Life is about what kingdom you seek every day of the week. This message was given on December 27, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca.

1. Do Not Be
Anxious
About Your
Life
The Gospel of Luke 12:22-31
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2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 12:22-31
Found on page 871 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

5. The Gospel of Luke 12:22-31
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Do Not Be
Anxious
About Your
Life

6. 22 And he said to his disciples, “There-
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for I tell you, do not be anxious about
your life, what you will eat, nor about
your body, what you will put on. 23 For
life is more than food, and the body more
than clothing….”

7. Consider the birds
Illustration #1

8. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither
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sow nor reap, they have neither store-
house nor barn, and yet God feeds them.
Of how much more value are you than
the birds!

9. Consider yourself
Reflection #1

10. 25 And which of you by being anxious
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can add a single hour to his span of life?
26 If then you are not able to do as small
a thing as that, why are you anxious?

11. Consider the flowers
Illustration #2

12. 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow:
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they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you,
even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.

13. Consider yourself
Reflection #2

14. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which
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is alive in the field today and tomorrow is
thrown into the oven, how much more
will he clothe you, O you of little faith.

15. In whom
do I trust?
?
Where do I
put my faith?

16. 29 And do not seek what you are to eat
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and what you are to drink, nor be worried.
30 For all the nations of the world seek
these things, and your Father knows
that you need them.

17. 31 Instead, seek first his kingdom, and
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these things will be added to you.

18. “How do you seek the kingdom?
When you seek the King, you
are seeking the kingdom…. If
you could have asked Jesus,
‘Where is the kingdom?’ he
would have said, ‘You’re getting
warmer’ every step you take
toward him. If you touched him
he would say, ‘You’re burning
up!’ Jesus was and is the
embodiment of the kingdom
because he is the King.”

19. Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?
Important Question

20. Life is about
what kingdom you seek
every day of the week.

21. Interview
your
anxiety
1

22. “Have you realized
that most of your
unhappiness in life is
due to the fact that you
are listening to
yourself instead of
talking to yourself?”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
Spiritual Depression

23. Replace your anxiety
with trust.
ANXIETY TRUST____________ ___
____
(2)

24. ~ The Apostle Paul in
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his
own Son but gave him up
for us all, how will he not
also with him graciously
give us all things?

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