Our Proof For loving God - How We Are To Show Our Love For God Part 3

February 15, 2026

Louis Boucher

In the sermon on the mount found in Mat 5, 6 and 7 Jesus exposes to us exactly why he expects of those who have chosen to follow him showing us how we can show our love to him and God. In chapter 6 Jesus focuses on behavior on the things we do claiming that we do them for him. Claiming that we are doing deeds for God while seeking for praise for doing them is what God considers a dead work or a work that will not bring any blessing to him. These types of work also do not bring and blessing from God to us and are therefore considered to be dead works. The same is true when we pray and fast claiming we are doing it for God when all along we seek praise from others for doing them. Jesus then goes on to talk about forgiveness telling us that we can't expect to receive forgiveness from God for our sin if we don't first forgive other. He also speaks or reconciliation telling us that we are to reconcile with those we have hurt before offering any gift to him because our gift will be for nothing. The next topic Jesus focus on in Mat 6 was about the things we treasure, the thing we worship over God including money. It is impossible for us to serve to masters, we break God's first commandment when we worship anything other the God. Doing so causes us to become unfocused and also causes the light that was put in us at salvation to become darkness. We can't worship God and the thing of the world at the same time for if we love the world we are actually telling God that we hate him.