Matthew 6

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Matthew's writings of the Gospel of the kingdom were inspired. But what do they really tell us in the context of the times and the precepts of the kingdom of God and the character of those who would enter into it? According to Jesus the pharisees did not know Moses and they were hypocrites.
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Matthew 5 and 6 are red letter decrees of the kimg giving a detailed view of The Way of the Kingdom of God.
What did the Pharisees have wrong about Moses other than the Sabbath, the Clay and stone altars vs the dainties from the tables of rulers which were a [[snare], the confusion about breeches, steps, stoning, Leaven, the Ten Commandments, and much more do to pernitious sophistry?
V1 where is your "Father"? The King James does not account for the Greek word dikaiosynēn[1] meaning righteousness. Giving alms was love to provide for the welfare of the needy while nurturing the social bonds of a free society.
V2 "when thou doest thine alms" The Greek term is eleēmosynēn[2]
"streets" is translated from rhume[3] from rhuomai[4] "to draw to oneself, deliver" to rescue, deliver from danger or destruction.
the word glory is not translated from doxazó[5] but we see doxasthōsin (δοξασθῶσιν)[6] which only appears once. The motivation for "alms" should be love, the purpose of sacrifice was to provide for the welfare of the needy while nurturing the social bonds of a free society.
V[5] The prayer of 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. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
V[6] "enter into thy closet" in your heart.
V[7] not vain repetitions[7], as the heathen do."
V[8] "Your Father knoweth"
V9 Our Father vs the Patronus of Rome, a Father of the earth.
V22 the born again love the light.
Of course, he was talking about pride and boasting of how much you gave but if we look at the whole context there is more.
Also... Left hand or left side had to do with charity almsgiving, grace, even mercy but the right hand had to do with force, law and securing justice. What he is talking about is not mixing these to activities like the gentile nations who call themselves Benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other.
Charity is a matter of choice.[8] In the previous Chapter Matthew 5 Jesus talked about loving one another and not just those that love you but all who seek His kingdom. This is why a network of ministers were important. He was also contrasting the love of His followers with the publicans who were tax collectors.
Taxes are tithes collected at the point of a sword held in the right hand. If people do not give enough you cannot ask the right hand to enforce the collection like the Corban of the Pharisees.
To sum up you would need a network of people who gave charity to all seeking the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. You would need to give regularly beyond those who were in your own congregation or congregation of congregations or you would have little or no Grace. And to keep yourself in the practice of Pure Religion rather than the Covetous Practices of those who bite one another and curse their children and entangle you in the yoke of bondage, you could not use force to provide Welfare, pray to the Fathers of the earth or the right hand of the World. If you did other than that you were not a believer nor follower of Christ.
Pray Our Father in like manner
Thy will be done
Daily bread
Forgive as we forgive
Lead from temptations
Forgive or not forgiven with thanksgiving
Fasting with the Brethren and not the hypocrites
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven with the Brethren not the treasury of the world
Love the light not the darkness and the evil or you are not born again.
Do Not Be Anxious
Scientific studies have not only shown that gratitude lessen stress, but gratitude and anxiety cannot exist in the brain at the same time. The brain cannot respond to anxiety and gratitude at the same time because they use the same part of the brain. It becomes an “either/or” reality but that is easier to accomplish if you believe there is a higher power above everything, a Divine creator or designer of the universe. People of faith have known for centuries that those who practice being thankful for everything, both the good and the bad that happens, the feeling of anxiety diminishes.
Philippians 4:11–12. "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need."
1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 "Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks[9]: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 19 Quench not the Spirit."
Psalms 103:2–6 "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:[10] 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.6 ¶ The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed."
Psalms 107:1–3... "O give thanks[11] unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy[12] [endureth] for ever. 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south."
Lamentations 3:22–24 "22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies[12] that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.[13] 24 The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."
Philippians 4:6–7 "6 Be careful[14] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving[15] let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace[16] of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
Psalms 95:2. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving[17] , and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Colossians 3:16–17 "16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks[9] to God and the Father by him."
Questions
Why is corban meaning sacrifice translated treasury?
What were the graven images of the temples?
How do you invest in the kingdom of God?
Why did Israel create the golden calf?
What does it mean to pray to our father who is not in heaven?
What is the reward of unrighteousness?

Decrees of the king

Pure Giving vs hypocrite

[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.


[2] Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory[6] of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Private prayer vs hypocrite

[3] But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:


[4] That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Public Prayer vs hypocrite

[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. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

[6] But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Vain Repetition vs heathen

[7] But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions[7], as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

[8] Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Pray Our Father in like manner

[9] After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy will be done

[10] Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Daily bread

[11] Give us this day our daily bread.

Forgive as we forgive

[12] And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Lead away from temptations

[13] And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.


Forgive or not forgiven

[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.

Fasting with the hypocrites

[16] Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

[17] But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

[18] 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.

Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

[19] Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

[20] But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

[21] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Love the light not evil

[22] The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

[23] But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

[24] 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.

Do Not Be Anxious

[25] Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought[14] for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

[26] Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

[27] Which of you by taking thought[14] can add one cubit unto his stature?

[28] And why take ye thought[14] for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

[29] And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

[30] Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

[31] Therefore take no thought[14], saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

[32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

[33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

[34] Take[14] 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.



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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1343 ~δικαιοσύνη~ dikaiosune \@dik-ah-yos-oo’-nay\@ from 1342; TDNT-2:192,168; {See TDNT 192} n f AV-righteousness 92; 92
    1) in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
    1a) the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
    1b) integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking, feeling, and acting
    2) in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due
  2. ↑ 1654 ἐλεημοσύνη, eleēmosunē: el-eh-ay-mos-oo'-nay, from 1656, Thayer Definition: mercy, pity especially as exhibited in giving alms, charity the benefaction itself, a donation to the poor, alms
    TDNT entry: 10:05,2, Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine
    Strong's Definition: From 1656; compassionateness, that is, (as exercised towards the poor) beneficence, or (concretely) a benefaction: - alms (-deeds).
    • The Eleemosynary  giving of alms(the German Almosen (and the English alms)) is the benefaction itself, a donation for the poor, donated to the priests for the welfare of the needy.
  3. ↑ 4505 ῥύμη rhume [hroo’-may] prolongation from 4506 rhuomai in its original sense "to draw to one’s self, to rescue, to deliver", akin to 4482 "to flow" (4511 a flowing issue);; n f; AV-street 3, lane 1; 4
    1) a swing, rush, force, trail, of a body in motion
    2) a tract of way in a town shut in by buildings on both sides
    3) a street, a lane
  4. ↑ 4506 ῥύομαι rhuomai [rhoo’-om-ahee] middle voice of an obsolete verb, akin to 4482 rheo to flow (through the idea of a current, cf. 4511 a flowing issue); v; TDNT-6:998,988; [{See TDNT 693 }] AV-deliver 17, Deliverer 1; 18
    1) to draw to one’s self, to rescue, to deliver
    2) the deliverer
  5. ↑ 1392 δοξάζω doxazo [dox-ad’-zo] from 1391 {opinion, judgment, view); v; TDNT-2:253,178; [{See TDNT 197 }] AV-glorify 54, honour 3, have glory 2, magnify 1, make glorious 1, full of glory 1; 62
    1) to think, suppose, be of opinion
    2) to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate
    3) to honour, do honour to, hold in honour
    4) to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour
    4a) to impart glory to something, render it excellent
    4b) to make renowned, render illustrious
    4b1) to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 doxasthōsin from doxazó meaning "to think, to be of opinion" only appears in Matthew 6 as a verb of the third person plural, suggesting the are merely seeking the high opinion of men.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 945 βαττολογέω battologeo [bat-tol-og-eh’-o] from Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and 3056; v; TDNT-1:597,103; [{See TDNT 130 }] AV-use vain repetitions 1; 1
    1) to stammer
    2) to repeat the same things over and over, to use many idle words, to babble, prate. Some suppose the word derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered; others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems. logos
  8. ↑ "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 2168 ~εὐχαριστέω~ eucharisteo \@yoo-khar-is-teh’-o\@ from 2170; v AV-give thanks 26, thank 12, be thankful 1; 39
    1) to be grateful, feel thankful
    2) give thanks
  10. ↑ ‭01576 לוּמגְּ gëmuwl ghem-ool’ ‭from 01580 גָּמַל‎ gamal reward; n m; [BDB-168a] {See TWOT on 360 @@ "360a"} ‭AV-recompense 10, reward 3, benefit 2, given 1, serve + 01580 1, deserve 1; 19
    1) dealing, recompense, benefit
    1a) dealing (of one’s hand)
    1b) recompense
    1c) [benefits|benefit]]
    ‭
  11. ↑ 03034 יָדָה‎ yadah [yaw-daw’] a primitive root [compare 01911 hadah to put or to stretch out (hand)], used only as denominative from 03027; v; [BDB-392a] [{See TWOT on 847 }] AV-praise 53, give thanks 32, confess 16, thank 5, make confession 2, thanksgiving 2, cast 1, cast out 1, shoot 1, thankful 1; 114
    1) to throw, shoot, cast
    1a) (Qal) to shoot (arrows)
    1b) (Piel) to cast, cast down, throw down
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to give thanks, laud, praise
    1c2) to confess, confess (the name of God)
    1d) (Hithpael)
    1d1) to confess (sin)
    1d2) to give thanks
    See towdah 08426 תּוֹדָה‎, thanksgiving.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 02617 חֵסֵד‎ checed [kheh’-sed] from 02616 "show thyself merciful", Greek 964 βηθεσδα; n m; [BDB-338b, BDB-340a] [{See TWOT on 698 @@ "698a" }] [{See TWOT on 699 @@ "699a" }] AV-mercy 149, kindness 40, lovingkindness 30, goodness 12, kindly 5, merciful 4, favour 3, good 1, goodliness 1, pity 1, reproach 1, wicked thing 1; 248
    1) goodness, kindness, faithfulness
    2) a reproach, shame
  13. ↑ 0530 ^הנומא^ ‘emuwnah \@em-oo-naw’\@ or (shortened) ^הנמא^ ‘emunah \@em-oo-naw’\@ from 0529; n f; {See TWOT on 116 @@ "116e"} AV-faithfulness 18, truth 13, faithfully 5, office 5, faithful 3, faith 1, stability 1, steady 1, truly 1, verily 1; 49
    1) firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 3309 μεριμνάω merimnao [mer-im-nah’-o] from 3308 merimna "care" in the sense of "anxiety" from 3307 merizo "divide", distract; n f; merimnao v; TDNT-4:589,584; [{See TDNT 482 }] AV-take thought 11, care 5, be careful 2, have care 1; 19
    1) to be anxious
    1a) to be troubled with cares
    2) to care for, look out for (a thing)
    2a) to seek to promote one’s interests
    2b) caring or providing for
  15. ↑ 2169 ~εὐχαριστία~ eucharistia \@yoo-khar-is-tee’-ah\@ from 2170; TDNT-9:407,1298; {See TDNT 840} n f AV-thanksgiving 9, giving of thanks 3, thanks 2, thankfulness 1; 15
    1) thankfulness
    2) the giving of thanks
    For Synonyms see entry 5883
  16. ↑ 1515 ~εἰρήνη~ eirene \@i-ray’-nay\@ probably from a primary verb eiro (to join); TDNT-2:400,207; {See TDNT 219} n f AV-peace 89, one 1, rest 1, quietness 1; 92
    1) a state of national tranquility
    1a) exemption from the rage and havoc of war
    2) peace between individuals, i.e. harmony, concord
    3) security, safety, prosperity, felicity, (because peace and harmony make and keep things safe and prosperous)
    4) of the Messiah’s peace
    4a) the way that leads to peace (salvation)
    5) of Christianity, the tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and content with its earthly lot, of whatsoever sort that is
    6) the blessed state of devout and upright men after death
  17. ↑ 08426 תּוֹדָה‎ towdah [to-daw’] from 03034 yadah praise, give thanks, confess "to throw, shoot, cast"; n f; [BDB-392b] [{See TWOT on 847 @@ "847b" }] AV-thanksgiving 18, praise 6, thanks 3, thank offerings 3, confession 2; 32
    1) confession, praise, thanksgiving
    1a) give praise to God
    1b) thanksgiving in songs of liturgical worship, hymn of praise
    1c) thanksgiving choir or procession or line or company
    1d) thank-offering, sacrifice of thanksgiving
    1e) confession
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