especially given the age that we live in and in watching our brothers and sisters in the middle

east suffer at the hands of ISIS being driven from their homes and from their towns. This is a

particularly relevant question from Kevin in California. Dear Pastor John, in Matthew 6 we read,

what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear for the pagans run after these things

and your heavenly Father knows that you need them but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness

and all these things will be given to you as well. So if this is true, why are there still millions

of people starving to death in our world? Some Christians are starving to death in certain countries

even though they seek first the kingdom. So how do we make sense of this promise Pastor John?

It is so crucial for Christians, especially Christian teachers and preachers,

to take questions like this with utter seriousness. So often we use promises in the Bible which

on the face of it seem unrealistic and yet we don't pause to give some plausible explanation

of how those promises are to be used, realistically used. So we need heavy dose of realism

whenever we embrace promises like this. So let's get it in front of us. Matthew 6, 25 to 34,

that glorious paragraph, Jesus aimed there is to give eight arguments, at least eight that I count

for why God's children don't need to have any anxiety and the summary and climax of the arguments

is in verse 33 that he quotes, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these

things will be added to you. And the all these things clearly is referring back to what are you

going to eat, what are you going to drink, what are you going to wear? And he's saying, don't be

anxious about any of those things. And now he ends by saying you're going to have all of those

that you need. So Kevin raises the question rightly, well, Christians, Christians ever perish from

exposure or starvation is Jesus promising that his followers who have faith will never lack food,

never lack clothing. That's what it sounds like. Now several things should give us pause.

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