What is the Christian view of material things?

What is the Christian view of money and possessions?

Where do we stand and what does the Bible teach?

What is my perspective on both the luxuries and the necessities of life?

Well, the answer to the questions is given nowhere as aptly as it's given right here by our own Lord Jesus Christ.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Years ago, Fortune Magazine surveyed young professionals who were on the corporate fast track,

wanting to find out what motivated them.

The common reply, financial security.

All other elements, including marriage and children, were secondary.

Sadly, those attitudes probably haven't changed much today, But is the corporate ladder, day trading,

or a financial freedom seminar the means to contentment? Especially for a Christian.

Well, today, John MacArthur won't show you how to get rich, but he will show you how to rid yourself

of anxiety about money once and for all. So stay here as we continue his study

titled, What did Jesus really say about financial worry? Now turn in your Bible to Matthew

chapter six as John begins the lesson. Take your Bible and look at Matthew chapter six.

Matthew chapter six. We're continuing in examination of verses 25 to

34, a wonderful, familiar, rich chapter and passage in the Word of God. This particular text,

chapter 6 verses 25 to 34, is a portion of a bigger text, chapters 5, 6,

and 7, which make up the sermon on the Mount preached by our Lord Jesus himself.

And so this is instruction straight from the lips of Christ, and indeed it is practical

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