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Matthew chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew Chapter 7. Let us pray.
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  Lord, you are so good to us. Thank you Father for all the
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  many blessings you've given us. Thank you Father for waking us
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  up. Thank you Father for life.
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  Thank you Father for family. Lord, we just pray right now for
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  the government. Lord, we pray for police
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  officers and teachers, God, and mothers and fathers, God,
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  children all over the world, Father, we just pray and lift
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  them up to you, Father, and ask that you'll bring them into the
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  fold with us. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for safety and security. God, around the little ones
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  hearts and minds. God, I pray that you will help
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  them to grow and to mature. Father, help us, Lord, to
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  consecrate the temple. Help us, Lord, to step into our
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  bridal identity. Help us, Father, to know that we
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  know that we know that we're going to be there with you.
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  Lord, I pray that we are not the ones that you say you never knew
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  us. Lord, we desire to be known.
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  Lord, we ask that you'll search us.
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  God in cleanse us, Father, and to know us, Lord.
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  And I pray in the name of Jesus, Father, that you'll heal us from
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  on high and hear us from on high.
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  And we are thankful for the veil.
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  We're thankful for the holiest of holy places being torn down
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  and us being able to enter in. And I pray, Father, that we can
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  dine with you and Sup with you and love on you and be loved on
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  by you. Thank you Lord Jesus, thank you
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  for all the things that you do for us and for the sacrifice of
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  the cross, and thank you for life eternal.
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  Thank you that where you are we will be.
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  Thank you that you went to prepare a place for us.
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  Thank you that there are many rooms, there are many mansions
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  in our Father's house. So God, we love you and we just
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  want to please you and we just want more of you and we just
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  want you. God I pray Holy Spirit teach us
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  today, fill us today. We decrease as you increase.
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  Father, it's in Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Judge not that you be not
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  judged. Wow, what a verse that gets
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  taken out of context. Did you know believer that you
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  are actually called to judge those within the church and did
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  you not know believer that you will judge the angels?
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  This is a verse that we could very easily think that it's just
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  acceptance of every sin and acceptance of all lifestyles and
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  is not so here, friends, This is the idea behind verse 1 is that
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  if you judge others, make sure you pull the plank out of your
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  own eye. Make sure you're not a
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  hypocrite. If you judge others, make sure
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  that it is your brother and your sister that you're going to.
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  The world is going to do what the world does.
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  Lost people do what lost people do, friends.
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  The judgment that we are allowed to are those that call
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  themselves believers. Don't forget it, friends.
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  And he's telling us in verse 2, for with what judgement you
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  judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you need, it
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  shall be measured to you. Again, he's saying that with the
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  measurement that you heap upon others is the same measurement
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  that will get used to you. What I have told my children and
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  whatever, what I have told my friends and my family is that
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  when you go around judging others, you will sense that same
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  judgement upon you. There are a lot of people who
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  pass judgement on others and and they wonder why they're so
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  incredibly self conscience and they don't like how they look in
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  the mirror and they don't like their body type.
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  But these are the same people that pass so much judgment on
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  other people. And that is what I believe is
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  being talked about here, friends.
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  It is that same kind of judgment that you have to live with
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  inside of your own self, and whenever you're going around and
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  you're making fun of people, that same voice will sit and
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  make fun of you while you look at yourself in the mirror.
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  That is what is being talked about here. 3 And why behold you
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  the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not
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  the beam that is in your own eye.
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  He's saying don't go and try to pull the speck out of your
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  brother's eye when you have an entire log sticking out of your
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  own. And this looks like us dealing
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  with the log in our own eye before we go.
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  It is not saying don't judge it all.
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  It's saying deal with the plank in your own eye for or how will
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  you say to your brother, let me pull out the mote out of your
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  eye and behold the beam is in your own eye.
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  This is ridiculous. It's saying God is saying Jesus
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  is saying here. He's saying deal with your own
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  stuff before you go trying to pull something on somebody else.
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  Trying to pull out the speck out of your brother's eye.
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  Whenever you are being duplicious and hypocritical 5.
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  You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye,
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  and then you shall see clearly to cast out the Moat out of your
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  brother's eye. That's exactly what I was
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  saying. Jesus here is telling us, deal
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  with the beam, deal with the log, deal with the 2 by 4.
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  Sticking out of your own eye and they can see the hypocrisy in
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  that. Whenever your life doesn't add
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  up and you're trying to go around pointing the finger at
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  people who aren't living right. 6 Give not that which is holy
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  unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they
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  trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you. 6
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  is a picture of what it looks like whenever Saints are trying
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  to share these deep spiritual truths with unbelievers.
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  And they ridicule and it's funny and they tear you apart and
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  persecute you and they go around and they tell everybody how
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  ridiculous the things that you believe are.
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  And here we are trying to be good stewards of God's goodness
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  and grace and love and mercy to the world.
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  But we need to have discernment, friends, and that is what verse
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  6 is telling us. Have discernment, the Bible also
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  tells us later on and we'll study it together.
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  It says warn A divisive person once and then mourn them again
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  after that. Have nothing to do with them,
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  for you can be sure that they are warped and self condemned.
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  And that is what is referenced here in verse 6-7.
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  Ask and it shall be given. You seek and you shall find.
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  Knock and it will be opened unto you.
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  So here God is encouraging us to pray.
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  He's telling us don't just be satisfied with asking.
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  Don't just give up whenever we're seeking.
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  He's saying knock down the door. Don't stop knocking.
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  He's telling us to make sure that we do not give up.
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  Make sure that we are the persistent widow.
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  Make sure that we are the neighbor who won't let the other
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  neighbors sleep. Make sure that we are just
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  constantly, consistently bringing our needs and our
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  desires unto God Almighty and watch how He provides.
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  God wants your dialogue friends, I cannot say it enough.
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  God will increase your prayer life one way or the other.
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  A for everyone that asks, receives and he that seeks finds
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  and to him that knocks, it will be open.
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  Jesus said, I stand at the door and knock.
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  Anyone who opens the door, I will come in and Sup with them.
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  Open the door, seek him and find him.
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  Ask and you will receive. This is simple encouragement.
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  God is telling us to increase our prayer life. 9 Or what man
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  is there of you whom, if his Son asks for bread, he'll give him a
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  stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish,
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  he'll give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know
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  how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall
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  your Father, which is in heaven, give good things to them that
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  ask him? Jesus is showing us that God
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  Almighty is a good and loving Father and He's patient and he's
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  kind. And us as parents, even the most
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  evil parents, we try our best to be good parents unto our
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  children. And you might have it all messed
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  up and think that being a good parent looks one way.
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  And there are a lot of other people who look down the nose
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  and they think that you are despicable and your parenting.
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  But deep down a mother cares and deep down a father cares.
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  And it might not be a very good example because of how you were
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  raised and because of all of the byproducts and all the mess in
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  the baggage. But he's saying that you, even
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  us who call ourselves believers and who are blood bought and
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  born again in comparison to God Almighty, we are evil and God is
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  good and our goodness comes from him.
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  And he's saying that God in heaven will see what we need and
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  he will make sure to take care of us.
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  Friends, we can count on that. 12 Therefore all things,
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  whatever you would that men should do to you, do you Even so
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  to them. For this is the law of the
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  prophet. So all of the Old Testament
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  righteousness is wrapped up in this, in Jesus Christ.
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  He is showing us how we should love our neighbor as ourselves.
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  13 Enter you in the Strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad
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  is the way that leads to destruction.
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  And many there be which go in there at So he's saying that we
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  need to enter in through the narrow gate.
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  Enter in the straight way for broad and wide is the way that
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  leads to destruction. He's showing us here that Jesus
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  is the gate. He's showing us that only a few
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  find it. He's showing us here that most
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  people choose the highway to hell, the fast and easy, the
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  culturally accepted way, the way that is counter to God's way.
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  And he's showing us here that we need to enter in through Jesus
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  Christ. 14 because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way
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  that leads to life, and few there be that find it.
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  I pray to God that you're one of the few.
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  I pray to God that you enter in that his sheep hear his voice.
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  I pray to God that this is not just a game to you.
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  I pray to God that you are actually entering in the
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  straight and narrow way. Most people that you meet are
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  not going to be there. Only the few find it. 15 Beware
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  of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but
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  inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
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  Here is a very, very clear mandate from God is that in the
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  last days there will be false teachers and there will be false
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  prophets, and they sure will look the part.
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  But inwardly they're just after your money.
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  Inwardly they're just after mass manipulation.
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  And we need to be on guard for those who use God's word for
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  their own selfish gain. 16 You shall know them by their fruits.
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  Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?
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  So he's telling us that we will know who belongs to him, who
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  belongs to God by the fruit that we bear.
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  And he's going to go a little bit deeper into this, but we
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  need to know that all the trees that bear no fruit and all the
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  trees that bear bad fruit are gathered up for the fire. 17
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  Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit, but a corrupt
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  tree brings forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear, cannot
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  bring forth evil fruit, and neither can a corrupt tree bring
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  forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that brings not forth good fruit
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  is cut down and cast into the fire. 20 Therefore by their
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  fruits you shall know them. He tells us in 16 You shall know
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  them by their fruits He tells us in 20 Therefore by their fruits
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  you shall know them. He's making it plain.
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  He's making it clear. This is a warning against false
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  teachers. This is a test for us.
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  We cannot just fall into a ministry that tickles our ears
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  and tells us everything that we want to hear.
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  This prosperity gospel is nonsense.
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  There's a lot of people who are trying to teach all kinds of
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  false doctrine, and they don't truly have the heart of God.
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  They don't truly hear from God. They're only using God's word as
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  a manipulative tool to lead you astray and to lead you away.
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  And God says that you'll know them by the fruit that they
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  bear. There's a lot of false teachers
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  that only care about financial gain. 21 Not everyone that says
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  unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but
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  he that does the will of my Father, which is in heaven.
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  So here he's going to show us what it looks like when these
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  wolves in sheep clothes, whenever these ravenous beasts
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  who are dressed up in suit and ties, what they look like he,
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  these are the ones who are going to stand before him one day and
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  say, Lord, Lord, what is he going to say to them?
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  He says, 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we
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  not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out devils,
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  and in your name done many wonderful works?
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  23 And I will profess unto them, I never knew you depart from me,
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  you that work iniquity. So God here in 21 and 22 and 23.
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  This should be the most sobering verses of the entire Bible.
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  This is where we are called to work out our salvation with fear
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  and trembling. These are the verses right here.
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  They draw the line in the sand, friends.
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  There are many who have religious activity, but they
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  don't truly know him and they are not known by him.
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  They wake up, they go to church, they read the Bible, they listen
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  to Christian music. They do all the things
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  outwardly, but inwardly they're ravenous wolves.
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  And there are a lot of people who are doing the will of
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  Father, and they're not seeking to be seen or known, but God
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  knows them. Jesus knows them.
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  They are known by him. In the grace of God rest upon
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  them. These are the ones who are
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  barefoot in a dirt Hut pushing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  They're the ones who are concerned with discipleship.
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  These are the ones who do not seek man's approval. 24
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  Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I
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  will liken him unto a wise man who builds his house upon a
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  rock. Notice in 24 He says these
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  sayings of mine. This is God Incarnate.
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  This is the authority of God Almighty being spoken of through
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  Jesus Christ. He has all the authority of the
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  Father. He's telling us the heart of God
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  right here. He's telling us how to build our
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  house on the rock where the gates of hell will not prevail.
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  25 The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew.
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  They beat upon that house, and it did not fall, for it was
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  founded upon a rock. That rock is the chief
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  cornerstone. That rock is Jesus Christ.
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  And when the cares and the tares of this world come in and try to
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  choke us out, we are founded upon God Almighty.
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  We're founded upon the rock. We are connected to the God of
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  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and we cannot be shaken. 26 Everyone
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  that hears these sayings of mine, and they do not do them,
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  they shall be like the foolish man who builds his house on the
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  sand. 27 The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew,
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  they beat upon the house and it fell, and there was a great
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  fall. What's he talking about here?
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  He's talking about those who hear Jesus's words.
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  They have access to the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, 66
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  books, the spoken authority of God Almighty, the Rhema,
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  friends, they have access to it, but they care nothing for it.
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  They're chasing after Mammon. They're chasing after selfish
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  greed. They want this world.
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  They want everything in this world.
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  And he says when the rains came and the winds blew, these are
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  the cares of the world coming in.
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  They offed themselves. They committed suicide.
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  They fell into a reprobate mind. They fell into insanity.
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  They could not handle the pressures of this world.
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  It crushed them. It asphyxiated them.
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  It wrapped its cords and tentacles around their throats
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  and choked them out. And there was no peace in their
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  lives because they had built their house on the sinking sand.
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  Friends, 28 And it came to pass. When Jesus had ended these
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  sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine. 29
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  For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the
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  scribes. Here we can understand this
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  scene. We can take ourselves and we can
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  look at it with a bird's eye view and we can see that when
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  Jesus walked this earth and when Jesus launched his ministry and
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  when Jesus would give this sermon, he had amassed so many
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  people to himself and it was looking as if it was a overthrow
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  of the government. It was looking as if Jesus was
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  amassing an army. There were so many people who
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  had come to him. And here it's saying that they
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  all were astonished because of the authority that he spoke
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  with. He was not trying to reference
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  what certain priests or prophets were saying at the time, these
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  false prophets and all of these religious leaders.
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  He was not trying to lean on their wisdom.
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  He had all the wisdom of God. He was the Godhead in bodily
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  form. This is the heart of God.
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  Go back and read chapter 5. Go back and read chapter 6 and
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  you will understand here in Chapter 7 the authority that
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  Jesus spoke with that astonished the crowds and he still speaks
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  to us today through these words. They're just as relevant today
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  as they were then. This is the mandate upon our
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  lives, friends. This is how we should govern our
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  families and govern our bodies and govern our thoughts,
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  friends, and our actions and our finances.
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  Friends, this is the Christian walk right here.
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  Chapter 567123. You can see it.
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  It's beautiful. We should hover here and we
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  should be preoccupied with Jesus's words.
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  It is building your house upon the rock.
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  This is what it looks like. Go back and read it.
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  Go back and study it. Don't gloss over make notes.
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  Journal friends. This is the game changer for the
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  Christian. Walt.
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  If you want to up your faith, we need to be incorporating all of
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  these things that Jesus told us in the last three chapters into
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  our walk with him. This is how we please God,
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  friends, obeying these words, understanding these words,
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  meditating upon these words. Jesus Christ, the same
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  yesterday, today, and forever. Amen.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here in Matthew.
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  I know I sure have. It's helped me all throughout my
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  life as I've become a believer and as I've incorporated these
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  things into my thought processes and into my day-to-day
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  interaction with people. It sure has helped me and it
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  will help you. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you, so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.