Matt Tuckson – Faith & Anxiety – Class 1 – Faith & Anxiety

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So this weekend, my ultimate
goal, I’ll give you a one liner,

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what is my goal for this weekend
is to show you the agency that

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you have in this battle, so that
you have some amount of power,

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have some amount of influence
over this battle.

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It’s not something that’s
happening to you, you’re you

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actually get to participate in
it.

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You get to actually fight the
battle of anxiety actively to

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show you what can you do, get
really practical and what are

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the steps to do with anxiety.
We have a lot to cover to get

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into that.
Before I can show our series, I

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want to do a few discliners.
Anxiety has a wide range.

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We have a little nervous about
giving a talk to I’m super panic

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attack can’t function.
You know, normal things don’t

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really happen to my brain
because I can’t function right

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now.
There’s a whole range, right?

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And the the lessons I’m going to
be talking about, the principles

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I talk about, they do apply to
the whole range.

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So they’re going to apply very
differently and they’re going to

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look very different depending on
where in this range you kind of

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fall.
And we’ll we’ll talk about the

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nuances somewhat in the series.
One thing I’m not going to get

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too detailed on to is like the
medical side of anxiety of like

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when to take medication and not
and things like that.

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I do want to be very clear.
I’m pro medication for the

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extreme cases of anxiety.
I take it myself sometimes.

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I have a prescription for it.
I use it every now and then, but

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I’m just not going to be getting
into where’s that line and the

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nuance.
My point of that simply to say I

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think it should be on the table
of discussion.

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It’s actually going to be on the
table of discussion on our

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discussion groups.
So I look forward to this

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hearing that from you all.
But I’m not going to really

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getting that nuance of when you
take medication, what are you

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not.
I will talk about how I view it

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in kind of a moral framework
later on, but I’m not going to

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be getting into the details of
like, well by this point you

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should go see a doctor.
That’s not really what the class

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is about.
The other disclaimer I want to

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do work before we get into our
intro is the phrase easier said

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than done is going to be
extremely applicable to the

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series.
I can’t really talk about

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anxiety, which is something that
you might battle with your whole

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life in four hours and do it
justice.

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It’s just not a way to do that.
On top of that, I’m going to be

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approaching this on a very kind
of logical, thought out process.

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And anxiety is an extremely
emotional situation and it can

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come off really unapathetic when
I’m like, all right, here’s how

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you logic your way through this.
When I’m dealing with this

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really kind of volatile emotion.
And so my that’s not my

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intention.
I’m going to make that very

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clear.
My intention is not to say,

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well, just think your way
through it, but we are going to

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be approaching this from a very
logical biblical point of view.

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It’s not my intention.
I understand that’s just not

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easier said than done.
I’m going to reiterate that a

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few times.
But I understand the challenge

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of anxiety.
I understand it’s an emotional

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thing, and I understand easier
said than done is going to be

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really applicable.
So there’s just not a way I can

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change that and still go through
this in a kind of logical,

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analytical way, which is what I
think we need to do when we’re

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not in the state of anxiety.
We need to be thinking of it in

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that kind of logical, analytical
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When we get into anxiety, it’s a
different story.

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All right, So with this
disclaimer is out of the way,

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we’re going to go ahead and
intro our class or at least

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intro our series.
So class one is going to be go

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ahead, I forgot about your
reading, so I’m going to end up

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reading it later.
So no worries.

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So class one is faith and
anxiety.

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That’s for this class.
What motivated this class was

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essentially kind of both being
in.

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For those who don’t know, I was
in mainstream Christianity for a

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while, so both being in
mainstream Christianity as well

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as not Christadelphia.
I’ve heard two different stories

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largely when it comes to
anxiety.

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One is that it’s 100% about
faith, and if you don’t, if you

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have anxiety, the other reason
you have anxiety is because you

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don’t believe hard enough.
You don’t have enough faith.

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You need to try more.
You need to believe harder.

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That’s the solution to anxiety,
and it’s entirely focused on

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that.
Anxiety equals bad faith, and

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it’s just that kind of blunt and
simple and kind of extreme.

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Then there’s the reaction to
that, which is that anxiety is

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entirely a medical problem.
There’s nothing about faith.

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It’s like the mental equivalent
to breaking a bone.

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You need to go to the doctor for
it, and that’s how you deal with

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your anxieties through
medication.

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It’s through therapy and things
like that.

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It’s not about faith.
The Bible doesn’t agree with

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really either of those.
And so we’re going to be digging

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into what is the relationship
between faith and anxiety.

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The Bible just connect the two.
So what is it?

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How do I think about it?
And then on top of that, if

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there’s a connection between
faith and anxiety, how does

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guilt work with it?
How do I feel guilty when I have

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anxiety?
Should I feel guilty?

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Should I not?
Those kinds of questions,

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because I know guilt and anxiety
are heavily associated with in a

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faith context.
So we’re going to try to be

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dealing with when should I feel
guilty, when shouldn’t I?

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And how do I think through that?
The last one really is about

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understanding how I should view
anxiety in a moral framework,

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essentially is the goal of class
one.

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Class 2 is to be the processing
of anxiety.

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Now that I understand how I view
it, how to think about it, what

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is anxiety inside of a moral
framework?

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What do I do about it?
That’s to be Class 2.

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We’re going to be going through
a couple steps of dealing with

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anxiety or dealing with kind of
the biblical framework of how to

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deal with anxiety.
We’re going to be looking

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through mostly David’s life and
see how he deals with it,

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multiple different stages in his
life.

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And he deals with a very similar
pattern.

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He has a pattern of how he
processes anxiety.

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So we’re going to go through
that pattern and we’re going to

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see what does he do.
We’re going to think about how

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that might apply to our lives in
some ways, When we get to our

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expectation, we’re going to be
dealing with Christ’s battle

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with anxiety because he deals
with it as well, and he deals

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with it in a very similar way to
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And so we’re going to be looking
at how Christ deals with

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anxiety, how he processes his
own anxiety.

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And we’re going to go ahead and
think about how does that apply

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to us?
And the cool thing about

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Christ’s story is you actually
see that it gets easier as you

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process it more as you put the
steps into practice, the battle

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actually gets easier.
Doesn’t mean it goes away, but

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it does get easier.
And so we’ll see that in

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Christ’s battle.
And then our last class is kind

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of a tangently related idea,
which is we’re looking at a case

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of anxiety.
So specifically, I had a

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conversation with gnomes
actually about what is a common

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thing of people struggle with,
with anxiety.

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And she said having purpose,
feeling purpose, feeling

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fulfilled.
So we’re going to be looking at

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that and kind of use that as a
use case of what do you do if

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you have that anxiety, How do
you deal with it?

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What does it look like?
What is our purpose?

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How do I examine my purpose?
So we’ll be doing that in Class

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4.
As you can tell, we all have to

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cover.
So we’re going to be digging

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into this, and we’re going to
start with reading Matthew

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chapter 6, verses 16 to 34.
Again, that’s Matthew chapter 6,

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verses 16 to 34.
OK, starting at verse 16,

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whenever you fast, do not put on
a gloomy face as the hypocrites

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do, but they neglect their
appearance, so they will be

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sorry.
They neglect their appearance so

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that they will be noticed by men
when they are fasting.

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Surely, I say to you, they have
their reward in full, but you,

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when you fast and hold your head
and wash your face, that in

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fasting you will not be noticed
by men, but by your father who

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is in secret, and your father,
who sees what is done in secret,

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will reward you.
Do not store up for yourselves

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treasures on earth, where moth
and rust destroy, and where

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thieves break in and steal.
But store up for yourselves

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treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust, destroy,

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or thieves do not break in nor
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For what your treasure is that
your heart will be also.

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The eye is the lamp of the body.
And then if your eye is clear,

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your whole body will be a full
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But if your eye is bad, your
whole body will be full of

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darkness.
If in the light that is in you

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is darkness, how great is that
darkness?

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No one can serve 2 masters, for
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love the other, or he’ll be
devoted to one and despise the

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other.
You cannot serve God and wealth.

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For this reason I say to you, do
not be worried about your life

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as to what you will eat or what
you will drink, nor for your

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body as to what you will put on.
Is not life more than food in

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the body, more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air,

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that they do not sow, nor reap,
nor gather into barns, and your

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Heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not worth much more than

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they?
And who are you by being who?

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Who of you, by being worried,
can add a single hour to his

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life?
And why are you worried about

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clothing?
Observe how the lilies of the

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field grow.
They do not toil, nor do they

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spin.
Yet I say to you that not even

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Solomon in all of his glory
clothed themselves like one of

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these.
But if God said, clothes the

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grass to the field, which is
alive today and tomorrow, and

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tomorrow is thrown into the
furnace, will he not much more

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clothe you?
You have little faith.

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Do not worry, then, saying What
will we eat?

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What will we drink?
What will we wear for clothing?

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For the Gentiles?
Eagerly seek all these things.

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For your heavenly Father knows
that you will.

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You need all these things.
But seek first His Kingdom and

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His righteousness, and all these
things will be added unto you.

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Do not worry about tomorrow or
tomorrow will take care of

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itself.
Each day has some trouble.

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All right, so this this section
is really jarring when you read

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it and the reason it’s jarring
because of verse 30.

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I’m just going to reread that
one.

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But if God so clothes the glass
of the field which which today

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is alive and tomorrow some of
the oven really not much more

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clothes you owe you of little
faith.

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Jesus is telling people, I don’t
want us to put ourselves in that

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scenario.
Jesus is telling people who are

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anxious over base needs, food
and clothing that if you’re

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worried about that, oh, you have
little faith.

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That’s jarring.
Like if I was in a scenario like

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Jesus chill, like they’re
allowed to be anxious about

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that.
That makes sense.

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Like, that’s why that would be
really, like, we need to be OK

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with this.
Let’s have some kind of empathy

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here.
But Jesus doesn’t approach it

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that way.
It says, oh ye of little faith.

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So that sparks the question,
why?

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Why do these people have little
faith for having this anxiety,

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for having this worry?
And how do we look at that?

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How do we approach that?
But first note, he doesn’t say

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of you have no faith.
I think it’s really important.

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Being anxious or having anxiety
in the scenario doesn’t tell

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Jesus they’re faithless people.
No, they have faith.

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They just have room for
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on within their faith.
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difference.
It’s not that these people are

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faithless because of anxiety.
Anxiety doesn’t mean you’re some

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terrible person who doesn’t
believe, but it doesn’t mean

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there’s opportunities to work.
There’s room for improvement

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within one’s faith.
And so we’ll look at kind of

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what is that for?
What is that room for

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improvement?
And lucky for us, Christ leaves

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a great hint at the start of
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Verse 25 starts with Therefore I
tell you, whenever you see that

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word or hear that word,
therefore or wherefore those

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kinds of language means, read
what I just said.

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That’s the reason I’m saying
what I’m saying, because of what

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I just said.
So the reason that Jesus can say

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do not be anxious about your
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what we’ve read before verse 25
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So we’re just going to start
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through what is Jesus saying
here and then we’ll think about

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how does that relate to anxiety.
So in verse 16 I’ll just read

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the 1st 3 verses and when you
fast, do not look gloomy like

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the hypocrites for they
disfigure their face and they’re

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fast.
That they’re fasting may be seen

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by others.
Truly, I say to you, they’ve

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received their reward.
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head and wash your face that
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others but by your father, who
is in secret and your father,

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who sees in secret, will award
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So what’s face section seems to
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That’s not really what it’s
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It’s not really getting at.
This is how you should go about

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fasting for the point.
The real point is that we should

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value God’s point of view, God’s
opinion of us more than man’s

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opinion of us, and that this is
just an example of how these

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people are valuing man’s opinion
over God’s opinion By saying I

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care more that people recognize
me fasting than I care

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necessarily if God is looking at
me fasting.

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What I’m focusing on is, are
people recognizing me?

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values.
Do you value God’s point of view

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or God’s opinion or man’s
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What do you value more?
What’s more important to you?

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So it seems like it’s about
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It’s not really.
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What is more important to you?
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If we continue with 19 to 24,
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In verse 19 it says do not or 19
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Do not lay up for yourselves.
Treasure on Earth where Moth and

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Rust destroyed, where thieves
break in and steal the lay up

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for yourselves.
Treasure in Heaven where neither

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Roth nor Rust destroyed, or
thieves do not break in and

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steal.
For where your treasure is, that

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your heart will be.
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body.
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whole body will be full of
light.

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But if your eye is bad, your
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And if then the light in you is
darkness, how great is that

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darkness?
No one can serve you masters,

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for you either will hate the one
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devoted to the one and despise
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You cannot serve God and money.
And again, at first this seems

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to be saying, OK, what should I
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But again, that’s not really the
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It’s not really about money,
it’s about internal values.

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Do you value things on earth or
do you value things in heaven?

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Do you value things of God or do
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We know this because he says lay
up yourselves treasures in

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heaven.
It’s not saying there’s some

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Stock Exchange in heaven that I
should go invest in.

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He’s talking about what you care
about, where your heart is or

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where your treasure is.
Sorry, that is where your heart

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will be.
Also, he’s saying, do you care

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about the things?
What do you value?

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What is important to you?
Things on earth where moths and

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what destroys.
Do you steal or do you care and

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value things in heaven?
The eternal again, it’s talking

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about values.
Both sections are trying to get

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us to change how we evaluate
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How we go from evaluating things
from kind of man’s point of

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view.
I care what’s right in front of

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me.
I care about how people view me.

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I care about money and my basic
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This is what I care about.
It’s kind of God’s point of

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view.
I care what the eternal I care

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about God’s opinion of me.
I care about what’s everlasting,

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not the temporary.
It’s trying to get us to change

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how we evaluate things.
This brings us to a concept that

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I like to call value systems.
Essentially, it’s this idea of

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how do you value things, how do
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It’s similar to the idea of
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And then on top of that, it’s
how do they interact with each

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other.
So not just do I value

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something, but do I value it
more or less than something

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else.
And then as situations happen in

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my life, do these values change?
Do I value other things more or

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less?
This is essentially a value

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system that you have that’s
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When you get in situations, what
you care about may change a

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little bit because that
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And so that’s kind of what we’re
looking at is value systems is

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essentially this idea of what is
important to you in a specific

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moment.
And again, that might change as

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different moments happen.
And this doesn’t just have to do

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with religious beliefs.
It’s not just God versus man.

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It might be today I really care
about if I’m on time but

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tomorrow I don’t.
But very different things can

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can fall in this value system.
It’s not just religious things

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are important things that’s kind
of the whole range of everything

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going on in life.
And what this sections that

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we’ve read up to now we’re
trying to say evaluate things so

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that the eternal so that the
everlasting so that God’s point

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of view is up in the top of that
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It’s very high in your priority
list and that the temporary, the

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the man’s point of view and all
those things are a bit lower in

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that in that value system and
what you find important.

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And Jesus uses this to say this
is the reason he can say do not

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be anxious for your life, huh.
OK.

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Why?
I think this makes a lot of

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sense, because what Jesus is
getting at, that the reason

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these people are anxious is
because there’s actually

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something off in that moment of
anxiety with their values, with

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what’s important to them.
This is something that was told

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to me.
I used to go to therapy for

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anxiety, and this was something
that although it came from a

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humanistic point of view, when
you kind of put your God filter

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on, you can turn it into a
really cool lesson.

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And that is that our anxieties
come from essentially deep and

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personal cares.
When you’re anxious about

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something because you care a lot
about something related to that

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anxiety, it might not be
directly that anxiety or that

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thing that’s in front of you,
but it’s something related to it

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and you care a lot about it.
So, for example, if I had social

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anxiety, it means I have a
strong care for something

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related to social situations.
It might not be that I care

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about social situations, but I
might be that I care about being

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respected, that there’s a threat
to that respect if I’m in a

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social situation.
It might be that I care about

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being approved of, or it might
be that I care about not being

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embarrassed.
You know, I’ve had a really bad

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event in my life where I was
embarrassed in my life.

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I don’t want that to happen
again.

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And there’s a chance that might
happen in a social scenario.

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And these cares, these deep
cares, push this anxiety at the

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top of my list of my value
system.

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Now all of a sudden when I’m
afraid of this embarrassment,

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not being embarrassed not
matters more to me than anything

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else because I’m anxious about
it.

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It’s causing me to to have
physical reactions where I care

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about this, whatever this thing
is that’s causing me anxiety, it

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goes to the top of my values in
that moment.

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It’s not a thought out priority.
It’s not a priority where I

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thought written out my
priorities and gone.

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This is how I would order them.
It’s not a planned value system.

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It’s one that happens in the
moment because you’re anxious

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and it comes from human nature.
It’s not something that you’ve

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thought out, planned, and said
no, I’m going to care about this

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more.
It’s something that’s happening

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to you.
You can choose to value that

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more.
At the moment, your anxiety is

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kind of telling you this thing.
Whatever you’re anxious about is

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the most important thing.
It’s all you should think about.

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It’s more important than
anything else.

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That’s why we get so worried.
Physical reactions to the idea

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and what Jesus is doing in the
section is he’s saying these

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people there’s something off
with their values if they’re

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anxious even about things that
are as needed as food and

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clothing.
And the reason is because God is

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going to take care of them.
God has said he will take care

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of them, and he explains this in
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Look at the birds of the air
that neither sow nor reap nor

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gather into barns.
Yet your Heavenly Father feeds

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them.
Are you not of more value than

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they?
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the grass of the field, which
today is alive and tomorrow’s

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thrown in the oven will not,
much more clothe you.

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Essentially, Jesus is saying
that if there’s God who values

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us as people more than he values
grass and birds, he values us so

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much that he gave his only son
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And if he values us this much,
it takes care of other things

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that he values less than he’ll
take care of you.

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And if we truly believed that,
if that’s an actual true belief,

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to the point where it impacts
our feelings moment to moment,

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well, then we wouldn’t be
anxious because we would

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internally have accepted that
that’s a true statement and that

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their concern of not having food
wouldn’t be there.

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Now, like I said, easier said
than done.

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This is giving us insight into
the relationship between faith

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and anxiety, but we haven’t
really gotten to how do we deal

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with that yet.
The thing is, anxiety

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essentially makes us value
things way more than we should,

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and it’s because it’s it’s part
of our human nature.

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But we’ll look into in a bit.
We’re not quite there, but we’re

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going to look into how anxiety
is essentially A temptation.

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It it causes us to miss value
things, miss evaluate things.

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Because it’s telling us.
It’s lying to us and saying

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whatever it is that we’re
interested about social

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situation than anything else.
I’ll tell my personal story here

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in a minute.
It tells us to value it as the

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highest thing, but then we think
through what is God value that

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thing at the top.
Really, it shouldn’t be there.

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But in the moment our anxiety is
telling us that is the most

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important thing.
That’s the biggest, most

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important thing to you in this
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That is essentially what anxiety
is doing.

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And that’s why there’s a
relationship between anxiety and

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faith.
It’s not that anxiety and faith

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are just one to one is that
there’s this thing in the middle

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of values, and the values is the
connector between faith and

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anxiety.
The reason anxiety messes with

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our faith is because it changes
our values.

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It changes what you care about,
changes what’s at the top of the

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list.
And like I said, this changes a

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lot.
If you’re anxious, this thing

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that you’re anxious about move
to the top of the list.

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When you’re later not anxious.
It’s not that high, it’s much

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lower because these things
change.

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00:21:17,200 –> 00:21:19,440
These are moment to moment.
I’m not talking about your your

435
00:21:19,440 –> 00:21:21,960
planned out priorities.
When you sit down and you you do

436
00:21:21,960 –> 00:21:23,800
a chart and you say what’s more
important to me and how do I

437
00:21:23,800 –> 00:21:26,000
structure my life.
I’m talking about your moment to

438
00:21:26,000 –> 00:21:28,640
moment values, the moment to
moment of what’s important to

439
00:21:28,640 –> 00:21:31,040
you and anxiety.
Sensor tells you change those

440
00:21:31,040 –> 00:21:32,800
values.
That thing that you’re anxious

441
00:21:32,800 –> 00:21:37,000
about needs to be at the top.
In my personal story, I really

442
00:21:37,000 –> 00:21:40,240
experienced this, so a bit of
background.

443
00:21:40,440 –> 00:21:45,200
My parents got divorced when I
was 13, and the way they got

444
00:21:45,200 –> 00:21:47,360
divorced really kind of messed
me up a bit.

445
00:21:48,040 –> 00:21:53,280
See, they they got divorced in a
way where one day, happy family,

446
00:21:54,120 –> 00:21:58,160
my mom, my dad were seemed fine.
Dad would come home from work,

447
00:21:58,520 –> 00:22:01,520
they’d get hugged, maybe a heck
on the cheek, seemed fine, no

448
00:22:01,520 –> 00:22:03,680
arguments, never had any clue
that anything was going on.

449
00:22:04,160 –> 00:22:07,320
Next day I get told, yeah, we’re
we’re having a divorce.

450
00:22:07,320 –> 00:22:11,120
And what they did to me is
essentially goes gotcha.

451
00:22:11,120 –> 00:22:15,200
So a relationship can break up
at the drop of a hat like just

452
00:22:15,200 –> 00:22:17,080
like that.
We can go from perfect great

453
00:22:17,080 –> 00:22:19,720
relationship to it’s oak just
like that.

454
00:22:19,720 –> 00:22:22,880
And that’s what that’s what I
became an ingrained belief

455
00:22:22,880 –> 00:22:24,360
right.
That’s what I kind of took with

456
00:22:24,360 –> 00:22:26,360
from that.
And then in my future

457
00:22:26,360 –> 00:22:31,240
relationships, for years, I felt
like that the first instance,

458
00:22:31,240 –> 00:22:32,960
anything would go even remotely
wrong.

459
00:22:32,960 –> 00:22:35,840
An argument even.
Like, usually the the person I’d

460
00:22:35,840 –> 00:22:37,800
be dating would be generally a
happy person.

461
00:22:37,800 –> 00:22:39,640
And they had like a bad day.
It wasn’t even, like a problem

462
00:22:39,640 –> 00:22:40,760
with me.
It was just like they just

463
00:22:40,760 –> 00:22:42,840
seemed off.
Oh, my goodness, is this

464
00:22:42,840 –> 00:22:44,840
happening to me?
Is this the the drop of the hat?

465
00:22:44,840 –> 00:22:45,960
Is this the end of the
relationship?

466
00:22:46,160 –> 00:22:48,320
Panic, panic, panic, panic.
Exactly.

467
00:22:49,960 –> 00:22:53,160
And what that did for me is
essentially say making this

468
00:22:53,160 –> 00:22:56,160
relationship stick together is
the top of the list.

469
00:22:56,160 –> 00:22:59,040
It’s more important than
anything else, more important

470
00:22:59,040 –> 00:23:03,200
than is this relationship good
For me, it’s more important than

471
00:23:03,320 –> 00:23:04,720
should I actually be dating this
person?

472
00:23:05,280 –> 00:23:07,480
It’s more important to them.
Do I even like this person?

473
00:23:08,040 –> 00:23:10,000
It was more important than
anything else.

474
00:23:10,520 –> 00:23:12,920
I needed to make sure that
relationship stuck together

475
00:23:13,200 –> 00:23:15,120
because panic, panic, panic,
panic.

476
00:23:16,040 –> 00:23:17,200
That’s what was going on in my
head.

477
00:23:18,480 –> 00:23:20,800
And as I mentioned, I went to
the therapy physics for a while

478
00:23:21,480 –> 00:23:25,600
and again, this is 1 potential
danger of going to the therapy

479
00:23:25,600 –> 00:23:26,960
and there’s a lot of value that
comes from it.

480
00:23:26,960 –> 00:23:28,080
I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s
great.

481
00:23:28,080 –> 00:23:30,960
Highly recommend if you need it
but one danger is that you get a

482
00:23:30,960 –> 00:23:34,200
lot of humanism kind of thrown
in the in the mix so you have to

483
00:23:34,200 –> 00:23:37,000
have a God filter on.
But one of the things that they

484
00:23:37,000 –> 00:23:39,560
had said and they asked me one
time that really just made me

485
00:23:39,560 –> 00:23:43,040
set back was do you actually
want to be in this relationship

486
00:23:43,400 –> 00:23:45,120
talking about a specific issue
that I was dealing with at the

487
00:23:45,120 –> 00:23:49,160
time, The the relationship was
really bad at communication.

488
00:23:49,160 –> 00:23:50,840
The person didn’t really talk to
me a whole lot.

489
00:23:51,040 –> 00:23:53,080
That was causing me a lot of
anxiety because my priority was

490
00:23:53,080 –> 00:23:55,880
to make this work.
My priority was have had.

491
00:23:55,880 –> 00:23:57,880
It not happened what my parents
happened.

492
00:23:58,280 –> 00:23:59,960
Don’t avoid that situation at
all costs.

493
00:24:00,240 –> 00:24:03,440
Most important, the relationship
wasn’t a good relationship for

494
00:24:03,440 –> 00:24:05,440
you.
We actually didn’t need to be

495
00:24:05,440 –> 00:24:06,680
together.
We weren’t a good fit.

496
00:24:07,320 –> 00:24:10,600
But I couldn’t think through
that because I was anxious about

497
00:24:10,600 –> 00:24:13,560
keeping it together and so that
was my priority.

498
00:24:13,560 –> 00:24:15,280
And that’s the problem with
anxiety.

499
00:24:15,280 –> 00:24:17,560
That’s why anxiety messes with
faith, because I wasn’t thinking

500
00:24:17,560 –> 00:24:19,240
through.
Is this relationship a good

501
00:24:19,240 –> 00:24:21,000
relationship to mimic Christ in
the Ecclesia?

502
00:24:21,520 –> 00:24:23,080
I wasn’t thinking through.
Is this relationship a good

503
00:24:23,080 –> 00:24:25,760
relationship to raise kids in?
The truth, I wasn’t thinking

504
00:24:25,760 –> 00:24:27,600
through.
Is this relationship something

505
00:24:27,600 –> 00:24:30,400
that’s going to help me be more
like Christ and help her be more

506
00:24:30,400 –> 00:24:32,000
like Christ?
Those thoughts were not in my

507
00:24:32,000 –> 00:24:33,960
brain when I was freaking out
about.

508
00:24:34,360 –> 00:24:37,040
Is this something that I, you
know, something going wrong?

509
00:24:37,200 –> 00:24:41,480
Panic, panic, panic When I sit
back and think about it, those

510
00:24:41,480 –> 00:24:44,520
are at the top of my list.
But in the moment of anxiety,

511
00:24:45,080 –> 00:24:47,600
those drop.
Keep it together goes to the

512
00:24:47,600 –> 00:24:50,440
top.
And that’s why that’s the

513
00:24:50,440 –> 00:24:52,160
relationship between anxiety and
faith.

514
00:24:52,160 –> 00:24:56,120
That’s the problem of anxiety
and why Christ can say, oh, you

515
00:24:56,120 –> 00:24:58,760
have little faith because in
that moment I’m saying faith

516
00:24:58,760 –> 00:25:02,360
takes the back, step back step,
the back seat, and my anxiety

517
00:25:02,360 –> 00:25:05,160
takes the front.
Anxiety becomes the the, the

518
00:25:05,160 –> 00:25:07,840
focus.
That’s why anxiety relates to

519
00:25:07,840 –> 00:25:11,200
faith.
That’s the reason that Jesus can

520
00:25:11,200 –> 00:25:13,800
say, oh, you have little faith
when dealing with anxiety.

521
00:25:14,440 –> 00:25:18,760
Now that might seem harsh, but
it’s not that different than

522
00:25:19,240 –> 00:25:22,960
other temptations, not that
different than anger or lust.

523
00:25:23,760 –> 00:25:27,960
And I think that’s why Jesus
puts the section of anxiety in

524
00:25:27,960 –> 00:25:31,800
the Sermon of the Mount after
talking about anger and lust.

525
00:25:32,640 –> 00:25:36,880
And so there’s actually a lot of
crossover of how we should think

526
00:25:36,880 –> 00:25:40,640
about temptation or how we
should think about anxiety with

527
00:25:40,640 –> 00:25:42,160
how we should think about anger
and lust.

528
00:25:42,160 –> 00:25:43,800
They they do very similar
things.

529
00:25:44,280 –> 00:25:46,960
Anger, Essentially, When I get
angry about something that is my

530
00:25:46,960 –> 00:25:51,120
human nature, telling me
whatever I’m angry about is

531
00:25:51,120 –> 00:25:53,960
worth being angry about, but I’m
justified in being angry about

532
00:25:53,960 –> 00:25:55,400
it.
It’s telling me that’s important

533
00:25:55,400 –> 00:25:57,840
enough that I should be mad
about it, and I’m important

534
00:25:57,840 –> 00:25:59,560
enough that it’s worth getting
mad about it.

535
00:25:59,560 –> 00:26:01,440
It’s something.
It’s lying to me in some way.

536
00:26:01,440 –> 00:26:04,080
It’s telling me something is
that is actually bad.

537
00:26:04,520 –> 00:26:07,480
Well, it’s telling me it’s good.
Lust is very similar.

538
00:26:07,880 –> 00:26:10,600
It’s my human nature.
Telling me this bad thing that I

539
00:26:10,600 –> 00:26:13,120
shouldn’t want is actually
something you should want.

540
00:26:13,760 –> 00:26:15,600
That’s my human nature.
Telling me that I should

541
00:26:15,840 –> 00:26:18,960
evaluate things differently than
how God evaluates things.

542
00:26:19,960 –> 00:26:23,560
Anxiety is the same.
Anxiety says evaluate things

543
00:26:23,560 –> 00:26:25,600
differently than how God
evaluates things.

544
00:26:25,960 –> 00:26:29,200
Evaluate things in a way that’s
that’s wrong, that’s incorrect.

545
00:26:29,200 –> 00:26:32,160
But I’m going to make you do it.
I’ll make it the most important,

546
00:26:32,160 –> 00:26:33,280
and I’m going to tempt you to do
it.

547
00:26:34,120 –> 00:26:37,040
And This is why I say anxiety
assembly to a temptation.

548
00:26:38,120 –> 00:26:40,080
And so when we look at it in
that vein, the question becomes,

549
00:26:40,080 –> 00:26:43,840
how do we think about guilt?
How do you think about guilt in

550
00:26:43,840 –> 00:26:47,280
the context of anxiety?
I think this is important

551
00:26:47,280 –> 00:26:51,640
because when we say that faith
and anxiety are related and that

552
00:26:52,360 –> 00:26:56,560
having anxiety suggests there’s
issues in our faith, well that

553
00:26:56,560 –> 00:26:59,800
makes me feel really guilty.
When I have anxiety, that makes

554
00:26:59,800 –> 00:27:01,720
me feel like, well, I didn’t
choose this.

555
00:27:01,720 –> 00:27:04,160
I didn’t want to have anxiety.
I didn’t ask for it.

556
00:27:04,440 –> 00:27:06,280
Yet apparently when I have it, I
have a faith problem.

557
00:27:06,720 –> 00:27:09,680
That’s not fair.
And now I’m a bad person because

558
00:27:09,680 –> 00:27:12,160
I have anxiety.
You start going through this

559
00:27:12,520 –> 00:27:15,960
kind of rabbit hole of thought.
And so I want to make sure that

560
00:27:15,960 –> 00:27:18,000
we have a really proper
understanding of how guilt works

561
00:27:18,000 –> 00:27:20,480
with this because I don’t want
people to walk away from here

562
00:27:20,480 –> 00:27:24,120
and going And he said that that
I I’m, I’m of little faith if I

563
00:27:24,400 –> 00:27:26,080
have anxiety, I must be a
terrible person.

564
00:27:26,080 –> 00:27:27,360
And that’s the take away from
the weekend.

565
00:27:27,520 –> 00:27:30,200
That would be terrible.
And so that’s not the take away.

566
00:27:30,200 –> 00:27:33,400
And we’re to look at how do I
deal with guilt when it comes to

567
00:27:33,400 –> 00:27:36,800
anxiety.
So if anxiety is a temptation, I

568
00:27:36,800 –> 00:27:39,280
think it’s really valuable to
think about other temptations

569
00:27:39,640 –> 00:27:43,600
and how guilt work with them and
then apply those ideas into

570
00:27:43,600 –> 00:27:45,880
anxiety and say so.
It probably works the same way

571
00:27:46,280 –> 00:27:48,120
with anxiety if anxiety is a
temptation.

572
00:27:48,680 –> 00:27:50,680
And so in doing that we’re going
to read 3 sections and we’re

573
00:27:50,680 –> 00:27:52,000
going to see what can we take
away from them.

574
00:27:52,840 –> 00:27:56,080
Section one is going to be
Matthew 5, verses 21 and 22.

575
00:27:59,400 –> 00:28:09,960
So Matthew 5 verses 21 and 22
you have heard that it was said

576
00:28:09,960 –> 00:28:13,080
of those of old you shall not
murder, and whoever murders will

577
00:28:13,080 –> 00:28:15,920
be liable of judgement.
But I say to you that who?

578
00:28:15,920 –> 00:28:19,000
Anyone who is angry with his
brother will be liable to

579
00:28:19,000 –> 00:28:21,520
judgement.
Whoever insults his brother will

580
00:28:21,520 –> 00:28:24,160
be liable to the council.
Whoever says you fool will be

581
00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:27,760
liable to Hellfire.
And then we’re going to read a

582
00:28:27,760 –> 00:28:30,160
little bit further down, verses
27 to 30.

583
00:28:32,760 –> 00:28:34,880
You have heard that it was said
you shall not commit adultery.

584
00:28:35,520 –> 00:28:37,760
But I say to you that everyone
who looks at a woman with

585
00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:40,880
lustful intent has already
committed adultery with her in

586
00:28:40,880 –> 00:28:43,480
his heart.
And if your right eye is causing

587
00:28:43,480 –> 00:28:45,440
you to sin, tear it out and
throw it away.

588
00:28:45,880 –> 00:28:48,120
For it is better be for you to
lose one of your members than

589
00:28:48,120 –> 00:28:49,840
for your whole body to be thrown
into hell.

590
00:28:50,560 –> 00:28:53,240
And if your right hand causes
you to sin, cut it off and throw

591
00:28:53,240 –> 00:28:55,360
it away.
For it is better that one that

592
00:28:55,360 –> 00:28:57,880
you lose one of your members and
your whole body is thrown into

593
00:28:57,880 –> 00:29:01,120
hell.
And the last section don’t.

594
00:29:01,120 –> 00:29:03,000
You don’t need to flip there
because it’s just one verse, but

595
00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:07,480
it’s Ephesians 4, verse 26, be
angry and do not sin.

596
00:29:07,480 –> 00:29:10,360
You don’t let the sun go down on
your anger.

597
00:29:10,360 –> 00:29:13,360
So we’re going to take these
three sections and go what can

598
00:29:13,360 –> 00:29:17,000
we take about take away from
them when it comes to guilt and

599
00:29:17,000 –> 00:29:20,720
sin versus temptation, all these
ideas, what we should how should

600
00:29:20,720 –> 00:29:22,760
we be thinking about it in kind
of a moral framework?

601
00:29:22,960 –> 00:29:25,360
And we’ll apply those ideas to
anxiety.

602
00:29:27,040 –> 00:29:29,560
So first thing is that anger
based off what we read in

603
00:29:29,560 –> 00:29:31,800
Ephesians, in and of itself,
it’s not a sin.

604
00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:35,480
It’s not a sin to be angry.
It is a temptation.

605
00:29:36,360 –> 00:29:38,680
It’s not something that
initially demands repentance.

606
00:29:38,680 –> 00:29:42,080
However, it is something that
should lead us to want to

607
00:29:42,080 –> 00:29:44,840
change, want to get out of that
spot of anger.

608
00:29:46,040 –> 00:29:47,800
It’s not something that we
should feel guilty in and of

609
00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:51,200
itself, but given us a
temptation, we need to work out

610
00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:54,560
of it.
Staying in anger is not good.

611
00:29:55,040 –> 00:29:58,320
Jesus very clearly says in the
first section that being angry

612
00:29:58,320 –> 00:30:01,360
and stewing in anger not good.
Even little acts of anger.

613
00:30:01,360 –> 00:30:04,360
You didn’t kill the guy, but you
said you fool, you talk behind

614
00:30:04,360 –> 00:30:06,440
their back.
Those are still sins.

615
00:30:06,760 –> 00:30:09,640
So acting on it even in minor
ways is a sin.

616
00:30:10,840 –> 00:30:14,800
However, just having anger in
and of itself, not a sin.

617
00:30:15,080 –> 00:30:17,480
It’s a temptation, but it’s
something that leads to sin.

618
00:30:17,960 –> 00:30:20,720
It’s bad, but it’s not something
that you should feel guilty for

619
00:30:20,720 –> 00:30:21,880
or like you’ve transgressed
about.

620
00:30:22,960 –> 00:30:24,920
Similar with lust.
We cannot do in it.

621
00:30:24,920 –> 00:30:27,280
We cannot sit in it.
We cannot just look at someone

622
00:30:27,280 –> 00:30:29,320
and say, hey, I didn’t do
anything, I just looked.

623
00:30:30,400 –> 00:30:32,640
We need to work our way out of
the temptation.

624
00:30:32,720 –> 00:30:35,320
We need to not just go.
I’m tempted, I’m not sinning, so

625
00:30:35,320 –> 00:30:36,960
I’m fine.
It’s not tempted.

626
00:30:37,800 –> 00:30:40,200
That’s close to sinning.
I need to get out of this.

627
00:30:40,640 –> 00:30:42,560
You haven’t transgressed, but
you are on a state of

628
00:30:42,560 –> 00:30:45,560
temptation.
We really get this idea when

629
00:30:45,560 –> 00:30:49,320
Jesus says like your I offends
thee to pluck it out or pull it

630
00:30:49,320 –> 00:30:52,160
out.
Your version essentially.

631
00:30:52,160 –> 00:30:54,520
He’s not saying you’re sinning.
That’s bad.

632
00:30:54,520 –> 00:30:57,000
Repent.
What he’s saying is you have

633
00:30:57,000 –> 00:30:59,160
this temptation that leads to
sin.

634
00:30:59,760 –> 00:31:02,560
We need to take that out.
And it’s not saying stop

635
00:31:02,560 –> 00:31:04,240
sinning.
He’s actually saying work on the

636
00:31:04,240 –> 00:31:06,840
temptation.
This is a clear, really

637
00:31:06,840 –> 00:31:10,040
important point.
He doesn’t say don’t admit

638
00:31:10,040 –> 00:31:12,520
adultery.
He doesn’t say don’t murder.

639
00:31:12,800 –> 00:31:15,160
He says work on the temptation
before you get there.

640
00:31:16,360 –> 00:31:19,080
OK, so does that mean for us,
Right, That means when we’re

641
00:31:19,080 –> 00:31:21,240
angry, we actually need to stop
before we get to the murder

642
00:31:21,240 –> 00:31:23,680
part.
We need to stop and go, OK, I’m

643
00:31:23,720 –> 00:31:26,560
in a state of temptation.
It’s my responsibility to work

644
00:31:26,560 –> 00:31:29,800
on this temptation at the
temptation level before it gets

645
00:31:29,800 –> 00:31:32,720
to the transgression level.
I have to deal with it now,

646
00:31:32,720 –> 00:31:35,880
while I’m just in a temptation
state, before I can get even

647
00:31:35,920 –> 00:31:38,320
have the chance to get to the
transgression state.

648
00:31:38,320 –> 00:31:40,600
I shouldn’t feel guilty about
being in temptation.

649
00:31:40,600 –> 00:31:42,480
That happens.
It’s part of human nature.

650
00:31:42,800 –> 00:31:44,480
But I need to deal with it while
it’s happening.

651
00:31:45,680 –> 00:31:48,360
Since we figure out whatever is
causing the temptation of anger

652
00:31:48,360 –> 00:31:51,880
or lust and deal with it, work
on it on a temptation level.

653
00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:54,560
Don’t wait for it to get to the
transgression level.

654
00:31:55,160 –> 00:31:56,560
Deal with it in a temptation
level.

655
00:31:57,240 –> 00:31:59,600
Deal with it with anger and
lust, not murder.

656
00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:02,840
In adultery.
Yes, obviously, don’t do those

657
00:32:02,840 –> 00:32:04,480
other things.
Don’t do murder, Don’t do

658
00:32:04,480 –> 00:32:05,960
adultery.
But press point.

659
00:32:05,960 –> 00:32:08,400
Curious to say, deal with it
before it gets there.

660
00:32:08,440 –> 00:32:10,640
Work on it earlier.
Work on it when it’s just a

661
00:32:10,640 –> 00:32:13,840
temptation.
So let’s apply some of these

662
00:32:13,840 –> 00:32:17,600
thoughts over to anxiety.
So tell us that having anxiety

663
00:32:17,600 –> 00:32:20,320
in and of itself shouldn’t make
you feel guilty.

664
00:32:20,960 –> 00:32:23,440
You shouldn’t feel guilty
because you have anxiety.

665
00:32:23,880 –> 00:32:25,880
That’s why you feel that.
I’m feeling guilty because you

666
00:32:25,880 –> 00:32:28,400
have human nature.
You didn’t choose that.

667
00:32:28,720 –> 00:32:31,680
That’s given to you, That was
handed to you on at birth.

668
00:32:31,720 –> 00:32:34,000
You had human nature.
You didn’t choose it.

669
00:32:34,000 –> 00:32:35,520
You didn’t want it.
We still don’t want it.

670
00:32:35,720 –> 00:32:37,840
That’s actually part of what
we’re trying to do, is to change

671
00:32:37,840 –> 00:32:39,400
it.
But you have it.

672
00:32:39,440 –> 00:32:41,480
You have human nature.
It’s going to make you feel

673
00:32:41,480 –> 00:32:43,480
anxious sometimes.
It’s going to make you want to

674
00:32:43,480 –> 00:32:45,240
change your priority.
Sometimes it’s going to want to

675
00:32:45,240 –> 00:32:48,160
make you mis evaluate things
sometimes and you shouldn’t feel

676
00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:50,360
guilty because of that.
It’s temptation and we have

677
00:32:50,360 –> 00:32:53,760
human nature.
However, it’s not something

678
00:32:53,760 –> 00:32:55,760
we’re supposed to be OK with.
Sitting in that statement

679
00:32:56,320 –> 00:32:58,960
outside of just the like, it’s
uncomfortable, like anxiety is

680
00:32:58,960 –> 00:33:01,440
not fun to be in.
We also shouldn’t want to from a

681
00:33:01,440 –> 00:33:03,600
moral perspective.
There’s a reason to get out of

682
00:33:03,640 –> 00:33:07,160
anxiety from a moral point of
view, because when we’re in

683
00:33:07,160 –> 00:33:11,200
anxiety, we are tempted and
somewhat doing mis evaluating

684
00:33:11,920 –> 00:33:13,560
what is important and how
important it is.

685
00:33:13,560 –> 00:33:15,960
We are changing what is on the
top of our value list.

686
00:33:15,960 –> 00:33:18,640
When I was anxious in my
relationships, what was most

687
00:33:18,640 –> 00:33:20,840
important to me wasn’t what
should have been most important

688
00:33:20,840 –> 00:33:22,840
to me.
And so I’m tempted to then act

689
00:33:22,840 –> 00:33:25,280
on that, then do something about
that for me.

690
00:33:25,280 –> 00:33:28,080
I was tempted to stay in
relationships that were actively

691
00:33:28,080 –> 00:33:30,960
leading me away from God.
That’s not a good thing, but I

692
00:33:30,960 –> 00:33:33,840
was definitely tempted to do it
because I had anxiety making me

693
00:33:33,840 –> 00:33:36,560
forget about everything else.
So you’re in the state of

694
00:33:36,560 –> 00:33:39,760
anxiety.
It’s a temptation, and we need

695
00:33:39,760 –> 00:33:42,160
to deal with that on a
temptation level before it gets

696
00:33:42,160 –> 00:33:45,760
to transgression.
This also means similar to how

697
00:33:46,080 –> 00:33:50,080
saying mean words when you’re
angry, or when you’re angry, or

698
00:33:50,080 –> 00:33:52,200
looking upon a woman when you’re
lustful.

699
00:33:52,680 –> 00:33:56,600
These are minor transgressions,
and similarly, acting on our

700
00:33:56,600 –> 00:34:00,000
anxieties can lead to
transgression, and that’s kind

701
00:34:00,000 –> 00:34:01,800
of hard to a hard pill to
swallow sometimes.

702
00:34:02,640 –> 00:34:05,360
For example, if I have social
anxiety and someone in my

703
00:34:05,360 –> 00:34:08,520
meeting needs help, and I say no
because I’m socially anxious

704
00:34:09,159 –> 00:34:12,600
because I’m valuing my safety,
for example, of feeling, you

705
00:34:12,600 –> 00:34:15,159
know, I’m nervous about the
social interaction, about being

706
00:34:15,159 –> 00:34:18,120
embarrassed, that’s more
important to me than helping my

707
00:34:18,120 –> 00:34:20,320
brother or sister.
And so I’m not going to help

708
00:34:20,320 –> 00:34:22,040
them because I’m.
I’m nervous about that.

709
00:34:22,960 –> 00:34:24,120
I would argue that’s a
transgression.

710
00:34:24,840 –> 00:34:27,800
That is something that we should
feel a minor amount of guilt

711
00:34:27,800 –> 00:34:29,320
about.
That’s an aspect of guilt about

712
00:34:29,800 –> 00:34:33,440
because you’ve acted upon your
MIS evaluation in the same way

713
00:34:33,440 –> 00:34:35,920
that with anger, when I’ve mis
evaluated how important

714
00:34:35,920 –> 00:34:37,960
something is and I get angry
about it and I punch the guy

715
00:34:37,960 –> 00:34:41,520
because he stepped on my toe,
that is, that is me mis

716
00:34:41,520 –> 00:34:45,679
evaluating the situation well
when I just chose to stay home

717
00:34:45,679 –> 00:34:48,600
because I was anxious about
this, being embarrassed in this,

718
00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:50,800
in this conversation, that was
more important to me than

719
00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:53,480
helping my brother or sister.
I’ve mis evaluated the

720
00:34:53,480 –> 00:34:55,840
situation.
I’ve mis evaluated my priorities

721
00:34:55,880 –> 00:34:57,800
of God’s priorities.
I’d argue that’s a

722
00:34:57,800 –> 00:35:00,600
transgression.
However, this is really

723
00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:03,680
important.
Feeling guilty about a

724
00:35:03,680 –> 00:35:07,680
transgression shouldn’t.
There’s actually a usefulness to

725
00:35:07,680 –> 00:35:10,000
that.
There’s a useful thing to being

726
00:35:10,000 –> 00:35:12,120
guilty about a transgression.
I’m supposed to remind you that,

727
00:35:12,120 –> 00:35:15,520
hey, change this, this isn’t
what you want.

728
00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:18,760
It’s not just to make you feel
like wallow in self pity, which

729
00:35:18,760 –> 00:35:20,520
is what we often can do with
guilt.

730
00:35:20,520 –> 00:35:23,480
It’s just supposed to say, hey,
you don’t actually want this.

731
00:35:24,040 –> 00:35:27,080
This is kind of your conscience.
The the bit of the spirit saying

732
00:35:27,240 –> 00:35:28,880
you don’t want to go down this
path.

733
00:35:29,240 –> 00:35:32,120
You didn’t want to act that way.
It’s a guilt that’s actually

734
00:35:32,120 –> 00:35:34,360
useful.
And the point of that, in

735
00:35:34,360 –> 00:35:37,240
recognizing that guilt, that’s
the role of guilt, is to say

736
00:35:37,240 –> 00:35:40,400
that when you’ve said, OK, well,
I want to work on this on a

737
00:35:40,400 –> 00:35:42,560
temptation level.
I’m going to start putting into

738
00:35:42,560 –> 00:35:45,160
practice principles to make it
so that I can deal with my

739
00:35:45,160 –> 00:35:48,040
anxiety in a way that is, stops
me from transgressing, stops me

740
00:35:48,040 –> 00:35:50,280
from making those choices.
I’m going to do it in a way that

741
00:35:50,280 –> 00:35:52,160
is righteous.
I’m going to try my best and I

742
00:35:52,160 –> 00:35:55,360
will still struggle with anxiety
or anger or lust or any of those

743
00:35:55,360 –> 00:35:57,240
other things, but I’m going to
make it so that I don’t

744
00:35:57,240 –> 00:35:59,440
transgress.
I’m going to do my best to stop

745
00:35:59,440 –> 00:36:03,640
that, that you should stop
feeling guilty because that’s

746
00:36:03,640 –> 00:36:05,600
the point of guilt.
The point of guilt was to get

747
00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:08,000
you there.
Once you’re there, you shouldn’t

748
00:36:08,080 –> 00:36:09,400
feel guilty about having
anxiety.

749
00:36:09,400 –> 00:36:11,160
That’s part of human nature.
That’s a that’s a battle that

750
00:36:11,160 –> 00:36:13,760
you’re going to have until the
Kingdom comes.

751
00:36:14,480 –> 00:36:16,480
That’s a battle that you’re to
deal with forever, but not

752
00:36:16,480 –> 00:36:19,520
forever.
Sorry for this life, sorry, but

753
00:36:19,680 –> 00:36:20,800
that’s about it.
You’re going to deal with for

754
00:36:20,800 –> 00:36:24,120
this life because that’s part of
our our lot in life is that you

755
00:36:24,120 –> 00:36:26,640
have human nature and we all
struggle with different things.

756
00:36:26,640 –> 00:36:28,560
So also going to struggle with
anxiety.

757
00:36:28,960 –> 00:36:32,040
Some more, some less, some less
are going to anger, some more or

758
00:36:32,040 –> 00:36:34,400
less.
And the whole mixing variety of

759
00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:37,120
temptations we all struggle with
with different levels.

760
00:36:37,480 –> 00:36:40,080
Some of us, I will argue, can
actually get to a point where

761
00:36:40,080 –> 00:36:41,360
you don’t deal with anxiety
anymore.

762
00:36:42,120 –> 00:36:44,400
Some of us won’t.
Some of us will get to a point

763
00:36:44,400 –> 00:36:47,600
where it’s a little bit easier,
but it’s not necessarily gone.

764
00:36:48,760 –> 00:36:52,000
That’s how temptation works.
But what we do have

765
00:36:52,000 –> 00:36:54,360
responsibility to do, when we
view it in the light of anxiety,

766
00:36:54,360 –> 00:36:58,200
when we view it in the light of
lust, we have a responsibility

767
00:36:58,360 –> 00:37:02,520
to work on it in the state of
temptation, in the anxiety.

768
00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:06,560
It’s not just as long as I don’t
act on it, I’m good.

769
00:37:07,280 –> 00:37:09,120
That’s the same as saying as
long as I don’t commit murder,

770
00:37:09,120 –> 00:37:11,640
I’m good, or as long as I don’t
commit adultery, I’m good.

771
00:37:11,640 –> 00:37:14,600
Or in the less extreme cases, as
long as I don’t say the bad

772
00:37:14,600 –> 00:37:17,440
words I’m good, or as long as I
don’t look upon a woman, I’m

773
00:37:17,440 –> 00:37:20,360
good.
But that’s not what Jesus says.

774
00:37:20,360 –> 00:37:22,960
He says no, no, no, deal with it
when it’s a temptation.

775
00:37:24,040 –> 00:37:26,360
So we have a responsibility to
deal with it when it’s a

776
00:37:26,360 –> 00:37:28,320
temptation.
And that’s what next class is

777
00:37:28,320 –> 00:37:30,560
going to be about when we get
there is, well, how do I deal

778
00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:31,600
with it?
You told me to deal with it.

779
00:37:31,600 –> 00:37:34,040
I got a responsibility to what
do I do about it?

780
00:37:34,400 –> 00:37:36,880
How do I actually deal with it?
And that’s what we end up doing

781
00:37:36,880 –> 00:37:39,440
in our next class.
So just to kind of summarize

782
00:37:39,440 –> 00:37:42,280
what we’ve talked about so far,
I want to first start with the

783
00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:44,040
kind of guilt framework.
I’m going to work our way

784
00:37:44,040 –> 00:37:46,120
backwards.
So the guilt framework we talked

785
00:37:46,120 –> 00:37:49,880
about was essentially that
anxiety is a temptation, the way

786
00:37:49,880 –> 00:37:52,440
you view loss, the way you view
anger, or any other temptation.

787
00:37:52,880 –> 00:37:55,080
You should view anxiety in a
very similar way because it’s

788
00:37:55,080 –> 00:37:58,040
your human nature essentially
lying to you at how important

789
00:37:58,040 –> 00:38:00,680
different things are.
It’s telling you to MIS evaluate

790
00:38:00,960 –> 00:38:03,640
how you view things, and then
it’s telling you to act on those

791
00:38:03,640 –> 00:38:05,560
MIS evaluations.
It’s saying that thing that’s

792
00:38:05,560 –> 00:38:07,560
really important to you.
Yeah, make sure that stays

793
00:38:07,560 –> 00:38:10,640
important and do like things in
your life based off that level

794
00:38:10,640 –> 00:38:12,440
of importance.
For me, that was again in

795
00:38:12,440 –> 00:38:14,560
relationships.
Make sure this relationship

796
00:38:14,560 –> 00:38:16,640
that’s from a biblical point of
view and a spiritual point of

797
00:38:16,640 –> 00:38:18,400
view.
Bad, but make sure it sticks

798
00:38:18,400 –> 00:38:20,640
together because it’s the most
important thing to you in this

799
00:38:20,640 –> 00:38:22,920
moment.
Anxiety tells you to miss

800
00:38:22,920 –> 00:38:25,760
evaluate things and that is why
it’s a temptation.

801
00:38:25,760 –> 00:38:29,480
And we should do guilt in the
same context where you shouldn’t

802
00:38:29,480 –> 00:38:31,600
feel guilty because you’re
tempted by something but you

803
00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:33,400
should work on it.
While it’s a temptation.

804
00:38:33,760 –> 00:38:35,040
That’s the point that you work
on it.

805
00:38:35,040 –> 00:38:37,760
You don’t work on it.
When it’s a sin, that’s when you

806
00:38:37,760 –> 00:38:39,600
shouldn’t feel guilty.
You work on it when it’s a

807
00:38:39,600 –> 00:38:42,840
temptation.
However, sins are going to

808
00:38:42,840 –> 00:38:44,800
happen.
And when you feel guilty because

809
00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:48,360
you’ve acted on anxiety or
you’ve acted on anger or luster

810
00:38:48,400 –> 00:38:52,640
anything else, guilt should be
there until you decide to work

811
00:38:52,640 –> 00:38:55,200
on the temptation and then
repent and say I’m going to

812
00:38:55,200 –> 00:38:58,080
change and then you should let
that guilt go because the

813
00:38:58,080 –> 00:38:59,880
purpose of that guilt has been
fulfilled.

814
00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:03,160
Guilt is a useful tool, but once
it’s fulfilled its usefulness,

815
00:39:03,600 –> 00:39:05,280
get rid of it.
It’s not useful anymore.

816
00:39:05,920 –> 00:39:07,320
We shouldn’t feel guilty for
having anxiety.

817
00:39:07,320 –> 00:39:09,480
We’re going to be in this battle
for a long time.

818
00:39:09,640 –> 00:39:12,160
That’s just how anxiety works.
That’s how temptation works.

819
00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:14,880
But when we transgress, guilt is
there.

820
00:39:14,960 –> 00:39:17,680
It’s useful to tell us to get
back in the battle, get back to

821
00:39:17,680 –> 00:39:20,360
work on this transgression or on
this temptation, and then we let

822
00:39:20,360 –> 00:39:22,320
it go because the guilt isn’t
useful anymore.

823
00:39:22,920 –> 00:39:25,400
And that’s I think, the spot
that we, a lot of people, me

824
00:39:25,400 –> 00:39:28,880
included, in cases, mess up.
We hold on to that guilt.

825
00:39:29,120 –> 00:39:31,240
We associate the guilt of the
temptation and say, well, I’m

826
00:39:31,240 –> 00:39:33,320
tempted by this thing.
I have anxiety, I have anger, I

827
00:39:33,320 –> 00:39:36,680
have lost and therefore I’m bad.
I should feel guilty.

828
00:39:37,520 –> 00:39:39,880
Not quite.
We should feel guilty when we

829
00:39:39,880 –> 00:39:42,400
transgress.
But the guilt is useful to say

830
00:39:42,400 –> 00:39:47,000
get back in the battle on the on
the temptation level and then

831
00:39:47,160 –> 00:39:49,920
moving back to the how does
anxiety and faith seem to

832
00:39:49,920 –> 00:39:52,040
relate?
It relates by the connection of

833
00:39:52,040 –> 00:39:53,360
values.
Essentially.

834
00:39:53,680 –> 00:39:56,640
When we are anxious about
something, we are internally

835
00:39:56,640 –> 00:39:59,040
saying whatever it is we’re
anxious about, whatever aspect

836
00:39:59,040 –> 00:40:01,040
that we’re anxious about.
That is the most important

837
00:40:01,040 –> 00:40:02,560
thing.
It goes to the top of our list

838
00:40:03,080 –> 00:40:05,240
more important than things that
God would say should be the most

839
00:40:05,240 –> 00:40:07,600
important.
And that’s why it relates to

840
00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:09,760
faith.
It relates to faith not because,

841
00:40:10,080 –> 00:40:12,720
you know, anxious bad or your
beliefs changed or anything like

842
00:40:12,720 –> 00:40:14,560
that.
It goes, it relates to faith

843
00:40:14,960 –> 00:40:17,200
because it changes how you
evaluate things in life.

844
00:40:17,680 –> 00:40:20,160
It changes What do you find
important and how important are

845
00:40:20,160 –> 00:40:22,080
they?
Changes your priority list in

846
00:40:22,080 –> 00:40:23,720
the moment.
We know that.

847
00:40:23,720 –> 00:40:25,840
It doesn’t change your big
picture priority list if you

848
00:40:25,840 –> 00:40:27,480
were to go home and write it out
and think about it.

849
00:40:27,840 –> 00:40:31,120
But in that moment of anxiety,
you’re not thinking about that

850
00:40:31,120 –> 00:40:32,560
list.
If you’re thinking about

851
00:40:32,560 –> 00:40:35,560
whatever is the thing that’s the
top of your values, whatever is

852
00:40:35,560 –> 00:40:38,600
the thing that’s threatening to
you at that top of the top of

853
00:40:38,600 –> 00:40:42,120
the value system.
Next class, what we’re going to

854
00:40:42,120 –> 00:40:45,520
do is we’re going to work on.
So what do I do about this?

855
00:40:45,680 –> 00:40:46,720
Cool.
I understand it.

856
00:40:46,720 –> 00:40:48,800
I understand when I should feel
guilty, when I shouldn’t.

857
00:40:48,840 –> 00:40:51,480
I understand why anxiety is a
problem and how it relates to

858
00:40:51,480 –> 00:40:53,720
faith and all those kinds of
great things.

859
00:40:54,360 –> 00:40:57,840
What do I do about it?
And that’s really, I’m really

860
00:40:57,840 –> 00:41:00,560
looking forward to that class
because that’s the class where

861
00:41:00,560 –> 00:41:02,400
I’m really hoping to empower you
all.

862
00:41:02,400 –> 00:41:05,280
I want to give you guys agency
and show this is what I can

863
00:41:05,280 –> 00:41:08,600
actually do in this battle.
Give you clear steps and say

864
00:41:09,000 –> 00:41:11,720
that’s what I can actually do
because it’s really hard to say

865
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or really easy for me to say.
Hey guys, work on your anxiety,

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work on your anger to work on
this stuff.

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What does that actually mean?
I want to give you guys real,

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practical things from scripture
and then also from my own

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personal experiences that say
this is how you can actually

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take steps in that direction and
then and have power to really

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transform your mind.
That’s be the goal of the next

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class.
I really look forward to that.