FULL SERVICE: * See SERMON ONLY video below
SERMON ONLY:
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- The Secret Service message was based on “Take care not to practice your righteousness in the sight of people, to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven,” but it also governs “Secret Giving”, and todays message, “To Tithe or Not to Tithe, is NOT the question.” (Matthew 6:2-4, and 2 Corinthians 8-9). If someone were to ask you, “what is the central message of Jesus, and how does Matthew 6:1 relate to that?”
- How does the idea of Earthly Watchers vs The Heavenly Watcher go to the heart of the Christian life?
- “There is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do, according to Hebrews 4:13. Did you initially think of this in a negative way? Why? Why Not?
- NO TRUMPETS! How is it not only possible but actually expected by Jesus? There is something in the coming of Jesus that magnifies this. He came as God in the flesh, but did His creation receive Him with Trumpets? In what way is this the hallmark of kingdom citizens?
- Is there a difference between secrecy and the kind of secret living, giving, praying and fasting according to Jesus? See Matthew 5:14-16.
- I quote, “They were not giving but buying. They wanted the praise of men, so they paid to get it.” How is that a good summary of the pharisaical heart?
- Thankfully “there is now no condemnation for those in Christ,” (Romans 8:1) How can the heart be cured of pharisaical hypocrisy according to the gospel?
