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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 
and 30 million people

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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 
to say about anxiety.

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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 
to his span of life?"

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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
is basically the thing.

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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, 
what you are to drink,

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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 
that we have to recognize.

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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 
God on judgment day,

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there's all manner of 
things to be afraid 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 
that came to my mind today?

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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 
were planting the church

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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 
were over by their van.

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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, 
he didn't want me.

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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 
if it's going to be okay.

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Parents can't protect their 
children from everything.

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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
and we are anxious,

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it's sin.

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And as we looked at last time,

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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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by a parent,

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there are physical arms,
they feel the warmth,

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they feel the security,
they feel the strength.

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You know where our 
strength, where our security

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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 
and not physical arms,

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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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And when He says He's with us by word,

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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. 
It's going to be okay."

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God is speaking to us from Heaven.

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He's speaking to us 
through an inspired book.

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Now, what happened last time is -

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and I don't know if 
everybody really recognized

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or understood maybe

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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 
concern turn into anxiety?

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Tim: Okay, when does 
concern turn into anxiety?

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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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And I thought, you know what,

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looking at good anxiety versus bad anxiety

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would be a worthwhile 
little study for tonight.

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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 
prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving,

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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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No.

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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 
beginning of Ephesians 2.

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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 
of the power of the air.

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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 
that which God created.

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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"

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it has a negative connotation,

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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?

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Hate?

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Hate can be good and hate can be bad.

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

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but yes, that could be in that category.

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Law?

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(unintelligible)

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Yeah, there can be 
different meanings to law.

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That's for sure.

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There are places like 
where Scripture would say

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that we're dead to the law.

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Well, what that means is

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whatever the law is there,

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it's good that we die to it.

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But then we're also living to another law,

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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.

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Anxiety falls into that camp.

NOTE Paragraph

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I want to give you four of what I think

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are the clearest New Testament examples -

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when I say New Testament,

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you have to remember

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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,

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the four most obvious uses.

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

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Exact same.

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One example would be found

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in 1 Corinthians 12:25.

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Let's look at that.

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Somebody read that when you get there.

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1 Corinthians 12:25.

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"That there may be 
no division in the body,

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

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Tim: That word "care,"

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that is exactly the word

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from Philippians 4:6 for anxiety.

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Now the thing is,

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you do have to recgonize this,

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it's the same word,

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but sometimes it's found 
in the noun forms;

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sometimes it's found in the adjective form

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as we look at these different examples.

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You have anxieties - that's the noun form.

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Or being anxious - that's the adjective.

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So, what we have here,

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read that again about care.

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Listen to this.

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

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"That there may be no 
divisions in the body,

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but that the members 
may have the same care

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for one another."

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

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This body is not this universal body.

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You can't care for people 
that you don't know

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out in the middle of nowhere in China.

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I mean, you might be able to support 
a missionary that's going over there.

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But the obvious implication here

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of being a member of a body

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is it's the local body.

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You're living for each other.

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And the actual word is:

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you're being anxious for each other.

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That's the word.

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You're being anxious for each other.

NOTE Paragraph

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I'll show you another similar usage

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in 2 Corinthians 11:28.

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Somebody can read that 
when they get there.

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2 Corinthians 11:28.

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"And apart from other things,

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there is the daily pressure on me

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of my anxiety for all the churches."

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Tim: Right, there it is again.

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So you have members in the same body,

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or members in this body

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that are supposed to be 
anxious for each other.

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You have Paul who is admitting

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

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one of the greatest ones

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above and beyond them all

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is the fact that he carries around anxiety

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for the churches.

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What churches?

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Well, all the churches.

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

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never seen them face to face.

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And he would say to them

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he's praying for them all the time.

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He carried about a burden.

NOTE Paragraph

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Let's see something similar.

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Go back to Philippians 2:20.

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I love this.

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This is one of the great descriptions -

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we often think about 
qualifications for ministry

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coming from the pastoral epistles.

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Well, there are qualifications

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that we can find in other places.

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The book of Acts chapter 20 is tremendous.

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1 Peter has some great 
things to say about elders.

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But this, what words are 
spoken about Timothy!

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You want to talk about 
qualifications for the ministry.

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Somebody read Philippians 2:20.

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"For I have no one like-minded

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who will sincerely care for your welfare."

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Tim: That word "care" -

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again, same word that we have

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in Philippian 4:6

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that says be anxious for nothing.

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Isn't this interesting?

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If you were listening to Paul speak

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in the original Greek,

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you know what he says?

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He says to the church

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I don't have any man like him.

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He's anxious for you.

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And then he turns around and says to them

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be anxious for nothing.

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And he uses exactly the same word.

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Look, they're not going 
to misunderstand him.

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They recognize in one case

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it's used in a very positive way.

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In the other case,

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it's used in a negative way.

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Now keep reading. Who was reading that?

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Keep reading.

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"For all seek their own,

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not the things which are of Christ Jesus."

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Tim: Aye aye aye...

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You talk about convicting!

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When I read that,

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every time I read that,

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that is convicting.

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I'm blown away by that statement.

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Think about it.

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How many men did Paul work with

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over the years?

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You just think through the epistles.

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Who are the men that he names?

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Who are the men that he's 
sending in different directions?

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He worked for a time with Demas.

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We know Demas defected.

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But he worked with Tychicus.

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he worked with Onesimus.

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He worked with Epaphras.

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He worked with Apollos.

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He worked with Timothy.

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He worked with Silas.

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He worked with Barnabas.

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At least those guys.

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He worked with Luke.

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He worked with Mark.

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(incomplete thought)

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How about Epaphroditus?

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He worked with all these different guys.

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And yet, he's able to say,

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nobody has the anxiety for your soul.

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He doesn't mind his own things;

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he minds the things of Christ

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What a statement!

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(from the room)

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I think of Mary and Martha.

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Martha actually told the Lord,

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"do You not care that my sister

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has left me to serve alone?"

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But then Christ says,

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"You're anxious and troubled 
about many things."

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(unintelligible)

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Tim: Exactly, that's a bad anxiety.

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So right there,

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you care about the wrong things.

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That.

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That's at the heart of this.

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See, this is really where we 
want to make the distinction.

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How do we know?

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What are the tests?

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When can you look at yourself and say,

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wow, the anxiety that I'm feeling -

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because look, if you 
have the kind of anxiety

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that Jesus says you should not have

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and Paul says you should not have,

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you know those are imperatives.

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There are imperatives that are given

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that say - it's a commandment -

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don't be anxious.

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Which means if you are, it's sin.

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When you blatantly contradict

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something in your life

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that Scripture tells you not to do,

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that's sin.

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What is sin?

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Sin is transgression of the law.

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It's transgression of the commandments.

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It's transgression of the will of God.

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The will of God is what God 
sets forth in His Word.

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It's sin.

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So how do we distinguish between the two?

NOTE Paragraph

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Before we move on,

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I want to give you one more example

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of the positive use of this

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and it's found in 1 Corinthians 7.

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1 Corinthians 7:32-34,

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we have an interesting usage

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of the word anxiety several times.

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Somebody that gets there,

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you can go ahead and read

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1 Corinthians 7:32-34.

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"I want you to be free from anxieties.

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The unmarried man is anxious

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about the things of the Lord,

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how to please the Lord.

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But the married man is anxious

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about worldly things,

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how to please his wife."

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Tim: Keep going.

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"And the unmarried or betrothed woman

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is anxious about the things of the Lord."

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Tim: Okay, stop.

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Now, look, isn't that 
convoluted in itself?

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Listen to what he says in v. 32.

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He doesn't want them anxious.

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And yet in v. 34, what does he say?

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That the unmarried woman

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is anxious about what?

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The things of the Lord.

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So when he says he doesn't 
want them anxious,

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is that what he's talking about?

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Well, no, if you look at the flow,

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it's obvious what he's talking about.

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He comes along and he says

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I don't want you anxious.

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But there's a context there.

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He's saying if you get married,

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you're going to be anxious

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about things of the world.

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If you don't get married,

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then you'll stay focused

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and be anxious only about

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the things of the Lord.

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But that's a positive use right there.

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Be anxious about the things of the Lord.

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That's a good thing.

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In fact, that's why he doesn't want

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people to marry.

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So any of you guys thinking 
about getting married...

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I still recommend marriage.

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But okay, we don't need to sidestep.

NOTE Paragraph

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But here's the thing.

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There's good use. There's bad use.

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You obviously see that from Scripture.

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We looked at examples of both.

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But the question that is on the table

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is how do we know the difference?

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Obviously, Jesus tells His disciples

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don't be anxious.

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We saw that in Matthew 6.

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We looked at it today in Luke 12.

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We heard from it our brother Tony

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mentioned Martha.

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Jesus said,

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"Martha, you're anxious about

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all sorts of things."

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Good or bad? Obviously bad.

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Why? What's the comparison?

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Her sister.

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Her sister who is not 
full of these anxieties.

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She's seated at the feet of Christ.

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She's chosen the good part.

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It wouldn't be taken away from her.

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So how can we distinguish?

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Because here's the thing.

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I'll tell you this.

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I have four children.

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Somebody has said,

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as a parent, you can only be as happy

00:27:00.557 --> 00:27:03.684
as your saddest child.

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There's something to that.

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Do you know with every child that you have

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a new set of anxieties?

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(incomplete thought)

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I went bike riding this afternoon,

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which I typically do right 
before this study with Craig.

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And I told Craig that we had

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a number of visiting families

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and we had some people that were

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looking at moving here.

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We rode for a little while,

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and Craig said something like,

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I don't know if that's a good thing.

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And I said, well, it's true.

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It's kind of like a parent 
having another child,

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adopting another child.

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With each family that comes to the church,

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typically it brings responsibilities.

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It brings anxieties.

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Often, it brings problems.

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And you know, if you think about it,

00:28:02.972 --> 00:28:05.499
okay, Paul comes along and he says,

00:28:05.499 --> 00:28:08.573
hey, I want you free from anxieties.

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I just want you to be 
anxious about the Lord.

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So don't get married, 
because if you get married,

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you know what?

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Then you've got concerns about a wife.

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And if you've got a wife,

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then you might have kids

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and you've got concerns 
about all those things.

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And you know what?

00:28:24.120 --> 00:28:26.789
You know what we could say?

00:28:26.789 --> 00:28:29.424
I just want to withdraw.

00:28:29.424 --> 00:28:31.025
I don't want to have a family.

00:28:31.025 --> 00:28:32.526
I want to keep my distance.

00:28:32.526 --> 00:28:34.576
You know, if you get too close to people,

00:28:34.576 --> 00:28:36.468
then all of a sudden, you care,

00:28:36.468 --> 00:28:37.917
and if you care,

00:28:37.917 --> 00:28:38.963
it hurts.

00:28:38.963 --> 00:28:40.594
And there's burden.

00:28:40.594 --> 00:28:42.260
There's troubles.

00:28:42.260 --> 00:28:43.509
Can you imagine?

00:28:43.509 --> 00:28:45.921
There's that family that has 18 kids.

00:28:45.921 --> 00:28:47.026
I thought about that.

00:28:47.026 --> 00:28:49.191
Oh, 18 children...

00:28:49.191 --> 00:28:53.204
it's like 18 children just multiplies.

00:28:53.204 --> 00:28:54.223
I have four.

00:28:54.223 --> 00:28:56.546
It multiplies by over four-fold

00:28:56.546 --> 00:28:59.387
the things that you feel;

00:28:59.387 --> 00:29:02.157
the potentials for them 
to be in car accidents,

00:29:02.157 --> 00:29:04.269
or get leukemia,

00:29:04.269 --> 00:29:07.266
or to marry a lost spouse,

00:29:07.266 --> 00:29:09.540
and the person divorces them,

00:29:09.540 --> 00:29:15.556
or have your grandchildren be stillborn.

00:29:15.556 --> 00:29:17.760
You could think that way.

00:29:17.760 --> 00:29:19.062
And you know what?

00:29:19.062 --> 00:29:20.872
You know what the truth is?

00:29:20.872 --> 00:29:23.402
If I really don't want to have anxieties,

00:29:23.402 --> 00:29:25.559
the best thing is don't be married,

00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:26.854
don't have children,

00:29:26.854 --> 00:29:28.392
certainly, don't be a pastor.

00:29:28.392 --> 00:29:29.568
Don't be like Timothy.

00:29:29.568 --> 00:29:30.913
Don't be like Paul who's got

00:29:30.913 --> 00:29:32.857
all these anxieties over the churches.

00:29:32.857 --> 00:29:34.004
Don't be like Timothy

00:29:34.004 --> 00:29:36.516
who's got anxieties over 
the people at Philippi.

00:29:36.516 --> 00:29:38.358
Don't get close to anybody.

00:29:38.358 --> 00:29:40.113
In fact, withdraw.

00:29:40.113 --> 00:29:45.548
Go build a cabin out somewhere far away.

00:29:45.548 --> 00:29:47.021
Listen, I'm serious.

00:29:47.021 --> 00:29:50.109
If you do that,

00:29:50.109 --> 00:29:51.656
many of the anxieties -

00:29:51.656 --> 00:29:54.485
now, I know, you could all of a sudden

00:29:54.485 --> 00:29:57.049
have anxieties that a grizzly 
bear's going to come

00:29:57.049 --> 00:30:06.728
carry you off at night.

00:30:06.728 --> 00:30:09.926
But, what we don't want to do clearly

00:30:09.926 --> 00:30:13.062
is fall into that thinking.

00:30:13.062 --> 00:30:14.956
Let me tell you,

00:30:14.956 --> 00:30:16.999
a lot of people that struggle

00:30:16.999 --> 00:30:19.172
with anxiety attacks,

00:30:19.172 --> 00:30:20.676
you know what they end up doing

00:30:20.676 --> 00:30:22.254
in the midst of their anxieties?

00:30:22.254 --> 00:30:24.506
They end up withdrawing.

00:30:24.506 --> 00:30:26.834
They don't want to be around people.

00:30:26.834 --> 00:30:29.258
Why? It's too much.

00:30:29.258 --> 00:30:30.525
It's just too much.

00:30:30.525 --> 00:30:34.587
It's overwhelming anxiety.

00:30:34.587 --> 00:30:36.636
But here's the thing,

00:30:36.636 --> 00:30:38.391
we need to recognize

00:30:38.391 --> 00:30:40.584
that there's good anxiety

00:30:40.584 --> 00:30:42.510
and there's bad anxiety.

00:30:42.510 --> 00:30:46.780
The reality is to love more people,

00:30:46.780 --> 00:30:50.164
it's like the body in 1 Corinthians 12.

00:30:50.164 --> 00:30:52.941
You be a member of this body.

00:30:52.941 --> 00:30:55.133
You know what it says there?

00:30:55.133 --> 00:30:59.837
We weep with those who weep.

00:30:59.837 --> 00:31:02.444
You know if you weep with those who weep,

00:31:02.444 --> 00:31:04.104
like if it's really true,

00:31:04.104 --> 00:31:09.922
you can only be as happy 
as your saddest child,

00:31:09.922 --> 00:31:12.477
the truth is if that's what 
God wants from us -

00:31:12.477 --> 00:31:16.791
we're to weep with those who weep,

00:31:16.791 --> 00:31:17.984
then you know what,

00:31:17.984 --> 00:31:24.339
loving people brings certain sorrows.

00:31:24.339 --> 00:31:28.061
You know what the problem 
is if you love people?

00:31:28.061 --> 00:31:32.492
It opens you up to pain.

00:31:32.492 --> 00:31:34.851
And it opens you up to worry

00:31:34.851 --> 00:31:35.929
very possibly.

00:31:35.929 --> 00:31:37.559
Because if you love somebody,

00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.506
you're concerned about them.

00:31:40.506 --> 00:31:43.397
And what we certainly don't want to do

00:31:43.397 --> 00:31:45.536
as we try to steer people away

00:31:45.536 --> 00:31:49.435
from the negative anxieties,

00:31:49.435 --> 00:31:51.461
we want to at the same time

00:31:51.461 --> 00:31:55.616
encourage that they embrace

00:31:55.616 --> 00:31:57.599
the good anxieties.

NOTE Paragraph

00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.146
So how can you tell the difference?

00:32:00.146 --> 00:32:04.125
How can you tell Paul

00:32:04.125 --> 00:32:07.609
who says, look, above all the things -

00:32:07.609 --> 00:32:11.498
somebody look at that 
text in 2 Corinthians.

00:32:11.498 --> 00:32:17.808
That text was found in 2 Corinthians 11.

00:32:17.808 --> 00:32:22.345
And the text specifically was in v. 28.

00:32:22.345 --> 00:32:27.100
Maybe I'll read that one.

00:32:27.100 --> 00:32:32.707
2 Corinthians 11.

00:32:32.707 --> 00:32:37.323
Listen to this.

00:32:37.323 --> 00:32:43.543
(incomplete thought)

00:32:43.543 --> 00:32:45.816
What Paul's doing here

00:32:45.816 --> 00:32:47.393
is he's comparing himself

00:32:47.393 --> 00:32:50.951
to these false apostles.

00:32:50.951 --> 00:32:55.896
V. 22, "Are they Hebrews? So am I.

00:32:55.896 --> 00:32:59.592
Are they Israelites? So am I.

00:32:59.592 --> 00:33:02.440
Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.

00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:05.111
Are they servants of Christ?

00:33:05.111 --> 00:33:06.301
I'm a better one."

00:33:06.301 --> 00:33:09.808
Now he's not speaking pridefully here.

00:33:09.808 --> 00:33:12.768
He was a true apostle.

00:33:12.768 --> 00:33:16.112
They were false apostles.

00:33:16.112 --> 00:33:17.930
And he says it right away.

00:33:17.930 --> 00:33:19.385
I'm talking like a madman.

00:33:19.385 --> 00:33:21.328
He knew this sounds arrogant,

00:33:21.328 --> 00:33:24.661
and he says I'm talking 
like a madman here.

00:33:24.661 --> 00:33:26.474
But I've been in far greater labors.

00:33:26.474 --> 00:33:29.666
I've suffered much more 
for Christ than any of them

00:33:29.666 --> 00:33:32.620
because I'm preaching a 
message that gets persecuted.

00:33:32.620 --> 00:33:34.134
Unlike those guys.

00:33:34.134 --> 00:33:35.396
They're ear ticklers.

00:33:35.396 --> 00:33:36.886
They're man pleasers.

00:33:36.886 --> 00:33:41.068
Anyway, look what he says.

00:33:41.068 --> 00:33:43.784
"Far greater labors,

00:33:43.784 --> 00:33:48.211
far more imprisonments."

00:33:48.211 --> 00:33:52.187
Some of us have perhaps been in jail.

00:33:52.187 --> 00:33:54.733
He was in jail for Christ's sake.

00:33:54.733 --> 00:33:56.406
But not just that.

00:33:56.406 --> 00:33:59.889
Countless beatings.

00:33:59.889 --> 00:34:03.330
If we had one person in our midst

00:34:03.330 --> 00:34:10.692
who had been beaten just once

00:34:10.692 --> 00:34:12.801
for the name of Christ,

00:34:12.801 --> 00:34:17.223
we would so highly esteem that person.

00:34:17.223 --> 00:34:21.512
Any of you... (incomplete thought).

00:34:21.512 --> 00:34:23.899
Kevin - he got punched right?

00:34:23.899 --> 00:34:28.350
(incomplete thought)

00:34:28.350 --> 00:34:30.481
Suffering for Christ's sake.

00:34:30.481 --> 00:34:32.730
I mean, people that 
are willing to do that.

00:34:32.730 --> 00:34:35.941
I love that.

00:34:35.941 --> 00:34:39.103
But he was beaten - he 
didn't even know the number

00:34:39.103 --> 00:34:41.646
of times he was beaten.

00:34:41.646 --> 00:34:45.087
He was often near death.

00:34:45.087 --> 00:34:46.296
Like he says at times,

00:34:46.296 --> 00:34:50.460
they feared for their lives.

00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:52.977
"Five times I received at 
the hands of the Jews

00:34:52.977 --> 00:34:55.000
40 lashes less one."

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.219
The most you could give 
under Mosaic Law: 40.

00:34:58.219 --> 00:34:59.698
So they always did 39

00:34:59.698 --> 00:35:03.367
lest they should accidentally go over.

00:35:03.367 --> 00:35:04.861
Can you imagine?

00:35:04.861 --> 00:35:07.954
I've got a rod right there behind Wendy.

00:35:07.954 --> 00:35:10.649
Can somebody imagine if I took that rod

00:35:10.649 --> 00:35:14.035
and I beat you with it 39 times?

00:35:14.035 --> 00:35:19.215
As hard as I could?

00:35:19.215 --> 00:35:21.978
This is what he went through.

00:35:21.978 --> 00:35:25.122
"Once I was stoned and left for dead."

00:35:25.122 --> 00:35:26.605
We know about that account.

00:35:26.605 --> 00:35:29.279
"Three times I was shipwrecked.

00:35:29.279 --> 00:35:32.209
A night and a day I was adrift at sea.

00:35:32.209 --> 00:35:34.475
Frequent journeys and dangers from rivers,

00:35:34.475 --> 00:35:35.905
danger from robbers,

00:35:35.905 --> 00:35:37.331
danger from my own people,

00:35:37.331 --> 00:35:38.632
danger from the Gentiles,

00:35:38.632 --> 00:35:40.849
danger in the city, 
danger in the wilderness,

00:35:40.849 --> 00:35:43.353
danger at sea,
danger from false brothers,

00:35:43.353 --> 00:35:46.075
in toil, hardship, 
many sleepless nights,

00:35:46.075 --> 00:35:48.222
hunger and thirst,
often without food,

00:35:48.222 --> 00:35:49.724
in cold and exposure

00:35:49.724 --> 00:35:51.503
and apart from other things,

00:35:51.503 --> 00:35:53.386
there is the daily pressure on me

00:35:53.386 --> 00:35:56.279
of my anxieties for all the churches."

00:35:56.279 --> 00:35:58.635
It's like he's gets done,

00:35:58.635 --> 00:36:00.240
and it's like you want to know

00:36:00.240 --> 00:36:04.140
what really is a burden to me?

00:36:04.140 --> 00:36:06.742
Not all those things.

00:36:06.742 --> 00:36:10.554
Daily I carry around this burden

00:36:10.554 --> 00:36:12.164
for the churches.

00:36:12.164 --> 00:36:13.085
We want that.

00:36:13.085 --> 00:36:14.394
We want that kind of love.

00:36:14.394 --> 00:36:16.339
That is a good anxiety.

00:36:16.339 --> 00:36:19.282
We should pursue that.

NOTE Paragraph

00:36:19.282 --> 00:36:22.171
But okay, how do we know the difference?

00:36:22.171 --> 00:36:33.648
How do we know when we feel panicked,

00:36:33.648 --> 00:36:36.265
or we feel cares, we feel burdens,

00:36:36.265 --> 00:36:42.405
we feel anxiety, we feel cares?

00:36:42.405 --> 00:36:43.947
What's a good mark

00:36:43.947 --> 00:36:47.658
that the thing is good or bad?

00:36:47.658 --> 00:36:48.795
Here's some things.

00:36:48.795 --> 00:36:50.087
You guys can be thinking

00:36:50.087 --> 00:36:52.037
if I don't hit on one that you think of,

00:36:52.037 --> 00:36:53.566
I'll give you the opportunity

00:36:53.566 --> 00:36:56.842
after I throw these out.

NOTE Paragraph

00:36:56.842 --> 00:36:59.321
Number one,

00:36:59.321 --> 00:37:02.387
here's a question that you need to ask.

00:37:02.387 --> 00:37:07.598
What are you concerned about?

00:37:07.598 --> 00:37:09.674
See, that's a good thing to ask.

00:37:09.674 --> 00:37:12.236
Because I can tell you this,

00:37:12.236 --> 00:37:15.707
every time in Scripture

00:37:15.707 --> 00:37:19.916
that it's a good anxiety,

00:37:19.916 --> 00:37:24.391
it's being anxious for people

00:37:24.391 --> 00:37:26.405
or the 1 Corinthians 7,

00:37:26.405 --> 00:37:32.432
it's being anxious for the Lord.

00:37:32.432 --> 00:37:35.140
Versus the bad anxieties

00:37:35.140 --> 00:37:39.647
which would be being anxious for money

00:37:39.647 --> 00:37:43.090
or for clothing or for food

00:37:43.090 --> 00:37:44.738
or for drink

00:37:44.738 --> 00:37:49.466
or for the physical things.

00:37:49.466 --> 00:37:50.592
You know what Paul said

00:37:50.592 --> 00:37:52.245
when it came to financial things?

00:37:52.245 --> 00:37:53.493
When it came to wealth?

00:37:53.493 --> 00:37:55.427
When it came to provision in this world?

00:37:55.427 --> 00:37:57.814
He said God has taught me

00:37:57.814 --> 00:37:59.773
both how to be abased

00:37:59.773 --> 00:38:01.948
and how to abound.

00:38:01.948 --> 00:38:05.659
In other words, I don't 
freak out either way.

00:38:05.659 --> 00:38:09.687
He's taught me how to go through both

00:38:09.687 --> 00:38:11.334
resting on Him

00:38:11.334 --> 00:38:13.485
and trusting in Him.

00:38:13.485 --> 00:38:16.386
He says this to the Philippians.

00:38:16.386 --> 00:38:18.750
He's going to supply our every need

00:38:18.750 --> 00:38:21.093
according to His riches 
in glory through Christ.

00:38:21.093 --> 00:38:23.736
It's going to happen.

00:38:23.736 --> 00:38:25.061
He's taught us.

00:38:25.061 --> 00:38:29.248
But think about what you're anxious about.

00:38:29.248 --> 00:38:31.097
It doesn't mean that a bad anxiety

00:38:31.097 --> 00:38:32.874
can't be attached to people.

00:38:32.874 --> 00:38:35.891
But it's just a point well worth making

00:38:35.891 --> 00:38:39.655
that when Paul was 
anxious for the churches,

00:38:39.655 --> 00:38:41.731
it was people.

00:38:41.731 --> 00:38:47.142
When Timothy was anxious 
for the Philippians,

00:38:47.142 --> 00:38:50.901
it was people.

00:38:50.901 --> 00:38:57.455
When you think about these examples

00:38:57.455 --> 00:38:59.808
and then the 1 Corinthians 7,

00:38:59.808 --> 00:39:03.087
where the person that marries,

00:39:03.087 --> 00:39:05.275
he's anxious for the things of his wife

00:39:05.275 --> 00:39:07.706
versus the girl that stays single -

00:39:07.706 --> 00:39:10.517
she's anxious for the things of the Lord.

00:39:10.517 --> 00:39:12.847
That's the first thing to think about.

00:39:12.847 --> 00:39:14.812
What are we anxious about?

00:39:14.812 --> 00:39:17.791
Is it people and is it the Lord

00:39:17.791 --> 00:39:20.606
who are driving our concerns?

00:39:20.615 --> 00:39:22.377
Or is it stuff?

00:39:22.377 --> 00:39:24.857
Is it the fear of whether God's going to

00:39:24.857 --> 00:39:25.935
provide for us?

00:39:25.935 --> 00:39:27.953
Is it the fear of whether we're going to

00:39:27.953 --> 00:39:29.763
get something that we think we want?

00:39:29.763 --> 00:39:36.087
Even if that's a spouse.

00:39:36.087 --> 00:39:40.350
Just panicking because you're not sure

00:39:40.350 --> 00:39:41.601
about tomorrow.

00:39:41.601 --> 00:39:43.838
You're just worried all the time.

00:39:43.838 --> 00:39:45.446
How am I going to make it?

00:39:45.446 --> 00:39:48.596
How am I going to take care of my family?

00:39:48.596 --> 00:39:53.169
How is this going to happen?

00:39:53.169 --> 00:39:55.734
So that's the first thing.

NOTE Paragraph

00:39:55.734 --> 00:40:01.443
The second thing is this.

00:40:01.443 --> 00:40:05.783
Look at Matthew 13:22.

00:40:05.783 --> 00:40:12.284
This is the well known parable

00:40:12.284 --> 00:40:17.754
of the four soils.

00:40:17.754 --> 00:40:21.970
The third soil type

00:40:21.970 --> 00:40:24.889
is found in Matthew 13:22.

00:40:24.889 --> 00:40:28.861
The explanation, the interpretation.

00:40:28.861 --> 00:40:34.924
Somebody want to read that?

00:40:34.924 --> 00:40:38.209
"As for what was sown among the thorns,

00:40:38.209 --> 00:40:40.461
this is the one who hears the Word

00:40:40.461 --> 00:40:42.015
and the cares of the world..."

00:40:42.015 --> 00:40:43.520
Tim: Right there.

00:40:43.520 --> 00:40:44.712
The cares of the world?

00:40:44.712 --> 00:40:47.161
That's the anxieties of the world.

00:40:47.161 --> 00:40:48.334
Keep going.

00:40:48.334 --> 00:40:50.350
"...and the deceitfulness of riches

00:40:50.350 --> 00:40:53.689
choke the Word and proves unfruitful."

00:40:53.689 --> 00:40:55.619
Tim: It chokes the Word

00:40:55.619 --> 00:40:59.916
and it proves unfruitful.

00:40:59.916 --> 00:41:05.294
Cares of the world

00:41:05.294 --> 00:41:09.525
lead to no fruitfulness.

00:41:09.525 --> 00:41:11.476
In fact, if you compare this

00:41:11.476 --> 00:41:14.986
to the other Gospels,

00:41:14.986 --> 00:41:19.974
what happens is it chokes,

00:41:19.974 --> 00:41:25.952
it keeps the fruit from 
coming to fruition.

NOTE Paragraph

00:41:25.952 --> 00:41:28.372
Or, look at this text.

00:41:28.372 --> 00:41:31.190
Luke 21:34.

00:41:31.190 --> 00:41:41.350
Somebody read that when you get there.

00:41:41.350 --> 00:41:42.673
"But watch yourselves,

00:41:42.673 --> 00:41:44.826
lest your hearts be weighed down

00:41:44.826 --> 00:41:47.542
with dissipation and drunkenness

00:41:47.542 --> 00:41:49.271
and cares of this life

00:41:49.271 --> 00:41:51.447
and that day come upon you suddenly

00:41:51.447 --> 00:41:53.431
like a trap."

00:41:53.431 --> 00:41:55.093
Tim: There it is.

00:41:55.093 --> 00:41:59.274
Cares of this life.

00:41:59.274 --> 00:42:02.375
Cares of this life.

00:42:02.375 --> 00:42:06.098
You get weighed down by them.

00:42:06.098 --> 00:42:10.090
And what does it say there in Matthew 13?

00:42:10.090 --> 00:42:16.393
It said that there's a choking.

00:42:16.393 --> 00:42:19.068
These cares choke.

00:42:19.068 --> 00:42:20.725
And what happens?

00:42:20.725 --> 00:42:22.532
There's not fruit.

00:42:22.532 --> 00:42:25.947
And so the thing that 
we need to ask is this:

00:42:25.947 --> 00:42:32.217
Does your anxiety produce fruit

00:42:32.217 --> 00:42:35.489
or does it choke it?

00:42:35.489 --> 00:42:37.377
Because think about this.

00:42:37.377 --> 00:42:40.612
If a person is having anxiety attacks,

00:42:40.612 --> 00:42:42.275
and they can't even get themselves

00:42:42.275 --> 00:42:44.412
to get out of their bed 
or out of their home

00:42:44.412 --> 00:42:46.656
on a Sunday to come to the service,

00:42:46.656 --> 00:42:49.693
to use their spiritual gifts 
to strengthen other people,

00:42:49.693 --> 00:42:51.291
to encourage other people,

00:42:51.291 --> 00:42:54.276
to get there to stir up one another

00:42:54.276 --> 00:42:55.394
to love and good works

00:42:55.394 --> 00:42:57.747
and not forsake the assembling together,

00:42:57.747 --> 00:42:59.235
to get there and hear about

00:42:59.235 --> 00:43:01.389
what's happening in other people's lives,

00:43:01.389 --> 00:43:02.975
to bear one another's burdens,

00:43:02.975 --> 00:43:04.710
to rejoice with those who rejoice,

00:43:04.710 --> 00:43:06.874
to weep with those who weep -

00:43:06.874 --> 00:43:08.616
if you're not able,

00:43:08.616 --> 00:43:12.065
do you know what that anxiety is doing?

00:43:12.065 --> 00:43:15.287
It's choking fruit.

00:43:15.287 --> 00:43:19.299
Whereas Paul, thinking about 
the churches all the time,

00:43:19.299 --> 00:43:21.711
his care for the churches,

00:43:21.711 --> 00:43:26.139
that didn't produce a choking.

00:43:26.139 --> 00:43:29.606
That didn't produce a fruitlessness.

00:43:29.606 --> 00:43:31.456
That didn't produce in Paul

00:43:31.456 --> 00:43:34.004
a desire to fly away

00:43:34.004 --> 00:43:36.604
and build a cabin out in the woods.

00:43:36.604 --> 00:43:39.310
You know what it did?

00:43:39.310 --> 00:43:43.412
Listen to him speak 
to every single church.

00:43:43.412 --> 00:43:47.785
He says I am constantly remembering you

00:43:47.785 --> 00:43:50.178
in prayer.

00:43:50.178 --> 00:43:52.035
That's fruit.

00:43:52.035 --> 00:43:55.273
His anxiety caused him

00:43:55.273 --> 00:43:56.852
to take those churches

00:43:56.852 --> 00:43:58.516
before the throne of grace

00:43:58.516 --> 00:44:01.910
over and over and over again.

00:44:01.910 --> 00:44:04.199
It caused him to go to those churches,

00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:05.642
to risk his life.

00:44:05.642 --> 00:44:07.289
Do you remember what he said

00:44:07.289 --> 00:44:08.716
to the church at Rome?

00:44:08.716 --> 00:44:12.261
He says, oh, I have longed to come to you

00:44:12.261 --> 00:44:15.126
that I might have some fruit among you.

00:44:15.126 --> 00:44:18.120
He wanted to come and preach the Gospel.

00:44:18.120 --> 00:44:20.105
He wanted his faith and their faith

00:44:20.105 --> 00:44:23.559
to mutually edify each other.

00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:26.105
Listen to how he talked 
to the church at Corinth.

00:44:26.105 --> 00:44:27.834
He talked about coming,

00:44:27.834 --> 00:44:29.661
and what did he want to do?

00:44:29.661 --> 00:44:32.504
He didn't want to come 
and have to use the rod.

00:44:32.504 --> 00:44:34.087
But he would if he had to.

00:44:34.087 --> 00:44:35.591
Why? Because he would come

00:44:35.591 --> 00:44:37.104
to set things in order.

00:44:37.104 --> 00:44:38.602
What did Paul send Titus

00:44:38.602 --> 00:44:43.446
to the churches in Crete to do?

00:44:43.446 --> 00:44:45.690
Good things. Fruitful things.

00:44:45.690 --> 00:44:47.854
When Paul and Barnabas

00:44:47.854 --> 00:44:50.162
went through the churches in Acts 14,

00:44:50.162 --> 00:44:51.772
do you know what they were doing?

00:44:51.772 --> 00:44:54.331
They were encouraging the brethren

00:44:54.331 --> 00:44:56.326
and appointing elders.

00:44:56.326 --> 00:44:57.722
But good things.

00:44:57.722 --> 00:44:59.362
They were risking their life.

00:44:59.362 --> 00:45:01.376
They were risking imprisonment.

00:45:01.376 --> 00:45:03.247
They were risking beatings.

00:45:03.247 --> 00:45:04.445
Why?

00:45:04.445 --> 00:45:07.515
Listen, when Paul said

00:45:07.515 --> 00:45:12.625
that he could just as well die as live,

00:45:12.625 --> 00:45:14.203
what did he say?

00:45:14.203 --> 00:45:15.401
What did he say?

00:45:15.401 --> 00:45:17.691
I desire to depart and be with Christ,

00:45:17.691 --> 00:45:19.523
but what?

00:45:19.523 --> 00:45:22.519
James: To remain in the 
flesh is far more necessary...

00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:23.874
Tim: For their sakes.

00:45:23.874 --> 00:45:27.656
See, kill me. Chop my head off, Nero.

00:45:27.656 --> 00:45:29.815
And I get to go to glory.

00:45:29.815 --> 00:45:32.927
But you know what?
You know what's more needful?

00:45:32.927 --> 00:45:36.320
Not that I fly away, build a cabin

00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.392
outside of Frisco, Colorado.

00:45:40.392 --> 00:45:46.181
He says it's more necessary that I stay.

00:45:46.181 --> 00:45:49.574
Why? Because the people of God needed him.

00:45:49.574 --> 00:45:53.219
See, this is what I would ask you.

00:45:53.219 --> 00:45:56.400
Whatever anxieties you have in your life,

00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.971
is it leading to fruit?

00:45:58.971 --> 00:46:00.743
Because what we see

00:46:00.743 --> 00:46:02.885
is that the anxieties of this world

00:46:02.885 --> 00:46:08.882
choke the Word and there's no good fruit.

00:46:08.882 --> 00:46:10.861
It doesn't come to fruition.

00:46:10.861 --> 00:46:14.202
Versus the kind of care that Timothy had.

00:46:14.202 --> 00:46:16.282
Listen, the kind of care that was there

00:46:16.282 --> 00:46:17.927
in 1 Corinthians 12.

00:46:17.927 --> 00:46:19.225
You've got this body -

00:46:19.225 --> 00:46:20.995
this body full of these members.

00:46:20.995 --> 00:46:22.193
And these members,

00:46:22.193 --> 00:46:25.179
they have anxiety for each other.

00:46:25.179 --> 00:46:27.124
And so what do they do?

00:46:27.124 --> 00:46:29.191
They weep with each other.

00:46:29.191 --> 00:46:30.664
They rejoice with each other.

00:46:30.664 --> 00:46:32.148
And of course, that chapter

00:46:32.148 --> 00:46:33.886
is speaking about spiritual gifts.

00:46:33.886 --> 00:46:35.603
They're using their spiritual gifts

00:46:35.603 --> 00:46:37.786
to build up one another.

NOTE Paragraph

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You see, that's what you have to think.

00:46:40.311 --> 00:46:45.640
Is your anxiety causing you

00:46:45.640 --> 00:46:48.072
to pray for those people?

00:46:48.072 --> 00:46:49.755
Is it for people?

00:46:49.755 --> 00:46:51.459
Is it for the Lord?

00:46:51.459 --> 00:46:55.898
And is it causing you to pursue fruit?

00:46:55.898 --> 00:46:58.610
Are you anxious for the Lord?

00:46:58.610 --> 00:47:00.594
If you cross reference what it says

00:47:00.594 --> 00:47:03.179
about the young man who doesn't marry,

00:47:03.179 --> 00:47:05.773
and the young lady who doesn't marry,

00:47:05.773 --> 00:47:07.942
the young man, it talks about

00:47:07.942 --> 00:47:09.972
being freed up so he can pursue

00:47:09.972 --> 00:47:11.753
righteousness and holiness.

00:47:11.753 --> 00:47:13.318
With the young lady, so she can

00:47:13.318 --> 00:47:15.279
be anxious about the things of the Lord.

00:47:15.279 --> 00:47:17.270
That's an interesting parallel.

00:47:17.270 --> 00:47:20.641
What does it mean to be anxious 
for the things of the Lord?

00:47:20.641 --> 00:47:24.415
It means you're set 
on a course of holiness.

00:47:24.415 --> 00:47:28.206
You're set on a course of righteousness.

NOTE Paragraph

00:47:28.206 --> 00:47:29.245
(from the room)

00:47:29.245 --> 00:47:31.048
Early on, you were talking about

00:47:31.048 --> 00:47:33.894
being anxious for people and for the Lord.

00:47:33.894 --> 00:47:35.700
That text of Mary and Martha,

00:47:35.700 --> 00:47:38.277
it seems to attach bad anxiety

00:47:38.277 --> 00:47:40.520
with being distracted.

00:47:40.520 --> 00:47:43.384
So Martha was distracted with much serving

00:47:43.384 --> 00:47:46.345
whereas Mary, it says the Lord says,

00:47:46.345 --> 00:47:49.138
one thing was necessary,

00:47:49.138 --> 00:47:51.770
and so she chose it, right?

00:47:51.770 --> 00:47:53.324
And she wasn't distracted

00:47:53.324 --> 00:47:54.956
be the cares of this world.

00:47:54.956 --> 00:47:56.550
They didn't choke out the Word.

00:47:56.550 --> 00:48:00.788
She was focused on the Lord specifically.

NOTE Paragraph

00:48:00.788 --> 00:48:05.867
Tim: I want you to think here.

00:48:05.867 --> 00:48:08.677
You have one sister

00:48:08.677 --> 00:48:12.396
sitting at the feet of 
Christ as He teaches.

00:48:12.396 --> 00:48:15.643
You have another sister in the kitchen

00:48:15.643 --> 00:48:19.032
making food for Jesus.

00:48:19.032 --> 00:48:23.207
Now I want you to really think about that.

00:48:23.207 --> 00:48:26.565
We can fool ourselves.

00:48:26.565 --> 00:48:29.014
And I think Martha did.

00:48:29.014 --> 00:48:32.162
Martha believed:

00:48:32.162 --> 00:48:34.918
what I'm doing, I'm serving the Lord,

00:48:34.918 --> 00:48:38.180
and my sister is lazy.

00:48:38.180 --> 00:48:39.529
And I need help.

00:48:39.529 --> 00:48:42.605
And I think when she appealed to the Lord,

00:48:42.605 --> 00:48:45.382
she fully expected the Lord to say,

00:48:45.382 --> 00:48:49.863
Mary, get up off your rear 
and go help your sister.

00:48:49.863 --> 00:48:59.566
Because think if you're Martha.

00:48:59.566 --> 00:49:04.386
Wasn't it Mary who brought out

00:49:04.386 --> 00:49:08.099
the alabaster box

00:49:08.099 --> 00:49:12.669
and she poured it on Christ?

00:49:12.669 --> 00:49:17.713
Think about serving the Lord.

00:49:17.713 --> 00:49:19.703
Serving the Lord.

00:49:19.703 --> 00:49:21.920
It sounds good.

00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:27.085
That's a biblical thing.

00:49:27.085 --> 00:49:29.470
Here's the amazing thing.

00:49:29.470 --> 00:49:32.688
You can get to where you're even anxious

00:49:32.688 --> 00:49:35.032
about serving the Lord,

00:49:35.032 --> 00:49:38.218
and it's a bad anxiety.

00:49:38.218 --> 00:49:46.845
Because it's an anxiety that is the fruit

00:49:46.845 --> 00:49:49.746
of not choosing the better part.

00:49:49.746 --> 00:49:52.958
It's an anxiety that isn't focused

00:49:52.958 --> 00:49:54.968
on the right things.

00:49:54.968 --> 00:49:58.833
You see, Mary was focused on Christ.

00:49:58.833 --> 00:50:01.974
And she sat there at His feet

00:50:01.974 --> 00:50:05.147
and heard Him teach.

00:50:05.147 --> 00:50:07.514
And this is subtle.

00:50:07.514 --> 00:50:08.868
Because if you asked,

00:50:08.868 --> 00:50:11.297
well, wait, isn't there good fruit

00:50:11.297 --> 00:50:18.729
in making a meal for Jesus?

00:50:18.729 --> 00:50:23.238
Yeah, perhaps, but here's the thing.

00:50:23.238 --> 00:50:26.844
When we think about what 
we're being anxious about,

00:50:26.844 --> 00:50:28.417
I didn't put that in here,

00:50:28.417 --> 00:50:31.643
but that is a good thing to ask yourself.

00:50:31.643 --> 00:50:34.927
Is my anxiety -

00:50:34.927 --> 00:50:36.602
even though it may seem good,

00:50:36.602 --> 00:50:37.792
it may seem biblical,

00:50:37.792 --> 00:50:41.685
it may seem right and righteous,

00:50:41.685 --> 00:50:44.244
but is my anxiety causing me

00:50:44.244 --> 00:50:49.235
to miss the best parts of Christianity?

00:50:49.235 --> 00:50:51.415
Christ Himself.

00:50:51.415 --> 00:50:55.203
Are my anxieties distracting me?

00:50:55.203 --> 00:50:56.776
Because that's what she was.

00:50:56.776 --> 00:50:58.037
You're distracted.

00:50:58.037 --> 00:51:00.622
You're anxious and you're distracted

00:51:00.622 --> 00:51:01.814
about many things.

00:51:01.814 --> 00:51:03.035
Distracted from what?

00:51:03.035 --> 00:51:08.934
She's chosen the good part.

00:51:08.934 --> 00:51:11.240
That's a good question to ask.

00:51:11.240 --> 00:51:15.802
Is my anxiety in any way

00:51:15.802 --> 00:51:19.921
drawing me away from Christ,

00:51:19.921 --> 00:51:23.851
even if it's serving Him?

00:51:23.851 --> 00:51:26.156
Because I find this,

00:51:26.156 --> 00:51:32.474
if I have a healthy anxiety for you

00:51:32.474 --> 00:51:36.362
as a pastor,

00:51:36.362 --> 00:51:39.334
it takes me to Christ.

00:51:39.334 --> 00:51:40.669
It takes me to Him.

00:51:40.669 --> 00:51:43.689
It takes me to Him to plead

00:51:43.689 --> 00:51:46.245
for you to Him.

00:51:46.245 --> 00:51:50.687
It makes me think,

00:51:50.687 --> 00:51:53.381
honestly, I recognize,

00:51:53.381 --> 00:51:57.012
what I'm preaching on 
right now in the church,

00:51:57.012 --> 00:52:00.565
that you really focusing 
on the love of Christ

00:52:00.565 --> 00:52:02.227
is the most healthy thing.

00:52:02.227 --> 00:52:05.132
I recognize you beholding 
the glory of the Lord

00:52:05.132 --> 00:52:08.289
is at the heart.

00:52:08.289 --> 00:52:10.183
So we need to ask ourselves that.

00:52:10.183 --> 00:52:13.996
Do our anxieties cause us

00:52:13.996 --> 00:52:17.157
to choose Christ and focus on Christ?

00:52:17.157 --> 00:52:19.152
That's a good sign

00:52:19.152 --> 00:52:20.876
that that's a healthy anxiety.

00:52:20.876 --> 00:52:23.331
Or does it, even if it's serving Him

00:52:23.331 --> 00:52:24.927
in a certain respect,

00:52:24.927 --> 00:52:29.267
does it causes us to 
be distracted from Him?

00:52:29.267 --> 00:52:33.425
Good thought there.

NOTE Paragraph

00:52:33.425 --> 00:52:36.538
Number 3 and closely associated to this,

00:52:36.538 --> 00:52:40.856
how do my anxieties 
affect my prayer life?

00:52:40.856 --> 00:52:42.179
Because remember -

00:52:42.179 --> 00:52:43.595
James probably can quote it -

00:52:43.595 --> 00:52:44.956
Philippians 4:6,

00:52:44.956 --> 00:52:46.621
"Do not be anxious about anything,

00:52:46.621 --> 00:52:48.976
but in everything with 
prayer and supplication

00:52:48.976 --> 00:52:50.053
with thanksgiving..."

00:52:50.053 --> 00:52:51.284
Tim: Did you hear that?

00:52:51.284 --> 00:52:52.937
Prayer and supplication.

00:52:52.937 --> 00:52:54.864
You are supposed to make your requests

00:52:54.864 --> 00:52:55.853
known to God.

00:52:55.853 --> 00:52:56.891
Here's the thing.

00:52:56.891 --> 00:53:00.017
Be not anxious, but...

00:53:00.017 --> 00:53:01.639
rather...

00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:03.370
what are you supposed to be doing?

00:53:03.370 --> 00:53:05.016
It's like Paul sets these things

00:53:05.016 --> 00:53:06.124
against each other.

00:53:06.124 --> 00:53:08.247
Anxiety over against

00:53:08.247 --> 00:53:10.860
taking these things to the Lord.

00:53:10.860 --> 00:53:12.484
I would ask you this.

00:53:12.484 --> 00:53:17.779
A good indication as 
to whether your cares,

00:53:17.779 --> 00:53:20.553
your concerns,

00:53:20.553 --> 00:53:22.172
your anxieties,

00:53:22.172 --> 00:53:24.873
whether they're good or bad

00:53:24.873 --> 00:53:28.639
is do they tend to take you to the Lord

00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:29.989
in prayer?

00:53:29.989 --> 00:53:31.857
Or do they traumatize you?

00:53:31.857 --> 00:53:34.295
Do they cause you to neglect the Lord?

00:53:34.295 --> 00:53:36.541
Do they cause you to ignore the Lord?

00:53:36.541 --> 00:53:42.924
Do they cause you to be 
distracted from the Lord?

00:53:42.924 --> 00:53:45.094
What does it do for your prayer life?

00:53:45.094 --> 00:53:48.468
Because you know what?

00:53:48.468 --> 00:53:51.348
That parent who says

00:53:51.348 --> 00:53:53.071
I have all these children

00:53:53.071 --> 00:54:00.502
and I'm anxious for them,

00:54:00.502 --> 00:54:05.959
well, when you say 
you're anxious for them,

00:54:05.959 --> 00:54:09.456
does that mean, like Paul 
being anxious for the churches,

00:54:09.456 --> 00:54:13.116
that you're taking your children

00:54:13.116 --> 00:54:16.154
before the throne of grace all the time

00:54:16.154 --> 00:54:20.609
and pleading, pleading on their behalf?

00:54:20.609 --> 00:54:22.223
Like Job did.

00:54:22.223 --> 00:54:24.425
Bringing that sacrifice.

00:54:24.425 --> 00:54:26.692
Bringing that offering to God,

00:54:26.692 --> 00:54:28.445
in case your children sin.

00:54:28.445 --> 00:54:32.355
You're pleading for their souls.

00:54:32.355 --> 00:54:34.446
Does it bring you there?

00:54:34.446 --> 00:54:36.740
Or is it the kind of thing where

00:54:36.740 --> 00:54:38.012
no, it doesn't.

00:54:38.012 --> 00:54:39.714
You just worry, worry, worry, worry

00:54:39.714 --> 00:54:43.144
and going to God doesn't help,

00:54:43.144 --> 00:54:44.581
and so you don't go there.

00:54:44.581 --> 00:54:46.031
You tend to neglect that.

00:54:46.031 --> 00:54:48.486
Now that's a big indicator

00:54:48.486 --> 00:54:51.304
that your anxieties are basically

00:54:51.304 --> 00:54:53.967
coming from idolatry.

00:54:53.967 --> 00:54:55.591
You've made too much of a god

00:54:55.591 --> 00:54:57.876
out of the thing that 
you're anxious about,

00:54:57.876 --> 00:55:00.209
whether that be 
your children or whatever.

00:55:00.209 --> 00:55:07.564
But examine the prayer life.

NOTE Paragraph

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I put here "good anxiety suffers."

00:55:13.197 --> 00:55:15.823
We already kind of talked about that.

00:55:15.823 --> 00:55:21.111
But obviously, if being 
anxious for one another

00:55:21.111 --> 00:55:23.885
means that we weep for one another,

00:55:23.885 --> 00:55:27.437
it means if our brothers 
or sisters are hurting,

00:55:27.437 --> 00:55:29.614
we seek to enter in.

00:55:29.614 --> 00:55:32.636
We don't seek to be distant.

00:55:32.636 --> 00:55:35.384
And I guess that's one of the things

00:55:35.384 --> 00:55:40.136
that we need to ask ourselves.

00:55:40.136 --> 00:55:44.287
Are we pursuing those kinds of anxieties?

00:55:44.287 --> 00:55:47.286
Are we seeking to feel

00:55:47.286 --> 00:55:51.215
for what other people feel?

00:55:51.215 --> 00:55:55.114
Are we seeking to enter in to bear

00:55:55.114 --> 00:55:59.233
one another's burdens in that sense?

00:55:59.233 --> 00:56:02.440
Because true anxiety -

00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:05.335
the good anxiety -

00:56:05.335 --> 00:56:07.528
is willing to feel pain,

00:56:07.528 --> 00:56:11.863
obviously, from that 
1 Corinthians 12 passage.

00:56:11.863 --> 00:56:15.356
It's willing to feel pain.

00:56:15.356 --> 00:56:19.614
It's willing to hurt with others.

NOTE Paragraph

00:56:19.614 --> 00:56:20.819
(from the room)

00:56:20.819 --> 00:56:23.264
Proverbs 12:25 says,

00:56:23.264 --> 00:56:26.438
"Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down,

00:56:26.438 --> 00:56:29.382
but a good word makes him glad."

00:56:29.382 --> 00:56:33.265
(unintelligible)

00:56:33.265 --> 00:56:35.126
Tim: Well, let's talk about that.

00:56:35.126 --> 00:56:39.928
I'll just shoot right to that one.

00:56:39.928 --> 00:56:42.586
Read that proverb again.

00:56:42.586 --> 00:56:46.193
"Anxiety in a man's heart 
weighs him down..."

00:56:46.193 --> 00:56:49.249
Tim: What proverb was that?

00:56:49.249 --> 00:56:56.230
Proverbs 12:25

00:56:56.230 --> 00:57:01.123
Tim: But listen to that.

00:57:01.123 --> 00:57:06.752
Here's one of the questions I want to ask.

00:57:06.752 --> 00:57:12.335
What did Peter say about anxieties?

00:57:12.335 --> 00:57:14.431
Cast them on the Lord.

00:57:14.431 --> 00:57:19.414
Can anybody quote it? I Peter 5:7.

00:57:19.414 --> 00:57:21.794
(unintelligible)

00:57:21.794 --> 00:57:25.053
"Casting all your cares upon Him,

00:57:25.053 --> 00:57:29.633
for He careth for you." (KJV)

00:57:29.633 --> 00:57:32.277
But think about that - casting.

00:57:32.277 --> 00:57:37.828
You know, that comes from a psalm.

00:57:37.828 --> 00:57:39.985
It comes from - somebody find this,

00:57:39.985 --> 00:57:43.135
Psalm 54:23.

00:57:43.135 --> 00:57:45.408
Somebody look that up.

00:57:45.408 --> 00:57:48.623
Tony, throw me a water.

00:57:48.623 --> 00:58:04.073
(unintelligible)

00:58:04.073 --> 00:58:10.937
Psalm 54:23.

00:58:10.937 --> 00:58:24.025
(unintelligible)

00:58:24.025 --> 00:58:25.900
James: It's Psalm 55:22

00:58:25.900 --> 00:58:29.193
Tim: Is it? Both my 
numbers were off by one?

00:58:29.193 --> 00:58:30.740
Okay, go ahead and read it.

00:58:30.740 --> 00:58:33.318
James: Cast your burden on the Lord?

00:58:33.318 --> 00:58:35.283
Tim: How was I off that much?

00:58:35.283 --> 00:58:38.074
That's really bizarre.

00:58:38.074 --> 00:58:41.752
Anyway, but listen,

00:58:41.752 --> 00:58:44.891
I want you to get this,

00:58:44.891 --> 00:58:47.033
because this is a big one.

00:58:47.033 --> 00:58:50.230
And this is helpful.

00:58:50.230 --> 00:58:53.849
Peter basically says 
"cast all your cares."

00:58:53.849 --> 00:58:56.246
Cast your anxieties.

00:58:56.246 --> 00:58:59.243
In the Septuagint,

00:58:59.243 --> 00:59:02.844
the word anxiety is 
used right here as well.

00:59:02.844 --> 00:59:07.799
And this is really where 
Peter gets this from.

00:59:07.799 --> 00:59:09.858
If you look at the word in the English

00:59:09.858 --> 00:59:12.624
in our ESV and probably in 
most of the translations,

00:59:12.624 --> 00:59:14.740
it's "burden."

00:59:14.740 --> 00:59:18.629
Cast your burden.

00:59:18.629 --> 00:59:22.119
Okay, think about the proverb.

00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:25.634
Anxiety does what?

00:59:25.634 --> 00:59:28.927
It weighs us down.

00:59:28.927 --> 00:59:31.122
Cast your burden.

00:59:31.122 --> 00:59:35.363
A burden is heavy.

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00:59:35.363 --> 00:59:37.530
Let me give you another one.

00:59:37.530 --> 00:59:42.837
Somebody look at 2 Corinthians 11:28

00:59:42.837 --> 00:59:45.578
and read it.

00:59:45.578 --> 00:59:59.490
This is of course Paul 
talking about the churches.

00:59:59.490 --> 01:00:01.244
Can somebody read that one?

01:00:01.244 --> 01:00:03.083
"And apart from other things,

01:00:03.083 --> 01:00:04.990
there is the daily pressure on me

01:00:04.990 --> 01:00:06.075
of my anxieties..."

01:00:06.075 --> 01:00:07.063
Tim: Right there.

01:00:07.063 --> 01:00:11.546
The daily pressure of the anxiety.

01:00:11.546 --> 01:00:12.744
Let me give you one more.

01:00:12.744 --> 01:00:18.885
Somebody read Luke 21:34 again.

01:00:18.885 --> 01:00:21.700
Because there is a recurring theme.

01:00:21.700 --> 01:00:23.410
There is a pressure.

01:00:23.410 --> 01:00:28.349
Proverbs says anxiety weighs.

01:00:28.349 --> 01:00:30.300
2 Corinthians 11:28,

01:00:30.300 --> 01:00:32.319
there's a pressure.

01:00:32.319 --> 01:00:36.513
Psalm 55, there is a burden.

01:00:36.513 --> 01:00:40.050
Now listen to what Luke 21:34 says.

01:00:40.050 --> 01:00:41.804
Somebody read it.

01:00:41.804 --> 01:00:42.966
"But watch yourselves,

01:00:42.966 --> 01:00:44.796
lest your hearts be weighed down..."

01:00:44.796 --> 01:00:46.509
Tim: Your hearts what?

01:00:46.509 --> 01:00:50.088
Weighed down.

01:00:50.088 --> 01:00:52.740
This is a big one.

01:00:52.740 --> 01:00:57.413
What I would ask you is this.

01:00:57.413 --> 01:01:03.280
When you take your anxieties to the Lord,

01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:06.353
are you lightened?

01:01:06.353 --> 01:01:10.944
See, I think you have a good feel,

01:01:10.944 --> 01:01:15.712
and look, this isn't make-believe.

01:01:15.712 --> 01:01:19.615
When a true Christian goes out

01:01:19.615 --> 01:01:22.111
before the Lord and prays

01:01:22.111 --> 01:01:24.039
and their heart is full of all manner

01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:28.884
of cares and burdens and anxieties,

01:01:28.884 --> 01:01:30.537
and you take those

01:01:30.537 --> 01:01:34.048
and you cast them on the Lord,

01:01:34.048 --> 01:01:37.431
if I have a burden on my back;

01:01:37.431 --> 01:01:39.479
if I'm carrying a couple

01:01:39.479 --> 01:01:42.277
40 pound bags or 80 pound bags

01:01:42.277 --> 01:01:45.739
of concrete,

01:01:45.739 --> 01:01:51.292
and I cast those on somebody else,

01:01:51.292 --> 01:01:53.829
I feel it.

01:01:53.829 --> 01:01:55.421
I'm lightened.

01:01:55.421 --> 01:01:57.393
The thing that all these verses said

01:01:57.393 --> 01:01:58.549
is a recurring theme.

01:01:58.549 --> 01:02:03.374
I kept looking at this Greek word

01:02:03.374 --> 01:02:05.743
in the adjective form 
and in the noun form

01:02:05.743 --> 01:02:07.898
and I just kept going 
through them all today

01:02:07.898 --> 01:02:09.630
and just looking at them 
and looking at them.

01:02:09.630 --> 01:02:10.874
And it jumped out at me -

01:02:10.874 --> 01:02:12.048
this idea of pressure,

01:02:12.048 --> 01:02:13.113
this idea of weight,

01:02:13.113 --> 01:02:17.467
this idea of these things being a burden.

01:02:17.467 --> 01:02:19.958
They weigh the heart down.

01:02:19.958 --> 01:02:22.246
I know this,

01:02:22.246 --> 01:02:25.921
if you're told to cast all your anxieties

01:02:25.921 --> 01:02:27.962
upon the Lord

01:02:27.962 --> 01:02:29.998
because He cares for you -

01:02:29.998 --> 01:02:31.678
I know this,

01:02:31.678 --> 01:02:36.081
that if you actually cast a burden on Him,

01:02:36.081 --> 01:02:38.035
it's no longer on you.

01:02:38.035 --> 01:02:40.392
And I know this.

01:02:40.392 --> 01:02:42.861
I know the reality

01:02:42.861 --> 01:02:46.429
of having such heavy cares.

01:02:46.429 --> 01:02:48.387
Throughout my life,

01:02:48.387 --> 01:02:49.836
there have been times

01:02:49.836 --> 01:02:52.379
I have such cares about my children

01:02:52.379 --> 01:02:54.739
or such cares about the church -

01:02:54.739 --> 01:02:56.331
individuals in the church -

01:02:56.331 --> 01:02:59.382
and you go and pray,

01:02:59.382 --> 01:03:02.308
and it's just like,

01:03:02.308 --> 01:03:04.154
yes, I can go forward now

01:03:04.154 --> 01:03:07.767
because I've unloaded that.

01:03:07.767 --> 01:03:09.485
I still feel the anxiety;

01:03:09.485 --> 01:03:11.229
I still have a concern,

01:03:11.229 --> 01:03:15.785
but the Lord had promised.

01:03:15.785 --> 01:03:17.304
He's promised to help.

01:03:17.304 --> 01:03:20.778
He's promised to be 
One Who answers prayer.

01:03:20.778 --> 01:03:23.066
He's promised to do all manner of things.

01:03:23.066 --> 01:03:24.691
And I know He cares.

01:03:24.691 --> 01:03:27.809
And I know He's working everything 
for good for His people.

01:03:27.809 --> 01:03:31.091
And I know that He loves this 
church far more than I do.

01:03:31.091 --> 01:03:33.151
(incomplete thought)

01:03:33.151 --> 01:03:35.427
And this is one of the 
things you want to ask.

01:03:35.427 --> 01:03:37.640
Because I'll guarantee you this,

01:03:37.640 --> 01:03:41.451
if you try to pray, you attempt to pray,

01:03:41.451 --> 01:03:43.749
you're full of these anxieties,

01:03:43.749 --> 01:03:45.173
you're having panic attacks

01:03:45.173 --> 01:03:47.008
and whatever other thing,

01:03:47.008 --> 01:03:49.141
and you seek to go to the Lord,

01:03:49.141 --> 01:03:50.630
and it doesn't help

01:03:50.630 --> 01:03:52.983
and it doesn't do anything,

01:03:52.983 --> 01:03:54.351
you don't feel light;

01:03:54.351 --> 01:03:55.673
you don't feel helped;

01:03:55.673 --> 01:03:57.276
you don't feel that weight,

01:03:57.276 --> 01:04:01.493
that pressure lifted,

01:04:01.493 --> 01:04:06.390
then I would say there's something wrong.

01:04:06.390 --> 01:04:10.545
Because casting those burdens on Him

01:04:10.545 --> 01:04:12.268
should be a reality.

01:04:12.268 --> 01:04:15.138
And if we're carrying anxieties,

01:04:15.138 --> 01:04:17.786
we should be able to unload them there.

01:04:17.786 --> 01:04:19.231
And if that's not happening;

01:04:19.231 --> 01:04:22.448
if you're not feeling that freedom

01:04:22.448 --> 01:04:24.070
and that lightening

01:04:24.070 --> 01:04:25.843
and that weight and that pressure

01:04:25.843 --> 01:04:27.423
being relieved,

01:04:27.423 --> 01:04:30.993
then you're not really 
casting your cares on Him.

01:04:30.993 --> 01:04:32.275
So that's key.

01:04:32.275 --> 01:04:34.322
I think that's so key

01:04:34.322 --> 01:04:36.603
to examining your prayer life there.

01:04:36.603 --> 01:04:39.807
(incomplete thought)

01:04:39.807 --> 01:04:41.845
It's because the Septuagint

01:04:41.845 --> 01:04:45.030
doesn't use the same Greek word there.

01:04:45.030 --> 01:04:46.933
That's why I didn't find that proverb,

01:04:46.933 --> 01:04:48.335
but that's very helpful

01:04:48.335 --> 01:04:52.278
because it's basically 
saying the same thing.

01:04:52.278 --> 01:05:04.666
(unintelligible)

01:05:04.666 --> 01:05:06.520
Tim: Lifting up your heart.

01:05:06.520 --> 01:05:08.561
That's what happens when you feel

01:05:08.561 --> 01:05:10.670
the weight come off.

01:05:10.670 --> 01:05:12.096
And I can tell you, see,

01:05:12.096 --> 01:05:14.296
I like to pray out in 
these fields over here,

01:05:14.296 --> 01:05:16.255
but I can tell you, there's been times

01:05:16.255 --> 01:05:19.481
I've gone out that door heavy,

01:05:19.481 --> 01:05:22.793
and I've come back in that door

01:05:22.793 --> 01:05:24.311
a lighter man.

01:05:24.311 --> 01:05:25.890
Now sometimes may not as light

01:05:25.890 --> 01:05:28.048
as I would like to have been lightened,

01:05:28.048 --> 01:05:31.538
but definitely many times much lighter.

01:05:31.538 --> 01:05:33.526
(unintelligible)

01:05:33.526 --> 01:05:40.457
Tim: I would not put a weight to it.

NOTE Paragraph

01:05:40.457 --> 01:05:48.207
How about this?

01:05:48.207 --> 01:05:50.221
I put this one:

01:05:50.221 --> 01:05:57.381
Can we rejoice, sleep, play?

01:05:57.381 --> 01:06:00.338
What I was thinking about here

01:06:00.338 --> 01:06:03.671
is again, this weighed down thing,

01:06:03.671 --> 01:06:05.883
but think about it.

01:06:05.883 --> 01:06:09.429
Here's Paul with all these anxieties.

01:06:09.429 --> 01:06:11.810
And yet, when he was in Philippi

01:06:11.810 --> 01:06:13.392
and he got thrown in jail,

01:06:13.392 --> 01:06:16.352
what did he and Silas do?

01:06:16.352 --> 01:06:18.337
They sang.

01:06:18.337 --> 01:06:20.709
What did Paul say to the Philippian church

01:06:20.709 --> 01:06:22.408
when he told them they need

01:06:22.408 --> 01:06:24.699
to be not anxious?

01:06:24.699 --> 01:06:26.838
Take everything to God in prayer -

01:06:26.838 --> 01:06:29.078
what did he say to them?

01:06:29.078 --> 01:06:32.878
Just right in those verses?

01:06:32.878 --> 01:06:34.884
In Philippians 4.

01:06:34.884 --> 01:06:36.770
Rejoice in the Lord.

01:06:36.770 --> 01:06:41.145
And again, I say, rejoice.

01:06:41.145 --> 01:06:43.603
Sleep.

01:06:43.603 --> 01:06:45.663
(incomplete thought)

01:06:45.663 --> 01:06:46.750
Think about it.

01:06:46.750 --> 01:06:50.472
Herod just puts James to death.

01:06:50.472 --> 01:06:52.522
And then he sees it pleases the Jews,

01:06:52.522 --> 01:06:53.542
so what does he do?

01:06:53.542 --> 01:06:55.259
He goes out and captures Peter.

01:06:55.259 --> 01:06:56.927
Have you ever thought about Peter

01:06:56.927 --> 01:06:58.681
when he was there in jail

01:06:58.681 --> 01:07:00.586
and the angel came?

01:07:00.586 --> 01:07:03.908
Do you know what the angel did?

01:07:03.908 --> 01:07:08.823
Did he find Peter wide awake,

01:07:08.823 --> 01:07:11.385
fretting that he was 
going to die tomorrow,

01:07:11.385 --> 01:07:13.407
wringing his hands?

01:07:13.407 --> 01:07:17.377
Anybody remember what he did?

01:07:17.377 --> 01:07:19.792
He kicked him.

01:07:19.792 --> 01:07:22.220
He kicked him. He was sound asleep.

01:07:22.220 --> 01:07:23.560
You ever think about that?

01:07:23.560 --> 01:07:25.416
Here's Peter in prison.

01:07:25.416 --> 01:07:28.921
He knows full well his close friend,

01:07:28.921 --> 01:07:30.997
used to be partner in business -

01:07:30.997 --> 01:07:32.306
in the fishing business

01:07:32.306 --> 01:07:34.232
back there on the Sea of Galilee -

01:07:34.232 --> 01:07:35.887
is dead.

01:07:35.887 --> 01:07:37.342
One of the close comrades!

01:07:37.342 --> 01:07:38.819
One of the Twelve!

01:07:38.819 --> 01:07:41.334
He's the first one and he's dead.

01:07:41.334 --> 01:07:44.344
They're just barely into the book of Acts!

01:07:44.344 --> 01:07:48.291
And now he's been caught.

01:07:48.291 --> 01:07:50.596
He's been caught. He's in prison.

01:07:50.596 --> 01:07:53.814
Well, Herod did it to James.

01:07:53.814 --> 01:07:57.418
And Peter's sound asleep.

01:07:57.418 --> 01:08:00.521
So I would ask you this,

01:08:00.521 --> 01:08:04.842
can you take your anxieties to the Lord

01:08:04.842 --> 01:08:10.456
and put those on Him?

NOTE Paragraph

01:08:10.456 --> 01:08:12.337
What was the guy's name?

01:08:12.337 --> 01:08:15.468
Maybe it will come to 
me as I'm telling the story.

01:08:15.468 --> 01:08:20.213
Anybody remember the evangelist

01:08:20.213 --> 01:08:22.393
who was evangelizing people

01:08:22.393 --> 01:08:31.364
after the Titanic went down?

01:08:31.364 --> 01:08:34.658
I can't think of it right off.

01:08:34.658 --> 01:08:36.704
Yeah, there was one that drowned.

01:08:36.704 --> 01:08:39.198
But there was another guy.

01:08:39.198 --> 01:08:45.486
There was a guy who was in the water

01:08:45.486 --> 01:08:47.197
in the North Atlantic.

01:08:47.197 --> 01:08:49.373
It's in the dark.

01:08:49.373 --> 01:08:51.838
And he found a board,

01:08:51.838 --> 01:08:53.246
and he was holding on to it.

01:08:53.246 --> 01:08:57.275
And he was able to get his 
body on top of the board.

01:08:57.275 --> 01:08:59.791
And he said,

01:08:59.791 --> 01:09:03.381
"Lord, there's no sense 
both of us staying awake.

01:09:03.381 --> 01:09:05.797
So I think I'm going to go to sleep."

01:09:05.797 --> 01:09:07.794
And he slept on that board.

01:09:07.794 --> 01:09:09.361
And this guy was rescued.

01:09:09.361 --> 01:09:13.073
There was a guy that was the last convert

01:09:13.073 --> 01:09:17.962
of... maybe his name was Brown.

01:09:17.962 --> 01:09:20.807
But he went to sleep.

NOTE Paragraph

01:09:20.807 --> 01:09:25.197
I remember one of these last times

01:09:25.197 --> 01:09:27.429
that maybe two or three years back,

01:09:27.429 --> 01:09:31.217
Ryan Fullerton was at the 
Denton conference with us,

01:09:31.217 --> 01:09:35.622
and we were talking just about trials

01:09:35.622 --> 01:09:37.987
that we'd gone through in the church.

01:09:37.987 --> 01:09:39.471
And Ryan said -

01:09:39.471 --> 01:09:46.019
I think I was telling him about

01:09:46.019 --> 01:09:49.864
the number of things 
that we were dealing with

01:09:49.864 --> 01:09:51.382
at a certain time.

01:09:51.382 --> 01:09:53.329
And he said, yeah, he said,

01:09:53.329 --> 01:09:55.303
isn't it amazing?

01:09:55.303 --> 01:09:58.347
He said I was saying this to our elders

01:09:58.347 --> 01:09:59.559
the other day.

01:09:59.559 --> 01:10:03.320
He was telling his elders,

01:10:03.320 --> 01:10:05.955
we can be dealing

01:10:05.955 --> 01:10:10.576
with five major problems in the church.

01:10:10.576 --> 01:10:13.428
He said, any one of which

01:10:13.428 --> 01:10:15.988
when we were young pastors

01:10:15.988 --> 01:10:18.277
would have just traumatized us.

01:10:18.277 --> 01:10:20.640
He says now we can experience five

01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:22.202
problems of that magnitude

01:10:22.202 --> 01:10:25.542
and still go home and 
play with our children.

01:10:25.542 --> 01:10:27.159
This is what I'm talking about

01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:28.553
when I'm talking about:

01:10:28.553 --> 01:10:30.154
can we rejoice?

01:10:30.154 --> 01:10:31.803
Can we sleep?

01:10:31.803 --> 01:10:33.610
Can we play?

01:10:33.610 --> 01:10:37.342
You see, can you take your anxieties -

01:10:37.342 --> 01:10:40.454
people that are suffering panic attacks

01:10:40.454 --> 01:10:44.706
and they just want to 
curl up in a fetal position,

01:10:44.706 --> 01:10:46.935
that's not what we're talking about here.

01:10:46.935 --> 01:10:49.343
We're talking about taking your fears,

01:10:49.343 --> 01:10:50.940
taking your cares,

01:10:50.940 --> 01:10:53.484
and being able to cast them on the Lord

01:10:53.484 --> 01:10:56.227
to the place where you can actually

01:10:56.227 --> 01:10:58.616
play with your children,

01:10:58.616 --> 01:11:00.962
and you can actually sleep soundly,

01:11:00.962 --> 01:11:03.262
and you can actually rejoice in the Lord.

01:11:03.262 --> 01:11:04.587
You can go to church

01:11:04.587 --> 01:11:06.422
and you can sing the songs

01:11:06.422 --> 01:11:08.765
and you can be lifted up to glory.

01:11:08.765 --> 01:11:11.731
Yes, there's still burdens there.

01:11:11.731 --> 01:11:15.611
But you're able to unload them.

01:11:15.611 --> 01:11:17.084
This is critical.

NOTE Paragraph

01:11:17.084 --> 01:11:23.439
Maybe one more.

01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:26.857
Did you notice

01:11:26.857 --> 01:11:29.977
in the parable of the soils,

01:11:29.977 --> 01:11:34.539
it actually says - yes, the fruit

01:11:34.539 --> 01:11:38.707
doesn't mature,

01:11:38.707 --> 01:11:42.223
but did you see what's actually choked?

01:11:42.223 --> 01:11:46.972
It chokes the Word.

01:11:46.972 --> 01:11:50.072
So here's the thing that I would ask you.

01:11:50.072 --> 01:11:53.023
If you have anxieties,

01:11:53.023 --> 01:11:54.230
if you have cares,

01:11:54.230 --> 01:11:57.525
you want to know if they're good or bad?

01:11:57.525 --> 01:12:03.361
Do those anxieties choke the Word?

01:12:03.361 --> 01:12:06.038
What does that mean?

01:12:06.038 --> 01:12:09.850
This is the Word.

01:12:09.850 --> 01:12:12.078
You know what, you're living

01:12:12.078 --> 01:12:15.339
with healthy anxieties

01:12:15.339 --> 01:12:18.820
if you really care, you're concerned

01:12:18.820 --> 01:12:20.988
about your holiness.

01:12:20.988 --> 01:12:23.050
You hate the sin in your life.

01:12:23.050 --> 01:12:24.535
You hate falls.

01:12:24.535 --> 01:12:27.123
You hate coming short of Christlikeness.

01:12:27.123 --> 01:12:29.349
You've got concerns.
You think about it.

01:12:29.349 --> 01:12:30.728
There's anxieties.

01:12:30.728 --> 01:12:32.425
You have anxieties about people

01:12:32.425 --> 01:12:33.740
because you love people.

01:12:33.740 --> 01:12:35.090
You care about people.

01:12:35.090 --> 01:12:36.601
You want to see people make it.

01:12:36.601 --> 01:12:38.426
You don't want to see people perish.

01:12:38.426 --> 01:12:40.068
You have people in your life

01:12:40.068 --> 01:12:42.007
that you've invested in.

01:12:42.007 --> 01:12:43.750
You want to see them succeed.

01:12:43.750 --> 01:12:45.622
You want to see them please the Lord.

01:12:45.622 --> 01:12:48.222
You're invested in that.

01:12:48.222 --> 01:12:49.429
Here's the thing,

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do your cares choke what's in here?

01:12:59.446 --> 01:13:03.313
Or do they fuel what's in here?

01:13:03.313 --> 01:13:05.013
You see, the bad cares

01:13:05.013 --> 01:13:07.739
choke the Word.

01:13:07.739 --> 01:13:11.321
If your big concern all the time

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is, "oh no, I need a better car."

01:13:14.853 --> 01:13:17.286
"Oh no, what about the TV?"

01:13:17.286 --> 01:13:19.644
(incomplete thought)

01:13:19.644 --> 01:13:21.724
Yes, my air conditioning 
was out last week,

01:13:21.724 --> 01:13:24.683
but if that's all your living about -
the cares of the world.

01:13:24.683 --> 01:13:27.248
Where you're so caught up 
with the air conditioning,

01:13:27.248 --> 01:13:28.080
and the car,

01:13:28.080 --> 01:13:29.633
and you're caught up with money,

01:13:29.633 --> 01:13:31.535
and you're caught up with retirement,

01:13:31.535 --> 01:13:33.355
and you're caught up with your shoes,

01:13:33.355 --> 01:13:36.242
and you're caught up with 
what the Smith's have next door,

01:13:36.242 --> 01:13:37.859
and you're caught up with your lawn,

01:13:37.859 --> 01:13:39.355
and you're caught up with the garden,

01:13:39.355 --> 01:13:40.898
and you're caught up with the trees,

01:13:40.898 --> 01:13:42.454
and you're caught up with your stuff

01:13:42.454 --> 01:13:43.462
and your hobbies,

01:13:43.462 --> 01:13:46.285
and you're just so consumed.

01:13:46.285 --> 01:13:48.129
Or even if you're caught up with people,

01:13:48.129 --> 01:13:49.579
you're caught up with your kids,

01:13:49.579 --> 01:13:51.464
you're caught up with 
what you're going to eat

01:13:51.464 --> 01:13:52.452
for the next meal.

01:13:52.452 --> 01:13:55.188
You're just so caught up with these things

01:13:55.188 --> 01:13:57.690
that you know what?

01:13:57.690 --> 01:14:02.320
You don't really live for other people.

01:14:02.320 --> 01:14:05.309
Think about the Word.

01:14:05.309 --> 01:14:07.770
I was hungry and you fed Me.

01:14:07.770 --> 01:14:09.764
But you're so concerned about

01:14:09.764 --> 01:14:10.994
your own bank account

01:14:10.994 --> 01:14:12.589
and your own shirts that you wear

01:14:12.589 --> 01:14:13.848
and your own belt

01:14:13.848 --> 01:14:14.895
and your own purse

01:14:14.895 --> 01:14:17.794
and your own everything.

01:14:17.794 --> 01:14:19.594
The cares of this world.

01:14:19.594 --> 01:14:21.623
Oh no, what am I going to do for college?

01:14:21.623 --> 01:14:23.189
What am I going to do for a job?

01:14:23.189 --> 01:14:27.138
And you're so caught up in your stuff

01:14:27.138 --> 01:14:30.973
that you never have time 
to love somebody else.

01:14:30.973 --> 01:14:33.663
You don't have time to 
invest in other people.

01:14:33.663 --> 01:14:39.221
You know, if you're really 
anxious about somebody -

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James was just telling me

01:14:40.516 --> 01:14:44.123
about somebody he and his wife

01:14:44.123 --> 01:14:48.221
have chosen to care for in another place.

01:14:48.221 --> 01:14:51.330
If you choose to invest in people's lives,

01:14:51.330 --> 01:14:53.201
you're thinking about their needs.

01:14:53.201 --> 01:14:55.161
You're thinking about how to give to them.

01:14:55.161 --> 01:14:57.563
You're thinking about how I can help.

01:14:57.563 --> 01:14:59.331
You see, that's what judgment day -

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Jesus says as much as you did it 
unto one of the least of these.

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What did they do?

01:15:04.771 --> 01:15:06.450
You don't visit people in prison

01:15:06.450 --> 01:15:08.169
unless you're thinking about those.

01:15:08.169 --> 01:15:11.597
I mean, I don't know, how many of you

01:15:11.597 --> 01:15:14.254
think about Johannes on a regular basis?

01:15:14.254 --> 01:15:19.048
I know he's not there 
because he's preaching Christ,

01:15:19.048 --> 01:15:24.616
but he professes to be a Christian.

01:15:24.616 --> 01:15:27.428
You know, if you think,

01:15:27.428 --> 01:15:29.194
you feel sighs...

01:15:29.194 --> 01:15:33.373
if you feel warm, fuzzy feelings,

01:15:33.373 --> 01:15:36.136
but you never meet people's needs,

01:15:36.136 --> 01:15:38.331
that's no different than you can

01:15:38.331 --> 01:15:40.673
watch a movie that's a sad story,

01:15:40.673 --> 01:15:41.838
and weep tears.

01:15:41.838 --> 01:15:43.097
You know what that is?

01:15:43.097 --> 01:15:45.121
That's just sentimentality.

01:15:45.121 --> 01:15:46.873
There's no love in that.

01:15:46.873 --> 01:15:50.159
That isn't the kind of anxiety.

01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:55.212
Look, bad anxieties choke the Word.

01:15:55.212 --> 01:15:58.580
Good anxieties do the Word.

01:15:58.580 --> 01:16:03.475
In fact, good anxieties fuel

01:16:03.475 --> 01:16:06.445
the commandments of Scripture.

01:16:06.445 --> 01:16:08.987
When you care about people

01:16:08.987 --> 01:16:10.690
and it produces anxieties,

01:16:10.690 --> 01:16:13.142
like Timothy cared about the Philippians,

01:16:13.142 --> 01:16:14.969
Paul cared about the churches.

01:16:14.969 --> 01:16:16.176
You know what that does?

01:16:16.176 --> 01:16:21.286
That fuels the Scriptures.

01:16:21.286 --> 01:16:24.209
It causes us to all the more embrace them

01:16:24.209 --> 01:16:26.532
and not be hearers only,

01:16:26.532 --> 01:16:28.137
deceiving your own selves,

01:16:28.137 --> 01:16:30.461
but to be doers.

01:16:30.461 --> 01:16:33.673
Oh, I guarantee, true 
and undefiled religion

01:16:33.673 --> 01:16:34.791
before the Lord

01:16:34.791 --> 01:16:37.418
is to visit the widow and the orphan

01:16:37.418 --> 01:16:42.231
in their afflictions.

01:16:42.231 --> 01:16:47.215
We have people - their Christian life

01:16:47.215 --> 01:16:49.673
is just trying not to sin.

01:16:49.673 --> 01:16:51.261
They're just trying to survive,

01:16:51.261 --> 01:16:52.542
not falling into drugs,

01:16:52.542 --> 01:16:54.131
not falling into alcohol,

01:16:54.131 --> 01:16:56.062
not falling back into prostitution,

01:16:56.062 --> 01:16:58.041
not falling into pornography.

01:16:58.041 --> 01:17:02.182
They're just trying to survive.

01:17:02.182 --> 01:17:08.374
Look, if your anxieties stop there,

01:17:08.374 --> 01:17:12.347
that's not good.

01:17:12.347 --> 01:17:14.383
The good anxieties in Scripture

01:17:14.383 --> 01:17:16.705
is when you care about people

01:17:16.705 --> 01:17:18.966
and it produces fruit

01:17:18.966 --> 01:17:23.549
and it doesn't choke the Word.

01:17:23.549 --> 01:17:27.977
It's consistent with keeping the Word.

01:17:27.977 --> 01:17:29.957
You care.

01:17:29.957 --> 01:17:32.227
You care and you invest your life.

01:17:32.227 --> 01:17:34.707
You care and you share the Gospel.

01:17:34.707 --> 01:17:39.059
You care and you give.

01:17:39.059 --> 01:17:43.374
Good anxiety is an outflow of love

01:17:43.374 --> 01:17:45.696
and love gives.

01:17:45.696 --> 01:17:47.447
And people who give,

01:17:47.447 --> 01:17:49.654
people who are anxious -

01:17:49.654 --> 01:17:52.125
why would somebody be anxious?

01:17:52.125 --> 01:17:54.390
When Paul says he's got this anxiety

01:17:54.390 --> 01:17:56.488
for the churches, you know what it means?

01:17:56.488 --> 01:18:01.287
He's thinking about them all the time.

01:18:01.287 --> 01:18:03.651
You know, we're thinking about new elders.

01:18:03.651 --> 01:18:05.466
I'll tell you, that's what you want.

01:18:05.466 --> 01:18:07.294
You want men who are going to be

01:18:07.294 --> 01:18:09.982
anxious about you.

01:18:09.982 --> 01:18:11.644
That's a good thing.

01:18:11.644 --> 01:18:12.830
I mean, if you find out,

01:18:12.830 --> 01:18:16.036
wow, don't you want somebody like Timothy?

01:18:16.036 --> 01:18:17.642
He doesn't mind his own things;

01:18:17.642 --> 01:18:19.077
He minds the things of Christ,

01:18:19.077 --> 01:18:20.645
and I have no one else like him,

01:18:20.645 --> 01:18:21.658
and he's anxious.

01:18:21.658 --> 01:18:23.545
Wouldn't you like to be able to say that

01:18:23.545 --> 01:18:29.222
about all the elders at our church?

01:18:29.222 --> 01:18:30.669
That we're anxious

01:18:30.669 --> 01:18:34.544
for every single one of you?

01:18:34.544 --> 01:18:36.597
God give us more of that anxiety.

01:18:36.597 --> 01:18:38.668
There is a good anxiety in Scripture.

01:18:38.668 --> 01:18:44.166
Something desperately to be sought.

01:18:44.166 --> 01:18:46.117
We want that anxiety.

01:18:46.117 --> 01:18:47.924
As parents, we want it.

01:18:47.924 --> 01:18:49.577
As elders, we want it.

01:18:49.577 --> 01:18:54.151
As Christians, we want it.

01:18:54.151 --> 01:18:56.048
Anybody want to add anything to that?

01:18:56.048 --> 01:18:57.103
(from the room)

01:18:57.103 --> 01:18:58.533
Could it be said

01:18:58.533 --> 01:19:00.502
that bad anxiety tends to be more selfish

01:19:00.502 --> 01:19:03.302
and good anxiety tends 
to be more selfless?

01:19:03.302 --> 01:19:04.944
Tim: Yes, definitely.

01:19:04.944 --> 01:19:08.255
The good anxiety is definitely

01:19:08.255 --> 01:19:10.130
a love-motivated thing

01:19:10.130 --> 01:19:15.784
where it seems like the bad anxieties

01:19:15.784 --> 01:19:17.969
turn away from Christ,

01:19:17.969 --> 01:19:19.596
they turn away from the Lord,

01:19:19.596 --> 01:19:24.232
they turn away from others

01:19:24.232 --> 01:19:27.508
and they bring the focus to us,

01:19:27.508 --> 01:19:29.427
even if it's idolatry.

01:19:29.427 --> 01:19:31.642
There's lots of people 
that get really anxious

01:19:31.642 --> 01:19:33.062
over family members.

01:19:33.062 --> 01:19:34.448
They're just afraid.

01:19:34.448 --> 01:19:35.778
They can't trust the Lord.

01:19:35.778 --> 01:19:38.532
They're afraid something's going 
to happen to my family member.

01:19:38.532 --> 01:19:42.301
Somebody's going to kill my child.
Somebody's going to rape my child.

01:19:42.301 --> 01:19:44.420
There are people that just can't

01:19:44.420 --> 01:19:47.268
trust the Lord with those things.

01:19:47.268 --> 01:19:51.505
There, the thing has stopped being love

01:19:51.505 --> 01:19:54.197
because it doesn't trust the Lord.

01:19:54.197 --> 01:19:56.709
Anything that doesn't 
trust the Lord is not good

01:19:56.709 --> 01:19:58.800
no matter what kind of 
spin you're putting on it

01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:00.588
because if you're not trusting the Lord,

01:20:00.588 --> 01:20:02.161
and you're just freaking out

01:20:02.161 --> 01:20:04.879
in a frenzy over -

01:20:04.879 --> 01:20:07.080
oh, I just can't trust the Lord with this

01:20:07.080 --> 01:20:10.671
and so I'm worried all the time.

01:20:10.671 --> 01:20:12.082
Well, that's bad

01:20:12.082 --> 01:20:15.226
because you're not trusting the Lord.

01:20:15.226 --> 01:20:17.546
You're not seeing the Lord for Who He is.

01:20:17.546 --> 01:20:22.516
You're not casting your care on Him.

01:20:22.516 --> 01:20:24.168
It may seem like it's love,

01:20:24.168 --> 01:20:26.458
but what it really is is idolatry.

01:20:26.458 --> 01:20:31.297
You've made a god out of those children.

01:20:31.297 --> 01:20:34.135
And you're not willing 
to trust the true God

01:20:34.135 --> 01:20:36.330
to take care of them.