Matthew 7:7-11

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A New Start, Part 2 -- Lonnie Bell
Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 7:7-11
15 October 2017

Deep Sheet Questions: Sermon Study Questions
1.  Although Jesus’ words of promise here are directed to the Christian, what should this teaching communicate to the non-Christian? (Romans 10:13)
2. In what ways have you seen prayer as a “duty” or a “key”?
3.  How does Jesus tie together prayer and God’s fatherhood in the Sermon on the Mount
What are the implications for how we should conceive of prayer? (Matthew 6:5-13)
4.  What is the comparison that Jesus makes at the end of this passage, and what does he want to highlight about our heavenly Father? (Matthew 6:25-34; Luke 11:13; Ephesians 5:1)
5. What does it mean to say that God gives out of what he has already given? (Romans 8:32; Titus 3:6; 2 Peter 1:3; Ephesians 1:3)
6.  What are some implications of this passage for parenting?

Matthew 6.11-15

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Asking Abba, Part 1 -- Lonnie Bell
Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 6.11-15
23 July 2017

Deep Sheet: Sermon Study Questions:
1. How has our time spent discussing prayer altered your priorities? Have you
tried using the Lord’s Prayer as a skeleton for your prayers?
2. What does it look like to really believe that God rules, owns and dispenses?
How does the petition, “Give us this day our daily bread,” force us to
acknowledge that everything we have is “from God”? (Matthew 5:34-35;
Romans 11:36; James 1:17; Genesis 1:1; Psalm 104:10-15; 1 Corinthians 4:7)
3. What does “bread” symbolize? In what ways do you struggle to believe that
God cares even for your smallest, seemingly insignificant physical needs?
4. As we consider how God meets our needs, what does it mean to say that he
does so in his wisdom, in the midst of a fallen world, through our labor, and
through others? (Philippians 4:19; Proverbs 30:8-9; Psalm 34:19; Genesis
3:19; 2 Thessalonians 3:12; Acts 2:45; Romans 12:13; Titus 3:14)
5. How does praying for our “daily” bread keep us from complacency and
worry? In what particular ways have you seen God provide for you and your
family day-by- day? (Exodus 16:4)
6. What does it mean to view our physical needs with a proper, eternal
perspective? How does this petition for daily bread lead us to consider our
spiritual nourishment? (Matthew 6:32-33; John 6:35; Matthew 4:4; 1
Corinthians 10:31)