CLEAN YOUR WINDOWS (29 OF 32)
Scripture: Matthew 7:1-6
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Clean Your Windows (29 of 32)
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Robert Dawson
Matthew 7:1-6
There was a man who was having some difficulty communicating with his wife. After giving it a little time and a some thought he concluded that she was becoming hard of hearing and decided to conduct his own personal covert hearing test on her.
1. One evening while he sat in a chair on the far side of the room with her back to him so she could not see him he very quietly whispered, ‘‘can you hear me?’ There was no response.
2. Moving a little closer, he asked again, ‘‘Can you hear me now?’’ Still there was no reply.
3. Ever so quietly and stealthily he moved even closer and whispered the same words with the same result.
4. Finally he moved right behind her chair and said, ‘‘Can you hear me now?’’
5. To his surprise and embarrassment she wheeled around with an apparent look of frustration on her face and irritation in her voice and said, ‘‘For the fourth time, Yes! I can hear you!’’
Many times it is our own shortcomings and deficiencies that cause us to be overly critical and even incorrect in our assessment of other people.
1. If we were honest, some of us would have say that our greatest struggles in this life are related to other people. We don’t really know how to relate to them.
2. We don’t think about them properly in our own hearts and minds. That makes relating to them even more difficult.
Jesus knew that His people would not be perfect and that we struggle in this area.
1. Much of what Jesus teaches in this wonderful Sermon is not only the type of person we are to become but how we are to relate to other people.
2. Here in chapter 7, as we enter into the last section of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, we find that Jesus is going to talk about relationships, how we are to treat one another.
a. In our passage today we are going to see how not to view and treat others.
b. Next week we are going to look at how we are to view and treat others.
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Series: Sermon on the Mount
Robert Dawson
Matthew 7:1-6
There was a man who was having some difficulty communicating with his wife. After giving it a little time and a some thought he concluded that she was becoming hard of hearing and decided to conduct his own personal covert hearing test on her.
1. One evening while he sat in a chair on the far side of the room with her back to him so she could not see him he very quietly whispered, ‘‘can you hear me?’ There was no response.
2. Moving a little closer, he asked again, ‘‘Can you hear me now?’’ Still there was no reply.
3. Ever so quietly and stealthily he moved even closer and whispered the same words with the same result.
4. Finally he moved right behind her chair and said, ‘‘Can you hear me now?’’
5. To his surprise and embarrassment she wheeled around with an apparent look of frustration on her face and irritation in her voice and said, ‘‘For the fourth time, Yes! I can hear you!’’
Many times it is our own shortcomings and deficiencies that cause us to be overly critical and even incorrect in our assessment of other people.
1. If we were honest, some of us would have say that our greatest struggles in this life are related to other people. We don’t really know how to relate to them.
2. We don’t think about them properly in our own hearts and minds. That makes relating to them even more difficult.
Jesus knew that His people would not be perfect and that we struggle in this area.
1. Much of what Jesus teaches in this wonderful Sermon is not only the type of person we are to become but how we are to relate to other people.
2. Here in chapter 7, as we enter into the last section of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, we find that Jesus is going to talk about relationships, how we are to treat one another.
a. In our passage today we are going to see how not to view and treat others.
b. Next week we are going to look at how we are to view and treat others.
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