August 26, 2025 • 15 mins
Pastor Lonnie's message addresses the common struggle with worry through Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:19–34. The sermon explains that worry stems from uncertainty—we only stress over what we don’t know. If we knew what the future held or trusted in God’s provision and outcomes, we wouldn’t worry. Jesus offers a way to overcome this anxiety by realigning our hearts and minds with God’s promises in the Bible. The message highlights three steps to move past worry and emphasizes that worry is not just an emotional issue but a spiritual one. When we feel anxious, we should check if our priorities are right, if we trust God, and if we are living in the present. Jesus’ message is clear: seek first the Kingdom of God, and everything else will fall into place.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you ever noticed.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How the insurance industry is basically in the business of
monetizing our anxiety.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Monetizing our anxiety.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What if your roof blows off, What if my car
gets hit by a meter from outer space?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What if your cat learns to drive your car?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The insurance industry, they've made billions, billions playing the what
if game.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And here's the thing, They're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
They're not wrong at all because something just might happen,
and they are banking.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
On the fact that most of our worries never do,
and yet.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We're still worry It's created a very intriguing industry some
of us, some of us may be shaving years off
our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
By worrying.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And then we worry about the fact that we're worrying
too much. And that's like losing sleep because you're afraid
you might not be getting enough sleep. You can kind
of see the cycle, can't you. And here's skin of
how I put all that together. One I call it
(02:05):
a big truth about worrying, and that is we don't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Worry about the things we're sure of, not at all.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
When's the last time you lost sleep worrying?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, what if the sun doesn't come up tomorrow? What
am I going to do? Have you ever lost sleep
with that? Or when's the last time you lost sleep? Wondering?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, what if two plus two equals seven tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You've never lose sleep?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Things like that because those things we are one hundred
percent sure that, those kinds of things, they are locked in.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So we don't worry about.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The things we're sure of, But we only worry about
the things we're not sure of. What we're sure of
and what we're not sure of, And that is why
(03:12):
some worry about resources and others don't. Some are obsessed
with their health, others about relationships, or others about their job,
or others about creating a meaningful retirement.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's all about what we're confident in and what we're
not confident in. And so enter the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Practical teaching and wisdom of Jesus and the Sermon on
the Mound, where in this chapter Jesus gives us some
game changes I would say for putting worry in its place.
He organize and structures when he talks about how we
(04:03):
deal with these things we're not sure about and the
things we are sure about. First of all, you'll see
Jesus saying, Hey, I think it's important for you to
rethink some of your priorities. Think of these priorities, he said,
do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, but
do this, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Treasures on earth.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But we have the capacity to store up what Jesus
talked about treasures in heaven. And when he's talking about saying,
don't treasure your treasure, but treasure where that treasure is
going to lie. And Jesus is not saying, oh it's
bad to have a saving his account, or it's bad
to have a retirement plan. That's crazy, it's wise to
(04:54):
do that. He's saying, just don't get into hoarding stuff
just to set on it, because if you do that,
it won't do any good and you'll never feel.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Like enough is enough. I'd like the response of J.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Paul Getty, who who was asked by an interviewer, mister Getty,
you've amassed a fortune and you continue to do so.
So I have one question for you, mister Geddy, how
much is enough? Again, he had a great, honest answer.
I don't know if it's a great answer, but ann is.
(05:30):
After he said a little bit more. If a little
bit more is what it takes, Where are you going
with it?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Where's that treasure? What is it able to do?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He Jesus points to a better priority, and then Jesus
answers that question by saying, seek first the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And his righteousness. Seek first.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That Jesus's direction was to aim our lives at those
things that last and matter.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Think about this. The only thing, the only thing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
On this side of eternity, especially for parents, that you
can take to heaven.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's your kids, That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The only thing that you will experience, not on this side,
but on the other side. Your friends, the person who
you invested yourself in. We are the only things that last.
So when Jesus talks about building treasure in heaven, to
me that as a real insightful priority of the opportunities
(06:57):
we have, that's amazing. The only thing we take, it's
our kids and to be with our friends and persons
we will meet. His direction Jesus was was to aim
our life at what lasts, and when you do, you
(07:19):
will start to feel the weight of worry to shift
in a totally different direction.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And then here's kind of.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The next teaching of Jesus on that not only are
we to kind of rethink what is the priority of
your life and of your existence.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The next direction is in the midst.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Of that, which is the natural next step, and that
is to trust God's provisions what God will do.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I remember before we were empty.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Nesters, and all the kids at home are kids.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They worried about some things. From time to time.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They would worry about, I wonder if my Halloween costume
is gonna be cool enough? Yeah, kind of a kid
worry are They'll worry like, man, I wonder that guy's
gonna like me?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I wonder about that guy's gonna like me? Or are
they gonna think I'm a nerd? Those tend to be
the things kids worry about.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But they never worried about. I wonder if I'm going
to have a place to live.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They never worried about will there be food on the table?
They never It just never crossed their mind because they knew,
they knew.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Their parents were there.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They would provide for them, they would do all they
could for them, and they would shelter them.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And I think that is the same kind of dynamic.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of the trust that Jezesus is getting at when he
talks about putting our trust in God's provision for us
to realize that role that God will give. In fact,
Jesus articulated it this way later on in the Gospel,
where he says, look at the birds of the air.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They don't sow or reap or store away in barns.
And yet your heavily father feeds him. His eyes on
the sparrow, his eyes on the sparrow. And then, Jesus,
are you not much more valuable they are?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And Jesus really gets kind of on a rant on
the subject. He immediately goes in there and he says,
so why do you worry about clothes? See how the
louise of the thal look around, how they grow that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You do not lab or spind. Yet I tell you
even Solomon, in all his glory and splendor, stress one
of these.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And then, as if that wasn't enough, Jesus pounds the
nill even stronger.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
He says, don't worry, saying what shall we eat, what
shall we drink? What shall we wear? For your heavenly
Father knows.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You need them, You need them, So how can we
think priorities? Did you say I think those priorities, you
have trust in God's provision.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And then he gives kind of a.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Third broad sweep in how we can handle or worry.
And then he's saying, live in the present, live today,
for it is today where all the opportunities lie.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And he closes with it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He says, therefore, do not worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
He didn't say there's no trouble today.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
He never said that. He said, deal.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
With kind of one day at a type, guilt with
what is before you, because.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The future doesn't exist yet. Today does.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Today does, and today right now is the only place,
the only place.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That we have the power to act. So don't obsess
about tomorrow at the expense of today and let that
worry drag you under. For make today. I thank Jesus
(11:47):
is getting it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
A day of progress, this day, this day where the
storm seems to be passing a little bit. It is
a day of promise. To improve everything you can improve
about your life that can be done today.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
If you're worried about.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Something and it's something that you can change, then make.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Some progress today.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Not tomorrow morning, but today towards changing it. If you're
worried about something and it's something you can't change. Sometimes
we get rough news then make some progress towards preparing
for it, to prepare what may be.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
In are tomorrow's.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So I think Jesus is getting at really a life
and death issue here in our stewardship and those things.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
We worry about, and he essentially saying, the question is.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Not whether we're going to die, we all know that,
but the real.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Question is how will we live? How will we live?
And that's the game changer, that's the difference maker.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And Jesus giving very practical, pragmatic directions for his followers
and trusting our heavenly Father of that love of God,
and doing what we can each day.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Let us pray, would you please stand? Please stand before
we pray.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
A heavening Father, We come before you, going through the storm.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
With honest hearts.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
We recognize, Lord, how easily worry takes hold of us,
and we confess that we often carry burdens that you
never intended for us to bear, or do We worry
about things we can't control, about outcomes that may never happen.
(14:08):
But on this day, this day that you have made Lord,
today we're choosing something we choose to lay those worries down,
and help us to rethink our priorities, to value what
truly matters, and to treasure what lasts.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And help us to trust in your provisions.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The way you care for the birds of the air
and the lilies of the field remind us that you
care even more for us. Teach us to live in
the present, to take each day as it comes, but
(14:59):
to act where we can, and to rest in your
sovereignty where we can't. Give us peace and the uncertainty,
strength in our struggles, and clarity to act, and to
know when to act.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And when to be still.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Let your words shape our thoughts, that your spirit calm
our fears lent today be a step forward to be
free from the chokeholde of worry and full of trust
(15:45):
in you. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.
Have you ever noticed.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How the insurance industry is basically in the business of
monetizing our anxiety.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Monetizing our anxiety.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
What if your roof blows off, What if my car
gets hit by a meter from outer space?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What if your cat learns to drive your car?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
The insurance industry, they've made billions, billions playing the what
if game.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
And here's the thing, They're not wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
They're not wrong at all because something just might happen,
and they are banking.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
On the fact that most of our worries never do,
and yet.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We're still worry It's created a very intriguing industry some
of us, some of us may be shaving years off
our lives.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
By worrying.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And then we worry about the fact that we're worrying
too much. And that's like losing sleep because you're afraid
you might not be getting enough sleep. You can kind
of see the cycle, can't you. And here's skin of
how I put all that together. One I call it
(02:05):
a big truth about worrying, and that is we don't.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Worry about the things we're sure of, not at all.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
When's the last time you lost sleep worrying?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, what if the sun doesn't come up tomorrow? What
am I going to do? Have you ever lost sleep
with that? Or when's the last time you lost sleep? Wondering?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, what if two plus two equals seven tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You've never lose sleep?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Things like that because those things we are one hundred
percent sure that, those kinds of things, they are locked in.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So we don't worry about.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The things we're sure of, But we only worry about
the things we're not sure of. What we're sure of
and what we're not sure of, And that is why
(03:12):
some worry about resources and others don't. Some are obsessed
with their health, others about relationships, or others about their job,
or others about creating a meaningful retirement.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It's all about what we're confident in and what we're
not confident in. And so enter the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Practical teaching and wisdom of Jesus and the Sermon on
the Mound, where in this chapter Jesus gives us some
game changes I would say for putting worry in its place.
He organize and structures when he talks about how we
(04:03):
deal with these things we're not sure about and the
things we are sure about. First of all, you'll see
Jesus saying, Hey, I think it's important for you to
rethink some of your priorities. Think of these priorities, he said,
do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, but
do this, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Treasures on earth.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But we have the capacity to store up what Jesus
talked about treasures in heaven. And when he's talking about saying,
don't treasure your treasure, but treasure where that treasure is
going to lie. And Jesus is not saying, oh it's
bad to have a saving his account, or it's bad
to have a retirement plan. That's crazy, it's wise to
(04:54):
do that. He's saying, just don't get into hoarding stuff
just to set on it, because if you do that,
it won't do any good and you'll never feel.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Like enough is enough. I'd like the response of J.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Paul Getty, who who was asked by an interviewer, mister Getty,
you've amassed a fortune and you continue to do so.
So I have one question for you, mister Geddy, how
much is enough? Again, he had a great, honest answer.
I don't know if it's a great answer, but ann is.
(05:30):
After he said a little bit more. If a little
bit more is what it takes, Where are you going
with it?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Where's that treasure? What is it able to do?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
He Jesus points to a better priority, and then Jesus
answers that question by saying, seek first the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And his righteousness. Seek first.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That Jesus's direction was to aim our lives at those
things that last and matter.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Think about this. The only thing, the only thing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
On this side of eternity, especially for parents, that you
can take to heaven.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's your kids, That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The only thing that you will experience, not on this side,
but on the other side. Your friends, the person who
you invested yourself in. We are the only things that last.
So when Jesus talks about building treasure in heaven, to
me that as a real insightful priority of the opportunities
(06:57):
we have, that's amazing. The only thing we take, it's
our kids and to be with our friends and persons
we will meet. His direction Jesus was was to aim
our life at what lasts, and when you do, you
(07:19):
will start to feel the weight of worry to shift
in a totally different direction.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And then here's kind of.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The next teaching of Jesus on that not only are
we to kind of rethink what is the priority of
your life and of your existence.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
The next direction is in the midst.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Of that, which is the natural next step, and that
is to trust God's provisions what God will do.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I remember before we were empty.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Nesters, and all the kids at home are kids.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
They worried about some things. From time to time.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
They would worry about, I wonder if my Halloween costume
is gonna be cool enough? Yeah, kind of a kid
worry are They'll worry like, man, I wonder that guy's
gonna like me?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I wonder about that guy's gonna like me? Or are
they gonna think I'm a nerd? Those tend to be
the things kids worry about.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But they never worried about. I wonder if I'm going
to have a place to live.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They never worried about will there be food on the table?
They never It just never crossed their mind because they knew,
they knew.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Their parents were there.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
They would provide for them, they would do all they
could for them, and they would shelter them.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And I think that is the same kind of dynamic.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of the trust that Jezesus is getting at when he
talks about putting our trust in God's provision for us
to realize that role that God will give. In fact,
Jesus articulated it this way later on in the Gospel,
where he says, look at the birds of the air.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They don't sow or reap or store away in barns.
And yet your heavily father feeds him. His eyes on
the sparrow, his eyes on the sparrow. And then, Jesus,
are you not much more valuable they are?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And Jesus really gets kind of on a rant on
the subject. He immediately goes in there and he says,
so why do you worry about clothes? See how the
louise of the thal look around, how they grow that.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You do not lab or spind. Yet I tell you
even Solomon, in all his glory and splendor, stress one
of these.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And then, as if that wasn't enough, Jesus pounds the
nill even stronger.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
He says, don't worry, saying what shall we eat, what
shall we drink? What shall we wear? For your heavenly
Father knows.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You need them, You need them, So how can we
think priorities? Did you say I think those priorities, you
have trust in God's provision.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And then he gives kind of a.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Third broad sweep in how we can handle or worry.
And then he's saying, live in the present, live today,
for it is today where all the opportunities lie.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
And he closes with it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He says, therefore, do not worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
He didn't say there's no trouble today.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
He never said that. He said, deal.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
With kind of one day at a type, guilt with
what is before you, because.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The future doesn't exist yet. Today does.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Today does, and today right now is the only place,
the only place.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
That we have the power to act. So don't obsess
about tomorrow at the expense of today and let that
worry drag you under. For make today. I thank Jesus
(11:47):
is getting it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
A day of progress, this day, this day where the
storm seems to be passing a little bit. It is
a day of promise. To improve everything you can improve
about your life that can be done today.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
If you're worried about.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Something and it's something that you can change, then make.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Some progress today.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Not tomorrow morning, but today towards changing it. If you're
worried about something and it's something you can't change. Sometimes
we get rough news then make some progress towards preparing
for it, to prepare what may be.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
In are tomorrow's.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
So I think Jesus is getting at really a life
and death issue here in our stewardship and those things.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
We worry about, and he essentially saying, the question is.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Not whether we're going to die, we all know that,
but the real.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Question is how will we live? How will we live?
And that's the game changer, that's the difference maker.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And Jesus giving very practical, pragmatic directions for his followers
and trusting our heavenly Father of that love of God,
and doing what we can each day.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Let us pray, would you please stand? Please stand before
we pray.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
A heavening Father, We come before you, going through the storm.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
With honest hearts.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
We recognize, Lord, how easily worry takes hold of us,
and we confess that we often carry burdens that you
never intended for us to bear, or do We worry
about things we can't control, about outcomes that may never happen.
(14:08):
But on this day, this day that you have made Lord,
today we're choosing something we choose to lay those worries down,
and help us to rethink our priorities, to value what
truly matters, and to treasure what lasts.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And help us to trust in your provisions.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
The way you care for the birds of the air
and the lilies of the field remind us that you
care even more for us. Teach us to live in
the present, to take each day as it comes, but
(14:59):
to act where we can, and to rest in your
sovereignty where we can't. Give us peace and the uncertainty,
strength in our struggles, and clarity to act, and to
know when to act.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And when to be still.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Let your words shape our thoughts, that your spirit calm
our fears lent today be a step forward to be
free from the chokeholde of worry and full of trust
(15:45):
in you. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.
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