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The Cure for Worry, Stress & Anxiety
Sermon March 24, 2019
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Introduction
Have you ever been on the Blue Ridge Parkway when it was really foggy? It may have started as a little fog but then before you realized it all you could see is the fog and you were struggling to see even a little bit of the road. That’s what worry is like.
Arthur Roche said, “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
I’m sure if asked, each person in here today could give a laundry list of troubles. We know the Bible teaches us as Christians we aren’t exempt from troubles and we shouldn’t be surprised when troubles come. In fact Jesus told his disciples in John 16:22, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
But many Christians still deal with anxiety, worry, distress, agitation, tension, irritability. These are words that describe a feeling of an inner turmoil that result in a feeling of outward uneasiness. This is the feeling that brings on the fog that consumes us and causes us to lose focus on everything else around us.
Today were going to examine what Jesus said about worry and how he didn’t just suggest we don’t worry but why he commanded us to not worry. We’ll also learn the cure for worry and how to live a life of peace.
Scripture Matthew 6:25-34
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
This is another portion Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. In this short passage he commands us three times “Don’t Worry!” The way He said it shows the fullness of His charge.
In verse 25 He acknowledges worry as a common practice and says, “Stop worrying;” in verses 31 and 34 He uses the same word, but in a way that mea
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By PastorBryonSermon March 24, 2019
http://mycommunitychurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/03-24-2019-The-Cure-for-Worry-Stress-and-Anxiety.mp3
Introduction
Have you ever been on the Blue Ridge Parkway when it was really foggy? It may have started as a little fog but then before you realized it all you could see is the fog and you were struggling to see even a little bit of the road. That’s what worry is like.
Arthur Roche said, “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
I’m sure if asked, each person in here today could give a laundry list of troubles. We know the Bible teaches us as Christians we aren’t exempt from troubles and we shouldn’t be surprised when troubles come. In fact Jesus told his disciples in John 16:22, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
But many Christians still deal with anxiety, worry, distress, agitation, tension, irritability. These are words that describe a feeling of an inner turmoil that result in a feeling of outward uneasiness. This is the feeling that brings on the fog that consumes us and causes us to lose focus on everything else around us.
Today were going to examine what Jesus said about worry and how he didn’t just suggest we don’t worry but why he commanded us to not worry. We’ll also learn the cure for worry and how to live a life of peace.
Scripture Matthew 6:25-34
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
This is another portion Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. In this short passage he commands us three times “Don’t Worry!” The way He said it shows the fullness of His charge.
In verse 25 He acknowledges worry as a common practice and says, “Stop worrying;” in verses 31 and 34 He uses the same word, but in a way that mea