BAGGAGE - live free. travel light ( week 2)
November 5, 2021

Pastor Shane Bengry
11.7.2021

BAGGAGE: LIVE FREE. TRAVEL LIGHT. - Free From Anxiety

MATTHEW 6 (NIV)
25 (Jesus said,) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? … 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? … 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Misconceptions about JESUS and ANXIETY:

  • JESUS is the fulfillment of INVESTMENT & REWARD
  • JESUS will take away your PAIN
  • JESUS doesn’t allow SUFFERING

2 CORINTHIANS 1 (NIV)
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

ANXIETY BAG #1 - RELATIONSHIP “DISTRESS”

  • Did someone hurt you?
  • Is there anyone that you resent?
  • Is there anyone who owes you?
  • Did someone not meet your expectations?

ANXIETY BAG #2 - “TROUBLE” LIFE EVENT
Did I endure a stressful life event?

Be a WHO person - not a DO person

  • someone WHO is LOVED
  • someone WHO LOVES OTHERS