Matthew 6:1
This Chapter is a continuation of the former. Most blessedly the LORD JESUS prosecutes the subject of his Sermon through the whole of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
This Chapter is a continuation of the former. Most blessedly the LORD JESUS prosecutes the subject of his Sermon through the whole of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. The LORD JESUS is here giving instructions concerning the gift of alms. And his directions are so plain that they need no comment. Alms-giving, when given with an eye to the divine glory and the... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Secret it must be between GOD and the soul, even in the public congregation, for what indeed is prayer b... [ Continue Reading ]
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. We have here the pattern of prayer; which the LORD JESUS himself hath given. It were to hold up a small taper to the sun, to attempt an explanation of it, so plain, so ev... [ Continue Reading ]
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 forgiveness was suspended upon our forgiving of others. Our glorious Lord could not be supposed to m... [ Continue Reading ]
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. We have our LORD'S direction in these verses concerning the proper observance of Fasts. In which Jesus doth not condemn seasons of humbling the soul, but he... [ Continue Reading ]
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. These directions of our LORD are so very plain that they need no comment. I detain the Reader, however, just to ask, the question... [ Continue Reading ]
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Who can add to the beauties, as well as doctrines of those blessed words of JESUS, by any attempted illustration. I have often read the contents of those... [ Continue Reading ]