The Sermon on the Mount – Session 6

Where Your Treasure Is

Reading: Matthew 6 & 7

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Lecture Handout

Sermon on the Mount Handout – Session 6

 

Lesson Notes

• Matthew 6: 19-24
  • Bonhoeffer, “Only by following Christ alone can he preserve a single eye.”
  • Calvin, “What is here said with a special reference to riches, may be properly extended to every other description of vice.”
  • Bonhoeffer, “Everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the where our heart is.”
• Matthew 6: 25-34
  • Wesley, “Let us not be so ungrateful to Him, nor so injurious to ourselves, as to harass and oppress our minds with that burden of anxiety, which He has so graciously taken off.”
  • Bonhoeffer, “Only God can take care, for it is He who rules the world. Since we cannot take care, since we are so completely powerless, we ought not to do it either. If we do, we are dethroning God and presuming to rule the world ourselves.”
  • Luther, “It is man’s bounden duty to work and do things, and yet withal to know that it is. Another who nurtureth him. It is not his own work but the bounteous blessing of God.”
  • Bonhoeffer, “Neither anxiety nor work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.”
• Matthew 7: 1-12
  • Bonhoeffer, “Instead of cutting themselves off from their brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.”
  • Bonhoeffer, “Christian love sees the fellow-man under the Cross, and therefore sees with clarity.”
  • Bonhoeffer, “The disciples of Christ are to love unconditionally. Thus they may effect what their own divided and judiciously and conditionally offered love could never achieve, namely the radical condemnation of sin.”