Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6.  We have been studying the Gospel of Matthew and in particular the Sermon on the Mount for the past few weeks.  Concentrating on chapter 5 and Jesus’ teaching on the law.  In that passage, Christ had contrasted His proper understanding of the law with the Pharisees misinterpretation of the law, and in particularly in Matthew 5:17-48, we saw Christ contrast His teaching in six specific areas with the Pharisees.  As Christ moves from Matthew 5 to Matthew 6, His focus turns from the teaching of the Pharisees to the practice of the Pharisees.  He had opposed the Pharisees teaching in Matthew 5, now He addresses their practice.  In Matthew chapter 5, He had said that they had misunderstood the commands of the will of God.  Now He…