Jesus' View of Worry
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We don't need to worry about tomorrow. In fact, Jesus commands against it. From his sermon series in the gospel of Matthew, today R.C. Sproul considers Christ's admonition to trust in the providence of our caring Father, even as we make wise preparations.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | There's no one that I would rather have own this world, and there's no one I'd rather have |
| 0:06.5 | governing this world. There's no one I'd rather have sovereign over this world, and there's no one |
| 0:14.8 | I'd rather have whose providence determines future events than almighty god himself who does all things well |
| 0:26.1 | worry it can afflict us all content worry about the future. Worry about our children, our jobs, that exam. |
| 0:40.9 | But as Christians, we need not worry about tomorrow. |
| 0:44.5 | In fact, we're commanded not to. |
| 0:47.3 | This is the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:50.5 | where each week we feature the preaching ministry of R.C. Sprawl. We come today to the conclusion of a short |
| 0:58.0 | series in Matthew on Jesus' view of murder, adultery, and today worry. As this is the last sermon you'll |
| 1:06.4 | hear in Matthew, it's also the last day to request Dr. Sproul's hardcover commentary on all of Matthew. |
| 1:13.5 | If you'd like to add this volume to your collection, request it when you give a donation |
| 1:18.3 | before midnight tonight at renewingyourmind.org. |
| 1:23.1 | So how did Jesus think about worry and anxiety? |
| 1:26.9 | And why shouldn't Christians be worried about tomorrow? |
| 1:30.6 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:34.5 | Therefore, I say to you, |
| 1:36.8 | do not worry about your life, |
| 1:41.4 | what you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body what you will put on is not life |
| 1:52.3 | more than food and the body more than clothing look at the birds of the year for they neither |
| 2:00.4 | sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly |
| 2:07.5 | father feeds them are you not of more value than they for which of by worrying, can add one cubit to his stature. So why do you worry about |
| 2:25.6 | clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they neither toil nor spin, |
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