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Today's Insight from Chuck Swindoll Communicating the truths of Scripture and the person of Jesus Christ in an accurate, clear and practical manner. Come before Him with joyful singing Are you joyful? Really now, is your face pleasant—is a smile frequently there?
Do your eyes reveal a joyful spirit within? When you sing in church, for example, is it with joy? The next chance you get, glance at the fellow in the next car on the freeway. He is never smiling! Look at the lady ahead of you or behind you at the grocery store. The chapter falls neatly into three segments.
First, the Beatitudes verses three through The Beatitudes answer the question, what is it mean to have character Jesus great goal among his followers was not great productivity is not leaving the Great Depression.
They are who you think they are. They are real to the core. One of what that sounds like her. Looks like learn the Beatitudes when you go to chapter 5, verse 13, down through We have another question answered. It means that we shake the salt verse It means that we shine the light verse 14 it means that we spread good deeds among those around us. Please observe her spreading good deeds among the lost and the saved. You don't first find out if a person is a Christian as to how you're going to treat the person as a matter of fact, it doesn't matter whether the person is saved or lost.
If you're doing good deeds you do them and that's when you will discover that individual who was lost become suddenly interested in what it means to be a Christian. Not always, but often so verses 13 to 17 are answering. What is it mean to verse 13 to What is it mean to influence others for the good and then the end of the chapter 17 to What is it mean to be godly. What is it mean to be godly and there are a number of examples that were going to get into his.
We work our way through Jesus is drawing a contrast as he illustrates it from the commandments themselves show you what I mean. Verse You've heard the commandment says you must not commit adultery. I say to you, anyone who looks at a woman with lust already committed adultery say would be settable woman who looks at a man lustfully. It's adultery. Jesus is she is correcting the understanding that it's something in the heart sees dealing with the inner person.
This goes to the heart, look at another when verse , you've heard the loss say a man can divorce his wife by merely giving a written notice of divorce. That's what the religious teachers taught in the days of the first century.
Verse 34 but I say to you, verse 39 but I say to you see he is helping them understand again verse 44 but I say to you, he's clarifying what it means to be truly godly, so out with hypocrisy. That's chapter 5 when you get to chapter 6 here's a new title down with performance down with performance. This section of the sermon digs deeply you think would try to quit trying to look good.
Quit trying to appear pious. Here Jesus reaches over and peels off a two commonly used masks. One is pride look at look at chapter 6, verse one.
What you don't do your good deeds publicly to be admired by others. That's what the chapter was about is what this part of the sermon is about. Don't do what you do to cause other people to admire you or for the purpose of thinking better of you or your father has rewards for you in heaven.
Don't call attention to it in the street simply give, and you will have a reward, but if you give for these other reasons. Your reward is lost. Look at verse five when you pray, don't do it this way.
Like the hypocrites who love to pray in public on street corners where everyone can hear them tell you the truth the reward the that's all the reward deliver receive but when you pray going to your closet by your prayer life be cultivated when you're alone in private not practice when you're in public and the better you learn to pray in private, the more easy you will feel praying in public because you will not be praying to others, but praying to the Lord.
When you fast, don't make it obvious as the hypocrites do they try to look miserable. They let themselves get dirty gallant. They walk around us, so you will realize they been fasting, but when you fast, look normal, clean yourself up. Fasting is to be done in private. Your father who sees everything, will reward you for then the other mask is the mask of looking called when in fact are filled with anxiety and Jesus addresses were re-our favorite indoor sport in the latter half of the six chapter again and again and again.
He addresses were re-worry worry. Verse 25 I tell you not to worry 27 can all your worries at a single moment to your life.
Why worry about your clothing. Tomorrow has enough worries of its own, so you read the sermon on the Mount and you begin to take it to heart. You realize it worry really has no place in your life.
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