Are we trying to impress the world? Are we trying to impress others? Who are we trying to impress? Ultimately we can impress no one, not even God. But rewards are with God, not because we can impress him, but because he honors those that love him.

1. Matthew 6:1-18
By David Turner
www. BibleStudies-Online.com

2. Impress Others!
The World Says: “If you’ve got it, why hide
it? Go ahead and flaunt it.”

3. Impress Others!
The World Says: “If you’ve got it, why hide
it? Go ahead and flaunt it.”
 If you’ve got the body, show it!

4. Impress Others!
The World Says: “If you’ve got it, why hide
it? Go ahead and flaunt it.”
 If you’ve got the body, show it!
 If you’ve got the brains, let everyone
know it!

5. Impress Others!
The World Says: “If you’ve got it, why hide
it? Go ahead and flaunt it.”
 If you’ve got the body, show it!
 If you’ve got the brains, let everyone
know it!
 If you’ve got money, spend it so
everyone knows you’re loaded.

6. Impress Others!
The World Says: “If you’ve got it, why hide
it? Go ahead and flaunt it.”
 If you’ve got the body, show it!
 If you’ve got the brains, let everyone
know it!
 If you’ve got money, spend it so
everyone knows you’re loaded.
 If you’ve got talent, tell us about it.

7. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?

8. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?
 Christians aren’t Spiritual smug.

9. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?
 Express Spiritual smugness.
 Elaborate prayers

10. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?
 Express Spiritual smugness.
 Elaborate prayers
 Brag about how much we serve.

11. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?
 Express Spiritual smugness.
 Elaborate prayers
 Brag about how much we serve.
 Brag about how we have built the church.

12. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?
 Express Spiritual smugness.
 Elaborate prayers
 Brag about how much we serve.
 Brag about how we have built the church.
 Let everyone know about how much we
pray, study our Bible, how spiritual we are.

13. Christians don’t do this? Right?
 Does everyone have to know what and
to whom we give?
 Express Spiritual smugness.
 Elaborate prayers
 Brag about how much we serve.
 Brag about how we have built the church.
 Let everyone know about how much we
pray, study our Bible, how spiritual we are.
 Do we only associate with spiritual
Christians like us?

14. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before
other people in order to be seen by them, for then
you will have no reward from your Father who is in
heaven.

15. Give Without Applause!

16. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet
before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and
in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I
say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when
you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may
be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will
reward you.

17. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet
before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and
in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I
say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when
you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may
be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will
reward you.
Don’t seek applause when giving!
•Not to everyone around you.
•Not even to the one receiving the gift.

18. Pray Without Pride!

19. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the
hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the
synagogues and at the street corners, that they may
be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have
received their reward.

20. Pray upward, not outward!

21. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

22. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.

23. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.

24. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.
•Prayer isn’t gossip.

25. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.
•Prayer isn’t gossip.
•Prayer isn’t a means to promote an agenda.

26. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.
•Prayer isn’t gossip.
•Prayer isn’t a means to promote an agenda.
•Private prayer is no less effective than public prayer.

27. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.
•Prayer isn’t gossip.
•Prayer isn’t a means to promote an agenda.
•Private prayer is no less effective than public prayer.
•The prayer of one person with a right relationship is
more effective than a community with a poor relationship.

28. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.
•Prayer isn’t gossip.
•Prayer isn’t a means to promote an agenda.
•Private prayer is no less effective than public prayer.
•The prayer of one person with a right relationship is
more effective than a community with a poor relationship.
•Mountain Top prayer is no more effective than closet
prayer.

29. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the
door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And
your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be loud to be heard.
•Prayer doesn’t have to be eloquent.
•Prayer isn’t gossip.
•Prayer isn’t a means to promote an agenda.
•Private prayer is no less effective than public prayer.
•The prayer of one person with a right relationship is
more effective than a community with a poor relationship.
•Mountain Top prayer is no more effective than closet
prayer.
•You don’t need to broadcast all your prayers. God
answers prayer, not people.

30. Matthew 6:1–18 (ESV)
7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty
phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they
will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like
them, for your Father knows what you need before
you ask him.
•Repetition and Nagging is manipulative prayer.
•He responds to the relationship, motivation, and
responsible nature of the prayer of the one praying,
not the repetitiveness.

31. Pray with Humility!

32. Matthew 6:9–13 (ESV)
9 Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our
debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
14 For if you forgive others
their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also
forgive you, 15 but if you do
not forgive others their
trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your
trespasses.

33. Fasting is Prayer.
Fast Upward, not Outward.

34. 16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the
hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their
fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they
have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint
your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may
not be seen by others but by your Father who is in
secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward
you.

35. 16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the
hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their
fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they
have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint
your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may
not be seen by others but by your Father who is in
secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward
you.
Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all
that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm
the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even
ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
Andrew Murray

36. Real prayer is communion with God, so that
there will be common thoughts between His
mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill
our hearts with His thoughts, and then His
desires will become our desires flowing back to
Him.
A. W. Pink

37. Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude -
an attitude of dependency, dependency upon
God.
A. W Pink

38. “My worth to God in public is what I
am in private.”
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)