King and Kingdom: Fast Like Jesus

May 22, 2016 Speaker: Eric Baker Series: King and Kingdom

Passage: Matthew 6:16–18

MISSIONAL COMMUNITY QUESTIONS

Meditating on Sunday's sermon, "Fast Like Jesus" on Matthew 6:16-18, ask yourself these questions.

  •  What encouraged, challenged, or confused you?
  •  What was the major takeaway from God's Word?

1. The word hypocrite(s) is in Matthew many times. Find and read some of these scriptures. What seems to be the common thread between them? (biblegateway.com search "hypocrite(s)") 

2. Sin may look differently in all different people. In other words, it has many different fruits. However, the root of all sin seems to be pride.

Explain how the root of most all sin boils down to pride.  Jesus used giving to the poor, prayer, and fasting, to reveal how we have a tendency to practice these in public so that we will be rewarded by others praise.  What "good" practice can you be tempted to make into an idol of praise from others?

3. "You can be right until you are wrong." Explain this in context of the sermon/text.

4. Answer these for yourselves:
If ____________ were taken away I could never be the same.
If I could just have _______________ my life would be drastically different.

5. John Calvin once stated, "Our hearts are idol factories." Romans 1 lists all kinds of sinful issues that God had turned the people over to and one of those was 'inventors of evil'.
How are we seeing this play out in our own lives and in our culture?
How can we speak against it? How can we keep ourselves/each other from it?  Jesus states you will be rewarded by men when you practice these things...what is so scary about this truth?

6. We discussed how you can and will be rewarded for the sin issues in these texts. (Matthew 6:1-18).
a. Will Satan sometimes give you what you want more than anything?
b. How do we discern between what God is giving us and what Satan is doing?

KEY: _____________ in number 4=IDOLS

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