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MATTHEW 6:15 avnqrw,poij {C}
It is problematic whether an original reading ta. paraptw,mata auvtw/n
was omitted by copyists as unnecessary, in view of the presence of the
same words in ver. Matthew 6...
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Verse Matthew 6:15. _BUT IF YE FORGIVE NOT_] He who does not awake at
the sound of so loud a voice, is not _asleep_ but _dead_. A
_vindictive_ man excludes himself from all hope of eternal life, and
h...
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FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES - If ye forgive others when
they offend or injure you.
YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU - This is constantly
required in the Bible. See the notes at Ma...
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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 IF YE FORGIVE MEN... YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL FORGIVE YOU.
Our Lord makes it. condition of our obtaining forgiveness that we
shall forgive. The importance of this condition is shown by our Lord
r...
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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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So, then, pray in this way: Our Father in heaven, let your name be
held holy: Let your Kingdom come: Let your will be done, as in heaven,
so upon earth: Give us to-day bread for the coming day: Forgiv...
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VER 14. "FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER
WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU: 15. BUT IF YE FORGIVE NOT MEN THEIR TRESPASSES,
NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER FORGIVE YOUR TRESPASSES."
Rabanus...
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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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DISCOURSE: 1319
A FORGIVING SPIRIT NECESSARY TO OUR ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD
Matthew 6:14. _For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men th...
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FOR IF YE FORGIVE, &C.— From what our Lord here says, we are not to
imagine that the forgiving of injuries will entitle us to pardon: it
only places us in a condition to receive it through faith alone...
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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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But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
BUT IF YE FORGIVE NOT ... See the note at .
Having concluded His supplementary directions on the subj...
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14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26.
14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7),
not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel
failed at this point. Their forgi...
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THE EARTHLY TREASURE AND THE HEAVENLY TREASURE. When do we lay up
'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms (Matthew 6:2), or pray
(Matthew 6:5), or fast (Matthew 6:16), to please God rather than ma...
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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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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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The condition implied in the Prayer itself is more distinctly
asserted. It is, as we have seen, not an arbitrary condition, but the
result of the eternal laws of the divine order. Repentance is the
co...
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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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HOW TO PRAY AND HOW TO FAST
Matthew 6:9-18
This might more fitly be termed the “disciples' prayer.” As we
tread its stately aisles, we cannot but think of the myriads who have
stood on the same pavem...
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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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But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
We must not suppose from those expressions at the close of the LORD'S
prayer, as if the condition of our f...
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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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_THE GRAND DOXOLOGY_
‘For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever,
Amen.’
Matthew 6:13
As the Lord’s Prayer began by asking three things concerning
God,—that His name, that His...
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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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BUT IF YOU FORGIVE NOT MEN THEIR TRESPASSES,.... On the other hand,
where men are not of a forgiving temper to their fellow creatures and
fellow Christians, how can they expect forgiveness at the hand...
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But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
Ver. 15. _But if ye will not, &c._] This is a matter much to be
observed, therefore so often inculcated....
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An unforgiving temper, if continued, will shut a man out of heaven,
and shut him up in hell....
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A necessary warning: FOR IF YE FORGIVE MEN THEIR TRESPASSES, YOUR
HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU. But if ye forgive not men their
trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
T...
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For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Houses and fields
and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. The desolation of
the land of Judah would last only for the length of time w...
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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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9-15 Christ saw it needful to show his disciples what must commonly
be the matter and method of their prayer. Not that we are tied up to
the use of this only, or of this always; yet, without doubt, i...
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Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer
Thus, moreover, John also in his epistle warns us, and says, "If we
say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us; but if we confe...
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Matthew 6:15 But G1161 not G3362 forgive G863 (G5632) men G444 their
G846 trespasses G3900 neither G3761 your...
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HOW TO PRAY - THE LORD'S PRAYER (6:9-15).
The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9).
We should note in using the description ‘The Lord's Prayer' that
this is not to be seen as how the Lord Himself actually pra...
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For if you forgive men their trespasses,
Your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,
Neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Jesus then ad...
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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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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 6:14-15. These verses explain the fifth petition (Matthew
6:12), substituting the word ‘trespass' for ‘debt,' as some
liturgies do in the Lord's Prayer itself. In ‘debt' the notion of
obligati...
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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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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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IF YOU FORGIVE OTHERS. Our Lord makes it a condition of forgiveness
that we show a spirit of mercy and forgiveness to others....
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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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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:14 FORGIVE YOUR TRESPASSES refers to
restoring relationship following sin, not salvation.
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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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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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GOD'S FORGIVENESS FOR SINS
Matthew 6:14; _Matthew 18:21_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The question which the words of our first text propound, is, Is
forgiveness conditional? In answering this query we would...