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…