Responding The Sermon On The Mount

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Christians should be able to decipher the meaning of all verses and how to respond to them. The first thing a Christian should do when studying a verse is make observations on it, then go into the four steps. The four steps are seeing, understanding, connecting, and responding. Seeing is the first step and asks the question, what does it say? Understanding asks the question, what does it mean? Connecting is the third step and asks the question, how does it relate? Responding is the last step and asks the question, So what? One of the most important topics to study in the Bible is the Sermon on the Mount. The Bible talks about fasting and laying treasures in Heaven in Matthew 6:16-24, part of the Sermon on the Mount. In those verses there is …show more content…

The first step in Bible study is seeing. The book of Matthew was written by Matthew. Matthew was one of the twelve apostles of Christ, as well as a disciple of Christ. He was also a tax collector. The Gospel of Matthew was most likely written by the Jews. Matthew 6:16-24 is spoken by Jesus towards a crowd on the top of a mountain. The crowd included people from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan River. Matthew was most likely written in the 50s to 60s A.D. The people in these verses include the Father (God), Jesus, the crowd, and hypocrites. In these verses Jesus is telling the crowd how to properly fast, which is by not letting their fasting be seen by others and only by God. These verses also talk about laying up treasures in heaven, and how whatever we fill ourselves with, we will receive. The last thing the verses talk about is how people can only serve one master. The second step is understanding. These verses were written by Matthew to express the glory of God as well as letting Christians know how to act. Versus 16-18 talks about fasting, and the author is saying that fasting does not change the way one …show more content…

If one does not expect praise from others, they will gain praise from God. The next few verses 19-21 talk about laying treasures in heaven which leads to not worshipping things on earth. If one gets something treasurable, place it in God’s hands, not in the world’s hands because the world is full of sin, but Heaven is full of joy and pure happiness. Wherever one places their sin, that is where their heart is, which will also be where their soul will go. Then, versus 22 and 23 say the eye is the lamp of the body and talk about how whatever one fills their eye with, their whole body will be full of that. This means, if one decides to only see God’s works and his holiness, they will be full of God’s mercy and peace. However, if someone fills themselves with worldly items and idols, they will be full of sin and darkness. This can be a true claim because it has and will always be true that the eye is the lamp of the body. The last verse talks about only serving one master, which means exactly as it says, one cannot serve two people or things at a time. Alluding to the fact that if one wants to worship God, they cannot worship anything

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