BCS Deaf Church June 14, 2015 ANXIETY!

CHILDREN’S CHAT TRUST?

THE LORD OUR GOD

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL.... KUTLESS

THE SIN OF WORRY! Matthew 6:25-34

• Top Ten Worries in US: • -$ • -Relationship : lack of or one you are in or future of • -Family • -Getting Old • -Getting Fat • -Health • -Job • -Addiction • -Lack of organization / busyness • -Fatigue

STRESS AND ANXIETY IN THE U.S. • Q: Do we feel that stressing is a good thing? – Really? • • Q: Do we feel guilty if we are not stressed about something? • • Q: Do we feel that stress is sin? Why or Why not?

STRESS AND ANXIETY IN THE U.S. • Percent of people who regularly experience physical symptoms caused by stress 77 % • Regularly experience psychological symptoms caused by stress 73 % • Feel they are living with extreme stress 33 % • Feel their stress has increased over the past five years 48 % • Cited money and work as the leading cause of their stress 76 % • Reported lying awake at night due to stress 48 %

STRESS AND ANXIETY IN THE U.S. • Stress Impact Statistics • Percent who say stress has a negative impact on their personal and professional life 48 % • Employed adults who say they have difficulty managing work and family responsibilities. 31 % • Percent who cited jobs interfering with their family or personal time as a significant source of stress. 35 % • Percent who said stress has caused them to fight with people close to them 54 % • Reported being alienated from a friend or family member because of stress 26 % • Annual costs to employers in stress related health care and missed work. $300 Billion • Percent who say they are "always" or "often" under stress at work: 30 %

STRESS AND WORRY • Q: How do people typically deal with stress? • -Anger • -Mental disorders • -Addictions • -Escapism : porn, internet, media, FB • • Q: How does stress benefit us? • • Q: Do some of the things we worry about come true? What percentage do you think? • Did stressing over those things help prevent them?

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MATTHEW 6:25-34 • 28 “And 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—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

WORRY? Q: Does Jesus suggest to us here that we should not worry? Q: Why is worry a sin?

MATTHEW 6:25-34 • What things does Jesus teach us we should not worry about? • But do we worry about even less important things? • Verse 27 says worry adds what to our lives?

WHAT ANALOGY DOES JESUS GIVE US SHOWING US HE WILL TAKE CARE OF US?

WHAT SHOULD WE DO INSTEAD OF WORRYING? • 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Does this mean that Jesus gets mad at us when we worry? Or that he blows us off when we worry? 1 Peter 5:7 “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.” Matt 11:28 “Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”