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Okay, well, I want to revisit;

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we looked at it two weeks ago.

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We began to think about

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this topic of anxiety.

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So, Luke 12.

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And this is just somewhat of a parallel

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to what we looked at 2 weeks ago

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just to start;

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just to kind of prime the pump.

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My Bible - now this isn't inspired -

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it is not inspired, but at Luke 12:22,

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I have a heading that says:

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"Do not be anxious."

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We're talking about anxiety.

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And we talked about anxiety attacks.

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Some, like between 20 
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have supposedly been diagnosed

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with some form of anxiety attacks,

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panic attacks.

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Like I said last time,

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perhaps that's the same thing

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as a nervous breakdown.

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Maybe that's just a bit of 
an older description of this.

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Anxiety.

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The Bible has something 
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It's not just the psychologists

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that say something about it.

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And verse 22, listen to what Jesus says.

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"Therefore, I tell you,

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do not be anxious about your life."

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Do not be anxious.

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That's what we're told in Scripture.

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No anxiety.

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Don't be anxious.

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And we can look down through here.

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Verse 25, "Which of you by being anxious

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can add a single hour 
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You can't.

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In other words, your anxiety

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doesn't fix things,

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it doesn't help things,

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it doesn't improve the situation.

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It doesn't do any good
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Verse 26, "If then, you are not able

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to do as small a thing as that,

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why are you anxious about the rest?"

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In other words, you should not be.

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No anxiety.

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Verse 29, "Do not seek

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what you are to eat, 
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nor be worried."

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So you have it.

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Don't be anxious.

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Don't be worried.

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You keep reading a little further.

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Verse 32, "Fear not, little flock."

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So, don't fear.

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Don't be worried.

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Don't be anxious.

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Here's one of the things 
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The Gospel deals with anxiety.

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And so we should have that expectation.

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We should have the expectation

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that we know, we recognize,

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if you're not saved

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and you don't know the Lord,

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and you're in your sin

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and death is coming

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and you've got to face 
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there's all manner of 
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to be worried about,

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to be anxious about.

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You have every reason to be fearful

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and anxious

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if you're approaching judgment day

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and you do not have your sins forgiven.

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You're in trouble.

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You're in trouble. You should be worried.

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But the Christian,

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what Jesus is saying is look,

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My people don't have a reason

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to be anxious, to be worried,

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or to be fearful.

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They don't.

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The Gospel deals with that.

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And Jesus isn't just saying

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that well, if you've got anxiety attacks

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and you become a Christian,

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I will help you manage your anxiety.

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That's not it.

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Jesus comes along and He says,

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"don't be anxious.

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Don't be worried. Don't fear.

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Fear not, little flock."

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Why?

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I mean, you know the image 
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Have you ever seen a parent

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when a child is traumatized?

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A child gets scared by something?

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I have this image in my mind.

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I remember when we 
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down in Stockdale, Texas.

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Caleb Mussulman was about that tall.

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He's already graduated from college

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and got himself a job as an engineer.

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But he was just this little guy.

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We came out of the building

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and there was a house back behind there

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and they had a pit bull.

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And this pit bull reared up.

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We came out the door

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and he was there

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and I think his parents 
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So there was a good distance between them.

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That pit bull raised up over there

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and it began to bark

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and it came running full speed.

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And it hit the end of its chain

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and it stopped it dead in its tracks.

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But Caleb was terrified.

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And I went, but it's like, 
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He wanted his dad.

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His dad was the place of safety.

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And have you ever seen a father?

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They pick up a child like that

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and they say,

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"It's okay. It's okay."

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Well, isn't that the way a parent

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oftentimes tries to comfort the child?

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You know, they fall and they're crying,

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or they get scared or something.

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The parent puts their arms around them

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and says, "It's going to be okay."

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But you know the thing about that,

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they don't really know 
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Parents can't protect their 
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What they say is going to be okay,

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it may not be okay.

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But you know when God lays His arms

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around His children

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and says it's going to be okay,

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it is going to be okay.

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And that's what we have.

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That's what the Gospel answers.

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It's going to be okay.

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If He tells you not to fear, why?

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It's because you don't have to fear.

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Listen, if He's forgiven your sins,

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what do you have to fear?

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If you have God on your side,

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and He's stronger than everything else -

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in fact, He's not just stronger,

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He is minutely in control.

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You don't have to fear.

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In fact, if Jesus says fear not,

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if He says do not be anxious
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it's sin.

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the real issue is

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we are questioning the character of God.

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That's really the issue.

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We're doubting God.

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When God wraps His arms around us

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and says, "you're Mine,

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and you're going to be okay,

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and you don't have to worry,"

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if we go on worrying,

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what we're really doing,

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the big deal is that we're saying,

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"we don't trust You."

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"We don't believe You."

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And see, we have to walk by faith.

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Because you know, the thing is,

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you know how God puts His arms around us?

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Through words written in a book.

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Not by actual arms

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that we physically feel wrap around us.

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What's my point?

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My point is when a child is laid hold of

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there are physical arms,
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they feel the security,
they feel the strength.

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You know where our 
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has to be felt?

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Through words in a book.

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That's it.

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We walk by faith, not by sight.

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But you know what?

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Just because it's words 
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doesn't make it any less.

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In fact, it's all the more,

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because those everlasting arms,

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if God is with us, who can be against us?

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it would be more like the parent

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yelling from far away to their little boy

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in words, "Don't worry. 
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God is speaking to us from Heaven.

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He's speaking to us 
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Now, what happened last time is -

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and I don't know if 
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what our sister Claudia had brought up.

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She asked a question -

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sister, how did you ask the question?

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(unintelligible)

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Tim: Say that again.

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James: When does 
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Tim: Okay, when does 
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How do you test it?

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And you know, I gave a little,

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perhaps a minute answer to that,

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which I think the things that were said

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were right, but as time went on,

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I thought more and more about that.

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looking at good anxiety versus bad anxiety

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would be a worthwhile 
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So, let's open our Bibles.

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Look at Philippians.

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We're just going to look at some of these.

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Philippians 4:6

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Somebody want to read 
that if they find it?

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"Do not be anxious about anything,

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but in everything by 
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let your requests be made known to God."

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Tim: Okay. Don't be anxious for anything.

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So, let me ask this question.

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Is there a place for any anxiety?

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If you're going to be honest to that text

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what's the answer?

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What's the obvious answer?

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But here's the thing,

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Scripture will often make

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dogmatic statements about something

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when the truth is that the word

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that's being used, like here "anxiety,"

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don't be anxious about anything.

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There are words in Scripture

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that sometimes can be used

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in a negative connotation,

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and sometimes in either a neutral

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or a positive connotation.

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And what we have to do is recognize

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how the word is being used.

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There are places in our Bibles

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where anxiety is actually a good thing.

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But we have to understand it.

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We have to understand it in context.

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Because it's the same word.

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It's the exact same word.

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The exact same word can be used

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in a good way;

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it can be used in a negative way.

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Can anybody think about any other word

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that's used in Scripture

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that can either be used in a bad way

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and a neutral way,

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or a bad way and a good way?

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Same word.

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World.

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Following the course of the world.

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Right there at the 
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Obviously, dead in trespasses and sins,

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following the course of this world,

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following the prince 
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"World" there is bad.

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Love not the world.

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But, the world can be 
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What's another word?

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Fear. Absolutely.

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There is a bad fear.

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Give me an example of a bad fear.

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Well, we could say, Luke 12. 
We just saw it.

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"Fear not, little flock."

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But then, I'm thinking of 2 Corinthians 7

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where we're basically working out

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this self-cleansing;

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cleansing ourselves of every defilement

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of body and mind.

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Anybody know how?

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Yes, bringing holiness to completion

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in the fear of the Lord.

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That is a good one.

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Anybody think of any 
other words like that?

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Lust. That's another one.

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Typically, when it gets translated "lust"

290
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it has a negative connotation,

291
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but the word is "passion" or "desire"

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and it often can be a good one.

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Any other words?

294
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Hate?

295
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Hate can be good and hate can be bad.

296
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But that's got more to do 
with the object of the hatred,

297
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but yes, that could be in that category.

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Law?

299
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(unintelligible)

300
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Yeah, there can be 
different meanings to law.

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That's for sure.

302
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There are places like 
where Scripture would say

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that we're dead to the law.

304
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Well, what that means is

305
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whatever the law is there,

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it's good that we die to it.

307
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But then we're also living to another law,

308
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so yes, depending on 
how that word is used.

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Maybe flesh has various 
connotations to it.

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Flesh can definitely be an evil thing

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or a negative thing.

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Works. Yes, works.

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But anyway, you get the idea.

314
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Anxiety falls into that camp.

315
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I want to give you four of what I think

316
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are the clearest New Testament examples -

317
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when I say New Testament,

318
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you have to remember

319
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there is an Old Testament Greek.

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It's the Septuagint.

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And we can find the 
word back there as well,

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but in the New Testament,

323
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the four most obvious uses.

324
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And it's the exact same 
word in the original.

325
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Exact same.

326
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One example would be found

327
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in 1 Corinthians 12:25.

328
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Let's look at that.

329
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Somebody read that when you get there.

330
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1 Corinthians 12:25.

331
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"That there may be 
no division in the body,

332
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but that the members may have
the same care for one another."

333
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Tim: That word "care,"

334
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that is exactly the word

335
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from Philippians 4:6 for anxiety.

336
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Now the thing is,

337
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you do have to recgonize this,

338
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it's the same word,

339
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but sometimes it's found 
in the noun forms;

340
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sometimes it's found in the adjective form

341
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as we look at these different examples.

342
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You have anxieties - that's the noun form.

343
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Or being anxious - that's the adjective.

344
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So, what we have here,

345
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read that again about care.

346
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Listen to this.

347
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This has to do with being 
in the same church together.

348
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"That there may be no 
divisions in the body,

349
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but that the members 
may have the same care

350
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for one another."

351
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Tim: See, the members of 
this body have care.

352
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This body is not this universal body.

353
00:17:42,831 --> 00:17:45,629
You can't care for people 
that you don't know

354
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out in the middle of nowhere in China.

355
00:17:48,087 --> 00:17:51,667
I mean, you might be able to support 
a missionary that's going over there.

356
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But the obvious implication here

357
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of being a member of a body

358
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is it's the local body.

359
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You're living for each other.

360
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And the actual word is:

361
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you're being anxious for each other.

362
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That's the word.

363
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You're being anxious for each other.

364
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I'll show you another similar usage

365
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in 2 Corinthians 11:28.

366
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Somebody can read that 
when they get there.

367
00:18:17,105 --> 00:18:23,670
2 Corinthians 11:28.

368
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"And apart from other things,

369
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there is the daily pressure on me

370
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of my anxiety for all the churches."

371
00:18:31,918 --> 00:18:33,427
Tim: Right, there it is again.

372
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So you have members in the same body,

373
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or members in this body

374
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that are supposed to be 
anxious for each other.

375
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You have Paul who is admitting

376
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that above all the trials 
that he's dealing with,

377
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one of the greatest ones

378
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above and beyond them all

379
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is the fact that he carries around anxiety

380
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for the churches.

381
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What churches?

382
00:18:56,185 --> 00:18:57,304
Well, all the churches.

383
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He even would write to churches 
that he had never visited,

384
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never seen them face to face.

385
00:19:01,071 --> 00:19:02,555
And he would say to them

386
00:19:02,555 --> 00:19:05,836
he's praying for them all the time.

387
00:19:05,836 --> 00:19:07,509
He carried about a burden.

388
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Let's see something similar.

389
00:19:10,908 --> 00:19:14,173
Go back to Philippians 2:20.

390
00:19:14,173 --> 00:19:15,554
I love this.

391
00:19:15,554 --> 00:19:19,512
This is one of the great descriptions -

392
00:19:19,512 --> 00:19:22,527
we often think about 
qualifications for ministry

393
00:19:22,527 --> 00:19:25,101
coming from the pastoral epistles.

394
00:19:25,101 --> 00:19:29,912
Well, there are qualifications

395
00:19:29,912 --> 00:19:32,867
that we can find in other places.

396
00:19:32,867 --> 00:19:35,344
The book of Acts chapter 20 is tremendous.

397
00:19:35,344 --> 00:19:41,642
1 Peter has some great 
things to say about elders.

398
00:19:41,642 --> 00:19:47,619
But this, what words are 
spoken about Timothy!

399
00:19:47,619 --> 00:19:50,511
You want to talk about 
qualifications for the ministry.

400
00:19:50,511 --> 00:19:54,865
Somebody read Philippians 2:20.

401
00:19:54,865 --> 00:19:56,994
"For I have no one like-minded

402
00:19:56,994 --> 00:19:59,827
who will sincerely care for your welfare."

403
00:19:59,827 --> 00:20:01,374
Tim: That word "care" -

404
00:20:01,374 --> 00:20:03,650
again, same word that we have

405
00:20:03,650 --> 00:20:05,885
in Philippian 4:6

406
00:20:05,885 --> 00:20:08,130
that says be anxious for nothing.

407
00:20:08,130 --> 00:20:09,618
Isn't this interesting?

408
00:20:09,618 --> 00:20:12,217
If you were listening to Paul speak

409
00:20:12,217 --> 00:20:13,965
in the original Greek,

410
00:20:13,965 --> 00:20:15,689
you know what he says?

411
00:20:15,689 --> 00:20:17,756
He says to the church

412
00:20:17,756 --> 00:20:19,756
I don't have any man like him.

413
00:20:19,756 --> 00:20:21,732
He's anxious for you.

414
00:20:21,732 --> 00:20:23,839
And then he turns around and says to them

415
00:20:23,839 --> 00:20:27,704
be anxious for nothing.

416
00:20:27,704 --> 00:20:30,753
And he uses exactly the same word.

417
00:20:30,753 --> 00:20:34,037
Look, they're not going 
to misunderstand him.

418
00:20:34,037 --> 00:20:36,268
They recognize in one case

419
00:20:36,268 --> 00:20:39,106
it's used in a very positive way.

420
00:20:39,106 --> 00:20:40,805
In the other case,

421
00:20:40,805 --> 00:20:42,842
it's used in a negative way.

422
00:20:42,842 --> 00:20:46,239
Now keep reading. Who was reading that?

423
00:20:46,239 --> 00:20:49,006
Keep reading.

424
00:20:49,006 --> 00:20:50,656
"For all seek their own,

425
00:20:50,656 --> 00:20:52,804
not the things which are of Christ Jesus."

426
00:20:52,804 --> 00:20:55,983
Tim: Aye aye aye...

427
00:20:55,983 --> 00:20:57,882
You talk about convicting!

428
00:20:57,882 --> 00:20:59,024
When I read that,

429
00:20:59,024 --> 00:21:00,170
every time I read that,

430
00:21:00,170 --> 00:21:04,334
that is convicting.

431
00:21:04,334 --> 00:21:06,839
I'm blown away by that statement.

432
00:21:06,839 --> 00:21:08,004
Think about it.

433
00:21:08,004 --> 00:21:10,881
How many men did Paul work with

434
00:21:10,881 --> 00:21:12,237
over the years?

435
00:21:12,237 --> 00:21:14,002
You just think through the epistles.

436
00:21:14,002 --> 00:21:15,443
Who are the men that he names?

437
00:21:15,443 --> 00:21:17,974
Who are the men that he's 
sending in different directions?

438
00:21:17,974 --> 00:21:19,606
He worked for a time with Demas.

439
00:21:19,606 --> 00:21:21,073
We know Demas defected.

440
00:21:21,073 --> 00:21:22,874
But he worked with Tychicus.

441
00:21:22,874 --> 00:21:24,107
he worked with Onesimus.

442
00:21:24,107 --> 00:21:25,429
He worked with Epaphras.

443
00:21:25,429 --> 00:21:26,962
He worked with Apollos.

444
00:21:26,962 --> 00:21:28,600
He worked with Timothy.

445
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,919
He worked with Silas.

446
00:21:29,919 --> 00:21:31,343
He worked with Barnabas.

447
00:21:31,343 --> 00:21:33,080
At least those guys.

448
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:34,233
He worked with Luke.

449
00:21:34,233 --> 00:21:36,786
He worked with Mark.

450
00:21:36,786 --> 00:21:38,880
(incomplete thought)

451
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,514
How about Epaphroditus?

452
00:21:41,514 --> 00:21:43,772
He worked with all these different guys.

453
00:21:43,772 --> 00:21:47,563
And yet, he's able to say,

454
00:21:47,563 --> 00:21:50,579
nobody has the anxiety for your soul.

455
00:21:50,579 --> 00:21:53,986
He doesn't mind his own things;

456
00:21:53,986 --> 00:21:58,169
he minds the things of Christ

457
00:21:58,169 --> 00:22:00,786
What a statement!

458
00:22:00,786 --> 00:22:01,862
(from the room)

459
00:22:01,862 --> 00:22:04,362
I think of Mary and Martha.

460
00:22:04,362 --> 00:22:06,276
Martha actually told the Lord,

461
00:22:06,276 --> 00:22:09,162
"do You not care that my sister

462
00:22:09,162 --> 00:22:11,026
has left me to serve alone?"

463
00:22:11,026 --> 00:22:12,190
But then Christ says,

464
00:22:12,190 --> 00:22:14,855
"You're anxious and troubled 
about many things."

465
00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:17,315
(unintelligible)

466
00:22:17,315 --> 00:22:20,312
Tim: Exactly, that's a bad anxiety.

467
00:22:20,312 --> 00:22:23,044
So right there,

468
00:22:23,044 --> 00:22:29,837
you care about the wrong things.

469
00:22:29,837 --> 00:22:31,244
That.

470
00:22:31,244 --> 00:22:32,885
That's at the heart of this.

471
00:22:32,885 --> 00:22:35,694
See, this is really where we 
want to make the distinction.

472
00:22:35,694 --> 00:22:36,906
How do we know?

473
00:22:36,906 --> 00:22:38,367
What are the tests?

474
00:22:38,367 --> 00:22:41,363
When can you look at yourself and say,

475
00:22:41,363 --> 00:22:43,229
wow, the anxiety that I'm feeling -

476
00:22:43,229 --> 00:22:46,350
because look, if you 
have the kind of anxiety

477
00:22:46,350 --> 00:22:48,304
that Jesus says you should not have

478
00:22:48,304 --> 00:22:50,031
and Paul says you should not have,

479
00:22:50,031 --> 00:22:51,888
you know those are imperatives.

480
00:22:51,888 --> 00:22:53,756
There are imperatives that are given

481
00:22:53,756 --> 00:22:55,282
that say - it's a commandment -

482
00:22:55,282 --> 00:22:58,256
don't be anxious.

483
00:22:58,256 --> 00:23:01,012
Which means if you are, it's sin.

484
00:23:01,012 --> 00:23:03,278
When you blatantly contradict

485
00:23:03,278 --> 00:23:04,424
something in your life

486
00:23:04,424 --> 00:23:06,140
that Scripture tells you not to do,

487
00:23:06,140 --> 00:23:07,616
that's sin.

488
00:23:07,616 --> 00:23:11,002
What is sin?

489
00:23:11,002 --> 00:23:12,551
Sin is transgression of the law.

490
00:23:12,551 --> 00:23:14,593
It's transgression of the commandments.

491
00:23:14,593 --> 00:23:17,564
It's transgression of the will of God.

492
00:23:17,564 --> 00:23:22,616
The will of God is what God 
sets forth in His Word.

493
00:23:22,616 --> 00:23:23,903
It's sin.

494
00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:25,864
So how do we distinguish between the two?

495
00:23:25,864 --> 00:23:27,069
Before we move on,

496
00:23:27,069 --> 00:23:29,287
I want to give you one more example

497
00:23:29,287 --> 00:23:32,170
of the positive use of this

498
00:23:32,170 --> 00:23:37,725
and it's found in 1 Corinthians 7.

499
00:23:37,725 --> 00:23:42,044
1 Corinthians 7:32-34,

500
00:23:42,044 --> 00:23:44,645
we have an interesting usage

501
00:23:44,645 --> 00:23:51,039
of the word anxiety several times.

502
00:23:51,039 --> 00:23:52,377
Somebody that gets there,

503
00:23:52,377 --> 00:23:53,634
you can go ahead and read

504
00:23:53,634 --> 00:24:00,584
1 Corinthians 7:32-34.

505
00:24:00,584 --> 00:24:03,626
"I want you to be free from anxieties.

506
00:24:03,626 --> 00:24:05,436
The unmarried man is anxious

507
00:24:05,436 --> 00:24:07,546
about the things of the Lord,

508
00:24:07,546 --> 00:24:09,297
how to please the Lord.

509
00:24:09,297 --> 00:24:11,263
But the married man is anxious

510
00:24:11,263 --> 00:24:12,951
about worldly things,

511
00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:16,205
how to please his wife."

512
00:24:16,205 --> 00:24:20,120
Tim: Keep going.

513
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,869
"And the unmarried or betrothed woman

514
00:24:22,869 --> 00:24:25,162
is anxious about the things of the Lord."

515
00:24:25,162 --> 00:24:27,171
Tim: Okay, stop.

516
00:24:27,171 --> 00:24:33,497
Now, look, isn't that 
convoluted in itself?

517
00:24:33,497 --> 00:24:36,614
Listen to what he says in v. 32.

518
00:24:36,614 --> 00:24:40,676
He doesn't want them anxious.

519
00:24:40,676 --> 00:24:43,172
And yet in v. 34, what does he say?

520
00:24:43,172 --> 00:24:44,786
That the unmarried woman

521
00:24:44,786 --> 00:24:48,211
is anxious about what?

522
00:24:48,211 --> 00:24:49,899
The things of the Lord.

523
00:24:49,899 --> 00:24:52,228
So when he says he doesn't 
want them anxious,

524
00:24:52,228 --> 00:24:53,785
is that what he's talking about?

525
00:24:53,785 --> 00:24:55,195
Well, no, if you look at the flow,

526
00:24:55,195 --> 00:24:56,828
it's obvious what he's talking about.

527
00:24:56,828 --> 00:24:58,074
He comes along and he says

528
00:24:58,074 --> 00:24:59,738
I don't want you anxious.

529
00:24:59,738 --> 00:25:02,085
But there's a context there.

530
00:25:02,085 --> 00:25:06,043
He's saying if you get married,

531
00:25:06,043 --> 00:25:07,612
you're going to be anxious

532
00:25:07,612 --> 00:25:09,376
about things of the world.

533
00:25:09,376 --> 00:25:11,155
If you don't get married,

534
00:25:11,155 --> 00:25:14,130
then you'll stay focused

535
00:25:14,130 --> 00:25:16,222
and be anxious only about

536
00:25:16,222 --> 00:25:19,803
the things of the Lord.

537
00:25:19,803 --> 00:25:21,987
But that's a positive use right there.

538
00:25:21,987 --> 00:25:25,302
Be anxious about the things of the Lord.

539
00:25:25,302 --> 00:25:26,634
That's a good thing.

540
00:25:26,634 --> 00:25:28,352
In fact, that's why he doesn't want

541
00:25:28,352 --> 00:25:30,960
people to marry.

542
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,669
So any of you guys thinking 
about getting married...

543
00:25:35,669 --> 00:25:39,190
I still recommend marriage.

544
00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:43,434
But okay, we don't need to sidestep.

545
00:25:43,434 --> 00:25:45,495
But here's the thing.

546
00:25:45,495 --> 00:25:47,651
There's good use. There's bad use.

547
00:25:47,651 --> 00:25:49,725
You obviously see that from Scripture.

548
00:25:49,725 --> 00:25:52,802
We looked at examples of both.

549
00:25:52,802 --> 00:25:55,667
But the question that is on the table

550
00:25:55,667 --> 00:25:58,682
is how do we know the difference?

551
00:25:58,682 --> 00:26:02,341
Obviously, Jesus tells His disciples

552
00:26:02,341 --> 00:26:04,934
don't be anxious.

553
00:26:04,934 --> 00:26:07,342
We saw that in Matthew 6.

554
00:26:07,342 --> 00:26:09,444
We looked at it today in Luke 12.

555
00:26:09,444 --> 00:26:12,494
We heard from it our brother Tony

556
00:26:12,494 --> 00:26:15,494
mentioned Martha.

557
00:26:15,494 --> 00:26:17,057
Jesus said,

558
00:26:17,057 --> 00:26:20,530
"Martha, you're anxious about

559
00:26:20,530 --> 00:26:22,893
all sorts of things."

560
00:26:22,893 --> 00:26:25,298
Good or bad? Obviously bad.

561
00:26:25,298 --> 00:26:27,638
Why? What's the comparison?

562
00:26:27,638 --> 00:26:29,359
Her sister.

563
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,291
Her sister who is not 
full of these anxieties.

564
00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:35,299
She's seated at the feet of Christ.

565
00:26:35,299 --> 00:26:37,622
She's chosen the good part.

566
00:26:37,622 --> 00:26:39,627
It wouldn't be taken away from her.

567
00:26:39,627 --> 00:26:42,616
So how can we distinguish?

568
00:26:42,616 --> 00:26:48,626
Because here's the thing.

569
00:26:48,626 --> 00:26:51,881
I'll tell you this.

570
00:26:51,881 --> 00:26:55,388
I have four children.

571
00:26:55,388 --> 00:26:57,949
Somebody has said,

572
00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,557
as a parent, you can only be as happy

573
00:27:00,557 --> 00:27:03,684
as your saddest child.

574
00:27:03,684 --> 00:27:06,176
There's something to that.

575
00:27:06,176 --> 00:27:09,695
Do you know with every child that you have

576
00:27:09,695 --> 00:27:13,288
a new set of anxieties?

577
00:27:13,288 --> 00:27:16,188
(incomplete thought)

578
00:27:16,188 --> 00:27:19,106
I went bike riding this afternoon,

579
00:27:19,106 --> 00:27:22,601
which I typically do right 
before this study with Craig.

580
00:27:22,601 --> 00:27:24,579
And I told Craig that we had

581
00:27:24,579 --> 00:27:26,097
a number of visiting families

582
00:27:26,097 --> 00:27:27,683
and we had some people that were

583
00:27:27,683 --> 00:27:29,405
looking at moving here.

584
00:27:29,405 --> 00:27:31,334
We rode for a little while,

585
00:27:31,334 --> 00:27:35,152
and Craig said something like,

586
00:27:35,152 --> 00:27:38,869
I don't know if that's a good thing.

587
00:27:38,869 --> 00:27:41,587
And I said, well, it's true.

588
00:27:41,587 --> 00:27:44,371
It's kind of like a parent 
having another child,

589
00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:45,923
adopting another child.

590
00:27:45,923 --> 00:27:48,045
With each family that comes to the church,

591
00:27:48,045 --> 00:27:52,927
typically it brings responsibilities.

592
00:27:52,927 --> 00:27:54,300
It brings anxieties.

593
00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:56,062
Often, it brings problems.

594
00:27:56,062 --> 00:28:02,972
And you know, if you think about it,

595
00:28:02,972 --> 00:28:05,499
okay, Paul comes along and he says,

596
00:28:05,499 --> 00:28:08,573
hey, I want you free from anxieties.

597
00:28:08,573 --> 00:28:10,719
I just want you to be 
anxious about the Lord.

598
00:28:10,719 --> 00:28:13,056
So don't get married, 
because if you get married,

599
00:28:13,056 --> 00:28:14,016
you know what?

600
00:28:14,016 --> 00:28:16,032
Then you've got concerns about a wife.

601
00:28:16,032 --> 00:28:17,220
And if you've got a wife,

602
00:28:17,220 --> 00:28:18,380
then you might have kids

603
00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:22,465
and you've got concerns 
about all those things.

604
00:28:22,465 --> 00:28:24,120
And you know what?

605
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,789
You know what we could say?

606
00:28:26,789 --> 00:28:29,424
I just want to withdraw.

607
00:28:29,424 --> 00:28:31,025
I don't want to have a family.

608
00:28:31,025 --> 00:28:32,526
I want to keep my distance.

609
00:28:32,526 --> 00:28:34,576
You know, if you get too close to people,

610
00:28:34,576 --> 00:28:36,468
then all of a sudden, you care,

611
00:28:36,468 --> 00:28:37,917
and if you care,

612
00:28:37,917 --> 00:28:38,963
it hurts.

613
00:28:38,963 --> 00:28:40,594
And there's burden.

614
00:28:40,594 --> 00:28:42,260
There's troubles.

615
00:28:42,260 --> 00:28:43,509
Can you imagine?

616
00:28:43,509 --> 00:28:45,921
There's that family that has 18 kids.

617
00:28:45,921 --> 00:28:47,026
I thought about that.

618
00:28:47,026 --> 00:28:49,191
Oh, 18 children...

619
00:28:49,191 --> 00:28:53,204
it's like 18 children just multiplies.

620
00:28:53,204 --> 00:28:54,223
I have four.

621
00:28:54,223 --> 00:28:56,546
It multiplies by over four-fold

622
00:28:56,546 --> 00:28:59,387
the things that you feel;

623
00:28:59,387 --> 00:29:02,157
the potentials for them 
to be in car accidents,

624
00:29:02,157 --> 00:29:04,269
or get leukemia,

625
00:29:04,269 --> 00:29:07,266
or to marry a lost spouse,

626
00:29:07,266 --> 00:29:09,540
and the person divorces them,

627
00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:15,556
or have your grandchildren be stillborn.

628
00:29:15,556 --> 00:29:17,760
You could think that way.

629
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,062
And you know what?

630
00:29:19,062 --> 00:29:20,872
You know what the truth is?

631
00:29:20,872 --> 00:29:23,402
If I really don't want to have anxieties,

632
00:29:23,402 --> 00:29:25,559
the best thing is don't be married,

633
00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:26,854
don't have children,

634
00:29:26,854 --> 00:29:28,392
certainly, don't be a pastor.

635
00:29:28,392 --> 00:29:29,568
Don't be like Timothy.

636
00:29:29,568 --> 00:29:30,913
Don't be like Paul who's got

637
00:29:30,913 --> 00:29:32,857
all these anxieties over the churches.

638
00:29:32,857 --> 00:29:34,004
Don't be like Timothy

639
00:29:34,004 --> 00:29:36,516
who's got anxieties over 
the people at Philippi.

640
00:29:36,516 --> 00:29:38,358
Don't get close to anybody.

641
00:29:38,358 --> 00:29:40,113
In fact, withdraw.

642
00:29:40,113 --> 00:29:45,548
Go build a cabin out somewhere far away.

643
00:29:45,548 --> 00:29:47,021
Listen, I'm serious.

644
00:29:47,021 --> 00:29:50,109
If you do that,

645
00:29:50,109 --> 00:29:51,656
many of the anxieties -

646
00:29:51,656 --> 00:29:54,485
now, I know, you could all of a sudden

647
00:29:54,485 --> 00:29:57,049
have anxieties that a grizzly 
bear's going to come

648
00:29:57,049 --> 00:30:06,728
carry you off at night.

649
00:30:06,728 --> 00:30:09,926
But, what we don't want to do clearly

650
00:30:09,926 --> 00:30:13,062
is fall into that thinking.

651
00:30:13,062 --> 00:30:14,956
Let me tell you,

652
00:30:14,956 --> 00:30:16,999
a lot of people that struggle

653
00:30:16,999 --> 00:30:19,172
with anxiety attacks,

654
00:30:19,172 --> 00:30:20,676
you know what they end up doing

655
00:30:20,676 --> 00:30:22,254
in the midst of their anxieties?

656
00:30:22,254 --> 00:30:24,506
They end up withdrawing.

657
00:30:24,506 --> 00:30:26,834
They don't want to be around people.

658
00:30:26,834 --> 00:30:29,258
Why? It's too much.

659
00:30:29,258 --> 00:30:30,525
It's just too much.

660
00:30:30,525 --> 00:30:34,587
It's overwhelming anxiety.

661
00:30:34,587 --> 00:30:36,636
But here's the thing,

662
00:30:36,636 --> 00:30:38,391
we need to recognize

663
00:30:38,391 --> 00:30:40,584
that there's good anxiety

664
00:30:40,584 --> 00:30:42,510
and there's bad anxiety.

665
00:30:42,510 --> 00:30:46,780
The reality is to love more people,

666
00:30:46,780 --> 00:30:50,164
it's like the body in 1 Corinthians 12.

667
00:30:50,164 --> 00:30:52,941
You be a member of this body.

668
00:30:52,941 --> 00:30:55,133
You know what it says there?

669
00:30:55,133 --> 00:30:59,837
We weep with those who weep.

670
00:30:59,837 --> 00:31:02,444
You know if you weep with those who weep,

671
00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:04,104
like if it's really true,

672
00:31:04,104 --> 00:31:09,922
you can only be as happy 
as your saddest child,

673
00:31:09,922 --> 00:31:12,477
the truth is if that's what 
God wants from us -

674
00:31:12,477 --> 00:31:16,791
we're to weep with those who weep,

675
00:31:16,791 --> 00:31:17,984
then you know what,

676
00:31:17,984 --> 00:31:24,339
loving people brings certain sorrows.

677
00:31:24,339 --> 00:31:28,061
You know what the problem 
is if you love people?

678
00:31:28,061 --> 00:31:32,492
It opens you up to pain.

679
00:31:32,492 --> 00:31:34,851
And it opens you up to worry

680
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:35,929
very possibly.

681
00:31:35,929 --> 00:31:37,559
Because if you love somebody,

682
00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:40,506
you're concerned about them.

683
00:31:40,506 --> 00:31:43,397
And what we certainly don't want to do

684
00:31:43,397 --> 00:31:45,536
as we try to steer people away

685
00:31:45,536 --> 00:31:49,435
from the negative anxieties,

686
00:31:49,435 --> 00:31:51,461
we want to at the same time

687
00:31:51,461 --> 00:31:55,616
encourage that they embrace

688
00:31:55,616 --> 00:31:57,599
the good anxieties.

689
00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:00,146
So how can you tell the difference?

690
00:32:00,146 --> 00:32:04,125
How can you tell Paul

691
00:32:04,125 --> 00:32:07,609
who says, look, above all the things -

692
00:32:07,609 --> 00:32:11,498
somebody look at that 
text in 2 Corinthians.

693
00:32:11,498 --> 00:32:17,808
That text was found in 2 Corinthians 11.

694
00:32:17,808 --> 00:32:22,345
And the text specifically was in v. 28.

695
00:32:22,345 --> 00:32:27,100
Maybe I'll read that one.

696
00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:32,707
2 Corinthians 11.

697
00:32:32,707 --> 00:32:37,323
Listen to this.

698
00:32:37,323 --> 00:32:43,543
(incomplete thought)

699
00:32:43,543 --> 00:32:45,816
What Paul's doing here

700
00:32:45,816 --> 00:32:47,393
is he's comparing himself

701
00:32:47,393 --> 00:32:50,951
to these false apostles.

702
00:32:50,951 --> 00:32:55,896
V. 22, "Are they Hebrews? So am I.

703
00:32:55,896 --> 00:32:59,592
Are they Israelites? So am I.

704
00:32:59,592 --> 00:33:02,440
Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.

705
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,111
Are they servants of Christ?

706
00:33:05,111 --> 00:33:06,301
I'm a better one."

707
00:33:06,301 --> 00:33:09,808
Now he's not speaking pridefully here.

708
00:33:09,808 --> 00:33:12,768
He was a true apostle.

709
00:33:12,768 --> 00:33:16,112
They were false apostles.

710
00:33:16,112 --> 00:33:17,930
And he says it right away.

711
00:33:17,930 --> 00:33:19,385
I'm talking like a madman.

712
00:33:19,385 --> 00:33:21,328
He knew this sounds arrogant,

713
00:33:21,328 --> 00:33:24,661
and he says I'm talking 
like a madman here.

714
00:33:24,661 --> 00:33:26,474
But I've been in far greater labors.

715
00:33:26,474 --> 00:33:29,666
I've suffered much more 
for Christ than any of them

716
00:33:29,666 --> 00:33:32,620
because I'm preaching a 
message that gets persecuted.

717
00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:34,134
Unlike those guys.

718
00:33:34,134 --> 00:33:35,396
They're ear ticklers.

719
00:33:35,396 --> 00:33:36,886
They're man pleasers.

720
00:33:36,886 --> 00:33:41,068
Anyway, look what he says.

721
00:33:41,068 --> 00:33:43,784
"Far greater labors,

722
00:33:43,784 --> 00:33:48,211
far more imprisonments."

723
00:33:48,211 --> 00:33:52,187
Some of us have perhaps been in jail.

724
00:33:52,187 --> 00:33:54,733
He was in jail for Christ's sake.

725
00:33:54,733 --> 00:33:56,406
But not just that.

726
00:33:56,406 --> 00:33:59,889
Countless beatings.

727
00:33:59,889 --> 00:34:03,330
If we had one person in our midst

728
00:34:03,330 --> 00:34:10,692
who had been beaten just once

729
00:34:10,692 --> 00:34:12,801
for the name of Christ,

730
00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:17,223
we would so highly esteem that person.

731
00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:21,512
Any of you... (incomplete thought).

732
00:34:21,512 --> 00:34:23,899
Kevin - he got punched right?

733
00:34:23,899 --> 00:34:28,350
(incomplete thought)

734
00:34:28,350 --> 00:34:30,481
Suffering for Christ's sake.

735
00:34:30,481 --> 00:34:32,730
I mean, people that 
are willing to do that.

736
00:34:32,730 --> 00:34:35,941
I love that.

737
00:34:35,941 --> 00:34:39,103
But he was beaten - he 
didn't even know the number

738
00:34:39,103 --> 00:34:41,646
of times he was beaten.

739
00:34:41,646 --> 00:34:45,087
He was often near death.

740
00:34:45,087 --> 00:34:46,296
Like he says at times,

741
00:34:46,296 --> 00:34:50,460
they feared for their lives.

742
00:34:50,460 --> 00:34:52,977
"Five times I received at 
the hands of the Jews

743
00:34:52,977 --> 00:34:55,000
40 lashes less one."

744
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,219
The most you could give 
under Mosaic Law: 40.

745
00:34:58,219 --> 00:34:59,698
So they always did 39

746
00:34:59,698 --> 00:35:03,367
lest they should accidentally go over.

747
00:35:03,367 --> 00:35:04,861
Can you imagine?

748
00:35:04,861 --> 00:35:07,954
I've got a rod right there behind Wendy.

749
00:35:07,954 --> 00:35:10,649
Can somebody imagine if I took that rod

750
00:35:10,649 --> 00:35:14,035
and I beat you with it 39 times?

751
00:35:14,035 --> 00:35:19,215
As hard as I could?

752
00:35:19,215 --> 00:35:21,978
This is what he went through.

753
00:35:21,978 --> 00:35:25,122
"Once I was stoned and left for dead."

754
00:35:25,122 --> 00:35:26,605
We know about that account.

755
00:35:26,605 --> 00:35:29,279
"Three times I was shipwrecked.

756
00:35:29,279 --> 00:35:32,209
A night and a day I was adrift at sea.

757
00:35:32,209 --> 00:35:34,475
Frequent journeys and dangers from rivers,

758
00:35:34,475 --> 00:35:35,905
danger from robbers,

759
00:35:35,905 --> 00:35:37,331
danger from my own people,

760
00:35:37,331 --> 00:35:38,632
danger from the Gentiles,

761
00:35:38,632 --> 00:35:40,849
danger in the city, 
danger in the wilderness,

762
00:35:40,849 --> 00:35:43,353
danger at sea,
danger from false brothers,

763
00:35:43,353 --> 00:35:46,075
in toil, hardship, 
many sleepless nights,

764
00:35:46,075 --> 00:35:48,222
hunger and thirst,
often without food,

765
00:35:48,222 --> 00:35:49,724
in cold and exposure

766
00:35:49,724 --> 00:35:51,503
and apart from other things,

767
00:35:51,503 --> 00:35:53,386
there is the daily pressure on me

768
00:35:53,386 --> 00:35:56,279
of my anxieties for all the churches."

769
00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:58,635
It's like he's gets done,

770
00:35:58,635 --> 00:36:00,240
and it's like you want to know

771
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:04,140
what really is a burden to me?

772
00:36:04,140 --> 00:36:06,742
Not all those things.

773
00:36:06,742 --> 00:36:10,554
Daily I carry around this burden

774
00:36:10,554 --> 00:36:12,164
for the churches.

775
00:36:12,164 --> 00:36:13,085
We want that.

776
00:36:13,085 --> 00:36:14,394
We want that kind of love.

777
00:36:14,394 --> 00:36:16,339
That is a good anxiety.

778
00:36:16,339 --> 00:36:19,282
We should pursue that.

779
00:36:19,282 --> 00:36:22,171
But okay, how do we know the difference?

780
00:36:22,171 --> 00:36:33,648
How do we know when we feel panicked,

781
00:36:33,648 --> 00:36:36,265
or we feel cares, we feel burdens,

782
00:36:36,265 --> 00:36:42,405
we feel anxiety, we feel cares?

783
00:36:42,405 --> 00:36:43,947
What's a good mark

784
00:36:43,947 --> 00:36:47,658
that the thing is good or bad?

785
00:36:47,658 --> 00:36:48,795
Here's some things.

786
00:36:48,795 --> 00:36:50,087
You guys can be thinking

787
00:36:50,087 --> 00:36:52,037
if I don't hit on one that you think of,

788
00:36:52,037 --> 00:36:53,566
I'll give you the opportunity

789
00:36:53,566 --> 00:36:56,842
after I throw these out.

790
00:36:56,842 --> 00:36:59,321
Number one,

791
00:36:59,321 --> 00:37:02,387
here's a question that you need to ask.

792
00:37:02,387 --> 00:37:07,598
What are you concerned about?

793
00:37:07,598 --> 00:37:09,674
See, that's a good thing to ask.

794
00:37:09,674 --> 00:37:12,236
Because I can tell you this,

795
00:37:12,236 --> 00:37:15,707
every time in Scripture

796
00:37:15,707 --> 00:37:19,916
that it's a good anxiety,

797
00:37:19,916 --> 00:37:24,391
it's being anxious for people

798
00:37:24,391 --> 00:37:26,405
or the 1 Corinthians 7,

799
00:37:26,405 --> 00:37:32,432
it's being anxious for the Lord.

800
00:37:32,432 --> 00:37:35,140
Versus the bad anxieties

801
00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:39,647
which would be being anxious for money

802
00:37:39,647 --> 00:37:43,090
or for clothing or for food

803
00:37:43,090 --> 00:37:44,738
or for drink

804
00:37:44,738 --> 00:37:49,466
or for the physical things.

805
00:37:49,466 --> 00:37:50,592
You know what Paul said

806
00:37:50,592 --> 00:37:52,245
when it came to financial things?

807
00:37:52,245 --> 00:37:53,493
When it came to wealth?

808
00:37:53,493 --> 00:37:55,427
When it came to provision in this world?

809
00:37:55,427 --> 00:37:57,814
He said God has taught me

810
00:37:57,814 --> 00:37:59,773
both how to be abased

811
00:37:59,773 --> 00:38:01,948
and how to abound.

812
00:38:01,948 --> 00:38:05,659
In other words, I don't 
freak out either way.

813
00:38:05,659 --> 00:38:09,687
He's taught me how to go through both

814
00:38:09,687 --> 00:38:11,334
resting on Him

815
00:38:11,334 --> 00:38:13,485
and trusting in Him.

816
00:38:13,485 --> 00:38:16,386
He says this to the Philippians.

817
00:38:16,386 --> 00:38:18,750
He's going to supply our every need

818
00:38:18,750 --> 00:38:21,093
according to His riches 
in glory through Christ.

819
00:38:21,093 --> 00:38:23,736
It's going to happen.

820
00:38:23,736 --> 00:38:25,061
He's taught us.

821
00:38:25,061 --> 00:38:29,248
But think about what you're anxious about.

822
00:38:29,248 --> 00:38:31,097
It doesn't mean that a bad anxiety

823
00:38:31,097 --> 00:38:32,874
can't be attached to people.

824
00:38:32,874 --> 00:38:35,891
But it's just a point well worth making

825
00:38:35,891 --> 00:38:39,655
that when Paul was 
anxious for the churches,

826
00:38:39,655 --> 00:38:41,731
it was people.

827
00:38:41,731 --> 00:38:47,142
When Timothy was anxious 
for the Philippians,

828
00:38:47,142 --> 00:38:50,901
it was people.

829
00:38:50,901 --> 00:38:57,455
When you think about these examples

830
00:38:57,455 --> 00:38:59,808
and then the 1 Corinthians 7,

831
00:38:59,808 --> 00:39:03,087
where the person that marries,

832
00:39:03,087 --> 00:39:05,275
he's anxious for the things of his wife

833
00:39:05,275 --> 00:39:07,706
versus the girl that stays single -

834
00:39:07,706 --> 00:39:10,517
she's anxious for the things of the Lord.

835
00:39:10,517 --> 00:39:12,847
That's the first thing to think about.

836
00:39:12,847 --> 00:39:14,812
What are we anxious about?

837
00:39:14,812 --> 00:39:17,791
Is it people and is it the Lord

838
00:39:17,791 --> 00:39:20,606
who are driving our concerns?

839
00:39:20,615 --> 00:39:22,377
Or is it stuff?

840
00:39:22,377 --> 00:39:24,857
Is it the fear of whether God's going to

841
00:39:24,857 --> 00:39:25,935
provide for us?

842
00:39:25,935 --> 00:39:27,953
Is it the fear of whether we're going to

843
00:39:27,953 --> 00:39:29,763
get something that we think we want?

844
00:39:29,763 --> 00:39:36,087
Even if that's a spouse.

845
00:39:36,087 --> 00:39:40,350
Just panicking because you're not sure

846
00:39:40,350 --> 00:39:41,601
about tomorrow.

847
00:39:41,601 --> 00:39:43,838
You're just worried all the time.

848
00:39:43,838 --> 00:39:45,446
How am I going to make it?

849
00:39:45,446 --> 00:39:48,596
How am I going to take care of my family?

850
00:39:48,596 --> 00:39:53,169
How is this going to happen?

851
00:39:53,169 --> 00:39:55,734
So that's the first thing.

852
00:39:55,734 --> 00:40:01,443
The second thing is this.

853
00:40:01,443 --> 00:40:05,783
Look at Matthew 13:22.

854
00:40:05,783 --> 00:40:12,284
This is the well known parable

855
00:40:12,284 --> 00:40:17,754
of the four soils.

856
00:40:17,754 --> 00:40:21,970
The third soil type

857
00:40:21,970 --> 00:40:24,889
is found in Matthew 13:22.

858
00:40:24,889 --> 00:40:28,861
The explanation, the interpretation.

859
00:40:28,861 --> 00:40:34,924
Somebody want to read that?

860
00:40:34,924 --> 00:40:38,209
"As for what was sown among the thorns,

861
00:40:38,209 --> 00:40:40,461
this is the one who hears the Word

862
00:40:40,461 --> 00:40:42,015
and the cares of the world..."

863
00:40:42,015 --> 00:40:43,520
Tim: Right there.

864
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:44,712
The cares of the world?

865
00:40:44,712 --> 00:40:47,161
That's the anxieties of the world.

866
00:40:47,161 --> 00:40:48,334
Keep going.

867
00:40:48,334 --> 00:40:50,350
"...and the deceitfulness of riches

868
00:40:50,350 --> 00:40:53,689
choke the Word and proves unfruitful."

869
00:40:53,689 --> 00:40:55,619
Tim: It chokes the Word

870
00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:59,916
and it proves unfruitful.

871
00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:05,294
Cares of the world

872
00:41:05,294 --> 00:41:09,525
lead to no fruitfulness.

873
00:41:09,525 --> 00:41:11,476
In fact, if you compare this

874
00:41:11,476 --> 00:41:14,986
to the other Gospels,

875
00:41:14,986 --> 00:41:19,974
what happens is it chokes,

876
00:41:19,974 --> 00:41:25,952
it keeps the fruit from 
coming to fruition.

877
00:41:25,952 --> 00:41:28,372
Or, look at this text.

878
00:41:28,372 --> 00:41:31,190
Luke 21:34.

879
00:41:31,190 --> 00:41:41,350
Somebody read that when you get there.

880
00:41:41,350 --> 00:41:42,673
"But watch yourselves,

881
00:41:42,673 --> 00:41:44,826
lest your hearts be weighed down

882
00:41:44,826 --> 00:41:47,542
with dissipation and drunkenness

883
00:41:47,542 --> 00:41:49,271
and cares of this life

884
00:41:49,271 --> 00:41:51,447
and that day come upon you suddenly

885
00:41:51,447 --> 00:41:53,431
like a trap."

886
00:41:53,431 --> 00:41:55,093
Tim: There it is.

887
00:41:55,093 --> 00:41:59,274
Cares of this life.

888
00:41:59,274 --> 00:42:02,375
Cares of this life.

889
00:42:02,375 --> 00:42:06,098
You get weighed down by them.

890
00:42:06,098 --> 00:42:10,090
And what does it say there in Matthew 13?

891
00:42:10,090 --> 00:42:16,393
It said that there's a choking.

892
00:42:16,393 --> 00:42:19,068
These cares choke.

893
00:42:19,068 --> 00:42:20,725
And what happens?

894
00:42:20,725 --> 00:42:22,532
There's not fruit.

895
00:42:22,532 --> 00:42:25,947
And so the thing that 
we need to ask is this:

896
00:42:25,947 --> 00:42:32,217
Does your anxiety produce fruit

897
00:42:32,217 --> 00:42:35,489
or does it choke it?

898
00:42:35,489 --> 00:42:37,377
Because think about this.

899
00:42:37,377 --> 00:42:40,612
If a person is having anxiety attacks,

900
00:42:40,612 --> 00:42:42,275
and they can't even get themselves

901
00:42:42,275 --> 00:42:44,412
to get out of their bed 
or out of their home

902
00:42:44,412 --> 00:42:46,656
on a Sunday to come to the service,

903
00:42:46,656 --> 00:42:49,693
to use their spiritual gifts 
to strengthen other people,

904
00:42:49,693 --> 00:42:51,291
to encourage other people,

905
00:42:51,291 --> 00:42:54,276
to get there to stir up one another

906
00:42:54,276 --> 00:42:55,394
to love and good works

907
00:42:55,394 --> 00:42:57,747
and not forsake the assembling together,

908
00:42:57,747 --> 00:42:59,235
to get there and hear about

909
00:42:59,235 --> 00:43:01,389
what's happening in other people's lives,

910
00:43:01,389 --> 00:43:02,975
to bear one another's burdens,

911
00:43:02,975 --> 00:43:04,710
to rejoice with those who rejoice,

912
00:43:04,710 --> 00:43:06,874
to weep with those who weep -

913
00:43:06,874 --> 00:43:08,616
if you're not able,

914
00:43:08,616 --> 00:43:12,065
do you know what that anxiety is doing?

915
00:43:12,065 --> 00:43:15,287
It's choking fruit.

916
00:43:15,287 --> 00:43:19,299
Whereas Paul, thinking about 
the churches all the time,

917
00:43:19,299 --> 00:43:21,711
his care for the churches,

918
00:43:21,711 --> 00:43:26,139
that didn't produce a choking.

919
00:43:26,139 --> 00:43:29,606
That didn't produce a fruitlessness.

920
00:43:29,606 --> 00:43:31,456
That didn't produce in Paul

921
00:43:31,456 --> 00:43:34,004
a desire to fly away

922
00:43:34,004 --> 00:43:36,604
and build a cabin out in the woods.

923
00:43:36,604 --> 00:43:39,310
You know what it did?

924
00:43:39,310 --> 00:43:43,412
Listen to him speak 
to every single church.

925
00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:47,785
He says I am constantly remembering you

926
00:43:47,785 --> 00:43:50,178
in prayer.

927
00:43:50,178 --> 00:43:52,035
That's fruit.

928
00:43:52,035 --> 00:43:55,273
His anxiety caused him

929
00:43:55,273 --> 00:43:56,852
to take those churches

930
00:43:56,852 --> 00:43:58,516
before the throne of grace

931
00:43:58,516 --> 00:44:01,910
over and over and over again.

932
00:44:01,910 --> 00:44:04,199
It caused him to go to those churches,

933
00:44:04,199 --> 00:44:05,642
to risk his life.

934
00:44:05,642 --> 00:44:07,289
Do you remember what he said

935
00:44:07,289 --> 00:44:08,716
to the church at Rome?

936
00:44:08,716 --> 00:44:12,261
He says, oh, I have longed to come to you

937
00:44:12,261 --> 00:44:15,126
that I might have some fruit among you.

938
00:44:15,126 --> 00:44:18,120
He wanted to come and preach the Gospel.

939
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,105
He wanted his faith and their faith

940
00:44:20,105 --> 00:44:23,559
to mutually edify each other.

941
00:44:23,559 --> 00:44:26,105
Listen to how he talked 
to the church at Corinth.

942
00:44:26,105 --> 00:44:27,834
He talked about coming,

943
00:44:27,834 --> 00:44:29,661
and what did he want to do?

944
00:44:29,661 --> 00:44:32,504
He didn't want to come 
and have to use the rod.

945
00:44:32,504 --> 00:44:34,087
But he would if he had to.

946
00:44:34,087 --> 00:44:35,591
Why? Because he would come

947
00:44:35,591 --> 00:44:37,104
to set things in order.

948
00:44:37,104 --> 00:44:38,602
What did Paul send Titus

949
00:44:38,602 --> 00:44:43,446
to the churches in Crete to do?

950
00:44:43,446 --> 00:44:45,690
Good things. Fruitful things.

951
00:44:45,690 --> 00:44:47,854
When Paul and Barnabas

952
00:44:47,854 --> 00:44:50,162
went through the churches in Acts 14,

953
00:44:50,162 --> 00:44:51,772
do you know what they were doing?

954
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:54,331
They were encouraging the brethren

955
00:44:54,331 --> 00:44:56,326
and appointing elders.

956
00:44:56,326 --> 00:44:57,722
But good things.

957
00:44:57,722 --> 00:44:59,362
They were risking their life.

958
00:44:59,362 --> 00:45:01,376
They were risking imprisonment.

959
00:45:01,376 --> 00:45:03,247
They were risking beatings.

960
00:45:03,247 --> 00:45:04,445
Why?

961
00:45:04,445 --> 00:45:07,515
Listen, when Paul said

962
00:45:07,515 --> 00:45:12,625
that he could just as well die as live,

963
00:45:12,625 --> 00:45:14,203
what did he say?

964
00:45:14,203 --> 00:45:15,401
What did he say?

965
00:45:15,401 --> 00:45:17,691
I desire to depart and be with Christ,

966
00:45:17,691 --> 00:45:19,523
but what?

967
00:45:19,523 --> 00:45:22,519
James: To remain in the 
flesh is far more necessary...

968
00:45:22,519 --> 00:45:23,874
Tim: For their sakes.

969
00:45:23,874 --> 00:45:27,656
See, kill me. Chop my head off, Nero.

970
00:45:27,656 --> 00:45:29,815
And I get to go to glory.

971
00:45:29,815 --> 00:45:32,927
But you know what?
You know what's more needful?

972
00:45:32,927 --> 00:45:36,320
Not that I fly away, build a cabin

973
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,392
outside of Frisco, Colorado.

974
00:45:40,392 --> 00:45:46,181
He says it's more necessary that I stay.

975
00:45:46,181 --> 00:45:49,574
Why? Because the people of God needed him.

976
00:45:49,574 --> 00:45:53,219
See, this is what I would ask you.

977
00:45:53,219 --> 00:45:56,400
Whatever anxieties you have in your life,

978
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,971
is it leading to fruit?

979
00:45:58,971 --> 00:46:00,743
Because what we see

980
00:46:00,743 --> 00:46:02,885
is that the anxieties of this world

981
00:46:02,885 --> 00:46:08,882
choke the Word and there's no good fruit.

982
00:46:08,882 --> 00:46:10,861
It doesn't come to fruition.

983
00:46:10,861 --> 00:46:14,202
Versus the kind of care that Timothy had.

984
00:46:14,202 --> 00:46:16,282
Listen, the kind of care that was there

985
00:46:16,282 --> 00:46:17,927
in 1 Corinthians 12.

986
00:46:17,927 --> 00:46:19,225
You've got this body -

987
00:46:19,225 --> 00:46:20,995
this body full of these members.

988
00:46:20,995 --> 00:46:22,193
And these members,

989
00:46:22,193 --> 00:46:25,179
they have anxiety for each other.

990
00:46:25,179 --> 00:46:27,124
And so what do they do?

991
00:46:27,124 --> 00:46:29,191
They weep with each other.

992
00:46:29,191 --> 00:46:30,664
They rejoice with each other.

993
00:46:30,664 --> 00:46:32,148
And of course, that chapter

994
00:46:32,148 --> 00:46:33,886
is speaking about spiritual gifts.

995
00:46:33,886 --> 00:46:35,603
They're using their spiritual gifts

996
00:46:35,603 --> 00:46:37,786
to build up one another.

997
00:46:37,786 --> 00:46:40,311
You see, that's what you have to think.

998
00:46:40,311 --> 00:46:45,640
Is your anxiety causing you

999
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,072
to pray for those people?

1000
00:46:48,072 --> 00:46:49,755
Is it for people?

1001
00:46:49,755 --> 00:46:51,459
Is it for the Lord?

1002
00:46:51,459 --> 00:46:55,898
And is it causing you to pursue fruit?

1003
00:46:55,898 --> 00:46:58,610
Are you anxious for the Lord?

1004
00:46:58,610 --> 00:47:00,594
If you cross reference what it says

1005
00:47:00,594 --> 00:47:03,179
about the young man who doesn't marry,

1006
00:47:03,179 --> 00:47:05,773
and the young lady who doesn't marry,

1007
00:47:05,773 --> 00:47:07,942
the young man, it talks about

1008
00:47:07,942 --> 00:47:09,972
being freed up so he can pursue

1009
00:47:09,972 --> 00:47:11,753
righteousness and holiness.

1010
00:47:11,753 --> 00:47:13,318
With the young lady, so she can

1011
00:47:13,318 --> 00:47:15,279
be anxious about the things of the Lord.

1012
00:47:15,279 --> 00:47:17,270
That's an interesting parallel.

1013
00:47:17,270 --> 00:47:20,641
What does it mean to be anxious 
for the things of the Lord?

1014
00:47:20,641 --> 00:47:24,415
It means you're set 
on a course of holiness.

1015
00:47:24,415 --> 00:47:28,206
You're set on a course of righteousness.

1016
00:47:28,206 --> 00:47:29,245
(from the room)

1017
00:47:29,245 --> 00:47:31,048
Early on, you were talking about

1018
00:47:31,048 --> 00:47:33,894
being anxious for people and for the Lord.

1019
00:47:33,894 --> 00:47:35,700
That text of Mary and Martha,

1020
00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:38,277
it seems to attach bad anxiety

1021
00:47:38,277 --> 00:47:40,520
with being distracted.

1022
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,384
So Martha was distracted with much serving

1023
00:47:43,384 --> 00:47:46,345
whereas Mary, it says the Lord says,

1024
00:47:46,345 --> 00:47:49,138
one thing was necessary,

1025
00:47:49,138 --> 00:47:51,770
and so she chose it, right?

1026
00:47:51,770 --> 00:47:53,324
And she wasn't distracted

1027
00:47:53,324 --> 00:47:54,956
be the cares of this world.

1028
00:47:54,956 --> 00:47:56,550
They didn't choke out the Word.

1029
00:47:56,550 --> 00:48:00,788
She was focused on the Lord specifically.

1030
00:48:00,788 --> 00:48:05,867
Tim: I want you to think here.

1031
00:48:05,867 --> 00:48:08,677
You have one sister

1032
00:48:08,677 --> 00:48:12,396
sitting at the feet of 
Christ as He teaches.

1033
00:48:12,396 --> 00:48:15,643
You have another sister in the kitchen

1034
00:48:15,643 --> 00:48:19,032
making food for Jesus.

1035
00:48:19,032 --> 00:48:23,207
Now I want you to really think about that.

1036
00:48:23,207 --> 00:48:26,565
We can fool ourselves.

1037
00:48:26,565 --> 00:48:29,014
And I think Martha did.

1038
00:48:29,014 --> 00:48:32,162
Martha believed:

1039
00:48:32,162 --> 00:48:34,918
what I'm doing, I'm serving the Lord,

1040
00:48:34,918 --> 00:48:38,180
and my sister is lazy.

1041
00:48:38,180 --> 00:48:39,529
And I need help.

1042
00:48:39,529 --> 00:48:42,605
And I think when she appealed to the Lord,

1043
00:48:42,605 --> 00:48:45,382
she fully expected the Lord to say,

1044
00:48:45,382 --> 00:48:49,863
Mary, get up off your rear 
and go help your sister.

1045
00:48:49,863 --> 00:48:59,566
Because think if you're Martha.

1046
00:48:59,566 --> 00:49:04,386
Wasn't it Mary who brought out

1047
00:49:04,386 --> 00:49:08,099
the alabaster box

1048
00:49:08,099 --> 00:49:12,669
and she poured it on Christ?

1049
00:49:12,669 --> 00:49:17,713
Think about serving the Lord.

1050
00:49:17,713 --> 00:49:19,703
Serving the Lord.

1051
00:49:19,703 --> 00:49:21,920
It sounds good.

1052
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:27,085
That's a biblical thing.

1053
00:49:27,085 --> 00:49:29,470
Here's the amazing thing.

1054
00:49:29,470 --> 00:49:32,688
You can get to where you're even anxious

1055
00:49:32,688 --> 00:49:35,032
about serving the Lord,

1056
00:49:35,032 --> 00:49:38,218
and it's a bad anxiety.

1057
00:49:38,218 --> 00:49:46,845
Because it's an anxiety that is the fruit

1058
00:49:46,845 --> 00:49:49,746
of not choosing the better part.

1059
00:49:49,746 --> 00:49:52,958
It's an anxiety that isn't focused

1060
00:49:52,958 --> 00:49:54,968
on the right things.

1061
00:49:54,968 --> 00:49:58,833
You see, Mary was focused on Christ.

1062
00:49:58,833 --> 00:50:01,974
And she sat there at His feet

1063
00:50:01,974 --> 00:50:05,147
and heard Him teach.

1064
00:50:05,147 --> 00:50:07,514
And this is subtle.

1065
00:50:07,514 --> 00:50:08,868
Because if you asked,

1066
00:50:08,868 --> 00:50:11,297
well, wait, isn't there good fruit

1067
00:50:11,297 --> 00:50:18,729
in making a meal for Jesus?

1068
00:50:18,729 --> 00:50:23,238
Yeah, perhaps, but here's the thing.

1069
00:50:23,238 --> 00:50:26,844
When we think about what 
we're being anxious about,

1070
00:50:26,844 --> 00:50:28,417
I didn't put that in here,

1071
00:50:28,417 --> 00:50:31,643
but that is a good thing to ask yourself.

1072
00:50:31,643 --> 00:50:34,927
Is my anxiety -

1073
00:50:34,927 --> 00:50:36,602
even though it may seem good,

1074
00:50:36,602 --> 00:50:37,792
it may seem biblical,

1075
00:50:37,792 --> 00:50:41,685
it may seem right and righteous,

1076
00:50:41,685 --> 00:50:44,244
but is my anxiety causing me

1077
00:50:44,244 --> 00:50:49,235
to miss the best parts of Christianity?

1078
00:50:49,235 --> 00:50:51,415
Christ Himself.

1079
00:50:51,415 --> 00:50:55,203
Are my anxieties distracting me?

1080
00:50:55,203 --> 00:50:56,776
Because that's what she was.

1081
00:50:56,776 --> 00:50:58,037
You're distracted.

1082
00:50:58,037 --> 00:51:00,622
You're anxious and you're distracted

1083
00:51:00,622 --> 00:51:01,814
about many things.

1084
00:51:01,814 --> 00:51:03,035
Distracted from what?

1085
00:51:03,035 --> 00:51:08,934
She's chosen the good part.

1086
00:51:08,934 --> 00:51:11,240
That's a good question to ask.

1087
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:15,802
Is my anxiety in any way

1088
00:51:15,802 --> 00:51:19,921
drawing me away from Christ,

1089
00:51:19,921 --> 00:51:23,851
even if it's serving Him?

1090
00:51:23,851 --> 00:51:26,156
Because I find this,

1091
00:51:26,156 --> 00:51:32,474
if I have a healthy anxiety for you

1092
00:51:32,474 --> 00:51:36,362
as a pastor,

1093
00:51:36,362 --> 00:51:39,334
it takes me to Christ.

1094
00:51:39,334 --> 00:51:40,669
It takes me to Him.

1095
00:51:40,669 --> 00:51:43,689
It takes me to Him to plead

1096
00:51:43,689 --> 00:51:46,245
for you to Him.

1097
00:51:46,245 --> 00:51:50,687
It makes me think,

1098
00:51:50,687 --> 00:51:53,381
honestly, I recognize,

1099
00:51:53,381 --> 00:51:57,012
what I'm preaching on 
right now in the church,

1100
00:51:57,012 --> 00:52:00,565
that you really focusing 
on the love of Christ

1101
00:52:00,565 --> 00:52:02,227
is the most healthy thing.

1102
00:52:02,227 --> 00:52:05,132
I recognize you beholding 
the glory of the Lord

1103
00:52:05,132 --> 00:52:08,289
is at the heart.

1104
00:52:08,289 --> 00:52:10,183
So we need to ask ourselves that.

1105
00:52:10,183 --> 00:52:13,996
Do our anxieties cause us

1106
00:52:13,996 --> 00:52:17,157
to choose Christ and focus on Christ?

1107
00:52:17,157 --> 00:52:19,152
That's a good sign

1108
00:52:19,152 --> 00:52:20,876
that that's a healthy anxiety.

1109
00:52:20,876 --> 00:52:23,331
Or does it, even if it's serving Him

1110
00:52:23,331 --> 00:52:24,927
in a certain respect,

1111
00:52:24,927 --> 00:52:29,267
does it causes us to 
be distracted from Him?

1112
00:52:29,267 --> 00:52:33,425
Good thought there.

1113
00:52:33,425 --> 00:52:36,538
Number 3 and closely associated to this,

1114
00:52:36,538 --> 00:52:40,856
how do my anxieties 
affect my prayer life?

1115
00:52:40,856 --> 00:52:42,179
Because remember -

1116
00:52:42,179 --> 00:52:43,595
James probably can quote it -

1117
00:52:43,595 --> 00:52:44,956
Philippians 4:6,

1118
00:52:44,956 --> 00:52:46,621
"Do not be anxious about anything,

1119
00:52:46,621 --> 00:52:48,976
but in everything with 
prayer and supplication

1120
00:52:48,976 --> 00:52:50,053
with thanksgiving..."

1121
00:52:50,053 --> 00:52:51,284
Tim: Did you hear that?

1122
00:52:51,284 --> 00:52:52,937
Prayer and supplication.

1123
00:52:52,937 --> 00:52:54,864
You are supposed to make your requests

1124
00:52:54,864 --> 00:52:55,853
known to God.

1125
00:52:55,853 --> 00:52:56,891
Here's the thing.

1126
00:52:56,891 --> 00:53:00,017
Be not anxious, but...

1127
00:53:00,017 --> 00:53:01,639
rather...

1128
00:53:01,639 --> 00:53:03,370
what are you supposed to be doing?

1129
00:53:03,370 --> 00:53:05,016
It's like Paul sets these things

1130
00:53:05,016 --> 00:53:06,124
against each other.

1131
00:53:06,124 --> 00:53:08,247
Anxiety over against

1132
00:53:08,247 --> 00:53:10,860
taking these things to the Lord.

1133
00:53:10,860 --> 00:53:12,484
I would ask you this.

1134
00:53:12,484 --> 00:53:17,779
A good indication as 
to whether your cares,

1135
00:53:17,779 --> 00:53:20,553
your concerns,

1136
00:53:20,553 --> 00:53:22,172
your anxieties,

1137
00:53:22,172 --> 00:53:24,873
whether they're good or bad

1138
00:53:24,873 --> 00:53:28,639
is do they tend to take you to the Lord

1139
00:53:28,639 --> 00:53:29,989
in prayer?

1140
00:53:29,989 --> 00:53:31,857
Or do they traumatize you?

1141
00:53:31,857 --> 00:53:34,295
Do they cause you to neglect the Lord?

1142
00:53:34,295 --> 00:53:36,541
Do they cause you to ignore the Lord?

1143
00:53:36,541 --> 00:53:42,924
Do they cause you to be 
distracted from the Lord?

1144
00:53:42,924 --> 00:53:45,094
What does it do for your prayer life?

1145
00:53:45,094 --> 00:53:48,468
Because you know what?

1146
00:53:48,468 --> 00:53:51,348
That parent who says

1147
00:53:51,348 --> 00:53:53,071
I have all these children

1148
00:53:53,071 --> 00:54:00,502
and I'm anxious for them,

1149
00:54:00,502 --> 00:54:05,959
well, when you say 
you're anxious for them,

1150
00:54:05,959 --> 00:54:09,456
does that mean, like Paul 
being anxious for the churches,

1151
00:54:09,456 --> 00:54:13,116
that you're taking your children

1152
00:54:13,116 --> 00:54:16,154
before the throne of grace all the time

1153
00:54:16,154 --> 00:54:20,609
and pleading, pleading on their behalf?

1154
00:54:20,609 --> 00:54:22,223
Like Job did.

1155
00:54:22,223 --> 00:54:24,425
Bringing that sacrifice.

1156
00:54:24,425 --> 00:54:26,692
Bringing that offering to God,

1157
00:54:26,692 --> 00:54:28,445
in case your children sin.

1158
00:54:28,445 --> 00:54:32,355
You're pleading for their souls.

1159
00:54:32,355 --> 00:54:34,446
Does it bring you there?

1160
00:54:34,446 --> 00:54:36,740
Or is it the kind of thing where

1161
00:54:36,740 --> 00:54:38,012
no, it doesn't.

1162
00:54:38,012 --> 00:54:39,714
You just worry, worry, worry, worry

1163
00:54:39,714 --> 00:54:43,144
and going to God doesn't help,

1164
00:54:43,144 --> 00:54:44,581
and so you don't go there.

1165
00:54:44,581 --> 00:54:46,031
You tend to neglect that.

1166
00:54:46,031 --> 00:54:48,486
Now that's a big indicator

1167
00:54:48,486 --> 00:54:51,304
that your anxieties are basically

1168
00:54:51,304 --> 00:54:53,967
coming from idolatry.

1169
00:54:53,967 --> 00:54:55,591
You've made too much of a god

1170
00:54:55,591 --> 00:54:57,876
out of the thing that 
you're anxious about,

1171
00:54:57,876 --> 00:55:00,209
whether that be 
your children or whatever.

1172
00:55:00,209 --> 00:55:07,564
But examine the prayer life.

1173
00:55:07,564 --> 00:55:13,197
I put here "good anxiety suffers."

1174
00:55:13,197 --> 00:55:15,823
We already kind of talked about that.

1175
00:55:15,823 --> 00:55:21,111
But obviously, if being 
anxious for one another

1176
00:55:21,111 --> 00:55:23,885
means that we weep for one another,

1177
00:55:23,885 --> 00:55:27,437
it means if our brothers 
or sisters are hurting,

1178
00:55:27,437 --> 00:55:29,614
we seek to enter in.

1179
00:55:29,614 --> 00:55:32,636
We don't seek to be distant.

1180
00:55:32,636 --> 00:55:35,384
And I guess that's one of the things

1181
00:55:35,384 --> 00:55:40,136
that we need to ask ourselves.

1182
00:55:40,136 --> 00:55:44,287
Are we pursuing those kinds of anxieties?

1183
00:55:44,287 --> 00:55:47,286
Are we seeking to feel

1184
00:55:47,286 --> 00:55:51,215
for what other people feel?

1185
00:55:51,215 --> 00:55:55,114
Are we seeking to enter in to bear

1186
00:55:55,114 --> 00:55:59,233
one another's burdens in that sense?

1187
00:55:59,233 --> 00:56:02,440
Because true anxiety -

1188
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,335
the good anxiety -

1189
00:56:05,335 --> 00:56:07,528
is willing to feel pain,

1190
00:56:07,528 --> 00:56:11,863
obviously, from that 
1 Corinthians 12 passage.

1191
00:56:11,863 --> 00:56:15,356
It's willing to feel pain.

1192
00:56:15,356 --> 00:56:19,614
It's willing to hurt with others.

1193
00:56:19,614 --> 00:56:20,819
(from the room)

1194
00:56:20,819 --> 00:56:23,264
Proverbs 12:25 says,

1195
00:56:23,264 --> 00:56:26,438
"Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down,

1196
00:56:26,438 --> 00:56:29,382
but a good word makes him glad."

1197
00:56:29,382 --> 00:56:33,265
(unintelligible)

1198
00:56:33,265 --> 00:56:35,126
Tim: Well, let's talk about that.

1199
00:56:35,126 --> 00:56:39,928
I'll just shoot right to that one.

1200
00:56:39,928 --> 00:56:42,586
Read that proverb again.

1201
00:56:42,586 --> 00:56:46,193
"Anxiety in a man's heart 
weighs him down..."

1202
00:56:46,193 --> 00:56:49,249
Tim: What proverb was that?

1203
00:56:49,249 --> 00:56:56,230
Proverbs 12:25

1204
00:56:56,230 --> 00:57:01,123
Tim: But listen to that.

1205
00:57:01,123 --> 00:57:06,752
Here's one of the questions I want to ask.

1206
00:57:06,752 --> 00:57:12,335
What did Peter say about anxieties?

1207
00:57:12,335 --> 00:57:14,431
Cast them on the Lord.

1208
00:57:14,431 --> 00:57:19,414
Can anybody quote it? I Peter 5:7.

1209
00:57:19,414 --> 00:57:21,794
(unintelligible)

1210
00:57:21,794 --> 00:57:25,053
"Casting all your cares upon Him,

1211
00:57:25,053 --> 00:57:29,633
for He careth for you." (KJV)

1212
00:57:29,633 --> 00:57:32,277
But think about that - casting.

1213
00:57:32,277 --> 00:57:37,828
You know, that comes from a psalm.

1214
00:57:37,828 --> 00:57:39,985
It comes from - somebody find this,

1215
00:57:39,985 --> 00:57:43,135
Psalm 54:23.

1216
00:57:43,135 --> 00:57:45,408
Somebody look that up.

1217
00:57:45,408 --> 00:57:48,623
Tony, throw me a water.

1218
00:57:48,623 --> 00:58:04,073
(unintelligible)

1219
00:58:04,073 --> 00:58:10,937
Psalm 54:23.

1220
00:58:10,937 --> 00:58:24,025
(unintelligible)

1221
00:58:24,025 --> 00:58:25,900
James: It's Psalm 55:22

1222
00:58:25,900 --> 00:58:29,193
Tim: Is it? Both my 
numbers were off by one?

1223
00:58:29,193 --> 00:58:30,740
Okay, go ahead and read it.

1224
00:58:30,740 --> 00:58:33,318
James: Cast your burden on the Lord?

1225
00:58:33,318 --> 00:58:35,283
Tim: How was I off that much?

1226
00:58:35,283 --> 00:58:38,074
That's really bizarre.

1227
00:58:38,074 --> 00:58:41,752
Anyway, but listen,

1228
00:58:41,752 --> 00:58:44,891
I want you to get this,

1229
00:58:44,891 --> 00:58:47,033
because this is a big one.

1230
00:58:47,033 --> 00:58:50,230
And this is helpful.

1231
00:58:50,230 --> 00:58:53,849
Peter basically says 
"cast all your cares."

1232
00:58:53,849 --> 00:58:56,246
Cast your anxieties.

1233
00:58:56,246 --> 00:58:59,243
In the Septuagint,

1234
00:58:59,243 --> 00:59:02,844
the word anxiety is 
used right here as well.

1235
00:59:02,844 --> 00:59:07,799
And this is really where 
Peter gets this from.

1236
00:59:07,799 --> 00:59:09,858
If you look at the word in the English

1237
00:59:09,858 --> 00:59:12,624
in our ESV and probably in 
most of the translations,

1238
00:59:12,624 --> 00:59:14,740
it's "burden."

1239
00:59:14,740 --> 00:59:18,629
Cast your burden.

1240
00:59:18,629 --> 00:59:22,119
Okay, think about the proverb.

1241
00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:25,634
Anxiety does what?

1242
00:59:25,634 --> 00:59:28,927
It weighs us down.

1243
00:59:28,927 --> 00:59:31,122
Cast your burden.

1244
00:59:31,122 --> 00:59:35,363
A burden is heavy.

1245
00:59:35,363 --> 00:59:37,530
Let me give you another one.

1246
00:59:37,530 --> 00:59:42,837
Somebody look at 2 Corinthians 11:28

1247
00:59:42,837 --> 00:59:45,578
and read it.

1248
00:59:45,578 --> 00:59:59,490
This is of course Paul 
talking about the churches.

1249
00:59:59,490 --> 01:00:01,244
Can somebody read that one?

1250
01:00:01,244 --> 01:00:03,083
"And apart from other things,

1251
01:00:03,083 --> 01:00:04,990
there is the daily pressure on me

1252
01:00:04,990 --> 01:00:06,075
of my anxieties..."

1253
01:00:06,075 --> 01:00:07,063
Tim: Right there.

1254
01:00:07,063 --> 01:00:11,546
The daily pressure of the anxiety.

1255
01:00:11,546 --> 01:00:12,744
Let me give you one more.

1256
01:00:12,744 --> 01:00:18,885
Somebody read Luke 21:34 again.

1257
01:00:18,885 --> 01:00:21,700
Because there is a recurring theme.

1258
01:00:21,700 --> 01:00:23,410
There is a pressure.

1259
01:00:23,410 --> 01:00:28,349
Proverbs says anxiety weighs.

1260
01:00:28,349 --> 01:00:30,300
2 Corinthians 11:28,

1261
01:00:30,300 --> 01:00:32,319
there's a pressure.

1262
01:00:32,319 --> 01:00:36,513
Psalm 55, there is a burden.

1263
01:00:36,513 --> 01:00:40,050
Now listen to what Luke 21:34 says.

1264
01:00:40,050 --> 01:00:41,804
Somebody read it.

1265
01:00:41,804 --> 01:00:42,966
"But watch yourselves,

1266
01:00:42,966 --> 01:00:44,796
lest your hearts be weighed down..."

1267
01:00:44,796 --> 01:00:46,509
Tim: Your hearts what?

1268
01:00:46,509 --> 01:00:50,088
Weighed down.

1269
01:00:50,088 --> 01:00:52,740
This is a big one.

1270
01:00:52,740 --> 01:00:57,413
What I would ask you is this.

1271
01:00:57,413 --> 01:01:03,280
When you take your anxieties to the Lord,

1272
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,353
are you lightened?

1273
01:01:06,353 --> 01:01:10,944
See, I think you have a good feel,

1274
01:01:10,944 --> 01:01:15,712
and look, this isn't make-believe.

1275
01:01:15,712 --> 01:01:19,615
When a true Christian goes out

1276
01:01:19,615 --> 01:01:22,111
before the Lord and prays

1277
01:01:22,111 --> 01:01:24,039
and their heart is full of all manner

1278
01:01:24,039 --> 01:01:28,884
of cares and burdens and anxieties,

1279
01:01:28,884 --> 01:01:30,537
and you take those

1280
01:01:30,537 --> 01:01:34,048
and you cast them on the Lord,

1281
01:01:34,048 --> 01:01:37,431
if I have a burden on my back;

1282
01:01:37,431 --> 01:01:39,479
if I'm carrying a couple

1283
01:01:39,479 --> 01:01:42,277
40 pound bags or 80 pound bags

1284
01:01:42,277 --> 01:01:45,739
of concrete,

1285
01:01:45,739 --> 01:01:51,292
and I cast those on somebody else,

1286
01:01:51,292 --> 01:01:53,829
I feel it.

1287
01:01:53,829 --> 01:01:55,421
I'm lightened.

1288
01:01:55,421 --> 01:01:57,393
The thing that all these verses said

1289
01:01:57,393 --> 01:01:58,549
is a recurring theme.

1290
01:01:58,549 --> 01:02:03,374
I kept looking at this Greek word

1291
01:02:03,374 --> 01:02:05,743
in the adjective form 
and in the noun form

1292
01:02:05,743 --> 01:02:07,898
and I just kept going 
through them all today

1293
01:02:07,898 --> 01:02:09,630
and just looking at them 
and looking at them.

1294
01:02:09,630 --> 01:02:10,874
And it jumped out at me -

1295
01:02:10,874 --> 01:02:12,048
this idea of pressure,

1296
01:02:12,048 --> 01:02:13,113
this idea of weight,

1297
01:02:13,113 --> 01:02:17,467
this idea of these things being a burden.

1298
01:02:17,467 --> 01:02:19,958
They weigh the heart down.

1299
01:02:19,958 --> 01:02:22,246
I know this,

1300
01:02:22,246 --> 01:02:25,921
if you're told to cast all your anxieties

1301
01:02:25,921 --> 01:02:27,962
upon the Lord

1302
01:02:27,962 --> 01:02:29,998
because He cares for you -

1303
01:02:29,998 --> 01:02:31,678
I know this,

1304
01:02:31,678 --> 01:02:36,081
that if you actually cast a burden on Him,

1305
01:02:36,081 --> 01:02:38,035
it's no longer on you.

1306
01:02:38,035 --> 01:02:40,392
And I know this.

1307
01:02:40,392 --> 01:02:42,861
I know the reality

1308
01:02:42,861 --> 01:02:46,429
of having such heavy cares.

1309
01:02:46,429 --> 01:02:48,387
Throughout my life,

1310
01:02:48,387 --> 01:02:49,836
there have been times

1311
01:02:49,836 --> 01:02:52,379
I have such cares about my children

1312
01:02:52,379 --> 01:02:54,739
or such cares about the church -

1313
01:02:54,739 --> 01:02:56,331
individuals in the church -

1314
01:02:56,331 --> 01:02:59,382
and you go and pray,

1315
01:02:59,382 --> 01:03:02,308
and it's just like,

1316
01:03:02,308 --> 01:03:04,154
yes, I can go forward now

1317
01:03:04,154 --> 01:03:07,767
because I've unloaded that.

1318
01:03:07,767 --> 01:03:09,485
I still feel the anxiety;

1319
01:03:09,485 --> 01:03:11,229
I still have a concern,

1320
01:03:11,229 --> 01:03:15,785
but the Lord had promised.

1321
01:03:15,785 --> 01:03:17,304
He's promised to help.

1322
01:03:17,304 --> 01:03:20,778
He's promised to be 
One Who answers prayer.

1323
01:03:20,778 --> 01:03:23,066
He's promised to do all manner of things.

1324
01:03:23,066 --> 01:03:24,691
And I know He cares.

1325
01:03:24,691 --> 01:03:27,809
And I know He's working everything 
for good for His people.

1326
01:03:27,809 --> 01:03:31,091
And I know that He loves this 
church far more than I do.

1327
01:03:31,091 --> 01:03:33,151
(incomplete thought)

1328
01:03:33,151 --> 01:03:35,427
And this is one of the 
things you want to ask.

1329
01:03:35,427 --> 01:03:37,640
Because I'll guarantee you this,

1330
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:41,451
if you try to pray, you attempt to pray,

1331
01:03:41,451 --> 01:03:43,749
you're full of these anxieties,

1332
01:03:43,749 --> 01:03:45,173
you're having panic attacks

1333
01:03:45,173 --> 01:03:47,008
and whatever other thing,

1334
01:03:47,008 --> 01:03:49,141
and you seek to go to the Lord,

1335
01:03:49,141 --> 01:03:50,630
and it doesn't help

1336
01:03:50,630 --> 01:03:52,983
and it doesn't do anything,

1337
01:03:52,983 --> 01:03:54,351
you don't feel light;

1338
01:03:54,351 --> 01:03:55,673
you don't feel helped;

1339
01:03:55,673 --> 01:03:57,276
you don't feel that weight,

1340
01:03:57,276 --> 01:04:01,493
that pressure lifted,

1341
01:04:01,493 --> 01:04:06,390
then I would say there's something wrong.

1342
01:04:06,390 --> 01:04:10,545
Because casting those burdens on Him

1343
01:04:10,545 --> 01:04:12,268
should be a reality.

1344
01:04:12,268 --> 01:04:15,138
And if we're carrying anxieties,

1345
01:04:15,138 --> 01:04:17,786
we should be able to unload them there.

1346
01:04:17,786 --> 01:04:19,231
And if that's not happening;

1347
01:04:19,231 --> 01:04:22,448
if you're not feeling that freedom

1348
01:04:22,448 --> 01:04:24,070
and that lightening

1349
01:04:24,070 --> 01:04:25,843
and that weight and that pressure

1350
01:04:25,843 --> 01:04:27,423
being relieved,

1351
01:04:27,423 --> 01:04:30,993
then you're not really 
casting your cares on Him.

1352
01:04:30,993 --> 01:04:32,275
So that's key.

1353
01:04:32,275 --> 01:04:34,322
I think that's so key

1354
01:04:34,322 --> 01:04:36,603
to examining your prayer life there.

1355
01:04:36,603 --> 01:04:39,807
(incomplete thought)

1356
01:04:39,807 --> 01:04:41,845
It's because the Septuagint

1357
01:04:41,845 --> 01:04:45,030
doesn't use the same Greek word there.

1358
01:04:45,030 --> 01:04:46,933
That's why I didn't find that proverb,

1359
01:04:46,933 --> 01:04:48,335
but that's very helpful

1360
01:04:48,335 --> 01:04:52,278
because it's basically 
saying the same thing.

1361
01:04:52,278 --> 01:05:04,666
(unintelligible)

1362
01:05:04,666 --> 01:05:06,520
Tim: Lifting up your heart.

1363
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:08,561
That's what happens when you feel

1364
01:05:08,561 --> 01:05:10,670
the weight come off.

1365
01:05:10,670 --> 01:05:12,096
And I can tell you, see,

1366
01:05:12,096 --> 01:05:14,296
I like to pray out in 
these fields over here,

1367
01:05:14,296 --> 01:05:16,255
but I can tell you, there's been times

1368
01:05:16,255 --> 01:05:19,481
I've gone out that door heavy,

1369
01:05:19,481 --> 01:05:22,793
and I've come back in that door

1370
01:05:22,793 --> 01:05:24,311
a lighter man.

1371
01:05:24,311 --> 01:05:25,890
Now sometimes may not as light

1372
01:05:25,890 --> 01:05:28,048
as I would like to have been lightened,

1373
01:05:28,048 --> 01:05:31,538
but definitely many times much lighter.

1374
01:05:31,538 --> 01:05:33,526
(unintelligible)

1375
01:05:33,526 --> 01:05:40,457
Tim: I would not put a weight to it.

1376
01:05:40,457 --> 01:05:48,207
How about this?

1377
01:05:48,207 --> 01:05:50,221
I put this one:

1378
01:05:50,221 --> 01:05:57,381
Can we rejoice, sleep, play?

1379
01:05:57,381 --> 01:06:00,338
What I was thinking about here

1380
01:06:00,338 --> 01:06:03,671
is again, this weighed down thing,

1381
01:06:03,671 --> 01:06:05,883
but think about it.

1382
01:06:05,883 --> 01:06:09,429
Here's Paul with all these anxieties.

1383
01:06:09,429 --> 01:06:11,810
And yet, when he was in Philippi

1384
01:06:11,810 --> 01:06:13,392
and he got thrown in jail,

1385
01:06:13,392 --> 01:06:16,352
what did he and Silas do?

1386
01:06:16,352 --> 01:06:18,337
They sang.

1387
01:06:18,337 --> 01:06:20,709
What did Paul say to the Philippian church

1388
01:06:20,709 --> 01:06:22,408
when he told them they need

1389
01:06:22,408 --> 01:06:24,699
to be not anxious?

1390
01:06:24,699 --> 01:06:26,838
Take everything to God in prayer -

1391
01:06:26,838 --> 01:06:29,078
what did he say to them?

1392
01:06:29,078 --> 01:06:32,878
Just right in those verses?

1393
01:06:32,878 --> 01:06:34,884
In Philippians 4.

1394
01:06:34,884 --> 01:06:36,770
Rejoice in the Lord.

1395
01:06:36,770 --> 01:06:41,145
And again, I say, rejoice.

1396
01:06:41,145 --> 01:06:43,603
Sleep.

1397
01:06:43,603 --> 01:06:45,663
(incomplete thought)

1398
01:06:45,663 --> 01:06:46,750
Think about it.

1399
01:06:46,750 --> 01:06:50,472
Herod just puts James to death.

1400
01:06:50,472 --> 01:06:52,522
And then he sees it pleases the Jews,

1401
01:06:52,522 --> 01:06:53,542
so what does he do?

1402
01:06:53,542 --> 01:06:55,259
He goes out and captures Peter.

1403
01:06:55,259 --> 01:06:56,927
Have you ever thought about Peter

1404
01:06:56,927 --> 01:06:58,681
when he was there in jail

1405
01:06:58,681 --> 01:07:00,586
and the angel came?

1406
01:07:00,586 --> 01:07:03,908
Do you know what the angel did?

1407
01:07:03,908 --> 01:07:08,823
Did he find Peter wide awake,

1408
01:07:08,823 --> 01:07:11,385
fretting that he was 
going to die tomorrow,

1409
01:07:11,385 --> 01:07:13,407
wringing his hands?

1410
01:07:13,407 --> 01:07:17,377
Anybody remember what he did?

1411
01:07:17,377 --> 01:07:19,792
He kicked him.

1412
01:07:19,792 --> 01:07:22,220
He kicked him. He was sound asleep.

1413
01:07:22,220 --> 01:07:23,560
You ever think about that?

1414
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,416
Here's Peter in prison.

1415
01:07:25,416 --> 01:07:28,921
He knows full well his close friend,

1416
01:07:28,921 --> 01:07:30,997
used to be partner in business -

1417
01:07:30,997 --> 01:07:32,306
in the fishing business

1418
01:07:32,306 --> 01:07:34,232
back there on the Sea of Galilee -

1419
01:07:34,232 --> 01:07:35,887
is dead.

1420
01:07:35,887 --> 01:07:37,342
One of the close comrades!

1421
01:07:37,342 --> 01:07:38,819
One of the Twelve!

1422
01:07:38,819 --> 01:07:41,334
He's the first one and he's dead.

1423
01:07:41,334 --> 01:07:44,344
They're just barely into the book of Acts!

1424
01:07:44,344 --> 01:07:48,291
And now he's been caught.

1425
01:07:48,291 --> 01:07:50,596
He's been caught. He's in prison.

1426
01:07:50,596 --> 01:07:53,814
Well, Herod did it to James.

1427
01:07:53,814 --> 01:07:57,418
And Peter's sound asleep.

1428
01:07:57,418 --> 01:08:00,521
So I would ask you this,

1429
01:08:00,521 --> 01:08:04,842
can you take your anxieties to the Lord

1430
01:08:04,842 --> 01:08:10,456
and put those on Him?

1431
01:08:10,456 --> 01:08:12,337
What was the guy's name?

1432
01:08:12,337 --> 01:08:15,468
Maybe it will come to 
me as I'm telling the story.

1433
01:08:15,468 --> 01:08:20,213
Anybody remember the evangelist

1434
01:08:20,213 --> 01:08:22,393
who was evangelizing people

1435
01:08:22,393 --> 01:08:31,364
after the Titanic went down?

1436
01:08:31,364 --> 01:08:34,658
I can't think of it right off.

1437
01:08:34,658 --> 01:08:36,704
Yeah, there was one that drowned.

1438
01:08:36,704 --> 01:08:39,198
But there was another guy.

1439
01:08:39,198 --> 01:08:45,486
There was a guy who was in the water

1440
01:08:45,486 --> 01:08:47,197
in the North Atlantic.

1441
01:08:47,197 --> 01:08:49,373
It's in the dark.

1442
01:08:49,373 --> 01:08:51,838
And he found a board,

1443
01:08:51,838 --> 01:08:53,246
and he was holding on to it.

1444
01:08:53,246 --> 01:08:57,275
And he was able to get his 
body on top of the board.

1445
01:08:57,275 --> 01:08:59,791
And he said,

1446
01:08:59,791 --> 01:09:03,381
"Lord, there's no sense 
both of us staying awake.

1447
01:09:03,381 --> 01:09:05,797
So I think I'm going to go to sleep."

1448
01:09:05,797 --> 01:09:07,794
And he slept on that board.

1449
01:09:07,794 --> 01:09:09,361
And this guy was rescued.

1450
01:09:09,361 --> 01:09:13,073
There was a guy that was the last convert

1451
01:09:13,073 --> 01:09:17,962
of... maybe his name was Brown.

1452
01:09:17,962 --> 01:09:20,807
But he went to sleep.

1453
01:09:20,807 --> 01:09:25,197
I remember one of these last times

1454
01:09:25,197 --> 01:09:27,429
that maybe two or three years back,

1455
01:09:27,429 --> 01:09:31,217
Ryan Fullerton was at the 
Denton conference with us,

1456
01:09:31,217 --> 01:09:35,622
and we were talking just about trials

1457
01:09:35,622 --> 01:09:37,987
that we'd gone through in the church.

1458
01:09:37,987 --> 01:09:39,471
And Ryan said -

1459
01:09:39,471 --> 01:09:46,019
I think I was telling him about

1460
01:09:46,019 --> 01:09:49,864
the number of things 
that we were dealing with

1461
01:09:49,864 --> 01:09:51,382
at a certain time.

1462
01:09:51,382 --> 01:09:53,329
And he said, yeah, he said,

1463
01:09:53,329 --> 01:09:55,303
isn't it amazing?

1464
01:09:55,303 --> 01:09:58,347
He said I was saying this to our elders

1465
01:09:58,347 --> 01:09:59,559
the other day.

1466
01:09:59,559 --> 01:10:03,320
He was telling his elders,

1467
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,955
we can be dealing

1468
01:10:05,955 --> 01:10:10,576
with five major problems in the church.

1469
01:10:10,576 --> 01:10:13,428
He said, any one of which

1470
01:10:13,428 --> 01:10:15,988
when we were young pastors

1471
01:10:15,988 --> 01:10:18,277
would have just traumatized us.

1472
01:10:18,277 --> 01:10:20,640
He says now we can experience five

1473
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,202
problems of that magnitude

1474
01:10:22,202 --> 01:10:25,542
and still go home and 
play with our children.

1475
01:10:25,542 --> 01:10:27,159
This is what I'm talking about

1476
01:10:27,159 --> 01:10:28,553
when I'm talking about:

1477
01:10:28,553 --> 01:10:30,154
can we rejoice?

1478
01:10:30,154 --> 01:10:31,803
Can we sleep?

1479
01:10:31,803 --> 01:10:33,610
Can we play?

1480
01:10:33,610 --> 01:10:37,342
You see, can you take your anxieties -

1481
01:10:37,342 --> 01:10:40,454
people that are suffering panic attacks

1482
01:10:40,454 --> 01:10:44,706
and they just want to 
curl up in a fetal position,

1483
01:10:44,706 --> 01:10:46,935
that's not what we're talking about here.

1484
01:10:46,935 --> 01:10:49,343
We're talking about taking your fears,

1485
01:10:49,343 --> 01:10:50,940
taking your cares,

1486
01:10:50,940 --> 01:10:53,484
and being able to cast them on the Lord

1487
01:10:53,484 --> 01:10:56,227
to the place where you can actually

1488
01:10:56,227 --> 01:10:58,616
play with your children,

1489
01:10:58,616 --> 01:11:00,962
and you can actually sleep soundly,

1490
01:11:00,962 --> 01:11:03,262
and you can actually rejoice in the Lord.

1491
01:11:03,262 --> 01:11:04,587
You can go to church

1492
01:11:04,587 --> 01:11:06,422
and you can sing the songs

1493
01:11:06,422 --> 01:11:08,765
and you can be lifted up to glory.

1494
01:11:08,765 --> 01:11:11,731
Yes, there's still burdens there.

1495
01:11:11,731 --> 01:11:15,611
But you're able to unload them.

1496
01:11:15,611 --> 01:11:17,084
This is critical.

1497
01:11:17,084 --> 01:11:23,439
Maybe one more.

1498
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:26,857
Did you notice

1499
01:11:26,857 --> 01:11:29,977
in the parable of the soils,

1500
01:11:29,977 --> 01:11:34,539
it actually says - yes, the fruit

1501
01:11:34,539 --> 01:11:38,707
doesn't mature,

1502
01:11:38,707 --> 01:11:42,223
but did you see what's actually choked?

1503
01:11:42,223 --> 01:11:46,972
It chokes the Word.

1504
01:11:46,972 --> 01:11:50,072
So here's the thing that I would ask you.

1505
01:11:50,072 --> 01:11:53,023
If you have anxieties,

1506
01:11:53,023 --> 01:11:54,230
if you have cares,

1507
01:11:54,230 --> 01:11:57,525
you want to know if they're good or bad?

1508
01:11:57,525 --> 01:12:03,361
Do those anxieties choke the Word?

1509
01:12:03,361 --> 01:12:06,038
What does that mean?

1510
01:12:06,038 --> 01:12:09,850
This is the Word.

1511
01:12:09,850 --> 01:12:12,078
You know what, you're living

1512
01:12:12,078 --> 01:12:15,339
with healthy anxieties

1513
01:12:15,339 --> 01:12:18,820
if you really care, you're concerned

1514
01:12:18,820 --> 01:12:20,988
about your holiness.

1515
01:12:20,988 --> 01:12:23,050
You hate the sin in your life.

1516
01:12:23,050 --> 01:12:24,535
You hate falls.

1517
01:12:24,535 --> 01:12:27,123
You hate coming short of Christlikeness.

1518
01:12:27,123 --> 01:12:29,349
You've got concerns.
You think about it.

1519
01:12:29,349 --> 01:12:30,728
There's anxieties.

1520
01:12:30,728 --> 01:12:32,425
You have anxieties about people

1521
01:12:32,425 --> 01:12:33,740
because you love people.

1522
01:12:33,740 --> 01:12:35,090
You care about people.

1523
01:12:35,090 --> 01:12:36,601
You want to see people make it.

1524
01:12:36,601 --> 01:12:38,426
You don't want to see people perish.

1525
01:12:38,426 --> 01:12:40,068
You have people in your life

1526
01:12:40,068 --> 01:12:42,007
that you've invested in.

1527
01:12:42,007 --> 01:12:43,750
You want to see them succeed.

1528
01:12:43,750 --> 01:12:45,622
You want to see them please the Lord.

1529
01:12:45,622 --> 01:12:48,222
You're invested in that.

1530
01:12:48,222 --> 01:12:49,429
Here's the thing,

1531
01:12:49,429 --> 01:12:59,446
do your cares choke what's in here?

1532
01:12:59,446 --> 01:13:03,313
Or do they fuel what's in here?

1533
01:13:03,313 --> 01:13:05,013
You see, the bad cares

1534
01:13:05,013 --> 01:13:07,739
choke the Word.

1535
01:13:07,739 --> 01:13:11,321
If your big concern all the time

1536
01:13:11,321 --> 01:13:14,853
is, "oh no, I need a better car."

1537
01:13:14,853 --> 01:13:17,286
"Oh no, what about the TV?"

1538
01:13:17,286 --> 01:13:19,644
(incomplete thought)

1539
01:13:19,644 --> 01:13:21,724
Yes, my air conditioning 
was out last week,

1540
01:13:21,724 --> 01:13:24,683
but if that's all your living about -
the cares of the world.

1541
01:13:24,683 --> 01:13:27,248
Where you're so caught up 
with the air conditioning,

1542
01:13:27,248 --> 01:13:28,080
and the car,

1543
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:29,633
and you're caught up with money,

1544
01:13:29,633 --> 01:13:31,535
and you're caught up with retirement,

1545
01:13:31,535 --> 01:13:33,355
and you're caught up with your shoes,

1546
01:13:33,355 --> 01:13:36,242
and you're caught up with 
what the Smith's have next door,

1547
01:13:36,242 --> 01:13:37,859
and you're caught up with your lawn,

1548
01:13:37,859 --> 01:13:39,355
and you're caught up with the garden,

1549
01:13:39,355 --> 01:13:40,898
and you're caught up with the trees,

1550
01:13:40,898 --> 01:13:42,454
and you're caught up with your stuff

1551
01:13:42,454 --> 01:13:43,462
and your hobbies,

1552
01:13:43,462 --> 01:13:46,285
and you're just so consumed.

1553
01:13:46,285 --> 01:13:48,129
Or even if you're caught up with people,

1554
01:13:48,129 --> 01:13:49,579
you're caught up with your kids,

1555
01:13:49,579 --> 01:13:51,464
you're caught up with 
what you're going to eat

1556
01:13:51,464 --> 01:13:52,452
for the next meal.

1557
01:13:52,452 --> 01:13:55,188
You're just so caught up with these things

1558
01:13:55,188 --> 01:13:57,690
that you know what?

1559
01:13:57,690 --> 01:14:02,320
You don't really live for other people.

1560
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:05,309
Think about the Word.

1561
01:14:05,309 --> 01:14:07,770
I was hungry and you fed Me.

1562
01:14:07,770 --> 01:14:09,764
But you're so concerned about

1563
01:14:09,764 --> 01:14:10,994
your own bank account

1564
01:14:10,994 --> 01:14:12,589
and your own shirts that you wear

1565
01:14:12,589 --> 01:14:13,848
and your own belt

1566
01:14:13,848 --> 01:14:14,895
and your own purse

1567
01:14:14,895 --> 01:14:17,794
and your own everything.

1568
01:14:17,794 --> 01:14:19,594
The cares of this world.

1569
01:14:19,594 --> 01:14:21,623
Oh no, what am I going to do for college?

1570
01:14:21,623 --> 01:14:23,189
What am I going to do for a job?

1571
01:14:23,189 --> 01:14:27,138
And you're so caught up in your stuff

1572
01:14:27,138 --> 01:14:30,973
that you never have time 
to love somebody else.

1573
01:14:30,973 --> 01:14:33,663
You don't have time to 
invest in other people.

1574
01:14:33,663 --> 01:14:39,221
You know, if you're really 
anxious about somebody -

1575
01:14:39,221 --> 01:14:40,516
James was just telling me

1576
01:14:40,516 --> 01:14:44,123
about somebody he and his wife

1577
01:14:44,123 --> 01:14:48,221
have chosen to care for in another place.

1578
01:14:48,221 --> 01:14:51,330
If you choose to invest in people's lives,

1579
01:14:51,330 --> 01:14:53,201
you're thinking about their needs.

1580
01:14:53,201 --> 01:14:55,161
You're thinking about how to give to them.

1581
01:14:55,161 --> 01:14:57,563
You're thinking about how I can help.

1582
01:14:57,563 --> 01:14:59,331
You see, that's what judgment day -

1583
01:14:59,331 --> 01:15:02,425
Jesus says as much as you did it 
unto one of the least of these.

1584
01:15:02,425 --> 01:15:04,771
What did they do?

1585
01:15:04,771 --> 01:15:06,450
You don't visit people in prison

1586
01:15:06,450 --> 01:15:08,169
unless you're thinking about those.

1587
01:15:08,169 --> 01:15:11,597
I mean, I don't know, how many of you

1588
01:15:11,597 --> 01:15:14,254
think about Johannes on a regular basis?

1589
01:15:14,254 --> 01:15:19,048
I know he's not there 
because he's preaching Christ,

1590
01:15:19,048 --> 01:15:24,616
but he professes to be a Christian.

1591
01:15:24,616 --> 01:15:27,428
You know, if you think,

1592
01:15:27,428 --> 01:15:29,194
you feel sighs...

1593
01:15:29,194 --> 01:15:33,373
if you feel warm, fuzzy feelings,

1594
01:15:33,373 --> 01:15:36,136
but you never meet people's needs,

1595
01:15:36,136 --> 01:15:38,331
that's no different than you can

1596
01:15:38,331 --> 01:15:40,673
watch a movie that's a sad story,

1597
01:15:40,673 --> 01:15:41,838
and weep tears.

1598
01:15:41,838 --> 01:15:43,097
You know what that is?

1599
01:15:43,097 --> 01:15:45,121
That's just sentimentality.

1600
01:15:45,121 --> 01:15:46,873
There's no love in that.

1601
01:15:46,873 --> 01:15:50,159
That isn't the kind of anxiety.

1602
01:15:50,159 --> 01:15:55,212
Look, bad anxieties choke the Word.

1603
01:15:55,212 --> 01:15:58,580
Good anxieties do the Word.

1604
01:15:58,580 --> 01:16:03,475
In fact, good anxieties fuel

1605
01:16:03,475 --> 01:16:06,445
the commandments of Scripture.

1606
01:16:06,445 --> 01:16:08,987
When you care about people

1607
01:16:08,987 --> 01:16:10,690
and it produces anxieties,

1608
01:16:10,690 --> 01:16:13,142
like Timothy cared about the Philippians,

1609
01:16:13,142 --> 01:16:14,969
Paul cared about the churches.

1610
01:16:14,969 --> 01:16:16,176
You know what that does?

1611
01:16:16,176 --> 01:16:21,286
That fuels the Scriptures.

1612
01:16:21,286 --> 01:16:24,209
It causes us to all the more embrace them

1613
01:16:24,209 --> 01:16:26,532
and not be hearers only,

1614
01:16:26,532 --> 01:16:28,137
deceiving your own selves,

1615
01:16:28,137 --> 01:16:30,461
but to be doers.

1616
01:16:30,461 --> 01:16:33,673
Oh, I guarantee, true 
and undefiled religion

1617
01:16:33,673 --> 01:16:34,791
before the Lord

1618
01:16:34,791 --> 01:16:37,418
is to visit the widow and the orphan

1619
01:16:37,418 --> 01:16:42,231
in their afflictions.

1620
01:16:42,231 --> 01:16:47,215
We have people - their Christian life

1621
01:16:47,215 --> 01:16:49,673
is just trying not to sin.

1622
01:16:49,673 --> 01:16:51,261
They're just trying to survive,

1623
01:16:51,261 --> 01:16:52,542
not falling into drugs,

1624
01:16:52,542 --> 01:16:54,131
not falling into alcohol,

1625
01:16:54,131 --> 01:16:56,062
not falling back into prostitution,

1626
01:16:56,062 --> 01:16:58,041
not falling into pornography.

1627
01:16:58,041 --> 01:17:02,182
They're just trying to survive.

1628
01:17:02,182 --> 01:17:08,374
Look, if your anxieties stop there,

1629
01:17:08,374 --> 01:17:12,347
that's not good.

1630
01:17:12,347 --> 01:17:14,383
The good anxieties in Scripture

1631
01:17:14,383 --> 01:17:16,705
is when you care about people

1632
01:17:16,705 --> 01:17:18,966
and it produces fruit

1633
01:17:18,966 --> 01:17:23,549
and it doesn't choke the Word.

1634
01:17:23,549 --> 01:17:27,977
It's consistent with keeping the Word.

1635
01:17:27,977 --> 01:17:29,957
You care.

1636
01:17:29,957 --> 01:17:32,227
You care and you invest your life.

1637
01:17:32,227 --> 01:17:34,707
You care and you share the Gospel.

1638
01:17:34,707 --> 01:17:39,059
You care and you give.

1639
01:17:39,059 --> 01:17:43,374
Good anxiety is an outflow of love

1640
01:17:43,374 --> 01:17:45,696
and love gives.

1641
01:17:45,696 --> 01:17:47,447
And people who give,

1642
01:17:47,447 --> 01:17:49,654
people who are anxious -

1643
01:17:49,654 --> 01:17:52,125
why would somebody be anxious?

1644
01:17:52,125 --> 01:17:54,390
When Paul says he's got this anxiety

1645
01:17:54,390 --> 01:17:56,488
for the churches, you know what it means?

1646
01:17:56,488 --> 01:18:01,287
He's thinking about them all the time.

1647
01:18:01,287 --> 01:18:03,651
You know, we're thinking about new elders.

1648
01:18:03,651 --> 01:18:05,466
I'll tell you, that's what you want.

1649
01:18:05,466 --> 01:18:07,294
You want men who are going to be

1650
01:18:07,294 --> 01:18:09,982
anxious about you.

1651
01:18:09,982 --> 01:18:11,644
That's a good thing.

1652
01:18:11,644 --> 01:18:12,830
I mean, if you find out,

1653
01:18:12,830 --> 01:18:16,036
wow, don't you want somebody like Timothy?

1654
01:18:16,036 --> 01:18:17,642
He doesn't mind his own things;

1655
01:18:17,642 --> 01:18:19,077
He minds the things of Christ,

1656
01:18:19,077 --> 01:18:20,645
and I have no one else like him,

1657
01:18:20,645 --> 01:18:21,658
and he's anxious.

1658
01:18:21,658 --> 01:18:23,545
Wouldn't you like to be able to say that

1659
01:18:23,545 --> 01:18:29,222
about all the elders at our church?

1660
01:18:29,222 --> 01:18:30,669
That we're anxious

1661
01:18:30,669 --> 01:18:34,544
for every single one of you?

1662
01:18:34,544 --> 01:18:36,597
God give us more of that anxiety.

1663
01:18:36,597 --> 01:18:38,668
There is a good anxiety in Scripture.

1664
01:18:38,668 --> 01:18:44,166
Something desperately to be sought.

1665
01:18:44,166 --> 01:18:46,117
We want that anxiety.

1666
01:18:46,117 --> 01:18:47,924
As parents, we want it.

1667
01:18:47,924 --> 01:18:49,577
As elders, we want it.

1668
01:18:49,577 --> 01:18:54,151
As Christians, we want it.

1669
01:18:54,151 --> 01:18:56,048
Anybody want to add anything to that?

1670
01:18:56,048 --> 01:18:57,103
(from the room)

1671
01:18:57,103 --> 01:18:58,533
Could it be said

1672
01:18:58,533 --> 01:19:00,502
that bad anxiety tends to be more selfish

1673
01:19:00,502 --> 01:19:03,302
and good anxiety tends 
to be more selfless?

1674
01:19:03,302 --> 01:19:04,944
Tim: Yes, definitely.

1675
01:19:04,944 --> 01:19:08,255
The good anxiety is definitely

1676
01:19:08,255 --> 01:19:10,130
a love-motivated thing

1677
01:19:10,130 --> 01:19:15,784
where it seems like the bad anxieties

1678
01:19:15,784 --> 01:19:17,969
turn away from Christ,

1679
01:19:17,969 --> 01:19:19,596
they turn away from the Lord,

1680
01:19:19,596 --> 01:19:24,232
they turn away from others

1681
01:19:24,232 --> 01:19:27,508
and they bring the focus to us,

1682
01:19:27,508 --> 01:19:29,427
even if it's idolatry.

1683
01:19:29,427 --> 01:19:31,642
There's lots of people 
that get really anxious

1684
01:19:31,642 --> 01:19:33,062
over family members.

1685
01:19:33,062 --> 01:19:34,448
They're just afraid.

1686
01:19:34,448 --> 01:19:35,778
They can't trust the Lord.

1687
01:19:35,778 --> 01:19:38,532
They're afraid something's going 
to happen to my family member.

1688
01:19:38,532 --> 01:19:42,301
Somebody's going to kill my child.
Somebody's going to rape my child.

1689
01:19:42,301 --> 01:19:44,420
There are people that just can't

1690
01:19:44,420 --> 01:19:47,268
trust the Lord with those things.

1691
01:19:47,268 --> 01:19:51,505
There, the thing has stopped being love

1692
01:19:51,505 --> 01:19:54,197
because it doesn't trust the Lord.

1693
01:19:54,197 --> 01:19:56,709
Anything that doesn't 
trust the Lord is not good

1694
01:19:56,709 --> 01:19:58,800
no matter what kind of 
spin you're putting on it

1695
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:00,588
because if you're not trusting the Lord,

1696
01:20:00,588 --> 01:20:02,161
and you're just freaking out

1697
01:20:02,161 --> 01:20:04,879
in a frenzy over -

1698
01:20:04,879 --> 01:20:07,080
oh, I just can't trust the Lord with this

1699
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,671
and so I'm worried all the time.

1700
01:20:10,671 --> 01:20:12,082
Well, that's bad

1701
01:20:12,082 --> 01:20:15,226
because you're not trusting the Lord.

1702
01:20:15,226 --> 01:20:17,546
You're not seeing the Lord for Who He is.

1703
01:20:17,546 --> 01:20:22,516
You're not casting your care on Him.

1704
01:20:22,516 --> 01:20:24,168
It may seem like it's love,

1705
01:20:24,168 --> 01:20:26,458
but what it really is is idolatry.

1706
01:20:26,458 --> 01:20:31,297
You've made a god out of those children.

1707
01:20:31,297 --> 01:20:34,135
And you're not willing 
to trust the true God

1708
01:20:34,135 --> 01:20:36,330
to take care of them.