Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, who is a professor of Scripture here at the Augustine Institute.

And we're going to continue our Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew. So today we're at Chapter 6. So if you have your Bibles, we're using the Augustine Bible, which is the English Standard Version Catholic Edition, which is a great addition for studying the Word of God.

It tries to be as literal and close to the Hebrew and Greek as possible in the English edition.

So it's a great translation. We love it.

And so you can find that at Catholic.market, by the way, people ask us, where do I get that Bible? Catholic.market. So if you just go to there, that's our web store, and you can find our Bible as well as many other things. One of the things you'll find there is a book that I'm hoping Dr. Barbara will talk about a little bit. His book on Salvation is Catholic. Market. So yeah. So we're going to talk about how that

relates to some of the things in Matthew chapter six. And before we dive into the details of

Matthew 6, I want to just kind of go back to the big picture. The sermon on the Mount,

which is the great epic sermon of Jesus, is Matthew chapter 5, 6, and 7.

And so those three chapters of Matthew's Gospel

is the famous sermon on the Mount.

And there's a kind of a threefold

structure to the sermon of the Mount that's been

observed by different scholars. And I think it goes back to,

as has been suggested, to Rabbi

Simeon the righteous, who was an ancient Pharisee, a Jewish rabbi

in the time of the Maccabees, and he said a quote that is very famous in the Mishnah,

the early collection of Jewish saints, they put it right towards the beginning of the saints

of the fathers.

And it's that there's three pillars upon which the world is built.

Torah, the word of God, Avodav, which is worship, and then third is Gemalut Hasidim, which is

works of mercy. And so I like to use it as a simple iteration of the word of God, the worship of God,

and works of mercy.

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