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Greg Laurie - What Jesus Says About Worry and Anxiety

June 3, 2025 | S25:E132

Greg Laurie - What Jesus Says About Worry and Anxiety
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - What Jesus Says About Worry and Anxiety | June 3, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: listen, worry is not a virtue.
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  • Let me take it a step further.
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  • Worry can actually be a sin.
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  • Why?
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  • Because worry is really a lack of trust in god.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: how many of you struggle with fear, anxiety, and worry?
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  • Raise your hand.
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  • Okay, quite a-- quite a few of you.
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  • I read recently that millennials and gen z are the most stressed
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  • Generations ever.
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  • For this generation, antidepressants are the
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  • Bestselling pharmaceuticals.
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  • In fact, i read this: antidepressant use among 12- to
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  • 25-year-olds increased 66% over 6 years.
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  • That's 6 years, not 60 years; literally, from 2016 to 2022.
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  • This generation also has the highest suicide rate.
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  • I think you could trace a lot of this back to one thing:
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  • Avocado toast.
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  • Now, let me explain.
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  • I actually had avocado toast this morning.
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  • It was very good.
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  • My wife made it for me with a couple of fried eggs, a little
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  • Bit of bacon.
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  • But when you go and buy it in a restaurant, it's very expensive.
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  • I read that one financial expert advised millennials who want to
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  • One day maybe buy their own home, he said stop buying
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  • Avocado toast.
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  • You know, spend your money more wisely.
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  • But i think, honestly, a lot of this stress comes from a device
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  • Most of us carry around in our pockets: smartphones.
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  • You know, you can trace everything back to 2008.
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  • Prior to the emergence of what we call the smartphone,
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  • Specifically the iphone introduced by steve jobs, the
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  • Most popular phone was the blackberry.
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  • Remember the blackberry?
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  • Little buttons you pushed.
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  • They were so popular, some called it the crackberry, okay?
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  • And they pretty much were dominating the market.
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  • But along comes steve jobs with this brand new concept for a
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  • Phone that was all a screen instead of little buttons
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  • You pushed.
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  • It was so anticipated, they actually called it the
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  • Jesus phone.
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  • And when he revealed it, it changed everything because now,
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  • Not only could you make phone calls, yeah, it does that too,
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  • But you could access media.
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  • And then, of course, on its heels, comes the explosion of
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  • Social media and so many of the problems in culture today trace
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  • Directly back to that.
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  • In fact, 44% of people that are constantly checking their phones
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  • Feel isolated because of this technology, even when they're
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  • With their families.
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  • I remember i was in maui a while ago and we were sitting watching
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  • The sunset, beautiful maui sunset, and i watched a family
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  • Sitting at their table: not one person was looking at the
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  • Sunset, they were all flipping through their phones.
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  • Now they have little holders on baby carriages for iphones and
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  • Tablets as well.
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  • Is this good to be getting these kids into this stuff that soon?
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  • And so everything has cause and effect.
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  • There's an article in "forbes magazine."
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  • It says, "the more we use social media, the less happy we seem
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  • To be.
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  • Multiple studies have found a strong link between heavy social
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  • Media use and an increased risk for depression, anxiety,
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  • Loneliness, self-harm, even suicidal thoughts and an intense
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  • Craving for avocado toast."
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  • No, i added that, okay?
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  • But you see, it can really distract you, and honestly,
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  • There's a lot of things to be anxious about today.
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  • A poll was taken among people and they were asked, "what are
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  • You most afraid of?
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  • What is your number one fear?"
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  • It wasn't nuclear war, it wasn't the economy collapsing.
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  • It was my appearance.
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  • So it's like we may all die in a nuclear blast, but how do i look
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  • In this outfit?
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  • Right, that's so funny, isn't it?
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  • But yeah, there are things we get stressed about.
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  • I myself, of course, get worried like anybody else.
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  • So for many of us, we worry about everything.
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  • We worry about what we're gonna eat, what we're gonna wear,
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  • Where we're gonna live, what we're going to do.
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  • We worry about, when things are good about when they're gonna be
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  • Bad, and when things are bad, we worry if they'll ever be
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  • Good again.
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  • We worry a lot about what people think about us.
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  • "what do they think about me?
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  • What do they think about that post?
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  • I didn't get as many likes on this one as i got on the
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  • Other one."
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  • You would spend less time worrying about what people think
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  • About you if you realized how little they do.
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  • But we spend a lot of needless time worrying about so
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  • Many things.
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  • I heard about one guy who had a real problem with worry.
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  • So he decided to hire someone to worry for him.
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  • He put out an ad.
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  • A guy applied.
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  • He said, i'll pay you $500 a day to worry for me.
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  • So his buddy ran into him and said, "man, you seem
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  • Stress free."
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  • He goes, "oh yeah, i don't worry anymore at all."
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  • He told him about this guy he hired, pays him 500 a day.
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  • The guy says, "you don't make that kind of money.
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  • How are you gonna pay that guy?"
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  • He says, "that's for him to worry about."
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  • So you might try that.
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  • How many of you have heard that joke before?
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  • What do you want, a medal?
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  • Okay, so what do you worry about?
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  • What stresses you out?
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  • What are you the most anxious about?
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  • Let's look at matthew chapter 6, starting in verse 25: "i say to
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  • You do not worry about everyday life--whether you have enough
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  • Food and drink, or clothes to wear.
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  • Isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing?
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  • Look at the birds.
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  • They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your
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  • Heavenly father feeds them.
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  • Aren't you more valuable to him than they are?
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  • Can you with all of your worries add a single moment to
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  • Your life?
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  • Why worry about your clothing?
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  • Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow.
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  • They don't work or make their clothing, yet solomon in all of
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  • His glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
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  • So if god so cares for wild flowers that are here today and
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  • Thrown into the fire tomorrow, he certainly cares for you.
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  • Why don't you have more faith?
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  • Don't worry about these things, saying, 'what will we eat?
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  • What will we drink?
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  • What will we wear?'
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  • These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but
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  • Your heavenly father knows all your needs."
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  • This is the big verse.
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  • "seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness, and all
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  • These things will be added to you.
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  • So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its
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  • Own worries.
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  • Today's trouble is enough for today," wow.
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  • Point number one, if you're taking notes, the believer
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  • Should not worry.
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  • The believer should not worry.
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  • Jesus was not saying that christians should not think
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  • About or be concerned with the needs of their life, including
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  • Housing, food, and clothing.
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  • Because the fact is elsewhere in scripture, we're told to plan
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  • For the future, we're told to work hard, we're told to save
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  • Our money.
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  • Jesus was just saying, "don't worry about these things.
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  • Don't worry," he says in verse 25, "about everyday life."
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  • A better translation would be, "stop having anxiety
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  • About this."
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  • It's one thing to think about it.
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  • It's another thing to have constant anxiety about it.
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  • Listen, worry is not a virtue.
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  • Let me take it a step further.
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  • Worry can actually be a sin.
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  • Why?
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  • Because worry is really a lack of trust in god.
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  • You're not trusting god.
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  • I mean, if you believe genesis 1:1, that should deal with worry
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  • Once and for all.
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  • What is genesis 1:1?
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  • It says, "in the beginning, god created the heavens and
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  • The earth."
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  • How many of you believe that verse is true?
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  • Okay, i do too.
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  • If that is true, and of course it is, that god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth, this all-knowing, all-powerful
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  • Sovereign god, then certainly he is able to deal with your
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  • Problems and mine.
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  • So why then am i worrying about them?
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  • Good question.
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  • Worry is a lot like a rocking chair.
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  • You're always moving but never getting anywhere.
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  • The problem with worry is it's interest paid on trouble
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  • Before it's due.
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  • The fact is, worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow.
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  • It empties today of its strength.
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  • The great theologian martyn lloyd-jones made this statement,
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  • Quote, "the result of worrying about the future is that you're
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  • Crippling yourself in the present," end quote.
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  • Greg: there's an old fable
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  • About when death was making his way to a city.
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  • A man stopped him and said, "what are you doing?"
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  • Death said, "i'm coming to take the lives of 100 people."
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  • The man said, "that's horrible.
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  • You can't do that."
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  • Death says, "that's what i do."
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  • So the man ran ahead of death and warned everyone, "death is
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  • Coming, death is coming."
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  • The day comes to a close, the man runs into death again,
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  • That's leaving the city.
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  • The man says, "you said you were coming to claim the lives of 100
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  • People, but 1000 people died."
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  • Death said, "i kept my word.
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  • I took the lives of 100 people.
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  • Worry took the rest."
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  • Worry.
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  • It comes from a root word that means to strangle and choke and
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  • We all know what it's like to be choked out by worry.
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  • But here's what the bible says: "don't worry about anything, but
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  • Pray about everything, and the peace of god that passes all
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  • Human understanding will keep your heart and mind in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • Listen, the best antidote to worry is prayer.
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  • So turn your worry into worship, turn your panic into prayer.
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  • The next time you're faced with a "what if" scenario: what if
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  • This happens?
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  • What if that happens?
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  • Commit it to god.
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  • Say, "lord, i trust in you.
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  • I look to you.
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  • I put this burden in your hands."
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  • The bible says in 1 peter: "cast all of your care upon him for he
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  • Cares for you."
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  • And the word "cast" means to throw something: take your
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  • Burdens, take your problems, and throw them on god who has asked
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  • You to do that and trust in him.
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  • Don't worry: pray.
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  • Greg: number two, worry
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  • Is a lack of trust. it's not believing god's in control.
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  • Classic example of this is the prophet daniel.
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  • He was called by god to be an advisor to king darius, and
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  • Darius really valued the counsel of daniel.
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  • Darius thought very highly of daniel.
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  • And the other counselors to the king were jealous of daniel's
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  • Influence, and so they wanted to undermine him and they made up
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  • Things that were not true about him.
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  • And then they hatched a plot to get the king to sign a decree
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  • That no one could pray to any one except the king or they
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  • Would have to die.
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  • Well, daniel had a habit of prayer, good habit.
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  • Every day, he would pray.
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  • In fact, three times a day, he would pray.
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  • And so, after he read this decree, you can no longer pray,
  • 00:11:45.272 --> 00:11:48.742
  • He prayed and then he was arrested and he was put into a
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  • Den of hungry lions.
  • 00:11:52.979 --> 00:11:55.682
  • And an interesting thing happened that night.
  • 00:11:55.682 --> 00:11:57.718
  • The king was up all night.
  • 00:11:57.718 --> 00:11:59.586
  • He couldn't sleep, worrying about daniel.
  • 00:11:59.586 --> 00:12:02.222
  • And daniel slept like a baby, probably used one of the lions
  • 00:12:02.222 --> 00:12:06.193
  • For a pillow, propped his feet up on the other one.
  • 00:12:06.193 --> 00:12:10.297
  • And so that's the difference between a believer and
  • 00:12:10.297 --> 00:12:12.466
  • A non-believer.
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  • When chaos and turmoil is happening around us, a believer
  • 00:12:13.834 --> 00:12:17.204
  • Can be at rest but a non-believer cannot.
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  • The bible says he gives to his beloved, sleep.
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  • When you're getting ready to go to sleep at night
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  • Remind yourself of the promises of god.
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  • Learn to quote scripture to yourself to help you rest.
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  • Now, jesus illustrates.
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  • Birds don't worry.
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  • Why should we?
  • 00:12:37.457 --> 00:12:38.792
  • Look at verse 26: "look at the birds."
  • 00:12:38.792 --> 00:12:41.862
  • Now, jesus is outside.
  • 00:12:41.862 --> 00:12:43.897
  • He would often use things that were happening around
  • 00:12:43.897 --> 00:12:46.833
  • As illustrations.
  • 00:12:46.833 --> 00:12:48.168
  • No doubt there were some birds nearby.
  • 00:12:48.168 --> 00:12:49.536
  • "hey, look at these birds.
  • 00:12:49.536 --> 00:12:51.071
  • Do these birds look worried to you?"
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  • I love birds.
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  • I like to watch birds eat.
  • 00:12:55.909 --> 00:12:57.244
  • So i have two bird feeders in my backyard.
  • 00:12:57.244 --> 00:12:59.246
  • One is filled with seed and then another one is for
  • 00:12:59.246 --> 00:13:02.182
  • The hummingbirds.
  • 00:13:02.182 --> 00:13:03.617
  • And the hummingbirds, they go through their bird feeder a lot
  • 00:13:03.617 --> 00:13:06.520
  • Faster than the other ones do.
  • 00:13:06.520 --> 00:13:08.922
  • The little hummingbirds come and drink it all.
  • 00:13:08.922 --> 00:13:11.024
  • It's just sugar water, but they come, they're like little
  • 00:13:11.024 --> 00:13:13.994
  • Alcoholics or something, they just can't get enough, you know?
  • 00:13:13.994 --> 00:13:17.497
  • And they're just drinking constantly, drinking constantly.
  • 00:13:17.497 --> 00:13:20.133
  • And so we went on a short trip for a few days and the
  • 00:13:20.133 --> 00:13:23.904
  • Hummingbird feeder was empty when we got back and they
  • 00:13:23.904 --> 00:13:26.273
  • Didn't return.
  • 00:13:26.273 --> 00:13:27.707
  • It's almost like they were mad at me.
  • 00:13:27.707 --> 00:13:29.176
  • I think i offended the hummingbird community.
  • 00:13:29.176 --> 00:13:32.646
  • So i quickly issued a tweet and told them that we have more
  • 00:13:32.646 --> 00:13:37.050
  • Hummingbird food for you.
  • 00:13:37.050 --> 00:13:38.385
  • But now, of course, it's x but they'd all moved over to tiktok.
  • 00:13:38.385 --> 00:13:41.721
  • So i had to make a video to reach those hummingbirds, but
  • 00:13:41.721 --> 00:13:45.058
  • They're back now.
  • 00:13:45.058 --> 00:13:46.626
  • But you know, the birds are stress free.
  • 00:13:46.626 --> 00:13:49.563
  • Now, they still collect seed, they still do their little jobs.
  • 00:13:49.563 --> 00:13:53.700
  • You know, some eat seed, some come to my bird feeders and get
  • 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:57.437
  • Free food.
  • 00:13:57.437 --> 00:13:58.772
  • Some hang out at mcdonald's and wait for the fry to hit
  • 00:13:58.772 --> 00:14:01.274
  • The ground.
  • 00:14:01.274 --> 00:14:02.609
  • Sometimes they don't even wait for it to hit the ground,
  • 00:14:02.609 --> 00:14:04.477
  • They'll steal it from you.
  • 00:14:04.477 --> 00:14:05.912
  • Then there are seagulls, they eat anything they want, they
  • 00:14:05.912 --> 00:14:09.382
  • Carry off your food, they carry off your children.
  • 00:14:09.382 --> 00:14:12.786
  • They fly off with your small dogs, which may be a good thing.
  • 00:14:12.786 --> 00:14:15.789
  • But still, birds don't worry.
  • 00:14:15.789 --> 00:14:18.959
  • Why do you worry?
  • 00:14:18.959 --> 00:14:20.493
  • Have you ever seen a birb--a birb?
  • 00:14:20.493 --> 00:14:22.963
  • What's a birb?
  • 00:14:22.963 --> 00:14:24.331
  • Have you ever seen a bird taking a valium or biting his
  • 00:14:24.331 --> 00:14:28.235
  • Little talons?
  • 00:14:28.235 --> 00:14:29.569
  • No, they're stress free.
  • 00:14:29.569 --> 00:14:30.937
  • "look at the birds," says jesus.
  • 00:14:30.937 --> 00:14:33.273
  • "they don't worry.
  • 00:14:33.273 --> 00:14:34.641
  • Why do you?"
  • 00:14:34.641 --> 00:14:36.009
  • You ever heard that poem about the birds?
  • 00:14:36.009 --> 00:14:38.411
  • "said the robin to the sparrow, friend, i'd really like to know,
  • 00:14:38.411 --> 00:14:43.450
  • Why these anxious human beings rush about and worry so.
  • 00:14:43.450 --> 00:14:47.921
  • Said the sparrow to the robin, friend, i think that it must be,
  • 00:14:47.921 --> 00:14:51.858
  • That they have no heavenly father such as cares for you
  • 00:14:51.858 --> 00:14:55.996
  • And me."
  • 00:14:55.996 --> 00:14:57.364
  • "look at the birds," jesus says, "they don't worry."
  • 00:14:57.364 --> 00:14:59.866
  • Then he says, "look at the flowers."
  • 00:14:59.866 --> 00:15:02.302
  • Verse 28: "why do you worry about clothing?
  • 00:15:02.302 --> 00:15:05.205
  • Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow.
  • 00:15:05.205 --> 00:15:08.108
  • They don't work or make their clothing, yet solomon in all of
  • 00:15:08.108 --> 00:15:11.378
  • His glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are."
  • 00:15:11.378 --> 00:15:15.181
  • Now, when jesus says "lilies," it wouldn't be like an
  • 00:15:15.181 --> 00:15:18.184
  • Easter lily.
  • 00:15:18.184 --> 00:15:19.552
  • Would be more like the wild flowers that we see out in
  • 00:15:19.552 --> 00:15:22.689
  • The countryside.
  • 00:15:22.689 --> 00:15:24.024
  • Look at all these flowers.
  • 00:15:24.024 --> 00:15:25.825
  • They're so beautiful.
  • 00:15:25.825 --> 00:15:27.193
  • God cares for them, won't he care for you?
  • 00:15:27.193 --> 00:15:30.497
  • God clothes them, won't he clothe you as well?
  • 00:15:30.497 --> 00:15:35.201
  • He'll take care of you as well.
  • 00:15:35.201 --> 00:15:37.337
  • It's just a reminder that sometimes we become a little too
  • 00:15:37.337 --> 00:15:41.141
  • Focused on these outward things and we forget about the things
  • 00:15:41.141 --> 00:15:44.644
  • That really matter.
  • 00:15:44.644 --> 00:15:46.413
  • 1 timothy 4 says: "physical exercise has some value, but
  • 00:15:46.413 --> 00:15:51.084
  • Spiritual exercise is much more important and it promises
  • 00:15:51.084 --> 00:15:54.821
  • A reward for this life and the next."
  • 00:15:54.821 --> 00:15:57.324
  • We don't want to go too far either way.
  • 00:15:57.324 --> 00:15:58.892
  • Too much emphasis on the physical, neglecting the
  • 00:15:58.892 --> 00:16:01.628
  • Spiritual, so much emphasis on the spiritual, we neglect
  • 00:16:01.628 --> 00:16:06.333
  • The physical.
  • 00:16:06.333 --> 00:16:07.968
  • Look, god has placed a soul in a physical body.
  • 00:16:07.968 --> 00:16:13.139
  • Your body is the temple of the holy spirit.
  • 00:16:13.139 --> 00:16:16.142
  • You wanna take care of it, but don't be obsessed with the
  • 00:16:16.142 --> 00:16:19.512
  • Outward and forget about the inward.
  • 00:16:19.512 --> 00:16:22.716
  • Number three: worry does not make life longer; it just makes
  • 00:16:22.716 --> 00:16:27.687
  • It more miserable.
  • 00:16:27.687 --> 00:16:29.556
  • Worry does not make life longer; it just makes it more miserable.
  • 00:16:29.556 --> 00:16:33.994
  • Verse 27: "can all of your worries add a single moment to
  • 00:16:33.994 --> 00:16:38.565
  • Your life?"
  • 00:16:38.565 --> 00:16:40.433
  • Now, there are obviously things that we can do to bring our life
  • 00:16:40.433 --> 00:16:44.571
  • To an end sooner than we should, living dangerously or living in
  • 00:16:44.571 --> 00:16:50.477
  • A very unhealthy manner.
  • 00:16:50.477 --> 00:16:52.245
  • But by and large, the bible is saying god's in control of
  • 00:16:52.245 --> 00:16:54.848
  • Your life.
  • 00:16:54.848 --> 00:16:56.216
  • Your days are numbered, the bible says, so help me apply my
  • 00:16:56.216 --> 00:17:00.987
  • Heart to wisdom.
  • 00:17:00.987 --> 00:17:02.322
  • God's in control of that.
  • 00:17:02.322 --> 00:17:03.690
  • By worrying about that, you're not going to extend the length
  • 00:17:03.690 --> 00:17:06.993
  • Of your life.
  • 00:17:06.993 --> 00:17:08.461
  • So don't worry about it.
  • 00:17:08.461 --> 00:17:10.797
  • Number four, instead of worry, put god and his will first in
  • 00:17:10.797 --> 00:17:15.902
  • Your life.
  • 00:17:15.902 --> 00:17:17.270
  • Instead of worrying, put god and his will first in your life.
  • 00:17:17.270 --> 00:17:21.141
  • Matthew 6:33: "seek first the kingdom of god and his
  • 00:17:21.141 --> 00:17:25.011
  • Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."
  • 00:17:25.011 --> 00:17:28.615
  • So put god first in your life.
  • 00:17:28.615 --> 00:17:33.186
  • In the sermon on the mount in matthew 6:22, jesus says, "if
  • 00:17:33.186 --> 00:17:37.791
  • Your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light."
  • 00:17:37.791 --> 00:17:41.961
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:17:41.961 --> 00:17:43.296
  • It means if you're focused on what matters, it will affect you
  • 00:17:43.296 --> 00:17:47.400
  • In everything that you do.
  • 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:49.769
  • So seek first the kingdom.
  • 00:17:49.769 --> 00:17:52.939
  • So in your business, you want to seek first the kingdom.
  • 00:17:52.939 --> 00:17:56.076
  • Now, look, some of you are getting ready to go to college
  • 00:17:56.076 --> 00:18:00.513
  • Or maybe trade school or be an apprentice somewhere.
  • 00:18:00.513 --> 00:18:03.283
  • You're thinking about your career, what you're gonna do
  • 00:18:03.283 --> 00:18:05.985
  • Down the road.
  • 00:18:05.985 --> 00:18:07.353
  • That's a good thing.
  • 00:18:07.353 --> 00:18:08.688
  • Find that job and maybe that will change a number of times.
  • 00:18:08.688 --> 00:18:10.924
  • It often does.
  • 00:18:10.924 --> 00:18:12.258
  • But no matter what you do, do it for the glory of god.
  • 00:18:12.258 --> 00:18:16.329
  • Our goal should be to honor god, do honest work with excellence,
  • 00:18:16.329 --> 00:18:20.900
  • Have personal integrity, and a good testimony in the workplace,
  • 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:26.206
  • Because sometimes people may be successful financially.
  • 00:18:26.206 --> 00:18:29.676
  • But to get there, they've lost their integrity, they've lost
  • 00:18:29.676 --> 00:18:32.812
  • Their reputation.
  • 00:18:32.812 --> 00:18:34.280
  • You should be an honest person.
  • 00:18:34.280 --> 00:18:36.182
  • You should be a trustworthy person.
  • 00:18:36.182 --> 00:18:38.885
  • You should be a hardworking person.
  • 00:18:38.885 --> 00:18:41.488
  • Your word should be your bond.
  • 00:18:41.488 --> 00:18:44.491
  • And sometimes this is not the case.
  • 00:18:44.491 --> 00:18:46.359
  • You know, sometimes, christians will use spiritual things to
  • 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:49.996
  • Justify laziness.
  • 00:18:49.996 --> 00:18:52.132
  • Maybe the boss is walking around on the worksite and you're just
  • 00:18:52.132 --> 00:18:54.934
  • Standing around.
  • 00:18:54.934 --> 00:18:56.269
  • The boss says, "what are you doing?
  • 00:18:56.269 --> 00:18:57.604
  • You should be working."
  • 00:18:57.604 --> 00:18:58.972
  • "well, i'm praying."
  • 00:18:58.972 --> 00:19:00.306
  • "oh, you might start praying about your next job because
  • 00:19:00.306 --> 00:19:01.975
  • You're not--you're not working for me anymore.
  • 00:19:01.975 --> 00:19:05.011
  • I expect you to work."
  • 00:19:05.011 --> 00:19:06.813
  • And that's a realistic expectation.
  • 00:19:06.813 --> 00:19:08.982
  • Christians should be the hardest workers, the most
  • 00:19:08.982 --> 00:19:11.851
  • Honest workers.
  • 00:19:11.851 --> 00:19:13.653
  • And so this is something we want to all keep in mind.
  • 00:19:13.653 --> 00:19:17.323
  • Put god first and he will bless you as a result.
  • 00:19:17.323 --> 00:19:20.293
  • Now listen, if you're single-- how many of you are single?
  • 00:19:20.293 --> 00:19:23.830
  • You're not married.
  • 00:19:23.830 --> 00:19:25.165
  • Raise your hand, you're single.
  • 00:19:25.165 --> 00:19:26.533
  • Okay, how many of you are happily single?
  • 00:19:26.533 --> 00:19:28.501
  • You like being single?
  • 00:19:28.501 --> 00:19:30.370
  • How many of you would like to be married one day, who are
  • 00:19:30.370 --> 00:19:33.606
  • Single, okay?
  • 00:19:33.606 --> 00:19:34.941
  • How many of you are married and wish you were single?
  • 00:19:34.941 --> 00:19:37.076
  • Raise--no, don't.
  • 00:19:37.076 --> 00:19:40.380
  • Don't you--it's always a guy that does it.
  • 00:19:40.380 --> 00:19:43.016
  • And sure enough a guy had his hand up first.
  • 00:19:43.016 --> 00:19:48.087
  • When you're looking for that person, know this.
  • 00:19:48.087 --> 00:19:50.290
  • God cares about this.
  • 00:19:50.290 --> 00:19:53.259
  • He has a lot to say about the person you will spend the rest
  • 00:19:53.259 --> 00:19:56.362
  • Of your life with.
  • 00:19:56.362 --> 00:19:58.831
  • So pray about this and look for a godly person.
  • 00:19:58.831 --> 00:20:03.403
  • You know, some people believe they're called to missionary
  • 00:20:03.403 --> 00:20:06.139
  • Dating, right?
  • 00:20:06.139 --> 00:20:07.740
  • "i'm gonna date these nonbelievers and lead them to
  • 00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:10.410
  • The lord."
  • 00:20:10.410 --> 00:20:11.778
  • Maybe and maybe they'll pull you away from the lord.
  • 00:20:11.778 --> 00:20:15.715
  • See, the bible says, "don't be unequally yoked together with
  • 00:20:15.715 --> 00:20:18.585
  • Nonbelievers, for what fellowship or friendship does
  • 00:20:18.585 --> 00:20:21.554
  • Light have with darkness or righteousness
  • 00:20:21.554 --> 00:20:24.624
  • With unrighteousness?"
  • 00:20:24.624 --> 00:20:25.992
  • It's far easier when you-- easier when you're a believer to
  • 00:20:25.992 --> 00:20:28.895
  • Get pulled down than you, as a believer, to pull someone else
  • 00:20:28.895 --> 00:20:32.932
  • Up, because they have gravity on their side, you see?
  • 00:20:32.932 --> 00:20:36.769
  • And i've seen so many christians get misled and get into trouble
  • 00:20:36.769 --> 00:20:41.407
  • By getting into these relationships.
  • 00:20:41.407 --> 00:20:43.276
  • Listen, honest truth.
  • 00:20:43.276 --> 00:20:44.811
  • Marriage is hard enough with two christians.
  • 00:20:44.811 --> 00:20:48.081
  • Much less a believer and a non-believer.
  • 00:20:48.081 --> 00:20:51.050
  • You want someone that shares your beliefs, your faith, your
  • 00:20:51.050 --> 00:20:54.687
  • Worldview, your values.
  • 00:20:54.687 --> 00:20:56.522
  • This will really matter when you have children, okay?
  • 00:20:56.522 --> 00:20:59.859
  • So these are things to think about now.
  • 00:20:59.859 --> 00:21:01.894
  • But if you find yourself married to a non-believer, however that
  • 00:21:01.894 --> 00:21:05.632
  • Came about, don't give up hope.
  • 00:21:05.632 --> 00:21:07.934
  • God can still reach that person.
  • 00:21:07.934 --> 00:21:09.636
  • Keep praying for them.
  • 00:21:09.636 --> 00:21:11.004
  • But the idea is put god first, if you're a single person, and
  • 00:21:11.004 --> 00:21:15.041
  • Ask for his will.
  • 00:21:15.041 --> 00:21:16.709
  • And point number five, if you put god first, life will find
  • 00:21:16.709 --> 00:21:21.681
  • Its proper balance.
  • 00:21:21.681 --> 00:21:23.816
  • If you put god first, life will find its proper balance.
  • 00:21:23.816 --> 00:21:27.654
  • Again, verse 33, matthew 6: "all these things shall be added
  • 00:21:27.654 --> 00:21:32.091
  • To you."
  • 00:21:32.091 --> 00:21:33.459
  • What things?
  • 00:21:33.459 --> 00:21:34.794
  • "what you're gonna eat, what you're gonna wear, what you're
  • 00:21:34.794 --> 00:21:36.162
  • Gonna drink, where you're gonna live, all the things that are
  • 00:21:36.162 --> 00:21:39.632
  • Important to us will be taken care of.
  • 00:21:39.632 --> 00:21:42.635
  • But put god first."
  • 00:21:42.635 --> 00:21:44.504
  • A classic example of this is a story of young solomon, the son
  • 00:21:44.504 --> 00:21:50.043
  • Of david and bathsheba.
  • 00:21:50.043 --> 00:21:52.412
  • His father was getting ill and getting old and it was time for
  • 00:21:52.412 --> 00:21:56.883
  • The crown to be passed on from father to son.
  • 00:21:56.883 --> 00:22:00.620
  • And david said, "solomon, my son, know the lord god of your
  • 00:22:00.620 --> 00:22:05.758
  • Father and serve him with an undivided heart."
  • 00:22:05.758 --> 00:22:09.062
  • So david passed into eternity.
  • 00:22:09.062 --> 00:22:11.998
  • And now here's young solomon with the weight of the world on
  • 00:22:11.998 --> 00:22:14.600
  • His shoulders.
  • 00:22:14.600 --> 00:22:16.235
  • And the lord comes to him and says, "solomon, ask me and i'll
  • 00:22:16.235 --> 00:22:19.972
  • Give you whatever you want."
  • 00:22:19.972 --> 00:22:22.241
  • Can you imagine if god appeared to you and said, "i'll give you
  • 00:22:22.241 --> 00:22:25.244
  • Whatever you want," what would you pray for?
  • 00:22:25.244 --> 00:22:28.081
  • If god said, "i'll give you whatever you want."
  • 00:22:28.081 --> 00:22:31.351
  • Reminds me of a story of a man that was walking down the beach
  • 00:22:31.351 --> 00:22:33.653
  • And he saw something embedded in the sand.
  • 00:22:33.653 --> 00:22:36.055
  • He reached down to pick it up.
  • 00:22:36.055 --> 00:22:37.390
  • It was a lamp.
  • 00:22:37.390 --> 00:22:38.758
  • And as he rubbed the sand away, a genie appeared.
  • 00:22:38.758 --> 00:22:41.227
  • True story.
  • 00:22:41.227 --> 00:22:43.930
  • And the genie said, "oh, master, i will give to you one wish."
  • 00:22:43.930 --> 00:22:47.767
  • The guy said, "one wish?
  • 00:22:47.767 --> 00:22:49.102
  • What happened to three wishes?"
  • 00:22:49.102 --> 00:22:50.470
  • The genie said, "we've had to cut back.
  • 00:22:50.470 --> 00:22:51.804
  • Just one wish."
  • 00:22:51.804 --> 00:22:53.706
  • "oh, well," the guy says, "i've always wanted to see the island
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  • Of maui.
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  • I've heard it's really beautiful, but i don't like
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  • To fly.
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  • I'm afraid of flying.
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  • So genie, my wish is they have a giant bridge built from
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  • California to maui so i can drive over.
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  • That's my wish.
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  • I want a bridge from california to maui."
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  • The genie said, "are you insane?
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  • That would cost so much money.
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  • It would take so much time.
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  • There's no way.
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  • Come up with something else."
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  • The guy said, "well, i've never understood women.
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  • They mystify me.
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  • I would like to understand them better.
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  • So my wish, genie, is: i want to understand women."
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  • The genie says, "coming back to that bridge, two lanes or four?"
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  • Okay, so back to solomon.
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  • The lord says, "what do you want?
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  • I'll give you anything you want."
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  • Solomon says, lord, "i want wisdom to rule your people."
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  • Loose paraphrase: the lord says, "because you didn't ask for
  • 00:23:53.065 --> 00:23:56.536
  • Wealth or power and all these things, i'm gonna give you the
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  • Wisdom you prayed for and give you these other things as well."
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  • I'm not saying that god's gonna make everyone wealthy.
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  • But what i'm saying is god will give you what you need when you
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  • Need it.
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  • Just put him first in all things.
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  • That's it.
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  • And there's one last point and we'll bring this message to
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  • A close.
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  • The best antidote to worry is prayer.
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  • We all know this verse, philippians verse 6: "don't be
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  • Anxious about anything but in everything by prayer, with
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  • Petition and thanksgiving, present your request to god."
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  • I love that.
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  • Another way it's translated: "don't worry about anything.
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  • Pray about everything, and the peace of god that passes all
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  • Human understanding will guard your heart and mind in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • God's peace will protect you if you pray about it instead of
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  • Worry about it.
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  • So turn your panic into prayer, turn your worry into worship.
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  • Turn your anxieties into petitions.
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  • "lord, i'm troubled by this right now and i just commit it
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  • To you.
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  • I'm overwhelmed by this other thing.
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  • Lord, i commit it to you."
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  • It's like, the moment it hits you, boom, it goes right back up
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  • As a prayer to god.
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  • Greg: there are so many things to be worried about right now,
  • 00:25:33.232 --> 00:25:35.635
  • Aren't there?
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  • We're worrying about terrorism, worry about your personal
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  • Safety, violent crime, the economy.
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  • The list goes on.
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  • Here's what the bible says: "don't worry about anything.
  • 00:25:43.643 --> 00:25:47.246
  • Pray about everything.
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  • Turn your panic into prayer."
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  • Jesus said, "come unto me all of you that are laboring and are
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  • Heavy laden.
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  • I will give you rest."
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  • Give your burdens, give your problems, over to god and let
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  • Him give you his peace in your heart.
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  • Let me send for you at no charge, what i call "a new
  • 00:26:07.233 --> 00:26:10.703
  • Believer's bible" to help you grow in a relationship with god
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  • And learn how to turn your panic into prayer
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  • And your worry into worship.
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  • Greg: you know, the bible says: "a good person
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  • Leaves an inheritance for their children's children."
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  • God encourages all of us as christians to manage
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  • Our money well so we can be a blessing to our families
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  • And to others.
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  • Harvest has a special gift for you today, an opportunity
  • 00:26:46.706 --> 00:26:50.443
  • To set up a will or a living trust completely free of charge.
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  • Here's how you can learn more.
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  • Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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  • We partnered with our friends at freewill.
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  • Freewill is an easy to use estate planning tool
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  • That allows you to make planned gifts to organizations
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  • Of your choice.
  • 00:27:09.829 --> 00:27:11.297
  • It's a creative opportunity to support the work we're doing
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  • Here at harvest ministries.
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  • So as you make your plans, i hope you'll consider
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  • Investing in this ministry so we can continue
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  • To preach the gospel and teach the word of god
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  • For years to come.
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  • You can learn more at freewill.com/harvest.
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