Bible Study: Anxiety and Worry 5

Tweet

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow will take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:31-34 ________________________ Chapters 5,6,7. The Sermon on the Mount Matthew places the Sermon on the Mount in the forefront of his story of the Galilean ministry, although it seems to have come some months later at the time of Choosing the Twelve (Luke 6:12-20), if indeed Luke is reporting the same sermon. It must have been that Matthew regarded the Sermon on the Mount as an epitome of Jesus' Teaching, of which His whole ministry was an illustration. Containing, as it does, the very Heart of Jesus' Teaching, we may think of the Sermon on the Mount as being to the New Testament what the Ten Commandments were to the Old Testament. Every Christian out to Memorize the Sermon on the Mount, and strive earnestly to Live according to its Teachings. The Mountain on which this Sermon was delivered is not named. Tradition says it was the Horns of Hattin (see map page 473). (For more comparison with Luke's record, see on Luke 6:20-49 ~Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook, p.433 Grand Rapids Michigan, Zondervan Publishing House, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943,1944, 1946, 1948,1951, 1955, 1957, 1959, pg 301, ¶ 1 (Photo: Scan of the map mentioned in Halley's Bible Handbook, pg. 473)