Hey everybody I'm Tim Mackie and welcome to the Bible Project Podcast.

Today on the podcast we are starting a new series connected to a brand new Bible

project theme video that we're working on and it's about a topic that is actually

really important in the biblical story but it also is a vital part of our everyday lived experience.

The theme is generosity and it's connected to the experience that most of us know which is that

of scarcity and abundance. Scarcity causes a lot of anxiety in the human psyche and Jesus knew a lot about anxiety

through his own personal life experience and he talked about it a lot too. He said famous lines like this from Luke chapter 12.

Therefore I tell you don't be anxious about your life, what you will eat, or about your body what you will wear.

For life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

Consider the ravens.

They don't sew or reap. They don't have any storerooms or barns and yet God feeds them.

How much more valuable are you than birds?

Who of you by worrying could add a single hour to your life?

And since you can't do this very little thing, why do you worry about all the rest?

Now if you're like me, when you hear those words do you worry about all the rest?

Now if you're like me, when you hear those words of Jesus,

your first reaction might be

that this sounds like somebody who's a hippie.

So what's happening here when we hear the words of Jesus,

but actually want to resist or come up with objections to what he's saying?

This isn't a unique experience to us. This is what happens to

lots of people when they hear Jesus' teachings about anxiety and the freedom from

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