1. What happens when we answer the call?
The 2nd Year
What happens when we answer the call?

2. Matthew 6:1
“Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven.  

3. Matthew 6:2
When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do—blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get. 

4. Don’t do your good deeds publicly
Danger of loosing your reward

5. Matthew 6:3-4
But when you give to someone in need, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. 4 Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

6. Live like you don’t care who gets the credit
Your Father, who sees everything, will reward you

7. Start living your life to please just one person!
Not you – Jesus!

8. Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get. 

9. Trying to show people how godly you are.

10. Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.  

11. The proper motivation is to get closer to God

12. Matthew 6:7-8
“When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!

13. It shouldn’t be memorized
The proper way to pray
It shouldn’t be memorized

14. It doesn’t have to be long
The proper way to pray
It doesn’t have to be long

15. It just has to be you talking to God
The proper way to pray
It just has to be you talking to God

16. Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Matthew 6:9
Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

17. Put God in His proper place
In Heaven
Holy

18. Matthew 6:10
May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.  

19. Focus our eyes on the right perspective
His will, will be done on earth
Ask for & accept His will

20. Give us today the food we need
Matthew 6:11
Give us today the food we need

21. Trust & Rely on God for what we need today
What we need to make it today

22. and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us
Matthew 6:12
and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us

23. Focus on forgiveness Asking for our sins to be forgiven
Forgive those who have sinned against us

24. And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13
And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. 

25. Our true fight
Temptation
Not giving in to it

26. Matthew 6:14-15
“If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins. 

27. Adjust our attitude
Forgiveness

28. What should motivate us?
Getting closer to God
Being like Him