Matthew 6:22-24

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Our Seeing and Serving -- Lonnie Bell
Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 6:22-24
3 September 2017

Deep Sheet: Sermon Study Questions
1. How and why is the Sermon on the Mount so convicting? In what ways have Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount most challenged you?
2. What does it mean to have an evil eye? What do you see when you look out into the world? (Psalm 119:10, 15; Proverbs 28:22; 23:6-7; 22:9)
3. Why should we care about the condition of our eyes? In other words, what does Jesus say about the effect of having an evil eye? (Cf. James 3:6)
4. What would you say is the main objective of your life? Take some time to confess specific ways that the Holy Spirit has convicted you with regard to your storing, seeing and serving (vv. 19-24).
5. How does this discussion of slavery bring us back to Christ’s redeeming work at the cross? What does it practically mean to be Christ’s slave? (1 Timothy 6:10; Luke 14:26; Titus 2:14)

Matthew 5:27-30

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Adultery Rightly Understood -- Lonnie Bell
Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5:27-30
30 April 2017

DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. Why do we have a tendency to think of adultery as merely external? What does Jesus have to say about the heart?
2. How do Jesus’ words bring together the 7th and 10th Commandments (Exodus 20:14, 17)?|
3. Why should Jesus’ teaching on adultery humble us and draw us to the cross?
4. How do the eyes both follow and inform the heart? Discuss the examples of Job (31:1, 9) and David (2 Samuel 11:2-4).
5. What would it look like for you to make a “covenant with your eyes” (Job 31:1)? Discuss what it means to avoid repeating, gazing, dwelling, imagining, and pursuing.
6. Why do these verses represent such a serious indictment of pornography in particular? Discuss the negative effect of pornography on one’s marriage.
7. In response to vv. 29-30, what do you need to cut off or dig out of your life in order to protect yourself from the destructive power of sexual sin? How does Romans 8:13 encourage us to fight without relying on our own strength?