October 5th, 2025 - Practicing Your Righteousness

Scripture Passage:  Matthew 6:1-18

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Jesus' Mountain of a Message
1. Those unlikely people are blessed
2. The Heart of the Law
3. Practice Your Righteousness

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Do you have righteousness?
If so, do you practice?

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If God's Spirit is in your poor heart, that is the road to being in healthy relationship with God.

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Now practice things that keep you close to God.
Three examples under one principle.

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Who is your main audience? 
  in front of others to be seen by them. 
no trumpets, street performance, facial contortion

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Audience rewards you.
Recognition by people or intimacy with God

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Ignorant left-hands
Closeted prayer
Fastidious fasting

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How did Jesus come up with this mountain peak prayer?

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What did he add/emphasize?
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 

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How you practice righteousness:
1. Stay in connection with the source of holiness
 ‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,

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How you practice righteousness:
2. Submit to a gameplan that is beyond you.
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.
one.

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How you practice righteousness:
4. Love God by loving your closest enemy.
12 And forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors

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How you practice righteousness:
5. Stay in a place of grace
13 And lead us not into temptation,
    but deliver us from the evil one.

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1.   Be seen as so hungry for connection with God, that you are unaware of any other audience.

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2. Participate in transforming the world by having your heart healed by forgiveness. 
Check your progress by how you forgive.