Sermon on the mount
Do you want everything you
could ask for??
Matthew 7:6
Lets recap
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The sermon was Jesus teaching his followers about
the law
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The sermon was
Jesus setting the course of His ministry
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The sermon is as
relevant today as ever
o Some believe its not
o If your not convinced that the Sermon on the Mount is relevant
for us today, you can be sure you will not desire or make an effort to live as
Jesus taught.
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IT takes the help
of the holy spirit to do what Jesus is asking us to do
o Such a righteousness—which includes blessing and loving
our enemies—is possible, yes, but only by the Holy Spirit
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The sermon
happened over several days
What is the Sermon on the Mount for??
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The purpose of the
Sermon on the Mount is to demonstrate the kind of teaching—and the kind of
living with regard to character and conduct—that should govern the people of
God through the power of the Holy Spirit.
o It show us we cant rely on our selves
o We have to trust and rely on Jesus
o We need the holy spirit to live in us
o We need God to live this life like Jesus
§ With out him it is impossible
Matthew 7:7–11 (ESV)
7“Ask,
and it will be given to you; seek,
and you will find; knock, and it
will be opened to you.
8For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks
finds, and to the one who knocks it
will be opened.
9Or which one of you, if his son asks him for
bread, will give him a stone?
10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a
serpent?
11If you then, who are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven
give good things to those who ask him!
So what have we learned so far??? (7:1-6)
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We have seen
that we are not allowed to play God by judging others.
o This is His sole right.
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We have also
understood that judging is best defined as uncalled-for criticism.
o If you dish out uncalled-for criticism, you will get
it back.
o God Himself will even turn on you for the moment.
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So it is in our
best interest to practice Jesus’ teaching—that if we judge we will get it back,
and if we don’t judge, we won’t be judged
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The plank in us
magnifies and blinds: It magnifies the other person’s fault and blinds us to
our own problems (sins).
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We can get
involved but with great caution and only after we make sure we aren’t
personally involved!
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Don’t waste
your time on folks that aren’t ready
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Be careful if
you do you might get bit!
So I am going to jump
around a little in these verses to help you get what this is all about!
I will tell you what it
is not!
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It is not about
getting everything you want
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It is not about
material things
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It is not about
you rising to the top!
So lets get to it!
Even bad folks give the basics to their kids!
9Or which one of you, if his son asks him
for bread, will give him a stone?
10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a
serpent?
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Most people are
good to there kids
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Most people
provide the basic needs of there kids
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Even serial
killers have had kids and raised them to the best of there ability
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God imprinted
this on our hearts
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To take care of
our kids basic needs
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Even an
absentee parent if there kids were with them would make sure they had food and
shelter!
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And I think
everyone in this room tries to be a good parent
But earthly parent are limited!
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Most of us in
here have had a bad experience with our parents
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If you’re a
parent you have done things that weren’t the best for our kids
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Maybe your in
debt and cant provide like you would like
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We are limited
by the world we live in
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We are limited
by our experience
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We are limited
by how we were raised
And some of us had bad parents!
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Maybe you were
abused
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Maybe you were
neglected
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Maybe your dad
or mom didn’t stick around
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Maybe one died
early
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Maybe they were
to busy trying to make it that you felt alone, and abandoned
The key to all this is we have a skewed view of God
the father
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We only have a
limited view because we have only seen limited parents
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We have to in
the beginning of our walk get a proper view of God the Father
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That is what
the sermon on the mount I think is all about
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I think Jesus
is trying to get us hungry to find out just who God is!
o He is trying to give us a new picture of what our
HEVANLY FATHER is
o He wants us to crave it, to want to understand just
what having a father in heaven means
o He wants us to know that if we can figure this out
we not only have security in eternity we also have joy right here on earth, a
little piece of heaven right here!
Here is where I see that!
11If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Jesus says it right
there! We are evil!
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We are all evil
by nature
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We are all evil
because of the fall
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And even us who
are evil try and do right by our kids
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Never forget
that your evil and there is a war inside you
Jeremiah 17:9
(ESV)
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately sick; who can understand it?
1 Corinthians
15:22 (ESV)
22For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all
be made alive.
Here is where he tells us God is so much more than
we know from our earthly experience!
How much
more will your Father who is
in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
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How much more
will God look out for you
·
How much more
will Jesus work with you
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How much more
will Jesus want what is best for you
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How much
more??? My question to you do you know??
o Do you know who God is
o Are you close
o Do you talk daily
o Do you study daily
o Are you hungry to know all you can about the
greatest Dad and Big brother any will ever have
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Or are you just
dragging on waiting until you get to heaven?
· Or do you want
everything you could ask for right NOW??? (MAKE SURE TO ASK THIS QUESTION)
I am going to tell you how you get heaven on earth
right NOW!
You PRAY!
7“Ask,
and it will be given to you; seek,
and you will find; knock, and it
will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks
finds, and to the one who knocks it
will be opened.
Matthew Henry
Here is a precept in
three words to the same purport, Ask,
Seek, Knock (v. 7); that is, in one word, “Pray; pray often; pray with
sincerity and seriousness; pray, and pray again; make conscience of prayer, and
be constant in it; make a business of prayer, and be earnest in it.
Ask, and it will be given to you, now on
to the prosperity preaching! NOT!
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Does this mean
anything I ask God for I will get! NO
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Remember he is
a good father, the best
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And he knows
what is best for you!
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God wants you
to know him on a personal level, a intimate level
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And we do that by
praying
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Jesus is
telling us here that we are to pray, ask for Gods will, ask for Him to revel
our sins
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Ask him to
continue to work on us and for us
Are we not to ask for things, for healing, for
others?
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Sure you are
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God wants us to
open our hearts to him
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Share our
dreams
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Lift others up
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But most of all
he wants you to learn from him and about him
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And what better
way to get to know some one then to spend time with them!
For everyone who asks receives!
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There is no
unanswered prayers
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God will always
answer you
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Maybe not the
way you think
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Maybe not what
you want
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But he will
always answer a heart that prays
“If you desire more
of God, ask Him! Tell Him your heart. Don’t reason in your mind by saying, “He
already knows what I want.” Become like a child and ask Him as if He were being
informed.”
Are
you begging and pleading God with your prayers? You say I will never beg! I say
this “you can beg now or you can beg later in hell its up to you! Get humble,
geek meek and seek Gods face in prayer!
Some times he answers right away some times he
doesn’t so what are we to do until he does??
Seek, and you will find!
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God is looking
for those who want Him so much that they not only ask but seek!
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He looking for
people who wont take no for an answer
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He is looking
for people who look for him everywhere
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He is looking
for people who pray for something until the answer is reveled!
How important is God to you?
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Seeking is
aimed to test our seriousness.
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For those who
say, “I asked, nothing happened,” I say: How important is knowing God to you?
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How interested
are you in having a greater anointing of the Spirit?
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It is all about
God—and wanting more of Him.
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Seeking is a
relentless pursuing of God.
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As A. W.
Tozer has said, we can have as much of God as we want.
Why doesn’t God just answer when I ask!
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A lot happens
on the journey in seeking answers
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We learn about
ourselves
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We learn about
the one we seek
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Some times the
hard we look the sweeter the find
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God is not
betraying you when he doesn’t answer he is teaching you to want more of him and
less of you
Things happen when we seek God!
Seeking God goes through
stages:
(1) duty—when you know
in your heart what you should do;
(2) desire—when there is
a yearning to seek Him;
(3) decision—when you
stop any delay, only act;
(4) determination—you
will not let things hinder you;
(5) discipline—when you
overcome any diversion that would turn you in the wrong direction;
(6) discovery—when you
find out how real God can be. “I love those who love me, and those who seek me
find me” (Proverbs 8:17). “Whoever finds me finds life
and receives favor from the Lord” (Proverbs 8:35);
(7) delight—the joy of
His presence. “You will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal
pleasures at your right hand” (Psalm 16:11). It is
worth waiting for, worth seeking.
And the one who seeks finds
This is all designed so we seek Gods Face!
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When we seek
his face we revel His heart
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When we revel
his heart, he expose sin
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When he expose
sin we change
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When we change
we start to get a little heaven on earth!
NOW I HAVE TO KNOCK!
Knock, and it will be opened to you
Why knock?
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We knock to get
the attention of one on the other side of the door.
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Why do we knock
on the door to get God’s attention?
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It is because
God requires it.
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We must never
underestimate what a privilege prayer is.
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We must never
take for granted the enormous joy that
is on the other side of the door—when it opens.
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When something
is given with ease we tend to not appreciate it.
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When your
knocking you get know Gods ways
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We get to know
him deeper
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We are not just
seeking now, we are pounding on the door
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We are wanting
to be in his presence
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And the more
you get to know him the more you want to know!
Why God wants you to knock!
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God wants to
see just how bad you want it
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God wants to
see who is in it to win it
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Do you want
more of GOD?
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If you keep
seeking and start knocking you get Gods attention
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If you give up,
you may never know what God could have and would have done for you right here
on earth
What does knocking look like??
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When we cry
(tears) seeking God your knocking
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When you fall
to your knees seeking God your knocking
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When you have
dome all you can do and beg God your knocking
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When you wont
give up and keep asking your knocking
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Never stop
praying, never stop asking never stop seeking keep knocking
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Keep pressing,
keep pursuing God!
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The rewards are
amazing!
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