Aletheia Fellowship

Worry is a major problem for the world because they love the world and the things of the world, but it's also a problem for a Christian, who still lives in their sinful flesh. In this passage, we are commanded not to worry about the temporal, but rather to seek first His kingdom! We learn that the Greek word for worry (Merimnao) means to be anxious, to be troubled with cares, to seek to promote one's interests, and to be preoccupied with something. Doug shows us that that same Greek word shows up in 1 Corinthians 7 when it's telling us that marriage divides our interests and binds us to be concerned with the temporal. Doug warns us of the dangers of making even the good things, like marriage and children, our main desire and preoccupation, and teaches us the importance of seeking His kingdom first!

In this sermon, Doug folds in a much bigger picture for Matthew 6 than what is typically taught. He focuses on who the Sermon on the Mount was truly being preached to and how the sermon was a warning for their future. We learn who the "bad eye" represents, and why we can't serve two masters. Doug also walks through much of the old testament when God was supernaturally sustaining His people, and talks about the parallel between anxiety and contentment. We learn that God is all we truly need and that He supplies our every need, but not our every want.

In this sermon, Doug recaps verses 19-24, talking about storing up our treasure here on earth, and explains what the "bad eye" represents being our spiritual lens. He then dives into verses 25-32, along with much of the Old Testament, and teaches us about God's supernatural provision and the futility of worry. We learn that we've labeled our wants, needs, and we are shown how faulty our expectations can be for God's provision.

This week Doug continues to dive deeper into the actual meaning of the Sermon on the Mount. He shows us that Jesus was doing more than commanding us not to worry, but was warning His people of their future. Doug ties together the old testament with the future judgment that is still yet to come, showing us that history will repeat itself.

This week, Doug continues our study of the Sermon on the Mount and teaches us what it means to fast. He shows us the correlation between fasting and humbling ourselves, and we study where else fasting comes up in scripture and how it's more about the heart than the action itself.

In this sermon, Doug starts by doing something a little more rare for him and starts speaking to some of the cultural issues we are facing in our world today. He then relates it all to our passage in Matthew 6 and takes us through the reasons for fasting in scripture and the wrong reasons to fast.

In this sermon, we ask the question "do we have free will", we discuss spiritual warfare, and we talk further about where evil came from and if it was always a part of God's plan. We learn that there are only two ways. Good and evil, right and wrong, light and dark, and we learn there is a spiritual realm behind both. We also talk about whether a Christian still struggles with sin and we answer the question "has a Christian been totally set free from sin".

In this sermon, Doug teaches on verse 13 and teaches us what the evil is that Jesus was warning they would need to be delivered from. We learn that there are only two ways. Good and evil, right and wrong, light and dark, and we learn there is a spiritual realm behind both. We continue to look at the future judgment to find out Satan's role, God's role, Israel's role, and our role.

In this sermon, Doug answers the question did God create evil. We learn that God wasn't blindsided by sin, and we talk about whether or not man has free will. We talk about the spiritual world unseen to us, and we talk about what it means to pray that we are delivered from evil.

In this sermon, we dive into the first half of Matthew 6:13 and learn the true context for the Greek word temptation (peirasmós), which can be translated as a test, trial, or tribulation. In the context of this prayer, we learn the importance of being in constant prayer and the dangers that arise from a prideful heart.

"Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall." (1 Corinthians 10:12)