well before we begin this morning I have been informed that I have a duty that must be taken care of before we move any further I understand that that you guys were informed on last week that my my wife and I were away we spent a week on the beautiful island of Kauai however you guys were not informed that we we did that on last week because on June 30th we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary now I I say that because one one man in the church who shall remain nameless said you know you should really let everybody know that you took your wife to Kauai for your 20th anniversary so
that you know people like my wife won’t think that you just went just because and therefore I need to take her just because so no it was it was our 20th wedding anniversary and um it was an amazing time to get away and to just uh be reminded of God’s goodness and of God’s mercy toward us over these past 20 years and his Mercy to me in particular as my wife has put up with me for these 20 years and I’m grateful with that in mind let’s look again in The Sermon on the Mount we have reached the end of Matthew chapter 6. that last section that last paragraph
there and Matthew chapter 6. when we look at this issue of anxiety let me let me bring you up to speed and contextualize what’s happening here just in this section on The Sermon on the Mount we’re dealing with a couple of issues here namely with the issue of material wealth and personal desires we saw in night verses 19 through 21 uh that transitory Earthly Treasures don’t satisfy then in verses 22 and 23 we saw that yearning for such Earthly riches blur are are our middle and moral vision and finally in verse 24 we saw that a
choice must be made between God and Mammon so we’re we’re moving down a road here and that road has to do with our material wealth and our attitude toward material wealth it’s connected also to this issue of the Lord’s Prayer and we’ll see that here momentarily but what we’re dealing with as we come to this passage about our anxiety and the Lord’s provision is really a continuation of the Lord’s thought as it relates to the issue of our material wealth and our material possessions and it’s very important to contextualize it so that we can grasp what’s being said in this last
chapter or this last passage in chapter six as he brings this idea sort of to a crescendo he’ll revisit some of it again and I’ll sort of I’ll allude to that but he’s really bringing this idea to a crescendo he also brings us to an issue that is of very practical importance and that’s the issue of anxiety anxiety it’s interesting usually we think that the Bible deals with issues that are religious and spiritual and moral but the Bible doesn’t necessarily deal with issues that are practical or deal with issues that that that really affect our
