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The theme of Matthew’s Gospel is Jesus and what it means to follow him as his disciple and serve him, our King. But the scope of his Gospel is quite amazing: in his opening verse, Matthew takes us all the way back to Abraham, and in his closing verse, he takes us all the way forward to the close of the present age. Matthew offers us a view of life and of the world that is grounded in God’s plan...

however, the greatest motive for our deeds of charity ought to be that God will have all the glory in what we do. Jesus’ teaching on prayer in verses 5–15 is one of the best-known passages in the Bible because of the model prayer he gives his followers. He warns us in this passage about the danger of religious formalism. When is a prayer not a prayer? When it is a matter of public performance (v. 5), or of empty phrases strung together (v. 7), or when we ask God for something that we are not willing
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