I can say with absolute certainty and authority, on behalf of the Lord Jesus this morning, he

wants you to be free from anxiety.

He wants a free, hopeful, joyful, resting, confident heat.

He wants anxieties out.

And he ever taught, was designed to increase anxiety, but to help you conquer anxiety.

If the Lord's intention is that we conquer anxiety, how does He help us do it?

That's the question John Piper answers from Matthew 6, 25, to 34, in this episode of

Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 25, 1988.

We looked at Hebrews 3.12 last week and it said, take care brethren, unless there be in any

of you an evil heart of unbelief leading you to fall away from the living God.

And then verse 14 of Hebrews 3 said, for we have shared in Christ, we have shared in

Christ, if we hold our first confidence firm to the end.

Now that means that one of the evidences that we have come to share in Christ, one of the

evidences that we are savingly united to Jesus Christ is that we endure to the end in

the confidence that we have in God and not make shipwreck of faith.

In other words, the new birth introduces a person into a life of persevering faith, a

life that is lived by faith, not just begun by faith.

We call it a warfare.

Second Timothy 4, 7, it's called the fight of faith.

And right here in this text, I believe it's called the battle against unbelief.

Let me read it again.

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