The Sermon on the Mount – Do for God, Not Self
This week’s passage: Matthew 6:1-8, 16-34 What is Your Motivation? Matthew Chapter 6 provides clear guidance about our motives when we give, pray, and fast, our words when we pray, what we consider treasure, and why we need not worry about how we will make it through life on earth. Let’s take a look at the chapter, setting aside verses 9-15 for next week. In verses 6:1-18 Matthew records the words of Jesus as He addressed our motives for giving, prayer and fasting. “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. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.” (Matthew 6:1-2 ESV) Are you volunteering at the soup kitchen so that others might see and think t...