Ranui Sermons
Hear the word of the lord
Sermon on the Mount #12
Grahame Walker
Imagine you were diagnosed with such a lethal condition that the doctor told you that you would
die within hours unless you took a certain medication, a pill every night before going to sleep.
Imagine you were told you could never miss it or you would die. Would you forget? No way! You
would prioritise it every night. So, let me ask you at a question - how could Jesus motivate you to
do something spiritually? What could he say, what could he promise, that would get you to move
towards him more.
We’re in a series through the Sermon on the Mount, the most famous message Jesus ever gave,
recorded for us most fully in Matthew’s biography of Jesus in the New Testament of the Bible.
Today, we come to where Jesus pulled out all the stops to try and motivate people to do one of
the most important things spiritually a life can ever do, to pray. Here are his words.