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Introduction.
How many of you think that being a follower of Jesus is Hard?
Im not talking about being a convert, sitting in church on Sundays, singing psalms and hymns, though for many of us who struggle to get to church these things can be a challenge in themselves.
I’m talking about being a follower who seeks to honour Jesus in every area of your life.
Your time, your money, your social life, submitting yourself to his teaching, seeking to put sin to death, making him Lord of your Job, your dreams, your goals, your work, your play.
Honouring him with your eyes and your body, your health and your wealth and your fidelity.
How many of you would say that to follow Jesus in this world is Hard?
All around the world today
Dont be surprised that you find it Hard.
Jesus said it would be (The narrow path)
When the whole world is telling you be true to yourself, Jesus teaches bus to be true to God, to deny yourself and pick up your cross.
When the whole world is saying be free, Jesus teaches the worlds freedom is slavery for all who sin are slaves to it.
When the whole world is saying.
We have been going through the early chapters of Matthew’s Gospel at Ross keen Free Church where Jesus teaches what he expects of his disciples and how they are to live for the Glory of God.
We spent a long time in Chapter six and discovered that Jesus sets a very high standard for his followers.
() (Your righteousness must surpass that of the Pharisees in 5:20)
We spent a long time in Chapter six and discovered that Jesus sets a very high standard for his followers.
Therefore, I thought I’d take a moment to answer an important question in todays sermon.
Namely, how are we to live up to them?
How do we turn the other cheek?
How do we give generously?
How do we love our enemies?
How do we go that extra mile, how do we be discerning yet not judgmental, be critical yet not hypocritical?
How do we treat others the way we want to be treated?
We have asked questions of ourselves in the light of Jesus teaching, examining our hearts and asking the Spirit to convict us of sin and lead us in Repentance because so often we miss the mark.
We spent a long time in Chapter six and discovered that Jesus sets a very high standard for his followers.
Therefore, I thought I’d take a moment to answer an important question.
Namely, how are we to live up to them?
How do we turn the other cheek?
How do we give generously?
How do we love our enemies?
How do we go that extra mile, how do we be discerning yet not judgmental, be critical yet not hypocritical?
How do we treat others the way we want to be treated?
How are we to live up to the standards Jesus sets for his followers.
How do we turn the other cheek?
How do we give generously?
How do we love our enemies?
How do we go that extra mile, how do we be discerning yet not judgmental, be critical yet not hypocritical?
How do we treat others the way we want to be treated?
Ultimately, we know from the Bible that none of us have lived up to God’s standards.
That even if our righteousness was to exceed that of the Pharisees it would still be as filthy rags before God.
Therefore, we put our trust in Christ alone for the forgiveness of our sins.
We put our trust in the one who lived in perfect obedience before God, who died in our place for our sins and was raised to life again, and who now intercedes for us before our Father so that we can be forgiven.
Yet, as those who have trusted in Jesus alone for the forgiveness of sins, we still seek to respond to God’s gift by loving God and obeying Christ’s teaching and letting out good deeds shine before men.
How are we to obey His commands?
How are we to live out the sermon on the mount?
How are we to live up to the standards Jesus sets for his followers.
How do we turn the other cheek?
How do we give generously?
How do we love our enemies?
How do we go that extra mile, how do we be discerning yet not judgmental, be critical yet not hypocritical?
How do we treat others the way we want to be treated?
We need wisdom and power if we are to live as Christ disciples in this world.
We need wisdom if we are to live as Christ disciples.
Well in ” along with its parallel account in Lukes Gospel Jesus addresses this issue when he command us in our prayer life to ask seek and Knock.
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
A Materialistic way
A Evangelistic way.
When we pray we are to Ask Seek and Knock
All three verbs ask seek knock imperatives.
They are all in the present tense.
(The NLT brings this out well when it says keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking)
Ask
Who are we asking?
What are we asking for?
This is a really important question.
When people usually quote this passage it is usually used in two ways,
A Materialistic way - Whereby we pray to God for our material needs.
God to give us something we think we need.
It is right and proper to pray to God for these things but that is not Matthews concern in employing Jesus teaching.
What are we asking for?
This is a really important question.
Often when this passage is approached its thought through the lense of praying for God to give us something we think we need.
A job, A house, a spouse.
A Evangelistic way.
- Again it is right and proper to ask seek and Knock if you are looking for God but thats not Matthews main agenda
Matthews concern is how we live as Christs disciples, how we obey his commands from the heart, how we acquire the wisdom and power that we will need to live out the Sermon on the Mount.
interpreted through the leanz of praying for God to give us something we think we need.
A job, A house, a spouse.
Sometimes this passage is referred to as how we are And while it is right and proper to pray for these things what Matthew has in mind here is in quoting Jesus teaching is Jesus answer to how we live like disciples.
Asking in faith implies humility, a dependency on God and an awareness of our needs.
We need God’s help if we are to live the way Jesus Commands us to.
We need God to work in us and through us.
We need to be empowered.
We are asking God the Father for wisdom through the Holy spirit,(Quote Luke)Luke says - How much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
We pray for the spirit because the wisdom and understanding The Spirit gives he helps us to live out our identity as children of God and followers of Christ,
We are asking God our father for the empowering presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit at work within us so that we persevere and obey Christs commands from our very hearts.
We are asking for the Holy spirit to endow us with the wisdom of God.
Luke
Luke says - How much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke says - How much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
T=he New International Vers
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Every Born again Christian without exception has the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.
However our relationship with the Holy spirit does not stop at our conversion.
We are as the Apostle Paul says to “go on” being filled with the Holy Spirit (Imperative) (Command not a suggestion) its the responsibility of every christian to go on being filled.
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