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“A Matter of Trust”
Matthew 6:19-34
Study Guide for October 10, 2004
Proverbs 6:6 tells us to go the (1) _____.
This creature has no (2) _____________ and yet gathers its
(3) _______ at harvest.
Good advice!
The ant is a good example of being industrious and having a good work ethic.
Now 600 or pages over, we find Jesus telling us not to (4) ________ about what we will (5) ______ and (6) _________.
We are warned against hording (7) _________ and having two (8) ___________.
So, what’s going on here, first we are told it’s a good thing, now it’s not so good.
First, Jesus isn’t telling us to sit on a hilltop and do nothing.
This isn’t a way out of (9) ___________.
God in all likely hood will not send the (10) _________ to feed us as he did for (11) _________.
That was a special case.
So God does not want us selling all we have and moving to a hilltop to await the second coming.
Second, the ant is programmed by (12) __________ to go out and get more and more.
There is a colony of hundreds of thousands to feed.
And if ant children eat as much as teenagers, it takes a lot.
Work is also part and parcel of our human nature as well.
Even before the (13) ________, the man and woman were put in the garden to (14) ______________________________________.
(Genesis 2:15).
So, work is not a punishment for the sin.
(15) ________ is what was added.
(16) __________ are not ants.
There is a fundamental difference between them and us.
We are
(17) ______________ of a higher power.
We are aware of a God in a personal way and are aware of God’s (18) _________________ for us.
So in our work, we are aware of God’s desire for us.
In the midst of gathering, we are to (19) ________ treasure in a different way.
We tend to treat this verse as a (20) _________ of (21) __ _______ and
(22) ______ ______.
This treasure is not about the after life somewhere out there, but living (23) _____ with God.
How we work and what our (24) ____________ are now, affect the way we live with God now.
If our (25) ____________ are in control then (26) ______ is not.
We are to be aware of God in the here and now.
Part of our purpose is to (27) ________ ourselves to God. God is the (28) ________ of life not the things that we possess.
In our time, we are possessed by our possessions.
So, lastly, in our working, we are to be aware of God’s purpose.
That purpose is here described as: firstly, the (29) ___________.
Not a geographic realm, nor heaven out there, but God’s rule in our hearts now.
The Kingdom is among you, was the first message Jesus preached.
The kingdom is here and now, and how we live now in that kingdom shows what is important to us.
The second purpose of the kingdom is (30)_______________.
That is the way God is in his being.
We are live the way God is.
Our concern is to live God’s way.
God has promised to care for us.
God has promised that we will have the things we need.
With the gift of work and God’s providential care, we will live.
Our first priority is not (31) ___ ______________ of wealth.
It is the kingdom and living with God as priority in the here and now.
As we work for the kingdom, God will take care of our needs.
What is our top priority?
If it is the kingdom, then it is a matter of (32) ___________.
Answers: 1. ant. 2. commander.
3. food.
4. worry. 5. eat.
6. wear.
7.treasure.
8. masters.
9. working.
10.raven.
11.
Elijah.
12.instinct.
13. sin.
14. work it and take care of it.
15. sweat.
16. humans.
17. conscious.
18.design and will.
19.store.
20.dualism.
21.up there.
22.down here.
23. now.
24.priorities.
25.possessions.
26.
God.
27.submit.
28.
source.
29.kingdom.
30.righteousness.
31.accumulation.
32.
trust.
*Monday, October 11, 2004.*
It is no accident that Luke puts together the parable of the Pharisee and tax collector and his blessing on the children.
*Luke 18:9-17.*
The parable is about those who acknowledge their need of God.
The tax collector saw his need of God while the Pharisee saw God’s need of him.
Luke then takes us straight to the blessing of the children by Jesus.
Children are most trusting.
They believe us about Santa and the tooth fairy, they believe us when we tell them there are no monsters under their beds, and they believe us when we tell them we love them and will protect them.
Children are trusting.
We, their parents, need that trusting attitude as well.
We let life teach us about disappointment.
We let life, and its untrusting ways, keep us from trusting God.
We trust God only as much as we love God.
In what areas of our life do we need to be more trusting?
How can we trust God in spite of the lessons of life?
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