about what God is doing every
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day with the small parts of His creation,it will, it should, build your faith.
When you go back to the book of Job,you'll find that Job and his three
friends and the later friend called Elihuwere all talking about God's creation.
Now, they reached differentconclusions about it.
They had different opinions about howit applied, but they were all talking
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about how that God is over the creation.
And then in the last part of thebook of Job, God addresses this
matter of his creation and how thatHe is the one who is the designer.
He's the sustainer.
He is the creator of allthese things that we see.
What is the book of Job about?
Job is trying to figure out why allthese bad things have happened to him.
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God doesn't give him somekind of a long explanation.
He tells Job to look at that creationagain, to look at it in a more deep
way, and to think it through, and ifhe thinks about it long enough and
hard enough, then he'll be able to havethe faith that he ought to have to get
through any kind of problem, includingall the trials that he was facing.
Psalm 8 is another beautiful passageabout reflecting on the creation.
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David said, “When I consider thyheavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars, which you haveordained, what is man that thou art
mindful of him, and the son of man thatyou would visit him?” In other words,
in all this vast, immense creation,how can you even think about us, God?
But he does.
Then in Psalm 19, verse 1, David said,“The heavens declare the glory of God,
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and the firmament shows his handiwork.”In the book of Acts, chapter 14, Paul
and Barnabas are in the city of Lystra.
And they're talking to peoplewho had served idols and
believed in all kinds of gods.
But Paul told these people that therewas no reason for them being idolaters.
Why?
Because in Acts 14 verse 17 he saidthat He, that is, God, “did not leave
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Himself without witness.” God did notleave himself without testimony “in
that he did good and gave us rain fromheaven and fruitful seasons, filling
our hearts with food and gladness.”So in the same way, Jesus is telling
us that if we will just look at natureand listen to it, we will learn.
Notice also in Matthew 6, verse 30,that He uses these words, “O you of
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little faith.” When we worry, we'reshowing that we have little faith.
We don't have enough faith.
There is a shortage offaith when we worry.
We don't like to admit that.
We may say, “Well, I believein God. I believe that He
provides.” But we have to mean it.
And sometimes you have todo some soul searching.
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Sometimes you really have to lookat yourself and be honest about
what you're doing because when youworry about things over and over
again, you're doubting His promises.
You're doubting whatHe has said He will do.
That's why He says you're beingof little faith when you worry.
Now, that doesn't mean thatyou're automatically lost as a
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Christian just because you've gonea little too far in this direction.
As a matter of fact, you find thateven the disciples of Jesus sometimes
doubted and sometimes had little faithwhen they should have had more faith.
Do you remember the story in Matthewchapter 14 of Jesus walking on the water?
Peter came out and walked on the waterfor a while until he saw the wind, and
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he began to sink because he was afraid.
Then the Lord stretched out His handand caught him, and this is what Jesus
said to him in Matthew chapter 14 verse31: “O you of little faith! Why did
you doubt?” So even the disciples whotraveled with Jesus, who heard him teach,
who asked him questions many times,and who saw his miracles, and performed
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miracles themselves by the power ofthe Holy Spirit, sometimes did not have
as much faith as they needed to have.
So one of the things that we as preachershave to be careful about is being so hard
on people who worry is that we sometimescause people to worry about worrying.
You see, in Matthew chapter 6 verse30, Jesus did not say, “Will he not
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much more clothe you, O you who haveno faith?” He said, “Will he not much
more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
At least they had some faith.
And He's saying thatyou need to have more.
You need to trust in Me more.
The Bible says in Proverbs chapter3 verse 5, “Trust in the Lord with
all your heart and do not leanupon your own understanding. In
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all your ways acknowledge Him,and He will direct your paths.”
I want to go back to verse 27because here's a statement that
Jesus made in the middle of thesetwo examples that we've looked at.
In verse 27 He said, “Which of youby worrying, can add one cubit to
his stature?” Can you make yourselftaller just by worrying? Somebody might
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say, “Well, that would be ridiculous.Who in the world would think that he
can do that just by worrying aboutit?” Well, that really is the point.
This really is silly, andyet we tend to do it anyway.
It's strange how we imagine thingsin our minds and we worry about
things that are not even going tohappen, that are not even possible.
Jesus is saying what can youaccomplish with worrying?
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Does it put food on the table?
Does it put shoes on a child's feet?
Does it pay the bills?
Does it cure a disease?
Does worry turn a wayward childback to you and back to God?
Does worry resolve a conflict?
Does worry cause you to avoid all dangeror change the way that people think?
Or can you feed the hungry ordeliver the oppressed or save the
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country just by worrying about it?
Now I do want to point out herethat even though we're not to worry
about things in life, it is naturaland it is good to be alarmed and
concerned or even afraid at times.
You see, just because you're concernedabout something doesn't necessarily
mean you're worrying about it.
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Just because you're afraid ofsomething doesn't mean that you're
necessarily worried about it.
Paul was fearful at times.
The Bible says that in 1 Corinthians2, verse 3, he said, “I was with
you in fear and in much trembling.”
Jesus even dreaded the deaththat he was going to undergo.
That's why he prayed in Matthew 26,verse 39, “Father, if it's possible, let
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this cup pass from me.” So we wouldn'tsay that the Apostle Paul didn't have
enough faith just because he felt thenormal, natural feeling of fear sometimes.
And we certainly would not say thatJesus Christ himself didn't have
enough faith because he dreaded, hehad that human feeling of fear about,
the death that He was going to die.
But what we do find in the Bible isthat we can't accomplish anything when
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we, as a habit, as a preoccupation inour life, think over and over and over
about some kind of need that we have orsome kind of fear that we have to the
point that we neglect what we ought tobe doing when we are preoccupied with
that thing that we're concerned about.
That's what he means when He talks aboutthese cares of the world overriding
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what we're supposed to be doing.
So Jesus said you can't doany real good with that.
Now it could be that because ofbeing alarmed about something
that you pray and that is good.
That's not worrying.
That's taking a fear and puttingit into something that's good.
So in Philippians chapter four,beginning in verse six, that's
exactly what Paul is talking about.
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He says, “Be anxious for nothing,but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving, letyour requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God which surpassesall understanding, will guard your
hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.”
That's one of the greatest statementsabout human psychology and human
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emotions that you will ever find.
Look at it again.
Philippians 4, verse 6.
Don't worry about anything, Paul says,but in everything, that is, in every
situation, no matter how hard it is, nomatter how much your heart is breaking,
no matter how impossible it is to seemto get through it, Paul says, you keep
praying, you make supplication, that is,you ask God, and you also give thanks.
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You thank Him, it says, to do thiswith thanksgiving and let your
requests be made known to God.
Somebody says, “Well, how in the world canI thank God for something when my heart's
breaking?” Because you can do that.
You can look around you and see thatothers have problems bigger than yours,
and you can be thankful for the factthat you don't have their problems.
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You can at least be thankful that yourproblems are not worse than they are.
You can at least be thankfulthat you can go to God.
You may not be able to go to anybodyelse that understands, but you can
go to God and you can pray to Him.
There are so many things that you canfind to be thankful for if you will
look, if you will just pay attention,and if you will try, you can do that.
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In 1 Peter chapter 5 verse7, here's what the Bible says
about these cares of the world.
1 Peter 5 verse 7.
We are to “cast all your careupon him, for he cares for you.”
What do we do with those worries?
Cast them upon God.
Why?
Because He's caring for you.
So instead of putting all thattime and energy into worrying, the
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Bible says put it into praying,because that's productive.
You're really doing something then.
And Jesus gives us another greatreason why we shouldn't worry in
verses 31 and 32, and that is the factthat God already knows what we need.
So, while we're worrying aboutthings that we think we need or we
do need, God already knows that.
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So do we realize that?
Do we admit that?
When we worry, are we saying,“God, do you even see me?
Do you even know what's taking place?
Are you concerned about me?
Do you know what I'm going through here?”Sometimes maybe that's in our mind, or
at least it's in the back of our mind.
But the Bible says in verse 31 and 32that God already knows what you need.
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Now remember, back in Matthew chapter6, verse 8, that Jesus said, “Your
father knows the things that you haveneed of before you ask Him.” Now He's
saying in Matthew chapter 6, verse31, “Do not worry, saying, ‘What
shall we eat, or what shall we drink,or what shall we wear?’ For after
all these things the Gentiles seek.
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For your Heavenly Father knowsthat you need all these things.”
God knows what you need.
He also knows what you want.
And He sees the difference.
Now, we should see the differencebetween our needs and our wants, but
sometimes we don't like to admit it.
But if God knows what you need, then whatyou need to do is do your work, do your
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part, and He'll take care of the rest.
That's exactly whathe's saying in verse 33.
You seek first the kingdom of Godand his righteousness, and all
these things shall be added to you.
What things?
The things He's just talked aboutthe things He's just told us not
to worry about—food and clothing.
God says I will provide those thingsbut what you need to focus on are the
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spiritual things That's why He saidseek that is you're to strive for.
You're to plan, you're to workfor, you're to be interested in
and excited about spiritual things.
You are to seek and you are toseek first the kingdom of God.
That's the church.
So you ought to put first going tochurch, being a member of the church,
obviously, but helping the church,being interested in it, praying for
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it, participating in the congregation,encouraging its works, teaching people
to be in it, loving the members of it.
“Seek first the kingdom ofGod,” which is the church, and
seek first His righteousness.
Now, he talked about that in Matthewchapter 5, verse 19 through 48.
The most important thing, He says,is doing right and being saved.
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His righteousness means to do right, to dorighteousness and justice in God's sight.
These things ought to be, asJesus said, first in our lives
and especially in our hearts.
They ought to come before anything else.
They are more importantthan anything else.
God's part is to give you the necessitiesof life, and God will do His part.
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will you and I do our part to seek first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness?
Nothing else is more important.
Jesus said in Matthew 16, 26, “What is aman profited if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul? Or what shalla man give in exchange for his own soul?”
Then Jesus said 34.
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“Therefore, do not worry abouttomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the day is its owntrouble.” Jesus said, “Don't worry about
tomorrow.” Back in the Old Testamentin Proverbs 27 verse 1, the Bible says,
“Do not boast yourself about tomorrowbecause you do not know what a day may
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bring forth.” You don't even know thatyou're going to be alive tomorrow.
You don't know what'sgoing to happen tomorrow.
The Bible warns aboutthis in James 4, verse 13.
“Come now, you who say, today ortomorrow, we will go to such and such
a city, spend a year there, buy andsell and make a profit. Whereas you do
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not know what will happen tomorrow.”
That's James 4, verse 14.
“For what is your life? It is evena vapor that appears for a little
time and then vanishes away. Instead,you ought to say, if the Lord wills,
we shall live and do this or that.”So our Lord said, “Therefore do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrowwill worry about its own things.
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Sufficient for the dayis its own trouble.”
Yes, the Bible does teachto live one day at a time.
He says you've got enough today.
You have enough responsibilities today.
You have enough trouble today.
You have enough opportunities today.
You have enough trials andtemptations today to take care of.
Don't borrow and get over intotomorrow before it gets here.
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I've got a few things that I wantto read to you that I've collected
over the years, and this first oneis called “Today.” It's from the
Gospel Advocate, December the 3, 1931.
1931 was in the middle of the GreatDepression, and December the 3rd is
just a few weeks before Christmas.
This is a very interesting article byFrank Crane, December the 3rd, 1931.
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It's entitled, “Today”:
“The best thing you havein the world is today.
Today is your savior.
It is often crucified between twothieves, yesterday and tomorrow.
Today you can be happy,not yesterday nor tomorrow.
There is no happiness except today.
Most of our misery is left over fromyesterday or borrowed from tomorrow.
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Keep today clean.
Make up your mind to enjoy your food,your work, your play, today, anyhow.
You can do anything if you willonly go at it a day at a time.
If you're bereaved, betrayed,heartbroken, why not take a day off?
One day will not matter.
Today, put away your pestering thoughts.
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Today, take some simple joys.
Today, be a little happy in the sunshine.
You can do it.
It's the burden of the coming days andweeks and years that is crushing us.
The present is always tolerable.
Whoever planned this life of ours didwell in giving it to us one day at a time.
We do not have to live it all at once.
Thanks, be.
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We have only got to getthrough till bedtime.
Every morning, we are born again.
Why let life oppress you?
You don't have to live yourlife, only one day of it.
Come, let us finish oursmall task manfully.
It is not long.
Do not let life mass against you.
Attack it in detail, andyou can easily triumph.
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The past is what we make of it.
It is the temper of thepresent that qualifies it.
It depends on how you nowconsider it, whether it brings
you despair or discouragement.
Do not let the past unmanyou, benumb you with remorse,
weaken you with self-contempt.
The poet says we rise bystepping on our dead selves.
And as for the future, the bestpreparation for it is an unafraid today.
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If you are to die tomorrow, thebest way is to be ready to discharge
faithfully today's duties and to enjoyheartily today's simple pleasures.
Today is yours.
God has given it to you.
All your yesterdays He has taken back.
All your tomorrows are still in His hands.
Today is yours.
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Take its pleasures and be glad.
Take its pains and play the man.
Today is yours.
Just a little strip of lightbetween two darknesses.
Today is yours.
Use it so that at its close you cansay, I have lived and loved today.”
Again, that's Frank Crane, GospelAdvocate, December the 3rd, 1931.
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Another piece that I've kept overthe years and used many times is
called, “Not the Work, but theWorry.” And here's how it goes.
“It's not the work but the worry thatmakes the world grow old, that shortens
the years of many before half theirlife is told. It's not the work but
the worry that places on life a ban.The cares and fears that crowd the
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years, these break the heart of man.”
Here's another short one, andvery simple, but it makes a point.
“Worry is like an old man with bendedhead, carrying a load of feathers, which
he thinks are lead.” Another one says,“Worry is a Killer.” Henry Ward Beecher
declared, “It is not work that kills men.
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It is worry.
Work is healthy.
You can hardly put upon aman more than he can bear.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
It's not the revolution that destroysthe machinery, but the friction.
Fear secretes acids, but loveand trust are sweet juices.”
Another one is entitled, “You Mustn'tQuit.” “When things go wrong as they
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sometimes will, When the road you'retrudging seems all uphill, When the funds
are low and the debts are high, and youwant to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest if you must, but never quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,as every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about, when hemight have won, if he'd stuck it out.
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Stick to your task, though the pace seemsslow, you may succeed with one more blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,the silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
and you can never tell how close youare, it may be near when it seems afar.
So stick to the fightwhen your hardest hit.
It's when things seem worstthat you mustn't quit.”
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And I want to end today with areading from Hebrews chapter 13.
I'm going to look at verses five and six.
“Let your conduct be without covetousness.Be content with such things as you
have. For he himself has said, I willnever leave you nor forsake you: so we
may boldly say the Lord is my helper,I will not fear what can man do to me.”
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We hope you’re enjoying the holidays.
It’s good to slow down and giveyour mind and your body a break.
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I know that most podcasts are probablytalking about the happy part of this
time of the year, and that’s good.
But the longer we live, the morewe learn that life doesn’t always
cooperate with the expectations we have.
Reality is that accidents,sickness, death, loneliness and
families not getting along canmake it hard to enjoy the holidays.
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That’s why we pulled an episodefrom the archives on a topic
we all struggle with—worry.
Some of you need this more than others do.
If everything is going well, Ibelieve this lesson from the Sermon
on the Mount will help you toappreciate your blessings even more.
And, if you know someone whois going through a hard time,
you can send this link to them.
But if the heartaches of life are weighingyou down with fear and grief, just open
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your Bible to the Sermon on the Mount inMatthew chapter 6, and let Jesus teach
you about this old foe called worry.
Are you worried about something today?
Worry is one of the biggestchallenges, it's one of the hardest
problems that we as Christians face.
And Jesus talks about thisproblem of worry in Matthew
chapter 6 verses 25 through 34.
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This is one of the longest sectionsin the Bible on this subject.
Remember what Jesus has just talked aboutbefore you start reading verse 25, though.
In verses 19 through 24, Jesushas taught us how to have the
right attitude about money.
He says don't lay up treasures onearth, but lay up treasures in heaven.
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That's verse 19 and 20.
And then, in verse 24, he said you can'tserve God and money at the same time.
The first word in verse 25 in this sectionabout worry is the word “therefore.”
“Therefore” tells us to look before thisand remember what he's just talked about.
So Jesus is saying in light of whatI've just said to you about having the
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right kind of attitude toward money,I want to talk to you now about worry.
So I'm going to read verses 25through 34 to get started today.
And I'll be reading fromthe New King James Version.
You'll find in the King James Versionthat the wording is different.
There, Jesus says, “Take no thought” foryour life or for your body and so forth.
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And the expression “take no thought” isa little bit unfamiliar for us today.
It's a little bit harder for usto relate to because we think to
ourselves when we hear those words,“Well, I HAVE to think about it.”
And in that sense, you'd be right.
But when the King James version usesthose words “take no thought,” it means
not to be preoccupied with this, whichwould be to worry. The American Standard
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Version says, “Do not be anxious”for your life and these things for
your physical life, which is probablya more understandable translation.
But I'm going to go with theNew King James version because
the word worry is the word thatwe most oftentimes relate to.
So let's read Matthew chaptersix, verse 25 through 34.
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“Therefore, I say to you, do notworry about your life, what you will
eat or what you will drink; nor aboutyour body, what you will put on.
Is not life more than food andthe body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the air,for they neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns, yet yourHeavenly Father feeds them.
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Are you not of more value than they?
Which of you, by worrying, canadd one cubit to his stature?
So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how theygrow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet
I say to you, that even Solomon in all hisglory was not arrayed like one of these.
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Now if God so clothes the grass of thefield, which today is and tomorrow is
thrown into the oven, will he not muchmore clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore do not worry,saying, What shall we eat?
Or what shall we drink?
Or, what shall we wear?
For after all thesethings the Gentiles seek.
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For your heavenly Father knowsthat you need all these things.
But seek first the kingdom of Godand His righteousness, and all
these things shall be added to you.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, fortomorrow will worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the dayis its own trouble.”
So as we start here in verse25, Jesus tells us not to worry
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about the things of this life.
And He's talking aboutthe needs of this life.
Don't worry about whatyou're going to eat or drink.
Don't worry about your clothes.
And this reminds us of what Paul said infirst Timothy six, verse seven and eight.
He said we brought nothing into thisworld and it is certain that we can carry
nothing out, and having food and clothing,let us be with these things content.
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Let's be content with what we have.
Let's be content with the fact thatwe have a roof over our heads, that we
have food on the table to eat today, andthat we have enough clothing to wear.
These people that Jesus was talkingabout were worried about things that
they needed but didn't necessarily have.
It's a shame sometimes todaythat we worry about things we
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have but we don't even need.
And it's interesting thatJesus points us to the creation
to teach us about worrying.
The first lesson that He givesus is really an object lesson.
He says, in order to keep fromworrying, you need to look at the
simple things of nature itself.
And the first illustrationthat he uses is in verse 26.
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He says, look at the birds of the air.
The King James says to consider them.
You need to think about this.
You need to watch them, and youneed to give that some thought.
You know, one of the problems that wehave in our modern society is that people
are so busy looking at screens, they'reso busy with their life looking at
their house or their place of work thatthey don't really think about nature.
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They don't really learn fromthe fact that God made all of
this and He sustains all this.
So whether you're talking about thesun, the moon, the stars, or the
animals, or the seasons of the year,or our bodies themselves, God made
and He sustains all these things.
So Jesus is saying in verse 26, youneed to look at something as simple
as the birds of the air because theydon't sow, they don't reap, they
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don't gather into barns, and yetyour heavenly Father feeds them.
God takes care of those birds.
Now, later in Matthew chapter10, when Jesus is sending out the
disciples on what we call the limitedcommission, listen to what he says.
After He told them not to fear those whokill the body but can't kill the soul, he
says in Matthew chapter 10 verse 29, “Arenot two sparrows sold for a copper coin?
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And not one of them falls to theground apart from your father's will.
But the very hairs of yourhead are all numbered.
Do not fear therefore.
You are of more value than many sparrows.”Jesus says something similar to that here.
He says, Yet your heavenly Fatherfeeds them—Matthew chapter 6, verse 26.
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Are you not of more value than they?
We're living in a time where people almostlook at animals as being on the same level
of importance and value as human beings.
As a matter of fact, some do.
Some see no differencebetween animals and humans.
Some people place more of apriority on animal life, especially
dogs, than they do human life.
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The Bible says we are above those things.
We are above the rest of the creation.
The Bible teaches that in Genesischapter 1 verse 28, where the Bible
says that we have dominion over allthe earth, including the animals,
all of God's creation in that sense.
Psalm 8 and many otherpassages teach that.
And in Matthew, chapter 12,verse 12, Jesus said, you are
much better than the sheep.
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So the point here is in Matthew,chapter 6, verse 26, that if God feeds
the birds, He will certainly feed you.
He will certainly provide for you.
There's an Old Testament passagethat's very interesting here found
in Psalm 37, verse 24 and 25.
David said, “I have been young andnow I am old. Yet I have not seen
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the righteous forsaken nor his seedbegging bread.” So we ought to learn
from nature and we ought to learn fromScripture that God will take care of us.
The second example that He gives fromnature is in verses 28 through 30.
Here Jesus said, “So why do youworry about clothes? Consider
the lilies of the field, how theygrow: they neither toil nor spin.”
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The word “spin” thereis an interesting word.
The Jews in the Old Testament and inthe New Testament used what was once
used here in this country, a spindle.
They weaved the fabric.
Now that could have been wool, orlinen, or silk, or goat's hair.
Proverbs chapter 31 verse 19talks about the virtuous woman
taking hold of the spindle.
And the comparison here is betweenthe clothes that Solomon wore
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and the lilies of the field.
We need to remember thatSolomon in the Old Testament
was the richest man in history.
And yet, with all of his highly expensivecustom-made clothes, with all of his
gold, he was never decked out likeeven one of these flowers of the field.
Jesus said you need to think about that.
If you're worried about havingenough money to buy your clothes,
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if you're worried about beingable to buy clothes for your
children, you need to consider that.
If God takes care of the smallparts of His creation, then He's
certainly going to take care of you.
That's what He goes on to say in verse 30.
“If God so clothes,”—in other words,if he clothes the grass of the field in
this elaborate way, which “today is andtomorrow is thrown into the oven”—“shall
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He not much more clothe you, O ye oflittle faith?” The oven that's talked
about here is different from the kind ofoven that we run off of electricity today.
These ovens were usually outside.
They were oftentimesmade of clay and stones.
And those Jews had to heat that oven up.
How did they do that?
Well, they would have to build afire in there, which would require
wood and also some dead grassas kindling to get that started.
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So they would heat that oven up, and thenwhen it was hot enough, they'd put their
dough in there to make bread and so forth.
So this is what Jesus meansabout the grass of the field.
Today it is, tomorrowit's thrown into the oven.
It doesn't last very long.
And yet look at all the carethat God gives to that very
temporary part of His creation.
It's small, it's temporary, but lookat the care that God has for that.
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And Jesus says, if God takes careof the grass of the field to that
extent, if He puts that much timeand gives that much attention to
this small part of His creation,will He not much more clothe you?
That's Matthew chapter six, verse 30.
So if you look at the creation and youreally think about what God is doing every
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day with the small parts of His creation,it will, it should, build your faith.
When you go back to the book of Job,you'll find that Job and his three
friends and the later friend called Elihuwere all talking about God's creation.
Now, they reached differentconclusions about it.
They had different opinions about howit applied, but they were all talking
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about how that God is over the creation.
And then in the last part of thebook of Job, God addresses this
matter of his creation and how thatHe is the one who is the designer.
He's the sustainer.
He is the creator of allthese things that we see.
What is the book of Job about?
Job is trying to figure out why allthese bad things have happened to him.
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God doesn't give him somekind of a long explanation.
He tells Job to look at that creationagain, to look at it in a more deep
way, and to think it through, and ifhe thinks about it long enough and
hard enough, then he'll be able to havethe faith that he ought to have to get
through any kind of problem, includingall the trials that he was facing.
Psalm 8 is another beautiful passageabout reflecting on the creation.
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David said, “When I consider thyheavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars, which you haveordained, what is man that thou art
mindful of him, and the son of man thatyou would visit him?” In other words,
in all this vast, immense creation,how can you even think about us, God?
But he does.
Then in Psalm 19, verse 1, David said,“The heavens declare the glory of God,
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and the firmament shows his handiwork.”In the book of Acts, chapter 14, Paul
and Barnabas are in the city of Lystra.
And they're talking to peoplewho had served idols and
believed in all kinds of gods.
But Paul told these people that therewas no reason for them being idolaters.
Why?
Because in Acts 14 verse 17 he saidthat He, that is, God, “did not leave
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Himself without witness.” God did notleave himself without testimony “in
that he did good and gave us rain fromheaven and fruitful seasons, filling
our hearts with food and gladness.”So in the same way, Jesus is telling
us that if we will just look at natureand listen to it, we will learn.
Notice also in Matthew 6, verse 30,that He uses these words, “O you of
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little faith.” When we worry, we'reshowing that we have little faith.
We don't have enough faith.
There is a shortage offaith when we worry.
We don't like to admit that.
We may say, “Well, I believein God. I believe that He
provides.” But we have to mean it.
And sometimes you have todo some soul searching.
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Sometimes you really have to lookat yourself and be honest about
what you're doing because when youworry about things over and over
again, you're doubting His promises.
You're doubting whatHe has said He will do.
That's why He says you're beingof little faith when you worry.
Now, that doesn't mean thatyou're automatically lost as a
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Christian just because you've gonea little too far in this direction.
As a matter of fact, you find thateven the disciples of Jesus sometimes
doubted and sometimes had little faithwhen they should have had more faith.
Do you remember the story in Matthewchapter 14 of Jesus walking on the water?
Peter came out and walked on the waterfor a while until he saw the wind, and
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he began to sink because he was afraid.
Then the Lord stretched out His handand caught him, and this is what Jesus
said to him in Matthew chapter 14 verse31: “O you of little faith! Why did
you doubt?” So even the disciples whotraveled with Jesus, who heard him teach,
who asked him questions many times,and who saw his miracles, and performed
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miracles themselves by the power ofthe Holy Spirit, sometimes did not have
as much faith as they needed to have.
So one of the things that we as preachershave to be careful about is being so hard
on people who worry is that we sometimescause people to worry about worrying.
You see, in Matthew chapter 6 verse30, Jesus did not say, “Will he not
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much more clothe you, O you who haveno faith?” He said, “Will he not much
more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
At least they had some faith.
And He's saying thatyou need to have more.
You need to trust in Me more.
The Bible says in Proverbs chapter3 verse 5, “Trust in the Lord with
all your heart and do not leanupon your own understanding. In
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all your ways acknowledge Him,and He will direct your paths.”
I want to go back to verse 27because here's a statement that
Jesus made in the middle of thesetwo examples that we've looked at.
In verse 27 He said, “Which of youby worrying, can add one cubit to
his stature?” Can you make yourselftaller just by worrying? Somebody might
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say, “Well, that would be ridiculous.Who in the world would think that he
can do that just by worrying aboutit?” Well, that really is the point.
This really is silly, andyet we tend to do it anyway.
It's strange how we imagine thingsin our minds and we worry about
things that are not even going tohappen, that are not even possible.
Jesus is saying what can youaccomplish with worrying?
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Does it put food on the table?
Does it put shoes on a child's feet?
Does it pay the bills?
Does it cure a disease?
Does worry turn a wayward childback to you and back to God?
Does worry resolve a conflict?
Does worry cause you to avoid all dangeror change the way that people think?
Or can you feed the hungry ordeliver the oppressed or save the
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country just by worrying about it?
Now I do want to point out herethat even though we're not to worry
about things in life, it is naturaland it is good to be alarmed and
concerned or even afraid at times.
You see, just because you're concernedabout something doesn't necessarily
mean you're worrying about it.
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Just because you're afraid ofsomething doesn't mean that you're
necessarily worried about it.
Paul was fearful at times.
The Bible says that in 1 Corinthians2, verse 3, he said, “I was with
you in fear and in much trembling.”
Jesus even dreaded the deaththat he was going to undergo.
That's why he prayed in Matthew 26,verse 39, “Father, if it's possible, let
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this cup pass from me.” So we wouldn'tsay that the Apostle Paul didn't have
enough faith just because he felt thenormal, natural feeling of fear sometimes.
And we certainly would not say thatJesus Christ himself didn't have
enough faith because he dreaded, hehad that human feeling of fear about,
the death that He was going to die.
But what we do find in the Bible isthat we can't accomplish anything when
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we, as a habit, as a preoccupation inour life, think over and over and over
about some kind of need that we have orsome kind of fear that we have to the
point that we neglect what we ought tobe doing when we are preoccupied with
that thing that we're concerned about.
That's what he means when He talks aboutthese cares of the world overriding
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what we're supposed to be doing.
So Jesus said you can't doany real good with that.
Now it could be that because ofbeing alarmed about something
that you pray and that is good.
That's not worrying.
That's taking a fear and puttingit into something that's good.
So in Philippians chapter four,beginning in verse six, that's
exactly what Paul is talking about.
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He says, “Be anxious for nothing,but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving, letyour requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God which surpassesall understanding, will guard your
hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.”
That's one of the greatest statementsabout human psychology and human
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emotions that you will ever find.
Look at it again.
Philippians 4, verse 6.
Don't worry about anything, Paul says,but in everything, that is, in every
situation, no matter how hard it is, nomatter how much your heart is breaking,
no matter how impossible it is to seemto get through it, Paul says, you keep
praying, you make supplication, that is,you ask God, and you also give thanks.
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You thank Him, it says, to do thiswith thanksgiving and let your
requests be made known to God.
Somebody says, “Well, how in the world canI thank God for something when my heart's
breaking?” Because you can do that.
You can look around you and see thatothers have problems bigger than yours,
and you can be thankful for the factthat you don't have their problems.
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You can at least be thankful that yourproblems are not worse than they are.
You can at least be thankfulthat you can go to God.
You may not be able to go to anybodyelse that understands, but you can
go to God and you can pray to Him.
There are so many things that you canfind to be thankful for if you will
look, if you will just pay attention,and if you will try, you can do that.
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In 1 Peter chapter 5 verse7, here's what the Bible says
about these cares of the world.
1 Peter 5 verse 7.
We are to “cast all your careupon him, for he cares for you.”
What do we do with those worries?
Cast them upon God.
Why?
Because He's caring for you.
So instead of putting all thattime and energy into worrying, the
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Bible says put it into praying,because that's productive.
You're really doing something then.
And Jesus gives us another greatreason why we shouldn't worry in
verses 31 and 32, and that is the factthat God already knows what we need.
So, while we're worrying aboutthings that we think we need or we
do need, God already knows that.
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So do we realize that?
Do we admit that?
When we worry, are we saying,“God, do you even see me?
Do you even know what's taking place?
Are you concerned about me?
Do you know what I'm going through here?”Sometimes maybe that's in our mind, or
at least it's in the back of our mind.
But the Bible says in verse 31 and 32that God already knows what you need.
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Now remember, back in Matthew chapter6, verse 8, that Jesus said, “Your
father knows the things that you haveneed of before you ask Him.” Now He's
saying in Matthew chapter 6, verse31, “Do not worry, saying, ‘What
shall we eat, or what shall we drink,or what shall we wear?’ For after
all these things the Gentiles seek.
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For your Heavenly Father knowsthat you need all these things.”
God knows what you need.
He also knows what you want.
And He sees the difference.
Now, we should see the differencebetween our needs and our wants, but
sometimes we don't like to admit it.
But if God knows what you need, then whatyou need to do is do your work, do your
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part, and He'll take care of the rest.
That's exactly whathe's saying in verse 33.
You seek first the kingdom of Godand his righteousness, and all
these things shall be added to you.
What things?
The things He's just talked aboutthe things He's just told us not
to worry about—food and clothing.
God says I will provide those thingsbut what you need to focus on are the
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spiritual things That's why He saidseek that is you're to strive for.
You're to plan, you're to workfor, you're to be interested in
and excited about spiritual things.
You are to seek and you are toseek first the kingdom of God.
That's the church.
So you ought to put first going tochurch, being a member of the church,
obviously, but helping the church,being interested in it, praying for
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it, participating in the congregation,encouraging its works, teaching people
to be in it, loving the members of it.
“Seek first the kingdom ofGod,” which is the church, and
seek first His righteousness.
Now, he talked about that in Matthewchapter 5, verse 19 through 48.
The most important thing, He says,is doing right and being saved.
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His righteousness means to do right, to dorighteousness and justice in God's sight.
These things ought to be, asJesus said, first in our lives
and especially in our hearts.
They ought to come before anything else.
They are more importantthan anything else.
God's part is to give you the necessitiesof life, and God will do His part.
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will you and I do our part to seek first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness?
Nothing else is more important.
Jesus said in Matthew 16, 26, “What is aman profited if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul? Or what shalla man give in exchange for his own soul?”
Then Jesus said 34.
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“Therefore, do not worry abouttomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the day is its owntrouble.” Jesus said, “Don't worry about
tomorrow.” Back in the Old Testamentin Proverbs 27 verse 1, the Bible says,
“Do not boast yourself about tomorrowbecause you do not know what a day may
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bring forth.” You don't even know thatyou're going to be alive tomorrow.
You don't know what'sgoing to happen tomorrow.
The Bible warns aboutthis in James 4, verse 13.
“Come now, you who say, today ortomorrow, we will go to such and such
a city, spend a year there, buy andsell and make a profit. Whereas you do
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not know what will happen tomorrow.”
That's James 4, verse 14.
“For what is your life? It is evena vapor that appears for a little
time and then vanishes away. Instead,you ought to say, if the Lord wills,
we shall live and do this or that.”So our Lord said, “Therefore do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrowwill worry about its own things.
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Sufficient for the dayis its own trouble.”
Yes, the Bible does teachto live one day at a time.
He says you've got enough today.
You have enough responsibilities today.
You have enough trouble today.
You have enough opportunities today.
You have enough trials andtemptations today to take care of.
Don't borrow and get over intotomorrow before it gets here.
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I've got a few things that I wantto read to you that I've collected
over the years, and this first oneis called “Today.” It's from the
Gospel Advocate, December the 3, 1931.
1931 was in the middle of the GreatDepression, and December the 3rd is
just a few weeks before Christmas.
This is a very interesting article byFrank Crane, December the 3rd, 1931.
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It's entitled, “Today”:
“The best thing you havein the world is today.
Today is your savior.
It is often crucified between twothieves, yesterday and tomorrow.
Today you can be happy,not yesterday nor tomorrow.
There is no happiness except today.
Most of our misery is left over fromyesterday or borrowed from tomorrow.
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Keep today clean.
Make up your mind to enjoy your food,your work, your play, today, anyhow.
You can do anything if you willonly go at it a day at a time.
If you're bereaved, betrayed,heartbroken, why not take a day off?
One day will not matter.
Today, put away your pestering thoughts.
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Today, take some simple joys.
Today, be a little happy in the sunshine.
You can do it.
It's the burden of the coming days andweeks and years that is crushing us.
The present is always tolerable.
Whoever planned this life of ours didwell in giving it to us one day at a time.
We do not have to live it all at once.
Thanks, be.
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We have only got to getthrough till bedtime.
Every morning, we are born again.
Why let life oppress you?
You don't have to live yourlife, only one day of it.
Come, let us finish oursmall task manfully.
It is not long.
Do not let life mass against you.
Attack it in detail, andyou can easily triumph.
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The past is what we make of it.
It is the temper of thepresent that qualifies it.
It depends on how you nowconsider it, whether it brings
you despair or discouragement.
Do not let the past unmanyou, benumb you with remorse,
weaken you with self-contempt.
The poet says we rise bystepping on our dead selves.
And as for the future, the bestpreparation for it is an unafraid today.
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If you are to die tomorrow, thebest way is to be ready to discharge
faithfully today's duties and to enjoyheartily today's simple pleasures.
Today is yours.
God has given it to you.
All your yesterdays He has taken back.
All your tomorrows are still in His hands.
Today is yours.
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Take its pleasures and be glad.
Take its pains and play the man.
Today is yours.
Just a little strip of lightbetween two darknesses.
Today is yours.
Use it so that at its close you cansay, I have lived and loved today.”
Again, that's Frank Crane, GospelAdvocate, December the 3rd, 1931.
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Another piece that I've kept overthe years and used many times is
called, “Not the Work, but theWorry.” And here's how it goes.
“It's not the work but the worry thatmakes the world grow old, that shortens
the years of many before half theirlife is told. It's not the work but
the worry that places on life a ban.The cares and fears that crowd the
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years, these break the heart of man.”
Here's another short one, andvery simple, but it makes a point.
“Worry is like an old man with bendedhead, carrying a load of feathers, which
he thinks are lead.” Another one says,“Worry is a Killer.” Henry Ward Beecher
declared, “It is not work that kills men.
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It is worry.
Work is healthy.
You can hardly put upon aman more than he can bear.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
It's not the revolution that destroysthe machinery, but the friction.
Fear secretes acids, but loveand trust are sweet juices.”
Another one is entitled, “You Mustn'tQuit.” “When things go wrong as they
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sometimes will, When the road you'retrudging seems all uphill, When the funds
are low and the debts are high, and youwant to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest if you must, but never quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,as every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about, when hemight have won, if he'd stuck it out.
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Stick to your task, though the pace seemsslow, you may succeed with one more blow.
Success is failure turned inside out,the silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
and you can never tell how close youare, it may be near when it seems afar.
So stick to the fightwhen your hardest hit.
It's when things seem worstthat you mustn't quit.”
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And I want to end today with areading from Hebrews chapter 13.
I'm going to look at verses five and six.
“Let your conduct be without covetousness.Be content with such things as you
have. For he himself has said, I willnever leave you nor forsake you: so we
may boldly say the Lord is my helper,I will not fear what can man do to me.”
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