Matthew 5-7 contains the longest of Jesus’ collected teachings. Within it are some of the most well-known and quoted passages not just from Jesus’ life, or the bible, but in all of religious history. Not only is it the most well-known and quoted, but it is often the most misunderstood. In the book of Matthew, Jesus’ ministry begins with him preaching the “good news (or the gospel) of the kingdom.” It is here in the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus describes what life in this kingdom is like, how those who are a part of this kingdom of heaven should and can live. Jesus challenges our fundamental assumptions of happiness, righteousness, love, anger, obedience, and so much more. By this Jesus describes a kingdom in which true happiness, true righteousness, true obedience, true love can be a reality for us, on earth “As it is in Heaven.”
This week we pick up in Matthew 6:19-34. Within this passage, Jesus takes the principles that he has explained thus far in the Sermon on the Mount and applies them to the most trying areas of our life, money and anxiety. In this passage, Jesus wants us to know we ought to treasure God above any material blessing, and it is because of God's loving character, in the Kingdom we can be free from the anxieties of this life. As 6:33 says, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
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