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www. Desiring God.org. Okay in this section it's the flip side of what we just looked at.

We we just talked about how living by faith in future

grace releases love or produces holiness the sort of the positive way of

talking about it. Now we talk about how does it undermine,

destroy, overcome sins, typical sins. So we're going to spend all the remaining time walking through

sample sins, get down to the nitty gritty of the battles of our lives, sins that get in the way of love, sins that

get in the way and are the opposite of holiness.

So that's where we're heading, and we'll start with the sin of anxiety or the unbelief of anxiety.

So a definition of anxiety.

The loss of confidence, security in God owing to feelings of uneasiness or foreboding that something harmful is going to happen.

That's my definition of anxiety.

Loss of a sense of confident security

because feelings are arising of uneasiness or foreboding something bad's going to happen.

And we've already looked at this text from Matthew 625 to 34.

So I think I won't look at the whole thing.

There are eight arguments against anxiety in this

passage and most of them have to do with the future. But rather than walking through it in detail, let's just look at the

end of it and relate it to Lamentations 3. So let's see. so that's where should we start verse 32 no verse 31 don't worry don't be anxious

saying what will we eat or what will we drink or what will we wear for the

Gentiles eagerly seek all these things that's one negative argument you don't want to be like the nations that have no hope in God.

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