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Verse Matthew 6:8. _YOUR FATHER KNOWETH WHAT THINGS YE HAVE NEED OF_]
Prayer is not designed to _inform_ God, but to give _man_ a sight of
his misery; to humble his heart, to excite his desire, to inf...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World;
Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_
Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness
surpass th...
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THE FULFILLED LAW IN RELATION TO THE LIFE OF THE PHARISEES. Mt. only,
though the digression on Prayer (Matthew 6:7) has parallels in Lk.
MATTHEW 6:1 is a general warning; three aspects of the mechani...
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FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWETH.
Here is given abundant reason for short prayers. The Father already
knoweth what we need. Our prayers do not tell our Father our needs,
but simply confess our consciousness o...
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And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they are
fond of praying standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the
streets, so that they may be seen by people. This is the truth...
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THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18)
When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are
immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the
place of the...
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KNOWETH. Greek. _oida._ Very significant in this connection....
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_for your Father knoweth … before ye ask him_ Our Father knows our
wants, still we are bound to express them. Why? because this is a
proof of our faith and dependence upon God, which are the condition...
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ΟἾΔΕΝ ΓᾺΡ Ὁ ΠΑΤῊΡ Κ.Τ.Λ. Our Father knows our
wants, still we are bound to express them. Why? because this is a
proof of our faith and dependence upon God, which are the conditions
of success in praye...
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VER 7. "BUT WHEN YE PRAY, USE NOT VAIN REPETITIONS, AS THE HEATHEN DO:
FOR THEY THINK THAT THEY SHALL BE HEARD FOR THEIR MUCH SPEAKING. 8. BE
YE NOT THEREFORE LIKE UNTO THEM: FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWETH W...
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_THE ACTION OF PRAYING MATTHEW 6:5-15_ : Prayer is to be a simple
petition from a child (Christian) to his Father (God). We are not to
pray to be "seen of men" but to be "heard of God." Prayer involve...
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ΌΜΟΙΩΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΌΜΟΙΌΩ (G3666)
уподоблять; _pass._ быть подобным. _Conj._ с
ΜΉ (G3361) используется в запретах.
ΟΙ ΔΕΝ (G1492) def. perf. в _praes._ означает
"знать"
ΧΡΕΊΑΝ ΈΧΕΤΕ с _...
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DISCOURSE: 1312
DIRECTIONS RESPECTING PRAYER
Matthew 6:5. And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the str...
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BE NOT YE THEREFORE LIKE UNTO THEM— This argument would be forcible
against all prayer in general, if prayer were considered only as a
means of making our wants known to God; whereas it is no more tha...
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D. THE MOTIVES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:1-18)
3. HIS MOTIVE FOR PRAYING TO GOD. (Matthew 6:5-15,)
TEXT: 6:5-15
5.
And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to
s...
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Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
BE NOT YE THEREFORE LIKE UNTO THEM: FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWETH WHAT
THINGS YE HAVE NEED OF B...
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1 The Pharisees deemed alms-giving, prayer and fasting the three most
eminent exhibitions of piety, for alms was the ideal expression of
their relation to their neighbor, prayer of their intercourse w...
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6:8 beg (c-19) _ Aiteo_ . see ch. 7.7....
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MAXIMS FOR PRAYER, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER. Perhaps the most significant
v. of this section is Matthew 6:8, 'Your Father knoweth what things ye
have need of, before ye ask him.' Christians, therefore, a...
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Prayer is not to inform God of our needs, as the heathen think, but
that we may have conscious communion with Him as His children....
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED)
1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus
does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind,
but that we are to look fo...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 6
THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4
V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other
people. Do not do your good works...
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YOUR FATHER KNOWETH. — This truth is rightly made the ground of
prayer in one of the noblest collects of the Prayer Book of the
English Church — “Almighty God, the Fountain of all wisdom, who
knowest...
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CHAPTER 7
The Gospel of the Kingdom
("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1
IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon
on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
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_Further instruction in prayer_. Weiss (Mt.-Evan.) regards this
passage as an interpolation, having no proper place in an
anti-Pharisaic discourse. Both the opinion and its ground are
doubtful. As reg...
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Matthew 6:8, οὖν, infers that disciples must not imitate the
practice described, because it is Pagan, and because it is absurd.
Repetition is, moreover, wholly uncalled for. οἶδεν γὰρ :
the God whom J...
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SECRET GIVING AND SECRET PRAYING
Matthew 6:1-8
First we have the general proposition that righteousness, that is,
one's religious duties, should not be done for the sake of display;
and that princip...
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In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word
"righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost
unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a
statemen...
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CHAPTER 16
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to
spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over
it, and visiting the places of...
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Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Here the LORD speaks of prayer, and which is yet more express in
reference to the LORD. Secr...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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8._For your Father knoweth _This single remedy is sufficient for
removing and destroying the superstition which is here condemned. For
whence comes this folly of thinking that great advantage is gaine...
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This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the
rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring
those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
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BE NOT YE THEREFORE LIKE UNTO THEM,..... Do not be imitators of them,
and follow their ways, who have only the dim light of nature to guide
them; it would be shameful in you to do as they do, when you...
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Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Ver. 8. _Be not ye therefore like unto them_] God would not have his
Israel conform to the...
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_When ye pray, use not vain repetitions_ A multiplicity of words
without meaning, or uttered without seriousness, reverence for God,
sincerity, or faith. The original word, βαττολογησητε, is
derived f...
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Warning against such absurd practices: BE NOT YE THEREFORE LIKE UNTO
THEM; FOR YOUR FATHER KNOWETH WHAT THINGS YE HAVE NEED OF BEFORE YE
ASK HIM.
The Christians should differ from the heathen by a sha...
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Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to
attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How
can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
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5-8 It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ
pray. You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a
living Christian that does not pray. If prayerless, then graceless...
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Ver. 7,8. It appeareth from hence, and from what followeth also, that
the praying here spoken of is vocal prayer; not the mere homage which
the heart payeth to God, by a recognition of him as the foun...
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Tertullian On Prayer
Since, however, the Lord, the Foreseer of human necessities,[65]
Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer
To those who seek God's kingdom and righteousness, He promises that
al...
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Matthew 6:8 Therefore G3767 not G3361 like G3666 (G5686) them G846 For
G1063 your G5216 Father G3962 knows...
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HOW NOT TO PRAY (6:7-9A).
Having gone quietly and secretly into a private room the next question
was as to what kind of praying to avoid. The point being made here is
that the prayers of most men are...
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THEIR RELIGIOUS EXERCISES ARE TO BE KNOWN ONLY TO THE FATHER AND NOT
TO MEN (6:1-18).
We will now, therefore, initially consider together the first four
passages which deal with their religious behavi...
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“Do not therefore be like them,
For your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask
him.
After this manner therefore pray you.”
So they need not think that they should wear down God's...
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Matthew 6:8. THEREFORE, because these things are heathen; the
temptation to adopt or retain heathen worship will arise.
FOR YOUR FATHER, etc. Another and more important reason for avoiding
such pract...
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Our Lord passes from moral to religious duties, enjoining a
‘righteousness' (Matthew 6:1), which exceeds that of the scribes and
Pharisees (‘hypocrites'), and has regard to the character of our
‘Fathe...
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GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding
of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on
earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
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Matthew 6:5-15. SECOND EXAMPLE (_Prayer)._...
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Matthew 6:5
I. "When thou prayest," the Lord says, "thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen o...
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Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and
in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._
We oug...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven._
The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven._
Our blessed Lord does not tell his disciples to give a...
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CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new
revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of
anxiety.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
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Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a
dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old
copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
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YOUR FATHER ALREADY KNOWS. Here is a good reason for short prayers. It
isn't necessary for us to inform God of what is taking place in his
world. But he does wish us to pray to him!...
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_But when ye pray._
PRAYER FORBIDDEN
I. Let us endeavour to explain the nature of the evils here forbidden.
1. Vain repetitions.
2. Much speaking.
3. Undue length.
II. The reason on which the ad...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:7 HEAP UP EMPTY PHRASES. Pagans repeated
the names of their gods or the same words over and over without
thinking (see 1 Kings 18:26;...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:5 Prayer was also expected of God’s
people. Public prayer was a common practice in NT times.
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CHAPTER 6
_Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read
_δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the
reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal,
and...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 6:1. ALMS.—_Righteousness_ (R.V.) is probably correct and
shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding, better
than “alms.” In ch. Matthew 5:20, the disciples a...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 6:1
_The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the
day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns
from cases which could be directly dedu...
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Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the
section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on
the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
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John 16:23; Luke 12:30; Matthew 6:32; Philippians 4:6; Psalms 38:9;...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED)
Matthew 5:43; _Matthew 6:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND
1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them.
That is only natural. But...
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Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of — We do not pray to
inform God of our wants. Omniscient as he is, he cannot be informed of
any thing which he knew not before: and he is always willing...