Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Matthew 7 (Reading through the Bible) Jesus lays the beginning of the doctrines for the NT Church... Today we are at the end and soon Jesus will take HIS elect into heaven..

 
1-5    Judge not, that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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?

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.

(And the Holy Spirit says:  "If you judge someone is judging, aren't you judging?")

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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.

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7-12    Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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 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?

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.

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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.

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I Corinthians 6:9-10    Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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Galatians 5:19-21    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Matthew 7:15-20    Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. 

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

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.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

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Matthew 7:21-23    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.

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?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from ME, ye that work iniquity.
 
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24-27    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.

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.

(We must build our house on a sure foundation... on that which God has said.)

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28-29    And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at HIS doctrine:   For HE taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
 
(The season of the New Testament Church begins after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.  Jesus is laying the foundation for the NT chuch with these words in this chapteer.  Jesus is showing the people a new way of life is coming.  It comes after Jesus is crucified and taken into heaven.  Then the NT church begins.  We are living at the end of the period of the NT church and soon Jesus returns and we receive new spiritual bodies and are taken to the new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth only righteousness.)
 
Seasons:
* God creates the heaven and earth and man.
* God makes a way to God through the Old Testament.
* Jesus comes in the form of a man and begins to show doctrines that the New Testament church will live by but that NT Church does not exist until after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
* As Jesus teaches, we are shown the doctrines of the NT Church.
* From heaven Paul is called as an apostle to the early NT Church which now exists.
* For the next 2000 years the NT Church works on this earth. We follow the doctrines Christ taught when HE lived on this earth.
* The end of all things begins with the destruction of Jerusalem.  LK. 21:20-22
 
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