The Undivided Life: Matthew 6:25-34
What is causing you anxiety?
What is keeping you up at night?
What are you worried about?
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will
drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more
than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?7 28 And why are
you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor
spin,
29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God
so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will
he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying,
‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What
shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows
that you need them all.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these
things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Main point: Jesus provides “All these things”
●Do not worry about the cares of this life.
●God is a good Father and Provider.
●Trust God: Seek HIS kingdom…. And all these things will be added!
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or
you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Why don’t we trust him?Matthew 13:22: As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the
cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Why don’t we trust him?
○ We don't see him as a good father.
○ We don't think he cares, is able, or will provide.
○ We think we can do it ourselves.
Matthew 6:25: “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what
you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body
more than clothing?
Anxious: Worried, to be troubled with cares, divided and distracted.
John 4:13: “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.”
Psalm 102:25-26: Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will
change them like a robe, and they will pass away.
Hebrews 4:15: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our
weaknesses..
Matthew 6:26 “ Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
Deuteronomy 8:18: You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to
get wealth,
A.W. Tozer: “God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that he can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature.”
Matthew 6:27: “ And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”
Matthew 6: 28-30: “ And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was notarrayed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
Romans 14:23: For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Matthew 6: 31-32: “Therefore do not be anxious, saying,
‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we
drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.”
1 Peter 5:7: Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Matthew 6:33-34: 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these
things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
John 15:4: Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in
the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
Luke 10:42: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is
necessary.Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.
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Hebrews 12:1-2: Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter
of our faith.
We desire ___, but Jesus is___.
○ Life- Jesus gives us eternal life
■ John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
○ Bread- Bread of Life
■ John 6:35 “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
○ Drink- spring of water
■ John 4:14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
We desire ___, but Jesus is___.
○ Body/health- redeemed body, part of body of Christ, temple of the Holy Spirit
■ Philippians 3: 20-21:”will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body… ”
○ Shelter- He is our shelter
■ Psalm 27:5 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
○ Put on/clothing- Clothed in Christ
■ Galatians 3:27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
A.W. Tozer: “The man who has God for his treasure has all things on One… Whatever he may lose, he has actually lost nothing, for he now has all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately,
and forever.”
Psalm 145:16: You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.Application
In what areas is your mind divided?
In what ways can I further seek his Kingdom?
How can I remember God’s faithfulness?
Luke 12: 32: “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not
grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no
moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting
for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at
once when he comes and knocks.
37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you,
he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve
them.