{"id":366,"date":"2020-02-16T14:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T14:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=366"},"modified":"2020-02-16T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T14:47:45","slug":"dont-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2020\/02\/16\/dont-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Sermon from St Andrews Church given by our reader Rev\u2019 Cathy Pullinger with the sermon called  \u2018Don&#8217;t Worry\u2019.   Recorded on   the  16\/2\/20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/160220\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/160220\/160220.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 5:02<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Romans 8 v 8-25<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/font> Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/font> You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/font> But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>11<\/strong><\/font> And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>12<\/strong><\/font> Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation\u2014but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>13<\/strong><\/font> For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>14<\/strong><\/font> For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>15<\/strong><\/font> The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, \u201cAbba, Father.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>16<\/strong><\/font> The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God\u2019s children. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>17<\/strong><\/font> Now if we are children, then we are heirs\u2014heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.\n<br><br>\n\n<font color=\"red\">Present Suffering and Future Glory<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>18<\/strong><\/font> I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>19<\/strong><\/font> For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>20<\/strong><\/font> For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>21<\/strong><\/font> that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>22<\/strong><\/font> We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>23<\/strong><\/font> Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>24<\/strong><\/font> For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>25<\/strong><\/font> But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.\n<br><br><br>\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Matthew 6:25-34<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"red\">Do Not Worry<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>25<\/strong><\/font> \u201cTherefore 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 than food, and the body more than clothes? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>26<\/strong><\/font> 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? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>27<\/strong><\/font> Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>28<\/strong><\/font> \u201cAnd why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>29<\/strong><\/font> Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>30<\/strong><\/font> 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\u2014you of little faith? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>31<\/strong><\/font> So do not worry, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019 \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>32<\/strong><\/font> For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>33<\/strong><\/font> But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>34<\/strong><\/font> Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. 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