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CARE OF YOUR MIND- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate this opportunity that you give me each
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Speaker 1: week to study the Bible and share ideas with you.
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Speaker 1: And we're tackling this whole theme of anxiety because I
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Speaker 1: really believe that we can win the war on worry.
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Speaker 1: Anxiety has its place, It comes with life, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to run our lives. And God has a
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Speaker 1: prescription for worry. He has a solution and antidote for anxiety,
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Speaker 1: and it's in the Book of Philippians in the summer.
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Speaker 1: We're dissecting it phrase by phrase. The words are about
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Speaker 1: to appear on the screen. Many of you have memorized
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Speaker 1: the passage. If you'd like to look at the screen
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Speaker 1: for the words, you can. Let's all read it and
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Speaker 1: cite it together. And I want you to sit up straight,
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Speaker 1: put your shoulders back, and fill your lungs with hair
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Speaker 1: and your hearts with hope. Let's say it like we
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Speaker 1: mean it. Are you ready rejoice in the Lord always?
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Speaker 1: A can I say rejoice? Let your un till this
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Speaker 1: be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
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Speaker 1: Be anxious for it, and the peace of God well
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Speaker 1: guard your Finally, brethren, there is anything praiser. Meditate on
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Speaker 1: these things. Yes, Lord, grant that we could do just this.
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Speaker 1: Would you please take the anxiety out or place it Lord,
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Speaker 1: with meditation on good things, We would request this peace
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Speaker 1: that passes understanding. We lift up to you all of
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Speaker 1: our requests, but we do so with thanksgiving and gratitude
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Speaker 1: for all the good that you have done for us.
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Speaker 1: Forgive our speaker today his sins are many. Help us
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Speaker 1: to see Christ, just Christ. Through Christ, we pray and
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Speaker 1: all the Church said. You might consider adding to your
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Speaker 1: summer reading a wonderful book that just came out as
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Speaker 1: called Called for Life, authored by Kent and Amber Brantley.
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Speaker 1: You may remember their story this time last year, doctor
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Speaker 1: Brantley's name was in the news. In fact, it was
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday evening July twenty third, twenty and fourteen, that
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Speaker 1: doctor Brantley took a seat on his couch and he
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Speaker 1: opened his journal and he needed to collect his thoughts
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Speaker 1: because he had spent the day feeling the effects of
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Speaker 1: an illness that he knew would either be malaria or
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Speaker 1: and he was praying for malaria. He was a medical
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Speaker 1: missionary in Liberia waging a war on the cruelest of viruses, Ebola.
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Speaker 1: There was no sure cure. The epidemic was killing people
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Speaker 1: by the thousands, and as much as any person in
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Speaker 1: the world, doctor Brantley knew the consequences of the disease.
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Speaker 1: He had treated dozens and dozens of cases. He knew
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Speaker 1: the symptoms, the soaring fevers, the severe diarrhea, the nausea.
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Speaker 1: He had seen the results of the virus, and yet
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Speaker 1: for the first time he was feeling them himself. His
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Speaker 1: colleagues had drawn blood and begun the tests, yet it
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Speaker 1: would be three days before anyone knew the results. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Brantley quarantined himself in his cinder blockhouse and he waited.
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Speaker 1: His wife and family were across the ocean. His colleagues
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Speaker 1: were not permitted to enter the residence. He was quite
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Speaker 1: literally alone with his thoughts, and in that moment he
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Speaker 1: opened his Bible and he found a passage from the
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Speaker 1: Book of Hebrews and began to meditate on it. The
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Speaker 1: passage reads, the promise of entering his rest still stands,
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Speaker 1: so let us never give up. Let us therefore make
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Speaker 1: every effort to enter that rest. Brantley called to mind
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Speaker 1: the phrase make every effort, and he circled it and decided,
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Speaker 1: now that's exactly what I'm going to have to do.
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Speaker 1: He kept reading. He paused in Hebrews, chapter four and
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Speaker 1: verse sixteen, let us then approach the throne of Grace
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Speaker 1: with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and grace
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Speaker 1: to help us in our time of need. He wrote
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Speaker 1: the verse word for word in his journal, and when
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Speaker 1: he came to the word confidence, he wrote it in italics.
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Speaker 1: Then he closed the journal and waited. The next three
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Speaker 1: days brought unspeakable discomfort, and then brought the news that
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Speaker 1: they feared he had indeed contracted ebola. Amber Kent's wife,
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Speaker 1: was across the ocean in her hometown of Abilene, Texas.
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Speaker 1: She received a call from Kent the following Saturday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: When the phone rang, she stepped into her bedroom to
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Speaker 1: receive it. She was actually at her parents' house, so
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Speaker 1: she stepped into her former bedroom and there Kent went
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Speaker 1: straight to the point over the phone. He said, the
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Speaker 1: test results came back. It is positive. She began to cry,
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Speaker 1: and they talked for a few moments until Kent said
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Speaker 1: he was too tired to talk anymore, but he would
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Speaker 1: call soon. Now it was up to Amber to process
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Speaker 1: the news. She told her parents the three sat on
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Speaker 1: the edge of her bed and they wept for several minutes.
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Speaker 1: After some time, Amber excused herself and she went outside,
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Speaker 1: and she walked across a large field toward a mesquite
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Speaker 1: tree that had a low hanging branch. She sat on
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Speaker 1: the branch. She tried to pray, but she could. She
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Speaker 1: found it difficult to put her concerns in words, so
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Speaker 1: she began to sing hymns that she had learned as
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Speaker 1: a young girl. She sang, there is no shadow of
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Speaker 1: turning with THEE. Thou changest, not that compassions. They fail,
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Speaker 1: not as thou hast been, Thou forever will be. That
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Speaker 1: lifted her spirits, and so she sang even louder, I
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Speaker 1: need THEE every hour, in joy or pain. Come quickly
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Speaker 1: and abide. Her life is in vain. I need THEE. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I need THEE every hour. I need THEE. Come and
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Speaker 1: bless me. Now, my Savior, I come to THEE. She
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Speaker 1: later wrote these words, I thought my husband was going
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Speaker 1: to die. I was in pain. I was afraid. Yet
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Speaker 1: through those hymns I was able to connect with God
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Speaker 1: in a meaningful way. Maybe you remember this story, Maybe
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Speaker 1: you remember watching the news reports of the Brantley family unfold.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you remember the decision of the caregivers to give
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Speaker 1: an untested treatment to Kent because they had no other option.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you remember watching his transport from Africa to Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: watching him as he climbed out of the back of
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Speaker 1: the van and was carefully walked into the hospital. We
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Speaker 1: celebrated that the news of his improved condition, and then
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Speaker 1: we thank God when we heard the news that Kent
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Speaker 1: was cured of ebola. But you know what, I think
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Speaker 1: we can celebrate the curing of yet another disease, a
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Speaker 1: virus that is every bit as contagious and every bit
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Speaker 1: is deadly, the unseen virus of anxiety. Kent in Amber
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Speaker 1: were prime Canadas for worry. Yet they reacted to the
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Speaker 1: presence of anxiety with the same deliberate resolve that they
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Speaker 1: reacted to the presence of the Ebola virus. They went
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Speaker 1: on the offensive. They took control of their thoughts. Kent
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Speaker 1: opened his bible, Amber opened her heart. They pondered scriptures,
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Speaker 1: They meditated on hymns before anxiety could get a hold
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Speaker 1: of them. They got a hold of the anxiety and
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Speaker 1: they marched it out. They did exactly what the Apostle
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Speaker 1: prescribed in Philippians, chapter four and verse eight. Finally, Brethren,
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Speaker 1: whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things
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Speaker 1: are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
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Speaker 1: whatever things are of good report. If there is any virtue,
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Speaker 1: if there is anything praiseworth, they meditate on these things.
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Speaker 1: If the Bible has a recommended diet for the mind,
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Speaker 1: this is it. These are the green vegetables for the soul.
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Speaker 1: My wife Dinon likes green vegetables. I don't, but she does,
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Speaker 1: and she has a list of vegetables that are good
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Speaker 1: for the body. It includes things like broccoli and asparagus
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Speaker 1: and lettuce. As I read over the list, I don't
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Speaker 1: see anything that I think is a health food. Donuts
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Speaker 1: and barbecue, potato chips and Oreo cookies and ice cream.
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Speaker 1: But I don't ask why. I know the answer. I've
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Speaker 1: heard all the slogans. What tastes good on the lips
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Speaker 1: does not look good on the How did you know
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Speaker 1: that already? So if you want to feel good tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: then eat good today. These are principles of a healthy diet,
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Speaker 1: but they are also principles of a healthy mind. It
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Speaker 1: is good to be a picky eater, it's equally good
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Speaker 1: to be a picky thinker. In the Apostle, Paul sets
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Speaker 1: himself up here as our thought dietitian, because just as
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Speaker 1: not every food qualifies to be eaten, not every thought
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Speaker 1: qualifies to be thought. It must meet a standard, and
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Speaker 1: he gives us the nine standards. First of all, it
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Speaker 1: must be true. It must be based on God's word.
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Speaker 1: It must align itself with scripture. It must be noble.
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Speaker 1: The word here means worthy of respect. Boy that eliminates
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Speaker 1: everything that's immoral or inappropriate. It must be just. It
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Speaker 1: advocates fairness to all parties involved. It must be pure.
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Speaker 1: This is a call for high and lofty thoughts. Must
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Speaker 1: be lovely. Lovely thoughts focus on whatever beauty can be
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Speaker 1: found in any situation. It must be of good report,
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Speaker 1: no need for slander or gossip. It must be of
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Speaker 1: good report. It must be of good virtue. It must
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Speaker 1: be praiseworthy. So we welcome any ideas that promote the
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Speaker 1: best of life, high ethics, lofty goodness. We meditate on
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Speaker 1: these things, and as we turn our thoughts toward these things,
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Speaker 1: a wonderful thing happens. We turn our backs on their opposites.
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Speaker 1: As we fill our minds with veggies, we avoid a
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Speaker 1: junk food diet of deceit, unsavory thoughts, ugly thoughts, dishonest
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Speaker 1: thoughts where you tend to rose that this will cannot grow.
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Speaker 1: We focus our thoughts on good things, so the weedy
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Speaker 1: thoughts do not have room. So, just as some people
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Speaker 1: are picky eaters, we choose on purpose to be picky thinkers.
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Speaker 1: The big idea in this passage is simply this, meditate
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Speaker 1: on good things. Meditate on good things. You want to
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Speaker 1: treat anxiety. Turn your thoughts toward good things. This word
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Speaker 1: in Greek. As you know, the Bible was written in
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Speaker 1: New Testament was written in Greek. This word in Greek
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Speaker 1: is a great word. Look at it. Logisomine, meditate, logismid
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Speaker 1: Do you see an English word, the roots of an
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Speaker 1: English word inside that? Anyone? Logic? Logic? We meditate on
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Speaker 1: good things. We treat our anxiety with logical thinking, with
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Speaker 1: clear thinking, with rational thinking. Easier said than done. The
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Speaker 1: consequence of anxiety for many is muddled or unclear thinking
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Speaker 1: if we think at all. In July nineteen forty three,
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Speaker 1: a British Army officer by the name of Lionel Wygram
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Speaker 1: studied the reaction of soldiers to intense battle. He noted
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Speaker 1: a predictable pattern. He said, in a typical platoon of
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Speaker 1: twenty two men, there will be a small number who
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Speaker 1: respond and courage. There will be a small number who
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Speaker 1: respond in panic. The vast number of the men will
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Speaker 1: go into mental neutral He called them sheep, bewildered sheep.
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Speaker 1: They will quit thinking. He writes, every platoon can be
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Speaker 1: analyzed as follows six men who will go anywhere, twelve
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Speaker 1: sheep who will follow a short distance behind, and four
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Speaker 1: to six men who do not have what it takes.
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Speaker 1: Another psychologist by the name of John Leech has spent
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Speaker 1: the last couple of decades studying the human response to
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Speaker 1: sudden stress like airplane turbulencer or economic downfalls. According to
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Speaker 1: his studies, about ten to twenty percent of us remain
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Speaker 1: cool and composed under stress, another ten to fifteen percent
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Speaker 1: freak out, but about seventy to eighty percent of us
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Speaker 1: become what he calls mentally paralyzed. We stop thinking well.
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Speaker 1: Long before this research, the apostle Paul was calling on
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Speaker 1: us to mind our minds in times in which we're
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Speaker 1: anxious to be careful. What we think our most valuable
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Speaker 1: weapon against anxiety weighs two point seven pounds, and it
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Speaker 1: sits right here between our ears. This was the point
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Speaker 1: of Jesus and the most famous sermon ever preached on
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Speaker 1: the topic of anxiety. He begins the sermon by telling us,
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Speaker 1: quite bluntly, do not worry about your life what you
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Speaker 1: will eat, or what you will drink, or about your
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Speaker 1: body what you will put on. And then he gives
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Speaker 1: us two commands with which to fulfill. The first, he says,
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Speaker 1: look and consider. First of all, he says, look, look
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Speaker 1: at the birds of the air. He invites us to
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Speaker 1: go outside and just look at the ravens, or look
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Speaker 1: at the at the cardinals, look at the birds. And
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Speaker 1: when we do, we notice something. They're not grond, they
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Speaker 1: don't frown if they don't look sleep deprived. But they're
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Speaker 1: not lonely. In fact, they appear just the opposite. They're
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Speaker 1: quite happy. They sing, they soar, they whistle. And then
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Speaker 1: Jesus says, they don't sow or gather into barns. In
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Speaker 1: other words, they don't work, they don't save money, they
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Speaker 1: don't get stressed out and occupations. But they look happy.
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Speaker 1: And then he tells us to lower our gaze from
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Speaker 1: the birds and look out over the valley. He says,
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Speaker 1: consider what the lilies. Consider the lilies. Remember, he's helping
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Speaker 1: us treat anxiety. So he tells us to look at
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Speaker 1: the birds, and now consider the lilies. Same point. If
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Speaker 1: they don't look unhappy, they really are very beautiful. In fact, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: it says, even though their lifespan is short, they're here
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Speaker 1: today and tomorrow they're going to be thrown into the fire.
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Speaker 1: Even Solomon and all of his glory was not dressed
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Speaker 1: up like one of these. He's the richest king in history.
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Speaker 1: In the field of lilies is prettier than he was.
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Speaker 1: The point we disarm anxiety by looking and by considering,
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Speaker 1: by thinking, by processing. We look at the birds, we
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Speaker 1: look at the lilies. We don't get lost in our
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Speaker 1: negative downward spiral of thoughts, nor do we get frozen
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Speaker 1: in no thinking. We stop, we collect ourselves. We look
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Speaker 1: at the birds, We consider the lilies. We manage anxiety
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Speaker 1: by managing our thoughts. We manage anxiety by managing our thoughts. Now,
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Speaker 1: maybe you wanted something that was a little more mystical,
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Speaker 1: A little more supernatural, a little more angelic, maybe some
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Speaker 1: heavenly visitations or chariots of fire. Maybe you thought that
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Speaker 1: God treated in anxiety through these supernatural visions. Paul and
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Speaker 1: Jesus would tell you otherwise. The key to peace is
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Speaker 1: not in the emotion you feel, but in the thoughts
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Speaker 1: you think. The key to peace is not in the
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Speaker 1: emotions you'll feel, but in the thoughts you think. Do
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Speaker 1: you want to feel peace tomorrow, then think godly thoughts today,
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Speaker 1: meditate on good things. Years ago, a renowned British pastor
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Speaker 1: by the name of d. Martin Lloyd Jones wrote these
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Speaker 1: words about the passage in Matthew chapter six, that we
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Speaker 1: just looked at faith, according to our Lord's teaching in
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Speaker 1: this paragraph, is primarily thinking. And the whole trouble with
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Speaker 1: a man of little faith is that he forgets to think.
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Speaker 1: He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. The way to avoid that,
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Speaker 1: according to our Lord, is to think. To look at
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Speaker 1: the birds, to think about them, to draw your deductions,
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Speaker 1: to look at the grass, at the lilies of the field,
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Speaker 1: consider them. The trouble with a person of little faith
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Speaker 1: is that, instead of controlling his own thought, his thought
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Speaker 1: is being controlled by something else, and he goes round
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Speaker 1: and round in circles. This is the essence of worry.
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Speaker 1: That is not thought. That is the absence of thought,
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Speaker 1: that is a failure to think. Paul Elsewhere said, Kent,
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Speaker 1: set your mind on things above, not on things of
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Speaker 1: the earth. There is a time in which we intentionally
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Speaker 1: and deliberately set our mind on things above. That's what
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Speaker 1: Kent Brandy did when he was about to spend three
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Speaker 1: days waiting on the results from the Ebola tests. He
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Speaker 1: set his mind on things above. That's what his wife
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Speaker 1: Amber did when she got news of her husband's positive diagnosis.
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Speaker 1: As she didn't panic. It was not easy, but she
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Speaker 1: did deliberate things. She took deliberate steps to set her
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Speaker 1: mind on good things. I did something like this once,
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Speaker 1: and it had to do with a little lemon and
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Speaker 1: a little phrase that was written on the lemon that
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Speaker 1: I had attached to the dashboard of my car. One
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Speaker 1: of the most difficult days of my life happened when
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Speaker 1: I was nineteen years old and I was in a
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Speaker 1: town called Dalton in the state of Georgia. I had
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Speaker 1: never been to Dalton. I didn't know anyone in Georgia,
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Speaker 1: and I wondered what in the world had happened. I
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Speaker 1: was nineteen years of age. This was the summer of
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Speaker 1: my first year in college. I found myself sleeping in
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Speaker 1: the Salvation Army because it was cheap, and the night
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Speaker 1: before a person who had had too much to drink
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Speaker 1: rolled over in his bunk up above mine and vomited
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Speaker 1: right down on the floor. I was so homesick. If
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Speaker 1: homesickness was water, I was soaked. What had I gotten
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Speaker 1: myself into? Well, On the promise of some fast cash
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Speaker 1: and some new science, I had joined up with two
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Speaker 1: buddies and signed on to sell books door to door.
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Speaker 1: We went to sales school. My friends went home during
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Speaker 1: sales school left me to go to Georgia all by myself.
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Speaker 1: I went to the field after sales school, and the
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Speaker 1: first day I discovered something. People don't like door to
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Speaker 1: door salesmen. They don't, not even when they're a nice
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Speaker 1: kid from West Texas. That first day was terrible. Hello,
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Speaker 1: I'm Max Slam. Hello, I'm Max Slam. Hello, I'm Max Slam.
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Speaker 1: The second day was just as bad. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: if I was gonna make it. I couldn't envision going
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Speaker 1: through a whole summer like that. So I ended up
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Speaker 1: at that diner for lunch and I ordered a hamburger
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Speaker 1: and I treated my bruised ego. And as I was
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Speaker 1: paying for my burger checking out at the cash register,
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Speaker 1: I noticed that to the right of the cash register
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Speaker 1: there was this display, And upon this display was a
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Speaker 1: collection of rubberized magnetized truisms, the kind that you stick
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Speaker 1: on a refrigerator door. Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Speaker 1: Little statements? And there was one of them that was
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Speaker 1: shaped like a lemon, and on that rubberized lemon, these
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Speaker 1: words appeared. I bet you know what I'm about to say,
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Speaker 1: when lie he gives you a lemon, make lemonade. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's old, it's a chop worn, it's corny. But I'd
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Speaker 1: never heard that before, and that was exactly what I needed.
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Speaker 1: That little slogan told me that my problem was not
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Speaker 1: my problems. My problem was the way I was looking
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Speaker 1: at my problems, and it was just enough to convince
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Speaker 1: me to stay on the job. I bought that little
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Speaker 1: thing and I took it out to my plymouth duster.
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Speaker 1: My plymouth duster had a metal strip on the dashboard
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Speaker 1: and I stuck that magnetized lemon on that metal strip,
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Speaker 1: and every day, at least a dozen times I would
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Speaker 1: reach up and I rubbed my thumb across that, and
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Speaker 1: I think, Okay, I can either be miserable or I
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Speaker 1: can make some lemonade. I survived the summer. That's been
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Speaker 1: forty years. Much has happened, much has changed, But friends,
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Speaker 1: this much has not. Life still gives lemons. It does,
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Speaker 1: and my prospects of a miserable summer are nothing compared
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Speaker 1: to the lemons that some of you have received. Just
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Speaker 1: a few days ago, I found myself in a conversation
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Speaker 1: with an elderly lady whose husband has been diagnosed with
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Speaker 1: dementia and she's gonna have to tell him he can
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Speaker 1: no longer drive. And she was telling me how she
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Speaker 1: was going to have to take the car keys away.
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Speaker 1: Life has given her a lemon. I found myself in
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Speaker 1: a conversation with a young mom. She already has one child,
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Speaker 1: and now she has a new born. It seems like
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Speaker 1: she can't remember the last time she had a good
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Speaker 1: night sleep, and she's really worried if she'll be a
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Speaker 1: good parent. I had launch not too long ago with
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Speaker 1: a fella who's trying to get through a very, very
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Speaker 1: difficult divorce. He underestimated the damage it would do, and
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Speaker 1: he's worried about his kids. He's worried about himself, if
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Speaker 1: he'll ever be happy again. Life gives lemons, doesn't it
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Speaker 1: has life given you a lemon lately? Life gives lemons
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Speaker 1: to good people. Life gives lemons to bad people. Life
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Speaker 1: gives lemons to old people. Life gives leomens to young people.
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Speaker 1: Life gives lemons to medical missionaries. Life comes with lemons,
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Speaker 1: but we don't have to suck on them. This is
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Speaker 1: the point of the Apostle Paul. You can read your
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Speaker 1: Bible from beginning to end. You can capitalize every letter
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Speaker 1: in the epistles of Paul, and you will never find
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Speaker 1: a promise that says fall of Christ, and you'll have
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Speaker 1: no lemons. It's just not there. But there is this
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Speaker 1: promise that when life gives you a lemon, God will
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Speaker 1: show you how to respond to it, how to handle it.
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Speaker 1: When life gives you a bucketful of anxiety, Christ will
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Speaker 1: show you a way to respond to that anxiety so
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Speaker 1: that that anxiety does not get to you. This is
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Speaker 1: the promise that God gives that you can cast all
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Speaker 1: your cares upon him because he cares about you. That
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Speaker 1: you can be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by
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Speaker 1: prayer and supplication, you can make your request known to God.
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Speaker 1: Life comes with a bushel full of limits, but if
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Speaker 1: you're sucking on them, they're gonna make you sour. But
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Speaker 1: you can respond to them in a better way. Meditate
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Speaker 1: on good things the passage one more time. Read it
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Speaker 1: out loud with me as the words appear on the screen.
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Speaker 1: Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things
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Speaker 1: are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,
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Speaker 1: whatever things are of good report. If there is any virtue,
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Speaker 1: and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. Lord,
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Speaker 1: would you grant us this?
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Speaker 2: I a.
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Speaker 3: And loving you alone feels so beautiful, and yet it
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Speaker 3: hurts the most.
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Speaker 4: You became my quiet sunrise, the dream I never dared
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Speaker 4: to say. Every smile you gave so freely took my
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Speaker 4: breath a little away.
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Speaker 1: I held this love like.
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Speaker 4: Fragile glass, so precious, soft and true. But every being
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Speaker 4: inside my heart was only reaching out to you unspoken,
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Speaker 4: this sweet and painful coneye mixed with rain.
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Speaker 3: Let's send the whole bial.
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Speaker 4: So sadly while it slowly breaks me loving you from
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Speaker 4: just one side.
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Speaker 5: Now leave my soul in silent blue. Because the deeper
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Speaker 5: that I follow along, the lonelier I do.
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Speaker 4: I can blame my heart for choosing someone it could
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Speaker 4: never keep, so I smiled through hidden heartache.
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Speaker 1: Hell love you quietly.
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Speaker 5: Spoke in love is sweet and painful, Connie mixed with rain.
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Speaker 5: Let's send the whole bile so sightly whalle It slowly
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Speaker 5: breaks me loving you from just one side.
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Speaker 4: Now leave it's my soul in silent bloom.
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Speaker 5: Because the deeper that I fall alone, the.
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Speaker 2: Only I do. Maybe loving you in.
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Speaker 6: Silence, it's the closest DAR can stay, though leaves behind
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Speaker 6: the sorrow that may never fast away.
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Speaker 5: I spoken love is sweet and painful, like honey mixed
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Speaker 5: with rain, A tender whole bile so sightly wald slowly
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Speaker 5: breaks me loving you from just I'm shut. Now leave
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Speaker 5: my soul in silence, because the deeper that I follow,
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Speaker 5: the lorly
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Speaker 1: Her to