WEBVTT 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:28.800 In Matthew chapter six, verse twenty-five, therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body what you will put on. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.840 Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:45.039 Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.640 Are you not of more value than they? 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:55.520 And which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his span of life? 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.640 And why are you anxious about clothing? 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.920 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.799 They neither toll nor spin. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.719 Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:21.359 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith. 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:31.760 Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what shall we wear? 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:40.560 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:54.879 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:02.480 Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.719 Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:08.960 Can you say amen? 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:11.280 Praise the Lord. 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:19.039 We live in a world of distraction. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.639 Would you say amen to that? 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:32.240 There is something constantly moving and glaring and peeping and sounding and whatever to get our attention. 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:45.439 Had a work meeting this past week and uh at the hotel in Dallas, there was it's a huge, I mean, it's like I think it was like 39 stories, the hotel was. 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:28.479 You walk into most places to eat now, and they got big TVs with the menus and stuff and all this other stuff, and there's distractions all over, you know, get this, buy that. 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:32.080 You know, I'm I'm no offense if you're in advertising. 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.800 I know none of us here are, but there's people that listen to this all over America. 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:43.120 And, you know, if you're if you're in if you're in advertising, God bless you, but I don't like you. 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.000 And what I mean by that is I hate commercials. 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.199 I don't like, I like the people, I don't like the commercials. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:04:00.240 The commercials drive me nuts because I look at it as I'm wasting part of my life on something that ain't important to me, right? 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:10.319 Well, how many times do we get distracted in our everyday life on things that are not profitable, that are not beneficial? 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.039 If you're like me, it happens, right? 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:20.480 And you can go into a rabbit hole, even in good things, you know, even in things that are not necessarily wrong, because they're trying to grab our attention. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.439 And that happens over and over and all the time. 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:31.040 We get notifications on our phone, we get, you know, we get uh emails, whatever it may be, we get them all the time. 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:37.279 And Jesus, as we read here, he says something very plainly and very poignantly, amen. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:38.560 He said, Don't be anxious. 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:40.639 Some versions say, Don't worry. 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:42.560 Don't worry. 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:44.639 Don't be anxious about your life. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.279 Don't worry about your life. 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.600 Not because our needs aren't real. 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.800 He said he knows we need those things, right? 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:59.279 Not because of that, but because worry is prayer aimed at yourself. 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.519 Think about that. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:05.519 Worry is prayer aimed at yourself. 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:10.079 You're thinking about yourself, you're talking to yourself, you're warning about yourself. 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.439 You cannot be worrying and being praying to God in a sincere manner. 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.480 And that doesn't mean that worry doesn't prompt us to pray. 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.600 It should, when it comes upon us, we should pray. 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:22.319 Amen. 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:29.920 But if all we're doing is worrying and we're being anxious, then all we're doing is directing it to ourselves instead of God, trusting him with it. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:36.720 And so we got to make sure that if we're going through something that's causing us anxiety or worry, why are we so focused on ourselves? 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.519 Why don't we put that focus on the one that can do something about it? 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.439 And his name is Jesus. 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.240 He says, look at the lilies, look at the birds. 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.319 He takes care of them, and will I not also take care of you? 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.920 Look at Mary and Martha in Luke 10. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.720 Martha wasn't sinning, right? 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.800 She was serving, she was working, right? 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:10.879 But Jesus said to Mary that she, or said about Mary that she chose what? 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.680 The good portion, the right thing. 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:20.720 Good things become wrong things when they take the first place and become a God thing. 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:29.040 Good things become wrong things when we make them God things, and they can be anything. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:37.759 They can be family, they can be friends, they can be spouse, they can be work, they can be chasing the buck, the dollar, whatever. 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:50.879 And you can also say the buck if you're you like hunting buck, but but anything can become a God and an idol if we put it where only God belongs. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.600 We got to be plain about it. 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:02.879 Most of us aren't running from God, we're just running. 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.680 And he's somewhere behind all the other things that we're focusing on. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:11.279 Think about that. 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.240 Most of us, now there's some may be, I don't know, everybody's heart. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.079 Maybe you ain't, maybe you are, I don't know. 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:21.360 But but you may be here this morning, you may be listening, and you may say, Well, I am running. 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.040 Well, God's there. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:23.680 Amen. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:27.600 But a lot of times we're not running, amen, from God in that sense. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:37.600 We just left him behind because we put other things in front of him in that sense, and we've let all the cares of this life get so important that we have pushed him to the side. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.319 Matthew 6, 33, Amen, he tells us what to do. 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:47.439 What does he tell us to do? 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.759 There's one command here and there's one promise. 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:56.160 Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:03.920 You see, if you read the verses before that, amen, the questions that we ask all the time, think about this. 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:05.439 He says, What shall we eat? 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:06.240 What shall we drink? 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:07.759 What shall we wear? 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:14.800 Basically, what he is saying is, is he saying that we asked God, are you going to take care of us? 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:18.800 Are you going to take care of us? 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:29.199 Listen, here recently, uh I remember when I switched jobs and I was asking God a question about this question, about this, about this, and in my heart he just said, Haven't I always took care of you? 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:30.399 And I just broke. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:31.920 I was in the kitchen, I'll never forget it. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:32.559 He just spoke to me. 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.639 I was thinking about it, he said, Haven't I always took care of you? 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.000 I'm like, Yes, Lord, you have. 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:37.279 And I just felt bad. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.399 You know, I should have never even been worried about it. 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:43.200 And things got off good and was going good. 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:45.919 Recently it's been really, really hard. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:54.960 But then he reminded me, the same God I praised who for who opened the door, who promised to take care of me, is the same God that's going to help me even when everything ain't like I want it to be. 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:56.879 How do I know? 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:58.639 Because he don't change. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.679 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:08.080 And if I truly believe that, then the God that I shout about on the mountain is still the God I reach for in the valley. 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:10.080 Amen. 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:11.279 Because he's still there. 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:12.480 How do I know he's still there? 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.960 For he said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you, but I'll go with you to the very end. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.120 So I know that God's with me. 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:20.399 I know that God is there. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.000 I know that God's not changed. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:22.639 Amen. 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:23.600 Because he can't change. 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:24.480 He's immutable. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:26.240 He changes not, right? 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:28.320 It's what scripture teaches us. 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:34.799 If you get into it, I'm not today, but there's an impossibility of God, not impasse, but impossibility. 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:36.960 Not impossible, but impassibility. 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:40.559 It's I M P A S S I B A B-I-L-L-T-Y. 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:42.159 Amen. 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.120 But God is the same. 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:46.879 He is the same. 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.240 And so when we we see here when they're saying, well, what are you going to eat? 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:50.799 What are we going to drink? 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:51.360 What are we going to do? 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:53.039 He will take care of us. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:54.960 We don't have to wonder, will he? 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.720 We just don't know how he. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:58.799 That's the problem, isn't it? 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:01.440 Sometimes we'll say, Well, God, I know you are, but I just don't know how. 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.000 And it just made me feel a whole lot better if you tell me how. 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:16.080 But you know, sometimes we forget, you know, that what we the story, and I don't like calling them stories, even though because they really happen, they're historical events. 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:17.840 If they're in the Bible, they're historical. 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:22.000 But Elijah, he commanded the birds to fit him. 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:23.360 Ravens. 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:25.679 Right. 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:29.519 And then when the brook dried up, what did he tell him to do? 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:30.000 Leave. 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.159 Because if he'd have stayed, he would have died. 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.759 There's a widow that's going to take care of you. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:36.480 Right? 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.159 God took care of him. 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.039 He said, No, it's that, no, but God put it on. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:42.320 God did it. 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:46.000 And so the God doesn't change, even if our situation does. 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.720 And so when we think about, well, you know, I just don't understand all this stuff. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:51.279 Yeah. 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.159 But he tells us what to do to what? 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:59.440 Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added. 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:07.759 If you'll put me first, if you'll seek after me and seek my righteousness, then I'll take care of this other stuff that you're so worried about. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:11.279 So, okay. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.039 What does it mean to seek first? 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:14.080 Him first. 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:16.399 That means that he is the priority in your life. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:18.639 He is the preeminent one in your life. 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:24.639 He is the first one you think of and you run to in your needs and your situations in life. 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.840 And not just in needs and situations, but just because you love him. 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:42.080 Who does the kids run to when they're especially when they're little, when they when they're hurting, when they're happy, when they need help, when they get hurt, they go to mom and daddy. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:44.480 Usually in that order. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:46.559 Usually mama first, then daddy. 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:48.240 Not always, but you know, right? 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.240 They run to them, right? 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:51.039 Why? 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:52.799 Because they know they love them. 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:58.879 They know that their mom, if and if you're in a situation where your parents didn't treat you that way, I'm sorry. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.600 God will help you, and I don't mean that condescending. 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:03.919 You know, God will help you, right? 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:08.159 But thank God for you that like me, we were raised in good families. 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.960 Now, my parents was far from perfect, just like I am. 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.159 I'm far from perfect. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:18.240 But if you lived in a home where you didn't have to wonder if you was going to have somewhere to sleep, somewhere to eat, that's a blessing. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.519 And they do, they run because they know that they care. 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.200 And we should go to God because we know he cares. 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:30.240 Do we really, really know that he loves us and that he's gonna take care of us? 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.320 If we do, then we're gonna seek after him. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:33.440 We're gonna run after him. 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:38.480 And look, he says, in his righteousness and his righteousness. 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.720 Listen, don't misunderstand this. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:44.000 This ain't you being good enough. 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:50.639 This is you following Christ's example through the power and the enablement of the Holy Spirit. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:51.279 Amen. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.799 And through that, his righteousness is seen through your life. 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:55.759 Amen. 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.720 And that's what we need to seek after. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.399 I don't want people to hear me. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:01.519 I don't want them to know me. 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:02.720 You say, well, they're gonna hear you. 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:09.279 Yeah, but I want the power and the presence and the person that shines through above everything is to be Jesus. 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.080 Because if it is, then they'll be blessed. 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.639 If it ain't, if it ain't, then they won't be. 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:20.720 I'm acutely aware that there's nothing special about me except Jesus. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:21.679 Amen. 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:23.519 You say, well, you're talking bad about yourself. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:24.639 I don't mean it like that. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:29.279 Paul said it this way: my righteousness, uh, amen, is of filthy rags. 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:30.960 Amen. 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.480 That's literally, if you get into the translation, they're not trying to be gross. 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.080 It's it's minstrel rags. 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.679 It's it's it's it is just it's bad. 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:44.720 So it ain't my righteousness that I need to seek after. 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.759 He says we need to seek after his righteousness. 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:56.960 And when we put him first and his work and his plan, amen, and seek after his righteousness and walk in his way, amen. 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.120 Then we he says, What? 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:01.039 All these things will be added to you. 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:01.919 There is a promise. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.519 There's a command, which is seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:11.200 We've got to do what he says, but then there's a promise, and all these things will be added to you. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:18.559 When we think about first things first, if God ain't first, everything else is out of order, as we said earlier. 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:28.559 And so we've got to understand that yes, God promises to supply, but all a lot of times all people hear, right, is that last part, and all these things will be added to you. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:34.639 We hear, delight myself in the Lord, he'll give us all the desires of your heart. 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:35.840 We hear that last part. 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:37.440 But what's the first part? 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:40.080 Delight yourself in the Lord. 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:47.759 Let him be where you gain the most joy from, the most peace from, where your heart rests in. 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:48.879 Hallelujah. 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.240 I'm at peace because of the peace speaker. 00:14:53.039 --> 00:15:02.240 I have hope because the hope of life everlasting is in me through the salvation that he's afforded me through his work on the cross. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.200 One command. 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:12.799 With a promise and one promise. 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:26.480 Notice here, he didn't say you can figure it out after that, and somehow it'll work out. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.440 No, he said all these will be added to you. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:34.080 It ain't you doing the adding, it's God's doing the adding. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:35.039 Amen. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.440 God will add it to you. 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.759 And here's the thing that we struggle with sometimes. 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.519 Sometimes we want him to add things to us that he sees we're not ready for. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:45.600 Right? 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.879 And that doesn't mean we say, well, he said he'll take care of us, he will. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.600 And he'll make sure you have the needs that you have need of. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:52.559 He'll take care of that. 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:55.519 There's some things that we think are needs that are not. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:01.919 And those things that aren't needs that we think is needs, and and we get aggravated because we ain't got them. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:08.320 And all the while, God's saying, you know, really, there's only one need that we all have. 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:10.799 And that's the need of a savior. 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.879 That's that's who what we really need. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:16.639 Amen. 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.440 Apart from needing salvation, amen. 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:20.639 Now you say, well, what about food? 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:34.320 Well, yeah, I mean, our our physical bodies need it, but in the grand scheme of eternity, if my body died, that's why Paul said, for me to live is what Christ and to dies gain. 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:43.679 So even if my body wastes away, as long as I have what really matters, and that's Christ in my heart, in my life, amen. 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:53.519 Then if my body leaves this place and my body passes away and degradates and returns to the ground, well, my spirit will not be here. 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.679 For he said to be absent from the body is what? 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:57.759 Is to be present with the Lord. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:04.319 And so if I leave my body here, the physical body dies, my spiritual body is going to be with him. 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:10.480 And that's the most need that we have is to have Christ in our life. 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:21.839 God doesn't ask for our first, our best, because he needs it. 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:24.480 Get that into our hearts. 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.400 Some people say, well, God is God is greedy, God is jealous. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.400 He is jealous, but not in a sinful way. 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:32.240 He says he's a jealous God. 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.960 And it's not being greedy when you deserve it. 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:37.680 Well, he wants everything. 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:39.039 He deserves it all. 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:40.559 There's a song. 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:42.480 You're worthy of it all. 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:44.640 You are worthy of it all. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.640 For from you are things, and to you are a things. 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:49.839 You are worthy of it all. 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:50.960 And that's scripture, by the way. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:52.480 You're worthy of it all. 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:59.440 And so it's not him being greedy, it's not him having an ego trip because he actually deserves it. 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:02.799 He deserves it. 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:10.400 He asks for our first because that's where faith lives and is revealed. 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:22.720 If I truly believe that he is God and He is my Savior and He is my Lord, then I'm going to put Him first because I understand apart from Him, I'm lost. 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:25.519 I understand that He is divine. 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:27.759 And I'm just a branch. 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:33.039 I understand that, as He said in John 15, apart from Him, I can do nothing. 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.519 Apart from the life of Christ flowing in and through me, you say, Well, I did a lot of stuff before Jesus. 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:38.559 Yeah, but they weren't good. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.039 You say, Well, I did some civic things. 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:41.599 Okay. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:48.240 I believe that God can use people to do civic things, but it wasn't good in the sense of God's righteousness, good. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.759 It wasn't good in the sense of qualifying salvation. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:58.720 There's only one that's lived, that's qualified for perfection, that did nothing wrong. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:04.559 A man that died and was raised again because of his perfect life, and his name is Jesus. 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:14.559 God doesn't ask for your first because he needs it. 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.039 I'm gonna throw out a theological word. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:17.839 You can look it up. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:23.839 Some of you already know it, but I remind try to remind myself of it a lot uh every so often as well. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.000 It's the asseity of God. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.319 The asseity of God. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:30.319 A-S-E-I-T-Y. 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.079 My memory serves me correct. 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.279 It means that he is fully, complete, and total and needs nothing. 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:41.680 He is in of himself, he has everything he needs. 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:43.680 He didn't create man because he was lonely. 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:45.920 Get that out of your mind. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.359 If you thought that, wrong. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:48.400 Amen. 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:53.519 He had fellowship in the Godhead for all eternity. 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:54.319 Right? 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:58.240 He chose to create us, but he didn't need to create us. 00:19:58.480 --> 00:19:59.119 Amen. 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:06.319 Verse 34. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:11.599 He says, Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.440 Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:23.119 Notice here that Jesus confines worry to what? 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:26.799 Today. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:28.079 Right? 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:34.400 What I mean by that is that the only thing that we know about is today. 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:36.960 We can't change yesterday, or we that we can affect is today. 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:38.160 We can't change yesterday. 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:39.440 We don't know the future. 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:44.319 So today we shouldn't worry about it because today is the only day that we know about. 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:45.599 Amen. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:47.359 It's the only day we know about. 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:49.039 We don't know what's going to happen later today. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:50.720 We don't know what's going to happen in 10 minutes. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:53.119 We can't change what happened five minutes ago. 00:20:53.359 --> 00:21:04.559 But right now, in this moment, he tells us, amen, not to be anxious, not to worry and say, God, in this moment, I'm going to trust you. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:11.359 It's an active participation in his presence and in his promise. 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:13.200 I'll say it again. 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:17.279 It's an active participation in his presence and in his promises. 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:24.079 When we don't worry, but we have faith in him, it's an active participation in his presence and in his promise. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:24.720 Amen. 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:26.319 He's with me, so I don't have to fear. 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.000 That's why David said, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, what? 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:31.200 I will fear no evil. 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:31.680 Why? 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.200 For you are with me. 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:41.039 The whole qualifier of why he wasn't afraid was not because of the situation wasn't scary, it's a valley of death. 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:44.000 It wasn't because it wasn't hard or difficult or whatever. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.160 It was all that, and symbolically speaking. 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:47.519 He was in the valley of death. 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:54.319 But the reason why, even though the situation was dire and terrible, I don't have to fear about that because he's with me. 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:58.319 And if you really believe God, I feel the Holy Ghost. 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:06.079 If you really believe God this morning and you know he's with you, it's enough. 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:09.039 It's enough. 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:10.400 It's enough. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:12.319 It's enough. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:25.599 For tomorrow will be anxious for itself, sufficient for what? 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:30.079 The day is its own troubles. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.839 So first, seek first Him.