Matthew 6:19-24 — Where is your heart? What is your treasure? Whom do you serve? We cannot serve two lords. We serve God alone. We serve God by keeping our hearts focused on God’s kingdom. We focus our hearts on the kingdom by keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ, the light of the world.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreMatthew 6:7-15 — This sermon looks at the second half of the Lord’s Prayer. We continue to glorify God. Even though our needs are now in focus, it is ultimately still about God’s glory because God gives, God forgives, God protects and delivers us. All because of his amazing grace and all for his glory.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreMatthew 6:7-15 — We pray in faith with hope and love. We pray to worship, honor and glorify our Father in heaven. His glory, his holy Name, his kingdom, his will, must be the focus and priority in our prayers. Even when in supplication and intercession we pray for ourselves and others, those prayers ultimately serve our Father’s glory. This sermon deals with the first part of the Lord’s Prayer.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreMatthew 6:1-6, 16-18 — We live the kingdom life to glorify God and to proclaim God’s kingdom. Our Father’s glory is our reward. We do not seek the approval and rewards of people and the world.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
Read MoreMatthew 5:43-48 — Love our enemies and be perfect as our Father is perfect. We are children of God. Therefore, we must love like God loves, with extraordinary love. We love our enemies with our actions, words, and prayers. In this world we live as God’s peculiar, radically different-from-the-world Kingdom people. This is possible because … We are perfect because we are in Christ. We are becoming perfect because the Holy Spirit makes us perfect.
This is part of our series, Living the Kingdom Life, based on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7.
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