Hey church family if you got your Bible we're going to be in Matthew chapter 6 this is right in the

middle of I think Jesus is the longest recorded sermon known as the sermon on the Mount

it's up north of the sea of Galilee a bunch of people him around. He'd done a few miracles up to this point.

He's healing, and then he goes up onto this mountainside,

and there's a place in Galilee where you can stand,

and there's kind of a bowl in the mountainside,

and most people believe that's right where he taught.

And so without amplification he could

teach his voice would carry and he could teach lots and lots and lots of people and he starts out math

he starts out the sermon on the mount with the beatitudes and in fact after after easter we're going to be in

this section we're going to study it for a bunch of weeks like 13 or or 14 weeks or something like that. And so he starts with the beatitudes. And the reason

that he does is he establishes the gospel. And so in a few weeks, I'll go through that and

help you understand that. And then all of the rest of the sermon on the mount is about if the gospel impacts you,

then what are the symptoms of the gospel infected life?

And so when you get to chapter 6, verse 25, he's going to talk about anxiety.

And he says this, therefore, I tell tell you do not be anxious about your life what you will eat

or what you will drink nor about your body what you will put on is not life more than food

and the body more than clothing now I don't know if you struggle

with anxiety, and I'm not even talking about like clinical levels, but I don't know if your worry

level rises, if you're a kind of a worrisome sort of person, but I don't know how helpful

it is, even Jesus, looking at somebody that's worrying, hey, just stop worrying.

I remember one time I was in Walmart and this little kid was aggravating his mom to death.

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