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About God's relationship to us, these verses teach us that God is our father in heaven, and we are his sons. About God's characteristic response toward us, they teach that as a father in world will give good gifts to his children, even though he is evil, also, even much more than them, will God give good gifts to those who ask him. This differs from a cynical view of God, which views that God is unlike a father but like a abnormal or sick father that does not like to give good gifts to his children, or to see his children happy. A positive understanding of God is important to be able to pray with faith because on it we will base our faith in pray, it motivate us to pray and make us not be afraid to pray.

The lesson is taught in both the Parables of the Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:5-10) and the Widow and the Unjust Judge (Luke 18:1-6) is the one of we are to continue to pray and not give up These relate to the commands in Matthew 7:7-8 in the way as follows. The lessons in these and in Matthew 7:7-8 have the same idea, that is, to continue to do, not give up because each of the commands in Matthew 7:7-8, that is, ask, seek, and knock, are in present tense imperative, it means that they are continued, persistent actions.

That the words "ask," "seek," and "knock" have in common are first, they are active doing, they are not processing by themselves, they need the activeness of a person who does them; second, they are done by a person in order to get something that he/she needs, third, they need efforts to do them, and fourth, only God can fulfill what a person ask, seek, and knock. That distinguishes them from each other are first,

In common dogs and pigs have a similarity of what they eat, that is, they eat the pods, inedible food, the foods that are dirty, decaying In common holy food and pearls would be considered as valuable or important things, or valued very much, holy food was an important and sacred thing in the temple, pearls were precious. Believers turned away from a continued sharing of the gospel in the circumstances that people reject the gospel outright They continued their witness in people who are receptive and hungry for hope

This parable is intended to be funny, because the event in this parable do not surely happen in our lives, but through it Jesus wants to teach us his disciples an important principle. Jesus compares a speck of sawdust with a plank or beam because he wants to teach us that first, unless we take the plank out we are unable to remove the speck, second, taking the plank out in our eyes is not an easy work, it is even painful work, it is much easier to take the plank out than to remove the speck. The speck represents our brother

According to Matthew's account, if we measure out big heaps of judgment with a critical spirit, God will measure out judgment with that measure, that is, big heaps of judgment. According to Luke's account, measuring can be positive in terms of forgiving and giving, if we forgive, we will be forgiven, if we give, we will be given, and can be negative in terms of condemning and judging, if we judge, we will be judge, if we condemn, we will be condemn. Instead of judgmentalism, we should measure out love and good works.

Yes, I have ever, even often, caught myself severely criticizing others Christians behind their backs. The attitude that underlies censoriousness is that of worry or anxiety The psychological concept of "projection" allows us to externalize of somebody

Yes, there is humor intended in Matthew 6:34 The point of Jesus' joke here is deal with today by God

The command in this verse is seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. According to this verse, our seeking God must differ from our seeking of food and clothing in a way that the seeking God is done first, given priority first. The promise found in this verse is if we seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, all things, that is, food, clothing and other things we need, will be given to us as well.

Jesus mentions the "pagans" or "Gentiles" in verse 32 because they are persons that depend on worldly things for your lives, not to God According to Jesus' teaching in this passage a Christian should differ from a Gentile in a way that not run after all things the same as a Gentile do, because Father knows that we need them and he will provide them, and therefore we should run after different things, that is, eternal things. In my life the phrase, "your heavenly Father knows that you need them," has effect of significantly decreasing the worry and increasing the faith.

In this passage does the phrase "do not worry," "do not be anxious," or "take no thought" occurs 3 times Excessive worry borders on sin in a way that makes us close to be without faith, because if we are in that condition we will be in sin as stated by Romans 14:23b states: everything that does not come from faith is sin, and also by Hebrews 11:6: without faith it is impossible to please God.

With his twin Parables of the Birds of the Air and of the Flowers of the Field, Jesus make point that if the Father provides for the least valuable, how much will he care for us who are much more valuable before him. The point is valid, therefore we should believe it.

The overarching theme of Jesus' teaching in our entire passage, verses 21-26 is that

The point of Jesus' parable of settling out of court is that we must reconcile quickly with those we have wronged and not to put off According to this parable we are supposed to settle with our adversary who is taking us to court because we owe him a debt of some kind. "Settling" entails reconcialiaton of disputes with other people that we have wronged The reasons that we should settle are first, we may not be handed to the judge and then we may not be thrown into prison and won

It is wrong with worshipping while a brother has something against us (or us against a brother) that we have something condemned by the Law, that is, anger, murder, and insult. The appropriate action for us to take is to be reconciled first before we do our worship To bring about reconciliation with someone whom we have offended we should go as far as we have made right what we need to and our anger and insult and self-righteousness about it have been replaced by humility and a willingness to reconcile No, there are not any situations that we shouldn't try to resolve. Yes, there are any situations that we can't resolve, those are ones that the other party doesn

Jesus treats calling someone a fool in the same classification as murder because calling someone a fool and murder come from the same root, that is, a heart that lash out in anger and venom, because of which we are guilty before God Yes, murder is not worse than an angry insult in God's eyes If we actually believed that angry attitudes towards others are viewed by God as murder we would not say words that could hurt others, but ones that build and be full of grace.

No, I can not see any tendencies in the church today to effectively "abolish" the Old Testament from our Christian faith yet In a church a "Christian" legalism looks like the lives of Pharisees our salvation is by works not by grace It looks like we live in the era of Sodom and Gomorrah in a church where there are no moral standards and no obedience expected of Christians

Verses 13-16 relate to verses 10-12 in this way. Verses 13-16 are commands from Jesus that each of us must bring his witness to the world through our words and our deeds, and consequently, in relation with verses 10-12, as his witness we must be willing to bear our witness even though it may bring persecution. Hiding our light affects the glory of God: we are the light of the glory of God in this world, we are the agents of evoking to our Father in heaven through our words of witness and our good works and deeds, , so by not saying our words of witness or anything about our faith to people around us, they do not bring glory to him, they do not evoke praise to God because they do not know who is He, what he has done in us. Glory and suffering go hand in hand because they are closely connected and one thing causes the other, our glory causes suffering, and our suffering result in our glory. Jesus' suffering is necessary, because it makes him glorified by his Father, sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2). Our suffering is necessary too. With Romans 12:2 this have to do that not conforming any longer to the pattern of this make us have sufferings

In the life of a Christian disciple Jesus warns us in the parable of "the light of the world

The symptoms of a Christian who has lost his "saltiness" are he or she lives his or her lives that are no differences with the ones of the secular people, that the way of his or her life is the same as that of the secular people; he or she is bland and in sipid, not

In the preservation analogy, Christians are the "salt of the earth" in a sense that Christian by their presence help preserve the world and hold back the wrath of God against it. In the seasoning analogy, Christians are the "salt of the earth" in a sense that Christians

We should rejoice when we are persecuted because great is our reward in heaven That keeps this from being some kind of sick masochism, or finding pleasure in pain is we rejoice in our suffering that result from we have done the righteousness of God, the acts related to our faith in God. The blessing "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" is appropriate for the persecuted because what they have received, that is, suffering and pain as result of what has done, or because of what they stand is worth it and the reward for standing for righteousness is an eternal one.

People with a pure heart can see, know, and discern God because the sins that hinder for them to see God no longer exist, God has taken away them "Chronic" sinners can't see God because they still have sins that hinder to see God, because they live the lives that God do not want as his children. We obtain the pure or clean heart that Jesus describes in a way that reach out to God to purify and cleanse our heart, and then live our lives that devote ourselves only to God, serve God fully and always, not filled with compromise and conformity, **** and licentiousness.

An intense desire for righteousness can put me at odds with the world in a way that makes our lives very different from the world

This sort of gentleness contrasts with the world's ideal in the way as follows. The gentleness in Matthew 5:5 is about enduring injury with patience and without resentment, about humbling ourselves; whereas the world