1. Archa

2. JESUS OBEDIENCE SCHOOL

3. Quick Review Theme: STAY in Jesus’ words 1 st words: “in my Father’s House” 1 st miracle: Joy 1 st message: Repent, the kingdom is near

4. SERMON ON THE MOUNT

5. Christian Counterculture BEATITUDES: BLESSED? SALT + LIGHT? IS THE LAW DEAD? ARE YOU A MURDERER? WHY AREN’T THERE MORE ONE-EYED CHRISTIANS? LOVE OSAMA BIN LADEN? GOD OR $$$?

7. NO WORRIES

8. What worries us?

9. STRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Average workweek: up 32% over past 25 years Time spent in traffic: up 157% 40% are sleep-deprived 33% of employees are “chronically overworked” 80% of medical expenses are now stress-related (Sources: Harris Interactive, Sage Software Survey, Urban Mobility Report, Business Week, Families and Work Institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

10. STRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 465 million vacation days squandered last year 83% check e-mail at least daily while on vacation 1 in 6 employees has exhibited “desk rage” The average employee is interrupted 7 times an hour and switches tasks every 3 minutes Your IQ drops dramatically when “multi-tasking” (Sources: Expedia.com, AOL, Caravan Opinion Research, TIME Magazine, University of London)

11. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

12. 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. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? (Matthew 6:25-27)

13. And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

14. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? (Matthew 6:28-30)

15. What does Jesus equate worrying with?

16. So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

17. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:31-34)

18. What are we supposed to seek first? What does that look like in real life?

19. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7)

20. Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)

21. Be still and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10)

22. REST WITH JESUS