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2.21.21 Luke 12:22-34 Pastor Danny Gardner · HBCWestminster

• 0:00
  If you have your Bibles, you can open to Luke chapter 12. Luke chapter 12, our text this morning is verses 22 to 34. Luke 12, 22 to 34. And our title is Anxiety-Free Living Can Be Yours. Anxiety-Free Living Can Be Yours. If you're able to stand in honor of God's word, I would ask you to do that now. As I read, we'll pray and begin. Verse 22 says, And he said to his disciples, Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.
• 0:30
  For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens. They neither sow nor reap. They have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds? Which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to a span of life? If then you are not able to do a small thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?
• 0:55
  Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? And do not seek what you are to eat, what you are to drink, nor be worried.
• 1:17
  For all the nations of the world seek after these things and your father knows that you need them instead seek his kingdom and These things will be added to you fear not little flock For it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Sell your possessions give to the needy Provide yourselves with money bags that do not grow old with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail Where no thief approaches and no moth destroys for where your treasure is there will your heart be also and Lord we pray
• 1:45
  a blessing over the preaching and reading of your word. Lord, may we apply it to our hearts and to our minds. May it be living and active. God, not a dead word that we can disregard and neglect, but a living word which changes the way that we live. Lord, I pray that we would renew our minds according to your word and that we would be different, live differently because of it. And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, church. You can be seated.
• 2:15
  Well, my oldest son Pearson is almost 19 years old. He's a freshman in college and the day that he got saved, the day that he committed his life to Christ, I was explaining the gospel to him and we were talking about kind of the story of the gospel from Old Testament through New Testament. It was on a road trip. He and I were driving together and as the conversation became more and more and more real, as things got real, you know, he was six, seven years old, somewhere in there. He's understanding things that he's heard. He'd already heard the gospel, but he's understanding it for maybe the first time really deeply.
• 2:44
  And so as we got more and more and more intense into the gospel, and I'm realizing, man, this is a great opportunity with my son. I kind of pulled my truck over to the side of the road. We sat there on the side of the road and just talked about the gospel. And I began explaining it to him. And I said this phrase that we often say. I said, you know, Pearson, Jesus died on the cross for our sins. And he kind of got very sad. His countenance kind of dropped. And he said, yeah, dad, I know. Jesus died on the cross for our sins. And it occurred to me, church.
• 3:11
  It occurred to me that this little boy had heard that phrase so many times. Jesus died on the cross for our sins. But then the rest of the story, he didn't necessarily fill in. He hadn't heard as many times the rest of the story, which was that Jesus also rose from the dead. And so we got very sad. I know Jesus died on the cross for my sins. Very somber. And then I thought, but you know, Pearson, you know Jesus rose from the dead.
• 3:40
  He rose from the dead, you know, he's not dead now and you could I mean visibly see his countenance change like He's alive Yeah, he's alive Pearson. That's what makes the good news the good news. He's alive Isn't that good news and he literally looked back at me his sweet little face. He looked back at me and said dad That's great news That's great news. He's alive
• 4:07
  We have said for 18 months we've been studying the Gospel of Luke. We're about halfway or so done. We have said so many times, church, the Gospel of Luke is the best news. It is the best news for the worst people.
• 4:23
  If you're one of those people who pretends to be good, good for you. The gospel of Luke might not be for you. If you're a pretender, a spiritual pretender, man, the gospel of Luke would say, don't worry about pretending anymore. You can be real. You don't have to hide your sin. You don't have to hide your shame. The Lord already knows everything that you've done. And he has given you his son anyway, who has died on the cross and risen from the dead. It is the best news for the worst.
• 4:49
  People and if you're sitting here this morning thinking I could use some good news then church. Listen, I've got good news It's the good news Jesus died for your sin the worst sin that you've ever committed died for it. It is paid It is paid by His grace and through your faith It is the best news for the worst people and this morning we come to a well-known Text in this morning's text Christ pins
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  These words to our hearts Using three nails. It's like he nails this text to our hearts using three nails three imperatives commands verse 22 stop being anxious verse 29 stop worrying verse 32 stop being Afraid and this is kind of crazy, but this is now the fourth time I've preached on anxiety at Highland in the last four years four times in four years
• 5:46
  You know that sometimes I select the text but most of the time God selects the text through the sequential preaching of his word I didn't choose Luke chapter 12 the Lord choose Luke chapter chose Luke chapter 12 It is the next text in our series and it caused me to wonder Why would the Lord have me preach this sermon on average once a year? Why anxiety Lord? It is one of the most frequent subjects that I have preached on here at Highland Why anxiety and the obvious answer is because we need to hear it again
• 6:17
  Again, we need to hear it. Church, have you ever noticed that we get all bent out of shape over the stupidest stuff? You ever looked at someone, a friend, a neighbor, maybe even just a stranger, you ever looked at them and thought, man, you don't need to live that way. There's a different way to live.
• 6:42
  You're living without any joy or hope at all. There's a different way that you don't need to live that way you ever had a neighbor like that many years ago In a different house and on a different street in a different neighborhood in fact in a different state when our family lived in a different state
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  we had a neighbor who lived across from us whose name was larry and he was just the stereotypical grumpy old man that was him stereotype every stereotype you can imagine grumpy at kids coming to you know passing by his front porch staring out the window at him yelling at him to get off his lawn you know he was that guy and i just thought man that's a hard way to live well that house had these big peaked roofs our house had very high peaked roofs and
• 7:26
  Our family liked hanging Christmas lights and so I would get up there on the top of these peaks It was pretty high off the ground and get up there and hang these Christmas lights and one year I was taking our Christmas lights down getting ready to take them down I had come to the pinnacle the very top of that roof and I lost my footing I kind of slipped and I slid just
• 7:46
  like this just down i was gonna fall off the roof i was gonna slide right off the roof totally christmas vacation that thing uh and and man i was getting ready to go off i reached where the rain gutters were right at the edge of the roof and i just grabbed on my feet were dangling off i barely stopped myself from falling off the roof it scared me to the point uh that that year i never took my christmas lights down again we liked having them up
• 8:10
  but i kind of tucked them up underneath the eaves so you couldn't really see them from the street you couldn't see that i was leaving them up that was kind of cheating and so i i left them up and for several years we left them up and i'd plug them in when it was christmas time and then just unplug them and you couldn't really tell that there were christmas lights there well one year i was working out in the spring working out of my front yard and the city code enforcement vehicle pulled up
• 8:34
  Well, that's kind of weird and the guy gets out of his car and you know official the thing, you know, whatever You know his insignia polo shirt, you know city code enforcement Are you mr. Gardner? Yes. I'm mr. Gardner. Well, mr. Gardner. I've had a complaint from one of your neighbors That you left your Christmas lights up and city and you know city whatever code says you can only leave them up until February 1st And so you've got to have them down and it's after that and he says, you know, it's it's funny
• 9:02
  because he said I drove by your house and I thought man there are no Christmas lights and it wasn't until I got up right next to it that I realized oh no there are lights and you know I'm sorry Mr. Gardner but you're going to need to take them down or you're going to have to face this penalty and I looked across the street as he pulled up I looked across the street and I could see Larry peeking out from behind his drapes watching me watching me I'm looking at we made eye contact and I'm like what is wrong with you you know what's your problem
• 9:28
  You know what? And the guy said, you know, you got 48 hours to take them down and I'm going to need to come back in 48 hours and make sure that they're down on all the stuff. And I said, you know what? Honestly, don't bother. I said, I'll have them down in five minutes. He's like five minutes. I'll have them down in five minutes. I walked over to the corner of the yard. He was still standing there. I walked over to the corner of the yard, jumped up and grabbed where the Christmas lights were hanging down, dangling down, grabbed the little cable. And I literally held on and turned and just ran down the street.
• 9:57
  Ripped them all off at the same time. The code enforcement guy was laughing his head off. All the lights broke. You know, it was fine. But I'm like, man, this is so dumb. This is so dumb. Why are you so nervous? Why are you so worried about Christmas lights? We get fired up about the dumbest stuff. Why? I mean, I honestly wonder why was his life so consumed by my exterior holiday illumination? I mean, it just didn't make any sense. But man, Larry, you might be a little too uptight.
• 10:26
  It did cause me to think as well. I wonder if he gives his soul the same attention I wonder if he puts that kind of attention into his soul I wonder if he puts that kind of attention into the next life rather than this life and the real question We're gonna have to grapple with this morning church. Is this is it possible to be so confident in the next life? That it strips the stress of this one
• 10:50
  Is it possible to be so sure of eternity that it means that you can live an anxiety-free life now? And I believe the answer is yes. We said last week that we are the people who have by far the most possessions in the history of the world. We said that last Sunday. But we also have by far the most wealth, by far the most modern conveniences, by far the greatest technology, by...
• 11:17
  far church the greatest medical care in the history of mankind the most money the most stuff the best health care we should be based on that logic we should be the most carefree people in history right and yet we are wracked with anxiety worry paranoia we develop nervous
• 11:43
  tics and quirks we struggle with social anxiety phobias ptsd and all of those things were before covid i'm not even talking about 2020 you know post global pandemic we're now dealing with drug abuse alcohol abuse and suicide like never before in modern history
• 12:06
  All of those things, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and suicide have gone through the roof in the last 12 months. It turns out that the infamous poet, philosopher, notarius, and I might be mispronouncing his name, might have been right when he said, I don't know what they want from me. It's like the more money we come across, the more problems we see. One man has said worry is a thin stream of...
• 12:36
  fear trickling through the mind if encouraged it cuts a channel into which all the other thoughts are drained did you catch that worry cuts this little stream through the mind and he says if left unchecked if not shored up if not taken care of that little tiny stream of worry allows all the thoughts of our brain just to leak out we can't think about anything else once we get worried one pastor has said you may start with just a little worry but it can engulf your whole
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  life and church. We take courses. We speak with counselors about stress management. We call it stress management. But honestly, I don't want to manage my stress. I want to kill it. I don't want to manage it as if I'm the manager of the baseball team. That's not what I want. I want to kill stress. And Christ says that anxiety free living is available to you right now. Right now it is yours for the taking.
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  You can get rid of stress. You can get rid of fear. You can get rid of paranoia. You can get rid of worry. We call exterminators for rats and mice and roaches, but Christ is the exterminator for anxiety. Call him, church. He will kill it. He will exterminate it. The English word worry.
• 13:55
  comes from a German word, vergen, vergen with a W, worgen, okay? That's where we get the English word worry. Vergen in German means to strangle. That's where we get the English word worry from. It chokes, it strangles, and isn't that true? Worry is mental and spiritual strangulation. That's what worry does. And I know that many of our beloved Highlanders, members of our church family, my own friends,
• 14:24
  are being mentally strangled by worry. Last Sunday, Jesus concluded a mini sermon on being rich toward God. It was a reminder that wealth is a tool. Your wealth is meant to be invested in the kingdom, right? Don't store up treasure for yourself on earth. Store up treasure for yourself in heaven. In fact, Jesus even...
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  finishes his sermon today this morning with that same idea store up treasure for yourself there take hold of that life which is truly life we said last week and today this morning christ follows up with a command against anxiety you can almost hear his audience thinking but if i don't stockpile who will take care of me if i don't hoard my wealth won't i eventually run out it's like a year ago when we were asking how am i going to get enough toilet paper
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  hey these people are going to costco and king super and they're walking out of there with buckets and buckets and buckets trunks full of toilet paper thinking we were gonna run out of toilet paper that's the most idiotic thing i've ever seen and he says that's how we treat our money it's like oh i get as much as i can because what if i run out what if i run out who will take care of me who will safeguard me against murder hornets i mean i there's just so many stupid things
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  The reality is that many, many, many Christians, church, whether genuine believers or not, is up to the Lord. But many, many, many Christians are the thorny soil that once received the seed, whose plants sprung up quickly. But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desire for other things enter in. And Jesus says, choke the word. And it proves unfruitful. Choke the word. It's interesting that he uses that.
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  phrase, that word picture, it chokes the word. It is worry. It is a vergon. It is that strangulation, mental and spiritual strangulation. And so let's turn our attention to God's word, what he says about mental and spiritual strangulation brought on by anxiety. You're going to notice first that worry misunderstands God's promise. Worry misunderstands God's promise. Look at verse 22. He said to his disciples, therefore I tell you,
• 16:34
  Do not be anxious about your life. You're going to notice that's an imperative. That is a command. This is not a suggestion. This is not a question. This is him telling you, if you are worrying, you are being unfaithful, is what he says. You're disobeying his word. If you are living in worry, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.
• 16:58
  You know, daily living, the eating of food, the wearing of clothes, was an actual concern of Jesus' original hearers. Their daily activities revolved around surviving. I mean, when I put together my daily calendar, it's not, how can I stay alive today? I very rarely ever consider that fact. You know, like, I really don't.
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  It's like, who do I got to meet with? And what do I have to read? And what do I have to study? And how am I going to accomplish that? All of that. It's not about, am I going to stay alive today? That's not what I'm worried about. But that is what they were worried about. Food and clothing. They grew their own food. They butchered it. They harvested it. They cooked it themselves. They made their own clothes. They traded for them. There was no going through the Wendy's drive-thru on their way to Flatirons Mall. That's not how they lived. That's how we lived. That's not how they lived.
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  When Jesus commanded the rich fool last week not to store food and well for himself, this would have required a tremendous step of faith. And so he begins with this imperative. Don't worry about food and clothing. Look at verse 23. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Food and fashion. He says you cannot boil your life down to food.
• 18:12
  and fashion and yet consider how much of our culture 2021 american culture is based on food and fashion maybe worded better this way how much of 2021 american culture is obsessed with food and fashion how much of our retail is based on food or fashion how much of our economy food and fashion what percentage of square footage
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  our malls I mean Flatirons crossing up there. It's a huge building food and fashion. Those are the two things it's devoted to shopping centers food and fashion 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver food and fashion all of those well and smoking. Okay, those are the three things but food and fashion That's really what it is Pearl Street up there in Boulder food and fashion is devoted to those two Enterprises and here Christ simply says life
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  is more than food and fashion in other words we are more than animals we are more than our daily needs animals exist for this earth for this life when this life is over that's it but not us we exist for more than this life and so church we need not scramble over toilet paper
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  I mean, that would be the modern application of this. A year ago, stockpiling toilet paper. How crazy are we? We need not scramble over those things. Do you think the Lord doesn't know that you need that stuff? I mean, honestly, over food, over clothes, even over vaccines. We don't need to scramble over those things. And I know some of you are like, oh, Dooney, are you saying we don't need food and clothes? Are you saying I shouldn't get the vaccine?
• 20:04
  No, don't miss the point church. That is not what I'm saying Don't misunderstand. Of course, we need food. Of course, we need clothes. Of course vaccines are a good thing. Of course they are You know, I'm honestly I'm so so so thankful that none of my sons will ever get polio They'll never get it. I mean, I'm so thankful for that What I am saying is this There is a divine promise There is a divine promise live for God
• 20:33
  and he will care for you. That's the divine promise. He is saying, I will take care of your daily needs. You don't have to scramble to get enough stuff. You don't. I will care for those things. So you live for me and I will care for you. That is the promise.
• 20:53
  And honestly, church, he could not say it any clearer than how he says it down in verse 31 of the same text. Look down just a little bit, verse 31. Instead, so instead of scrambling after food and fashion, instead of scrambling after these things, he says, seek his kingdom, verse 31, and these things will be added to you. These things, your daily needs, will be added to you. God says, you live for me, seek my kingdom, I will care for your daily needs.
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  That's first. Worry misunderstands God's promise. But notice second. Worry misunderstands God's provision. Look up at verse 24. Worry misunderstands God's provision. Consider, he says, the ravens. Consider the birds. They neither sow nor reap. They have neither storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more value are you than the birds? Which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to a span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that.
• 21:53
  and why are you anxious about the rest consider the lilies how they grow they neither toil nor spin yet i tell you even solomon he is the richest man who ever lived right you can imagine what clothes he wore even solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these in all of his splendor never as beautiful as a flower
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  is what he's saying. Verse 28, but if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and which tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, all you of little faith? And do not seek what you are to eat and what you're to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things. Your father knows that you need them. The gist of this exhortation is that a believer need not be anxious simply because God is their heavenly father.
• 22:41
  You say, Pastor Danny, why do I need not worry? And I would tell you because you know the creator and sustainer of the universe. God is your heavenly father. Now, the people of the gods of the nations, all of those false gods, those people, they should worry, right? Because they don't know the creator and sustainer of the universe. And so they should be worried because their God is not listening to them. Their God is impotent.
• 23:10
  He cannot take care of business. He doesn't have any power over the birds and the flowers, but your God is the father of heaven. Even birds, he says, relatively small and insignificant have figured this out. Birds don't worry. They absolutely trust God for their provision of food every day. No clothes designer, not Ralph Lauren or Marc Jacobs or Michael Kors or Vera Wang.
• 23:38
  No clothes designer has ever come up with and produced a design as beautiful as the wild flowers which grow in the cracks of our sidewalks. Those little tiny flowers that grow in the cracks, the seams of cement, are more beautiful than anything Vera Wang has ever put out. Right? I mean, even the most talented people, fashion designers, can't come up with stuff as good as God just makes here today and gone tomorrow. God cares for the birds.
• 24:07
  he cares for the flowers and yet no bird is made in god's image no bird has a new nature in christ the flowers are so temporary they're here for a day how much more valuable than a bird are you how much longer do you live than the grass and the flowers you see what he's arguing here you're certainly more valuable than these things and he cares for those why would he not care for you
• 24:33
  We who have the privilege of knowing God through Christ should know to a far greater degree that if God has provided huge things for us, like salvation in Jesus' name, if he has provided his own son for you, then he will certainly provide mundane things like food, clothing, and longevity. Romans chapter 8, verse 32. Listen to what this says. Romans 8, 32.
• 24:57
  He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things? He says if God gave his son for you, he's going to make sure you've got clothes to put on. If God gave his son for you, he will certainly make sure that you have food to eat. Church, if God gave his son for you, if he gave his own son, if he struck down his own child for you,
• 25:27
  then certainly he will see you through a pandemic. You do not need to worry. God has all things under control. I like that he even says in verse 25, and which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? So he says, not only is worry going against, is it a mistrust in the sovereignty of God and his care for you? But on top of that, it doesn't even work. It doesn't work. Which of you by worrying can make yourself live longer?
• 25:58
  I've heard of people dying early from worry right causing heart problems and a high blood pressure and other things I've heard them dying early from worry, but I've never heard of somebody living longer because they were worried It doesn't even work and I love that he concludes this little section in verse 30 by just calling out the nations He just says for all the nations of the world. They seek after that stuff Your father knows that you need it all you don't need to seek it. I think one great feature of heathenism
• 26:26
  Worshipping false gods, okay? Non-Christians, non-believers. One great feature of theirs is living for the present. They live for the present. That's all they can see, right? Live it up today because tomorrow we're going to die. It is that living for the present is the dominant worldview of most college campuses, if we're honest, right? That's how college students live.
• 26:49
  At least the non-Christian ones acting as if they were designed for earthly pleasures. But that type of thinking is not worthy of the child of God. It's not even worthy of you. We weren't designed for those things. Those things were designed for us. And so church, live not like your heathen neighbors. Live differently than they do.
• 27:08
  Let a nobler and more essential and more satisfactory object occupy your affections and desires, your attention and your energies. And if God were to occupy the principal place in your heart, you would not be the lesser for it. One pastor has said, when we think like the world, when we crave like the world, we will worry like the world. And so let us not live like the world does. He says, if you do.
• 27:38
  You're just proving that you have very little faith. In fact, he says as much in verse 28, O you of little faith. He really punches home the problem. Worry, anxiety, and stress are the opposite of faith. So finally, we saw that worry misunderstands God's promise. It also misunderstands his provision. But notice finally, worry misunderstands God's pleasure.
• 28:08
  Where he misunderstands God's pleasure, he says something interesting in verse 32. Fear not. Do not be afraid. Right? Do not be afraid. Fear not, little flock. For it is your Father's good. Look at the next word. It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Did you know that God, the Father, actually finds pleasure in providing for you? It brings him pleasure to do so.
• 28:39
  He takes pleasure in providing for you. He enjoys providing for you the same way that a parent takes pleasure in providing for their child. You know, and I think sometimes the more money we have, remember the context of this sermon is just last week, him saying, be rich toward God. Don't be rich on earth, be rich toward God. But the more money we have, the broader our financial base becomes, the more tempted we are to think that our provision
• 29:08
  Rather than coming from God, that our provision actually comes from securities or dividends or portfolios. And he says that's not where it comes from. God actually takes pleasure in providing for you. And look what he says in verse 33. It's almost like he's saying test God in this. Test him. Sell your possessions. Give to the needy.
• 29:27
  Provide yourselves with money bags that don't grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Here the Lord kind of issues this challenge. Test the Father in this. Try getting rid of it all. Just get rid of it all and see if God still doesn't provide for you. He will. He will because you're his beloved child. See how he provides. You know, church, we really can say, along with the psalmist,
• 29:58
  The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. I shall not want for anything. The Lord is my shepherd and he cares for me. You know, church, the gist of it is, the bottom line is, worrying is unworthy of the people of God. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, then worry is unworthy of you. And I believe that it's unworthy for a whole host of reasons, but allow me to give you three. Why does worry have no place in your life?
• 30:27
  First, because it is a complete waste of time. Worrying is a waste of time. We've been given a limited number of seconds to walk this earth. Each of them, each one of those seconds that you are alive is precious. It is a precious opportunity to glorify God and to bring others into loving knowledge of him.
• 30:50
  Colossians 4 and verse 5 says to walk in wisdom toward outsiders, redeeming or making the best use of the time. Walk in wisdom toward those who don't know Jesus. Make the best use of the time. In other words, don't waste the time that God has given you to advance his kingdom. Don't waste that time on worry. It is a waste of time. But also second, why is worthy unworthy of you if you are in Christ? Because second, many of the future things that you worry about will never come to pass.
• 31:19
  Man, how many days and weeks and months have been wasted worrying about things that will never happen? One has said this, J.C. Ryle. He says, half our miseries are caused by fancying things that we think are coming upon us. Half the things we expect to come upon us never come at all. He says, you worry half your life. You waste half your life over things that will never come to pass. That's second.
• 31:50
  But third, why is it unworthy? Because worrying about the future has no hope of changing the future. Your worry will be ineffective. Not only is it a waste of time, and not only will a lot of those things you're worried about never happen, but worrying doesn't work. It'd be one thing to say, well, yeah, Pastor Danny, but if I worry about it, I've noticed the results are a lot better. Nobody ever says that. The results are actually a lot worse.
• 32:17
  Worrying about tomorrow, you'll notice, everybody knows this, worrying about tomorrow does not empty tomorrow of its trials. Have you noticed that? Being worried doesn't save you from trials. Rather, all worrying about tomorrow will do is empty today of its joy. That's all you're doing. You're not fixing tomorrow. You're just ruining today. Arthur Pink has said, cross not your bridges before you come to them.
• 32:45
  but cheerfully shoulder the burden of today and trustfully leave the future to God. Now listen to what he says. This is awesome. Tomorrow, he says, after all, we'll bring with it tomorrow's God. You don't need to worry about tomorrow. Do you know why, church? Because tomorrow, when you get there, God will already be there. He'll already be there.
• 33:05
  It'd be one thing to say, well, if tomorrow God's not there, then we have something to worry about. But God has already promised. He is the God who will be there tomorrow. Tomorrow will bring with it tomorrow's God. And so we can say, like David says in Psalm 37, I've been young and now I'm old, yet I've not seen the righteous forsaken, nor have I seen his children begging for bread. He says, I'm an old man. I've never seen God forsake his promise. So church, you ever think to yourself, I wish I didn't have to live.
• 33:35
  this way are you racked with anxiety and worry or are you confident in the next life if you're confident in the next life then you do not need to worry about this one by your worry are tomorrow's trials really being emptied or is your worry just instead stripping you of your joy strangling today's joy and god i pray i pray that you would help us to trust in your sovereignty
• 34:07
  we know lord that you can do all things you have all things under control we know those things but we don't always live that way and god i pray that we would trust when we are prone to worry may we trust in your promises in your providence and in your pleasure and it's in jesus name we pray amen