In Matthew 6:1-18, Jesus addresses three outworkings of righteousness, almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. For each one, the emphasis lays on uniting act and intention in the direction of glorifying God
As Jesus confronts a hypocritical way of praying in Matthew 6, he makes a profound statement about the relationship of kingdom disciples to the King when he begins his model prayer with the words, “Ou
In the second half of Matthew 5, Jesus lays out the relationship of the children of the kingdom to the law according to his own fulfillment of it. In the first half of Matthew 6, we encounter a furthe
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