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The Justice of the Kingdom, Part 1: To Judge or not to…

Would you please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7. This week we enter into a new section of the Sermon on the Mount. Having addressed the issues of the Christian's character, and his influence and his righteousness, and his piety, and his right ambition, the Lord Jesus now turns His attention to our heart attitudes in a series of relationships. Our relationships with our brothers, our relationships with those who are obstinately wicked. Our relationship with our heavenly Father. Our relationship with our neighbors in general. Our relationship to fellow disciples and the false prophets, and the Lord Jesus Himself. Even thought the Lord’s words may seem to be almost random, almost hap-hazard as He moves from issue to issue in this chapter, there is a connection as He…

The Justice of the Kingdom, Part 2: Dog and Swine

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 7. Last week we said that Matthew 7:1-5, was one of the most familiar, but one of the most misunderstood passages in the Sermon on the Mount. Well, today in Matthew 7:6, we come to what is just a plain difficult passage. It is a passage that we often scratch our heads at and I am sure there are some who shake their heads at it. We will begin reading however in verse 1. Because what the Lord Jesus says in Matthew 6, is directly related and counterbalances what He has said in verse 1-5. So let’s hear the word of the living God beginning in Matthew 7, verse 1. “Do not judge lest you be judged. “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it…

The Justice of the Kingdom, Part 3: Ask God

Would you please turn with me in you Bibles, to Matthew chapter 7. We come to another passage concerning prayer in verses 7-11, and this passage may seem to have little direct connection with the verses that we have just studied, but in fact, their relationship is obvious if you give it a little reflection. Christ has just been instructing His disciples on how they are to relate to others. How they are to not judge and how they are to judge. In verses 1-5, He has been telling them that they should not be hypercritical. They should not be harsh and quick to judge, they should certainly not judge in accordance with their own opinion, but in verse 6, He has made it clear that they must judge. For if they are not to be hypercritical, neither are they to be naïve. And so they…

The Justice of the Kingdom, Part 4: The Golden Rule

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7. We continue our study in our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. We have been for these past three weeks and today concluded, four weeks studying the first verses of Matthew chapter 7. And in this passage, we have learned that our Lord’s righteousness extends to the relationships that we have with others. Our Lord is not simply interested in us, having fellowship, a relationship with Him that has no practical effect on the way we…

The Call to Enter the Kingdom, Part 1: The Narrow Way

Would you please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7 as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount. Today we come to the final section, the final division of this sermon, beginning here in verse 13 of Matthew chapter 7. The Lord Jesus starts to apply and conclude the message that He has been sharing with His disciples. We have seen the Lord Jesus contrast already in this great sermon, two kinds of righteousness, two kinds of religion: The righteousness of the Pharisees…

The Call to Enter the Kingdom, Part 2: False Prophets

If you would turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7. We will continue our study in the Sermon the Mount. The concluding section of this great sermon last begins in 7:13-14, where we found there an urgent exhortation for all of us to enter into the kingdom. Jesus didn’t simply want people to stand around and admire the beautiful vision of the Christian life that He had sketched for them in this sermon. He didn’t want them to say, “What an exalted teacher Jesus is. He…

175 and Counting: Built on the Rock

The Lord's Day Morning February 19, 2012 “175 and Counting: Built on the Rock” Matthew 7:21-29 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 7 as we begin a series on Biblical themes called, “175 and Counting.” I want us to look especially at Jesus’ word in Matthew 7:24, but if you have your Bibles in hand already, turn back to the reading that Billy did for the morning Scripture reading, and if you’ll look at…

The Call to Enter the Kingdom, Part 3: The Two Ways…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 7. Today, we come to the conclusion of this great Sermon on the Mount. Since Matthew 7:13, Christ has been calling on all who will hear Him to enter into the kingdom. Don’t simply stand and admire the teaching of the kingdom. Don’t simply stand and say that the teaching of the kingdom is exalted and moral and visionary and glorious, but enter into the kingdom, embrace the kingdom, walk in the way of the…

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