Appetite: Stay Hungry But Watch Your Weight Part 1 (Sermon Notes)
The Chosen Church
Speaker: Pastor Craig Walder Jr.
Series: Appetite PT3
Title: Stay Hungry But Watch Your Weight!
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-27 (NIV)
Do Not Worry About Your Life!!
Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
25 “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?
Matthew 6:33-34 (NIV)
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.”
If we ate spiritual food like we do natural food how would our souls look?
Moment of reflection: Take a moment to think about your appetite this week.
Matthew 6:25 (ESV)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
Often we put effort into things that don’t really concern the Lord. Some things we think are God's Work BUT it doesn’t move the Lord.
We need to HIDE the BOOK (Bible) in our hearts.
.
KNOW the BOOK/BIBLE, KNOW GOD!! GET BACK TO THE BOOK CHURCH!!
You can do works BUT if it’s not the Work of the Lord…then whose work is it really??
Matthew 7:23
23“And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.”
Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
11 “I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”
The time we allocate to the Lord, in prayer, in fellowship, and while reading the Word of God, is under a severe and aggressive attack.
OTN: I am a witness to this. Every time I tried reading and studying last week, tests showed up and caused me to fumble my study time. However, it did not hinder me from praying
!
Question: What time do you spend with the Lord??
Question: Do you get enough Word to sustain you? Sunday and Wednesday service is not enough to sustain you. You must read the Word and do the Work for yourself (The Word and the Work of the Lord).
✓ The teacher gives you Bible study.
✓ The pastor gives you the Word of the Lord.
✓ What did the Lord give YOU for yourself???
Disciple! Please start prioritizing your time.
Note: What we digest right now is more important than ANYTHING else right now. The world is a busy place and it's easy to get weighed down by its many distractions
Question: How are you managing your weight (time).
. “Do NOT worry about your life.”
Listen: Stress can ADD pounds to you physically and mentally. The weight is called the unwanted weight of anxiety.
PAUSE: ARE you HUNGRY for the LORD? What’s your hunger level?!?
Question: Are you a control freak? God can control your life, IF you let Him.
Note: Humans make choices, GOD holds them responsible for their actions.
Simply put: Humans choose the behavior, GOD chooses the consequences.
God can control our life better than we can because HE gave us the Life!
Stop struggling with things you can’t control.
Worrying adds unnecessary weight.
✓ Issues of the heart make you worried.
✓ Life will make you worry.
✓ Human nature will make you worry.
✓ What’s going on in the world makes you worried.
✓ In this fallen world, worry is a natural consequence. That’s why we need to cast our cares and worries to God.
Somethings small can ruin something BIG that is waiting on you.
Some want temporary feelings. Some want a temporary fix. You have everything you need waiting on you, but you are letting a temporary fix /feeling ruin your appetite.
Message: Don’t let a temporary craving ruin your spiritual appetite.
If someone could have said...
Adam! Don’t eat that! It’s going to ruin your appetite.
Sampson don’t eat that, it’s going to ruin your appetite
David don’t eat that, it’s going to ruin your appetite.
(Your name) don’t eat that, it’s going to ruin your appetite.
Worry and stress ruins your appetite for the Lord.
In today’s times, some are reenacting the feast of the marriage in Matthew.
Mathew 22:1-14 (ESV)
✓ Jesus spoke to them in parables about a wedding.
✓ All they needed was to come to the table. Everything they needed was at the table.
✓ The invited guests gave an excuse.
✓ The king invited them to something that was free.
✓ They would have had ALL they needed at the feast.
✓ They were NOT hungry enough.
✓ The king wanted them to dress and come BUT they wanted temporary fixes.
✓ They allowed everything else to zap their hunger for the Lord. They allowed temporary fixes/feelings to ruin their appetite for the Lord.
✓ They allowed the minimal and everyday life to zap their hunger for the king.
✓ We need to come to Jesus, become a disciple, do His Work and DO NOT repeat the behavior from the people in this parable
✓ Jesus had just started His ministry during this time.
Until we hunger and thirst for Jesus, we will NEVER be satisfied because righteousness is the byproduct of the precondition. Hunger and thirst are the preconditions. Church…We must STAY consistently hungry for the Lord. Blessed are those that are hunger and thirst.
The people Jesus was talking to needed something. The lack of access to food, water and clothing is what they lacked. The lack of resources caused them to worry and be anxious of the future.
God wanted the people to rest and not be anxious. We too should rest in God and stop being anxious. We should live worry free.
They were occupied by the Roman Empire. Some did not want a savior during that time, they wanted relief. Some of them wanted Jesus to overthrow their oppression. They wanted Jesus to overthrow the Roman government.
The people had corrupt tax collectors that overcharged the people. This act left the masses in dire need.
Don’t worry about your life. Your life should be FREE of worry.
Some are carrying the weight on their shoulders. Rest in GOD!!!
Take the weight and cast your cares on the Lord, HE cares for you!!!!
Peter 5:7
7 “casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
God takes care of the birds, HE will take care of you too!!
Matthew 6:26 (ESV)
26 “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
Luke 12:24 (ESV)
24 “Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!”
Worry will not solve things quicker!
Anxious thoughts don’t move GOD
God is moved by you trusting Him to do things in His sovereignty!! His providence is
EVERYTHING!!
GOD IS MOVED BY YOUR FAITH!!
GOD IS MOVED BY YOUR TRUST!!
TRUST GOD’S PROVIDENCE!!
TRUST GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY!!
NUGGET #1
WE CAN'T HAVE COMPROMISED TRUST ISSUES, WITH A GOD WHO'S NEVER FAILED US
#APPETITE
Question: Why do we have trust issues with a GOD who never failed you!!!!
Question: Why do we have issues with God when He has never failed? It’s not God’s fault when we fail, our expectations fail. Again! Our expectations fail us, NOT GOD! When God doesn’t give you things you want, you have a problem with God!
Question: Do you have trust issues with God? Either you trust God or you don’t!!!
Open your mouth and praise God and STOP worrying about stuff that doesn't move God! Putting your complete trust in God moves GOD!!!
Acts 1:6 (ESV)
The Ascension
6 “So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?””
The disciples walked with Jesus and still did not get it!! They asked Jesus to overthrow natural oppression.
Jesus came to do what God wanted Him to do, not what man wanted Him to do.
We want God to deliver natural
Oppression, meanwhile GOD wants YOU delivered!!
Some put their faulty minded expectations on GOD, when He doesn’t meet their expectations, they develop trust issues. We should have uncompromising TRUST with the Father!!
Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
Therefore means something that makes you go back. Therefore, in Matthew 6:24 is Jesus telling us something previously and He’s referencing back to it……………Somethings make you go back to scripture!
. Therefore is connected to the verses proceeding the 25th verse.
Matthew 6:19-21 (ESV)
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Message: The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your body will be full of light. If your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Moral and spiritual vision is easily distorted and darkened. Why though??
Answer...
You ARE what you eat but You will also BECOME what you see.
Our eyes ARE the entrance to our hearts, minds, and the doorways to our souls.
You ARE what you see. Your eyes MUST see AND perceive well. What we see makes a difference. We see holy or unholy, light or darkness.
You cannot look at ungodly things and think you’re going to be more like Jesus!!!
Listen: Your eyes either SEE sin or ACCEPT sin. What do your eyes see???
Question: Do your eyes let you open your Bible? Do your eyes see and perceive well?
Question: How do you serve Jesus and you still look and act the same.
Some claim Chosen BUT we misrepresent Jesus!!
Speaker: Pastor Craig Walder Jr.
Series: Appetite PT3
Title: Stay Hungry But Watch Your Weight!
Scripture: Matthew 6:25-27 (NIV)
Do Not Worry About Your Life!!
Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
25 “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?
Matthew 6:33-34 (NIV)
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.”
If we ate spiritual food like we do natural food how would our souls look?
Moment of reflection: Take a moment to think about your appetite this week.
Matthew 6:25 (ESV)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
Often we put effort into things that don’t really concern the Lord. Some things we think are God's Work BUT it doesn’t move the Lord.
We need to HIDE the BOOK (Bible) in our hearts.
KNOW the BOOK/BIBLE, KNOW GOD!! GET BACK TO THE BOOK CHURCH!!
You can do works BUT if it’s not the Work of the Lord…then whose work is it really??
Matthew 7:23
23“And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.”
Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
11 “I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”
The time we allocate to the Lord, in prayer, in fellowship, and while reading the Word of God, is under a severe and aggressive attack.
OTN: I am a witness to this. Every time I tried reading and studying last week, tests showed up and caused me to fumble my study time. However, it did not hinder me from praying
Question: What time do you spend with the Lord??
Question: Do you get enough Word to sustain you? Sunday and Wednesday service is not enough to sustain you. You must read the Word and do the Work for yourself (The Word and the Work of the Lord).
✓ The teacher gives you Bible study.
✓ The pastor gives you the Word of the Lord.
✓ What did the Lord give YOU for yourself???
Disciple! Please start prioritizing your time.
Note: What we digest right now is more important than ANYTHING else right now. The world is a busy place and it's easy to get weighed down by its many distractions
Question: How are you managing your weight (time).
. “Do NOT worry about your life.”
Listen: Stress can ADD pounds to you physically and mentally. The weight is called the unwanted weight of anxiety.
PAUSE: ARE you HUNGRY for the LORD? What’s your hunger level?!?
Question: Are you a control freak? God can control your life, IF you let Him.
Note: Humans make choices, GOD holds them responsible for their actions.
Simply put: Humans choose the behavior, GOD chooses the consequences.
God can control our life better than we can because HE gave us the Life!
Stop struggling with things you can’t control.
Worrying adds unnecessary weight.
✓ Issues of the heart make you worried.
✓ Life will make you worry.
✓ Human nature will make you worry.
✓ What’s going on in the world makes you worried.
✓ In this fallen world, worry is a natural consequence. That’s why we need to cast our cares and worries to God.
Somethings small can ruin something BIG that is waiting on you.
Some want temporary feelings. Some want a temporary fix. You have everything you need waiting on you, but you are letting a temporary fix /feeling ruin your appetite.
Message: Don’t let a temporary craving ruin your spiritual appetite.
If someone could have said...
Adam! Don’t eat that! It’s going to ruin your appetite.
Sampson don’t eat that, it’s going to ruin your appetite
David don’t eat that, it’s going to ruin your appetite.
(Your name) don’t eat that, it’s going to ruin your appetite.
Worry and stress ruins your appetite for the Lord.
In today’s times, some are reenacting the feast of the marriage in Matthew.
Mathew 22:1-14 (ESV)
✓ Jesus spoke to them in parables about a wedding.
✓ All they needed was to come to the table. Everything they needed was at the table.
✓ The invited guests gave an excuse.
✓ The king invited them to something that was free.
✓ They would have had ALL they needed at the feast.
✓ They were NOT hungry enough.
✓ The king wanted them to dress and come BUT they wanted temporary fixes.
✓ They allowed everything else to zap their hunger for the Lord. They allowed temporary fixes/feelings to ruin their appetite for the Lord.
✓ They allowed the minimal and everyday life to zap their hunger for the king.
✓ We need to come to Jesus, become a disciple, do His Work and DO NOT repeat the behavior from the people in this parable
✓ Jesus had just started His ministry during this time.
Until we hunger and thirst for Jesus, we will NEVER be satisfied because righteousness is the byproduct of the precondition. Hunger and thirst are the preconditions. Church…We must STAY consistently hungry for the Lord. Blessed are those that are hunger and thirst.
The people Jesus was talking to needed something. The lack of access to food, water and clothing is what they lacked. The lack of resources caused them to worry and be anxious of the future.
God wanted the people to rest and not be anxious. We too should rest in God and stop being anxious. We should live worry free.
They were occupied by the Roman Empire. Some did not want a savior during that time, they wanted relief. Some of them wanted Jesus to overthrow their oppression. They wanted Jesus to overthrow the Roman government.
The people had corrupt tax collectors that overcharged the people. This act left the masses in dire need.
Don’t worry about your life. Your life should be FREE of worry.
Some are carrying the weight on their shoulders. Rest in GOD!!!
Take the weight and cast your cares on the Lord, HE cares for you!!!!
Peter 5:7
7 “casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
God takes care of the birds, HE will take care of you too!!
Matthew 6:26 (ESV)
26 “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
Luke 12:24 (ESV)
24 “Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!”
Worry will not solve things quicker!
Anxious thoughts don’t move GOD
God is moved by you trusting Him to do things in His sovereignty!! His providence is
EVERYTHING!!
GOD IS MOVED BY YOUR FAITH!!
GOD IS MOVED BY YOUR TRUST!!
TRUST GOD’S PROVIDENCE!!
TRUST GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY!!
NUGGET #1
WE CAN'T HAVE COMPROMISED TRUST ISSUES, WITH A GOD WHO'S NEVER FAILED US
#APPETITE
Question: Why do we have trust issues with a GOD who never failed you!!!!
Question: Why do we have issues with God when He has never failed? It’s not God’s fault when we fail, our expectations fail. Again! Our expectations fail us, NOT GOD! When God doesn’t give you things you want, you have a problem with God!
Question: Do you have trust issues with God? Either you trust God or you don’t!!!
Open your mouth and praise God and STOP worrying about stuff that doesn't move God! Putting your complete trust in God moves GOD!!!
Acts 1:6 (ESV)
The Ascension
6 “So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?””
The disciples walked with Jesus and still did not get it!! They asked Jesus to overthrow natural oppression.
Jesus came to do what God wanted Him to do, not what man wanted Him to do.
We want God to deliver natural
Oppression, meanwhile GOD wants YOU delivered!!
Some put their faulty minded expectations on GOD, when He doesn’t meet their expectations, they develop trust issues. We should have uncompromising TRUST with the Father!!
Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
Therefore means something that makes you go back. Therefore, in Matthew 6:24 is Jesus telling us something previously and He’s referencing back to it……………Somethings make you go back to scripture!
. Therefore is connected to the verses proceeding the 25th verse.
Matthew 6:19-21 (ESV)
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Message: The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your body will be full of light. If your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Moral and spiritual vision is easily distorted and darkened. Why though??
Answer...
You ARE what you eat but You will also BECOME what you see.
Our eyes ARE the entrance to our hearts, minds, and the doorways to our souls.
You ARE what you see. Your eyes MUST see AND perceive well. What we see makes a difference. We see holy or unholy, light or darkness.
You cannot look at ungodly things and think you’re going to be more like Jesus!!!
Listen: Your eyes either SEE sin or ACCEPT sin. What do your eyes see???
Question: Do your eyes let you open your Bible? Do your eyes see and perceive well?
Question: How do you serve Jesus and you still look and act the same.
Some claim Chosen BUT we misrepresent Jesus!!
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