Confident Living in Anxious Times Part Three Luke 12:3034

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Confident Living in Anxious TimesPart
ThreeLuke 1230-34

• August 23, 2009

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Luke 1230-34

• 30"For all these things the nations of the world
  eagerly seek but your Father knows that you need
  these things. 31"But seek His kingdom, and these
  things will be added to you. 32"Do not be afraid,
  little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly
  to give you the kingdom. 33"Sell your possessions
  and give to charity make yourselves money belts
  which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in
  heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth
  destroys. 34"For where your treasure is, there
  your heart will be also.

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• 1. A Core Confidence in Gods Pleasure in
  Providing For You

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Luke 1230-32

• 30"For all these things the nations of the world
  eagerly seek but your Father knows that you need
  these things. 31"But seek His kingdom, and these
  things will be added to you. 32"Do not be afraid,
  little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly
  to give you the kingdom.

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• A. He Fully Knows Your Material Needs

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Luke 1230

• 30"For all these things the nations of the world
  eagerly seek but your Father knows that you need
  these things.

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Ps. 3415

• 15The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous
  and His ears are open to their cry.

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• B. He Faithfully Cares for Your Everyday Needs

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Luke 1231

• 31"But seek His kingdom, and these things will be
  added to you.

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Col. 31-3

• Put On the New Self
•  1Therefore if you have been raised up with
  Christ, keep seeking the things above, where
  Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  2Set
  your mind on the things above, not on the things
  that are on earth. 3For you have died and your
  life is hidden with Christ in God

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Ps. 371-5

• A Psalm of David
•    1Do not fret because of evildoers,      Be
  not envious toward wrongdoers.    2For they will
  wither quickly like the grass      And fade like
  the green herb.    3Trust in the LORD and do
  good      Dwell in the land and cultivate
  faithfulness   4Delight yourself in the
  LORD      And He will give you the desires of
  your heart   5Commit your way to the
  LORD,      Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

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Ps. 3725-26

• 25I have been young and now I am old,Yet I have
  not seen the righteous forsaken Or his
  descendants begging bread. 26All day long he is
  gracious and lends, And his descendants are a
  blessing.

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• C. He Joyfully Blesses Your Eternal Needs

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Luke 1232

• 32"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your
  Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.
  

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Eph. 13

• 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual
  blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

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2 Cor. 98

• 8And God is able to make all grace abound to you,
  so that always having all sufficiency in
  everything, you may have an abundance for every
  good deed

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• 2. A Core Confidence in Gods Protection in
  Providing For You

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Luke 1233-34

• 33"Sell your possessions and give to charity
  make yourselves money belts which do not wear
  out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no
  thief comes near nor moth destroys. 34"For where
  your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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• A. He Wants to Protect You From Selfishness

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Luke 1233

• 33"Sell your possessions and give to charity
  make yourselves money belts which do not wear
  out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no
  thief comes near nor moth destroys.

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Luke 923

• 23And He was saying to them all, "If anyone
  wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself,
  and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

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• B. He Wants to Protect You From Loss

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Luke 1233

• 33"Sell your possessions and give to charity
  make yourselves money belts which do not wear
  out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no
  thief comes near nor moth destroys.

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Mark 1028-31

• 28Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, we have
  left everything and followed You." 29Jesus said,
  "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left
  house or brothers or sisters or mother or father
  or children or farms, for My sake and for the
  gospel's sake, 30but that he will receive a
  hundred times as much now in the present age,
  houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and
  children and farms, along with persecutions and
  in the age to come, eternal life. 31"But many who
  are first will be last, and the last, first."

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• C. He Wants to Protect You From Deception

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Luke 1234

• 34"For where your treasure is, there your heart
  will be also.

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Luke 1215

• 15Then He said to them, "Beware, and be on your
  guard against every form of greed for not even
  when one has an abundance does his life consist
  of his possessions."

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Luke 1222

• 22And He said to His disciples, "For this reason
  I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to
  what you will eat nor for your body, as to what
  you will put on.

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Conclusion

• Purpose

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Conclusion

• Purpose
• Power

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Conclusion

• Purpose
• Power
• Plan

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Conclusion

• Purpose Passion
• Power
• Plan

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Conclusion

• Purpose Passion
• Power Pleasure
• Plan

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Conclusion

• Purpose Passion
• Power Pleasure
• Plan Protection