불안에 관한 예수님: 마태복음 6장의 시대를 초월한 지혜

### 성경적 원리를 통한 불안의 이해: 위대한 의사로서의 예수
* 📖 예수님이 2024년에 불안에 대한 설교를 하신다면 **마태복음 6장을 언급**하며 새로움을 추구하는 세상 속에서도 하나님의 말씀은 영원하다는 점을 강조하실 것입니다.
* ✈ 조니 아라바니스와 행크 보웬이 조니의 멕시코 여행을 포함한 최근 경험에 대해 이야기하면서 **불안이라는 심각한 주제**로 전환합니다.
* 💧 경건한 돌봄과 염려와 불경건한 걱정을 구분하고, **고인 물과 흐르는 시냇물에 대한 비유**로 이를 설명하며 우리의 짐을 하나님께 맡기는 것이 중요하다는 점을 강조합니다.
* 🔍 불안의 근본 원인을 해결하기 위해 예수님께서 세 가지 중요한 질문을 하신 마태복음 6장 19~25절을 인용합니다: **"너의 보물은 어디에 있느냐?"** 청취자들에게 인생의 우선순위를 평가할 것을 촉구합니다.
* 💰 이 논의는 보물의 정의를 돈을 넘어 우리가 하나님보다 더 중요하게 여기는 모든 것으로 확장하여 **이러한 보물이 위협받을 때 불안**으로 이어집니다.
* 👀 두 번째 질문인 "어디를 보고 있나요?"는 시선이 우리의 감정 상태에 영향을 미치고 불안감을 유발할 수 있기 때문에 **우리가 무엇에 집중하는지가 중요**하다는 점을 강조합니다.
* 👨 세 번째 질문인 "당신의 주인은 누구입니까?"는 불안감을 악화시킬 수 있는 **괴로움이나 고백하지 않은 죄 등 우리 삶에 미치는 영향**에 대해 성찰하도록 유도합니다.
* 🙏 마지막으로 네 번째 질문인 "당신은 누구를 믿거나 신뢰합니까?"는 혼란스러운 시기에 불안에 대한 해결책이자 **믿음의 기초가 되는 하나님의 성품에 대한 깊은 이해**의 필요성을 강조합니다.

예수님은 불안은 잘못된 보물, 집중력 저하, 하나님에 대한 신뢰 부족에서 비롯된다고 가르칩니다.

I always tell people if Jesus was going to show up on the scene in 2024 and preach a sermon on anxiety, he would have nothing novel and new to say. He would say, Good morning, everybody. Would you take your Bibles and turn with me to Matthew chapter 6? Because this is God's Timeless word. And sometimes in a world that's craving novelty and relevance, we forget and fail to see [Music]. That welcome to di in studios. This is Johnny aravanis. I'm sitting here with Hank Bowen. How you doing, Hank? I'm doing fantastic. The bigger question is, how are you doing after your international travels? You know, I did go to Mexico for a few days, tried to get bronze. It's easier said than done. I was worried based on some of your texts coming back. I was seriously worried we had lost our senior pastor. We are going to plant a church there. Yeah, it's a missional thing exclusively. And uh, I wore a white shirt today. If you're listening, I'm just so

that it would accentuate the contrast of my Olive Greek skin. But moving on to more biblical things, we're talking about the subject of anxiety. In our previous episode, we started to navigate maybe some of the definitions, the terms. You know, I We Begin by talking about how some people say it's just semantics, but in a conversation about anxiety, we wanted to delineate that between care and concern, which can be good and godly things, versus what the Bible describes as an ungodly worry, where legitimate cares and concerns become a lack of trust in who God is. You had given us kind of a helpful metaphor with some water. So basically, water that flows into your soul and doesn't move on, and it begins to almost sour in your soul, and contrasted with kind of flowing streams, is that right? Yeah, we just presented the contrast between what would be a stagnant pool, where we're dwelling on the problems and pressures of life, we're contemplating them, a stagnant pool.

versus a channel where we are casting all of our burdens on God. And so when we pull our anxieties rather than channel them to God, we inevitably become sinfully anxious because our problems are terminating in our s and rather than bringing those to God. And we'll continue to talk about that in this episode, but one of the things that I wanted to do is begin to talk about maybe some of the other recipes for anxiety or we call them root causes for anxiety because Jesus in Matthew 6:25 is going to say, Therefore, do not be anxious. And we already have established that whenever you see the word therefore in the scripture, you ask the question, What's the 'therefore' therefore? Sometimes even in an expositional environment, which means for those of you who may not be familiar with that term, when we're expositing through the scripture, we're taking chunk by chunk and we're moving through the text. But sometimes what may get lost in expositional format is losing the forest for the trees, meaning we forget the passage that immediately

preceded those words because we just teach that section of verses as a standalone passage, but Jesus says, therefore, don't be anxious, and that therefore functions as the culmination and consequence of everything that Jesus had said in the verses prior. And so, in order to understand some of the root causes of anxiety, especially as it relates to our heart and mind as a Christian, we have to go back five verses to Matthew 6:19. And in that section, Jesus says, Do not store up for yourself treasures on Earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, but store for yourself treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy, and nor thieves do not break in and steal. And as we go through those verses, Matthew 6:19-24, I want to ask really three questions, and then I'll provide a fourth that Jesus, as the Great Physician, is going to ask of you if you're anxious. You come into the doctor's office, and you're not with any

ordinary doctor. You're with the great physician, and great physicians don't just immediately go to the pain point. They begin to ask you questions: Does it hurt here? What about here? What about when I do this or when I do this? And Jesus is going to ask three questions of those who are anxious to consider some of the underlying recipes for anxiety, and the first of which is Where is your treasure? Where is your treasure? Because he says in Matthew 6:19, Do not store for yourself treasures in Heaven. Five verses later, he's going to talk about anxiety. Does that correlation make sense so far? Yeah, I think I'm tracking. And so, the maybe the first question I'd have related to treasure is, Are we talking specifically about money or maybe more broadly? How are you going to define treasure? Yeah, well, treasure is an all-inclusive term. He is talking about money, but he's talking about more than just money. Because we can, you can have a lot of money and yet view your wealth and possessions with an open hand or you

could have very little money and very little, you know, wealth to your name and yet cling to it. And so, he's talking about money, but he could be talking about prestige or reputability or athletics. It could be whatever you have established on the heart's pedestal, which is something you elevate above other things. And so, Jesus, as the great physician, is going to ask you, Where is your treasure? Now, for someone that may be wondering, What does this have to do with anxiety? Let's just, I'll give a story that may help provide some sort of an illustration. Several years back, I had a nagging pain in my foot. As all stories do, they relate back to some physical ailment, physical injury for me. I was limping for a matter of months, and I go into the doctor, and they begin to ask me different questions. And about an hour later, they send me to get an x-ray on my full leg to get some idea of what's happening in my foot. I came back, and the doctor asked me on a

scale of 1 to 10, how much pain are you in? And I said, I don't know, on a scale of one to shark bite, you know, four, but it hurts, man. And he says, well, the X-ray revealed the break. And I'm going, well, obviously my foot, because that's what hurts. And he says, no, and your knee, your patella is broken. And basically had alluded to the reality that over time, I remember hurting my knee but didn't think much of it. But over time, because of the compensation of that, um, basically I was feeling the pain somewhere else. So the pain in my foot was real, but it wasn't the root cause of the pain that I was feeling. That was my knee. And we may be anxious in our minds, but Jesus is saying, well, that may be real, but there is an underlying root, and it begins with what we're treasuring in our hearts. And Jesus is going to illustrate bottom line that whether it be wealth or athletics or reputation or academics or

how people look at you, your own beauty. When we treasure the gift more than the giver himself, we become attached, and our allegiances are driven there rather than to God. And when we elevate those things in our life that are fleeting and fragile and unpredictable, because moths eat and rust destroys and thieves break in and steal, everything in our life that we elevate has the potential to be taken away from us. And so Jesus says when you take a good thing and make it an ultimate thing, that thing becomes a treasure, and whatever you treasure grabs your heart. And whatever is grabbing your heart is ultimately what is going to drive you towards anxiety about that thing or person. Okay, so this is making so we're taking our eyes off the Creator to the created. Yep, we're moving, and fundamentally that's sketchy ground because anything of this Earth is perishable, is the most fundamental point there, absolutely. And so Jesus just very fundamentally just saying, Hey, good things, because remember in a matter of

verses. He's going to talk about food and clothing and relationships. Good things can become idols, and when idols are situated in our heart, they become treasures. And those things drive us towards anxiety and despair because we've elevated them above God himself. And he doesn't stop there. He says, But lay for yourself treasures in heaven where moth don't eat and rust doesn't destroy. But that's the first question. Jesus is the great physician. You're anxious. You've stepped into the doctor's office, and he asked you, Where's your treasure? Where's your treasure? Absolutely. And you have to take an inventory of your life and say, Hey, are the things that I treasure the very things or the very people that are driving me towards anxiety? Good things can become ultimate things, and when ultimate things are situated in our heart, they become our treasures. The second question the great physician asks is, Where are you looking? Because he's going to go from our treasures, and basically, he's going to say the eye

is the lamp of the body, and if the eye is bad, then the whole body is going to be full of darkness. Again, typically, you could preach through this text and totally isolate it from Jesus's sermon on anxiety, but this is right before he says, Therefore, don't be anxious. He's saying the eye is the lamp of the body, and if the eye is bad, the whole body will be full of darkness. The eye is the window into your soul, so Jesus is going to ask you as a great physician, What are you looking at? This is very relevant in a culture that is ever gossiping, ever materialistic, hypersexual, rumor-mongering. People flood their minds and their eyes with information. The average person is looking at their phone seven hours a day. We live in a pornographic world. Even from a secular perspective, you understand the rising link and relationship between porn consumption and anxiety. But whether it's pornography or materialism or coveting things you don't have but you want or whatever beauty, Jesus is saying, Hey, could there

be a relationship between what you're looking at with your eyes and the anxieties within your heart. So, he says, The eye is the lamp of the body. What are you looking at? Because there is often a direct correlation between those two things. Yeah, it makes sense. Well, and to build on your prior point, that which we're gazing at and kind of meditating and stewing upon is likely also going to become the treasure, back to your first question. And so, I'm seeing the connection here. Keep going. You give us a third question. Yeah, and then one just other thing to add is that it doesn't necessarily have to be sins of commission with our eyes. It could be sins of omission because we're called to take every thought captive that we might honor God. And often, what we're looking at, if it's not explicitly sinful, it could be explicitly neutral, but it robs us of fixating our gaze on who God is, which is the very anchor we need in a world of turbulence and chaos. And so, where are you looking? Doesn't

have you don't have to think of bad movies and bad shows. It could just be something that distracts you from looking towards God and His character. The third question the great physician asks is, Who is your master? Because Jesus says one verse prior to, Therefore don't be anxious in Matthew 6:25. In Matthew 6:24, He says, No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or despise the one. And so, the third question the great physician asks is, Who is your master? Who is your master? Uh, I think sometimes in we look at this verse from a very literal sense, you know, like, I have no master. Um, but we could be mastered by a myriad of different things that would contribute and cause different elements of anxiety and despair. A couple examples of that would be, you know, sometimes when I talk to people who are anxious, and even in my own heart, and if you've read Corey T. Boom's biography, she was really battling anxiety and despair. She spent, you know, long seasons in concentration camps. She

watched her sister Betsy die in a concentration camp, and she would say that one of the contributing factors for her anxiety was that she was mastered by bitterness. Because bitterness, it says in Hebrews 12, let no root of bitterness spring up within you, that many be defiled. Bitterness is a corrosive that deteriorates your soul. And so when Jesus, as the great physician, says, Who is your master? you could say, I have no master but God, and yet at the same time be mastered by bitterness and a lack of forgiveness. That contributes, in Corrie ten Boom's biography, to the anxiety within her because she was failing to let go of other people's sin against her, which only fueled and perpetuated her own worry, anxiety, and despair. Absolutely. It's helpful because it just strikes me, hearing you speak through these, are things that are like supremely understandable from an earthly perspective. I mean, a victim of con... You why they would be to bitter and

it's only the miracle of the Gospel that could set you free from something so imprisoning like that. Yeah, and so, yeah, it's very obviously too when Jesus is asking these questions. This is God's Timeless word, and so I always tell people if Jesus was going to show up on the scene in 20124 and preach a sermon on anxiety, he would have nothing novel and new to say. He would say, Good morning, everybody. Would you take your Bibles and turn with me to Matthew chapter 6? Because this is God's Timeless word, and sometimes in a world that's craving novelty and relevance, we forget and fail to see that. So Jesus asked those questions, you know, where, uh, you know, who is your master, and have you been mastered by bitterness. And I think another one would be, um, that is a large contributing factor to anxiety just from a Biblical perspective, is have you been mastered by unconfessed sin. Uh, David says, and we've talked about this I think elsewhere, David says in Psalm 32.

When he kept silent about his sin, he felt as if his body was wasting away and as if he was being drained by the fever heat of summer. Unconfessed sin is a massive load upon your soul that produces anxiety and despair, and you are simply not strong enough to bear the massive load of unconfessed sin without being crippled by anxiety. That may be the anxiety of being found out, or it could just be the deprivation of fellowship, if you're a Christian, that you have with your heavenly Father. You can't lose your salvation, but you can lose your joy, your peace, and really the serenity and peace of a clean conscience. And so that would be just another example of have you been mastered by unconfessed sin, and does that have a contributing, maybe root cause to the anxiety you may be facing. Yeah, and that's, I think you're referencing, we did a prior episode on confession specifically, and again, just repeating back to you, but it's such an

obvious fact that the opposite of anxiety would be joy, or the inverse of joy would so easily be understood as anxiety. Yeah, and when we're confessing sin, it renews the right relationship between God, the Father of a totally clean spirit and conscience, that would allow us to approach our daily lives. And that's what David prays for in Psalm 51, you know. Yeah, I want a clean conscience, God. Purge me with hyssop. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so that would be the third question, but I think there's a fourth, and that's what gets played out over the remaining verses of Matthew chapter 6. And it's really the theme of God's response to every anxious individual throughout the scripture. And that fourth question is, who do you believe, or who do you trust? Um, because in that following section, Jesus is going to say in Matthew 6, therefore don't be anxious. But he doesn't stop there. He doesn't say just snap out of it, cut it out. He's gonna draw their attention to the

character of their Heavenly Father because he's going to say, Don't be anxious. And then he says in Matthew 6:30, Like the Gentiles who do not know God. And then he says, Oh, you of little faith. Faith that ultimately, the underlying recipe and the underlying cause for ungodly worry and anxiety is a failure to fix our gaze and exercise our faith in who God is. And if it's part of the root cause for anxiety, it's also, as the great physician Jesus is going to explain, part of the remedy. Part of the remedy, and the remedy in scripture is that if you're anxious, Jesus is going to then over the next series of episodes, we'll cover, and over the next series of verses in Matthew 6, begin to lift our gaze towards a deep consideration, meditation, rumination, whatever Asian you want to talk about on the character of God. And he's going to say, Hey, consider the birds, consider the lilies. Do they take care of themselves? And then he begins to lift up their gaze towards the character

of God. This is how God responded to Job in the Old Testament when Job was anxious to Elijah, to Moses, and to these followers on the mount 2,000 years ago. Jesus is going to ask the question, Who is your father? And sometimes I think we look at the character of God through a depersonalized lens. And so, if the antidote to our anxiety is to know God's character deeply, Jesus wants to anchor that truth not in just the reality that God is the king of the universe or the creator of the universe, but he's the father of you as his child. And we'll begin to draw specific attributes and characteristics of who God is as our father that provide the believer, the anxious believer, the anxious individual with comfort, peace, um, and encouragement. And then, even when necessary, Jesus is going to rebuke the littleness of our faith, not the absence of it, because a lot of our anxiety, Jesus is going to detail, is that we have a deficient and deprived inadequate view of who God is.

and if that's the problem, then that's the remedy. We need a deeper view of his character. Yeah, absolutely. And so this is, in many ways, we're finally to kind of the core thrust of the entire book more broadly, which is consider the lies, subtext, find perfect peace in the character of God. Yeah, um, and that's the theme in scripture, and that's the theme of really the heart that wants to trust the Lord is, uh, as I face the uncertainties in this life, the chaos of this life, the trials and troubles in this life, what you need more than anything is a deep understanding of the character of God. But not just an understanding, an exercise. That's why I refer to Faith throughout the book. I think it was Oswald Chambers who refers to Faith as a fixation of your gaze, because faith is not a thing, faith is an action. And so I think sometimes we say, Well, I believe God, um, but it's a totally different thing to exercise that Faith constantly and to deeply consider, because consider is an active word. And so we're going to

draw out those attributes and those specific characteristics of who God is as our father that provide us with the comfort and courage we need in a world of anxiety and despair. Yeah, well, I'm really looking forward to the next coming episode. So, thanks for sitting down, Jenny. Thanks, Hank. [Music]

Anxious? Jesus Asks You These Three Questions - Jonny Ardavanis

Dial In Ministries

이 토론은 특히 마태복음 6장에 나오는 불안에 관한 예수님의 가르침이 시대를 초월한다는 것을 중심으로 진행됩니다.

진행자들은 하나님께 짐을 맡기는 것의 중요성을 설명하기 위해 고인 물과 흐르는 시냇물의 비유를 사용하여 경건한 돌봄과 염려와 경건하지 않은 염려를 구분합니다.

그들은 불안의 근본 원인을 탐구하고, 보물을 이 땅이 아닌 하늘에 저장해야 할 필요성을 강조하며, 청중에게 성찰적인 질문을 던질 계획입니다.

예수님은 "네 보물이 어디 있느냐?"라고 물으시며 불안을 해결하십니다.

보물에는 돈뿐만 아니라 명성, 평판, 기타 고귀한 가치도 포함됩니다.

덧없고 연약한 것을 소중히 여김으로써 우리는 그것에 집착하게 되고 하나님으로부터 멀어지게 되며, 그러한 것들이 위협받을 때 불안에 빠지게 됩니다.

불안에 관한 위대한 의사의 질문

예수님은 보물, 불안, 절망의 관계를 언급하며 사람들에게 하늘에 보물을 쌓아두라고 촉구합니다.

눈은 몸의 등불이기 때문에 우리가 무엇을 보고 있는지가 중요하다고 강조하고, 눈이 나쁘면 어둠에 빠질 수 있다고 경고합니다.

우리의 시선과 염려 사이의 상관관계를 강조하며, 우리가 집중하는 것이 하나님께 시선을 고정하지 못하게 할 수 있음을 시사합니다.

예수님은 불안과 관련된 세 가지 중요한 질문을 하십니다: 무엇이 당신을 당신의 주인 되시는 하나님으로부터 멀어지게 하는지, 괴로움이나 고백하지 않은 죄에 지배당하고 있지는 않은지? 코리 텐 붐의 전기에서 강조된 것처럼 괴로움은 불안과 절망의 원인이 될 수 있습니다.

마태복음 6장에 나오는 예수님의 영원한 메시지는 우리의 진정한 주인을 인식하고 괴로움이나 고백하지 않은 죄와 같이 우리를 가두는 것들을 버리는 것이 중요하다는 점을 강조합니다.

고백하지 않은 죄는 영혼에 무거운 짐을 지워 불안과 절망으로 이어집니다.

이러한 불안은 발각되는 것에 대한 두려움이나 하나님과의 교제 부족에서 비롯될 수 있습니다.

예수님은 불안에 대한 해결책은 우리의 시선을 하나님의 성품에 고정하고 그분을 신뢰하는 데 있다고 가르치십니다.

위로의 원천이신 하나님의 성품 이해하기

예수님은 하나님의 성품을 깊이 아는 것이 중요하다고 강조하며, 불안한 사람들에게 위로와 평안을 주시는 사랑의 아버지로서의 하나님을 제시합니다.

이 책은 불안과 싸우기 위해 하나님의 속성에 대한 깊은 이해가 필요함을 강조하고 적극적인 대응으로 신앙을 실천할 것을 권장합니다.

핵심 주제는 인생의 불확실성과 도전 속에서 하나님의 성품을 신뢰하는 것입니다.