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Matthew 6:7-8 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches His disciples to pray to their Father who loves and understands them, not like the Gentiles who utter meaningless repetitions in order to manipulate their gods to get what they want.
Matthew 6:5-6 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches that it is better to pray to your Father in secret and be rewarded by Him than it is to pray in a way to be seen by men and be thought holy by them.
Matthew 6:2-4 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus warns against giving to the poor to win the hollow rewards of man’s approval and self-congratulation of self-righteousness. Instead He encourages His disciples to seek the greater reward from their Heavenly Father by giving without regard to being seen by men.
Matthew 6:1 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus presents the basic warning he will repeat with various examples throughout the next several verses. He warns against displaying outward acts so others will think well of you, that you are righteous. If we do this, Jesus assures us that we will already have our reward, and our heavenly Father will not reward us any further. This will be a great loss that should be avoided.
Matthew 5:43-47 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus offers and commands a radically different view of love than what is offered by the world.
Matthew 5:48 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus summarizes and commands the character standard of those who are in His kingdom.
Matthew 5:38-42 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus flips the world system of ‘justice’ on its head. He tells His disciples to seek out opportunities to serve rather than looking for opportunities to exact payback under the letter of the law.
Matthew 5:33-37 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus demonstrates that righteousness and harmony is not a matter of oaths, but plain honesty and simple truth-telling.
Matthew 5:31-32 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus closes a loophole that men used to exploit Moses’s teaching on divorce.
Matthew 5:29-30 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus uses two graphic metaphors—it is better for disciples to pluck out their eyes and cut off their hands—as a way to memorably express an important truth. It is better to deny yourself in this life for His sake than to miss living life in His kingdom and enjoying its incredible benefits.
Matthew 5:27-28 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches that the external sin of adultery and the internal sin of lust are both violations of God’s Covenant.
Matthew 5:25-26 meaningMay 22, 2024
Reconciliation is important not just for your brother, but also for someone with whom you have a dispute. Settling a wrong quickly avoids consequences that are more severe.
Matthew 5:23-24 meaningMay 22, 2024
Concluding His example of how anger is a demonstration of disharmony (unrighteousness), Jesus shares a way this can be applied.
Matthew 5:21-22 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus says that righteousness is a matter of both outwardly following the Law and inwardly reflecting the spirit behind the law. Acting in violence and harboring violent attitudes results in disharmony (unrighteousness).
Matthew 5:17-20 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus tells His disciples that He is not abolishing the law, but fulfilling what Moses and the prophets taught. However, He makes clear that professional law-keepers have insufficient righteousness to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:13-16 meaningMay 22, 2024
Following the chiasm often called the “Beatitudes” Jesus uses the metaphors of ‘salt’ and ‘light’ to describe His disciples and the impact they are to have upon this world.
Matthew 5:10-12 meaningMay 22, 2024
The eighth and final statement (A’) of Jesus’s Makarios chiasm deals with being righteously persecuted. Jesus reiterates this point by telling His disciples that God will reward them for their righteous living in the face of persecution.
Matthew 5:9 meaningMay 22, 2024
The seventh statement (B’) of Jesus’s chiasm focuses on being a peacemaker.
Matthew 5:8 meaningMay 22, 2024
The sixth statement (C’) of Jesus’s chiasm focuses on inner purity (purity of heart).
Matthew 5:7 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus’s statement is the second central theme of Jesus’s chiasm. It focuses on Jesus’s Kingdom platform of the mercy principle: Be merciful and receive mercy.
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