Matthew Chapter 7
Verses 1-4: “Judge not” refers to an unfavorable and condemnatory judgment. This does not mean that a Christian should never exercise judgment of any kind under any circumstances. The point being made here is that we are not to judge the inner motives of another.
We are not to render a verdict based upon prejudiced information. Nor are we to use ourselves as the standard of judgment for “with what … ye mete” (measure) you shall be judged. “That ye be not judged” refers to the ultimate judgment of God rather than our own judgment.
Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
“Judge not”: As the context reveals, this does not prohibit all types of judging (verse 16). There is a righteous kind of judgment we are supposed to exercise with careful discernment (John 7:24). Censorious, hypocritical, self–righteous, or other kinds of unfair judgments are forbidden, but in order to fulfill the commandments that follow, it is necessary to discern dogs and swine (verse 6), from one’s own brethren (verses 3-5).
Matthew 7:2 “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
This Scripture above in not saying not to ever judge, but rather is saying with whatever severity you judge someone else, God will judge you. We cannot, even if we wanted to, be someone else’s judge. Jesus is the final Judge, and each person shall stand before Him in judgment.
We must not condemn someone else for smoking, if we smoke. We must not tell someone God will not forgive them for overeating, if we over eat. We need to examine ourselves and get forgiveness for our own sins, before we start pointing them out in someone else.
God expects us to consider, in ourselves, if someone is truly of God, before we blindly follow him. It is not for us to say whether he is saved or not. That is between him and God. Whatever we might say is just our opinion.
The Bible says that if we know one of our brothers or sisters is involved in sin, go to him and tell him. If he does not listen, take a witness. Then if he does not listen; stop fellow-shipping with him. Even then, whether God forgives him or not, is not our business. The only judgment that is allowed is whether we should fellowship with him or not. Jesus is the final Judge of his outcome.
Matthew 7:3-4 “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” “Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye?”
The terms “mote” (Greek karphos), and “beam” (Greek dokos), are used metaphorically for a small fault and a great fault. A mote is a small speck of sawdust whereas a beam is a rafter used
in building. Thus the idea of the text is that one cannot remove the speck from his brother’s eye until he has removed the rafter from his own eye!
Verses 5-6: “Thou hypocrite” is the only statement that can be made for this play actor who pretends to be a physician when he himself is sick. The “dogs” and “swine” refer to those who have deliberately rejected the message of truth. These particular animals were especially repulsive to Jesus’ audience.
Matthew 7:5 “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
One lesson in the Bible comes so clearly to mind in all of this. The religious people of the day brought the woman (caught in the very act of adultery), to Jesus to stone her to death. Jesus told them anyone that was without sin cast the first stone. Jesus then leaned over and wrote something in the sand.
(I believe He wrote the sins of those self-righteous people). Of course they all left the woman. Jesus told the woman that He did not condemn her, and to go and sin no more. This is the most vivid example of this Scripture above (John 8:3-11).
Ministers and people proclaiming Christianity need to live clean lives, not giving even the appearance of evil. Then, through love and concern, we can encourage others to clean their lives up; not through condemnation but love.
Matthew 7:6 “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs”: This principle is why Jesus Himself did not do miracles for unbelievers (13:58). This is to be done in respect for what is holy, not merely out of contempt for the dogs and swine. Nothing here contradicts the principle of (5:44). That verse governs personal dealings with one’s enemies; this principle governs how one handles the gospel in the face of those who hate the truth.
“Dogs”, in the sense above, are low morale and low character people, who have no intention of coming to Christ. It is as if the lesson to be learned here is saying: when you see there is no hope to regenerate them, leave them in their own mire of sin.
Do not get in there with them and let them destroy you and the treasures (spiritual), that you have obtained from God. Don’t stay around and listen to them blaspheme your Savior. Do not wallow in the sin (mud), with them. It will not clean them up. It will dirty you up.
Verses 7-10: The three imperatives; “ask, seek,” and “knock” are in the present tense of the original language, suggesting both perseverance and frequent prayer. Fervent and continual prayer is to be made on behalf of those for whom we are concerned.
God promises to answer all genuine prayer (verse 8). Everything we need for spiritual success has been promised to us. God leaves us no excuse for failure.
Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:”
Both Jesus (Luke 18:1), and Paul (1 Tim. 2:1), emphasized the importance of prayer, noting that people ought always to pray. Prayer includes asking and getting answers from God. But it is more than just asking; it is confession, adoration, thanksgiving and fellowship with God. By its nature, prayer is talking with God.
It is the basis of the successful Christian life, and is so important that not praying is considered a sin (1 Sam. 12:23). When we pray, we should follow the model prayer Jesus gave His disciples and address it to our heavenly Father, beginning with adoration, including thanksgiving and confession of sins, making reconciliation with others, praying for our needs and the needs of others, and concluding in Jesus’ name (6:9-15; John 14:14).
Jesus pointed out that God heard the prayer of a humble publican rather than that of a proud Pharisee (Luke 18:14). God will answer our prayer when we obey Him (1 John 3:22), confess sin (Psalm 66:18), abide in Christ (John 15:7), ask according to the will of God (1 John 5:14), ask in faith (Mark 11:24), have pure motives (James 4:3), and live peaceably with our mate (1 Pet. 3:7).
Matthew 7:8 “For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
We have not, because we ask not. When we ask God for anything in Jesus’ name, God hears us. Actually, just praying in the name of Jesus, recognizes Jesus for who He really is. If you truly search for God, you will find Him. God is always there, just waiting for us to take one step toward Him, and He will do the rest.
God is not hard to find. Just pray and read the Bible, and you will find that He is with you all the time. In fact, invite him inside of you, and He will be in you always.
Matthew 7:9-10 “Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?” “Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?”
If his son shall ask bread, will he give him a stone? The assurance of an answer to prayer is based on the fact that God is our Father. He treats his children as a good and wise earthly parent would. No kind parent would mock his child by answering his cry for bread with stones. Bread and fish were the chief articles of food of the Galilean peasant.
Verses 11-12: Jesus illustrated His point by comparing the willingness of a human father to give his child a gift with our heavenly Father who will gladly give us what we need. The term “evil” verse 11, is used here of man’s sinful nature. Even sinful men are kind to their children; therefore, “how much more” shall your heavenly Father delight to answer your prayers.
Hence, rather than judging others, we are to treat them as we would like to be treated.
The statement in verse 12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them,” is the biblical injunction often called the “Golden Rule.” “This is the law and the prophets”, indicates that the statement made here by Jesus is not intended to be novel, but rather a summarization of the second table of the law.
Matthew 7:11 “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”
“Being evil”: Jesus presupposes the doctrine of human depravity.
“How much more”: If earthly fathers give what their sons need (verses 9-10), will not God give to His sons what they ask (verses 7-8)?
Parents love their children and will give them freely all the things that they have to give. Human love is not even closely compared to the great love that God has for mankind. Man’s love is conditional. God’s love is unconditional, expecting nothing in return.
God loved us while we were yet in sin, so much he gave His only begotten Son to a cruel death on the cross, that we might be saved. It is such a little thing, in comparison, for God to answer our prayers. So little is required of us, just believe on Jesus Christ as our Savior.
Matthew 7:12 “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
“Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you”: versions of the “Golden Rule” existed before Christ, in the rabbinic writings and even in Hinduism and Buddhism. All of them cast the rule as a negative command, such as Rabbi Hillel’s version, “What is hateful to yourself do not to someone else.”
Jesus made it a positive command, enriching its meaning and underscoring that this one imperative aptly summarizes the whole gist of the ethical principles contained in the Law and the Prophets.
Here again, we see that we should expect the same kind of treatment that we give. Giving is very much a part of receiving.
Verses 13-14: The closing section of the Sermon on the Mount presents two choices to the listener. These are presented in a series of contrasts: two ways (verses 13-14); two trees (verses 15-20); two professions (verses 21-23); and two foundations (verses 24-29). This was a common method of teaching in both Jewish and Greco-Roman thought.
Both the narrow gate and the wide gate are assumed to provide the entrance to God’s kingdom. Two ways are offered to people. The narrow gate is by faith, only through Christ, constricted and precise. It represents true salvation of God’s way that leads to life eternal. The wide gate includes all religions of works, and self-righteousness, with no single way (Acts 4:12), but it leads to hell, not heaven.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate” (narrow), means that one must come through the narrow gate in order to reach the path that leads to eternal life. Though many are on the “broad … way, that leadeth to destruction” (eternal separation from God), the gate that leads to life is so narrow that “few there be that find it.”
Christ Himself is both the gate and the way (John 14:6), and God enables men to find that gate (John 6:44).
Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:” “Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
“Narrow is the way”: Christ continually emphasized the difficulty of following Him (10:38; 16:24-25; John 15:18-19; 16:1-3; Acts 14:22). Salvation is by grace alone, but is not easy. It calls for knowledge of the truth, repentance, submission to Christ as Lord, and a willingness to obey His will and Word.
We all know it is easy to sin. The world is full of sin of every kind. I heard a lady say that a book will lay on the shelf and never be sold, unless it had sex and violence in it. The television set, which has been some people’s God, is just not fit to watch.
News programs, ball games, and maybe one or two of the game shows are just about the only shows that do not teach us new ways to sin. Little girls have no idea what a real marriage is. Young girls think marriage is a long honeymoon. They base what they think marriage is from the absurd episodes in the soap operas. They have gotten so popular that they are now on night television.
Even on a show that doesn’t have nakedness, there is cursing and every other kind of sin imaginable. The commercial breaks have Satan’s music trying to sell you some product. Mind control is ardently practiced. There is even some woman offering to read your horoscope advertised.
(Nearly every one of the numbers you can call that is given for your month, has the number “666 (mark of the beast) in it”. Even this one thing should tell you that there is something wrong. God warns us in all sorts of ways. We seldom heed His warnings.
I believe that alcoholic beverages are sold in half the places that sell milk and groceries. Young people’s heroes advertise beer and whisky, and cause the young people to believe it is okay.
If we do not discipline ourselves to walk the walk with Christ, then yes, we will wallow around on the wide road which leads to our destruction.
In 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, the whole chapter calls us to Godliness; following the narrow path. I will use one little verse that tells it all.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.”
God does not want someone lackadaisical following Him. He wants people with pure intentions, with their eyes constantly on the goal (Him), steadfastly staying in the path of righteousness, which leads to everlasting life with Him.
In Verses 13-29: This closing section of the Sermon on the Mount is a gospel application. Here are two gates (in last lesson covering 13-14); two kinds of trees and two kinds of fruit (verses 17-20), two groups at the judgment (verses 21-23), and two kinds of builders, building on two kinds of foundations (verses 24-28). Christ is drawing the line as clearly as possible between the way that leads to destruction and the way that leads to life.
Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
The warning “Beware of false prophets” fits appropriately with the concept of the two ways. Since many are being led in the wrong way, they are obviously being led by the wrong people. False prophets were prevalent in the Old Testament; whereas God’s true prophets were often in the minority.
These deceive not by disguising themselves as sheep, but by impersonating true shepherds. They promote the wide gate and the wide way.
False prophets appear in “sheep’s clothing” but are in reality “ravening wolves.” This is a perfect description of those preachers who have denied or distorted the truth of the gospel. They look like lambs but act like wolves. Their description is similar to that of the great False Prophet (in Revelation 13:11).
There has never been a time, in the history of mankind, when there were more false prophets. There are even men today proclaiming they are Jesus. We have mentioned it before, but it bears mentioning again. We are not to believe these people. There will be no question whether it is Jesus, or not, when he returns. He will appear in the eastern sky and all will see Him.
I really believe the Scripture above, may not really be talking about that though. You see the people that this was speaking of, claimed to be Christians; but they were “in sheep’s clothing”. They were people pretending to be followers of Jesus Christ. They had an outward form of Christianity, but their hearts were wicked.
They came to a church, worked hard in it, appeared to be supporting the teachings, and then started dropping a word here and there that caused confusion. They were harder to detect than the enemy from without, because they appeared to be Christians.
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof” (2 Timothy 3:5).
In (2 John), the lady was warned about deceivers. These deceivers did not believe that Jesus was God in the flesh.
2 John 1:7 “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”
2 John 1:9-10 “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed:”
Sometimes, we wonder just how we can tell who is of God and who is not. The first thing is: do they believe that Jesus is Immanuel (God with us; God in the flesh)? The second thing is: What kind of fruit do they bear?
Verses 16-20: A true test of a prophet was the conformity of his doctrine to the Scriptures (1 Cor. 14:37; Deut. 13:1-5). “Their fruits” refers not only to actions of their lives, but also to the doctrines they proclaim. The two trees are contrasted in relation to the fruit they produce. “Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit” consistently, while a “corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit” continually.
Therefore, the normal and consistent production of fruit, whether good or evil, in a person’s life will bear evidence whether or not that life is of God. Verse 19 illustrates the unfruitful life of the unregenerate who is “cast into the fire,” a picture of eternal punishment in hell.
Matthew 7:16 “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
“Ye shall know them by their fruits”: False doctrine cannot restrain the flesh, so false prophets manifest wickedness (2 Peter 2:12-22).
Matthew 7:17-18 “Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.”
Everyone has heard the Scripture “Bring up a child in the way he should go: when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6). If you teach a very small child not to steal, chances are that he will never steal. This goes for all sins. The earlier we learn not to sin, the better off we are.
We usually are what we have trained ourselves, and our parents have taught us to be. Environment has a great deal to do with what we become. A child, who is in church several times a week, will generally have better morals than someone who has never been exposed to Christianity.
Cursing, swearing, telling dirty jokes, etc. are many times a habit that has been picked up at work or at school. The Bible says not to fellowship with those of unbelief, because we will all become like them.
Peach trees bear peaches; pear trees produce pears, etc. Apples do not come off a peach tree. We are all part of a family tree. We must be careful to pattern our lives after Jesus.
I have used the expression so often, if you plant an English pea; that is what you will get in return, not butter beans.
If we are rooted and grounded in the Word of God, and if we study the Bible and hide its Words in our hearts, then we will be able to use what knowledge we have to help others get saved. Some of us will be able to lead a few to God, and some will lead hundreds.
We will be fruit bearers when we work to get people saved. We always influence them for the good or evil. We spoke of it before, we must not judge, but we can be a fruit inspector.
Matthew 7:19-20 “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”
God tells us what will happen if we do not produce fruit for him. It is very much like having an orchard. We will wait a few years, prune the trees, fertilize them, work around them, and water them; but then if they do not produce, we will cut them down.
We can say all day long that we are Christians, but unless we do something about it, it is hard to convince God we are serious.
Verses 21-23: Not everyone professing Christ is genuinely saved. Even the outward verbal acknowledgment of His lordship is in itself not enough to save the unbeliever apart from true repentance and faith. A genuinely saved person is one “that doeth the will of my Father,” the Greek present tense suggesting that he is continually living in obedience of the will of God as the normal course of his life.
Matthew 7:21 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
“Not every one that saith … but he that doeth”: The barrenness of this sort of faith demonstrates it real character (verse 20), the faith that says but does not do is really unbelief. Jesus was not suggesting that works are meritorious for salvation, but the true faith will not fail to product the fruit of good works. This is precisely the point of (James 1:22-25; 2:26).
You see, this is what we have been talking about in church. Many people pretend to be Christians, who have not sold out to God. Some come to church for the fellowship, some come to better their position in the community, and some come so that they can belong to something. None of these things will get us to heaven.
God wants us totally, or not at all. Playing church will not get it. Jesus explains here what it takes. Our will must be turned over to God so completely that we, like Jesus, can say, “Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done”, (in my life).
A TOTAL COMMITMENT TO GOD.
Matthew 7:22 “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?”
“Have we not prophesied … cast out devils … done many wonderful works”: Note that far from being totally devoid of works of any kind, these people were claiming to have done some remarkable signs and wonders. In fact, their whole confidence was in these works, further proof that these works, spectacular as they might have appeared, could not have been authentic.
No one so bereft of genuine faith could possibly produce true good works. A bad tree cannot bear good fruit (verse 18).
Matthew 7:23 “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
“That work iniquity” which is lawlessness. All sin is lawlessness (1 John 3:4), i.e. rebellion against the law of God (13:41).
The fact that they did these things was good, but why did they do them? Was it for great fame and a lot of money? You see, God looks more at the reason we did something, than the fact that we did it.
If you have a million dollars and you give a thousand to God, you haven’t done much; but if you have a thousand and give it all, then that is great. God knows you love Him enough to sacrifice self for Him.
Verses 24-27: In drawing His concluding illustration of the two foundations, Jesus begins with the word “therefore.” On the basis of all that He has taught and illustrated, He concluded that all who both hear and do His sayings shall be saved. As a great Master Counselor, Jesus reminded His listener that hearing this message alone will not change his life. He must both hear and do what Jesus has said.
The elements of the closing illustration are drawn from the simplicity of nature itself, the “rock,” the “rain,” and the “winds.” The man whose house collapsed was at fault, not because he failed to labor, but because he did not lay the proper foundation. The shifting sand represents human opinion and the doctrines of men as opposed to “these sayings (verse 28).
The house represents a religious life; the rain represents divine judgment. Only the house built on the foundation of obedience to God’s Word stands, which calls for repentance, rejection of salvation by works and trust in God’s grace to save through His merciful provision.
Matthew 7:24-25 “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:” “And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”
You see, we must not only hear the Word, we must do it, as well. We can go to church and listen, until we are old and gray, but it does us no good at all, until we start applying the things we learn to our own lives. A wise man knows the answers to life’s problems, because he searches them out in the Bible and applies them to his own life.
The “Rock” that we must build upon is Jesus Christ (the Cornerstone). It rains on the just and unjust. Problems will come. The only difference is a Christian faces problems differently. We pray and ask God to help us through our problems. They do not overwhelm us, because our strength is not in ourselves. We depend on Jesus. We just roll them over on Him, and He takes care of them for us.
Matthew 7:26-27 “And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:” “And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”
It was the same “rain” (problem). You see, without a good foundation, we fall. We must have our feet planted firmly in the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be able to withstand in the terrible day that is already around us. Take your eyes off the problem, and get them on Jesus. Stand firm, claiming the Word of God as your personal strength. God is the answer. There is no other way.
These teachings of Jesus astonished the ones listening on that day, and are still astonishing today. He breaks with tradition. He emphatically teaches that our hearts must be right with God, not just go through a bunch of rituals.
He seems to be interpreting the meaning of the laws of God, rather than changing them. People were blindly, systematically keeping the law without having the vaguest idea why they were keeping them. They were not truly feeling anything. God wants our hearts, not our formality.
Matthew 7:28 “And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:”
The entire Sermon on the Mount is addressed to believers and presupposes faith in Jesus as Messiah. The works done by the believer are not based on himself but on the “rock” (verse 24), who ultimately is Christ Himself (1 Cor. 10:4). He is the personal embodiment of all His teachings. Thus, when He finished the discourse, “the people were astonished.” Amazement engulfed the audience.
Matthew 7:29 “For he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as the scribes.”
“Not as the scribes”: The scribes quoted others to establish the authority of their teachings; Jesus was His own authority (28:18). This matter of authority was a major issue between Jesus and the Jews, who felt their authority challenged.
The outstanding feature of His teaching was His “authority,” meaning the divine approval and authoritative constraint with which He delivered His message.
Such straightforward preaching, based on the depth of one’s own life, was in direct contrast to that of “the scribes,” who were the copyists of the Law and the theologians of their day. They had to rely on tradition for their authority, whereas Christ was His own authority.
Jesus really did not tell them that the law was bad. He told them His interpretation of the law. He did have all authority. He wrote the law in the first place. His understanding was not earthly, but heavenly.
When Jesus took on the form of flesh and dwelt here on the earth, He related to the difficulty in our lives truly being able to comprehend the law. I believe the Sermon on the Mount is a truly in depth explanation to us of what it takes for us to please God.
Matthew Chapter 7 Questions
- Why should we not judge?
- Does this mean that we should never, in any circumstance, judge?
- Who shall we stand before in judgment on Judgment Day?
- What must we be careful to do, before we start telling someone else what to do?
- If we know a brother or sister in Christ is involved in sin, what should we do?
- What is the second thing we should do?
- If there is no chance of changing him, what should we do?
- What shall we do before we cast out a mote in our brother’s eye?
- What sin was the woman caught doing that the religious people brought to Jesus?
- Under the law, what was the punishment for this sin?
- What did Jesus say to the accusers?
- What do you think Jesus wrote in the sand?
- What did Jesus say to the woman?
- What kind of lives should ministers live?
- When we help people clean their lives up, how should we do it?
- In verse 6, what is meant by “dogs”?
- Should we enter the mire with them to get them saved? Why?
- In verse 7, “ask”, and what will happen?
- Seek, and ye shall what?
- Knock and what happens?
- We have not because, we ____ ____.
- To have good with us all the time, what two things should we do?
- If the son asks for bread, will the father give him what?
- If we, being evil, give good gifts to our children, what will God do to His children.
- Describe man’s love?
- Describe God’s love?
- What is the “law and prophets”, in verse 12?
- What kind of gate leads to destruction?
- Which type leads to life?
- What, in our homes, has become some people’s God?
- In verse 7 of 1 Thessalonians, what has God called us to do?
- How will we know for sure that it is Jesus returning?
- How do we know these false prophets will be in the church?
- Inwardly, what are they?
- Who are these false prophets pretending to be?
- In Second John, who are the ones who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh?
- In verse 9, it says, “Some people have not God”. Who are they?
- What two things tell whether a person is of God or not?
- In Matthew 7:16, how will we know them?
- Finish this quote, “Train up a child in the way he should go ____________”.
- What one thing has a great deal to do with what we become?
- Cursing, swearing, and dirty jokes are usually picked up where?
- Why should we not fellowship with unbelievers?
- What two things help us win people to Jesus Christ?
- What happens to a tree that does not produce good fruit?
- In verse 21, it says, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven”. Then who will enter?
- What does it take?
- In verse 22, we read of people who have ministered to other people but are not saved themselves. Why?
- Who gave the most, the millionaire who gave a thousand dollars or the poor man who gave a thousand dollars?
- Jesus said, if you hear His words and do them, you will be like whom?
- When the problems of the world came, what did this man do?
- We can listen to God’s Word until we are old and gray, but when does it become useful to us?
- Who is the rock? The Cornerstone?
- Why do problems not overwhelm a Christian?
- Where should a Christian’s eyes be fixed?
- Where must our feet be?
- What can we claim as our strength?
- Did Jesus change the law?
- Jesus taught them as whom?
- What does the author believe the Sermon on the Mount is?