Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life - Seeking the Kingdom

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Jesus says, “Don’t be anxious,” three times in this passage. Quick question that comes up: how does anybody have the audacity to command us to not be anxious? Nobody gets up in the morning and says, “I’m going to really be anxious today. I can’t wait.” It’s not a very voluntary thing. So why would Jesus command us? If we look carefully, we’ll see that he’s not commanding us in a drill sergeant way. Instead, he gets underneath and he explains and he reasons with us. There’s a sense in which he does surgery. He’s saying, “If you let me do my surgery in you, if you listen to my instructions, I can get anxiety out of you. I can deal with your anxiety.” Let’s look at what Jesus shows us about 1) what is anxiety? 2) where does it come from? and 3) what do we do about it? This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on June 3, 1990. Series: The Lord’s Prayer 1990. Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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true faith begins when we stop trying to control our own lives and start trusting in the God who knows exactly what we need. Matthew 6. 25 through 34. Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you, by worrying, can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God closed the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow was thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, oh, you of little faith? so do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear for the pagans run after these things and your heavenly father knows that you need them but seek first is kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself each day has enough trouble of its own Church. I heard somebody ready to say, amen. We're looking at the sermon on the Mount, and today we come to Jesus, command not to be anxious. Three times, he says, don't be anxious. A quick question that comes up, how can somebody, how does anybody have the audacity to command us not to be anxious? Who wants to be anxious? Who wants to be anxious?

Nobody gets up in the morning and says, I'm going to really be anxious today. I can't wait. It's not a very voluntary thing. So why would Jesus command us? If we look carefully, we'll see that he's not commanding us in a kind of drill sergeant way. There's a friend of mine, a pastor friend of mine who was poking fun at himself. He's in his 50s now. But when they first got married, he and his wife, in the early 20s, he was saying, that she went into a depression, and he used all of his every bit of skill he could to get her out of it. He says, I tried everything, everything. Every single morning, I went into her, and I said, buck up. But nothing helped. He says, she was incorrigible.

Jesus is not coming to us today and saying, buck up. You know, what are you being anxious for? Cut it out. You know, stop it. Whistle out. happy tune. He doesn't do anything like that. Instead, if you look carefully, you'll see that he gets underneath, and he explains to us the why, and he reasons with us. There's a sense in which he does surgery, and he says, anxiety is wrong, and if you sit still and let me do my surgery in you, if you listen to my instructions, I can get it out of you. I can remove it. So there is an obedience, but at the same time, there's definitely a sense here that Jesus, says, I'm going to show you how to get underneath the surface and how you can let me get

underneath the surface and deal with anxiety. Three times, don't be anxious, Jesus says. Now, what's anxiety? First question, what is it? Good question. It's actually easier to describe than to define. There's a Time magazine not too long ago said it's the most prevailing quality of our modern culture. And I think the reason for that is anxiety is more than a psychological thing. It's got a psychological and a physical and a philosophical aspect. See, psychologically, anxiety, of course, can either be focused on a specific danger, but anxiety can be a debilitating general condition that is not really focused on any particular cause. And that is the best way to describe it.

it, it's like having a constant jaws theme base note line going through your life. You know, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, you're looking around for the fin. You're sure something's going wrong. It's called neurotic. You know, it's a frightening thing.

And it really can characterize our whole life psychologically, but more than that, anxiety also is a physical aspect. Physically, anxiety is called stress. You know, we know this. We know that our bodies have an autonomic nervous system so that when there's a danger, our bodies can suddenly get actually triggered. That system gets triggered by the anxiety, by the danger. And we begin to pump adrenaline and begin to pump in all kinds of other things

that gets us ready for what's called the fight or flight. We're ready for dramatic, drastic action. So when danger appears, our body has a way of getting itself ready. to do something. But if you find that you're constantly living with stress, that every day in and day out, you're constantly living with perceived dangers, financial dangers and professional dangers, and relationship dangers, you find that your body is always in that condition. And your body's not supposed to be like that. The system's not supposed to be going off every day. And eventually, you literally burn up. You burn out. And ulcers and hypertension

and high blood pressure as a result. Anxiety even has a philosophical aspect. You know, Heidegger and the German existentialist talked about angst, but they also talked about my favorite word, Gavorphenheit. The thrownness, a feeling of being thrown into the world. No rhyme or reason to things. And when you read an article about last Christmas about a little boy in the Bronx sitting at table on Christmas Eve and a stray bullet just coming, tearing up.

up through the ceiling, up to the floor, tearing up through the wall, tearing right into the room, hitting them in the head and killing him right at the table. And when you read stories like that, and if you look for them, they're in the New York Times every day, you begin to feel that gavorphinite, the anxiety that's even more philosophical, even than psychological, a sense that there's no rhyme or reason to things. It can be so prevailing. Anxiety can and does, in fact, every part of our lives, body, soul, and spirit, interlocking. But what is it? And I think when Jesus says, don't worry about tomorrow, at the very end of the passage, he's summing up everything else he said. Worry is concern about the potential, not the actual. Worry is concern about

that which we can't control. Anxiety, the essence of anxiety, is the desire. to control that which we can't control. That's why we're anxious. We feel the need for control in an area where there's no possibility of control. That causes anxiety. Now, that's what it is. Anxiety is the will to control the uncontrollable. Secondly, if that's what it is, where does it come from? And the Bible, as usual, gives us far and away the most coherent answer. Jesus Christ is if you look carefully, you'll see that in a very gentle way, he is saying the source of anxiety is the human will to power. The fact is that we want the power that God's got, and anxiety comes from that. He says, for example, he says, who by being anxious can add one minute to your life,

but that's the point. We want to add. We want the power God has. And Jesus is saying, isn't life more than food and drink? And who by worrying can add one minute to your life? What he's saying is, listen, who's been keeping your life going all these years anyway? What are you worried about it now for? Put it this way. He says, when the doctor comes in with bad news, when the boss comes in with bad news, suddenly we get anxious because we feel like we're out of control. But it's the threat that reveals the illusion that we've been living at living on all these years, the illusion is we felt up to now that we were in control. We're getting anxious because we feel like we're getting out of control. That's not true. The threat is revealing

your true condition. You've always been out of control. You've always been vulnerable. You've never been keeping your life going. And you see, danger, which triggers anxiety, the anxiety is essentially showing us not a new precarious condition. But at the deepest level, that's where that's where Heidegger comes in with his givorfinite. At the deepest level, it's showing us what we knew all along. We've never been in charge. We're not in control. And Jesus says that we're anxious because we disbelieve and dislike the fact that we're totally dependent on the supporting power of God. We don't like it and we are afraid of it. And that's what the Ang anxiety is. Biblically, though, there's a wonderful truth underneath all this. Pascal, the

Christian philosopher, has a very interesting statement. The great thing about Christianity is even when it's telling you what's wrong with you, it tells it to you in such a positive way because it shows you, it shows you where it's from. Pascal puts it like this. He says, not on page three, but on page two. He says, the greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For who is unhappy at not being a king, but a deposed king? Now, you know what he's saying? The Bible says the reason we're anxious is because we need to be in control. But the reason we want to be in control is we were made originally to be kings and queens on earth. The Bible tells us that we were built to be stewards.

Now, a steward was the number one slave in a great mansion. The steward was a slave with authority. A steward was a slave toward the master, but toward everyone else, he was a king. And when a steward is a slave toward his master, dependent, loving, obedient, he grows in his authority. That's the kind of king we were built to be. The Bible tells us, though, in the book of Genesis, that we didn't like being in charge of everything except God. We wanted to be in charge of everything. We wanted to be our own masters. And trying to become more than human, we became less. And trying to become more than ourselves,

we became less than ourselves. And today, how do we respond to this need for control, which comes from the fact we were built to be kings? The fact we were built for glory. We respond now the way we responded then. We're no different than Adam and Eve. We respond now the way we responded then. We try to get more power and more control. And the more we try to get power and control and be our own masters,

the less powerful we feel. And so Reinhold Niebuhr, the man who taught at Union Seminary for years, has a fascinating statement about the relationship of theology to psychology. He says, the schools of modern psychology which regard the will to power as the most dominant of human motives has not yet recognized how basically it's related to insecurity. Anxiety. The human ego does not feel secure and therefore grasps for more power in order to make itself secure. It does not regard itself as sufficiently significant or respected and seeks to enhance its position. Did you hear that?

we're insecure because we want power and the more we want power the more we seek to control our lives the more we resent the fact that God's actually in control of our lives the more insecure we get anxiety comes from that will to power and that's why Luther looked at Melanchthon his friend Philip Melanchthon one day who was worried full of anxiety about how things were going and instead of Luther saying, buck up. He did surgery. He went underneath and said to Philip, he says, let Philip cease to rule the world. You know why you're anxious, Philip. You want to be in charge. You're trying to be in charge. Let Philip cease to rule the world. We have to assert ourselves. Anxiety comes when we do. What's anxiety? The need for control of the uncontrollable.

Where does it come from? Our basic essential nature. as kings and queens, which we are trying to express by being masters of our own lives when we're not. Then number three, well, then what do we do about it? And you say, this is wonderful and this is very interesting. It makes me feel very interested, but what do I do? And again, Jesus would never just say, buck up. He tells you what to do. And essentially in this passage, he says, if you're full of anxiety, psychological, physical, philosophical, whatever, there are two things you're doing wrong, and therefore, if you want to remove the anxiety from your life, there's two things you've got to do right. The two things you're doing wrong is wrong thinking and wrong

priorities. Wrong thinking and wrong priorities. Here's what we mean. Number one, wrong thinking. Again and again, he says, in the old King James, he says, consider the birds of the ear. consider the lilies of the field. Now, in our modern translations of the one that I just read, I didn't write it. I'd be a rich man if I wrote it. It just says, look at. It says, see the birds of the air. It says, look at the grass of the field.

That's not nearly as good a word because the word that's used there is a word that means ponder and think. Jesus says, if you're anxious, you're not thinking. He says, do not be anxious, but consider this, consider that. Now, listen, before I even move on, do you see how critical that is? What do you think faith is? Do you think faith is an absence of thinking? Do you think faith is just closing your eyes and jumping? Do you think faith says, well, it doesn't make any sense, but it doesn't matter.

That's where faith comes in. Is that how Jesus talks? No way. Jesus says faith is thinking. He says it's anxiety that's the absence of things. thinking. Anxiety and fear and distress. You see, when you're sitting and listening to your heart, run off at the mouth. That's what makes you scared. When your mouth starts, when your heart starts to ramble, it starts to just react to situations. See, it runs at the mouth the way you do

and I do if you don't think before you speak. So you're laying in bed and the heart's just saying, oh, how bad it's going to be and oh, how awful it's going to be and what am I going to do about this, you're listening to your heart instead of talking to your heart. Listening to your heart is what Jesus says brings the anxiety. Instead, you sit down with your heart and say, wait, look at the facts. Consider this, consider that. You argue, you talk. What do you think faith is? Friends, faith is not passing peaceful thoughts through your mind, and faith is not turning your mind off. Faith is a position of confidence toward the world based on what God has said in his word. We all chase things like success, true love, or the perfect life, good things that can easily

become ultimate things. When we put our faith in them, deep down, we know they can't satisfy our deepest longings. The truth is that we've made lesser gods of good things, things that can't give us what we really need. In his book, Counterfeit Gods, the empty promises of money, sex, and power, and the only hope that matters, Tim Keller shows us how a proper understanding of the Bible reveals the truth about societal ideals and our own hearts, and shows us that there is only one God who can wholly satisfy our desires. This month, we'll send you counterfeit gods as our thank you for your

gift to help Gospel in Life share the love of Christ with people all over the world. You can request your copy at gospelonlife.com slash give. That's gospelonlife.com slash give. Now here's Dr. Keller with the rest of today's teaching. If you don't believe what God has, if you don't believe God spoken in His Word, there is absolutely no way to deal with anxiety, period. I defy anybody to tell me there is another one. But if you understand that he's spoken, then you take it and you argue with yourself. And Jesus gives you two arguments. The first argument is, go to Jesus. Jesus says, go to the Word and see that God is in charge, and the first argument is this Birds of the Air argument. The second argument is this grass-of-the-field argument. Do you know how to use these two?

I don't want anybody to leave here without knowing how. The first argument is a providence of God argument, and the second one is a love of God. The first argument, Jesus says, is consider the birds. God is in charge of them. God gives them what they need. You don't have the power to add even one minute to your life. And he's saying, God has all the power. God's in charge.

God's sovereign. God is a God of providence. Do you know how to use that on your heart? the average New Yorker, Providence, is the capital of Rhode Island. But the word providence, from which the namers of the capital of Rhode Island got, the word providence comes from provide, providence. The doctrine of the providence of God is that everything that happens to you is part of God's plan, that everything you have is part of God's provision.

Ephesians 111 says everything is working out according to the counsel of his will Romans 828 says all things work together for good to them that love God and Jesus says there is absolutely no way no way that you could possibly deal with anxiety unless you believe

that well somebody says that doesn't make me feel better I feel then like I'm a puppet I feel like everything is determined it doesn't matter what I do and if you jump to that conclusion you have moved away from the biblical doctrine of Providence to a pagan notion of fate. They're not the same thing.

Let me give you two perfect examples in the Bible. Acts chapter 2, verse 23. That's the place where Peter is talking to the people of Jerusalem, and he says, every one of you, he says, Christ was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreplan of God, and you have slain him by wicked hands. Did you hear that? when Jesus Christ died wasn't that death foreordained wasn't it planned it says he was delivered by the

determinate counsel and foreplan of God and yet even though you were destined to kill him even though it was purpose that you kill him it was wicked when you killed him and what is what God is saying here what Peter is saying is fairly easy to see in a sense he is saying the wickedness of your heart you're responsible for. Your choices you're responsible for. You say, God doesn't make you wicked. But on the other hand, God works through your choices, his perfect plan. That's why Joseph could talk to his brothers who sold him into slavery. And he went down into Egypt and he was almost put to death. But then he eventually became a powerful man and he was able to save his family later on from famine. And he looks at his brothers and he says, you meant it for evil,

God meant it for good. What does that mean? Joseph said, God led you to sell me into slavery. It was part of his plan. It looked terrible. It looked awful. But it was part of his plan. And he intended it for good. Does that mean, therefore, brothers, you didn't do anything wrong. You couldn't help yourself. It was faded. You couldn't help yourself. Of course not. Joseph didn't mean that. And the brothers knew he didn't mean that. And the brothers wept. They repented. Because you see, They are responsible for their choice. And yet God worked his counsel out, infallibly. And Jesus says, until you understand that, until you believe that,

it's impossible for you to deal with anxiety. Absolutely. That's the reason why, you know, there's a certain sense in which we can say, in Romans 828, all things work together for good to them that love God, the minute you stop being the center of the universe, the minute you take yourself away from being the center of the universe, is the day you become the center of the universe. For example, some of you have been very helped by this church.

It's only been here for seven or eight months. You know why it's here? It's because that I had some denominational connections, some people in my Presbyterian denomination asked me to come here, gave me the support to come here. Why am I in my denomination? Because my last year of seminary, a man came from England

and taught several courses that convinced me that I wanted to go into this particular denomination. Why was he there? Well, it was a close call. He was English, and back then in the early 70s, it was very hard for somebody to get a visa

to come here and take a job. One day, the dean of my seminary was praying on his knee saying, Lord, how are we going to get this professor here? We need him to teach next semester. And one of the students of the seminary was Mike Ford, who was Gerald Ford's son, who was then president of the United States. Mike Ford came and said, what's the problem? The dean told him. Mike Ford says, well, I'll talk to somebody. Next thing you know, the professor was here. He got his visa. Why was Mike Ford, the son of the president? Because Nixon resigned. Why did Nixon resign?

Because of Watergate. What was Watergate? One day, a security guard happened to notice a door that was ajar in the Watergate building. One day. Huh? What if he had driven to work a different route that day? This church wouldn't be here. Listen, when you take yourself out of the center of the universe, you actually become the center of the universe in this sense. All things work together for good.

to them that love God. You know what that means? Do you see, it actually says, there's a certain sense in which when you finally give yourself over to God and say, I trust you, you begin to realize that everything that's happening, everything that's happening, even Watergate is happening for me. Everything is happening for me. The minute you finally say, I'm not going to be in the center anymore. I'm not going to demand the explanation. I'm not going to only try to stay in control of my life. I'm going to be willing to say, Lord, you know what's best. In Philippians 4, it says, have no anxiety, but in everything with prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your request known to God.

That means when you ask God for something, thank him ahead of time for whatever he sends. Well, how can you do that, you say? It means get a conviction that he would not give you anything that's wrong or that's bad. You know, our parents spent all of our lives when I was a little kid, my parents always were ruining my life. They were always saying, stop swallowing those rocks. Stop sticking that fork into that electrical outlet. You know, these people didn't know how to live. They're ruining my life. I was not able to swing until I got older, and I realized they were saving my life every day. Some people say, if I really trust him like that, if I give myself to him, he may start to tell me things that I don't

want to do. He may start to give me things that I don't want to have. He may start to command me to do things I don't want to obey. Of course he'll tell you things you don't want to do. What's the use in having a king? If you're wise and smart enough to do it yourself, but you have a king, and a king is there because you're not wise and smart enough to know how to control your own life. Abraham didn't want to give up Isaac. Moses didn't want to go to Pharaoh. Jesus didn't want to go to the cross, but his will is wise and right and good, and the people who submit to it will spend the next billion years thanking him. that he had it, that he gave it to them.

Of course he's not safe. Who said anything about him being safe? But he's good. He's the king, I tell you. The other little thing that you've got to do is use the grass of the field. The grass of the field argument is different. The one argument is to say, he's in control.

Who else could I trust but him? But the other little argument is the love of God argument. Jesus says, your father knows what you need. That's where you get your heart and you start to argue God's love into the heart. You go like this. You say, listen, heart, you know that he loves you more than you imagine. You know that he knows all the hairs on your head and how many tears have come down your cheeks. You know that. You know that if he didn't spare his own son, how is he going to fail to give us anything else that we need? You argue with yourself and you begin to realize anxiety is essentially

a daily fax to God saying, I don't think you have my best interest in mine. Anxiety is this. Anxiety is essentially saying, Father, you emptied heaven of your greatest treasure, and you executed your son voluntarily for me, and I'm not sure you are going to know how to arrange my week. And when you realize what you're saying,

you begin to realize you are offending his love. There's no way you would possibly put up with somebody you wouldn't put up with a kid, you wouldn't put up with a friend who continually trampled on your love the way you do. You argue with your heart. He's my father. He knows what I need.

Now, and then the other thing is wrong priorities. Wrong thinking and wrong priorities. And the wrong priorities are pretty simple. Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. You know what that means? Martha and Mary. You remember Martha and Mary?

Mary? Jesus came to their house and Martha ran around and literally it says she was anxious, doing many, many things. He uses the same word anxious that Jesus uses here in Matthew 6. Mary sat at Jesus' feet and Jesus comes to Martha and says, Martha, you're anxious and troubled about many, many, many things. One thing is necessary. Mary's found it. Sit down and focus on me. And what Jesus is saying is worry is always a lack of proportion. If Jesus is a in the center, there will be no anxiety. If your profession, if your relationship, if your material comfort, if money, if anything else is in the center, if anything else is more important than Christ, you're going to be torn up with anxiety. Your fears are like the

breadcrumbs. Follow them and you'll find the house of the witch. Your anxieties come from that lack of proportion, from that lack of sense of proportion. And Jesus says, put me first. Seek first my kingdom and righteousness. That means your prayer life. It means your fellowship with other Christians. It means your mission and ministry. It means your growth and grace.

If that comes first, Jesus says, I can guarantee you, your other concerns will go. Because you'll be able to think more about me and trust me. Queen Elizabeth once told a man, not the second Queen Elizabeth, the first Queen Elizabeth, told a man that she wanted him to go on a voyage to the new world because we needed his skills on this voyage to make it a success. And the man looked at her and said, hey, I'm a small businessman, and my business has been floundering. And if I go on it, I'm sure it's going to sink.

And she looked at him. She says, my dear friend, you mind my business, and I'll mind your business. And immediately all the fear left him because, hey, here's the Queen Elizabeth, a monarch of absolute power and wealth. If I mind her business, she'll mind my business. What a deal. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness

and all other things will be added to you. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same deal. Right thinking, right priorities. Wrong thinking, wrong thinking, wrong priorities. Listen, two kinds of people here today. there's some of you who have certainly believed in Jesus Christ, received him as Savior.

It's one thing to put faith in him and enter the kingdom. It's another thing to walk by faith. I can remember some years ago talking to a guy, and I said, we were counseling together, and I said, do you trust in Jesus Christ to save you? Do you believe your sins are covered? Do you believe in that? And he says, yes, yes, I certainly believe in that. I certainly trust him.

And then I said, do you trust him enough to obey what he says in his word about not marrying someone who's not a believer? Do you trust him enough to obey what he says and to wait for a spiritually mature person to marry? Silence. Because you see, it's one thing to believe in him. It's another thing to believe him. It's one thing to believe in God. Lots of you believe in God. But do you believe God?

And Jesus is saying, trust me, not just believe in me, trust me, listen to what I say, obey me, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. And there's some of you that possibly are here saying, you know, I know I've never really put my faith in Christ the way you're saying. I've never received him as Savior. I've never put him in the center. And some of you are saying, I would like to, but I've never been able to believe. I wish I could believe, but I had never been able to believe. Listen, there's only two doctrines on which to base your life. Only two.

Either you are competent to run your own life or God is. And your problem, when you say, I can't believe, it's not really fair to put it that way. Your real problem is you refuse to doubt yourself. You think you're competent to run your own life. You're afraid to give your life to Christ. You think you're competent to run your own life. That is an act of absolutely blind faith. There's no evidence for it, and you know it.

It's a leap against the evidence. You refuse to doubt yourself. That's why you can't believe. Don't tell me that you can't believe in God. What you mean is I refuse to doubt myself, even though I've got every bit of evidence. I don't care how successful you are. Even the most successful people are making a total mess of some parts of their lives.

come to him Jesus Christ knew what it was to trust God in the wilderness the devil came and said turn these stones into bread and he didn't do it why he continued to depend on God he wouldn't take matters into his own hands he wouldn't decide to disobey God get in control

and because he was faithful he died as a substitute and he took the punishment that we deserve for our will to power. And that means today you can go to him and know that if you believe not just in him, but believe him, he's your substitute. Your sins are wiped away and you put yourself in the hands of a father who knows what you need. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Run into it and you're safe. Let's pray. Now we ask, Father, that you will enable us to, by faith, recommit ourselves to you.

Meet us at your table. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Thanks for listening to Tim Keller on the Gospel and Life podcast. If you'd like to see more people encouraged by the gospel-centered teaching and resources of this ministry, we invite you to consider becoming a Gospel and Life monthly partner. Your monthly partnership helps us to plan. and steward our resources throughout the year to be the most effective in reaching people

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