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 solution to unhealthy competition in marriage is to live out the pattern of Christ and the church.
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.
How should we get ready for the new heavens and the new earth? In his closing words in 2 Peter 3:14-18, Peter lays out...