No Worries: the Consequence of a Kingdom Oriented Heart
February 15, 2009 · Filed Under Sermon Study Guides, Sermons
- What do you worry about most? Why? How does it affect you?
- How do you see this text connected to last weeks (Matthew 6:19-24)? If you put both texts together how would you synthesize Jesus lesson down into a sentence?
- Talk about this statement: “Worry is practical atheism.”
- Read 1 Peter 5:1-7. What is the context for vs. 7? How does pride intersect with anxiety/worry? Why are we to “cast all our anxiety on him”? What does His care look like?
- What does it mean to “seek His kingdom”? What is necessary to do this in life?
- From vs. 34 we learn that trouble will befall us but we shouldn’t worry. Read Matthew 10:29. Sparrows only fall under the will of God. What does this mean? Does God cause all things? Is there a distinction to be made between God permitting/allowing and him provoking/causing? Talk about what that distinction looks like. What insight and comfort does this verse give us for or lives? Read John 16:33. How does the fact that Jesus “overcomes the world” impact you and your daily life? In what sense does he overcome the world?
- Pray for any anxieties within the group.
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Concerning Matt. 6:28-30 I have a frivolous question…
If Jesus is using the a fortiori to emphasize how much greater we are cared for than a flower, why does He do so by contrasting the flower’s splendor with Solomon’s kingly robes? Solomon’s fancy dress is outshined by a flower; and we are much less clothed than Solomon? I understand that the thrust of the comparison is on the greater care for humans over the care of wildlife, but it seems the argument turns the wrong way when he says the flower is dressed “better” than Solomon (and we by contrast would be dressed poorer than Solomon – so poorer than the flower).