Don't Take The Care
Foundation Statement: This statement sums up
Babylon; Man taking care of it without God. In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches to come off
of Babylon and come onto the Kingdom
I.
Matthew 6:25-Take no
thought for your life, Don’t take the care – Don’t engage Babylon or the
world’s way of doing things which is man trying to take care of stuff and meet
his own needs without God
A. Matthew 6:25-Don’t take
thought, Don’t have care, Don’t be troubled with care, Don’t care for your
life, Don’t look out for your life, Don’t care for or provide for your life,
Don’t seek to promote your interests, Don’t be anxious
1.
Taking thought- To take thought, To have care, To be troubled with care, To care for, look out for (a
thing), Caring or
providing for, To seek to promote one's
interests, To be anxious
a. Isn’t this exactly what
they were doing in Genesis 11-Troubled with care, promoting their interest,
looking out for themselves
b. When man tries to care for himself or provide for
himself without God, he’s in Babylon
c. In the Kingdom, you are
not your own provider, you are not your own caretaker-1Peter5:7,
Psalm23:1
2.
Jesus is saying, “Where
your life is concerned, don’t be your own caretaker, don’t be your own
provider, don’t try to take care of things and meet your needs without God.
Don’t become your own source and don’t look to yourself. Don’t engage that
system where man takes care of himself.”
B. Take no thought for your
life (Don’t take the care); This is a commandment: DON’T DO IT
1.
Don’t
take the care of your life, Don’t try to TAKE
CARE of it without God
2.
Don’t take the
responsibility of you, your life or your circumstances being taken care of;
Don’t make yourself responsible for those things being taken care of
3.
When
you cast the care you’ve made God responsible; When you hold the care you’ve
made yourself responsible
C. ***TAKING CARE is
man initiating action to solve his problem, without inquiring of the Lord (in
doing so man has deemed himself responsible as the caretaker for this
situation)***
1.
It’s
man doing something to solve something without inquiring of the Lord
a. Even if the something man
does is “spiritual,” if he does it without inquiring he’s in Babylon
b. When man takes (the) care, he is trying to obtain
the answer, the solution, the provision by self-effort
2.
1
Peter 5:7-Casting the care is what we are supposed to do
a. Mark
4:19-Cares/Self-effort choke the word and cause the word to be unfruitful
3.
Because I’m not responsible
for TAKING CARE of it, then when it comes to strategy regarding “IT BEING TAKEN
CARE OF” I inquire of the Lord what to do and what to say
a. Just because you’ve
cast the care on the Lord and made him responsible for taken care of it,
doesn’t meant that you have no responsibility where it is concerned
b. In the Kingdom I’m not responsible to take care
of it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have responsibilities
4.
After
you’ve casts the care on him, you’re not done, you have to inquire of him and
find out what he wants you to do and what he wants you to say regarding that
thing being taken care of
a. Wisdom is the principle
thing and if you don’t inquire of the Lord you won’t get it-Proverbs 4:7
b. Cast the care and
inquire
1)
You cast those cares on the Lord and then you
inquire of him what he would have you to do and what he would have you to say
c. 2
Chronicles 20-You can’t inquire of him while you hold to the care
1)
They had to get rid of the care and inquire
2)
One
of fear’s jobs is to make it so loud and chaotic on the inside of you that you
can’t hear God’s voice
5.
Spend your faith, your
spiritual capacity and energy inquiring of the Lord rather than waste it
worrying and wondering
a. “I wonder why it’s not
working, I wonder why it’s not changing, Let’s try this, Let’s try that”
– That’s wasted time and energy – Inquire of the Lord instead of
playing around in that junk
b. Areas of your life where the will of God is not
manifesting you need to spend time inquiring of the Lord about it rather than
passively wondering why it is the way it is with an attitude of acceptance
D. This is more than Jesus
just saying “don’t worry,” it’s Jesus saying don’t take the care of it and look
to yourself and endeavor to meet your needs without God; that’s BABYLON-Genesis
11:3-4, 3:7
1.
When you “TAKE CARE” for
your life you’ve engaged the system of the world (Babylon); it’s you trying to
meet your needs without God
2.
“Don’t
worry” doesn’t even begin to reveal what he’s saying here; He’s not just
talking about having a good day; he’s talking about having a good life and how
to live life
II.
The
enemy is endeavoring to get you to try to TAKE CARE of it (in your own
effort without God) because he knows you can’t (you can take the care of it,
but you can’t take care of it)
A. If
Satan can get this thing (care) out of God’s hands and in yours, he knows
you’ll fail because that’s Babylon (man trying to meet his own needs) and
that’s what Babylon was created to produce, FAILURE-(Genesis
3:7, Numbers 14-How did that generation do at meeting their own needs. Rather trusting God and doing what he
told them to do and saying what he told them to say, they took care of
themselves and died in the wilderness rather than going in the promise land)
1.
His strategy is to bring you a plate of cares and
say what are YOU going to do
about this? He wants you to TAKE the care; He literally is saying have a care
a. Fear
will push you to take the care b/c you’re afraid if you don’t pick it up it
won’t be taken care of
b. Fear
will always drive you to Babylon; Faith will always drive you to the Kingdom
2.
He’s
not just trying to get you to worry to ruin your day; He’s trying to get you to
pick up the care of that thing and come back over into Babylon where you’re
trying to meet your needs without God because in that place you can’t succeed
a. To Satan it’s not just
about you worrying; it’s what the worry represents and it represents that
you’re in Babylon trying to meet your needs without God
b. To Satan it’s about you
being in Babylon not just about you worrying
B. ***To
have the care you have to take the care*** - To have
care, To take thought
1.
Your Response is: No! I
don’t want the care, I will not take the care, I
refuse to have a care!
a. If I brought you on plate
something you don’t like how would you respond?
2.
If I don’t TAKE the care, then I don’t HAVE the
care
a. Don’t BE anxious, Don’t BE troubled with cares, Don’t CARE for your life, Don’t HAVE care-This is a choice I
have to make
C. ***When you resist the
opportunity to take the care, and inquire of the Lord and do what he tells you
to do, you ensure that IT
will be taken care of-Daniel 3:15***
1.
Satan
is trying to shove that plate of cares in their face endeavoring to get them to
take the care of this situation, to take care for their life; he’s trying to
get them to the place where they say, “We got to do something about this.” --- They
wouldn’t take the care
a. Satan needs you to take it (the care); His whole
operation is hinging upon you taking the care
2.
There’s
a carelessness to their response
a. They said: You want to know if we’re ready to bow and
who’s the God that’s going to deliver us if we don’t bow and you throw is in; it’s
not even necessary for us to answer those questions. Here’s what you need to know, if you
throw us in God will deliver us, if you don’t throw us in, we’re not bowing; Do
what you got to do?
b. They didn’t try to take
care of themselves, they are relying on God to take care of them; They didn’t
take the care of this situation; They’re not engaging Babylon, trying to be
their own caretaker and source-Luke 17:33
c. Carelessness will be the result of completely
relying on God to take care of you
3.
There
is no fear of death because they won’t take care for their life or take the
care of their life
a. “Don’t take thought for
your life” leads to no fear of death
b. It’s not my
responsibility to see to it that I live, that’s God’s responsibility; it’s my
responsibility to do what he tells me to do and say what he tells me to say
4.
Satan wants to try to
make you responsible for something that you’re not responsible for in an
attempt to get you to pick up the care of something that you have no business
picking up
a. We don’t need to answer
your question because that’s not our department; Our job is to not bow down and
worship other gods; that’s what we’ve been told to do and say
b. EX: Satan’s like a
stubborn ignorant customer in a department store trying to get a department to
do something that they don’t do rather than going to the proper department; I
understand that you’re a little slow, you did have a long fall from heaven to
hell so maybe you conked your head or something; So let me say this real slow
to you, You’re asking me what I’m going to do about this and I’m telling you
I’m not going to do anything about that because in this department we don’t
take care of stuff. If you want
that department then take three steps to the left and go straight up just as
far as you can go and they’ll tell you all you want to know about how this is
going to be taken care of. Now
while I got you here, let me show you what we do in this department and then
release fait on him!