The Anxiety Exchange - Louie Giglio

first peter has a context so let's read our text today and then we'll come back and try to lay over again the context of why peter wrote this who he wrote it to what was happening in the world around our text today begins in chapter 5 verse 5. right above there have been some specific words to leaders young and old but then as we do all throughout first peter we are all going to get swept into the story in verse 5. young men in the same way be submissive to those who are older to which i say amen then here we all come so if you're not an elder or if you're not one of the younger if you're not one of these leaders that get specifically addressed in the first few verses of this chapter all of a sudden the net is thrown wider and he says in the same way excuse me all of you clothe yourselves with humility so we've got young men in the same way and now in the next phrase all of you so all of you meaning all of you leaders but as we track back through first peter all of you believers we always are looking at these specific segments through first peter and then he'll come and say and now all of you all of you all of you believers are now on board and so he says all of you that's me that's you everybody in christ today clothe yourselves with humility toward one another because god opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble humble yourselves therefore under god's mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you be self-controlled and alert your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour resist him standing firm in the faith because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings so the the context is that believers are scattered and they're under persecution so this text is going to relate to me today but it's relating to them on a whole different level their anxiety was about we're in a foreign land we're among pagan people nobody gets the gospel we're trying to be a mere reflection of a new way of a new king of a new lord and that's not going down so well given that the emperor is still running the show so believers are going to face fire they're going to face persecution they're going to face difficulty in suffering it and what peter has been saying the whole time is hang on to your confidence do you remember this from a few weeks ago in god's promised outcome even while going through the fire so you can live with abundant grace and peace showing the lost world around you how great god is we started in the beginning saying this is what peter is trying to get us all to step into now we're coming down into the specifics of it there's gonna be a hard road ahead for anyone who chooses alignment and allegiance with jesus namely peter is gonna lose his life for his faith in jesus so today when we're talking about an anxiety exchange we're not talking about man i i wanted uh the black mercedes and the dealership those are on backorder and you can't get a black one for six months now because of covet and the shipping whatever but they had a satellite blue one and i was like i don't really want the satellite blue but it's available today and they made me a deal on it i'm stressed over it louie could you pray we're a little bit concerned now that's a dumb example hopefully that none of us have are walking into with today if you are i'd wait for the black one if i were you i mean what do you have to lose but a lot of our anxieties are real but they're not real like there's an emperor in rome and if i stay on this path i might die they're not at the level of if i continue in my proclamation of jesus among my pagan neighbors co-workers community mates i may be dragged before the authorities at some point and torched up as entertainment by the roman emperor but that's where we are in first peter we're in a time where the anxieties were big time so i say that not to belittle whatever i'm anxious about today i say it to give you confidence that no matter what you're anxious about today how big it may be you're gonna get some encouragement from this text amen so let's look at verse seven eleven words and in these eleven words of verse seven two things are on the table and we're gonna get a little of our words are gonna go back and forth today so you're gonna have to really lock in and make sure you get the right ones in the right order in verse 7 we're seeing an offloading of something and an onboarding of something i want you to say that with me we're seeing an off loading i'd like to say it together we're seeing an off loading of something and an on boarding of something now just right at the beginning and this is a little confusing i like to get kind of the the rhymes right but they don't work out completely in this because the offloading is really an onloading so it's really an onloading and an onboarding and that's a very very very very important detail in this verse let's look at verse 7 again and then let's unpack it and then we'll see how this works out in our lives cast that's a big word that's an active word cast all can we say all all your anxiety the word in your translation could come different worry care anxiety all the same word and as we've talked about many many times in the past this word as it as its heart has to tear apart so anything that's like ripping you apart on the inside anything that's dividing your thinking or your confidence or your trust or your assurance or your vision for the future anything that's separating tearing apart or isolating you from the bigger story that's what anxiety is in this word your care your worry your anxiety cast all your anxiety on him now who is the hymn see that's important right you're like well i'm assuming it's going to be god or jesus or the holy spirit or somebody good but i'm not a thousand percent sure i'm ready to go in on on final jeopardy here on him well here's what bible study is all about the hymn is given to us a few verses above in verse 4 as peter's talking to these leaders who are shepherds of the flock notice verse 4 and when the chief shepherd appears if you if you've got your scripture open and you just circle chief shepherd right there because the chief shepherd he's going to appear and these leaders of the flock these under shepherds are going to receive the crown of glory that will never fade away so now when we come to cast your anxiety on him we know that we're casting our anxiety on the chief shepherd and that's important so that when you memorize this first cast all your anxiety on him you might even want to transpose in there i'm casting all my anxiety on the chief shepherd in other words psalm 23 is coming to life for me right now the lord is my shepherd i shall not want the lord is my chief shepherd there are shepherds of the flock that god has put in place it says he led them in the psalms by the hand of moses and aaron and he's been doing that all through the history of his people but there's a chief shepherd of the flock his name is jesus and he's the one that you're invited today to cast all of your anxiety on him and i love today that he didn't say cast all your anxiety on the ceo he is the ceo president owner lord boss king he's all that but the invitation is cast was concerning you what you're worried about what you're anxious about cast it on the chief shepherd a whole new context right because now i've got someone whose primary function is to get me to green pastures and distill water and to restore my soul and to guide me in paths of righteousness and to be with me in a valley of the shadow of death with a rod and a staff he comforts me he is going to prepare a table anoint my head i'm going to have abundance in my story and he's going to follow me with goodness and love all the days of my life he knows my name and i know his my sheep they know my voice and they follow me i count them in it and i count them out i don't miss any of them we're one of them not to be in the assembly today i would say hey i'll be right back and i would go for the one because i'm a chief shepherd and jesus said the good shepherd say it with me lays down his life for the sheep i am the gate jesus said we looked at that a few weeks ago that means there's there's no wolf coming in here tonight going to come through me oh there's no lion coming in this pen tonight you're going to come through me there's no nobody coming to steal any sheep here tonight they're coming through me the chief shepherd and we know in the context of david writing this psalm a boy who in the power of god's spirit had pounded a bear and a lion into the ground and jesus is saying whatever is concerning you cast it on me on your chief shepherd because this is the crazy part he who is the he referring to there you need to say the chief shepherd real quick and real confident real bold and proud and i got it i know it i'm with it the he there is referring to the chief shepherd your chief shepherd because the chief shepherd cares for you so the invitation is to offload or to and on board to offload what you're concerned about but the beauty of the text is it doesn't just say cast off your worries that's what we're already trying to do i'm just trying to forget about my problems i'm trying to forget about my struggle i'm trying to you know two more glasses of wine and i won't even remember what i'm concerned about whether my business is going to make it or not at least not for the night oh it'll still be there when i wake up in the morning but at least for a little while i'll be able to cast that off and so we're spending a lot of energy trying to cast off our concerns cast off get rid of throw off our worries but you can't get rid of your worries by trying to cast them off you can't buy a new handbag in an effort to cast off what's really ripping you apart inside you just now have anxiety with a really cool handbag and so we're trying to cast off but the invitation is to cast on your anxieties cast your cares on him so intentionally the word there actually means deposit and it's challenging for me because the word means deposit once and for all all of the things that concern you on him and walk away and i i'm here to tell you today i haven't quite gotten to that point just yet but i'm thankful for the grace of god that allows me daily to step into the possibility that there can be a progressive movement toward me saying i don't have to do this every moment every hour every day there's going to be a moment where i'm going to mature enough in my understanding of the back side of this verse to really nail the front side of this verse and say this would be my last deposit of this thing with you that's what the word means when it is saying cast it's put put it put it on deposit put it in the lock box with god and walk away from it just leave it with him all of it all of what concerns you not just all the things that concern you but all of what there is about that thing that concerns you put it on him so we're not today saying hey just push off to decide all of your anxieties no very intentionally take your anxiety and deposit it with jesus the chief shepherd you see the difference it's a big difference putting it on him casting it on him not just casting it off of your life so something's going off but the something going off is really going on and then you're on boarding this idea that the chief shepherd cares for you now here's what's powerful and you have to understand the difference between humans and god we're over here on sort of the negative side of anxiety but there could be a positive side of it too you may care about the fact that your child's falling behind in school right now and that's not a negative thing to god he's not looking at you going oh you shouldn't be worried about that that's a legitimate concern and it is ripping at your heart your confidence and your well-being but he's saying on the same equation in the same equation god over here he's also concerned now not in the anxious way that i might be like so-and-so said something and it wasn't true and therefore i have to fix it all he's not concerned about that he's not concerned like my job is ending in 30 days and i don't know where i'm going after that he's not concerned about that he's not anxious for that he's not anxious about a lot of the things that we're concerned about but he's very much concerned about you and the words are tied into the same idea and so what he's saying is i know what you're concerned and anxious about i see that and i'm inviting you to put that with me on deposit but i want you to know that i'm concerned about some things as well i'm not just floating at 45 000 feet up here you know at a harp concert i'm concerned i'm on high alert i'm fully engaged and you know what i'm concerned about you that's what i'm concerned about i know you're concerned about where the finances are going to come from i'm concerned about you you are the concern of the chief shepherd of the ages and there's almost 8 billion of us on the planet but don't you let that lead you to believe god can't tell you how many hairs are on your head right now and he's concerned about you do you see how this anxiety exchange is going to work today but there's a couple of things you have to see before two things that are tied up in whether this is going to work for us today and they're in the text the first one is humility humility towards others and humility towards god humility is a key that opens the door and frees you from anxiety you're like i don't i don't see how that could be possible well the way that it's possible is most of our anxiety is related to other people amen some of it's related to the economy and right now we're in a circumstantial anxiety vortex so we do get that we're anxious over elections we're anxious over economies we're anxious over pandemics but most of the things that we get anxious about in life have to do with our boss or our co-worker or a family member is people related and so that's how he starts this clothe yourselves all of you with humility towards one another because god opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble now this is a principle for life what does that mean it means if you want to if you want to fight god be proud you just got in the ring with the almighty and you're going down but if you want to flow with god get low because he gives grace to the humble we spend a lot of time at the end of the summer in the ocean kayaking and man when you get when you're going either against the tide coming into the bay or you're going into the strong wind on a given day and you're working overtime it's different than when you finally round the turn and are headed for home and you got the wind at your back and i mean now you're just cooking like crazy you're like oh yes i am crushing this but it's opposite when you turn the other way if you happen to start going the wrong direction and you come around that side of the island and now it's like you're like i'm paddling but i'm not moving that's pride pride is paddling but you're not going to move humility is grace and you're paddling but the tide's coming in and the wind's at your back and you're going about three times as fast as normal because you're in the flow and this is a principle of life if you're proud today that's great you're just going into the headwind of the glory of the almighty and that's a tough way to live life if you're proud you're just paddling into the tide of god's sovereign glory but if you lower yourself to that glory all of a sudden you're in the flow now doesn't mean life's easy it just means that god's grace is with you and that's an option that we all have and so then he comes again and says humble yourselves therefore under god's mighty hand so humble yourselves each other in other words some of your anxiety will be relieved alleviated today relieved today if you will humble yourself in that relationship where the tension is if you'll say i'm sorry if you'll say i forgive you if you'll say as far as it is with me i want to live at peace with you if you'll say i know i said i would never but i've decided i changed my mind because i have a god who doesn't say that to me and i'm gonna come back and try to repair and you'll be amazed at how that humbling of yourself with someone in your life where there's the anxiety point will alleviate the anxiety and you'll lay down tonight for the first time in a long time and say i can sleep tonight because i made that call see how simple that is i got in the flow today when i made that call i got grace when i made that call i i all of a sudden felt god's wind with me when i made that call today when i had that conversation i felt freedom in that and then he says secondly humble yourself under the mighty hand of god that he might exalt you at the proper time in other words we're talking about humility among ourselves and we're talking about humility with god a sense of saying to god i i'm going to humble myself under your leadership in my life it's it's not devaluing me that's not humility it's just elevating my confidence in god that's humility humility isn't saying i'm a nobody humility is just saying i'm starting to really understand that god's a somebody and when you meet proud people here's the one thing you know they don't know they may know how to run a business they may act like they know how to run a business they may have amassed some things in life but the one thing you know that they don't know when you meet pride people proud people is you know that they don't know how great god is so humility isn't the enemy coming in and saying you're a worm that is not humility you are not a worm you are the concern of the chief shepherd humility is not you saying i'm a nobody you're not a nobody humility is you saying i'm beginning to see god as a somebody and god is king and when you begin to see that it rearranges things in your heart because humility always starts in the heart have you noticed a lot of people say well you know she runs this big company and she has all this empire going on and that's why she's proud look being proud has nothing to do with the size of your organization or your bank account or how many employees you have or how big your family is or what your influence is that has nothing to do with pride now it can feed into pride for sure if you are not growing in your estimation of how great god is but have you ever met somebody who only had four employees but man they ran that place like they were the king of the universe you ever met that person they have these staff meetings and there's four of them in the room and they're like all right everybody everybody stands when the boss comes in you're like okay i'm good with that it says honor the king so we're good with that but then they just act like they're the greatest thing that's ever happened on planet earth people say well these big churches you know that's where the problem is no trust me i've been in preached in churches of every size on planet earth and you can walk in a church of 75 people with two full-time staff and three part-time staff and the pastor is the most proud person you've ever met got a sign in the parking lot pastor parks here it's like bro only 75 people coming here you're good on spaces i know but i park in this one pride is not about the platform it's about the heart so about how big your business is or how many kids you have or how much influence you have it's about the heart and that leads us to the second key of making this exchange and that is intimacy because humility comes from proximity have you ever been around somebody in your field whatever your particular field is and you're doing fairly decent in your field but you were around a legend in your field anybody ever gotten that opportunity before and you got to spend maybe 10 minutes or a lunch or a meal or an evening with somebody who's just like you know what you're trying to do on steroids and you walked away and you you didn't feel like a worm but you you understood that you weren't all that you know anybody know what i'm talking about like he walked out and went okay i got some room to grow here i got some ground to cover here why because of proximity to greatness it calls greatness out in us especially if you already have that gene you love being around people who are better than you faster than you stronger than you if you don't have that gene and you have the pride gene you'll tend to gravitate to people who are slower than you not better than you and not greater than you as a way of continuing to make sure that you're the big dog in the equation but if if you want to really be truly great in the kingdom of god you you gravitate toward opportunity to observe people who are better than you and when you walk away you don't go i'm a worm i'm a nobody you're like i'm a somebody because i just got four feet from the guy from the lady i was right there and when you were there inspired you to greatness but it also made you humble [Music] it reminded you that you've got room to grow you've got mountains to climb you've got stuff to learn you you've got a ways to go still and proximity with the almighty does that to you and me it doesn't make us walk away going i'm one inch tall it makes us walk away going i've got a long way to go before i start fully trusting that god is big enough to actually run my life so humility let me read something for you real fast i know we're right down at the end but it's just a couple sentences i think i've shared with with you a few weeks ago but this is a great intermediate step by the way just since we're in a book of the bible between like just clicking things on google and looking for them and actually being able to read a greek new testament this is what he says about this verse seven and this is coming down to where this works for you so please don't miss this [Music] he says anxiety is a self-contradiction to true humility unbelief is in a sense an exalting of self against god and that one is depending on self and failing to trust god why worry therefore if we are his concern he is more concerned about our welfare than we could possibly be [Music] in it all he is concerned about us [Music] therefore again why worry and when he says humble yourself under god's mighty hand [Music] i love that he didn't say humble yourself under god's iron fist but he said his mighty hand a hand pierced a hand powerful a hand that is alive and here's the thing that this started really ringing the bells inside of me if i'm under god's mighty hand okay if we had a second i just have somebody come up and get under my mighty hand so mighty and if you were under my hand at any point you would be in very close proximity to me [Music] he didn't just say humble yourself under my rule because that could be my global empire he said no come humble yourself under my mighty hand meaning come close [Music] like soul money one i i take my shelter i find my refuge under your wing can you imagine that how intimate is that i'm like underneath the wing i am like one of those sparrow in psalm 84 building my nest right near the throne of almighty god i am close i am in i've got proximity and the proximity is giving me intimacy and the intimacy is necessary for me because the roar of the lion around me saying you're not going to make it you're going under this is ever going to work out god has forgotten your story you're done the roar if you want to hear the invitation to the exchange you got to get close you ever been in a crowd trying to get that last bit of information right big concert or what do you do you get as close to that person as you can what what what what say it again proximity intimacy why is it important well a we were created for it but b it's so that we can hear our chief shepherd talking to us in the roar of the adversary that is around us and we can resist him firm in our faith why because we're close enough because we've chosen to go under the hand to hear the voice of the exchanging shepherd who's saying deposit it with me because the thing i'm concerned about today is you in the right place in time god's got a plan for you and he'll raise you up you can rest today why am i not moving up in the organization why are people not recognizing what i'm doing why is our bottom line not expanding why is my influence not increasing why am i toiling in the shadows just simply because the chief shepherd who cares about you knows that either the people aren't ready the timing is not ready or you're not ready but when you're ready and the timing is ready and the people are ready time to exalt you thank you for humbling yourself under my mighty hand time for me now to put you on display for a minute this is the economy of god and this is the offer in the exchange so here's the exchange we're gonna take a moment to give somebody today the opportunity to step into this [Music] i release what i'm concerned about and i receive that you are concerned about me jesus i release what i'm concerned about i want to humble myself i do not want to be the proud person here today that says i got it because i don't i've said it so many times but some of the reasons i fell in a hole of anxiety and depression that i never thought i would come out of i learned kind of as i unpacked on the backside control and wanting approval wanting people to like me and wanting to be able to control things i still struggle with both of those things but in that season of life especially planting a local church that's a bad formula because nobody controls god's church and when you lead a church or a company or even those of you moms and dads that are leading a family you understand you're not going to get everybody's approval all the time i mean some of you before you got to church today your three-year-old told you that he hated you you're like great thank you so much i've given my entire life up for you little one i hate you mom awesome carry that with me into the house of god today you already know that you can't control your kids amen you can't control your spouse your future spouse the market the economy the outcome of the game you can't control all of that or you can do your best but you cannot control everything so if you're a controller you're anxious today and you need to humble yourself by saying god i am not in control thank you that you are in control of me and if you don't have any proximity today you've got to make that your prayer lord i need to get near you because humility isn't you know one of these character traits that you develop over time it's a result of walking with the almighty in a second in his presence put you on your knees in the very best way i release what i'm concerned about and i receive [Music] that you are concerned about me you

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Published: Mon Nov 16 2020