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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Most of us are familiar with the catchy little tune, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” but Dr. Tony Evans explores the deeper biblical truth behind that phrase and shows why Kingdom focus replaces worry with peace.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've never seen God show up at the last second, when you didn't know how it's going |
| 0:04.8 | work out, you don't know how your daddy works. Dr. Tony Evans says God wants us to trust him completely. |
| 0:11.4 | He's looking for opportunities to let you know that you are covered. This is the alternative |
| 0:17.0 | broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans. |
| 0:24.3 | Bobby McFerrin once sang the upbeat number one hit, Don't Worry, Be Happy. But centuries |
| 0:30.5 | earlier, Jesus gave his followers the true antidote for anxiety. The reason believers don't need |
| 0:36.7 | to worry. Today, Dr. Evans explains how God |
| 0:39.3 | calls us to prioritize the spiritual over the physical and how pursuing his kingdom invites |
| 0:45.2 | his power into our lives. Let's join him as he begins. Jesus in Luke chapter 12 speaks about again this thing called the kingdom. |
| 0:57.6 | The kingdom is the jurisdiction of heaven. |
| 1:02.6 | It is the governmental realm of God. |
| 1:06.9 | Christians are in the kingdom. |
| 1:10.2 | But you can be a Christian in the kingdom, but not properly operating under the jurisdiction |
| 1:16.9 | of the king. |
| 1:18.6 | So in Luke chapter 12, Jesus wants to speak to those who are in the kingdom about maximizing the benefits of the kingdom since you're in it |
| 1:31.9 | and these benefits are offered you by the king. He says in verse 31, but seek his kingdom |
| 1:42.2 | and all these things will be added to you. |
| 1:48.1 | The word seek as we've said in our sermon title means to aggressively pursue. |
| 1:55.0 | It means to go after in a very passionate way. |
| 2:03.5 | It means to prioritize the jurisdiction of God, the kingdom, as your driving force in life. |
| 2:15.8 | Don't just be born in it. |
| 2:19.5 | Go after it. |
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