Applying Our Prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

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Applying Our Prayer -- Lonnie Bell
Sermon Series:  The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 6:9-13
20 August 2017


Deep Sheet: Sermon Study Questions
1.   How has our time spent studying the model prayer most impacted your attitude towards prayer?
2.   In what ways have you applied the structure and content of the model prayer to specific situations or occasions in your life?|
3.   Why is the holiness of church officers (elders and deacons), and all Christians for that matter, important for the hallowing of God’s name?
4.   Why does praying for God’s will to be done lead us to pray for a Bible-saturated life?
5.   How do church officers serve as one of God’s means for providing his people with daily bread?
6.   How do church officers serve as instruments of reconciliation in a local church? (Titus 1:5-11; Acts 6:1-3)
7.   Why do church officers in particular need constant prayer for spiritual protection?

Murder Rightly Understood

Matthew 5:21-26

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Murder Rightly Understood -- Lonnie Bell
Sermon Series:  The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5:21-26
9 April 2017

DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1)  In what ways had the scribes and Pharisees subtly weakened and watered down God's truth on the topic of murder?
2)  According to Jesus' definition, are we all murderers?  How does this passage bring out the truth of Romans 3:23 and point us to the Savior?
3)  How seriously do you take your anger?  How does Jesus' words challenge you to rethink it, confess it, and repent of it?
4)  What make Jesus' anger expressed in various places in the New Testament different from what's in view in this passage?
5)  What is Hell?  Read and discuss the following passages on "the hell of fire" (v 22):  Matthew 13:42, 50; 25:46; Mark 9:43, 48.
6)  What does this passage teach us about the priority and urgency of reconciliation?  What are some concrete scenarios in which this can be practically applied in our own lives.