Do Unto Others
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“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
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Matthew
Sermon on the Mount
Remember the portion of the sermon on Jesus fulfilling the law (5:17-20)
Today’s passage is going to sum up all of the verses prior and introduce a closing teaching that we will get to as our series continues.
Introduction
Jesus has been teaching Kingdom values, beginning with the beatitudes and then moving onto topics like the law and ultimately how to live righteously.
In today’s Scripture, Jesus addresses some potential misapplications of His teachings thus far.
Demands for superior righteousness of the kingdom, in fulfillment of the OT law spurred Jesus to teach against hypocrisy in chapter 6. (don’t give alms/pray/ or fast like the hypocrites)
Jesus now address two additional potential misunderstandings
Two standards:
Jesus has demanded perfection
Jesus has demanded love
Two potential misapplication
Being judgmental
Being undiscerning
Jesus then will explain the source of how to have wisdom in these two matters before summing up all His teaching in one short and familiar saying.
FIRST POINT (1-5)
>The answer to misapplying the demand for perfection:
>The answer to misapplying the demand for perfection:
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
>In short: the demand for perfection is for you to worry about you rather than others (1)
>In short: the demand for perfection is for you to worry about you rather than others (1)
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
>If we hold others to the standard of perfection, we will be held to the same standard (2)
>If we hold others to the standard of perfection, we will be held to the same standard (2)
3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
>The example: Be sure to evaluate your own walk before criticizing others (3-5)
>The example: Be sure to evaluate your own walk before criticizing others (3-5)
3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Clean out your own issues first
But don’t refrain from ultimately admonishing a brother to do right.
I. Don’t judge without grace and don’t expect perfection, yet be sure to not leave a brother in sin.(1-5)
I. Don’t judge without grace and don’t expect perfection, yet be sure to not leave a brother in sin.(1-5)
SECOND POINT (6)
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
What is holy (Sacred)?
In Matthew’s Gospel, this refers to the Gospel of the Kingdom
II. Don’t extend the fellowship of the kingdom to those who are in hostile opposition to it (6)
II. Don’t extend the fellowship of the kingdom to those who are in hostile opposition to it (6)
THIRD POINT (7-11)
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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
How does this teaching connect with what immediately precedes it?
It tells how to go about loving without accepting sin and how to practice and encourage perfection without
III. Seek your kingdom living through prayer (7-11)
III. Seek your kingdom living through prayer (7-11)
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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
FOURTH POINT (12)
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Golden rule
Jesus was not the first to say it but was the first to put it in the positive.
IV. The simplest way to summarize the spirit of the Law is to do unto others what you would have them to do unto you (12)
IV. The simplest way to summarize the spirit of the Law is to do unto others what you would have them to do unto you (12)