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Sermon on the Mount Bible Study Week Seven

Week 7 Day 1    Reread the entire passage (are you sick of this yet?) Is there any new insight you’ve been given? What verse(s) have been coming up in your everyday life?   How has your view of righteousness and eternal focus been changed? What is the Lord asking for your obedience in? Week 7 Day 2 Matt 6:25-27 What’s the therefore there for in vs 25? How do the previous verses help frame the point Jesus is making about not worrying? What 3 things does Jesus say not to worry about in our lives? What question does vs 25 ask?  If you were asked this question, what would your reply be? Lets talk about birds.  How do birds live?  How simple is their life?   Who feeds them according to vs 26? Does worry EVER profit? Has it ever in your life? Consider Luke 10:38-42, what did Martha’s worry rob her of? What do your worries rob you of? Week 7...

Sermon on the Mount Bibile Study Week Six

Week 6 Day 1 Overview     Read the entire passage again.   Looking back on Week 1, Day 1 we asked you to write down anything that confuses you.  Do you have a greater clarity now?   What verse had you determined you would memorize?  How are you doing in that? Write 2-3 bullet points to summarize Matt 6:16-34.  Is there any theme you see through 6:19-34? Week 6 Day 2 Matt 6:16-18 Fasting is one of those Christian disciplines that is rarely practiced today. However, fasting humbles us so that our full attention is given to the One we so desperately need. When we deny ourselves, even of the important necessity of food, we mean to seek the face of God for His wisdom, His forgiveness, and His help because we realize just how much we need Him. On the contrary, perhaps fasting has been so neglected because there really isn't a desperate need for God today . Fasting is first recorded in Deut 9:9-11, referring to ...