7 Reasons Not to Worry, Part 2

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

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God will certainly take his energy and creative skill and use it to care for his children who will live forever.

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0:00.0	September 12, seven reasons not to worry.
0:03.9	Part two, and which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
0:12.1	And why are you anxious about clothing?
0:15.7	Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.
0:19.7	They neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you Solomon in all his glory was not a raid like one of these.
0:26.5	But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven?
0:35.3	Will he not much more clothes you owe you of little faith?
0:41.2	Matthew 6, 27 to 30.
0:45.2	Matthew 6, 25 to 34 contains at least seven promises designed by Jesus to help us fight the fight for face and be free from anxiety.
1:00.2	Yesterday we saw promises one and two today we look at three and four.
1:05.1	Promise number three, and which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
1:15.1	Matthew 6, 27.
1:20.7	This is a promise of sorts, the simple promise of reality that you can discover from experience.
1:30.5	Being anxious will simply not do any good.
1:38.0	That's a promise.
1:42.0	This is not the main argument, but sometimes we just have to get tough with ourselves and say,
1:49.3	soul, this fretting is absolutely useless.
1:55.9	It produces nothing.
1:59.0	You are not only messing up your own day, but a lot of other peoples as well.
2:04.9	Renounce it.
2:07.3	Leave it with God and get on with your work.
2:11.5	Anxiety accomplishes nothing worthwhile.
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