The Sermon Trust by David McGee
Aug 26, 2012
Trust (38:06)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 6:19-34; 1 Corinthians 13:11; Proverbs 3;5-7; John 3:17; Philippians 4:6-8
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Matthew 6:19-34
19) "Don‘t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
20) but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don‘t break through and steal;
21) for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.
22) The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
23) But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24) "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You can‘t serve both God and Mammon.
25) Therefore, I tell you, don‘t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will put on. Isn‘t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26) See the birds of the sky, that they don‘t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren‘t you of much more value than they?
27) Which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to the measure of his life?
28) Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don‘t toil, neither do they spin,
29) yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30) But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, won‘t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31) Therefore don‘t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?‘, ‘What will we drink?‘ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?‘
32) For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33) But seek first God‘s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added to you.
34) Therefore don‘t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day‘s own evil is sufficient.
1 Corinthians 13:11
11) When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
Proverbs 3
1) My son, don‘t forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments:
2) For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to you.
3) Don‘t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4) So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5) Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, And don‘t lean on your own understanding.
6) In all your ways acknowledge him, And he will direct your paths.
7) Don‘t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
8) It will be health to your body, And nourishment to your bones.
9) Honor Yahweh with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase:
10) So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
11) My son, don‘t despise Yahweh‘s discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:
12) For whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; Even as a father the son in whom he delights.
13) Happy is the man who finds wisdom, The man who gets understanding.
14) For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, The profit of it better than fine gold.
15) She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
16) Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
17) Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
18) She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
19) By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
20) By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.
21) My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22) So they will be life to your soul, And grace for your neck.
23) Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won‘t stumble.
24) When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
25) Don‘t be afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
26) For Yahweh will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being taken.
27) Don‘t withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do it.
28) Don‘t say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, Tomorrow I will give," When you have it by you.
29) Don‘t devise evil against your neighbor, Seeing he dwells securely by you.
30) Don‘t strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
31) Don‘t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
32) For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, But his friendship is with the upright.
33) The curse of Yahweh is in the house of the wicked, But he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
34) Surely he mocks the mockers, But he gives grace to the humble.
35) The wise will inherit glory, But shame will be the promotion of fools.
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John 3:17
17) For God didn‘t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
Philippians 4:6-8
6) In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
7) The peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
8) Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
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They were looking in Matthew chapter six verses nineteen to thirty four and notes. A lot of reading, but that's okay. This section of Scripture is. It's a very important one as they all are but the title of this section is a life of God worship him. I entitled that message the day and we trust so let's read the assigned reading from the message Bible and what are the challenges was a white rates in the message Bible and individual member, reading and talking about how that whenever we read like the King James version, but that's what the fight for anything from memory. It's always in the King James, because that's how I learned so that's how I memorize that. So whenever I'm quoting something always put in the King James and I look it up and then I transmit I get one. Human translation any several reasons for this is that when we hear the Scriptures, the same way in the same version. We already have a preconceived ideas what we think it means. We always yell. We already have something bear. It is associated with how we memorized and whenever we take that same Scripture and read it differently from a different version. It helps us how to look at that and expand what we already have in mind so that part of the reasoning behind reading from the message Bible. So Matthew chapter six beginning verse nineteen. Don't hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by Martin corroded by Russ or worse stolen by burglars stockpiled treasures in heaven lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where thieves do not break through and steal unlocked does not drop-down that the King James version, but the contract is in heaven words safe from Moncton Rustenburg alerts. It's obvious, isn't it the place where your treasure is, is the place you almost want to be, and into the your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide and wonder and believe your body fills up with life. If you live score API in greed and distrust your body is a dark cellar. If you pull the blinds on your Windows one of dark life you will have. You can't worship to God that once wanting one God, you'll end up hating the other adoration of one of these contempt for the other. You can't worship God and money. Both if you decide, for God living a life of God worship. It follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at meal times or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life in the food you put in your stomach more to your outer appearance than the clothes that you hang on your body look at the birds free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God, and you count far more to Hindenburg has anyone by fuss flossing that is fussing right if US is finding, blessing the thought using a pleasant as anyone fussing as anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as the names all the time and money wasted on fashion you think it makes that much difference. Instead of looking at the fashion walk out into the fields a look at the wildflowers. They never where Shaw, but have you ever seen color and design white like that the ten best dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside of them. If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers, most of which are never even seen don't you think you'll attempt he'll attend to you take pride in you. Do his best for you. What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax to not be so preoccupied with getting you cannot respond to God 's giving people who don't know God, and the way he works, plus over these things. But you know both God and how he works. Step your life in God, Steve, your life, and God reality God initiative God provisions don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up. When the time comes as a great phrase of Scripture here little section of Scripture 's yesterday on his resentment and Joan Andrea 's wedding. Now Joe Andrew, were married a number of months ago in a private ceremony in February that we have for them. You know, Joe and Andrea their life has been changed by God in you. They wanted to do things in the church and so you're making them it would be better for you to be married and you know you can work in the church and so I wanted the deal that was their decision, so they were married in than the officially, this was their plans married. Marriage date yesterday, but the rehearsal I mentioned to on when I do this at all the ways, because many of the individuals who come to church or are inviting parties don't are not involved in any church and one of my requirements is that there be no alcoholic consumption before the before the wedding by any of the grounds of Miami, but any of the party, the wedding party. So I said, there's no drinking anal for before the wedding. While yesterday we received a text in the morning that says that Megan would not drink any water because passive, said there was no drinking before the wedding. Now I'm not making yell. We look at that. I think he proceeded me not, but you see how she processed what I said within the context of her understanding and in our lives. We do the same thing with the Scriptures we process what I just read in the context of our understanding and your first Corinthians thirteen, says when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child I thought as a child, but when I became a man of foot away childish things. Did you ever wonder how much of our thinking is childish innocence that we really don't get it. Whenever we were reading God 's word, and now I've personally challenge myself and this is same thing that that how much of what we read and how may times we read it, and that's why whenever I'm preparing the Scriptures in preparing the sermons and things I try to always read the other commentaries and read things because there is more to what the Scriptures are saying then, but I have in my finite understanding of what's going on here and so you always want to look at the Scriptures of the way to put it in the context of what is saying and also what the Spears. Trying to say to us in our own lives at this moment, so the first section and I I I going to look not to do everyone in the Scriptures, but have sections on them in the first section, verses nineteen to twenty one. It's as don't hoard treasure, something will destroy whether it's mopped the roster to use besides where your treasure is, is where you will most want to be. So whatever we think about what's important. It was on the later talks about no shopping and clothing shopping: shoes, shopping and clothing. I won't go there. But anyhow, just kidding know how that some individuals are really consumed with Sony but that's okay. The cashier is to see the full feel the fulfillment of God 's purpose don't be so caught up with thank you every one of us have things we appreciate it. We treasure it out, whether it be clothing requires or yell what we have her little knickknacks. The things you collect in out whatever you say, you have things you collect again will stop in wellness obvious stuff, yeah okay stuff, I guess. I'm stuff that really ate what it comes down to it, doesn't really count for anything, except you know you like it. I have one lady was at a garage was always undermined you remember that the animus is brought down this lady selling your stuff. It was her husband 's stuff anyone home whenever she decided to sell the stop in a and E came home. He was quite upset, you know that the she had sold his favorite chair in him. Inc. -year-old you ever noticed that the furniture stores don't recently advertise the men because men don't care about their chair that like other setting, and after twenty five years mighty like change it now counts all broken down in their stop all through it, you know what you see when we whatever we look at these things and we were trying to understand within the context of who we are, what, what really is important where your treasure is never your heart be also that the King James version says, but it ought. It says here that besides where your treasure is, there will you most want to be. So what are the things that we really treasure and as we treasure them. That's where our role in intention is always going to be worth so the intent here is to seek to fulfill God 's purpose in all that we do. We never lose sight of our purpose so it's all right to have stopped in the near is alike. You preach against you can have stopped all were going to always have stuff but where is your purpose euro we can only win that we have our life. We have all these things we do with our life. But what is your ultimate purpose. Your purpose always supersedes to stop, so our actions and our decisions will reflect where our treasuries are not the guy 's story is before the night instead. Now I'm getting older. The thing I miss most is my mind so I have to repeat things authors is a guy robbed bank and no seasons are all shooting in things that break is this human wall and shoot them in the wallet. I shot them in the wallet guide what is one where your treasure is there we ought. We also will jump so the actions and decisions will reflect where our treasury and verse twenty two says your eyes are the windows into your body, your eyes are your windows into the body, so you know that where you look, you go where you look, you go. Did you ever hear someone say to them like where you're going, why it is ran into its radio ran into Paul what you looking where you were going yelling skiing. Maybe L Stevens, Europe and the West. When skiing. You always have your face down the hill. Even if you're going across the hill. You always look down the hill because down the hill is where you're going, so you've got to look at things and look where you are going and if you look where you're going, you're going to see the obstacles, but certainly read the word. As we said for plus times in a week. Read the word because we want to look where we are going in our Sunday school we talked about being consummate redemption, which means the redemption of all things that the Christian and how that God is going to redeem the earth and everything that's in the creation of a new goal as he intended to be a regular creation with readable up and listen to the Sunday school lessons. It will hear about that one but look where you're going in Proverbs five three versus five says Truscott from the bottom of your heart trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not deny no understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your I trust God from the bottom of your heart. Don't try to figure out everything on your own, listen for God 's voice and everything you do everywhere you go. He is the one who will keep you on track. Read the word look into the word trust God from the bottom of your heart trust means a short reliance on the character character of God, trust the Lord with all your heart, what is his character. Character of God is that he loves that he died for you. John three seventeen for God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might have life, so, God didn't come to drive us away. God came to bring us and to bring us into this relationship, so trust in God means that you are relying upon his character, his ability, his strength is true that the character of God 's mile visibility into all things. His strength that he is all-powerful is true, not one Mark in the Scripture will go unfulfilled, so we listen to God 's voice and everything you do everywhere you go. He's the one who will keep you on track. We listen to God use the store yesterday, I went into the drive-through bank abandoned to drive the thing a lot of people pray that way is drive-in Ayotte, I will push the button were gone down or weak, or we pushed the button and look him or her laying in others. Then the lady in the window icon enough and that we send our prayer request, you know, and in all, if we if we want to reply. We pushed the talk button sometimes there are even failing sometimes the teller won't even acknowledge that you are there blushing push to talk button of the way back in our soul. Sometimes I think it's like that whenever we pray. We got about thirty young thirty second prayer, God, you know, I need to win the lottery at first· book am waiting for the answer and that will buy tickets to us. It's like you know and like all your problems. That's not what prayer is dry through prayers. You have a a God, no stop pushed the talk button hello how are you young not too busy. So listen for God 's voice, what will God be saying he will be speaking to us from his word and it will be speaking to us about what is contained in the Scriptures and about what he has for us in our life as we look at Matthew chapter six verse twenty seven. Has anyone by fussing in front of a mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch. I'm glad some of you looked in the mirror before you gain again- I'm glad we did it take a look on about fussing in front of primer Rachel. She is forgot she was jolly. Easy chair for all of us jealous because she would spend at least an hour to not having read at least every morning, but that all you should change your clothes for five diapers with the school, so shall you have everything perfect and she fussed perfect enough hair. Whatever it was perfect. So she fussed in front of the mirror, but the instead thing here is that how much fussing by flexing your front in the mirror. You don't can you grow an inch. No, it isn't that we should pay with a too much attention to some things as if they are going to make a difference in a different way, such as staying in front of Mirren, having things okay that's all right. That's a good thing. I'm glad you got it, but being in front of the mirror is not to change your character is not to change your outlook thing so by fussing in front of the mirror can make you taller fashion to make you look a little different will make that goes a long way like one guy said years ago whatever, whenever preachers and people used to really preach against makeup and stuff and I grew up during a time and a guy said if the old of the barn needs painted payment of death that was it. That was a pulled him as you are allowed to wear makeup or hearings. When Rhonda got her ears pierced the preacher said do not defraud thy earlobes. He was teasing, but the down rock run. Then it is likely that Rhonda believed in the have DJ Jed Hezekiah Chapter seven, you know, but the edges look in the Bible to find adverse as it do not defraud nine-year low NL. I mean it out with all these things that were know that were against whatever you wanted to preach against the no but then again, listening for the word of God, and we listen to these things. We interpret them in the context of our understanding so as we mature as we grow God speaks the last and at some point in our life. Maybe those things important, but sometimes we grow beyond them only begun to understand the many different line, and again fashion is nice and natural beauty. It's what goes on in the heart that makes an individual estate. Consider the wild flowers that grow out in the fields consider the beauty around us. It we can drive down the road and not say anything now. Jackson missed last week. Rachel said young. They took the little thing off of the wind. They are the sunshade off the window and yet he is always has these Elmo things and whatever the CDs playing. They drive me nuts. Now most counting one to train next strain, Nextel and young shut the thing off. I can't stand almost counting out and have had this this this past week. Rachel said they took that stayed off the window for something like everything had to go off of it and put it back up and Jackson says what's that one flat a look at: one. Although I can't look out the window as you're driving down the road. There is a natural beauty around us that sometimes we just don't see when you don't say it because regular busy watching Elmo count, and that our way of looking at things sometimes were just caught up in our own perspective in the same reruns over and over in our minds stop it. Verse thirty. If God gives such attention to walk to the appearance of wildflowers, most of which will never be seen. You think he'll attend to you to take pride in you. Do his best for you. If God is paying this much attention to flowers that will never be seen what you think he cares about you and I so we just went through, looking at a man trying to make ourselves grow an inch. We realize that there's something more. There is a beauty inside of Boston and the person who you are always taking care of you and his pride in you and how you look and how you are made up on the inside question really becomes what we believe more our ability to change us by looking in the mirror or do we believe in our ability for God changes on the inside for our eyes are the windows of our soul. What we see we make decisions on the become our actions, the difference in this verse. What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax and not being so preoccupied with getting it can not you can respond so you're not so preoccupied with getting so you can response to God 's giving big notices to words, what's the difference between getting and receiving giving. I want to get God wants to give what's the difference. Every everything in this this chapter in his verse is here. I think focus on these two words, you think getting is that I'm looking to gain. I'm going to grow an inch. I'm going to change my outward appearance. I'm going to be a calm something will get me is that God is going to may a present of two grants or bestow by a formal action into our life was that getting no big getting is I am going to make it happen. The receiving is I'm going to understand what God wants to give me that as we look at this, that God assignment in our life is always greater than our gifts. What God wants us to do is always greater than our ability. So when we are preoccupied with getting were trying to make it happen whenever we are praying and asking God, we are asking our request and asking God to bless us with what was his word with this promises that our eyes are open to his word, so that we can make an action in our prayers to God about his word so that his word will come into our life, and that will be the strength that we receive to be able to do so don't be so preoccupied with getting about to get basement got to be that he did nothing wrong with fashion, but I've got to get in order to keep up with someone not an applicant shall never keep up. There's always someone to keep up to is changing status now there's a word in there that says don't worry though, where noticing where he comes from an old German word Virgin WR GEN will literally means to strangle to constrict the choke. So whenever we are worrying we are strangling. We are constructing a boa constrictor Eisenstadt, or child sounds like what worry fields wherein he is about strangling constricting and choking. So relax. The Bible says do not be so preoccupied with getting don't be so preoccupied with getting the wearing and I got to get this tonight I get this puppy so preoccupied with it that you become strangled constricted and choked. I don't have doubly so preoccupied with that, that you cannot respond to God 's giving. I am sorry off. I'm so caught up with what I'm going to get. I don't see what is given to me, God is going to get a seat. I went God has called us to do in our life. We don't have the ability to do. We don't have all of it to do with parts of it, but we're not there yet. God wants to supply that into our life, but if we're so busy clapping, getting in, getting we never see was given, so can we buy and looking in the mirror at an in-store stature can we make it happen vital, says my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory because I will never leave you nor forsake you. Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you not to harm you, plans to give you hope in the future. These are the things of God giving to us, so we are to respond to God giving not to our getting this whole section of Scripture revolves around those two ideas and so when we are preoccupied with getting where trying to make it happen. What are you going, look where you're going for thirty four King James is therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. So it means. Therefore, get out word to be strangled, constructed or choked about tomorrow. All school starting tomorrow features students cannot be strangled constricted or choked about tomorrow. Why, because it's more than what you can do more than what you can phase in more than the talent you have in hand, and that's a good thing. Beware, be aware of God 's giving. Be aware of God 's giving what about the needs, what about work. What about you. Now my job. What about my finances. What about my, what about the illness. What about my health don't strangle choked or can be constructed. The word. The challenge is to pay attention to what God is saying to the drive-through prayer, God, I need this. I need to get this. I need to have this sin. Okay the push to talk button got what he is saying busy for us. What are you trying to carry a burden. The never belonged on our own shoulders worrying is trying to carry a burden that never belongs on our shoulders. Philippians four, six and seven. Do not worry about anything but what, but what's the word 's word, and I know pray what his word was the word pray that the word is praying are you ready for this. The word is prayer. So what is the word that I was no worry about anything but don't worry about anything but prayer, pray, pray, pray with you. Spring don't worry about anything but about everything I will guess what, when me worry where we has an alarm worrying is an alarm that says time to pray where is the line that says it's time to pray. So the alarm is going off on my maximum aggregate of our praying. Don't allow yourself to be constricted. Don't allow yourself to be choked down. Allow yourself to be strangled for the alarm is going off and I must be aware of not getting but receiving God wants to give into my life, because we don't have the ability to make it happen to get because they are insufficient and that's what happened. That's how God intended it to be so that we would not be looking in the mirror and making ourselves grow. God wants us to receive his work. Philippians four eight one we supposed to do. Think about whatever is true, whatever is noble, what is right. What is your what is lovely. What is admirable. What is excellent. What is praiseworthy think about such things don't allow worry to constrict the choke. Proverbs three five and six trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will want direct your path. Make your way straight we are to respond to God 's giving verse thirty four, but that's a given their entire attention to what God is doing right now, what about tomorrow what we do. We have to make plans to plans and all of that stuff is good. The person who fails to plan plans to fail yell. We are cute. We are to make plan we are to yell out the cost we are to do all those things. Those are important things, but wary is not part of the plan. Murray is in part of the plan. I need to pray about the plan that I am worrying about so pay attention to what God is doing right now. What does God want to speak to him. What does he want to speak into our lives about tomorrow about the word read that is in my mind, so don't allow the worry the child allow God 's word to speak peace to you, for God is giving is giving life is giving love is giving strength and hope and peace and freedom is meeting our financial needs. He has taught in our lives by his presence and a ceiling right now God is giving giving his work to a sop. The two words judging or receiving, but God is giving is not getting, and then God is going to give me think back to those of both part of the ominous break the sin. Now I am in my false concepts going to get it and make it happen or I am going to pray and receive what God is giving as I recognize with him all things are possible to him. The beliefs and men with Allstate. So what do you think what you think what you think we need to do. I don't have the answer. So what you think. What I know what I need to do I need to when I wearing right and see the alarm goes off that I have concerns. I'm not to disable that doesn't die& worry doesn't exist, it does exist. There is a problem there. So don't be choked about it. Pray about it and receive God 's word is going to give you about think so. If not denial. Denial is not faith. I'll& I'll never happen is not recognize it for what it is for a about blog. Receive if your life with God was to speak to you right now. God will get you right now what you need to bring peace and he will be there when that problem arises to be with you through so it's okay to plan one's been in school for ten days before getting ready were raised now concerned planning for the kids come, so you state it would be wrong to show up tomorrow and say oh well I guess I better get ready children here right features that thing. So in our life. It's all right to be concerned about why was going off, oh I need to get ready for that price about it and receive. But don't worry that you can't make yourself grow an inch in front of the mirror might happen father, thank you for what you speak to us how your word touches our life, and each one of us, Lord needs your word spoken by you into our hearts. Thank you Lord for letting us and carry across more than the flowers of the field. They are beautiful in UK you can see you are concerned and touched by our lives and touch our lives in a very real way, bless, we pray that we might be blessings in Jesus name we ask that everyone says amenThey were looking in Matthew chapter six verses nineteen to thirty four and notes. A lot of reading, but that's okay. This section of Scripture is. It's a very important one as they all are but the title of this section is a life of God worship him. I entitled that message the day and we trust so let's read the assigned reading from the message Bible and what are the challenges was a white rates in the message Bible and individual member, reading and talking about how that whenever we read like the King James version, but that's what the fight for anything from memory. It's always in the King James, because that's how I learned so that's how I memorize that. So whenever I'm quoting something always put in the King James and I look it up and then I transmit I get one. Human translation any several reasons for this is that when we hear the Scriptures, the same way in the same version. We already have a preconceived ideas what we think it means. We always yell. We already have something bear. It is associated with how we memorized and whenever we take that same Scripture and read it differently from a different version. It helps us how to look at that and expand what we already have in mind so that part of the reasoning behind reading from the message Bible. So Matthew chapter six beginning verse nineteen. Don't hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by Martin corroded by Russ or worse stolen by burglars stockpiled treasures in heaven lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where thieves do not break through and steal unlocked does not drop-down that the King James version, but the contract is in heaven words safe from Moncton Rustenburg alerts. It's obvious, isn't it the place where your treasure is, is the place you almost want to be, and into the your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide and wonder and believe your body fills up with life. If you live score API in greed and distrust your body is a dark cellar. If you pull the blinds on your Windows one of dark life you will have. You can't worship to God that once wanting one God, you'll end up hating the other adoration of one of these contempt for the other. You can't worship God and money. Both if you decide, for God living a life of God worship. It follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at meal times or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life in the food you put in your stomach more to your outer appearance than the clothes that you hang on your body look at the birds free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God, and you count far more to Hindenburg has anyone by fuss flossing that is fussing right if US is finding, blessing the thought using a pleasant as anyone fussing as anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as the names all the time and money wasted on fashion you think it makes that much difference. Instead of looking at the fashion walk out into the fields a look at the wildflowers. They never where Shaw, but have you ever seen color and design white like that the ten best dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside of them. If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers, most of which are never even seen don't you think you'll attempt he'll attend to you take pride in you. Do his best for you. What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax to not be so preoccupied with getting you cannot respond to God 's giving people who don't know God, and the way he works, plus over these things. But you know both God and how he works. Step your life in God, Steve, your life, and God reality God initiative God provisions don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up. When the time comes as a great phrase of Scripture here little section of Scripture 's yesterday on his resentment and Joan Andrea 's wedding. Now Joe Andrew, were married a number of months ago in a private ceremony in February that we have for them. You know, Joe and Andrea their life has been changed by God in you. They wanted to do things in the church and so you're making them it would be better for you to be married and you know you can work in the church and so I wanted the deal that was their decision, so they were married in than the officially, this was their plans married. Marriage date yesterday, but the rehearsal I mentioned to on when I do this at all the ways, because many of the individuals who come to church or are inviting parties don't are not involved in any church and one of my requirements is that there be no alcoholic consumption before the before the wedding by any of the grounds of Miami, but any of the party, the wedding party. So I said, there's no drinking anal for before the wedding. While yesterday we received a text in the morning that says that Megan would not drink any water because passive, said there was no drinking before the wedding. Now I'm not making yell. We look at that. I think he proceeded me not, but you see how she processed what I said within the context of her understanding and in our lives. We do the same thing with the Scriptures we process what I just read in the context of our understanding and your first Corinthians thirteen, says when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child I thought as a child, but when I became a man of foot away childish things. Did you ever wonder how much of our thinking is childish innocence that we really don't get it. Whenever we were reading God 's word, and now I've personally challenge myself and this is same thing that that how much of what we read and how may times we read it, and that's why whenever I'm preparing the Scriptures in preparing the sermons and things I try to always read the other commentaries and read things because there is more to what the Scriptures are saying then, but I have in my finite understanding of what's going on here and so you always want to look at the Scriptures of the way to put it in the context of what is saying and also what the Spears. Trying to say to us in our own lives at this moment, so the first section and I I I going to look not to do everyone in the Scriptures, but have sections on them in the first section, verses nineteen to twenty one. It's as don't hoard treasure, something will destroy whether it's mopped the roster to use besides where your treasure is, is where you will most want to be. So whatever we think about what's important. It was on the later talks about no shopping and clothing shopping: shoes, shopping and clothing. I won't go there. But anyhow, just kidding know how that some individuals are really consumed with Sony but that's okay. The cashier is to see the full feel the fulfillment of God 's purpose don't be so caught up with thank you every one of us have things we appreciate it. We treasure it out, whether it be clothing requires or yell what we have her little knickknacks. The things you collect in out whatever you say, you have things you collect again will stop in wellness obvious stuff, yeah okay stuff, I guess. I'm stuff that really ate what it comes down to it, doesn't really count for anything, except you know you like it. I have one lady was at a garage was always undermined you remember that the animus is brought down this lady selling your stuff. It was her husband 's stuff anyone home whenever she decided to sell the stop in a and E came home. He was quite upset, you know that the she had sold his favorite chair in him. Inc. -year-old you ever noticed that the furniture stores don't recently advertise the men because men don't care about their chair that like other setting, and after twenty five years mighty like change it now counts all broken down in their stop all through it, you know what you see when we whatever we look at these things and we were trying to understand within the context of who we are, what, what really is important where your treasure is never your heart be also that the King James version says, but it ought. It says here that besides where your treasure is, there will you most want to be. So what are the things that we really treasure and as we treasure them. That's where our role in intention is always going to be worth so the intent here is to seek to fulfill God 's purpose in all that we do. We never lose sight of our purpose so it's all right to have stopped in the near is alike. You preach against you can have stopped all were going to always have stuff but where is your purpose euro we can only win that we have our life. We have all these things we do with our life. But what is your ultimate purpose. Your purpose always supersedes to stop, so our actions and our decisions will reflect where our treasuries are not the guy 's story is before the night instead. Now I'm getting older. The thing I miss most is my mind so I have to repeat things authors is a guy robbed bank and no seasons are all shooting in things that break is this human wall and shoot them in the wallet. I shot them in the wallet guide what is one where your treasure is there we ought. We also will jump so the actions and decisions will reflect where our treasury and verse twenty two says your eyes are the windows into your body, your eyes are your windows into the body, so you know that where you look, you go where you look, you go. Did you ever hear someone say to them like where you're going, why it is ran into its radio ran into Paul what you looking where you were going yelling skiing. Maybe L Stevens, Europe and the West. When skiing. You always have your face down the hill. Even if you're going across the hill. You always look down the hill because down the hill is where you're going, so you've got to look at things and look where you are going and if you look where you're going, you're going to see the obstacles, but certainly read the word. As we said for plus times in a week. Read the word because we want to look where we are going in our Sunday school we talked about being consummate redemption, which means the redemption of all things that the Christian and how that God is going to redeem the earth and everything that's in the creation of a new goal as he intended to be a regular creation with readable up and listen to the Sunday school lessons. It will hear about that one but look where you're going in Proverbs five three versus five says Truscott from the bottom of your heart trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not deny no understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your I trust God from the bottom of your heart. Don't try to figure out everything on your own, listen for God 's voice and everything you do everywhere you go. He is the one who will keep you on track. Read the word look into the word trust God from the bottom of your heart trust means a short reliance on the character character of God, trust the Lord with all your heart, what is his character. Character of God is that he loves that he died for you. John three seventeen for God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might have life, so, God didn't come to drive us away. God came to bring us and to bring us into this relationship, so trust in God means that you are relying upon his character, his ability, his strength is true that the character of God 's mile visibility into all things. His strength that he is all-powerful is true, not one Mark in the Scripture will go unfulfilled, so we listen to God 's voice and everything you do everywhere you go. He's the one who will keep you on track. We listen to God use the store yesterday, I went into the drive-through bank abandoned to drive the thing a lot of people pray that way is drive-in Ayotte, I will push the button were gone down or weak, or we pushed the button and look him or her laying in others. Then the lady in the window icon enough and that we send our prayer request, you know, and in all, if we if we want to reply. We pushed the talk button sometimes there are even failing sometimes the teller won't even acknowledge that you are there blushing push to talk button of the way back in our soul. Sometimes I think it's like that whenever we pray. We got about thirty young thirty second prayer, God, you know, I need to win the lottery at first· book am waiting for the answer and that will buy tickets to us. It's like you know and like all your problems. That's not what prayer is dry through prayers. You have a a God, no stop pushed the talk button hello how are you young not too busy. So listen for God 's voice, what will God be saying he will be speaking to us from his word and it will be speaking to us about what is contained in the Scriptures and about what he has for us in our life as we look at Matthew chapter six verse twenty seven. Has anyone by fussing in front of a mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch. I'm glad some of you looked in the mirror before you gain again- I'm glad we did it take a look on about fussing in front of primer Rachel. She is forgot she was jolly. Easy chair for all of us jealous because she would spend at least an hour to not having read at least every morning, but that all you should change your clothes for five diapers with the school, so shall you have everything perfect and she fussed perfect enough hair. Whatever it was perfect. So she fussed in front of the mirror, but the instead thing here is that how much fussing by flexing your front in the mirror. You don't can you grow an inch. No, it isn't that we should pay with a too much attention to some things as if they are going to make a difference in a different way, such as staying in front of Mirren, having things okay that's all right. That's a good thing. I'm glad you got it, but being in front of the mirror is not to change your character is not to change your outlook thing so by fussing in front of the mirror can make you taller fashion to make you look a little different will make that goes a long way like one guy said years ago whatever, whenever preachers and people used to really preach against makeup and stuff and I grew up during a time and a guy said if the old of the barn needs painted payment of death that was it. That was a pulled him as you are allowed to wear makeup or hearings. When Rhonda got her ears pierced the preacher said do not defraud thy earlobes. He was teasing, but the down rock run. Then it is likely that Rhonda believed in the have DJ Jed Hezekiah Chapter seven, you know, but the edges look in the Bible to find adverse as it do not defraud nine-year low NL. I mean it out with all these things that were know that were against whatever you wanted to preach against the no but then again, listening for the word of God, and we listen to these things. We interpret them in the context of our understanding so as we mature as we grow God speaks the last and at some point in our life. Maybe those things important, but sometimes we grow beyond them only begun to understand the many different line, and again fashion is nice and natural beauty. It's what goes on in the heart that makes an individual estate. Consider the wild flowers that grow out in the fields consider the beauty around us. It we can drive down the road and not say anything now. Jackson missed last week. Rachel said young. They took the little thing off of the wind. They are the sunshade off the window and yet he is always has these Elmo things and whatever the CDs playing. They drive me nuts. Now most counting one to train next strain, Nextel and young shut the thing off. I can't stand almost counting out and have had this this this past week. Rachel said they took that stayed off the window for something like everything had to go off of it and put it back up and Jackson says what's that one flat a look at: one. Although I can't look out the window as you're driving down the road. There is a natural beauty around us that sometimes we just don't see when you don't say it because regular busy watching Elmo count, and that our way of looking at things sometimes were just caught up in our own perspective in the same reruns over and over in our minds stop it. Verse thirty. If God gives such attention to walk to the appearance of wildflowers, most of which will never be seen. You think he'll attend to you to take pride in you. Do his best for you. If God is paying this much attention to flowers that will never be seen what you think he cares about you and I so we just went through, looking at a man trying to make ourselves grow an inch. We realize that there's something more. There is a beauty inside of Boston and the person who you are always taking care of you and his pride in you and how you look and how you are made up on the inside question really becomes what we believe more our ability to change us by looking in the mirror or do we believe in our ability for God changes on the inside for our eyes are the windows of our soul. What we see we make decisions on the become our actions, the difference in this verse. What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax and not being so preoccupied with getting it can not you can respond so you're not so preoccupied with getting so you can response to God 's giving big notices to words, what's the difference between getting and receiving giving. I want to get God wants to give what's the difference. Every everything in this this chapter in his verse is here. I think focus on these two words, you think getting is that I'm looking to gain. I'm going to grow an inch. I'm going to change my outward appearance. I'm going to be a calm something will get me is that God is going to may a present of two grants or bestow by a formal action into our life was that getting no big getting is I am going to make it happen. The receiving is I'm going to understand what God wants to give me that as we look at this, that God assignment in our life is always greater than our gifts. What God wants us to do is always greater than our ability. So when we are preoccupied with getting were trying to make it happen whenever we are praying and asking God, we are asking our request and asking God to bless us with what was his word with this promises that our eyes are open to his word, so that we can make an action in our prayers to God about his word so that his word will come into our life, and that will be the strength that we receive to be able to do so don't be so preoccupied with getting about to get basement got to be that he did nothing wrong with fashion, but I've got to get in order to keep up with someone not an applicant shall never keep up. There's always someone to keep up to is changing status now there's a word in there that says don't worry though, where noticing where he comes from an old German word Virgin WR GEN will literally means to strangle to constrict the choke. So whenever we are worrying we are strangling. We are constructing a boa constrictor Eisenstadt, or child sounds like what worry fields wherein he is about strangling constricting and choking. So relax. The Bible says do not be so preoccupied with getting don't be so preoccupied with getting the wearing and I got to get this tonight I get this puppy so preoccupied with it that you become strangled constricted and choked. I don't have doubly so preoccupied with that, that you cannot respond to God 's giving. I am sorry off. I'm so caught up with what I'm going to get. I don't see what is given to me, God is going to get a seat. I went God has called us to do in our life. We don't have the ability to do. We don't have all of it to do with parts of it, but we're not there yet. God wants to supply that into our life, but if we're so busy clapping, getting in, getting we never see was given, so can we buy and looking in the mirror at an in-store stature can we make it happen vital, says my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory because I will never leave you nor forsake you. Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you not to harm you, plans to give you hope in the future. These are the things of God giving to us, so we are to respond to God giving not to our getting this whole section of Scripture revolves around those two ideas and so when we are preoccupied with getting where trying to make it happen. What are you going, look where you're going for thirty four King James is therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. So it means. Therefore, get out word to be strangled, constructed or choked about tomorrow. All school starting tomorrow features students cannot be strangled constricted or choked about tomorrow. Why, because it's more than what you can do more than what you can phase in more than the talent you have in hand, and that's a good thing. Beware, be aware of God 's giving. Be aware of God 's giving what about the needs, what about work. What about you. Now my job. What about my finances. What about my, what about the illness. What about my health don't strangle choked or can be constructed. The word. The challenge is to pay attention to what God is saying to the drive-through prayer, God, I need this. I need to get this. I need to have this sin. Okay the push to talk button got what he is saying busy for us. What are you trying to carry a burden. The never belonged on our own shoulders worrying is trying to carry a burden that never belongs on our shoulders. Philippians four, six and seven. Do not worry about anything but what, but what's the word 's word, and I know pray what his word was the word pray that the word is praying are you ready for this. The word is prayer. So what is the word that I was no worry about anything but don't worry about anything but prayer, pray, pray, pray with you. Spring don't worry about anything but about everything I will guess what, when me worry where we has an alarm worrying is an alarm that says time to pray where is the line that says it's time to pray. So the alarm is going off on my maximum aggregate of our praying. Don't allow yourself to be constricted. Don't allow yourself to be choked down. Allow yourself to be strangled for the alarm is going off and I must be aware of not getting but receiving God wants to give into my life, because we don't have the ability to make it happen to get because they are insufficient and that's what happened. That's how God intended it to be so that we would not be looking in the mirror and making ourselves grow. God wants us to receive his work. Philippians four eight one we supposed to do. Think about whatever is true, whatever is noble, what is right. What is your what is lovely. What is admirable. What is excellent. What is praiseworthy think about such things don't allow worry to constrict the choke. Proverbs three five and six trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will want direct your path. Make your way straight we are to respond to God 's giving verse thirty four, but that's a given their entire attention to what God is doing right now, what about tomorrow what we do. We have to make plans to plans and all of that stuff is good. The person who fails to plan plans to fail yell. We are cute. We are to make plan we are to yell out the cost we are to do all those things. Those are important things, but wary is not part of the plan. Murray is in part of the plan. I need to pray about the plan that I am worrying about so pay attention to what God is doing right now. What does God want to speak to him. What does he want to speak into our lives about tomorrow about the word read that is in my mind, so don't allow the worry the child allow God 's word to speak peace to you, for God is giving is giving life is giving love is giving strength and hope and peace and freedom is meeting our financial needs. He has taught in our lives by his presence and a ceiling right now God is giving giving his work to a sop. The two words judging or receiving, but God is giving is not getting, and then God is going to give me think back to those of both part of the ominous break the sin. Now I am in my false concepts going to get it and make it happen or I am going to pray and receive what God is giving as I recognize with him all things are possible to him. The beliefs and men with Allstate. So what do you think what you think what you think we need to do. I don't have the answer. So what you think. What I know what I need to do I need to when I wearing right and see the alarm goes off that I have concerns. I'm not to disable that doesn't die& worry doesn't exist, it does exist. There is a problem there. So don't be choked about it. Pray about it and receive God 's word is going to give you about think so. If not denial. Denial is not faith. I'll& I'll never happen is not recognize it for what it is for a about blog. Receive if your life with God was to speak to you right now. God will get you right now what you need to bring peace and he will be there when that problem arises to be with you through so it's okay to plan one's been in school for ten days before getting ready were raised now concerned planning for the kids come, so you state it would be wrong to show up tomorrow and say oh well I guess I better get ready children here right features that thing. So in our life. It's all right to be concerned about why was going off, oh I need to get ready for that price about it and receive. But don't worry that you can't make yourself grow an inch in front of the mirror might happen father, thank you for what you speak to us how your word touches our life, and each one of us, Lord needs your word spoken by you into our hearts. Thank you Lord for letting us and carry across more than the flowers of the field. They are beautiful in UK you can see you are concerned and touched by our lives and touch our lives in a very real way, bless, we pray that we might be blessings in Jesus name we ask that everyone says amen