Mateo 6:1-18 RVR1960

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 6:1-18

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 6:1. Alms.—Righteousness (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding, better than “alms.” In ch. Matthew 5:20, the disciples are told that their “righteousness” is to exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees. This is explained at length in what follows; in the preceding chapter, as regards the actions themselves; in the present, as regards the motives and manner of performing them. Almsgiving, in the language of the later... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:1

Matthew 6:1 Running through this chapter are two lines of thought that become one in the deep underlying truth: I. The Father's claim. Born of God, we are bound to Him in the deepest, closest, most abiding relationship. This great love of our Father has its claim upon us. His love would have us come close to Him, not as suppliants who knock at the outer door, not as strangers who tarry in the hall and stately courts of the king, but as His children who come right into the inner chamber of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:1-4

Matthew 6:1-4 The Law kept by Sincerity. I. It was the custom for great personages princes and governors and such like when making high procession through some favoured province, to sound a trumpet before them, and scatter largess of gold and silver, whereby they gained the good will of the poor. Our Lord likens the almsgiving of the Pharisees to this kind of lordly display of munificence. Their alms were never distributed without their taking good care, one way or other, to let the good deed... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:2

Matthew 6:2 Here we have I. A profound truth about human nature. Man, as man, works, as our Lord calls it, for a reward. II. A tragic contrast "their reward." There is another reward than theirs another and a higher. III. A judicial sentence which the Divine speaker passes upon some of the men of His time. It is the language of fine irony; it is the language, too, of deep compassion. H. P. Liddon, Penny Pulpit, No. 968. References: Matthew 6:2-4 . J. Oswald Dykes, The Laws of the Kingdom, p.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:5-9

Matthew 6:5-9 I. "When thou prayest," the Lord says, "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." Neither the synagogues nor the streets were the appointed places of prayer. But a custom had risen, since the days of Daniel the prophet, to pray seven times a day, at certain appointed hours; and when these hours came the Pharisee turned at once to his devotions. Very probably the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:6

Matthew 6:6 I. By the word "closet" our Saviour is understood to convey an allusion to the room in the ancient Jewish dwelling which was set apart for the office of lonely prayer. Yet as "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage," for the soul, neither are they, nor any material boundaries answering to them, essential to make the soul's closet of devotion. Even the Jew who lived in the dullest age of ceremony felt this. "The angel said unto me," writes Esdras, "Go into a field... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:9

Matthew 6:9 , Matthew 6:12 I. The request. (1) We are in debt to God. We have only to listen to the voice of conscience to admit this at once. For amongst the deepest of all our instincts is the sense of responsibility a feeling that some things are due from us. (2) The Saviour's word, assuming the guilt of sin, proclaims at the same time the possibility of its pardon. How sweet is the suggestion of this word that forgiveness is granted to those who seek it! For forgiveness is a great word.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:9-10

Matthew 6:9-10 The comprehensive scope and intercessory character of the three petitions. The spirit of a Christian drawing near unto God is a royal spirit. He asks great things for himself and for others. I. For himself. It is written, "Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss." And one of the errors of our prayer may be, that our aim is not high enough that in coming to a King, whose delight is to be bountiful, we do not bring with us a royal spirit and large desires, but a contracted... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:9-11

Matthew 6:9-11 Note: I. The force of this petition. (1) This prayer constrains us to forego all bread but that which God gives. We can get bread from one or other of two deities: the god of this world will give it us, or our Father in heaven. When we say, "Our Father in heaven, give us daily bread," we turn our back on the other giver of bread, on all evil ways of making a living or augmenting our fortune, and ask only such comforts of God's providence as can come to us in an honourable way.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:10

Matthew 6:10 I. As it is in heaven. The nature and manner of heavenly employments are not precisely known to us. But of some of the qualities of that perfect doing of God's will we can treat from what we know of ourselves, who, a little lower than the angels, are, like them, beings with reason and affections and spiritual life before God. And we may observe (1) that their doing of God's will is without selfishness. No idol set up within interferes with the proper aim and end of action. (2)... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 6:1-18

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:1

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:5-9

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:6

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:9

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:9-10

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:9-11

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 6:10

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