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  Introduction: Carol Conner Why don’t we pray? Some answers: we don’t know what to say, what if we don’t hear, what if we don’t like what we hear, we don’t have time, I’m not good at it, I can’t pray like… We have an Enemy who does not want us praying.   Stop feeling guilt, shame, and condemnation for the reasons we don’t pray and recognize that Satan will lie to you and do everything to keep the church from praying together. See (vs. 5-6) ·          Vs. 5-The Problem: It’s all about them and being seen by others o    Hypocrites- those who profess to do a pious action, but do so with their eye on people... [1] ·          Vs. 6-Solution: Secret Place. Matthew Penner talked about this last Sunday. We need to abide and be with Jesus in the Secret Place.   It is not out of obligation, but from relationship. ·          Not a rule agai...

Introduction: The title for today’s sermon comes from a song recorded in 1966 by Buddy Holly and the Crickets and then the Bobby Fuller Four.  It basically repeats this line over and over “I fought the law and the law won.” It was a song about rebellion.  In today’s passage we see Jesus explaining our relation to the law.  We typically respond to the law in one of two ways: work really hard to keep it (old brother in the parable) or rebel against it (younger brother) which leads to either pride or despair.  As older brothers, we think we are pulling it off and/or judge others who are not as spiritual as us OR as younger brothers, we acknowledge we can’t do it based on our past or repeated mistakes and just give up.  Jesus provides a third option that is great news. Complete (vs. 17-18) ·          Law (The Torah or first five books of the Bible) or the Prophets (Major & Minor) o    Basically a descriptio...

Introduction: #Blessed - Spend any time on social media and you will see this hashtag appear. It appears 137 Million times on Instagram (wedding, babies, relationships, vacations, new jobs). As we begin this morning, I want us to think about the pictures or events in our lives where we would use that hashtag. How many of the things you and I mention are listed in the beatitudes we are going to look at it today?  ·          Descriptive not Prescriptive-It’s describing how things are; not what you need to become ·          Beatitudes not Doatitudes-Things that Jesus wants us to be in power of Spirit not our own strength ·          “The beginning of the Sermon on the Mount is not a to-do list; it is a good news list.  Jesus is describing who has the most to gain by the arrival of His kingdom. He is not prescribing what you must do to enter it.” Skye Jethani pg. ...