TOPIC: “DON’T WORRY”!

 TEXT:  ST. MATTHEW 6:34: Take therefore no thought for the morrow:  for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

I will be talking about a word today that at some time in our lives, we do it.  And we do it because when or whatever the situation may be we’re looking at our resources and not the source.  We’re looking at all that we see with our natural eyes instead of spiritual vision.

We’re being faced with situations and adversities and what faith we have sometimes goes out the window because of!!  When we do this we realize in the end we did it NEEDLESSLY!  Some of you right now are thinking, “Well, good Lord, what is the word”?  I’m getting ready to tell you and when I do, after today, this word should no longer be a part of our lives, and God will assure and reassure us today through His Word that we have no need to even allow it to have any place in our lives.  The word is “WORRY”!  I can talk about it because I have been guilty of it.  It seems when things, people, situations, circumstances, finances are a factor it seems that is what I usually do.  But I’ve made up my mind that after today, I won’t allow it to have place in my walk with God.  Worrying about what and for what!

As a verb, worry, means to give way to anxiety or uneasiness; to allow one’s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.

As a noun, it means, a state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems.

So what does God say about worry.  We know for sure it is something God does not want us to do.  When we’re worrying, we’re trying to figure out what we’re going to do with our limited resources and we have lost focus on God trying to fix it, until we’ve exhausted all our resources and THEN we call on God.

This message is coming from the Father and Mother side of God.  As the Father, He is our pillar of strength, giving us a sense of physical and emotional well-being, our protector, and provider.  As Mother, our pillar of patience, loving, forgiving, and enduring.  

Brothers and sisters I’m going to ask some questions and just let your mind ponder on them. 

·         Why do we worry?

·         What good did it do after all is said and done?

·         Did worrying change anything?

Worrying only has negative results.  It does absolutely no good.  It does not bring in money, food or clothing.  All it does basically is distract us from God.  It is unbelief which is the opposite of faith and opens a door for fear and anxiety. 

Therefore God does not want us to worry about anything.  He wants us to come to the place in Him where as nothing can shake our faith in Him. 

Matthew 6:34, He said “Take no thought for the morrow”!

Thought is merimna’o, meaning to be anxious about; have care: / also from mer’imna, meaning, through the idea of distraction; drawn in a different direction.

Don’t allow the situations or circumstances that surround you distract you or draw your attention away from God who is the “source” of all your needs!

Morrow is from the root word au’rion, meaning a breeze, as the morning air; fresh; next day.  It goes to the root word aer (ah-ayr’), meaning to breathe unconsciously.  God want us to literally breathe Him, not just “oxygen” but Him (pneu’ma) [the rational soul; the right mental disposition, superhuman] which will cause us to become what the other root word is as hemer’a, meaning, tamed (made ready for God’s use), gentle (generous, patient, kind), settled, immovable, steadfast in God. When this happen we know that everything we stand in need of our Heavenly Father has already provided for us spiritually and physically.

Vs 34: For the morrow (next day) shall take thought (have care; distractions) for the things of itself.   Sufficient is the root word arketos', meaning satisfactory; enough.  Then is goes to arke'o, meaning, the idea of raising a barrier; to ward off; to avail; be content.  Sufficient (satisfactory; being content) unto the day is the evil (kadi’a) [badness, depravity, or malignity, trouble; malice, wickedness, naughtiness] thereof.  

But we know who holds “the morrow”, and nothing can come to us that God and we can’t handle!  We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13).  Vs 19: Our God shall supply all our needs, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus!

We see from the Old Testament till now how God has taken care and made provision for His people.  When Pharaoh held His son (Israel) in bondage, God made provision for their release.  When they wondered forty years in the wilderness (Numbers 32:12), He clothed, fed, and protected them. 

The Hebrew boys can attest to His keeping power in a fiery furnace and they weren’t worried.  I know that by what they said: 

·         Daniel 3:17: If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

·         Vs 18: But if not, be it known unto thee, O king that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Daniel can testify of His protection and deliverance out of a den of hungry lions (Daniel 6):

·         Vs 22: My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: 

·         Vs 23: Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den.  So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

That is a point reached that we shall attain, because we must not bow to the image of the religious systems of men.  What image?  The worship of the flesh of Jesus instead of worshipping Him by the Spirit!

Romans 1:18-32 [the Jew and Gentile guiltiness before God]:

·         Romans 1:21: Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart (mind; thoughts; understanding) was darkened.

·         Vs 22: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

·         Vs 23: And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

·         Vs 24: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

·         Vs 25: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever Amen.

Men (people) over the eons of time have established and used:

 Idolatry for true worship:

·         Exodus 20:2: I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  Vs 3: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  Vs 4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  vs 5: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.

Scripturally, false gods are named:  Baal (god of the Canaanites) (Judges 2:13; Romans 11:4):  Molech (god of the Ammonites) (Leviticus 18:21):  Ashtoreth (a god of the Philistines) [Judges 2:13; 10:6]:  Chemosh (god of the Moabites) [Judges 11:23-24]:   Artemis (Diana) (a goddess of the Greek) [Acts 19:24-35], that competed for devotion against the worship of the true God. 

What are some of the false gods in the world today:  entertainers (entertainment), famous people (fame), money, power, cars, homes, jobs, etcetera.  We need food to eat, transportation, jobs, money, but when someone and something else is put before God, that’s where we jump the track. It’s one thing to “admire” someone, but it’s another when we “idolize” them or become “fanatical” over them or something.  We must seek God first and His Kingdom and all else we need shall be added (Matthew 6:33).

 (Revelation 2:20):  (speaking to the church of Thyatira): 

·         Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel (false church system), which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication (porneu’o) [act the harlot; practice idolatry] and to eat things sacrificed unto idols (eidoloth’uton) [an image-sacrifice].

In the tabernacle Moses built by God’s instructions there was a curtain or veil that separated the holy place (where the people worshipped) from the Most Holy place (where God dwelt).  That veil was the flesh of Jesus.  Hebrews 10:19-20: Having therefore, brethren, boldness, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus:  by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the “veil”, that is to say, “his flesh”. 

·         Matthew 27:45-56 (the death of Jesus):  vs 50-51: Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.  And behold, the “veil” (His flesh) of the temple was rent (schi’zo) [split or severed: break; divide; open] in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.

Once God was finished with the “flesh of Jesus” on that cross, He was through with the body of Jesus as it was, before He went to the cross and while He was on the cross.  It was the cross that differentiated between “Jesus” and “Christ”!  That was “JESUS” (the man) that went to the cross, but when He got up from that grave, it was “CHRIST” (the many-membered body)!  After the crucifixion, He was never the same body that He was before the cross.  After the resurrection He was the other body, the many-membered body!

·         1 Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:  SO ALSO IS CHRIST!!!

·         Ephesians 2:14-15: For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in “his flesh” the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.

While the “veil” was still there, man was separated from God, only the “high priest” could go in once a year and make sacrifice for himself, his household, and for the people, but under the old covenant. But Jesus our “high priest” only had to go in once!

·         Hebrews 9:11: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; vs 12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

·         Vs 24: For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:  vs 25: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entered into the holy place every year with blood of others;  vs 26: For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:  but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

When Jesus died on the Cross, that middle wall of partition or the veil was torn down so that placed God and His people in the same room!!!  But what man has done religiously is hung Jesus’ flesh back up and religion is looking and waiting for His flesh body to come back and deliver them.  That’s not going to happen.  God is through with that body as it was.

·         2 Corinthians 5:16: Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:  yea, though we have known (past tense) Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth (from here on) know we him no more.  The only way we can know Him now is by the Spirit!

Those that God has opened their spiritual eyes to the truth, we see Him now by Spirit. 

·         John 14:19: Yet a little while, and the world see me no more; but you see me:  because I live, you shall live also. 

·         Vs 20: At that day (and that day is right now) you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you!

 He is in us, His people, and we are His body in the earth!  Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones!

Religion has made Jesus’ flesh body an “idol”.  2 Corinthians 6:16: What agreement hath the temple of God with idols?

This word “idol” is from the root word ei’dolon, meaning an image (for worship).  Ei’dolon is a likeness; an appearance; that which is seen.

 Jesus’ flesh is no more except in you and me.  Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you (John 6:53).

 Just as there are those that worship the sun, stars, animals, etcetera, there are those worshiping the “flesh of Jesus”, waiting for Him to come back and get them and carry them to where God is.  Some are wearing Him on a cross which is a mockery to His resurrection.  He is no longer on the cross, nor is He in the grave, for He is risen!  He was and is God in flesh form and He is now you and I in flesh form.  1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world!

·         St. John 1:1:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God

·         Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us! 

Once you eat Him (the Word of God), He is no more, except IN YOU!

We must believe, and receive the truth that we can have all the Kingdom of God has offered to us through Christ right now.  That is, divine health, perfect peace, the mind of Christ, dominion, power, authority, and eternal life! 

Remember the saying, “You are what you eat”?  Along with believing and receiving the Word of God, we must “BE” the word of God that He’s ordained us to be!  As He is, so are we, in this world (1 John 4:17).  Jesus was God in flesh form in the earth (St. John 1:1, 14), we are also the word made flesh.  (St. John 1:2): And the “same” (that’s us – you and I) was in the beginning with God.  We too were and are the word made flesh or sent here in flesh form at the appointed time!  We are members of His body, of his flesh and of His bones in the earth (Ephesians 5:30). 

·         Ephesians 4:11-13: And he gave some, apostles; and some prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:  till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of CHRIST.

In the fullness of CHRIST we are worry free because Jesus has covered all the bases and told us how to “seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness”, which is uprightness, His character, holiness, “and all these other things will be added unto us” (Matthew 6:33).  What other things?  The other things added are our food, drink, clothing, health, finances, peace, direction, joy, happiness, and everything else under the umbrella of the Kingdom (power; dominion; authority).

Luke 10:38-42, Jesus told Martha that she was careful and troubled (anxious; agitated) about many things (vs 41):  “But one thing is needful:  and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her” (vs 42). 

·         Matthew 4:4: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

So God has assured us by His Word, we’re shielded, provided for, and we don’t have any reason to be worried about anything.

·         Isaiah 26:3: Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee.

·         Matthew 6:34: Take therefore no thought (have care) for the morrow:  for the morrow shall take thought (have care) for the things of itself.   Sufficient [satisfactory; enough; raising a barrier; to ward off; to avail; be content) unto the day is the evil [badness, depravity, malignity, trouble; malice, wickedness, naughtiness] thereof.

·         Philippians 4:6-7: Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

·         1 Peter 5:7: Casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.

Evangelist Mary Perry