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I'm going to advise you to take 
care of your Bible or your Bible

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app and open it to Matthew 
chapter 6. as mentioned earlier,

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we've been in this series on 
Money Matters and what it is for

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us to trust, God in matters of 
money which are really matters 

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of heart, as Jesus taught us 
last week, in Matthew chapter 6 

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and pointed out this movement 
between our treasure, what we 

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focus on and ultimately, who is 
Lord in our lives is Jesus Lord 

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or is money serving as a kind of
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he picks up on it in the next 
component about being worried 

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about money or what money can 
buy or can't buy that. 

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We actually get caught up in a 
lot of worry. 

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I don't know how this was 
calculated but someone 

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calculated that Canadians worry 
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time spent worrying. 
Is a the equivalent to 31 days. 

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That's a whole month. 
And their comment was that's 

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enough time to get another job. 
I didn't think it was completely

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empathetic but, you know, it's 
there, it's true that a lot of 

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time is spent in worry, and 
we're going to talk about that 

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impact. 
But many of the students will 

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graduate in Canada and they're 
going to have student loan debt 

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and the average debt in 2022. 
Was twenty-six thousand dollars 

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and seventy five twenty six 
thousand $75 and I thought it 

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was very important that they 
actually added 75 on there. 

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They didn't leave anything out. 
You know what about 26,000 

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dollars is average student loan 
debt. 

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It can stay around a long time, 
it creates a kind of nodding 

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worry. 
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Canadians, have some kind of 
form of DET besides a mortgage, 

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and the average Canadian. 
Debt is 20 1183 dollars. 

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Most often that's associated and
called bad debt. 

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That's the debt you worried 
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Did you know that Canadians? 
When asked this year, what their

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main goals and 2023 were Get out
of debt and pay their bills. 

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Main goals, main goals is that 
really meant to be the main goal

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of life. 
But it's what we get drawn to so

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quickly and one to remind us 
that Jesus was preaching to the 

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poor. 
We considered and looked at last

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What was that crowd like that? 

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Was there with Jesus. 
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To be good news to the poor. 
And so the words that were going

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to read those seemingly very 
frustrating Jesus, who died on 

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the cross for our sins was 
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life having predicted. 
It also gave us these words not 

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to frustrate you but to 
ultimately lead you to the 

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fullness of Life To Joy and to 
peace. 

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That's the attention of his 
teaching, the transformation of 

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people who get to know him. 
And so he wants to transform our

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thinking and our emotional 
habits, even about money. 

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So let's read what he says. 
beginning in verse 25 of Matthew

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chapter 6, he says, therefore I 
tell you do not worry about your

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life, what you will eat or drink
or about your body, what you 

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will wear it's not life more 
than food and the body, more 

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than clothes. 
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They do not sow or reap or store
away in Barns and yet your 

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heavenly father feeds them. 
Are you not much more valuable 

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than they Can anyone of You by 
worrying, add a single hour to 

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your life? 
And why do you worry about 

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clothes? 
See how the flowers of the field

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grow? 
They do not labor or spin yet? 

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I tell you not even Solomon in 
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Like one of those. 
If that is, how God clothes the 

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grass of the field, which is 
here today and tomorrow is 

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thrown into the fire, will he? 
Not much more clothe you, oh you

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of little faith? 
So do not worry, saying, what 

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shall we eat? 
Or what shall we drink, or what 

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shall we wear for the pagans run
after all these things and your 

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heavenly father knows that you 
need them? 

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But seek first, his kingdom, and
his righteousness, and all these

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things will be given to you as 
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Therefore do not worry about 
tomorrow. 

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For tomorrow will worry about 
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Each day has enough trouble on 
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Amen to that. 
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issue of worry and what we can 
drive about worry from from what

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Jesus was teaching. 
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worry, damages us Do I have any 
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Do you want to admit? 
Like you're a professional 

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Warrior. 
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Pull you into a thing and you 
ruminate over it and you spin it

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and you turn it and you consider
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Then you flip it around over 
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you're worried and you're 
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You're worried. 
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and times in our lives where we 
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So Such a lack of power, such a 
lack of agency that were caught 

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in worried. 
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recognized that when we have 
money as our Lord, it actually 

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does create a worry system 
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And so he's trying to draw out 
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listening to him for his 
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listening. 
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notice what he says in verse 25.
I tell you do not worry about 

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your life, what you will eat or 
drink or about your body, what 

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you will wear is not life more 
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More than clothes, worry, 
reduces life to the necessities.

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That's what you're drawn to 
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These are the necessities and 
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there who he was teaching, Lord,
give us our daily bread. 

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We're also worried about daily 
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And so we need to be conscious 
that worry will move us to just 

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reduce life to the necessities. 
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Again worry doubts, our value in
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Notice what he says in verse 26.
Are you not more valuable? 

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Look at the birds of the air. 
They do not sow or reap or store

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away in Barns. 
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them. 
Are you not much more valuable 

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than they You have immense value
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But worry, always seeks to drain
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That you actually matter to God.
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illusion of purposeful action. 
None of us if truly asked hey, 

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what are you doing over there? 
Sitting in the corner on your 

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phone, none of us are really 
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But we're worrying many times. 
We're searching, we have this 

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great fear of missing out, fear 
of being left behind fear of not

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having enough, and it's actually
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storm that's being fed by what 
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We're worrying. 
Just doesn't look like it. 

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Notice in verse 29, Jesus says, 
in verse 28 and do not worry 

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about clothes. 
See how the flowers of the field

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grow, they do not labor or spin,
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about worrying is that it can 
make it seem like our frantic 

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activities to keep up with 
others that were comparing 

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ourselves to. 
Is somehow also productive. 

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We're spinning away. 
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trying to keep up with them. 
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that it erodes our faith. 
So to that, Jesus uses a little 

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term of endearment. 
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I think he didn't mean it, as a 
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it almost as a as a light to 
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little faiths It would be like 
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calling me a worrywart. 
You're just worrying away at 

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that just whirring away. 
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what worry does is erodes our 
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centers, all of the solutions 
just in ourselves or in someone 

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else or someone else that we can
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Worry, turns us into practical 
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Where we stopped praying. 
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wanted those he was talking to, 
to see something delightful 

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about God, he wanted them to see
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interesting and last week, one 
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that teaching last week was the 
whole teaching on the eyes and I

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kept hearing back from life 
group leaders saying that was so

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hard to figure out that that 
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are bad, then your whole body's 
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then your body is full of light 
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But it's what you focus on and 
worry actually will take us to a

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lot of places to focus but we 
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and it's fascinating to me that 
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Here has them look up and look 
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He said look at the birds of the
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I can't imagine that. 
It's Jesus is teaching he sort 

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of sweeps his hand over and says
look look at all the Ian geese 

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over there. 
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What it in Israel. 
But it would have been some 

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other bird. 
That neither sews nor Harvest, 

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but is provided for doesn't God 
provided and he says, look at 

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the flowers of the field. 
Not even Solomon was dressed up 

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as beautiful as the flowers now,
it's fascinating that Jesus 

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finally mentioned Solomon. 
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Solomon, the son of King, David 
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grand Temple. 
And built a Grandeur Palace for 

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himself. 
And who was known for his 

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Splendor and his dress and the 
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Solomon had all the good views. 
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Solomon had filled his life with
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women. 
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That that would have not just 
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crowd. 
Like it did yours. 

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Jesus just threw shade on 
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Huh. 
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What's that about? 
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The Royal consciousness. 
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Brueggemann who's an Old 
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chroniclers of the history of 
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And the Kings sort of seemed to 
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Sometimes they call him the 
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He was ruling at the Heyday of 
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heart, we know, because he was 
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But that's not actually true. 
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that someone is Rich must be 
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there must be good. 
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the continual erosion. 
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wealth and power your treasure 
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life is about the decay of his 
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disaster. 
An ultimate crisis for Israel 

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from which they would never 
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So Jesus is throwing shade on 
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He's dissing him. 
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image of really having it right 
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And Jesus says, don't make him 
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I wonder how tempting it is for 
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Other Royals are gold. 
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or they have the royalty of 
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We make them our goal. 
And Jesus says, don't look there

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and the reason Walter 
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there. 
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Consciousness becomes numb to 
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always trying to avoid the 
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Even to avoid the realities of 
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And so it is that when they 
study the brains of those who 

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have great power and wealth, 
they actually find that. 

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The empathy section of the brain
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they see someone else's 
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That's troubling, isn't it? 
Where am I psychologists up 

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here? 
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I mean Jesus, he's so smart. 
Jesus knows so much about the 

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human psyche and what happens to
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When we make wealth, our 
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And when we worry so much, Now, 
Jesus is speaking to a people 

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who were vulnerable to Nature. 
They understood that when there 

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was a famine, you might have to 
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He's speaking to a people who 
knew what it was to be victims 

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of a system designed to take 
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He speaking to them. 
And so it seems unreasonable for

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Jesus to be saying, don't worry 
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Right. 
That seems unreasonable. 

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Look at the birds. 
Look at the flowers. 

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Don't worry about your life. 
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Because look there's a God who 
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Look. 
There's a God who will provide 

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for you? 
And this is, this is the hard 

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move of faith for us to make in 
a world where we're worried 

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about paying our bills, where we
worried about my degree is 

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actually a pathway to taking 
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But Jesus wants us to be on more
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Look at the world differently. 
Let him heal your eyes. 

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So that you will trust him as 
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Do you know one of the things 
that worried does is that worry?

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Put such a squeeze on us that we
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We can't dream up opportunities.
We lose sight of the, the 

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strength that God puts in us 
already and for the extra Grace,

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he can provide to move us 
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And so, then Jesus moves on to 
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doing seek first, the kingdom of
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he will add all these other 
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Seek first the kingdom of God 
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It's such an important move for 
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What am I actually seeking in my
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Am I seeking the paycheck? 
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Am I seeking for the kingdom of 
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Am I seeking to deliver his 
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When I study, am I just seeking 
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class? 
Am I just seeking to fill my 

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space? 
Or am I seeking for the kingdom 

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of God to be in that space and 
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be in that space? 
Jesus says that if you will seek

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Him and pursue him as a first 
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lift. 
He's going to provide the grace,

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he's going to provide the rest. 
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days of suffering or a 
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But it means you don't Grant 
your employer the final and 

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ultimate word on your worth. 
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They don't own you. you belong 
to God, the Father Who gives 

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incredible worth and value to 
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And also can provide. 
This is our ambition and pursuit

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to see the kingdom of God in all
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as the church gathered and the 
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The kingdom of God means I'm 
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of Jesus, to be evident in the 
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am. 
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in my home, space third in the 
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I'm looking for the rule and 
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cross for our sins was buried, 
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He has the authority and place 
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Not the tyrants. 
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But Jesus in this way, the 
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subversive than we imagine this 
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lives with the small decisions 
that we make and a little book 

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called God's economy. 
There's this description of the 

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kingdom of God and he captures 
it in a university student named

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John who went to Duke 
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And he says, that Duke, John was
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millionaires and a few 
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he tried to run with them. 
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reason in response to some kind 
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He met a family at his the 
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I live with you? 
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school and actually being a part
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Well, why aren't you coming with
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Oh, I'm going home. 
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reading books to the kids, you 
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weird. 
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But it was a little decision 
that had a huge impact in his 

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life to create a different 
pattern and to Value something 

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different in his life. 
It's these little decisions that

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are actually bigger than you 
think little decisions in 

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response to something. 
Jesus shows you where you look 

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at life differently and you make
a decision That's different. 

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This happened for Christian 
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Soccer player from Ghana. 
Who recently died in the 

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earthquake in Turkey. 
Tragic loss. 

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It's been wonderful though to 
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went and progressed in the 
soccer World and became so 

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successful. 
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generosity. 
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around to others. 
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asked him so is the reason 
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were so poor. 
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Is something both the rich and 
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If their followers of Jesus. so,
it's because of my faith in 

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Jesus that I'm generous How does
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When worry wants us to grasp and
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stingy. 
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scripture that we mentioned last
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Taking a Sabbath rest from your 
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pause and acknowledge God. 
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Another discipline that we call 
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just one of the percentages 
giving mentioned in the 

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scripture. 
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forces us to have to take stock 
of what we have and to take 

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stock and say this didn't just 
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This came from God, And so that 
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go of a part and to say, oh but 
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Not an owner. 
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It's a difference. 
God is the owner of it all and I

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am a manager, a steward of a 
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The discipline of the ties helps
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think is really important for us
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the decision again to say, okay,
Lord, I give myself to you. 

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I make that small ultimate 
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I'm Yours. 
Not mine. 

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Remember this sermon in this 
part is dealing with our desire 

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for self-determination. 
Instead of our yielded - to 

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Jesus, as Lord. 
Are you a worrier? 

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Those who worry a lot would say 
that the rest of us just don't 

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understand what's really going 
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And so the invitation though, as
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Jesus knows what's going on in 
the world. 

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He knows. 
Let's pray together. 

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Heavenly Father, we approach to 
your your word, your son. 

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Your church and this world. 
Knowing that we need help. 

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We need help because we worry. 
We need help because our heart 

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is drawn to wealth. 
We need help because sometimes 

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we treat money, as if it's a 
permission slip for just doing 

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whatever we want, But instead we
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seeking first, your kingdom, and
your righteousness. 

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So that it's both your rule and 
reign. and our way, the way we 

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do our life, Matters. 
Just, as much. 

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Help us be in the way of Jesus, 
who moved down into life, who 

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Moved close to those who are 
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Who didn't treat the 
Brokenhearted and the poor as if

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they were unseen unknown and 
unworthy. 

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but we turn our selves towards 
you, and we ask you to examine 

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us We asked you to shape us this
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We asked you to take away the 
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so captured by our wealth. 
That we quit seeing you as the 

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provider. 
And that we're just stewards Oh 

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Lord. 
We want to be owners. but you 

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want us to be stewards for this 
greater freedom in that So we 

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yield ourselves to you, Lord, 
we're going to come to your 

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table, Lord, where you offer us 
all. 

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That you had at the very end, 
you had your body, your blood. 

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That was all that was left and 
you gave it. 

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And with your final breath, you 
said it is finished and you did 

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this to pay a debt. 
We could never pay The debt, the

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outstanding debt of our own sin.
Our own Rebellion, our own 

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selfishness, you gave all that, 
you had to pay a debt that we 

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could never pay. 
And we are eternally grateful 

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for Jesus. 
Let's Stand Together. 

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And we are eternally grateful 
for Jesus. 

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Let's Stand Together.