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101. Jesus' Teaching on Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... 1) the Lord’s Prayer (vv. 1–4), (2) the Parable of the Persistent Friend (vv. 5–8), and (3) the exhortation to trust God for meeting needs (vv. 9–13). The first and third parts evidently come from the sayings source and appear in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, though not together as they are here (see Matt. 6:9–13; 7:7–11). The Parable of the Persistent Friend occurs only in Luke. Evans (p. 43) suggests that Luke may have seen a parallel with Deut. 8:4–20 where Moses reminds the Israelites ...

102. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... ), 50. 5. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 7:7-12. 6. James 4:2b. 7. Idem. 8. Idem. 9. Idem. 10. M. Eugene Boring, The Gospel of Matthew, Vol. VIII: The New Interpreter’s Bible (Nashville, TN: Abington), 212-213. 11. Charles Talbert, Reading the Sermon on the Mount (Columbia, SC: USC Press, 2004), 134-135. 12. James 1:5-7. 13. Waco, TX: Word, 1997. 14. Roger Thompson, "Becoming a Man," Preaching Today, Tape No. 140. 15. 1 John 1:5. 16. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 7:6-12. 17. For an application ...

103. Building For Durability

Matthew 7:24-29

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Timothy Wilkins

... that life, if it is to be durable, must be built on a rock. He made a definite connection, a distinct correlation, between the ground on which we build and the durability of what we build. In Matthew 7:24-27, we find the words that conclude His Sermon on the Mount. "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house yet it did not fall, because it ...

104. The Mechanics Of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... there (Acts 16:13). Seashore. Paul and his company were on their way to Jerusalem. When the ship came to Tyre, the Christians of that area escorted Paul outside the city. "There we knelt down on the beach and prayed" (Acts 21:5). Private room. Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount taught that a person should go to one's private room, shut the door, and pray (Matthew 6:6). It is obvious that any and every place can be a place of prayer. One may be better than another. Each person needs to find the best place to ...

105. Just a Closer Walk With Thee

James 4:8

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James Merritt

... wants to talk to Him, you can have just a closer walk with Him, and you can go one step higher because you will be taking one closer. Did Jesus use a modem at the Sermon on the Mount? Did He ever use a fax machine to get His message out? Did the disciples carry beepers as they went out and about? Did Jesus use a modem at the Sermon on the Mount? Did the apostle use a laptop with lots of RAM and ROM? Did he use an e-mail address such as Paul@Rome.com? Did the man from Macedonia post an e-mail saying, "Come ...

106. Can One Become Two?

Matthew 19:1-12

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James Merritt

... on this subject you can summarize everything He said in our key take away. Key Take Away: One and done. [Turn to Matthew 19] This whole conversation came about because of a sting operation by the Pharisees against Jesus. Earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, they had already heard Jesus make this statement, “But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” (Matthew 5:32, ESV ...

107. Epiphany 5

Psalm 112:1-10, Isaiah 58:1-14, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... liturgy is a model for the offering of the weekday liturgy. It is there that we are made salt, made light, for the zest and illumination of the world. The preacher's task is not to lay guilt on people (so easy to do with the Sermon on the Mount) because of low sodium content or brownouts, as though by our own efforts we can make life worth living. Paul's formula in today's epistle ("know nothing . . . except Jesus Christ and him crucified") can provide insight into the source of our salt and light. In ...

108. Proper 4

Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Genesis 12:1-8, Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29, Romans 3:21-31, Psalm 31:1-24, Psalm 33:1-22

Sermon Aid

... gives his blessings, "through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." Here, indeed, Paul sets forth what he believes to be the heart of the Gospel in Jesus Christ. Matthew 7:21-27 (R, E); 7:(15-20), 21-29 (L); 7:21-29 (C) The conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount declares that Jesus expects his teachings to be learned and obeyed by those who claim to be his disciples. The faithful are required to do "the will of my Father who is in heaven," not to win salvation, Paul would say, but as a response to God's ...

109. The Blind Guiding The Blind

Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 6:46-49, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Isaiah 55:1-13, Luke 6:37-42

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... found in the last half of the gospel reading. Context of Luke The four parables are the concluding section of what is often referred to as the Sermon on the Plain. It has many parallels to what is called the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Luke has echoes of the Sermon on the Mount scattered through chapters 6 to 16. The most concentrated and parallel passages are found in chapter six, from which the gospel reading for today is taken. Context of Related Scripture Matthew 15:14 -- A parallel to Luke 6:39 ...

110. “Trust in the Lord and Do Good”

Psalm 37:1-40

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... the system works. Indeed, Jesus takes this statement and makes it part of the picture of the world as it should be, the picture of the kingdom of God that he gives us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:5). Rather than the world turned upside down—it certainly is not what we are used to seeing—the Sermon on the Mount is a picture of the world turned right side up. Hope for the unjust Film: Braveheart. This 1995 movie is the story of William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson), a commoner who begins a revolt ...

111. What Will It Take to Make You Happy?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... different? Think for a moment: What would it take to make you happy--really happy? Jesus talked about happiness, but not in the same way you or I would talk about it. In fact, he turned our understanding of happiness upside down. In the Sermon on the Mount, for example, he made some unique and unusual statements about happiness which we know as the Beatitudes. Luke, in his Gospel, gives us a condensed version of some of those stirring statements: Happy are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of ...

112. Abraham Believed God

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... they cannot be touched by reason or argument. They are never wrong. On the other hand, haven't we met those who are so dedicated to the work of Jesus yet would be hard pressed to quote a single verse of a gospel outside the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus becomes a convenient hat rack on which to hang their arguments. If there is any conundrum associated with scripture, any apparent contradiction for which we should give thanks, it may be that the tension between faith and works is essential to building the real ...

113. What In The World Is Happiness?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... all, let's dispel the notion that Jesus was a dewy-eyed dreamer--out of touch with the real world. Do you know Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination? It's a comical little play about a poor soul who attempts to put the Sermon on the Mount into practice. The results are disastrous. In one scene he refuses to take interest on his savings account because he does not believe in usury. Other customers, overhearing his argument with the teller, suspect that something is amiss at the bank and begin demanding ...

114. The Persecuted

Sermon

John A. Terry

... off. It is at its most alluring when it speaks the language of dynamic visual imagery. It does not accommodate complex language or stringent demands. As a consequence, what is preached on television is not anything like the Sermon on the Mount. Religious programs are filled with good cheer. "They celebrate affluence. Their players become celebrities. Though their messages are trivial, the shows have high ratings, or rather because their messages are trivial, the shows have high ratings ... Christianity is ...

115. It's Performance That Counts

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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Larry Goodpaster

... and performing the promises made during the ritual. Once again, we are reminded that it is performance that counts. In our text, we can hear Jesus challenging those hillside listeners with this same theme. At the heart of these closing words of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is calling into question all our grand professions which are not backed up with gracious actions. Lip service and verbal affirmations matter little if they are not fleshed out in one’s daily life. I have no definitive word, nor do I ...

116. An Unpopular Preacher

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... heart be also.” Jesus puts it plainly, “No one can serve two masters….You cannot serve God and wealth.” Jesus was concerned with the condition of our heart and whom or what it leads us to worship and serve. IV. Two houses Jesus ends his Sermon on the Mount with a parable of two houses. I can see one being a mansion. It is big and luxurious, everyone’s envy. It is featured in Southern Living magazine. It is on the Christmas home tours. I can see the other house being non-descript. Nothing fancy ...

117. Dust in the Wind

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

... says one thing and does another so that there is a disconnect between how they want to be perceived and who they actually are by their actions. Yet as each of these examples makes clear, those charged as “hypocrites” here in the Sermon on the Mount are actually performing these rituals. They are giving alms, praying and fasting; they are not saying one thing and doing something else. So what is the meaning of “hypocrite” here? In classical and Koin à Greek generally, the hypokrites was an actor who ...

118. I Believe In Jesus Christ

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to see God’s power, watch and listen as you read of Jesus hushing a stormy sea with just a word. If you want to see God’s wisdom, imagine yourself seated with that vast throng on a grassy Galilean hillside as he delivered his Sermon on the Mount. If you want to see God’s righteous indignation, watch this fiery Jesus kicking over the tables of the money-changers in the Temple, protecting the sanctity of worship and the poor people from exploitation. If you want to see God’s compassion, watch Jesus ...

119. The Right Reason

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

David O. Bales

... means money for charity; yet, their doing so is theatrical, making their giving with a flourish and a bow, all so they’ll be noticed and admired by others. Jesus is upset over the reason they’re doing it. A few sentences earlier in this same Sermon on the Mount Jesus commands his students, “let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). It’s not wrong to do good things; it’s why you’re doing them. Second, Jesus ...

120. Matthew 5:1-12

Matthew 5:1-12

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... mercy, pursuing God's will, making peace, or even suffering persecution for doing God's will (284). The message of Matthew's beatitudes is for Christians to be moved to help bring in the eschatological future by doing. Hans-Dieter Betz ("The Sermon on the Mount: Its Literary Genre and Function," Harvard Theological Review 59 [1979]: 289)has suggested that the number of references to "doing" in the Sermon indicate that inspiring doing is the intended goal of the entire Sermon. But all this activity must be ...

121. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:15). So how do we do that? We do it by following the teachings that Jesus laid out earlier in the gospel story, especially those from the Sermon on the Mount. For example, we do it by embracing the future that Jesus imagines in his beatitudes: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit ...

122. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

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James W. Moore

... in the human heart... something that most people thought dead and gone forever... It was the appeal of a great dream, the challenge of striving after some tremendous ideal. Jesus knew about that important longing deep within us and in the Sermon on the Mount... He underscored it by saying: Seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness and everything else will fall in place. Blessed are those who keep on hungering and thirsting after righteousness, they shall be filled. Patrick Henry knew the importance ...

123. Matthew 7: 21-29

Matthew 7:24-29

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... mind a scene of final judgment (as in vv.21-23). The sorry, sand-built house, like those who hear but do not act (both with their hands and with their hearts), is destined to fail and fall apart on that final day. Although Jesus’ remarks in the Sermon on the Mount were ostensibly directed toward his innermost disciples (see 5:1), the text in 7:28 reveals that a gathered crowd heard and reacted to his words as well. As Jesus’ concludes his teachings Matthew marks the spot with a first use of a soon-to-be ...

124. The Peacemakers

Sermon

John A. Terry

... peace after our nation's Civil War. Being the bringer and maker of peace marked Jesus from the very beginning. At his birth the angels said, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward all." Instructions about peace are woven through this Sermon on the Mount: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). Peace was the bequest of Jesus in his last days. "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you" (John 14:27). It is declared in the great music of the church ...

125. Judging Others

Matthew 7:7-12, Matthew 7:1-6

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... by the Greek present tense in the imperatives to ask, seek, and knock; 7:7). The reason disciples can pray and expect an answer (7:8) is that they are children of a Father who gives good gifts when asked (7:9–11). The summative command of the Sermon on the Mount comes in 7:12, often called the golden rule: “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.” Jesus’s ethical teachings in Matthew 5–7 come down to this motivation and its expression in action. In fact, the golden rule ...

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