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.
After complaining repeatedly to God, the prophet had a view of God’s power and fell silent.
Christians need to walk wisely by being filled in the Holy Spirit.
When we considered the Covenant of Law given through Moses, we detected a major problem that we have with God’s law: we cannot keep...