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| [[File:matthew.jpg|center|thumb|Matthew's writings of the [[Gospel of the kingdom]] were inspired. But what do they tell us in the context of the times and the precepts of the [[kingdom of God]] may turn your [[world]] [[upsidedown]]. Why should we [[Judge not]]? Why were there [[Hypocrite|hypocrisies]]? What made [[the way]] crooked and straight? Do false [[prophets]] teach the [[workers of iniquity]]? Who are [[Foolish]] men and wise?]]
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|'''Comments, more Decrees of the king''' 
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| '''V1''' [[Judge not]]<Ref name="Bejudged">{{Bejudged}}</Ref> is because we are in a [[cause and effect]] universe.
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| '''V2''' What judgment will you be measured ([[3358|metrō]] [[3354|metreite]] [[3354|metrēthēsetai]]) by?<Ref name="krima">{{2917}}</Ref> Is it the [[judgment]] or [[precedent]] of Moses?<Ref name="mishpat">{{04941}}</Ref><Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref> 
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| '''V3 V4''' The [[pharisees]] had it wrong, they lived in darkness,<Ref name="darkened">{{darkened}}</Ref> and were [[corban|making the word of God to none effect]].
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|If you judge it is okay to desire [[benefits]] at the expense of others through men who call themselves [[benefactors]] but [[exercise authority]] then you are engaged in the [[covetous practices]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> that makes men [[merchandise]]. From the provisions of [[Nimrod]] to they [[dainties]] of the [[tables]] of rulers which are a [[snare|snare and a trap]]<Ref name="snaretrap">{{snaretrap}}</Ref> men have been [[entangled|entangle]] in the [[yoke of bondage]] and [[curse children]].
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| From the [[city-state]]s of [[Cain]] and [[Sumer]] or the [[flesh pots]] of Egypt and the [[cities of blood]], like [[Nimrod]]'s [[Babylon]] these systems of [[legal charity]] are the [[covetousness]] Paul calls [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> Like the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] they make the word of God to no effect, [[degenerate|degenerating]] the [[masses]] to become [[perfect savages]]. 
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| The blindness<Ref name="Blindlead'">{{Blindlead}}</Ref> of the [[modern Church]] to the immorality of a [[social safety net]] through institutions of "force and violence" [[public welfare]] 
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| '''V5''' Jesus talks a great deal about not being a [[hypocrite]]. The politicians of the [[world]] rule over the people for money because the people rule over their neighbors for the the [[dainties]] of those rulers. They [[love]] the [[benefits]] of the [[reward of unrighteousness]] more than they love their neighbor. And as they judge so are they judged.
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| Do you know how to give good gifts or do you take and take?
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| The warning of Jesus to be a [[doer]] of the word in [[Matthew 7]]:21, 22 are repeated in other chapters as a constant reminder:<Ref name="doethv">{{doethv}}</Ref>
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| The [[warnings]] about people being [[workers of iniquity]] while thinking they are [[believer]]s are all over scripture.
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| Being a [[doer]] of His word is essential to [[salvation]]. We know by that preserved word that "many" will be so [[Strong delusion|deluded]] that even though they will read His words, claim to follow Him, and think they are doing things in His name they will actually be counted by Him and told by Him that they are [[workers of iniquity]].
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| We also know because [[Luke 13]]:27 "But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] [[workers of iniquity]]."
It should therefore be so clear to everyone who say they are [[Christian]] or think they [[hear]] and  believe [[Jesus]] that they need to actually [[doers|be doing what He said to do]].
[[Matthew 7]] through the context of the [[Doctrines of Jesus]], Everyone should be asking daily themselves and others whether in the [[Modern Church|institutional church]] or even in the [[home church|house churches]], "Am I and are we doing what he said to do or doing what he said not to do?" "Are we [[Workers of iniquity]]?
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| [[Augustine of Hippo]] paraphrased this idea in one of his homilies only to have it band as "hate speech."...the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse. '
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| '''V5''' The [[Pharisees]] were [[hypocrite]]s because they said they knew [[Moses]] but they did not.<Ref>[[John 5]]:42-43 "[42]But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. [43]I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. [44]How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? [45]Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. [46]For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. [47]But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? </Ref>
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| '''V8-9''' in this same instruction concerning the [[Pharisees]] Jesus equates the casting pearls before swine while speaking of taking responsibility for what we fail to see.
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| V24 Distinction is made between a [[doer]] and a [[hear]]er is equated with the metaphors of "rock" and "sand". A ''rock'' is a symbol of [[faith]].<Ref>[[Matthew 16]]:17-19 "And Jesus answered and said unto him, <span style="color:red">Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. [18]And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19]And I will give unto thee the keys of the [[kingdom of heaven]]: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. </span> </Ref>
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| To [[repent]], [[seek]], and be a [[doer]] are common themes of His doctrine.
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| '''V15-17''' What has been the [[fruit]] of the [[Modern Church]] but division<Ref name="dividel">{{dividel}} </Ref> and denominations. The returning the people to the [[bondage of Egypt]] through the [[covetous practices]] that have always turned  the [[masses]] into [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]] dividing<Ref name="dividel">{{dividel}} </Ref> them from God.
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| '''V16''' <span style="color:red">Ye shall know them by their [[fruit]]s.</span >
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| Instead of a [[daily ministration]] of [[Pure Religion]] through [[Fervent charity]] they have taught the people the ways of [[legal charity]] from men who call themselves [[benefactors]] but [[exercise authority]] one over the other.
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| V21 Warns of the need to be the doers.<Ref name="doethv">{{doethv}}</Ref><Ref name="doworks">{{doworks}}</Ref><Ref name="Lovegn">{{Lovegn}}</Ref>
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| V26 Do not fail to be doers <Ref name="doethv">{{doethv}}</Ref>
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| V29 He taught as one having ''authority.''<Ref name="exousia">{{1849}}</Ref>
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== Matthew 7 ==


=== Judge not ===

[1] <span style="color:red">[[Judge not]]<Ref name="Bejudged">{{Bejudged}}</Ref><Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref>, that ye be not judged<Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref>.</span >

[2] <span style="color:red">For with what judgment<Ref name="krima">{{2917}}</Ref><Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref> ye judge<Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref>, ye shall be judged<Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref>: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.</span ><Ref name="cryanguish">{{cryanguish}}</Ref>

[3] <span style="color:red">And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?</span >

[4] <span style="color:red">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?</span >

=== Hypocrite ===

[5] <span style="color:red">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.</span >

[6] <span style="color:red">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.</span >

[7] <span style="color:red">Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:</span >

[8] <span style="color:red">For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that [[seek]]eth findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.</span >

[9] <span style="color:red">Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?</span >

[10] <span style="color:red">Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?</span >

[11] <span style="color:red">If ye then, being [[evil]]<Ref name="poneros">{{4190}}</Ref>, 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?</span >

=== The strait gate ===

[12] <span style="color:red">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]].</span >

[13] <span style="color:red">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:</span >

[14] <span style="color:red">Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.</span >

=== False prophets ===

[15] <span style="color:red">Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</span >

[16] <span style="color:red">Ye shall know them by their [[fruit]]s. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?</span >

[17] <span style="color:red">Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil<Ref name="poneros">{{4190}}</Ref> fruit.</span >

[18] <span style="color:red">A good tree cannot bring forth [[evil]]<Ref name="poneros">{{4190}}</Ref> fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</span >

[19] <span style="color:red">Every tree that bringeth not forth good [[fruit]] is hewn down, and cast into the fire.</span >

[20] <span style="color:red">Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.</span >

== Workers of iniquity ==

[21] <span style="color:red">Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the [[kingdom of heaven]]; but he that [[Doer|doeth]] the will of my Father<Ref name="fatherruler">{{fatherruler}}</Ref><Ref name="Lovegn">{{Lovegn}}</Ref> which is in heaven.<Ref name="doethv">{{doethv}}</Ref></span ><Ref name="doworks">{{doworks}}</Ref>

[22] <span style="color:red">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?</span >

[23] <span style="color:red">And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me<Ref name="fromme">{{fromme}}</Ref>, ye that work [[iniquity]].</span >

=== Wise men ===

[24] <span style="color:red">Therefore whosoever [[hear]]eth these sayings of mine, and [[Doer|doeth]] them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:</span >

[25] <span style="color:red">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.</span >

=== Foolish men ===

[26] <span style="color:red">And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and [[Doer|doeth]] them not, shall be likened unto a [[foolish]] man, which built his house upon the sand:</span >

[27] <span style="color:red">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.</span >

== Doctrine of Jesus ==

[28] And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at [[Doctrine of Jesus|his doctrine]]:

[29] For he taught them as one having authority<Ref name="exousia">{{1849}}</Ref>, and not as the [[scribe]]s.

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