The preposition FROM
THE WORD “FROM” IS NOT ONLY A COMMON WORD FOR US, IT IS A COMMON BIBLE WORD.
a) In addition to being common, it is important as we see from our first reference, Mt. 1:21.
b) It was said Jesus would save people FROM their sins.
2) A military power cannot deliver us from sin; political power cannot free us from sin.
3) Money does not deliver us from it and sin cannot be overcome by getting an education.
4) The only victory from sin is through Jesus Christ.
5) Mt. 3:7
6) Today we see people fleeing from a danger.
7) Mt. 5:29-30.
8) Why would a person pluck out their own eye?
9) Sin is bad so Jesus said we want to do all we can to stay away “from” it.
a) God wants us to stay away FROM sin.
b) Sometimes this is going to be very, very difficult.
c) It may be hard because it will make us unpopular.
d) It may be hard because a sin is very attractive to us.
e) It may be hard because it would mean we avoid something that our friends do.
f) FROM is a word that partly describes how Christians live.
10) Another passage that uses FROM in the Sermon on the Mount is found in the next chapter.
a) Mt. 6:13 – READ
b) Before a person sins, there is usually some type of temptation.
c) Like a fish that studies a worm on a hook, so man often looks at temptation.
d) Mt. 7. Verse 23 – READ
11) What if God said to us, “Go away from me?”
12) What if God not only said this, He said “Go away from me FOREVER?”
13) This is what the Lord described in this verse.
a) Mt. 8:11 – READ
b) Jesus said people will come from the “east and the west.”
c) Jesus used these two directions to describe people from many different places.
d) In Mt. 13:35 Jesus said some things had been hidden FROM the foundation of the world.
14) We can know what is right and do what is right because we have God’s full revelation.
15) We can read it, hear it, study it in hundreds of different ways, and search it in multiple ways.
16) All kinds of people should be doing what is right.
a) The sad truth is that many are not doing what is right.
b) Think about Mt. 15:8 in light of our current culture.
17) Jesus said their heart is FAR FROM me.
18) A person can profess to be religious. He can say the right things and come to the right place.
19) A person may even believe the right things.
20) God said a person’s heart can be in a different place.
a) Part of the problem was using information other than God’s revealed word, Mt. 15:9.
b) If our heart has been moved away from God, it is in the wrong place.
21) FROM is a word that matters a lot in many different areas of life.
22) God is very serious about religion and this includes getting away from sin; are we as serious?