1. What is today’s theme ? St James, Taunton 19th February 2017

2. ? >
? >
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 

3. Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

4. >>
Are you not much more valuable than they?  

5. +
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 

6. See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour or spin.

7. <<
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these.

8. So do not worry, saying,   
‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or  
‘What shall we wear?’  

9. For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

10. But seek first His Kingdom 
and His Righteousness,
and all these things
will be given to you as well.

11. What is today’s theme ? DO NOT WORRY
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.  
Matt 6:25-34

12. What is today’s theme ? St James, Taunton 19th February 2017

13. What is today’s theme ?
Matt 6:25-34
Theme or themes?

14. Take no thought Do not worry Don’t be anxious King James version
(v 25) Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Matt 6:25-34
Take no thought
Do not worry
Don’t be anxious

15. Take no thought Do not worry God will provide food and clothes.
Too extreme!
We have responsibilities
Do not worry
Is worrying a sin?

16. Do not value possessions enough to worry about them
Take no thought
Do not worry
Don’t be anxious
Don’t be distracted
Don’t be obsessed by ...
Do not value possessions enough to worry about them

17. Matt 6:25-34
but go back one verse
(v 24)  ‘No one can serve two masters.
Either you will hate the one and love the other,
or you will be devoted to the one
and despise the other.’  
Priorities
Worries, comfort, possessions, and ambitions compete with God for our hearts and minds.

18. Priorities
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
– the essentials for life in The Kingdom
the ‘bare’ necessities

19. But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these things
will be given to you as well.
‘There can be no Kingdom of God in this world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.’
Albert Schweitzer

20. Worry about the right things!
What is today’s theme ?
Do not worry
Do not be obsessed by our own desires
Get your priorities right
Seek the Kingdom of God here on earth
Live Kingdom values
Worry about the right things!
1 John 2:15-17