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Matt. 6:19-21;
25-34
3/83
What
means, no
“thought”?
“Foresight”,
“planning”,
“anticipation”?
cf.
Lk. 16:8, 9 - Jesus commended the crook, for smart
foresight
cf. Matt. 6:26 -
The birds get up early, work at it all day
long
The translation of
merimnao- to be anxious,
distracted
Used 6 times in
this brief passage - 6:25, 27, 28, 31, 34a,
34b
Means “to be
troubled with cares” cankering
care
“to be
distracted with anything” corroding
anxiety
“Thought”
meant that in 1611
cf.
Shakespeare
cf.
Bacon
cf.
Historian
Guaranteed
I. Our Heavenly
Security In This
Life
1. 6:25,
28
Cankering care,
corroding anxiety is contrary to all the lessons of nature, which show it to
be unnecessary
Fowls of the
air have not our superior advantage, yet God cares for
the
lilies of the field
ñ
(a) Said the
sparrow to the
robin,
“I would
really like to know,
Why
these anxious human
beings
Rush around and
worry so.”
Said
the robin to the
sparrow,
“I think
that it must be
That they
have no heavenly
Father
Such as cares for
you and
me.”
2. 6:32
Contrary
to the lessons of natural revelation, we are like the heathen
--
Full of superstitions,
fears, perturbations,
dread
(a) King of Oyo
(Africa) - Fetishes. Devil’s house - “Can harm
me.”
3. 6:34
Contrary
to the whole order of providence, to worry is
futile
Every day is evil
--no one escapes
a cloud
arises from
somewhere
(a) Achilles,
Styx, Hector,
Paris
(b) Ahab’s
armor
Guaranteed
II. Our Heavenly
Security in the Life to Come
Col
3.2
When I came to
Dallas
Nathan
Adams
Bob
Thornton
Fred
Florence
Woodall Rogers,
neighbor
“The Dydamic
of Dallas” - Reader’s
Digest
Now somebody else
lives across the street
“ ” “ runs the
bank
is seated in
the office
is
living in the
house
“Earthly
treasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, the
bloom is
dead.”
6:19-21
Our
treasure is there not here
“ home
”
inheritance
How to get
these treasures
there
(1) By someone who is
going there
people, family,
friends
(2) By filling the
pages of God’s Book of
Life
with service to
God.
“Well done, good
and faithful
servant.”
How
rich the reward?
(a) Old
country preacher - “Is this death?
This?
The angels sing, the
beautiful city.
The throne
of God. Oh, glory, glory,
glory.”
“Take
thought” in
1611
Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar ii,
1.
“Take thought and
die for
Caesar.”
Antony
and Cleopatra
Cleopatra
says to Enobarbus: “What shall we do,
Enobarbus?”
He
replies: “Take thought and
die.”
Francis
Bacon, History of Henry the Eighth, speaks of a man “dying with thought
and anguish” before his case was
heard.
A historian of
the period:
“Queen
Catherine died of
thought.”
So 1
Sam. 9:5
All previous
versions “be not careful.”
The 1611 translation
supposed the words “take not thought” were
stronger.
Merimnao
“to
be troubled with
cares”
“to be
distracted with
anxiety”
“cankering
care, corroding
anxiety”
To Him
Whose Eye Is Upon The
Sparrow.
I know that I
can trust my Lord
To keep
the stars in place
To grant
the lark, the rose, the
oak
His wisdom and His
grace.
I know that I
can trust my Lord
To send
the morning light
To turn
each winter into spring,
To
rule each depth, each
height.
I know that
everywhere I look
I see His
guiding hand,
More beauty,
mercy, love and faith
Than
I can understand.
Then
why should I refuse to
trust
Those things I cannot
see
To Him who knows
tomorrow’s needs?
He
cares for you and me.
With Christ in the vessel, I smile at the
storm.
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