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Easy street is a dead end
By: Mentor Date: December 2, 2012, 8:46 pm
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Matthew 7:7-28
Prayer and the Golden Rule
7 “ Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks
receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will
be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, when his son
asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a
fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? 11 If you then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to
those who ask Him! 12 “In everything, therefore, treat people
the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and
the Prophets.
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the
way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who
enter through it. 14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow
that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s
clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know
them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes
nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 So every good tree bears
good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree
cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will know them by their
fruits. 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will
enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My
Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on
that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in
Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many
miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew
you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
The Two Foundations
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on
them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the
rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds
blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall,
for it had been founded on the rock. 26 Everyone who hears these
words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish
man who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain fell, and the
floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house;
and it fell—and great was its fall.” 28 When Jesus had finished
these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29 for He
was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their
scribes.
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