Series: Sermon on the Mount: The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached
Category: Sunday Evening Sermons
Passage: Matthew 6:19-34
Speaker: Daniel Sweet
Background to the text
- Three Main Commands about money
- Store Up Treasures in Heaven
- Do Not Be Anxious
- Seek First the Kingdom of God
Exposition of Matthew 6:25-32
- For this reason: because we cannot serve God and wealth, Matthew 6:24
- Do not be anxious
- Because life is more than food and clothes, Matthew 6:25
- Because God feeds the birds and we are worth more to Him than birds so we can trust Him to feed us, Matthew 6:26
- Because anxiety will not add a single minute to our life, Matthew 6:27
- Because God clothes flowers in splendor, even though they only last a few days, and we are worth more and last longer than flowers so He will clothe us, Matthew 6:28-30
- Because anxiety causes us to pursue this world like an unbeliever and we should live differently than the world by trusting our Heavenly Father, Matthew 6:31-32
- Because anxiety sets our mind on the concerns of tomorrow and takes our attention off the kingdom work that is right now, Matthew 6:33-34