pURIFYING PRAYER AND WORSHIP - book of matthew - Lesson #78Sermon Notes |
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Date of Sermon: November 17, 2019
Summary: We must focus solely on the Lord in prayer and worship Key Verse: “He said to them, ‘it is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.’” Matthew 21:13 Bible Reading: 12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of robbers." 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?" 17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. Message Outline: I. The Lord Desires Purity in Prayer (12-13) A. The Lord will come to purify prayer (12) B. Greed and Selfishness defile prayer (12) C. The Lord desires for us to pray (13) II. The Lord Desires Purity in Worship (14-17) A. The focus of worship is the Lord’s work (14) B. Pride defiles worship (15) C. The Lord abandons impure worship (16-17) |