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.
Dying and rising with Christ through faith transforms wives and husbands and solves the basic problem of marriages.
In a second vision, Daniel saw into the future when the Jews would need to remain faithful under terrible persecution.
In a boat journey across the lake, Jesus showed himself to be an exhausted human and almighty God.
