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Not by good deeds, but through Christ are we saved. There is no other way. That's why He died on the cross, for our sins. If there is another way then Christ would have died in vain.

May God's will always be done

as one preacher dealt with he said 'how you build is how you live'! if on the sand you will shift and be as reubn unstable as water! you will be as one that is tossed with every wind of doctrine! but if built on the rock there is a firm foundation stablness steady, not moved easily but as a tree planted by the water

These verses in context are talking about law and grace. BOTH gates are leading to heaven but one is through works or self efforts and the other is through grace faith in Jesus' works . Jesus is the GATE and he is referencing the SAME GATE in Mathew 7 both times. Romans speaks of the two types of Christians Jews and Gentiles and God says He will receive both however the carnal Christians Back then it was the Jews will live a destructive life here on Earth remember Paul pronounced a curse when he saw they were STILL teaching this after Jesus because you have to be perfect if you want to be under the law. Those under Grace who have a revelation of their freedom with ALLLL of GOD's promises aren't to flaunt our freedom where it would cause others to anger. offend in one area and you're guilty of breaking them all. By destructive I mean sickness with no healing cancer , no miracles seen that you can't apply logic to, just bad things in general that happen to Christians that are NOT supposed to happen but we accept these things because we have a form of Godliness and deny His power. Political correctness is of the world and you are not OF THE WORLD. Jesus said we would do all the things he did and more. Miracles are happening guys and we have POWER! If ALL OF GOD's PROMISES aren't happening in your life and you're just waiting for your heavenly home when you die, something isn't right.

We need to build up in God's word that we can be strong against the enemy. No word no power. Don't build on things in the world you will fall. Build on a solid foundation which is in Christ Jesus

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.

John 17:3 reveals a truth couched in simplicity, that, knowing Jesus is, the way, the truth and the life, and knowing 'about ' Jesus is not. Fans of Jesus know a lot about Him. I know Jesus personally as constant companion, the friend I worship. Knowing Jesus personally is how He transforms us on our walk through this life with Him. Matthew 7:23-24 is a companion scripture to John 17:3 because when we read Jesus telling the religious person, and I paraphrase, to get away from Him, that He never knew them, He is also saying to them, go away, you never knew Me. Shalom

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.

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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.