Sermon Series:  When the World Has Gone Crazy

Message: "Don't Worry"
Matthew 6:25-34
by Bill Ashburn
on March 8, 2009

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  Matthew 6:33

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Matthew 6:25 - 34 - ²⁵"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? ²⁸"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' ³²For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

1. Worrying accomplishes absolutely nothing. (27-29)
2. Worrying is bad for you. (27)
   Proverbs 12:25 - An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.
3. Worrying is doubting God. (31-32)
4. Worrying focuses in the wrong direction. (33-34)