Matthew 6:1-24,Genesis 16:1-18:15,Psalm 7:1-17,Proverbs 2:1-5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 6:19-21

A treasure (according to the notation of the word) signifieth something laid up for tomorrow, for future time; more largely it signifieth any riches, or what we judge a valuable portion. Make not the things of the earth your riches, or portion, with reference to future time; for all the riches of the earth are perishing, contemptible things; silver and gold is what rust will corrupt, clothes are what moths will spoil, any other things are subject to casualties, and, amongst others, to the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 6:22-23

You had need look to your hearts, your understanding, judgment, and affections; for look what proportion there is betwixt your bodily eye and the rest of the bodily members, with regard to their guidance and conduct, the same proportion there is betwixt your heart and whole conversation, with reference to the guidance of it with relation to God. The eye is the window by which the soul looks out to guide the body; if that be not impaired by the defluxion of humours, &c., but be single, it... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 6:24

No man can serve two masters, that is, two masters that command contrary things each to other, for that is the present case of God and mammon. Or, No man with the like diligence, and alacrity, and faithfulness, can serve two masters. It is a proverbial speech, and in reason to be understood of contrary masters. He will either hate the one, or the first, and love the second, or else he will cleave to the first, and contemn the other, that is, so in his actions behave himself, that he will appear... read more

Joseph Exell

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

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 6:19-24

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 6:19-20. Lay not up … lay up. An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half of this precept would discourage thrift, destroy commerce, and deprive the world of the manifold benefits of capital. It is plain that our Lord, in contrasting the two kinds of treasures, uses this emphatic idiom in order to point out in the most forcible way the kind which is beyond measure the more important (J. G. Carleton). Rust.—Money was... 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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 6:19-21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 6:22-23

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 6:24

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 6:19-24

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

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