Don't Worry

Lance Cole

What Jesus Said • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago • Presented 3 years ago

Matthew 6:19–34

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You can’t money, influence, or fame with you, but you can take your friends and family with you.

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Don’t Worry - Introduction

Many of us worry about this or that. We worry about money, politics, our work, and even our health.

I don’t think I worry about those things although I do have concern.

There is a difference between concern and worry. Let’s take money for example.

If you have no concern for money, you are just going to spend it until there is no more.

There are a few of us here that have reason to be concerned about their health.

Last week, I went to see Dr. Joice. He had me to move my knee.

After I did, he said “I think I can hear that”.

He then had an intern put her hand on my knee and told her to feel that.

When my knee moves, it feels like an old rusty hinge.

So we are going back to the Doc tomorrow and he’s going to put some oil in there.

There have been very few times that I have really worried.

I might not have, but Cristy has.

When I fell 3 years ago, she was worried about me.

At first, it was legit.

However, it became overwhelming.

When you can’t sleep for 2 months, something is wrong.

I have issues with my knees and I go to the doc to get some help.

Cristy had something wrong with her brain and she needed some help with that.

There is nothing wrong with counseling or medicine to help you.

When I get that shot tomorrow, I’m hopeful that it will work for awhile.

When Cristy got some medicine, it helped her. Now she’s better.

God removes our sin, but not always the effects of sin.

We live in a world where sin exists and because of that - pain.

So why am I telling you to not worry?

Let’s see what Jesus says.

Matthew 6:19–34 NKJV

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Don’t worry about money

How many of you worry about money? How many of you are concerned about money?

That just makes you wise.

How many people in this world try to hoard up their money?

They want this or that. They dream about having things.

They want a boat or they want a newer house or car.

Then when they get it, it’s not enough.

Here’s the problem with having things and money.

You can’t take it with you.

Have you even seen an armored car following a hearse?

All the Pharaohs of Egypt tried to take their stuff with them.

What happened to their stuff? People stole it.

I’m getting to the age where I need to start thinking about the next stage of my life.

Listen things of this world decay and rust and if my life is just about acquiring things, then I’m in trouble.

Jesus tells us here that our eyes tell us what our priorities are.

He then tells us that we can’t serve 2 masters.

We can either serve the true God, or we can serve ourselves.

Where are we laying up treasures? Is it here on this world, or is it for the next.

We can’t take the things of this world with us, but we can take the things of God.

Don’t worry about myself

We just sang a song called “Consider the Lilies”.

The previous point was about worrying about money.

It’s talking about a sin of excess. This is a sin of lack.

But even those who have plenty can fall trap to this sin.

I talked to you earlier about what happened to me 3 years ago.

But my health started before that.

First, my thyroid went out. I remember when it happened.

Then, after that my shoulder went out.

After that, I started having unexplained pain in my joints.

I’ve gotten treatment for some of these things, but I could set here are worry about those things, but that’s not what God wants.

He wants us to trust him.

After the accident, Cristy was worried about me. She kept having these nightmares about me falling.

She took some medicine to help her through that but now she’s off it.

Does she worry about me? Yes, but she trusts God.

It’s not just money, although money is a worry as well.

There are those that don’t have enough.

We as Christians shouldn’t worry about those things.

God will provide. God will take care of us.

If it’s not in the here and now, it’s in the what will come.

Don’t worry about my future

Even if I have to think about expenses right now, even if I have to be concerned for my health, I can keep in mind that there is another world beyond this one. I can decide that I’m going to keep my eyes on the prize.

What I’m concerned about the most is where those that I know (family, friends, and others) are going after this life.

So Jesus here tells us to seek what’s important and let God take care of the rest.

What we do is we focus on the here and not the there.

What do you focus on?

Jesus tells us to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

That’s should be our focus.

Today’s Father’s Day.

Do you know how is started?

The first event that we know of in honor of fathers was on July 5, 1908 in West Virginia. They had the service in honor of the 362 men who died about 6 months earlier in a coal mine explosion.

Those fathers gave their lives to help feed and clothe their families.

Later, Sonora Smart-Dodd campaigned for recognition of Father’s in Washington State and she’s often credited as the founder of Father’s Day. Her Dad raised her and her brothers after Dodd’s mom died in childbirth.

What does that have to do with us Father’s?

Well, Father’s tend to provide for physical needs instead of spiritual things.

We work and work and we don’t take time to do the things of God.

Listen, providing is important, but not at the expense of what’s the most important things

You can’t money, influence, or fame with you, but you can take your friends and family with you.

The greatest thing that I can teach my kids is that I love them. They can learn about the love of God through that.

Today, I want to us pray for those things. The kingdom of God things.

Are you with me?

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