I’m Putting Anxiousness Under Arrest
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Series that they will edit when we're done. It's a series called arresting anxiousness. And I want to read a few versus the script to found in the book of Philippine an's chapped a number four, beginning at verse four, we're gona read a few verses from the new international version of the scriptures.

IT says, rejoice in the lord always. I will say that again, rejoice. Let your gentleman be evident to all. The lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, yes, but in every situation, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your request to god, what happens when I do that? And the piece of god that transcends all understanding will got your hearts and minds in Christ jesus.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excEllent or praiseworthy, think about such things. We're gone to use for a topic of the day's teachings. Are going to take me two weeks just to finish to this text.

All right. So i'm telling that right now. So part one this week, part two next week, and they will go to another message after that.

But I want to talk to you from this subject. I'm putting anxiousness under arrest, clap your hands eleven forty five, and put in anxiousness under arrest. I want to start this time of teaching with a question. IT is a question simply for your reflection. Question is simply this, what is the most common command that god gives to humans all throughout scripture?

In other words.

if you were to barrick yourself in a room with the bible and examine all of the instruction that god offers from genocide to revelation, what would you see that god says more than anything else? If you are unfamiliar with the answer to this question, the answer is revealed into very simple, yet significant words. What god says more than anything else, from genesis to revelation, is simply this fear, not.

some iteration or some variation of this instruction and exhortation is bound over three hundred times in the bible In some way, over three hundred times, god says to his people, fear not, don't be afraid, calm down, hold your peace. Chill out, breathe, relax, sit down, drink some water. In some way, over three hundred times, god consistently communicates to his people to arrest their ancient.

And the fact that god says this so frequently and so regularly isn't just an indication or a revelation of something about god. God is not saying this so frequently and so regularly because he's showing us something about him. God is saying this so frequently and so regularly, because he is showing us something about us. He is only saying what needs to be said. He is showing us and saying to us that there is an inclination, a leaning and orientation of the soul told worry.

ancient sly And anxiousness, ladies and gentlemen, is often confused and conflated with anxiety. And although there maybe some similarities, there is some distinction. I am not quite out a call to deal with anxiety, god, Grace and gifts and the noise and trains others to aid and assist us in there. But the book does speak about .

anxiousness anxiety .

being A A mental health reality that can be A A result of a number of different sources like brain chemistry and genetics and circumstances and seasons of life and hormones. Where's anxiousness is an orientation of the soul toward fear. Anxiousness is a feeling of inner unrest and worry that is fuelled by the fear of outcomes we may never .

experience.

Did you hear what I just see? IT? IT is a feeling of inner unrest, which lets us know IT is a weapon that is wheeled by the enemy. And I can say that we're confidence because IT underwater ads and erodes, excuse me, and undermines something that jesus clearly, clearly claims. He came to give in. Matthew jesus says to those who follow him or who need to follow him, come on to me, everyone who is weary, burden heavy, laden, and i'll give you rest and then he says something else.

He gives commentary on their claim to make sure we're clear on the condos is talking about because what he says is if you come to me, i'm not just gona give you rest for your body that sleep he said, I give you rest for your soul and am I talking to anybody at the eleven and forty five that knows there's a difference between rest in your body and rest for your soul? Yeah because if your soul is restless, you can go to sleep and wake up to higher. Come on.

If your soul is, has anybody ever been there? If your soul is restless, you can go on vacation and you can sit at the nicest resort, and you can sit by the nicest water. But if you are so is not experiencing rest, you you'll take a vacation and need a vacation after you take your vacation. But jesus say that what .

I give you is rest .

for your soul. He says, if you won't rest for your body, go to bey IT. But if you won't rest for your soul, come to me that turn all this on the inside of you, i'll put IT a rest.

That acts on the inside of you, i'll put IT a rest. That despair on the inside of you, i'll put IT to rest. But anxious ness is an attack against my .

rest IT is a feeling of inner .

unrest and worry that is viewed about the fear of outcomes we may never experience. I'm stressed about something that nine times out of ten don't even happen. Where is who's? Who's gone to talk back to me to death? Come on, i'm a wasting good days anticipating a bad day that never becomes my two day.

I must say that one more time, i'm a wasting good days anticipating a bad day that never becomes my two day fear of outcomes that we may never experience. IT is an emotional fief that arrives us of today's peace in anticipation of tomorrow's problems. This is an emotional epidemic that has become a social norm.

We owe anxious, we anise if we live on the street. We anxious if we work on wall street and just wait, no money and just with lots of money, because our soul will find something. Come on, guys, it's an orientation of the soul. The soul will find something to be anxious. 不好， if i'm not angered about gidding, once I get IT, i'll be angered about keeping IT.

As you .

IT is an emotional epidemic that we have accepted as Normal as Normal because it's frequent. And although IT is Normal in the culture, i'm reading what the opposite power to believe us in phillippa. And i'm coming to the conclusion that although IT is Normal in the culture, IT doesn't have to be Normal in the kingdom.

I'm reading what paul is to believe s in phillippa. Listening to this, you have a believer name, paul riding two beevers in a place called Philippine. This is what north n greece. This is why the book is called Philippines make sense. So when you read the book of romance, it's a letter power rights to livers and wrong.

When you read the book of visions, IT is a letter power rise to believe s in emphasis if i'm making IT say yes, okay? So it's a believer, spiritual leader writing to believe S. Because once you get outside the gospel l's, everything in the new testament is from a believer to believe S.

Did you hear what I just say that I said? Did you hear what I just say? IT, so you have a believer riding two believe s saying. I know anxiousness is Normal in Philippine, but when IT comes to you, you need to be anxious for nothing. mr.

Did you hear what I just said? You have a believer writing to a group of drivers saying, I know anxious ness is Normal in phillippe, but Angels' does not have to be Normal for you. He's not saying you don't have anything to be afraid of.

He's saying you don't have to be afraid. He's not saying there's nothing to worry about. He's saying you don't have to worry 哦。 He's not saying there is nothing happening that people wouldn't be stressed about. He's saying you don't have the fish.

IT is an indication of the principle of exception, would say, as what happens with them does not dictate and determine what happens with me. This is not exceptionalism. That's pride and arrogance.

This is exceptional ism. I'm not Better than exceptionalism. I'm different .

from .

exceptional ism. Did you hear what I just say? We are not Better than we are different from because we got something different.

That they don't have. I got something on the inside that they know how that helps me handle things on the outside. In a way they came hung le IT.

You think i'm strong, but show is in me. You think i'm tough, but tough is in me. You think i'm great, but greater is heat that is in me that he that in the world i'm not Better than i'm different from. Call says you be.

appear attitude don't know nothing because the im is trying to get us anxious about something and trying to rationalize our anxious ness but i heard paul said when i said nothing i met nothing i meant money i meant hurry i meant film i meant heal i when i said.

nothing.

This he's not say there's nothing to be anxious about, he saying you don't have to be interesting he is not articulating a theology of denial can address that fave doesn't deny reality.

Did you hear what I just say IT? And sometimes, sometimes there things we've been taught is been well intended. We've been taught to the reality.

So when we say I don't receive that, we should mean by that is I don't accept that as my long term outcome. That did you hear what I just said? Yeah, i'm not going to.

I can't defeat the lie if if I act like he's not there. He's there. I'm not gonna walk around like I don't see this night food giant, he's there. But I heard my bob was said, grater, is he?

Doesn't deny reality, faith believes god can change IT. This is what IT is, but this is not the way that will be. This is what IT is right now. But before the .

best settle.

Watch what he saying here. This is interesting. He's not saying deny your circumstance. He saying deny your circumstance that much influence.

Did you hear what I just said? He's not saying to know the circumstance. He's saying you're giving that circumstance too much influence.

You are assigning influence IT doesn't have some circumstances only have the influence you assign into IT. You're giving a power IT didn't have. So it's like polis saying you can be in IT. Did you hear what .

I just said?

You can you can be in IT. But being in IT doesn't determine whether not I have anxious ness. Whether not I have anxious ness is determined by how much influence I gave. What I mean.

Now IT seems easy for power to say because he not in phillippa. He's not dealing .

with he's .

he's not dealing with. the external and internal persecution intention that deal with in phillippa And paul anticipated I would to bring up this tiny point, so he text me this morning. He text me, he say barriers, I say what happy.

He said, are you gonna il them who the letter was for? I say, yeah, I tell, knows what believe is in full of I. He said, okay, you're gna tell him who do that I was from. I say, yeah, I tell them the letter was from you he said, okay, so when you tell them who the letter was for and when you tell them who the letter was from, make sure you tell them where I was when I wrote IT. Yeah, they know I wrote IT, but yeah, I need you to tell him there is where I was .

when I wrote IT.

Let them know when I wrote this about being in certain and not alone, what you in and influence you. Let them know when I wrote that. Let to encourage in everybody else, tell him him about peace that passes, i'll understand.

Tell him I wouldn't write what I heard. Tell them I was right when I was limit, because when I wrote that letter, I was in prison in own. I was in her own right now lead to people lent phillip P.

So I was in a prison, but I didn't let the prison influence me. You must, he says, i'm engaged in areas in prison ministry. And if you honest, we don't like .

this kind of ministry.

because when god uses you for prison ministry is a different kind of usage. This is why lord used me is a dangerous prayer. Let me go to this sad over here.

Did you hear what I just say? Use me like, that's a dangerous grat. Because when we say use me, lord, what we really mean is use my gifts, use my talent, use my knowledge, use my relationships and god like. That's not incorrect.

It's complete.

There's another way I use you that much more powerful than using your time and your gives and your knowledge and your network. That's when I use your testimony, you'll miss that. That's when I put you in a prison and I give you peace in the, mister, your prison, so that your testimony in your bondage become something they said somebody have free missing.

When I use your testimony later, I don't hear you before you see, before you know, I let you down, and then I let a crowd gather to see you in the grave for four days. And i'll make them stay around because I vote the same people that watch you go in the to have a front role seat. When I bring you out of the grade, I want to use your testimony.

So so paul got credibility with dic claim could be city. He's got credibility. He in prison and he gives this revelation, he gives this right.

So when talks about peace that transcends understanding, he's experiencing IT. He's in prison experiencing IT. So it's like he realizes something. My peace is entered to my place.

I don't know what place you in in life, but paul is teaching us that my piece is not tied to my place because he's in prison. And when you look at the place he's in, he shouldn't have peace. But he's revealing to us that my piece isn't tied to a place, my piece is tied to a person. and that person is the prince of peace and as long as i have the prince of peace in me IT doesn't matter what i'm in my prince of peace gives me a kind of peace That trend sense logical reasoning. Logically speaking, you shouldn't have IT right, but have five somebody until them.

But I do.

You can do IT, but I do. And the im is upset, but I do. And my friends are confused, but I do. And i'm confused, but I do. I've got a peace that passes my understanding.

Paul caused IT in the text. He caused IT in the text piece of god.

please of god OK is .

that the text he didn't say peace from.

Is piece of IT is a piece that is connected to his person who IT is the essence of his ontological existence IT is when I get him, I get IT is if it's there, he's there.

So when I don't have IT.

I don't need to look for IT you to come get me. I need to look for here because I can get to hear. I can get to eat, because peace is hard to a person.

Is this not what jesus said to his follows in john fourteen, he says, piece, I live with you. Yes, my piece I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives.

So he says, those who follow me and those who don't follow me both can use the same word peace, but they not talking about the same thing. Because what they have is peace that is connected to circumstances. So the circumstances have to be cool and calm for them.

The half piece. Anybody has peace when circumstances are cool pieces, but this piece is connected to your creator, not circumstances, but to your creator. IT is different inequality.

IT is IT is IT is more than an emotion IT is a asset that is a defender Did you hear what I just say? IT, where do you get IT from? I've got IT from the text.

Paul says that piece of god that passes our understanding, the piece becomes your protector. They don't believe me. Give me a text.

I got bible. The piece which train sees all understanding look at the text, wal guard. Tario, lady, catch.

What real guard peace? Well, god. They don't. I need some help. They shown I need about bad brother to run, appear real. Five brothers went up upon the stage.

We're quick because they don't believe me at the one forty five. But i'm going ready to show you this. All right, all right, rick, you stand in the middle.

Stand in the middle. Now you'll put a circle around, rick. Now want you brothers air by put a circle around rick, no luck arms.

If you got a circle around rick, like no tech, rick, luck arms. I want you to see the greek word here. The greek word here for god is a word that speaks to a military garson.

Now watch this. I want to have a backup a little bit. now.

Want you to walk in a cco around rick. This is what the word in the greek means. That's what piece will do. So when the double try to find a week expect, and the doubles trying .

to get in.

IT can't get in because peace is garding your heart and your mind. If you move that kind of peace, take fifteen seconds and give god right?

The day was trying to get, but piece is circling ling, so when you try to coming in through work, piece is cirl. When you try to come to the marriage pieces, cooling would try to come to do the business pieces.

Paul says, as opposed to being overwhelmed by anxious ness, the believer can be protected by peace.

As opposed to being overwhelmed by anxious ness, the believer can be protected by peace. Here's what I love about the text on our time already. Here's my love about text. IT didn't just .

tell us that you can happen.

IT shows us how IT can happen. I see four things in the text, but I can only show you too, because that's the only thing that the other two services has got. And i'll give you the next two next week.

But here is.

here he is. Here's here's the first thing is right here in the text. Here IT is because there's one thing to know I can is nothing to know how here IT is. Let's wrap this up here.

IT is, so if I want to arrest .

anxiousness, the first thing I got to do is I got to address my interpretations. The fact that paul wrote this letter means he isn't interpreting boy I head time. He's he's interpreting he's not interpreting the event. The way Normal people would interpret .

the event because .

here's what happens. We experience any event and then we come up with interpretation of what we think that ebit means. and give IT to you so we can experience downturn in economy we can interpret that as downturn in my business You're miss that.

We can experience lay off. We can interpret that as homelessness. What happened happened. But IT doesn't mean what you think that means. And your anxious ness is coming not from the event.

Your anxious ness is coming from the conclusion you're drawing, the assumption that you're making about what the event means. And god said, looking at us and and i'm not still god. Some trust in horses, some trust in charts, but we will put our trust in the law.

You know what happened, but you don't know what that means. interpretation. So we interest because we wait down the line, oh my god, about what this means.

Pause in prison if .

I had to. I will show you paul would didn't interpret his prison experiences, passes he being prison, and he's says stuff like i'll see .

you shortly .

didn't get a pressure I said he would be in prison and he would write and say, i'll see you soon me and I mean here .

right now, but this .

my current situation, it's not my final destination ation. I'm get ready to get out of here.

Because some people could be imprisoned. Oh, will be here forever. I'm a die in here. Never gonna get out. So the anxiousness isn't the event.

Is the interpretation, but the read sea does me what you think IT means geral walls don't mean what you think they need. A man foot giant man golia didn't mean what you think that means because they have gone.

We have to go.

Place .

tario I got .

a address, my interpretation number two syntex. He says, rejoice. And again, I say rejoice. So I have to express intentional appreciation. okay. Now I will show you this next week because in the text you're about to see paul showing you how what we give to cause disciplines are the way you are against anxiousness and show you next week where he talks about prayer in the text. And I tell you next weeks where he talks about .

addressing your thought.

life is all in the text, but he says, rejoice. And again, I say, rejoice. So he is talking about the spiritual discipline of gratitude.

Yes, that's what's the spiritual discipline in in the book of ultimate palot mity. Exercise yourself into goals. So you say, the way you get strong spiritual Timothy is by doing spiritual exercises.

If you don't do the exercises, you're not gonna be shown. He says, so am I making sense? So he's telling him, do the things that get you in spiritual shape because you're try to run spirit of marathon's and you're not in spirit of shape.

So i'll tell you to love your enemies and you not in that kind of shape. I'm telling you'll be anxious for nothing. You're not in that kind of shape.

And so the warfare in the attack, only the warfare is also the attack before the attack is the attack on your disciplines. So says, let me make sure they don't pray. Let me make sure they don't study the scriptures.

Let me make sure they don't express intentional gratitude called phase. because different disciplines get different results they are a means of grace god chooses what god uses to give to you what you don't deserve Grace, you don't deserve IT. So a means of Grace is something that god chooses to use to get to you, which you don't deserve. So if you don't deserve IT, god determines the conditions that must be made for mutilated. So, goss ss, you don't deserve for me to give you anything, but if some stuff i'm not gonna you unless you're pray you .

have not because I .

choose what I used to get to you, what you don't deserve. So if you don't deserve IT at all, you can complain about what i'll tell you to do to get what you don't.

So praise is gratitude. And here's what that gets me IT gives me, number one, his .

presence .

he inhabits, or he's enthrone in the praises of VISA. This is what's called, so I say, manifest, present. So god is only present.

That means everywhere. Easy to grocery store, right? But that's not the same as many of his present. So he's present. But when we're talking about his presence, we're talking about when he manages, you can be in my house, but you know benefit from me being in my house as I come out of my room.

Yes, praise. Make them come at the room. And the old testament word used to describe when he comes out of the room is a china.

Glow, the carboy, the winess, you can feel some heavy just came in here, the weight shifted. Now, you know what the old preaches meant when they will pray, god, draw your way around. Tell you glory. and some success says in his presence there's fulness a joy so his presence is an automatic temporary eviction of anxious ness So as long as i'm in his presence, so you know interest right now, are you.

Because his presence is an automatic event of anxious ness. So if the only time i'm in IT is here on sunday. Then i'm only free from anxieties here on Sandy. I'm done.

but IT not only gives us .

presence IT gives us perspective. Here's the word i'm sorry, one that, hey, i'm sorry will be there in a minute. IT gives us .

perspective.

Now here's the way David describes the spiritual discipline. He says, magnify. He says, when I express initial red to a magnify, now I mention something, when you use a magnifying glasses, do you actually make the thing bigger? Your perspectives.

So when i'm expressing intentional gratitude, perspective of god becomes bigger. Yes, interest's comes not because your problems too big. IT comes because you're gods too.

And as I worry IT, and as I praise as I intentionally, here's the way the book of rather he Bruce calls IT. He calls IT the sacrifice .

I do .

not praise in response to what I feel. I pray so I can feel.

And god. Wants to use these principles to free us from incarceration to anxious ness. Paul is in, oh, no, he's actually house arrest and he's writing the people's i'm freer than. He says the only difference is you can see your bars.

But look at past, you will not live this way the rest of your life. By the time we done with this series. You're not only going begin sleep, you can rest.

I pray that over you. You are too blessed. You are way too blessed to be this ages.