Matthew 6:24-34, Sunday, March 1st, 2020, a "Worrisome" sermon

I'll be honest, this wasn't a sermon I was particularly happy with while preaching it.  I did, however, receive a great deal of feedback from the congregation and several told me that this was their favorite sermon that I had given (not sure what to make of that?) and so I went back and listened to it myself.  In listening to it I found it to be a much better message than it felt like it to me while preaching.

Many people told me that it was what they needed to hear and whether or not I'm happy with a sermon isn't really the issue.  What is important is that the message is meaningful and needed by those listening.

So... if your life is racked with worry... take a listen...

Be a blessing to someone today!

In His Grace,
Roy

Matthew 6:24-34 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Serving Two Masters
24 “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.[a]

Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,[b] or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?[c] 28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the kingdom of God[d] and his[e] righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.

Footnotes:
a) Matthew 6:24 Gk mammon
b) Matthew 6:25 Other ancient authorities lack or what you will drink
c) Matthew 6:27 Or add one cubit to your height
d) Matthew 6:33 Other ancient authorities lack of God
e) Matthew 6:33 Or its