Week 4 - Secret Righteousness

 

Link to Sunday Service Recording

Text: Matthew 6:1 (ESV)
 

Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.​

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Main Message​​

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• Jesus, in his sermon on the mount, pointed out three acts of righteousness, namely: Giving, Praying, Fasting.

• Jesus, in his sermon on the mount, pointed out three acts of righteousness, namely: Giving, Praying, Fasting

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• Giving

  • JRW Stott - “Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by self-congratulation.”

  • We should give in such a way that there is no temptation for others to glorify the giver rather than God.

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• Praying

  • Ask God’s will as he gives us our daily bread

  • It is God’s will for us to forgive others.

  • It is God’s will for us to be delivered from temptation and evil.

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• Fasting

  • Fasting is not a way to get God to do what we want. 

  • Fasting changes us, not God.

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Reflection Questions:

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1. What is your motive in performing acts of righteousness? To gain favor from somebody or to please God.​

2. What influences us to give? To gain respect? To gain favoritism?

3. How can we bring heaven down to earth?