WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:06.120 Welcome Just Hinda Away. 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.599 Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose of inspiring from heartfelt 3 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:14.519 tagalog sermons from different factors and speakers all over the Philippines. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.320 We hope that this podcast finds you in good shape 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:23.039 and now here's your message. 6 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:28.440 You're listening to a podcast from Victory. The antidote for 7 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.520 worry is seeking first the Kingdom of God. Learn more 8 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.880 about how to handle worry and anxiety in Week twelve 9 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.560 of our series Redefined. 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.960 We're gonna talk about anxiety six times, okay, six times 11 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.479 from ninth verses from Matthew six twenty five to thirty four. 12 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:56.000 Six times this word anxious was actually mentioned. If you 13 00:00:56.119 --> 00:01:01.479 check the another version and IV talks about worry worry? 14 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:07.480 Do we worry? Worried? What is anxiety? Anxiety is an 15 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:12.680 emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil something inside. 16 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.280 Maybe you don't see it outside, but something's happening inside, 17 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:21.319 often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth. 18 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:27.359 Hindiepooh anxious, I know I'm pacing back and forth. Excited 19 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:34.040 excited I'm excited, such as pacing back and forth. It 20 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.040 is the subjectivity unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated or 21 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:44.200 future events. Something's about to happeness in your mind. You're anxious. 22 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.719 You're anxious about tomorrow. Why tomorrow is Monday? Okay, tomorrow, 23 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.079 Monday is starting on school, starting on work week. Marquit 24 00:01:53.439 --> 00:02:00.280 pin arama, mahalmung boss mark you nothing's to do some 25 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:04.040 you you you you feel anxious already. There was a 26 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.840 translation about anxiety worry that it is characterized by a 27 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:14.439 person being choked anxiety. You're here, You're like being choked. 28 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.240 You're being choked. I remember I I know of this 29 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:22.360 person who he was a businessman, and then when he 30 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.159 was doing business that be built up anxiety. Yeah, and 31 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:31.759 it always starts Saturday evening when Sunday comes. Sometimes they 32 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.719 would go to church. He would be with his family. 33 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:39.240 He would be with his close family and extended family. 34 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.280 But then most oftentimes his mind won't be with them, 35 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.400 and then magda be built up. Now on towards after lunchtime, 36 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:49.800 going going to the evening, he would be so reclusive, 37 00:02:50.240 --> 00:03:00.840 notey and sometimes because he's so anxious. He saw anxious 38 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.240 because of the next day, what will happen the next day? 39 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.039 Checks would come in. You don't know if there are 40 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.599 actually funds in your in your account, payables that should 41 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.599 have been paid, You're not sure if it's already paid. 42 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.400 Anxiety builds up. You know that that person I was 43 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.360 telling you about was me years ago, years ago, when 44 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:23.080 I was a business and I was a business man. 45 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.680 It's something that that I really felt. There's like a choke. 46 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.360 There's like a choke that even when when my children 47 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.560 would come to me, I would embarrass them at times 48 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.159 because I didn't want to talk to them and it 49 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.000 was supposed to be our family day. It was supposed 50 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.759 to be a family day today today, as we read 51 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.039 through the scriptures, as we learn God's word for you 52 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.280 and I, my prayer is just Jesus doesn't only want 53 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.240 to address anxiety, but also release us from anxiety. We 54 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:55.400 have to be released. You just want to know about 55 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.879 anxiety and anxiety what Jesus had to say. But you're 56 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:59.919 not to release We ought to be released. In one 57 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.400 one of the studies that I found is that mild 58 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:05.800 cases of anxiety depression may actually lead to an early death. 59 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:11.120 Lead on early death. Let's read now in Matthew six 60 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:16.519 twenty five to thirty four about anxiety sets up says 61 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.800 here therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about 62 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:22.839 your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, 63 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.360 nor about your body. What you will put on. Is 64 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.800 not life more than the food, and body more than clothing. 65 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:34.639 Look at the birds of the air. They neither saw, 66 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.920 nor reap, nor gather into barns, And yet your heavenly 67 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.720 Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 68 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.800 Verse twenty seven. And which of you, being anxious, can 69 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.439 add a single hour to his span of life? And 70 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.600 why are you being so anxious about clothing? Consider the 71 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.680 leies of the field, how they grow? They neither toil 72 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:02.800 nor spin. Yet I tell you even Solomon, in all 73 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:06.920 his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. But 74 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.360 if God so close the grass of the field, which 75 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.759 today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into oven, will 76 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:19.360 he not much more clothe you, oh you of little faith. Therefore, 77 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:22.079 do not be anxious, saying what shall we eat, or 78 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.839 what shall we drink? What shall we wear? For the 79 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.839 gentile seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father 80 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.079 knows that you need them all. But seek first the 81 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.959 Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things 82 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.879 will be added to you Therefore, do not be anxious 83 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:45.959 about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself sufficient, 84 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.680 for the day is its own trouble. So oftentimes, I 85 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:55.360 know you've read this passage hundreds of times, maybe some 86 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:00.480 of you thousands of times. Thousands can say version and 87 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.720 version of Babelica. Therefore, do not be anxious. But we 88 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.759 might miss a very big part. The very big part 89 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.959 there is that therefore, therefore that word, therefore, that small 90 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:17.439 word therefore is therefore a reason we have to settle, 91 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.199 is it? First? Remember last week when you talked about 92 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.120 where do you actually lay your treasures? In heaven or 93 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.879 in earth? That therefore is the verse previous to that 94 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.319 verse twenty four when it said, no one can serve 95 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.199 two masters, for either he will hate the one and 96 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.040 love the other, or he will be devoted to the 97 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:41.399 one and despite the other. It has to be settled first. 98 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.040 If you're not sure if money is your master or 99 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.600 or God is your master, you have to settle now 100 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:53.160 before the very word of God settles in our heart, 101 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:57.560 and only when we have made our choice for heavenly treasure, 102 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.680 for light for God. Therefore, I tell you this is 103 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.920 how must we Behave you have to settle this first 104 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:09.240 in your very hearts. Kingdom thinking would lead us to kingdom, 105 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:14.160 living kingdom. Living the way we think will dictate the 106 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:18.959 way we are gonna live. Our Father in heaven hallow, 107 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.879 do your name your kingdom. Come, Your will be done 108 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:26.839 on earth as it is in heaven. Then it follows, 109 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.759 give us this day our daily bread. We have to 110 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.199 set the imperative first. Are we living for the kingdom 111 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.199 or are you building your own kingdom? Are we living 112 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.720 for God's kingdom? Or are we living for the heavenly kingdom? 113 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:48.319 Jesus here address three things about anxiety. First, reasons of 114 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.519 our anxiety? What are the different reasons? I know you 115 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.759 have your reasons. If your anxious right now, if you're 116 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.560 just a bit worried. Verse twenty five said what you 117 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:01.120 will eat, what you will drink? What? Nor about your body, 118 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.120 what you will put on. Jesus is not just saying here, okay, 119 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:08.120 this is all These are only that are He's actually 120 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:13.560 questioning us, Are these the things you're worried about? Menial stuff? 121 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.560 He's telling us menial stuff minia especially for him, because 122 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.800 he could provide over and beyond the art our very need. 123 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.920 He's saying here, if we are worried about our clothing, 124 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.199 the food we eat, the drink that we need to 125 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:35.759 to drink, cunune lang po lamanathen cunun lang anxious that 126 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:41.240 ile papan beginning a tim I'm responsibility that what more 127 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.360 the bigger stuff. The question here, the question that he's 128 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.039 asking here is why why are you worried? What are 129 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:50.759 there different reasons that that that that we are actually anxious? 130 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:55.960 Basic needs? We say that we needed to survive, and 131 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.240 then then if we if you keep on counting and 132 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:02.639 then cool, cool. And you have that anxiety now of 133 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:07.320 being in lack, maybe you're not really in lack. Maybe 134 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.759 you're just looking at the other person, or you're thinking 135 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.320 about what people would tell you we talk about you 136 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.440 and how people would perceive you. That's why you're in lack. 137 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:19.000 Most of the time, we're anxious because people. We know 138 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:22.399 that people are looking at us and our stuff. Some 139 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:27.200 people are actually anxious about their health to the point 140 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.639 that it's actually eating them alive. Some are very anxious 141 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.279 about death. Why are you anxious about death? I'm not 142 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.360 saying I want to die now, but if God takes 143 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:42.919 me good, are you prepared to die? Have you prepared yourself. 144 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.279 A preparation is not in the money even more. No, no, no, no, no no. 145 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.159 Have you laid out treasures in heaven? Do you know 146 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:52.840 that you're actually going to heaven? A lot of people 147 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:58.759 are anxious about calamities, anxious about power, power, that they 148 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:02.120 don't have power, or they have power, they might lose power. 149 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:06.200 They're anxious about that also, and uncertainty of the future. 150 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:11.399 God is asking why what do you actually value? Why 151 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:16.039 are you anxious? Is not life more than food and 152 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.600 the body more than clothing? Only you can answer that, 153 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.639 he says in verse twenty seven. And which of you, 154 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.679 by being anxious can add a single hour to his 155 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.000 span of life? He's asking us here the question, what 156 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.720 is the reason that you're worried? Don't you know that 157 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:38.279 you're not actually in control? We are not. If anyone 158 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:41.879 of you hear anyone of us here think that you 159 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.919 are in control, We're never in control. We think we 160 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.120 are in control, but we're not. We're not in control. 161 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:55.000 You know, eighty five percent of anxiety, this is research 162 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:00.000 by science. Eighty five percent of anxiety doesn't actually happen, 163 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:06.039 only fifteen percent. But then we worry too much? Can 164 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:08.320 you can you imagine that do you have mathematicians in 165 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:13.000 the house, you probability only fifteen percent of the time 166 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.440 that you get worried, can it actually happen? Worry is 167 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:24.000 wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunity because you 168 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.519 can't move on. You're thinking about today today. Worry, worry 169 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:34.840 word don yai yesterday with yesterday's trouble. Mayari olizaren papa. 170 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.960 As parents, I'm I'm a parent. Here you always thinking, 171 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.799 you always be thinking, okay, what what if this happens 172 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.639 to my child as it happened to me. Leave those 173 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:49.720 worries behind, perfect love, cast out fear. Where do you 174 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.919 put your hope now? Is it in your control? Trying 175 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:57.000 to control, trying to control your child, trying to control 176 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:01.879 every child you cannot surely is in control? In your 177 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:07.320 finances and here and here increase no zero sabank account 178 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:12.799 mo peri in palabas nang zerodulas lang. Right, we're not 179 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.039 in control. We're never in control. But if you put 180 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.279 your trust in the Lord, you know that he is 181 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.399 in control. I love this group of people that were 182 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:27.639 once they were slave, slave and they were granted freedom, 183 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.240 and there was a leader who stood up and led 184 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.960 them out. Remember the hundreds of years they were slave, 185 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:37.679 Now going to their promised land. They started to grumble 186 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:42.320 along the way in the middle the forty day only 187 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:47.360 forty day journey, thirteen to forty years of journey. They 188 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:52.639 still grumbled, grumbled and grumbled and grumbled that they want 189 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.399 to they want to dethrone the leader. They want to say, 190 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:59.360 can you just step out? We were we were, okay, 191 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:03.559 a slave, but now that you have led us to 192 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.000 our freedom, it's as if we're gonna die in search 193 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:11.799 of our freedom. They started grumbling, grumbling. Never did they 194 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.080 think that in the forty years that they were in 195 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:18.320 the desert, in the wilderness, they never got hungry, They 196 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:23.720 never got thirsty. They were provided for and even the 197 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:28.840 very souls of their sandals hind. Those were the Israelites 198 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.360 when they were being led out. They were only thinking 199 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:40.200 about themselves. They were always saying, okay, b blick Munhao's 200 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:44.200 Egypt done to taste freedom? Do we worry? How do 201 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:48.200 we worry? What are the things that are making us 202 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.960 so anxious? Now? What are the things that keep us 203 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:57.320 so worried that even our health, even our relationships are 204 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:02.559 are being affected. Yes, relationships can be affected by worrying 205 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:06.039 about what happened yesterday, and then you cannot move on? 206 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:10.519 What are those second thing that Jesus addressed, Here is 207 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:17.240 the root cause of our anxiety? Blatantly, blatantly, he told 208 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.440 us the very root costs. In verse thirty, he says, 209 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.360 but if God so close the grass of the field, 210 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.399 which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, 211 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.480 will he not much more clothe view, oh you of 212 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:35.080 little faith? Zero and saying, you know what, It's not 213 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.159 about the clothes. It's not about the food, it's not 214 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:43.039 about the drink. It's about your faith. Do you trust me? 215 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:49.960 Do you do? We trust him? Proof? Proof as people, 216 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.799 very visual proof, he said. Look at the birds of 217 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.200 the air day, neither so nor reap nor gathering barns, 218 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.879 And yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not 219 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:02.000 more valuable than they are? Proof? And why are you 220 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.840 so anxious about clothing? Consider the dealaise of the field, 221 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:06.840 how they grow, they neither toil or spill. Yet I 222 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:08.960 tell you, even Solomon, in all his glory, was not 223 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:14.000 arrayed like any one of these, oh you of little faith, 224 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:18.759 talks about us little faith, little faith. When you when 225 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.279 you look at the translation, little faith. The very root 226 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.360 word of little faith is dull in hearing, dull in hearing. 227 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:36.720 You're dull in hearing or made dull in hearing. Remember 228 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.440 Philippians four six. Do not be anxious about anything, but 229 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.799 in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your 230 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.960 requests be known to God. Philippines four six. That was 231 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.840 on my wall in my office, But never did it 232 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:53.240 penetrate our heart every morning, every morning before when I 233 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.000 when I was a businessman, it was my It was 234 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.879 my business partner who shared the Gospel to me, and 235 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.480 she told me, why don't you write in the wall, 236 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.600 But you don't get anxious? IM worried, So I would 237 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.919 drighten the wall. I would always read it. But then 238 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:13.200 it never penetrated my heart dull in hearing. It was 239 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.240 mere words. It never penetated in my heart whiter because 240 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:20.759 I was dull in hearing, I had little faith. Where 241 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:24.240 is your faith right now? How strong is our faith 242 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:27.759 right now? Remember when Peter looked for Jesus and Jesus said, Peter, 243 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.559 come to me when they were on the boat. Remember 244 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.080 that story when Jesus asked him, Come, come over. Peter 245 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.399 might have been excited at first. He was gonna walk 246 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.919 on water, remember that. But when he took a step, 247 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:48.120 before he actually took that step, suddenly he heard the 248 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:54.759 wind howling, heard the water splashing before he even set foot. 249 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:00.559 What happened? He drowned? He almost drowned. Why because instead 250 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:06.440 of hearing the voice of Jesus, he heard worries, he 251 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:12.480 heard problems, He heard anxieties. And then it crept In 252 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:16.359 talks about us as hearing. He talks about the status. 253 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.400 Do you hear your father in heaven? Do you know 254 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.200 that he's your father? What is your status? What is 255 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:28.960 your status? There's a clue here and saying why why worry? 256 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:34.680 He said, there your heavenly father. There's a metaphor here 257 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:39.720 that that God created the birds and provided for them. 258 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.759 But suddenly it shifted and Jesus reminded us he did 259 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:47.640 not just God did just just created us. But he 260 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.839 is our father. That means I will provide for you. 261 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:54.720 Have you seen a father not not wanting to provide 262 00:17:54.759 --> 00:18:00.279 for his children? Why worry? There's a comparison, now, are 263 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.640 you a gentile? For the gentile sick? After all these 264 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.960 things and your heavenly father knows that you need them all. 265 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.680 He's asking here, now, do you know that as a 266 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.079 Christ follower, I am your father. As a gentile, we're 267 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.640 not gentiles. We're Christ followers. The question is what is 268 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.240 our status talking about our faith? What is our status 269 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.680 now with God? My prayer is that you can boldly 270 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:32.119 say that I am a son and a daughter of God. 271 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:35.759 I am a son or I am a daughter of God. 272 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:41.000 Let's move now to the third the last thing that 273 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.000 Jesus actually addressed here. Third and last one is the 274 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:50.400 resolution to our anxiety. How can we resolve this? What 275 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:56.680 is the What is the solution Jesus wants us to 276 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:02.400 be released from our anxiety? Church, if you're ready right 277 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.720 now to write notes, okay, pastors, the pastor is gonna 278 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.480 give me step one, step two, step three how to 279 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:17.039 be released of my anxiety. I'm gonna I'm gonna disappoint you. 280 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:20.240 There's no step. There's no step one, step two, step three. 281 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:24.640 It would always go back again to the reason and 282 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.519 to the root. Cause. It would talk about our relationship, 283 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.119 because if we know that he is our father, we 284 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:36.920 would gladly release to him all our anxiety. Matthew six 285 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.200 thirty three says, seek first the kingdom of God and 286 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.559 his righteousness, and all of this will be added to you. 287 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:49.039 Your kingdom. Come, Your will be done on earth as 288 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:53.720 it is in heaven. Lord, your kingdom first before my needs. 289 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:57.200 Why because I know as you as you are my 290 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:00.079 Jehovah Father, you are my provider. You are Jehoah of 291 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.920 a gyra that will provide for me. Now I would 292 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:07.240 do the very will of your kingdom. I would move, 293 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:12.079 I would help in advancing your kingdom, and everything will 294 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:18.160 just follow. Put Jesus first. He is our primary. He 295 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:26.839 is first, and he is our one and only. In Romans, 296 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:31.279 Paul says it very clearly in Romans eight thirty two, 297 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:35.960 where he said he who did not spare his own son, 298 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.480 but gave him up for us all, how will he 299 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:45.240 not also with him graciously give us all things. If 300 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:49.079 the very reason now you're hearing God's word today is 301 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.960 because of what Jesus did on that cross, how can 302 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:56.519 he withhold those good things that you're praying for that 303 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:01.440 you're anxious about. If he God him self did not 304 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:06.160 spare his son for us to enjoy life here on 305 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:13.519 earth and in eternity. How can he withhold material things, 306 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:19.799 minial stuff? How Philippin's four sex Do not be anxious 307 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:24.440 about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, 308 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:30.839 Let your requests be known to God. H It's a 309 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.880 purpose why I put this cross here. There are times 310 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:39.920 that when we worry, we would like to carry the 311 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:46.680 cross that Jesus actually carried. It's not too heavy now, 312 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.720 but it gets heavier in a while. That's like a 313 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:55.480 picture of us being anxious. And that's just one cross. 314 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.960 But if there's another worry, another anxiety. First it was parenting, 315 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:03.720 Next it was about money. You carry another cross again, 316 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:08.960 and then about sickness. Somebody get really sick in the family. 317 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:12.960 You grab another cross. Nobody's putting it on you. Remember, 318 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:17.599 you just grab another cross sometimes freely. Let me take 319 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:23.359 that cross, And then something happened in the relationship. Let me, 320 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.079 let me, let me, let me carry another cross. Took 321 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:36.880 it upon ourselves, not realizing that that cross, that very cross, 322 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:42.039 is the illustration of our freedom. We take across at 323 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:45.200 a time, across as a time, and we carry it. 324 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.440 We try to do it on our own way, on 325 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:54.359 our own Remember, I remember a family who's very dear 326 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:59.599 to us. They're in church now, but before they got 327 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:08.559 into church, their marriage was was dead. It was actually dead. 328 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:12.839 They got restored. After that, they found out that one 329 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:16.839 of their child has who was suffering epilepsy, has to 330 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:23.960 take medication. The daily medication calame maintenance now because it 331 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:27.960 didn't she didn't actually grow out of it. Then they 332 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:31.160 found out that one of their child has actually a 333 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:36.880 congenital heart disease that they also need medication for. And 334 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:43.759 just recently they actually found out their last, their bunso 335 00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:48.880 has lupus. Me and my wife and we were just talking. 336 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:53.680 We're just say we would just asked ourselves why, Lord, why? 337 00:23:55.599 --> 00:24:00.599 And then and that dad actually just survived a brain surgery. 338 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:05.279 When all of us were actually celebrating, here comes a 339 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:12.319 news we're celebrating almost almost almost one year now, that 340 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:14.799 that that that that he's recovering. The marriage is in 341 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:18.559 fact that they're they're serving the church. The kids are 342 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:24.799 all serving the church. Oh yeah, your last your youngest 343 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:30.039 daughter has lupus. We were just asking why. There's no answer. 344 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:35.400 My wife and I drew strength from the kid's prayer. 345 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.720 What is her prayer? Her prayer is is? She cried 346 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.119 she They cried terribly. As a family. They questioned God. 347 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:49.519 Sometimes it's okay to question God. It's okay. But after 348 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:54.079 that you move on, You move on. Hey, I'm not 349 00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:58.880 telling you no looking on armor of God? Hello? Can 350 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:01.359 we put on the arm more of God? Because nat 351 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:07.240 in Kayah, I drew strength and console from the from 352 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:10.000 the child when she said when we ask her, are 353 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.960 you okay? I'm okay? Now why I've released it to 354 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:18.079 the Lord. I've prayed about it. And look at my parents. 355 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:22.359 Their marriage is okay. Look at my dad, he's okay 356 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:27.920 now after brain surgery. Look at my two sisters, they're okay. 357 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:31.759 With all their congenital diseases. They're okay. Their foundcenting properly. 358 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:35.799 So I know I will be okay because God is 359 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:42.680 in control. God is in control. Sometimes we have fears, 360 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:48.160 we have condemnations, we have doubts, and we have worry. 361 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:53.400 But Jesus is redefining us here. Jesus redefined our priorities 362 00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:58.680 to release us from all our anxieties. He wants to 363 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:08.920 release you and I. He wants to release you and I. Yes, 364 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:12.319 the problem might be there tomorrow when you wake up, 365 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:17.359 but it should not drag you down and put added weight, 366 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:22.799 added cross on you. Because remember the empty tomb of Jesus. 367 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:26.200 When we took all our sins, took all our sufferings 368 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:31.680 on the cross, he rose again after three days. The 369 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:36.160 empty tomb of Jesus is the promise that he will 370 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:40.079 never leave you nor forsake you. That perfect love casts 371 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:45.599 out fear, that there's no condemnation, there's no shame. Put 372 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:50.720 it on him, release, release upon the Lord. Can I 373 00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:55.200 just ask everybody, for everybody, everybody, let's participate. Can I 374 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.880 just everybody to just close your eyes? Close your eyes? 375 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:06.039 When was the last time you actually breathe? When was 376 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:14.200 the last time that you you breathe normally? When was 377 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:17.640 the last time that you released everything? You've been in 378 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:21.640 church for the longest time, You've been in ministry for 379 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:24.279 the longest time, you've been a volunteer for the longest time, 380 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:27.440 you've read your Bible the longest time, or this is 381 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:29.920 your first time to come to church, first time to 382 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:34.359 hear the gospel, first time to be in a church 383 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:43.079 community like this. Jesus is asking you, my son and 384 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:52.400 my daughter, when was the last time you breathe? The 385 00:27:52.400 --> 00:28:05.440 all eyes closed? All eyes closed, breathe in hold it, 386 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:18.480 hold it, and then release. Just breathe in next two minutes, 387 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:29.000 breath in hold Lord, it's hold on you, Lord, I 388 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:52.279 release it to you. Lord. More than you hear the 389 00:28:52.319 --> 00:29:02.279 size of our hearts, you see what's in them. The 390 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.680 Lord is saying, unto you, my son and my daughter, 391 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:11.119 I don't want you to carry all those weights. They're 392 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:16.480 not meant for you. I have already tooken it upon 393 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:23.599 me on that cross, and when I declared it is finished, 394 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:29.519 it is finished. So why are you carried all those weights? 395 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:38.039 Release them to me, my sons and my daughters. Release worries, 396 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:45.680 release those doubts. I would never count any wrong, I 397 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:50.920 would never shame you. I would uphold you with my 398 00:29:51.079 --> 00:30:02.960 fairy right at hand. Release them to me, the Lord says, Lord, 399 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.160 I pray right now, Lord, for my brothers and my sisters. 400 00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:13.160 If it's about our faith, Lord, make our hearing not 401 00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:18.119