During three weeks, we are looking 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. This week we looked at Jesus’ three instructions about how to pray: in secret, with simplicity, and with forgiveness.
Jesus announced that the hour had come for him to be glorified, but his glorification would begin with a cross.
In Jesus' final public teaching in the Gospel of John (10:22-42), the people of Jerusalem tried to pin him down. They wanted him to...
In the sixth dispute between God and his people in Malachi 3:13-4:3, we find the proper response to everything God was saying to them....