So today we're going to be looking at 1 Peter 5.7 and really want to look at the topic of worrying. Last week we looked at what Jesus Christ has to say. Why I want to look at this because day-to-day life we could easily, what, all of us struggle with worrying, with anxiety of some sorts, right? Are there things, Rebecca Abigail, how many of you guys worry about? What do you guys worry about? What do you worry about every day? Worrying about someone in the house that's going to rob us. Worrying if someone's going to come into our house and rob us. Okay. Wow, that's really dramatic. But I don't trust Fuli myself, okay. You're worried about dogs, you said? No, they're always worried about the dark. Dark, okay. Okay, that's interesting. Abigail, you feel anything you want to share? Oh, you're worried about... Okay. Okay, anything you're worried about, Abigail? Okay, good, okay. Oh, not good. Okay, interesting, okay. Yeah, I guess we all have worries, right? I was picturing my daughters have no worries. You wake up, three square meals a day. homework, lessons, all that, okay? But we all, I guess that's our nature, right? We're always worrying with things. So, in light of this, today we're gonna be answering three questions to help us deal with what we worry about. The three questions today is, number one is, what is anxiety? Okay, we're gonna look at what the word in terms of original Greek means. What is anxiety? And number two, what do we need to do with anxiety? Okay, what do we need to do with anxiety? And number three, why should you handle your anxiety biblically? So first one is really identifying the problem. Number two is what is the solution, our responsibility. And number three is the motivation, like the reasons why we should handle, do things this way. So this is very short. Even the beginning, this is in what book in the Bible? This is quoting from what book? By the way, in asking this question, I think it's important because we ask the question, did Peter ever worry in his life? I think he did too. Yeah, okay. When he went to Jesus, he started freaking out, like, oh, what if I fall in the water, right? Okay, that's an example. Or even with the rest of the disciples. They were so concerned about drowning, they were saying, Jesus, how come you don't care about us at all, right? There was that part where Jesus was crucified, and then the looser crowed three times. Okay. That was a worry. Yeah, I imagine he was very worried too, right? He's betrayed the Lord. Jesus, whom he loved, is dying. You can picture there's anxiety that he has in his life. I bring up to say this, because I think sometimes knowing the background, why we do study, is when we know who the author is, it's not just academic. So you can say, oh, I know Peter wrote this, and we're in church history, who believed this. But it's really so that we know, in light of their struggles, this is also something he has to teach us. So in light of this, I think we ask the question is what do we worry about each week? I know last week I draw the analogy sometimes like worrying is like ice. You cut the top part of the ice in the water, guess what? The ice goes back, right? The top part melts facing the sun and then or face, you know, up the sun is shining upon it, but then something else always replace it, right? Keeps going up. So I think ask ourselves what do we worry about? And we want to take it to the Lord, okay? So the first question is, what is anxiety? And why I like early going through different version, is different version says different things. Some version casts your care. By the way, when we're saying this, I'm not saying any translation that we read today is bad. But sometimes it's to be more, even more precise, gives us more meaning, okay? And sometimes also we can have the wrong idea. Care, for instance, like Cassock care. Thank you Josh for being the doorman. So we want to ask the question, what is anxiety? In my version, New American Standard Bible, we use the word anxiety. Hey Caleb, we're on 1 Peter chapter 5 tonight. And our topic tonight for you, Caleb, coming in is we're talking about worrying. Last week we looked at worrying and this week, okay? So I'm thinking about even next week we'll talk about things more practically also as well for our life, okay? So what is anxiety, okay? So in my version, it says anxiety. What version do you use? Do you use ESV or Holman Christian Press? This one is an ESV. Okay, ASB. You picked that because we use primary ASB, is that correct? Okay, good, okay. So in the Greek it's a word, merima, okay? Outside in the Bible, this word is of course used outside the Bible, because the Bible is actually used in everyday language for people to understand, okay? In classical Greek, that is in Greek before there's a New Testament, it's used in a sense of when you have a big attention, concern for something, and also when you have a spirit of being disquiet with oneself. When you're worrying, we think of it that inside us, it's not all calm and peaceful. There's a sense of maybe a storm inside ourselves. So it appears also in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible in a noun and verbal form. Let's actually look at this, because the reason why we're looking at this is so that we could see more of the understanding of the Word. And I think as we look at it, I think we could also say, wow, maybe these are things we're going through, or maybe things we've gone through in our life, that if we were to write poetry of how we feel, this is the same way Scripture would describe it. We turn to Psalm 55. Yeah, Psalm 55, verse 22. How'd you know? I looked it up online. Okay, Psalm 55, verse 22. Psalm 55 verse 22. Okay, when we turn there to Psalm 55 verse 22. Caleb, could I have you read Psalm 55 verse 22? Again, Psalm 55 verse 22. Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. The noun form of the Greek word for anxiety appears here. Of course, the Old Testament is originally written in Hebrew, but then it was translated for Greek. I think the example ours gives is, I am Chinese ethnically, right? But could I read Chinese? No, I can't. Only Dong thing is 1 to 10, and big, and zhong guo, and that's it, okay? That's only all Chinese I can read, okay? So, last year, for fun, I just thought, oh, I would like to read Sun Tzu, right? Art of War, right? But then I can't read it in Chinese, so I have to read it in what? The English translation, okay? So in the same way, back then, a lot of the Jews lost their Hebrew also as well in Jesus' time because a lot of them lived overseas to do business because of exile, because of war and everything in the past. So then they know only the language everyone else speak, which back then was like the equivalent of English. Like you go to most airport, international airport has English, right? Somewhere, you run into eventually someone that knows English. Same thing back then, the equivalent of English was Greek, even though it was a Roman empire, okay? So when they use a Greek translation in the Old Testament, if you look at the word, it says, cast your burden. The word burden here is actually translated with the Greek word anxiety in the Greek translation. And here the burden is the idea of something heavy. So when we think about anxiety, don't we think of it as something, a heavy load in our hearts, right? Heavy, so there's that sense that's being captured there. Actually, if you look at this verse, this verse looks very similar to what? Our main passage, 1 Peter 5, 7, right? When it says, cast your burden upon the Lord, okay? If you sometimes hear old English preachers, they'll say, cast your burden. And I used to wonder, why does it say burden? Because isn't it in our English Bible says, cast your care? I think it's because of the influence of the Old Testament, knowing that, okay? Actually, if you know Peter, I think Peter knows his Old Testament. This is one of the reasons for me, even as sometimes there's a lot of things I don't fully know yet or understand of the Old Testament, why I don't fully throw it away is because the New Testament writers, it seems to be that draw so much rich inspiration from the Old Testament. Actually, the Old Testament is assumed, then it's built upon, it's believed, and then it's blossoming into greater understanding of death, of God's grace and mercy. So Psalm 55 verse 22 shows the idea that anxiety has to do with heavy burden. Think about poetry, think about songs, we often say a heavy burden that we have. So let's look at a verbal form. Turn with me a second. Samuel 7.10. So if you're in Psalms, you're going to be heading towards the front of the book. You're going to be moving left direction. 2 Samuel 7.10. 2 Samuel 7.10. 2 Samuel 7.10. Abigail, would you be able to read that for us tonight? I'm just going around with everyone to read, okay? 2 Samuel 7 verse 10. Might be a little long, but I think you'll be able to do it. I plant the plants and I will plant them that they may dwell in the place of their own and move no more. Move no more, okay, good. Nor shall the sons of the Lord with them oppress them any more as In a way of context, what's going on in 2 Samuel is Israel's second king is named David. You guys remember the first king was Saul. He wasn't really that good, right? So David takes his place after Saul has died. And David actually wants to build a temple for God. He wants to build a temple for God. But then God tells him, because you're a man of war, you're a man of violence, you're not going to be someone that's going to be the king that will build the temple. Which by the way, even in the Old Testament wars, war is never a pretty thing. Even if there's a side that's always right, more right than the other, it's always something that is very ugly. And here in this verse, You see here, what he's saying here is, God is saying, hey, you know, I will allow my people to, yes, have a temple and have a place, okay? And if you see the word here, I know Abigail, when she read, she says, and not be moved. Does any of your versions say something else instead of not be moved? New American standards say, not be disturbed again. Anyone else's version say something else different? Okay, what does your version say? What does yours say? We will not be, okay, good, okay. Welcome, Ben. I also want to say welcome, Ben. Okay, so Ben, I know you just dropped in. We're talking about the topic of not worrying based upon 1 Peter 5, 17, but we're looking at the word, how it means, and in terms of the Greek translation of the word in the Old Testament. So the word here, I know it says, do not be moved, and you can just, it almost has the idea, oh, they're not gonna move again. Like I said, if you used to live here, In Pasadena, then you move to, I don't know, another state or something like that. But the word there, actually, the word disturb is actually what is used for anxiety. That's translated here. And this idea in the Hebrew word is the idea of shaking, okay? Of trembling is better. So it's basically God is saying, you know, to David, saying, you know what? I will take care of my people. If they turn back to me, they will not be shaken. They will not be shaken from anxiety, okay? Have you guys anyone here? You know, like worry does a lot of things to us physically over time, yes? I just read, I don't know how it's the way, worrying could cause you to have white hair, right? I think it's a given. But apparently, it was only like two weeks ago, science finally conclusively shown that, which I think that's kind of interesting. Um, you know, like, oh, I never knew. I thought that was like, science probably proved that a long time ago. But I guess they finally, I guess, you know, in terms of actually isolating things and that kind of factor, okay? So it does many things to us, right? Among the things is sometimes when we're worried, we also are what? We're moving, we're trembling, we're shaking, okay? So I think God in God's Word is very aware of the human condition of anxiety. So when you go to the New Testament, the word for anxiety appears six times in the New Testament. Six times. the word anxiety up here, six times and all of it is negative. If next week we go over anxiety, I also want to go over even there's a right kind of concern that's not like bad, not sinful. Maybe we'll go through that. I don't know. We'll see. So in light of this, let's look at some of the examples. Let's turn with me to Matthew 13, verse 22. Again, we're only looking at our first part thus far is what is anxiety? Matthew 13 verse 22. Jesus is telling a parable. He's telling a story. It's not a real story, but it's a story so we can relate to a moral point of the lesson. And the one whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word. And the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Matthew 13, 22, when it says worry of the world, this is the word that is used here. That you're thinking about the things of things, you're of concern, and it increases. I think we can make one observation here is this. I think sometimes we think, when we're worried, do we ever think this? I know I think this, if I'm honest. Sometimes I think, if only I have A, if only I have B, C, or X, Y, Z, therefore I do not need to worry. My mom is someone I'm hoping to still share the love of God to, and sometimes she says to me, Being a pastor, why did you pick being a pastor? She doesn't say it as much anymore now. But she used to say, why pick a pastor? You're not going to make as much money. And don't you know, money takes away a lot of worries. But is that necessarily true? Is that always true? By the way, I think in general, the more stuff you have, the more what? the more worry you could easily have, right? You know, Nancy and I, we made a... Again, this is our own personal decision. I'm not saying you guys do this, okay? Our personal thing is we probably won't buy a house because of our finance living here. A certain population is always like, oh, why won't you buy a house? That's not very smart. Why won't you do that? But we personally decided to do that. Again, this is not to say if you have a house, it's not wrong. The Bible doesn't say it's a sin to buy a house. And actually, I want you guys to have a house. If you guys ever come to me and pray to have a house, I'll gladly pray. Obviously with the priority that you love God too, okay? So don't ever feel like you ever get a house you feel like, oh, it's kind of weird, Jimmy, to ask to pray. It's like, Jimmy, you'll feel jealous or anything. No, no, no. We want people to be that, okay? But at the same time, part of it is if you have a house, you have more worries, right? When the roof comes down, What happens? When the roof comes down, where, you know, I like what Josh said earlier, right? When you own more properties, suddenly that becomes, oh man, I need to repair someone else's, the tenant that we rent. Do you see how that is? The more you have, the more concern you have. Does that make sense? The more money you have, the more you're concerned. If you have a stock portfolio, all these things, you're probably worried today that the stock went down, for instance, right? So all that is example to say sometimes it doesn't take away more worries. You should be, okay? And also as well, even myself teaching overseas, I know in one country in Southeast Asia, The person was always saying, wow, Americans have so much money. Man, if only I lived there, I would have no worries. And I'm saying, oh man, if you have that mentality, you will have more worries. And then later on, the guy talked and then he forgot. He told me, you know what, I moved to America 10 years ago. He came to America to work. He thought, oh, you know what? If I make money, I could support when I become a pastor later by making the money. So he was working at a donut shop. And I asked him, so interesting. Oh, OK. So what made you go back if America is so easy and wonderful? He said, well, the work was so hard. It was just so stressful, right? And I said, oh, interesting. But you made more money. And he says, yeah, I did. But then you went back. Yeah, because it was stressful. Huh, what's going on here, okay? So I bring out this to say is this, okay, that sometimes we think so, but here we see in scripture, it's so honest here what Jesus says, with the worries of the world. Sometimes the more things you have, the more worry. It should be less. There's a sense, yeah, we should be, but at the same time, we could easily, because of our human nature, we get more worried of what we own, okay? So let's go back on, and let me say this too, not having things could also bring an anxiety, okay? So it's actually a heart condition, okay? That just adding more material things doesn't necessarily solve the situation, okay? So let's go on with that, okay? So, worry, I think, from looking at this verse, is a theological problem. As you see here, it takes you away from God, as we see in Matthew. Mark repeats this, and also Luke. So yet, at the same time, I also think this gives us hope. God is concerned about our anxiety, because He talks about it. It appears in the Word. He talks about it. But let's go back with me also, as well, in 1 Peter 5, verse 17. He's also concerned, not because only we know He loves us and He cares for us because He talks about it in the Bible, but also look at 1 Peter 5, verse 17. I love this verse. Do you see the word, all your anxiety on him? In the Greek, he puts that up forward, even though it's supposed to come after the verb. Just like English, we usually have subject, verb, and an object. I think Chinese is generally like that too, right? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去哪里? 我们去 I don't know why I always say 1 Peter 5 verse 17. Today when I was preparing, I also kept doing the wrong thing too. I kept on typing 17 on my computer, but it's actually verse 7. But I want to bring out here, it says, cast all your anxiety. Not just some. Sometimes I know people can have these silly ideas. Maybe I'm worried about my house, but you know it's too materialistic. I'm not going to pray to Him about it. Or maybe it's like, oh yeah, I really want to have a girlfriend, or I really want to have a boyfriend, or whatever, okay? Oh, you know, it's not spiritual, maybe God don't care about it. Then you're worried. And then you can pray for worrying about your own spiritual life, things of the church, your family. But God's Word says here, all things you could, what? He's concerned about. And that should be a comfort, okay? So in knowing this as application, okay? Do you know the symptoms of worry? Okay, I've listed here. I actually got this from the Mayo Institute, okay? But for the sake of time, we're gonna move on, okay? Yeah, okay, you could have the list, right? Feeling nervousness, I'm just going through real quick then because of Josh, okay? Sweating, trembling, right? Weak, okay? You guys ever been worried that you guys end up talking to yourself? Okay. Lack of sleep. Lack of sleep, okay. You can't sleep, okay. Sleepwalking. Sleepwalking and talking, okay. Now, I'm going to be confessing here, okay. A few years ago, there were some things with ministry. I never talked to myself before until that moment. But when I talk to myself, it's not like I'm going weird. It's more like I'm thinking about it, and then I end up actually saying it out loud. I think Nancy started noticing that, okay. Then I realized, oh, you know, if I'm talking to myself, No, let me say this. I don't hear voices, okay? None of that, okay? Don't worry. But it was more like, I'm thinking about it so much, and then I just start saying it out loud. Like I'm preaching or something like that, okay? This is driving you crazy, man. Yeah, driving me crazy. The thing about worrying and talking to yourself, I always found talking to yourself was kind of normal when I was working at the volunteers of America. There's like this lady who was my co-worker said like, oh it's normal to talk to yourself when like all of it like we're in the nerd club. So like oh yeah yeah yeah you can like always if you hear voices that's okay just talk to the voices. Yeah, well, we'll talk about the target voices. I have a story. When I'm on stage, if there is a very difficult piece of music, my thought would be, shoot, we are screwed. I would talk to myself, like, focus, let's do this. I would say it loud. OK, wow, OK. That's more normal than mine. When I get really stressed about something, I start saying what the other side is saying. Like, don't give me trouble. I'm saying out loud. So probably my wife thinks like, we're on vacation when this started happening, okay? But I bring this to say is that we need to cast our anxiety upon Him, okay? We have the idea, okay? We're honest, we struggle with anxiety, okay? I'm just sharing this. I had to say I'm a weirdo, I don't hear voices, but more of the idea that, hey man, we all struggle, and we all need God's grace, okay? So let's go to point number two. What do we need to do when we're due of anxiety? Let's look again at verse seven. There's two commands. There's two things we need to do. The first part it says is, first command is cast our anxiety to God. Oh man, I forgot to add that in. cast our anxiety to God, okay? So we ask the question, what is casting? The word really is an energetic word, it's a decisive term, and the word unfortunately And unfortunately. It just happened to be the word is only used two times in scripture. So, then let's go to the other time it's used to see what is the word casting. Turn with me to Luke chapter 19, verse 35, okay? Let's turn to Luke chapter 19, verse 35. Hannah, could you calm down? Luke 19, verse 35. We're going to look at a non-spiritual, everyday, physical use of this term. Luke 19, verse 35. Josh, you look like you're a happy, motivated reader. Would you want to read that out loud? They brought it to Jesus and they threw their coats on the coat and put Jesus on it. In the context, this was actually the Sunday before Jesus Christ was going to die. Actually, I think to me, the most dramatic time in history was the last seven days. Well, actually, yeah, the seven days, beginning with the Sunday before Christ died to the day He died, and then three days later raised from the dead, okay? Here is that what we often call, Christians call Palm Sunday, the day Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem. At that time, a lot of people were celebrating Him. They thought He was going to be like a real king, like a Roman emperor. He's going to win the Roman Empire. But Jesus will say, hey, I did not come for violence, okay? I'm not here for violence. I'm going to die for people's sin instead, okay? But here people were celebrating. Verse 35, when he was riding on a donkey, people were greeting him by palms waving at him, and they're also laying down their clothes for him, for the donkey to go over. Basically, they're saying, we welcome you, we think of you as very highly. So when you see verse 35, it says, they threw down their coats. That's the same verb that is used, casting. your anxiety upon okay now this is interesting uh it helps us think about what it means that uh peter says and remember peter would have seen people cast what their clothes before what remove it taking off their coat right and then casting so he would have seen this and then yet peter used the same verb to say you know what with your anxiety you need to what Throw it upon God, okay? Casting it. And just the same way when you cast something out, you're removing it like the coat. You're taking it out from you, and you're taking it away. And I think this gives us hope. Because I think sometimes when we're very anxious, we think, oh, we cannot be anxious. But God's Word, whenever it tells you to do something, He also gives you the ability to do that, okay? It's saying removing your anxious thought away from you, okay? And so we see the command is we need to remove our anxious thought from our minds. What do we cast down? It says, all your anxiety. And I love how it says, all your anxiety, not just some, okay? Everything we could take it to him, okay? So who do we cast our anxiety to, okay? I find this is very helpful. For me, when I just think sometimes when someone's anxious, when you say, oh, don't worry. Do you guys ever have this? The more they say, don't worry, the more you feel like worrying. You guys ever have this? The more you say, don't worry, the more it's like... So it's important what you cast your worry to. I find it very helpful to actually talk it to God, okay? To cast it to God, okay? Because it says here, on Him, okay? And Him here is referring to God. And what does it mean, casting our anxiety? Basically, in a very practical way, it means praying to God about our worry, okay? Casting our anxiety to God means Practically means we're praying to God about what we are anxious about, okay? So that's what it literally means is to pray to God about our worries, okay? So that's one command. But actually, if you look in the context, it's not just only we cast our anxiety. I think there's a second thing we need to do. This is a little bit more of Greek grammar. The word cast is actually a supporting word. In Greek, it's what is called participle. The main verb, or the main action, the main idea, what you're supposed to do is actually in verses 6. If you guys are with me to 1 Peter 5, verse 6. Could I have Caleb read verses 6 out loud? 1 Peter 5 verse 6. So the main verb is actually humble yourself. This is something also when we deal with anxiety, we need to humble ourselves. We need to humble ourselves before God. And I think there is a relationship with anxiety, giving our anxiety to God and also humility. The more pride we have, could we be anxious? What do you guys think? Yes. Yes, I think so. OK. I think of it back in the day when sometimes in different seasons of my life, I'm much more prideful than other times. But sometimes when you're prideful, let's just say you're prideful for your intellect, you meet someone smarter. Could they be anxious? Yeah, you're going to be shown, just in case you'll be shown foolish. OK? I also think pride also sometimes assumes that we could do everything by ourselves. We don't need God's help. And sometimes my pride also says, okay, I want to control this. I could change this. When there's some things beyond our control. And then when I think I could have control over something I can't control, guess what happens? That leads to what? More anxiety. So there is a relationship between giving our anxiety to God and also our humility. So in fact, sometimes, like I said earlier, it's because of our pride that we can be even more, what? Anxious. Just think about the example, just talking about the house. If I say, my worth, my value, and my dignity comes from whether or not I own a house. Could that become very anxious for me? Yeah, okay. That could be very anxious. Because not only do I now want a house, but now I'm also anxious because I feel, oh, people will look down upon me. Does that make sense? People will say, oh, what's wrong with you? Okay, so in light of this, okay, we see that we need to also important to be humble. Okay, we're dealing with our pride. And part of that is also humble enough to say pride says we don't seek help. But humility means we seek help from God first, okay? By the way, I think that's something to realize too. Every help from people is always limited, okay? God's point is not to make you depend upon others. It is to depend on God first. Others help, there is, but realize it's also limited. If you're treating everyone, the help that you should get from God, that you're looking for people first or church, you'll be very disappointed and you'll be upset and hate them and that kind of thing, okay? And then they'll be wondering, oh, we're helping you. As much as we can, but there are things we cannot do. So we need to humble ourselves. So as an application, pray to God about what you worry about. What I do sometimes when I'm worried is also I go on walks. I don't bring a book along. I just go walking, praying to God. Yeah, yeah, sometimes I say it out loud, okay? Okay, so that part is normal, okay? You're praying to God, okay? So, see the cat, he said? Okay. Abigail likes, Rebecca likes walking to see the cat, our neighborhood cat, okay? Friendly cat, okay? Second application is pray to God to make you trust in Him more, okay? I think it's appropriate to ask God, help me have faith, okay? Help me increase faith. Also remind yourself that God's help is not always going to go according to your ways. And you need to trust in Him, okay? I do believe, looking in my life, God has helped me. But sometimes, most of the time actually, the way God helps me is not the way I wanted it, okay? Because sometimes when I go through a trial, let's just say a physical pain, a back pain, I want God to, what, remove it. Does God remove it sometimes? Yes. But sometimes God allowed that so that we could grow through that. So I think that's very very important. So we need to pray for humility also as well in dealing with our troubles. You know, sometimes we're so sinful, sometimes we can go through a hard thing, and we become, we add more difficulties. Do we not? Sometimes people go through a trial, and they'll sometimes be so filled with pride, and say, oh, I am better than, look at me, I suffer more than others. And our point in life is not to be comfortable, as our first thing, nor is it to be as miserable as possible. Because sometimes people can be so like, oh, see, look at me, my trial is worse than yours. And they're still going through that. And then you're like, okay, our point is actually to love God, whatever situation it is, okay, in life. So our point in life is not just to only be comfortable, nor just to go through trials, just to say, hey, look at me, okay? Both could be pride, right? Saying whether or not, hey, look how much God has blessed me, I don't have trials like you. I'm so comfortable, look at me, God bless me, money and everything else. But the other side could also be pride as well. So our goal is to cast all our anxiety to God. But the third point is the most important. Oh man, we only have a few minutes left. I want to go over why should you handle your anxiety biblically. Why should you go to God in prayer? Why should you cast your anxiety to God? Sometimes we feel like, I want to cast our anxiety on God, but I can't. So we want to go over why we should cast our anxiety on God. I love verses 7, 1 Peter 5.7, the second half. Ben Wartz, are you able to read 1 Peter 5.7 again? Let's read that, but then pay attention to the second half, which gives us the reason why. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. So the word because there gives a reason. And why should we cast our anxiety on His verse? Because God cares for us. God has many attributes. But I love how Peter at this time, he didn't mention justice, holiness, or the anger of God or any of that. Right now, people are dealing with anxiety. He's going to focus on that He cares for us. He cares for us. Do you remember earlier also Psalm 55, verse 22, I mentioned is so much looks very similar to 1 Peter 5, 7? This is why I think it is important to, whenever you read the Bible, to go from Old Testament and New. Because I think the Bible is almost like a puzzle piece. If you look at one puzzle piece, you can look at that one piece. Anyone here like playing puzzles? I do, okay? You look at one piece, you're like, okay, that's nice. But then when you see another piece and connect, do you see more of a bigger picture? Yeah. Then when you put the whole picture, you're like, oh, whoa, this is the whole mosaic of God's beauty and depth with it, okay? Sometimes you look at one piece, you'll be like, oh, where does that fit in? Why is this even there? Do you guys ever have this? And then therefore you see other pieces, and you're like, oh, okay, that's how it fits together, okay? Same thing like art. I don't know if you guys have ever seen people drawing art. Sometimes you think, what are they doing? And then you're like, oh, okay, then after a while you're patiently looking. Oh, that's why they painted this way and then oh, wow Okay, I see what they're doing. I say the same thing when I'm drawing too. Oh, really? Really? Okay. So what am I doing? But you know I like the example because Jin sometimes takes video like when he goes really fast which a long time because you're looking at that you're thinking like Oh, what is what's gonna appear? You know, why is this spot dark and everything is light? Oh, okay, this fits in. Is this someone's eyes, or is this someone's nose, or is this someone's hair? Okay, that's an example. I think we also need to approach the Bible that same way. Patiently say, okay, I don't see what's going on, but then as you see the unfolding from Genesis to Revelation, oh, okay, this is why the Old Testament leads us to that, okay? So let's turn with me to Psalms 55, verse 22. I want to give us more reason why we should cast our anxiety upon God. So it is similar, okay? Psalm 55 verse 22, could I have Josh read that out loud? Psalm 55 verse 22. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. So two more points. The second one is He will sustain you. Very similar to caring, but this idea that He will give you sustenance. He will allow you to endure through your trials. But then there's a third part, and this part makes us feel uncomfortable. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. And he would say, Amen. Until we start thinking a little more, yeah, are we really that righteous? Then we realize, I don't know about you, if I could be honest, I am a sinner, okay? I am a sinner, okay? I am ungodly, okay? Last year, you guys know I usually go to a shepherd's conference, which is a pastor's conference. Pastors are sinners too. You guys realize pastors wear the pants the same way like you do? One leg at a time, okay? What's the most awkward thing to see is to see when someone's on stage getting upset. Oh man, that's really crazy, right? Like the main speaker getting upset. Last year something happened, okay? During a Q&A and this person got upset. And you realize, oh wow, we're all sinners. And that man is a more godly man than I am, okay? Knows God's word much more. He's the president of a seminary, okay? Well, there's more than one president of a seminary there, during that conference, okay? I bring it up to say this, when it says he would never allow the righteous... Is that on video? Yeah, it's on video, okay? If you really want it, I can forward it to you, okay? Can you send it to me? Yeah, I can send it to you, okay? It wasn't a freak out. So there was no cussing, okay? Don't picture us cussing. Maybe make it sound more worse than this. The guy was still under control, okay? But you can see the guy was turning red, okay? If you really want it, I can send it later, but this is recorded, okay? And I love the guy. There was one point in my life I thought I would love to do a PhD. And I would love to do a PhD in his seminary, but that's another story another time, okay? So, let's go back on. I read it as a saying, when it says, he would never allow the righteous to be shaken. Yet, we're not righteous. But this is where the psalm says what? Christ came and he died for us, okay? In the book of Psalms, did he predict that he would die for our sins? To make us righteous? Yeah. Psalms 22. Let's turn to Psalms 22. We're not going to read the whole thing. But Psalms 22 is a thousand years before Christ died. Eric, even last week, was saying, this is my favorite psalm, right? During the psalm, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? You know, He's talking about His suffering, right? If you look at verse 16, for instance, dogs have surrounded me, a band of evildoers, right? They pierced my hands and feet, okay? Who's this person that's been captured by his enemy and is pierced? It's not King David, because King David was always victorious as a military king. No one's ever pierced His arms and His feet. Who is this person? Jesus Christ, okay? It's one of three prophecies in the Old Testament that predicted that Messiah will be what pierced. It is about the Messiah because Psalms 22 is about Messiah's suffering. Psalms 23 is about the Savior being a shepherd, right? Remember the part, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. And Psalm 24 is the Lord is my King. He's going to come back as a ruling king one day, okay? So this is how we can be made righteous, is that Christ came and He died for us. And when I struggle with anxiety, I know there's so many things I don't know why certain people in our church suffer, godly individuals, right? I don't know why certain individuals have cancer. I don't know why certain things in my life, things happen this way. I'm not questioning if this is the answer right now. But yet, at the same time, what keeps me going is I look towards Christ. One thing I do know is that Christ came. He died to make me righteous. Not by my own power, but then He'll say He'll sustain me, and He'll love me, and He'll help me through my trials. And we need to focus on that as the reason why we cast our anxiety upon Him.