Matthew Chapter 7 Discussion Page 10

A response to those commenting on verses 1-5. This passage has been twisted by a wicked generation in attempt to mussle those who would testify of the world's wickedness, warn against sin and death and call men to repentence with godly fear, zeal, and love. Christ's words v1-5 are intended to caution the reader against hypocracy, urging him to examine himself first. Many readers seem to ignore the second half of verse 5 "...then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." So we are to help cast the mote from our brother, but only after careful self examination and correction, by godly submission, not in hypocrisy. The passage is not meant to silence those righteous who would reprove, exhort, and rebuke. This is the duty of the saints! 2Tim4. In fact all through the gospels and epistles we are given instruction on confronting and dealing with those in sin. "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Ephesians 5 "Every day they wrest twist distort my words" Psalm 56 "...which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, twist distort as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." 2Peter3

I see this passage as being very straightforward. It is a reminder that when we are pointing out flaws in others we ate ignoring our own flaws, and in the case of hypocrisy can be significantly worse for the accuser, than the accused.

MATTHEW 7 WAS MY LATE GRANDFATHER'S FAVORITE CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE, I LOVED READING IT OVER AND OVER TO HIM OVER 40 YEARS AGO AND HE WOULD JUST LIGHT UP WITH A SMILE THAT HIS 10 YEARS OLD GRAND DAUGHTER WAS READING TO HIM, AND THEN HE WOULD EXPLAIN EACH BIBLE VERSE TO ME AND I JUST LOVE TO HEAR HIM EXPLAIN ABOUT NOT JUDGING OTHERS LOOK AT YOURSELF FIRST. NOW, IT'S MY FAVORITE CHAPTER OF ALL TIMES.

39. Judge not, lest ye be judged Matthew 7:1. Why is this an issue? It seems to me that another word for judgement is meaning. And meaning is only what we assign to be. We are meaning makers. And what we make meaning of, we come to believe and we are what we believe. Even more importantly, when we are judging others, we are also in the habit of judging ourselves. And when we are judging ourselves, we come to believe those self-judgements and that tells us that we are stuck. Another offshoot of judging is that it creates conflict. So you can tell there is stuckness wherever there is conflict. Judgement Conflict. Conflict Stuckness.

THIS EXPLAINS ITS SELF IN THE VERSES JUST BEFORE IT --FALSE PROPHETS-- WE SEE THIS IN A LOT OF TV EVANGELIST TODAY AND LOCAL MINISTERS --NOT ALL--THANK GOD AND FALSE PROPHETS WILL ALWAYS BE HERE UNTIL HE COMES BACK AND GETS US MAY GOD BLESS YOU

verse 21 not every one who says onto me Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of heaven but he that does the will of my father which is in heaven JN 6:40 and this is the will of him that sent me that all that seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life Mat 7:21 in that day many will say onto me Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name cast out demons in thy name and in thy name done many wonderfull works Rom 4 :4 now to him that worketh is the reward not recond of Grace but of debt but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his Faith is counted for righteousness Eph 2:8-9 for by Grace are you saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast

You must not be driven or drift to destruction and sin that are been plan by the devil.

John 3:3-7 Jesus said that- "no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh,but the Spirit gives birth to Spirit....You must be born again. " The Spirit that has to be born again lies within you in a dormant state in your sacrum bone. You do not seek material gain.You only seek to be born again as Spirit to reach God.Faith in God and adherence to rightism is of-course pre-requirement.

Matthew 7 teaches us how to leave with God in purity, faith,and righteousness. "without faith, you can not please God ". Heb 11:6. We have to seek God diligently. Receiving Christ in your heart is the foundation of your faith. We have to walk in his light and be holy as he is Holy. We can go to church, we can preach, we can sing, we can do charitable works, but if we don 't strive to live a pure life, he will say. "depart from me, you workers of iniquity " on that day of the Lord. He knows our weaknesses, if we sin, we have an advocate in heaven. All we need is to repent whenever we sin. For sin is the sting of death. its poison will surely kill you if you don 't ask the blood of Jesus to cleanse you. Watch out! there are so many wolves in the skin of the lamb nowadays.

I think it teaches us to be very carefull, you know wolves in sheep clothing, and also casting out devils in his name etc and still can be workers of iniquity.

Man too often, does not do what he believes. He does what is convenient, then repents. He then quotes Matthew 7:1 while in denial of Matthew 7:20.

I love church!!!!!!

I think jesus is saying if u dont ask him for forgivness and do repent he will not know u, THIS IS WHY WE GOTTA ASK HIM INTO OUR HEART. AM I RIGHT? Remember john 3:16

Knock and the door will be opened ! I have knocked! Knock,knock!

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,neither cast you your pearls before swine there may be problems in the Church, as Verses 1 through 5 proclaim, but still, the church is never to reach out into the world, i.e., "dogs, " for help in order to solve it 's internal disputes ,lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you no help will be coming from the world, but rather destruction. we are to take our problems to the Lord,obeying His Word, concerning disputes . Ref Mat.18:15-17 .

You must ask according to the word of God. God will not give you anything that will turn you away from Him . He will back off and let you get what you want but He may not be in it. You cannot gamble with God . Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above , and cometh down from the Father of lights , with whom there is no variableness , neither shadow of turning.

My take is that Jesus was concerned that we would be wasting our precious time and energy fooling around with the wasted. Jesus was clear in his preference instead in helping those that truly need our help. He realized that our resources in our lives are limited. Money. Health. Time. Energy.

this verse does not promote works for salvation ,but rather the fruits of false teachers and false believers are evident talking is as far as their profession gets.every body talking about heaven dosn't mean they're going ,doing and being in the will of god is good evidence of,true faith.who ever has my commands and does them is the one who loves me,,

I love this verse.

This scripture means that you must not be lead into the ways of destruction and sin, worldly desires. That sinful way is many and not Gods way. If you go that way you will not be living Gods purpose for you. He will not be happy with you and you will not really be happy either but it is easy. It is much harder but fulfilling to reject the sin that is in your heart that is not good and does not go with him. So we must let go of these ways and follow the straight path! If someone has trouble with it they need to read the bible, the scriptures that counteract the lie that is leading you astray also if you pray for God to help you he will. It does not mean that you will not go to heaven you will if you believe in Jesus. Hallelujah! You will live a righteous life if you follow the narrow way.

Verses 15 and 16, wolves, thorns and thistles cause bodily injury. Beware of men that claim to be religious but are false prophets that will physically harm you to express their beliefs. God is love, not hate. Teach the words of God peacefully, with patience and understanding. " Put on then, as God 's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience...forgiving each other. " - Colossians 3.12-13

Verse 6, 2 different lessons, one spiritual- not to convert your righteous beliefs that are holy to a false religion, symbolized as a dog. Dogs are loyal yet loyalty to falsehood is wrong. And one physical lesson- pearls are items of monetary value so do not give your money to a corrupt banking system, a swine, or risk them stealing your finances and destroying your plans for a better future.

I think people just need to do the right thing. Help your family and friends and stay out of trouble. Go to church and pray and help any one you can and stay positive.

do not cast your pearl before swines, God word is to valuable to give to someone that does not want to hear the word of GOD and does LOVE HIM and is more concern about the the things of the world than their soul.

Swine can mean anyone who has different nature than yourself and shows heart is not spiritual. Friends,relatives etc.

Very refreshing and words of wisdom! Amen love this Chapter

Something in me gets very upset when people say we are not supposed to judge each other. Paul said to judge sexual immoral professing believers and not to eat with them, so they return to the right path. Jesus said to judge people by their fruits, evil or good. These are only two of many examples. I believe this part of scripture is about two things: hypocrisy and helping. Jesus says we should not try to cast sin out of our buddy 's life without first casting it out of our own, or we won 't see clearly what is going on in our brother 's life. The Greek word for "cast " being to deliberately hurl. My journal entry yesterday regarding this very verse says: Deliberately hurl sin from your own life, THEN you are qualified to help deliberately hurl sin from other 's lives. God you are awesome, wise and have common sense.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself

I tend to go with the idea that he was referring to those who having been once enlightened to the Word of God and have now rejected it, are not to again share the precious Word with them again. Seems logical since this scripture was preceded by instructions on judgement not to be imposed on others, at your peril. The Bible also speaks of a group not to be prayed for. There is no contradiction in the Word. I suggest the two groups of people referred to are the same, valid today as then.

Very important for a Christian!It seems people only keep for themselves and amass great wealth for themselves only!That camel can never go thru the eye of a needle.Too many are doing wrong fail to see there own selfness.Honesty is God 's TRUTH! You steal you do not have any integerity!Reprend them.You can never make a wrong right.Who has ruined the Golden Rule of life?Say "NO " to any corruption!