THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
Chapter 7: Yeshua said, “Don’t be
finding fault with others and they will not be finding fault with you. For you
will be criticized in exactly the same way that you pass judgement, and it will
be measured back to you just as you measure it out to others. Just why do you take
notice of a speck in your brother’s eye, but are not concerned about the stick
in your own eye?Or why do you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck
from your eye’, when you have a stick in your own eye? You hypocrite! Pull out
the stick from your own eye first, then you can see better to take out the
speck from your brother’s eye!
You must not give holy things to dogs, nor
cast your pearls before wild hogs. They might turn on you and tear you to
pieces.
Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and
you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks will receive,
and everyone who seeks will find, and everyone who knocks will have the door
opened to him. Or is there any one of you who would give your son a stone if he
should ask you for bread? Or in case he should ask you for a fish, would you
ten give him a snake? Well then, if you – although you are evil – know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much more will Elohim give good things to
those who keep on asking Him?
So, whatever you want people to do to you, do
likewise for them, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Go in through the narrow gate; for the gate is
wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and they are many, indeed,
who go in through that gate. But the gate that leads to life is small, and the
way is narrow, and there are few that find it.
Small gate
Wide gate
Be on the lookout for false prophets who come
to you dressed up like sheep, but at heart are like devouring wolves. You can
recognize them by their fruits. Do men pick grapes from thorn trees, or figs
from thistles? No! The fact is that every good tree bears good fruit, whereas a
rotten tree produces poor fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a
poor tree cannot produce good fruit. Every tree that does not produce good
fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Yes, you can recognize them by
their fruits.
Not every one who says to Me, ‘Adonai, Adonai’,
will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only they who do the will of Elohim. Many
will say to Me on that day, ‘Adonai, Adonai, did we not prophesy in Your Name?
And do many miracles in Your Name?’ And then I will say to them very plainly, ‘I
have never known you; go away from Me, you lawbreakers!’
Everyone, therefore, who hears these sayings
of Mine and obeys them, will be like a wise man who built his house on a stone
foundation. And the rain fell, and the river rose, and the winds howled and
beat against the house, and yet it did not fall; for it was built on a rock.
But, on the other hand, everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, but does not
follow them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. And the
rain fell, and the river rose, and the winds howled and beat against the house,
and it fell with a great crash.”
When Yeshua had ended His sermon, the crowds
were much astonished at His teaching. For he did not teach them as their own
scribes, but as One Who had authority.
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