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Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. There are two important truths in today’s passage: We need to ask forgiveness for our sins and we need to forgive others when they sin against us. The first is easier than the second. As a...
Matthew 6:11 Give us today our daily bread. Today’s passage is a personal request. It is an appeal for a particular day’s portion of food. There are three words that help us understand this petition. Necessity. When Jesus instructs us to pray for bread He is using a...
Matthew 6:10b …Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. You are God and I am not. Your will be done. You know the beginning from the end. Your will be done. I can rationalize just about anything. Your will be done. I have great dreams. Your will be done....
Matthew 6:10a …Your kingdom come…. I know that I am a child of God because of Jesus and I know that I can call God my Father. Through Christ, God has established His spiritual kingdom in my heart — I am a new creation! God has prepared an eternal kingdom, called...
Matthew 6:9b …hallowed be your name… “Hallowed” is an old English word used in the King James Version of the Bible and has been kept in most versions since. It means, “to treat as holy, revere, respect, and give high honor to.” It means that we should hold the name of...
Matthew 6:9a Our Father in heaven… When Jesus taught us to pray He could have used many titles for the holy God. He could have said Our Creator, Almighty, Most Glorious, Most High…just to name a few. However, when Jesus taught about a personal conversation with God He...
Matthew 6:5-6 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the...
Matthew 6:2-4 So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let...
Matthew 5:43-45 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good,...
Matthew 5:38-39 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. ’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. Lex Talionis. The Law of Retaliation. An eye for an eye. A...
Matthew 5:33-37 Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is...
Matthew 5:31-32 It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits...