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Beloved: Gospel of John\nAuthentic Fruit: Pastor Michael Dascoli\nMarch 29, 2020 \n\nPlease turn in your Bibles to Matthew 6:25-34\n\n\u201cTherefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?\u201d Matthew 6:25\n\n5 Things Jesus Says About Worry.\n\n1: Worry is Unreasonable (V 25)\n\n Question: Is not life more important than the things we tend to worry about?\n\n2. Worry is Unnatural (V 26)\n\n\u201cLook at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,\n and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?\u201d\n\n Question: Are you not much more valuable than birds?\n\n\u201cAn anxious heart weighs a man down.\nProverbs 12:25\n\n3. Worry is Unhelpful (V 27)\n\n\u201cCan any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?\u201d\n\n Question: Can worry add a single hour to your life?\n\n4. Worry is Unnecessary (V 28)\n\n\u201cAnd why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you\u2014you of little faith?\n\n Question: Will God not clothe you?\n\n5. Worry is Unbecoming (V 31)\n\u201cSo do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.\u201d\n\n Question: How are we any different from those who have no faith?\n \nTHE ANTIDOTE FOR WORRY:\n\n#1: Put Christ first in every area of my life (V 32)\n\n\u201c\u2026your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first His kingdom\n and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.\u201d\n\n#2. Practice taking things one day at a time (V 34)\n\n\u201cTherefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.\n\n#3. Place things beyond your control in God\u2019s hands (1Peter 5:7): \n\nGive all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. NLT\n\nSince God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won\u2019t God, \nwho gave us Christ, also give us everything else? Romans 8:32 NLT\n\nWhat is God\u2019s Spirit saying to you?\nHow must you respond?