True Religion, Part 2: Praying
If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Matthew chapter 6, as we continue our study of this great Gospel of Matthew and of the Sermon on the Mount. Last time we were together in this passage, we looked at the first four verses of Matthew chapter 6 and saw the Lord’s teaching on Christian giving. You remember that as we studied chapter 5, the first section of the Sermon on the Mount, we said that Jesus particularly in verses 17-48 of chapter 5, was that it pains to show the error in the Pharisees teaching about the law. There he contrasted what the law truly meant and what the Pharisees said the law meant. And one of the themes that we saw repeated over and over, was Jesus’ insistence that the law cannot merely be kept by going through the motions externally. The law…