During three weeks, we will look at Matthew 6:1-18, moving from the outside toward the Lord’s Prayer in the middle. First we considered Jesus’ warnings about hypocrisy: doing the right things in order to receive human applause. Jesus called us rather to focus on the divine audience and receive grace upon grace from God.
The detailed instructions for the construction of the Tent of Meeting held important lessons for Israel and also for us today.
Prayer is the element that activates all the other pieces of the armor of God.
The tenth plague was the death of the firstborn of Egypt, which was also the salvation of the people of Israel.
